Your Fallout history : Fallout Series Discussion

» Thu May 03, 2012 7:22 pm

mine will be anouther long one like sebor13"s

so it all started back when i was like 8 i think and this was when i was in the 3rd grade any ways i got the first of the only 2 systems that i've ever owned and that was the SNES. i had games like mortal kombat, mario, spawn, mech assalt or warrior not sure its been a while and many many more games. now i had this SNES up until i got my 360 and that wasn't until 2008 when i was like 16 i think. so since i only played games on the SNES i didn't even know you could play games on the computer except for them crappy ones until a few years before i got my 360. but then a few weeks after i got my 360 i was over at my friends house and i had brought my 360 with me and his cousins boyfriend had assassin's creed and he pretty much gave it to me cause he didn't have a 360 any more . so i started playing assassin's creed and i instantly feel in love with it making it at the time my favorite game of all time. the a few months latter i was at my sisters house and her boyfriend introduced me to Oblivion and i thought it looked awesome so i went out and got it that night or the next. at first when it started playing i didn't really like it that much. cause like i had said i had only owned the 360 for a few months and it was the first concile that i ever had past the SNES. well any ways i thought it was just to overwhelming and i didn't really know what i was supposed to be doing and i almoste gave up . but then i started to get the hang of it and once again i instantly fell in love with it making this game now my favorit game of all time. some time the next year i was in a game stop and found morrowind and bought it then when i got home i found out that i couldn't even play the damn thing cause it was for the first xbox.

so eventually i started hanging out with this friend and he let me barrow his origanle xbox and i was finally able to play morrowind and at first i hated it casue i couldn't figureout at all what i was suppossed to do so a few weeks later went out and got it for my computer and just cheated out the ass to boost all my stats up to 100 and so i was one hit killing every thing lol. but then i got lost and couldn't figur out where i was supposed to go so i just put it down for 2 years. which was lat year some time then i played through again on my 360 and fell in love with that one as well.

and now what this post was supossed to be about lol my first introduction to fallout.

so once again i found my self over at my sisters house watching my sisters boyfriend play a game. and i was like this game looks awesome what is it. and he told me fallout 3 so once again i whent and got it that night or next day or some thing and started playing and once again fell in love with fallout making it another favorite game of all time. i played the hell out of that game just as i did oblivion. so a year or so later i'm inside a target and i see the fallout 3 pack oir what ever its called the one with FO, FO2, and FOT. well i got it home and started playing only to figure out that i had no idea what i was doing and couldn't figure out how to do any thing never was able at the time to get into the lower parts of vault 15 so i gave up a2d gave it to my sisters boy friend

then i herd that NV was coming out and i was on the internet every day looking for ever bit of info, interview, or trailer that i could possibly find for like 6 or 7 months. finally got it had for about 10 days then some one stoll my 360 with my NEW Vegas in side and aslo made off with my assassin's creed 2 wich thankfully i had just beaten like 30 mins before hand. so wasn't able to play NV again until the begining of last year wheere i had to barrow it from my teacher. was able to play through it twice before i had to give it back . at first i didn't like it as much except for some of the things that the improved upon but to me it just diudn't have that fallout 3 feel where you actually felt you were in a wasteland. but then a few months ago i decided to give FO 1 and 2 a try again and this yime i just prented out the walkthrough lol and with that i was able to beat 1 and get half way through 2 before i realized that NEW vegas is so much better than 3 i started 3 over again and then just stopped cause i couldn't do it any more and went and got New Vegas ultimate edition and so far it is my favorite out of all the fallout games love it and the dlcs were the best part lonsome road and dead money being my favorite

and thats my story of gaming and how i started playing fallout

sorry for the leangth

» Fri May 04, 2012 7:55 am

See i staeted in russia playing fallout 1 and 2 and when i moved here i saw fallout 3, played it till my ps3 broke. Bought another and when New vegas came out i was specticle and disnt buy it until a few months later when i was reading reveiws. Thats it well except the part that i hare elder scrolls but you dont want to hear that story

» Thu May 03, 2012 7:04 pm

Reading over all these posts and seeing how you all have known about these amazing games for ages, I simply ask myself how in the world did I miss them?

