I just finished watching the intros and endings of fallouts 1,2 and 3 as well as Tactic on youtube. (I still play the other fallouts, original copies). I am wondering when you first played Fallout 1 and 2 did you just get svcked into the fallout world just by Ron Perlman doing the Narration? I sure did. I guess I am talking to the Fans of Fallout when it was new 10 years ago or so. New fans can love it to, I would be interested in knowing how others felt when they first watched the intro of Fallout 1 and 2 for the first time. Tactics has a good story as well.

How can you not be enthralled by one of the greatest lines: "War. War never changes"?

Do you mean whether the narration would be that 'great' if someone else did it?
because it's not like it's some kind of a big role or anything...
Sure it probably wouldn't be very convincing if it was read by, say, Woody Allen (:D) but I hardly think that it would be that hard to get someone else to do it just as well.

i played fallout 1 and 2 when they were new and immediately fell in love with the fallout universe. i had high hopes for fallout 3 and i wasn't disappointed in the least.

Perlman's delivery and timing during the opening sequence really did get me psyched to get started playing... and on every subsequent playthrough, i have never skipped the intro just because i like the narration.

"it was here you were born, and it is here you will die...because in vault 101, no one enters...and no one ever leaves"

chills!

Sure, I imagine someone else could have done a good job with it, but Perlman certainly nailed it. The guy just has an awesome presence. Just started watching Sons of Anarchy and he's great in it.

I don't like him, nor his voice. I would prefair it if Fallout wiped him from existance.

Pure Blasphemy! well you are entitled to your opinion and I did ask what people think, so I can't be to mad at that. I think you are in the extreme outer edge of Fallout Fans with that Statement. Well we will see if I am right by saying that if this poll stays active and gets alot more votes one way or another.

I wasn't aware of who Ron Perlman was back in 97 (think that was the year Fallout 1 was released and I played it shortly after). But the entire intro sequence set the mood right away, and definitely left me feeling that the game ahead of me was going to be something special. But while I love his narration there, I think it was the choice of having an Ink Spots song play during the intro of this post-apoc game that really kinda blew me away.

I like Fallout 1 a lot more as a game but both the Fallout 1 and 2 intros are at the top of my favourite intros in games.

I don't really think Perlman is all that important. The narrator himself is implied to be little more than a historian from the distant future either chronicling, or merely reading aloud records on past major events. As such he's fairly expendable as anyone could fill that role.

His narration for FO1&2 and Tactics was awesome but it's partly because the script was really good. FO3's script wasn't that good for my tastes, and he gave me the impression that he was bored.
He even threatened Chris after he found out he was recording VO for IW along with the FO2 work (supposedly 'cause he was recording a tranny chimera dragon - Heart of Winter - if I remember correctly).

I think he's an integral part of the series. And Matt, please, please, pretty please, tell Todd to hire some better writers for FO4. Can I haz cookie?

perlmans voice is complete awesomeness....but i'd rather see them hiring some less prominent voice actors who cost less, and therefore can be used to have a richer and more diverse voice acting(and simply a bigger number of actors, of course).
i just realized that with fallout 3, which i'm playing in the german dub. the guy speaking the intro and the epilogue there is just as good, and probably did for 1/10 of the sum they've paid off to perlman.
celebreties are just budget eaters, and me thinks in video games those resources should be spent in a more thoughtful manner

I think hellboy's voice work set up the mood for post apcoliptia, and well it sounds pretty badass when he tells you how you fade off into legend and stuff

I think the reading should be done by the narrator from NWN 2's epilogue.

^harr harr. I prefer to have my eyebrows bleached. Wouldn't mind Mask of the Betrayer's narrator tho'.

"Because Ron Perlman is really scary in person"-- Chris Avellone
:lol:

(I always love it when Chris A refer that "incident" with the most lighthearted way he could ever found in F bible)

it would have been even cooler if perlman was in F3.....

...while threatening a guy named Chris.