Just curious why and when people got into Fallout.

For me it was 2009. Saw a friends' dad playing it. Thought it was the most ridiculous looking game ever. From the pip-boy icons, to the fact that I watched him sell baseballs and empty bottles for 5.56 ammo from a guy wearing overalls and a motorcycle helmet.
The week after I got it and couldn't stop playing it.

I was never a PC gamer so I havent played through Fallout 1 or 2 (i'm playing 1 now tho) and I saw a friend playing F3 a week after it was released. He was at the GNR battle, shooting the behemoth with a missile launcher that shot mini nukes, and listening to "Butcher pete". I was hooked. I spent more time on the fallout wiki looking up lore and stuff for the previous games then the average person spends on tvtropes, bought it the same day I saw him playing it, bought all the DLC when they came out and have so far loved every minute of my gaming experience in the fallout universe. I just recently bought F1 and am enjoying it (Though i'm hoping rope isnt a continous theme) much more then I thought I would.

I had just finished playing Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal back in 2001 I think it was, since the Baldur's Gate series was concluded I started looking up similar games and that's when I read about Fallout. Interplay was doing a dual jewel case campaign at the time, so I bought Fallout and Fallout 2 in one pack for ten bucks. I had difficulty adjusting to the post apocalyptic setting at first since most of the RPGs I had played up until that point were high fantasy, but it was so worth it.

I saw the Fallout 3 trailer, fell in love. Didn't even think about the other two until a bit later. Just a really awesome story and series.

Also, this should be in Series General Discussion. Just saying.

A long time ago a friend told me about Fallout. I picked up a copy and was hooked ever since :fallout:

Ever since I first gingerly stepped out of Vault 13 with a growing dislike of the Overseer.

2009, I had just heard about it before and my friend gave me his old copy of Fallout 3. I moved on to the originals after that. I love it, or else I wouldn't be here.

Yeah. Moved back to FO 1 & 2 after I beat 3. Just recently got Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

My condolences.

Yea, i've heard alot of bad things about BoS and tactics. Why I only got 1 and 2.

I would get Tactics instead.

Brotherhood of Steel goes by another name around these parts "The Burned Game." Not even Bethesda will touch it.

Ha-ha it's not THAT bad.
...could be a lot worse.

Canon wise it is crap and not considered canon.



There is nothing wrong with Tactics other then it isn't an RPG but it was not sold as one. Bethesda called the "High-Level Events" of Tactics Canon. There is nothing in Fallout Tactics that would make the whole game not canon. The only thing Bethesda seems to have a problem with is that it doesn't have that 1950s feel.

There are inconsistencies with Tactics but there are explanations if one just thinks logically.

Tactics is pretty inconsistent with the Fallout canon, but it can be a fairly enjoyable game in its own right if you like squad based tactical games. Brotherhood of Steel on the other hand is a bad game, period.

Have Tactics, won't play on my PC, though. Got the FO 1, 2 & Tactics pack, but Tactics won't play, says it's "missing the CD" even though it has it...odd.

Saw a advertisemant in a PC Store of the original Fallout, looked promising, bought it, played it, loved it.

I watched my cousin and then brother play Fallout 3. My cousin hated the game and said it was way to creepy and depressing, which was right up my alley. I watched the smart mouth kids of Little Lamplight and the random insanity of the wastes. After having my brother teach me how to thoroughly play I became hooked and I am totally owning him in achievements for New Vegas! :flamethrower: I'm working on FO1 and 2

My first Bethesda game was Oblivion, and when I went through my local game store looking for sth. new I saw Fallout 3 and thought:
"Hey. This looks like Oblivion with cool guns in a post-apocalyptic world. It has to be good!"

I bought it, and played the whole summer. Since then, I fell in love with the series and bought all other parts as well. :fallout:

I am sure there is a patch out there to fix that problem. I have the Original copy that came with 3 disks so I don't have the issue. Guessing the Tactics that comes in the "FO 1, 2 & Tactics pack" only needs one disk.

Which compilation is it? If it's the White Label one you might have to patch Tactics.

Yes. 1 disc. Haven't bothered to look. Heard it was bad, like BoS. Only got BoS 'cause GameStop sold it to me for 2 dollars..

'Twas back in 2008 when I were but a lad of 14 fresh from Oblivion when I heard that Bethesda were developing a new game called Fallout 3 which would be much like Oblivion in terms of play; intruiged and then enthralled in a similar manner as I was to BioShock, I did what I also did with BioShock which was to track down it's source material. Fallout 2 is my favourite game of all time, enough said.

Let that be a lesson kids, you can never be too young to have played the originals so don't make excuses.

Don't forget how much Gas was in Tactics. And internal combustion engines. Piles of fuel barrels...

I got into it when my dad came home with a PC Gamer mag with a demo disc of games and one of them was Fallout. I think I was 8 or 9 at the time and ever since that demo I was hooked and bought the full version games when they came out

For me it all started with the infocom game A Mind Forever Voyaging and my apple IIe. I desperately wanted to play a game with graphics that gave me the same feel. A few years later the game Wasteland was released. I thought it was just amazing. It had a crazy amount of discs.. I think 5 double sided discs? cant' remember. Along with the game knights of legend I just remember feeling like it was a lot. At times I'd get frustrated with swapping discs...At least I had two disc drives. Eventually I got my first IBM.. A whole 4 gigs on the hard drive. At the time that was a lot. I guess I got it in 1998? Baldur's Gate was included as part of my computer package. It was very shortly after I got the computer that I discovered Fallout. Most likely due to this new fangled thing called the internet. The game was pretty buggy. I can't remember any of the bugs now but I do remember it was the first game I learned about patches with .. I can't remember the size of the patch but it took forever to download. Funny to see how far we've come in just a short time.

Anyway that was my introduction to fallout. I then of course bought Fallout 2, and was one of the few who seemed to enjoy Fallout Tactics.. (nobody liked that game for some reason.. I really enjoyed it.) I was however very disappointed with BOS on the playstation 2.. I was extremely excited at the announcement of Fallout 3 of course. But it didn't live up to those old game memories. I mean how could anything live up to your firsts? I still wish it hadn't changed so drastically in the character creation and leveling area and even find myself questioning the reasoning in New Vegas. I obviously love these later fallouts... just have that nostalgia thing in my head.