I've been playing PC games, since they were on floppy disk (DOOM, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D). I love post-apocalyptic settings and I've played all the games in the Half Life series to exhaustion. I also like the freedom to explore huge worlds, without linear boundaries. Then I heard about Morrowind and so got into the TES series. Sure, yea, I have heard Fallout mentioned a lot, but for some reason I thought it was just some senseless zombie shooter! LOL Oh how wrong I was.

After playing Skyrim for over 500 hours, I saw some discussions about Fallout 3 on the Skyrim forums and thought, what the heck, let's check out that game.

I've been playing Fallout 3 and now New Vegas since February this year LOL I'm totally obsessed about the games! They now count to my top 5 favorite games of all times!

» Thu May 03, 2012 7:05 pm

Well I started with TES and then saw an FO3 preview, thought it was awesome, and subsequently got it for my birthday.

FO3 still stands as my favorite game of all time, it kept me entertained for many more hours than Oblivion (and exponentially more than Skyrim :shakehead:

).

Afterwards I found out about New Vegas and about had a heart attack. It looked sooo much better than FO3!

It was one of those OMG-this-is-going-to-be-amazing moments that completely backfired.

New Vegas's story provided much more choice, and many possible outcomes, but it lacked any emotion at all. Add the fact that the world was a highway and a river and you've got yourself quite an unsatisfactory game in my eyes.
I preferred the more dangerous, uncivilized urban world of FO3.

After that I started to wonder what the first Fallout games were like, but I couldn't find any videos on Youtube. That was the only place I looked, you must understand that I was an internet noob at the time and the only sites I new about were Youtube and Yahoo.

Then I looked 'em up on Steam and voila! The first three Fallout games for twenty bucks, I got them (just a couple weeks ago) and am still having loads of fun.

» Fri May 04, 2012 7:44 am

I'm in the industry a little bit but CRPGs have alwas been a favorite genre of mine, even if trying to emulate tabletops too much at times.

I played the Bard's Tale games late but got on to them along with a large Interplay Prod.'s backlog.

Wasteland I bought not after launch. Fairly silly and fun, but surprisingly deep and well crafted. I thought the combination of normal stats supplemented by increasing skills as you used them was applaudable.

Daggerfall and TES have taken onto this. It was first from RuneQuest though.

I've played TES since Arena. I'm not a TES guy but I followed BGS off and on due to Daggerfall being good with mechanics and a riff away from isometric view.

Fallout 1 I bought from launch. Instant classic and I wondered how a bunch of seemingly unworldly individuals crafted a fun, humorous, and intellectual masterpiece.

Fallout 2 as well from launch. I expected more. Perhaps twice the goodness of 1 combined. It failed. But it was good.

I played Morrowind not long after release. Languished. Oblivion goes the same.

I followed BGS more after it fully acuired the FALLOUT IP.

Fallout 3 came. Again languished. Joined the rage in NMA. But in time appreciated a handcrafted world. For the first time you could feel a journey taking place in FO. If hollow and badly written. And a clusterbash of copied things from 1 and 2.

Followed New Vegas closer than 3. Obsidian's coders disappointed me, so did the programming timeframe. So did the world. And hollow characters at times.

But the writing. This was Fallout.

It was a welcome back.

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:48 pm

My first recollection of the fallout series seeing it in a shop called safeway where I thiught it looked good and my friend thought it was another crap fps (later turnd into a fallout fan) .Well I recently (at the time) got a ps3 after my disappointment at the wii and was looking for something a little different from what I would normally play (not really a big rpg player at this point) .I hated the first 5 hours then something just clicked I still can't explain it convinced about 5-6 friends to buy it and was engrossed in it for years buying dlc literally the second they where out and. ,trying out lots of playthroughs generally just dieing for more fallout .Then I preordered finv 6 months before it came out with my birthday money and was the most hyped/excited for anything I will ever be got it loved it got the platinum in 2 weeks and felt my admiration for fallout really grow and wanted to know more so I finally decided to huy the fallout collection. And for me that was huge i'm in no shape or form a pc gamer or into older games at the time so I was very unsure but I played and completed fallout 1 and loved it but then my laptop broke and I lost my save and I started fo2 about a month ago and I am likeing it so far and i'm an avid watcher of nuka break.

I think fallout in the future is hard to really predict it depends how much bethesda wants to appeal to the core fanbase wether it will continue to be great or not and I have my worries that bethesda who gave fallout another chance will eventually crush it by taking it down a more user friendly tes path where it doesn't belong.

» Thu May 03, 2012 5:02 pm

My post is long and rambling.

Spoiler

On Christmas in 2009 I got a PS3. It came with two games that I played until I got every single trophy (platinumed) in the games (inFAMOUS 1 and Batman: Arkham Asylum).
A month later I went to Gamestop to get another game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare which I also platinumed. I had absolutely loved adventure games and shooters. I began to like choice more in more in games. In Batman I liked how there were multiple ways to tackle most situations and different people handled it differently. In inFAMOUS I liked the karma system with choices you could make (granted their were just good and evil but I matured beyond that some time later).
That summer (I'm pretty sure it was the middle of June) I had gone to my cousin's house (a second cousin who I hadn't seen since I was about four) who had recently started playing his favorite game again: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2. He gave me a turn and I loved it.
Sure I had just been a shooter fan and the combat was lack luster but it wasn't about combat which was a new concept for me (My past experiences with games included Mortal Kombat, Twisted Metal, Star Wars Battlefront, and those listed above. Games that weren't mainly killing tons of enemies was alien and interesting to me). The next couple of weeks after I got home I pretty much harassed my parents to buy me KOTOR 2 which they did after a ton of convincing (they don't like spending money for things that aren't necessity or something everybody will enjoy).
That entire summer I spent at least three to four hours a day playing KOTOR 2 on my desktop which was very good at running games from before 2006. I remember the office the desktop was in was about 90 degrees fahrenheit (specifying because these are an international forums) most of the time but I ignored it. I grew to love all of the characters and I took great care in everything I said as my second cousin had instructed me. I ended the game as a good guy but not purely heroic. It had been some time in mid-July and I loved the ending as much as I loved the rest of the game. A friend of mine saw how obsessed I had been with the game so he bought it but only played it once because it was 'boring' (shows the type of gamers I know).
After I had beaten it I felt no drive to go back and do it again like I had with every other game I had owned until then. It just never crossed my mind but I think if it had I would have dismissed it because that was my character's story and to me those events would be the only way they had happened (although when I get a new gaming PC I'll try to play it again with mostly the same choices).
So, around September I had really felt like something was missing when I was playing games, I had beaten inFAMOUS so much that I knew every major and minor plot point, CoD4's campaign can only be played so many times, and after I had gotten 100% in Batman: Arkham Asylum I only played predator mode (There is a room full of guys with guns and you have to take them out stealthily. They quickly release they're being picked off one by one and will get more and more terrified of you intil there is only one guy left who seems to be losing his mind.)
I had started looking more into what genre KOTOR 2 fell under, an RPG. I had looked at upcoming RPGs on Gamestop.com and at the top of the list was Alpha Protocol (I had no idea that the creators of KOTOR 2 were also the creators of AP). I looked into it a bit and it sounded awesome, something like inFAMOUS with its choices and lots of action but a little more like KOTOR 2.
Early 2010 I bought AP and realized that I had $50 that I wasn't going to spend on anything else so I picked up two more games: Killzone 2 (loved the multiplayer but never got into the campaign) and Fallout 3.
I played AP first and I liked it until the ending which, although wrapped up nicely, made the game feel short and not feel like I got my money's worth (after spending twenty something dollars on KOTOR 2 I had high hopes for games to be overflowing with content). I played F3 next and I absolutely loved it. AP had been like KOTOR 2 but less of an RPG with nothing in its place but Fallout 3 felt like a perfect mix of RPG and shooter.
I had absolutely loved it, I checked recently and I had apparently had twenty different accounts on the game, all of which were over level 10. I had played the game so much that I didn't even open Killzone 2 until mid-April.
Then, while still in the era of my life that was dominated by Fallout 3, I heard that Fallout: New Vegas was coming out in October and I got excited with the new setting and all new things to do. (side note: around that time I had showed the same friend who had gotten bored of KOTOR 2 Fallout 3 and he, once again, bought it but this time he absolutely loved it and still plays it obsessively)
When New Vegas came out I was underwhelmed at first. I had been expecting another F3 but what I got instead was more along the lines of KOTOR 2 (this was when I realized KOTOR 2, AP, and NV were all made by Obsidian and my mind was blown). Although that didn't seem like a bad thing it felt like going into a movie expecting an action movie and instead getting a political drama which I had disliked.
After giving NV try after try I couldn't deal with it anymore. I had went from kind of liking the game to hating it in about two months.
I joined the forums in December absoultely hating NV for not being what I had expected (it was a rather ignorant time).
I had gotten into constant arguements with the Dinosaurs and for a while was always at odds with them. I eventually (took a while) began to realize that the only way I would know whether NV fit with the series or not (which had been an arguement of mine that is still used commonly among those who have not played the Originals) would be to play all of them, from the original Fallout onward.
In May (I think it was May) of 2011 I bought the classic pack on Steam being recommended by Mako (who is sadly no longer on these forums).
I played F1 until about July when I had gotten tired of trying to fight the more difficult enemies and started playing Fallout 2. I had some fun with F2 before going back to F1 to try and finish it.
I managed to finish it (only the evil ending because my character was too wimpy to fight the Lieutenant) a little while ago. I started F2 and got to the Hub where I did a bunch of quests before I went to F:T which I am having even more fun with.
I had also bought the NV:UE in February and I have completed one full playthrough with all of the DLC and now I am almost done with my second.
My views on games in general has changed a lot since 2009 but my view on the Fallout Series has changed many times more this past year.

This sounds very similiar to my experiencs with fallout same kinda backround on games and I too was am ignorant fallout fan.
And in a side note what happend to mako forget the last time I saw him .i've had many rage fulled arguments where i've. Had many accounts banned but I was way too ignorant to notice most his points.

Heard a lot of good things about them.

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:49 pm

I was held hostage by monkeys who would [censored] me if I didn't play fallout 3. I was screwed either way.

I bought new Vegas on sale for like, 19 dollars. Joined te community soon after and loves the game.

Heard oblivion was good so decided buy it (thank god I didn't) the GameStop did not have it, so I got goty fallout 3, and first play through loved it.

Second was cool.

Third was "meh."

Nv however kept me hook to this day and counting.

» Fri May 04, 2012 4:52 am

I was always mainly into fantasy games, so think I started with Riders of Rohan a long time ago, then Ultima Underworld 2 (Labyrinth of Worlds), Age of Empires 2, did play Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun as my brother had it, but then went into Morrowind, Oblivion and Lord of the Rings Online. Someone at work suggested Fallout 3 as it was by Bethesda, then fell in love with the Fallout world with its cynicism, black humour and immersion. Did all I wanted to on Fallout 3, heard the news about Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition being released, and here I am. i've considered looking for the first 2 Fallout games, but I'm not sure if I'd like the change back to a 3rd person perspective...

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:48 pm

I heard about Fallout 1 back in '98, some friends were talking about it, and coming from Games like Final Fantasy, Super Mario, and Metroid I was a intrigued, frend lent me his copy for a day so I could see if it was Something I'd enjoy playing, fell in love with it within the first 15 or so minutes of playing. Gave his copy back, went out and bought my own copy with my allowance (I was 7 going on 8 at the time, also took a bit of... Convincing

), played it nearly every day after chores and homework... Until a friend broke the CD.

Fallout 2 I bought on release day, same MO with me as 1, lost the Cd somewhere along the roads.

Fallout Tactics was also bought on release, same MO as the last two.

PoS was, now regretably, bought on release; and to this day sits in a corner snapped in half.

Fallout 3 was bought about a week after release, I was skeptical about it and the new direction. Bought it, loved it, but it didn't feel like Fallout.

Fallout New Vegas was also bought on release, love it, and still play it from time to time, though lately I've been neglecting it for Mass Effect 3 and other games that have gotten their claws in me.

And just recently I rebought the originals so I can play them again.

» Fri May 04, 2012 7:34 am

I started with fallout new vegas. what atracted me was that they were making a non fantasy rpg(you see i was more focused on action/adventure games and did like rpgs but i just dont like magical creature sand think they are overused) and how awesome the trailer is. After playing for like 3 or 4 months i joined the forums cuz i dont know anyone in my school or town that plays new vegas and would love to talk about it. I constantly kept hearing of how awesome the originals were(and they trully are) on this forums and decided to pick them up at my local store. I then bought fallout 3 which was nothing but a shadow of its roots.

» Fri May 04, 2012 8:01 am

Fallout 3, never even heard of Fallout till Fallout 3, and i never even heard of Fallout 3 till 2009, well I did but didn't, saw a trialer on TV but didn't care for it... But in 2009 when my favorite movie rental place shut down (Movie Gallery, all over the east coast) I went in and bought their copy of Fallout 3 went home and played it didn't like it (at first) and put in Halo 3. A couple months later (waaay before MW2) a buddy came over and helped me out by showing me what to do and then I got hooked and I played the game for months and still play it because I just started a new game while waiting for Skyrim to get patched so I can actually play it. Not much else but I think it's a great game and inspired me to get other Bethesda made games and made me a huge Fallout and TES fan, and I bought Fallout NV and have to say it's really fun but way to damn glitchy and I hardly ever play it for that reason, I'll end up getting the original Fallouts for my PC but I don't like the gameplay from the videos I've seen... That's about it.

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:14 pm

The first game informer doing a article on it I looked at it and was interested, decided to preorder it. After I first got outta Vault 101 I was hooked, bought all the games and have yet to be able to play the burned game because it's not backwards compatible so it just sites inside the same box looking at the originals. F3 also got me into the Post Apocalyptic genre which got me into the whole prepping thing. Going to Wasteland Weekend this year with some friends, gonna probably get drunk there. I have played F3 20 playthroughs, maybe a little more maybe a little less. I have last I checked over 1200 hours into it and can't wait to play it on the PC and mod it to all hell. NV I have a couple hundred hours into it, 8 or 9 playthroughs. It's nowhere near as repayable to me as F3, and I often get bored of it so I have to come up with stuff to do in it. Mostly I just mix and match armor and clothes and pretend I'm a bounty hunter or something. Once I get all the stuff I need for my desktop I'll probably play the originals as well and might try downloading that Wasteland thing if I can find it again. Wasn't able to play it and I wonder if it's because of vista.

» Thu May 03, 2012 5:03 pm

Walked into GameStop back in '08 without knowing what game I was going to buy. Asked one of the employees to recommend a deep and lengthy game and the rest is history. Fallout 3 took over my brain and held the cells hostage. New Vegas came out and torchered my brains cells even more. That's a brief summary .

» Fri May 04, 2012 6:12 am

I found my copy of F1 at a car boot sale, must've been about 98/99?, bought it for ￡1.50, big box big manual and all.
After a few years i spotted a pack of F1/2/Tactics and bought that, up until then i hadnt know there was even a sequel to fallout so i was pretty excited. I played the games countless times, over and over again. I loved them, when i heard that Fallout 3 was being made i found my way here and started posting.