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vault132022-10-07 01:46 pm
Happy birthday, Fallout!
It's Fallout's 25th anniversary this month! 25 years of Fallout!
3 other story games are celebrating their birthdays this month, too: Fallout 2 will turn 24, Fallout 3 will be 14, and Fallout: New Vegas will be 12. (Fallout 4, baby of the family, has its 7th birthday in November.)
Have you been a fan for the whole 25 years? Many Fallout fans are years away from their own 25th birthdays :) I expect many people working on the next game will be younger than the series, too!
Tell us how you became a fan!
Some questions (totally optional):
- When did you first play a Fallout game? Which one was it?
- Were you hooked from the start, or did it grow on you?
- Do you remember how you heard about Fallout?
- Have you ever encouraged someone else to play any of these games? (And, successfully? :D)
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It was about 5 years between me first playing a Fallout game and becoming the kind of lunatic who'd start a DW community about it. I used to find these games too scary! Now I'm brave enough to play the 3D ones with the radio off sometimes :D
I've tried to sell people on the magic of Fallout, but most of my RPG-loving friends already liked it (or at least, the classic or new half of the series), and the non-RPG people don't seem to get enough out of it. I love that new people get into the series all the time still!
I don't know if there's another 25 years of Fallout games, or if there should be (I want more! So long as they're fun!). I hope I still love Fallout at its 50th anniversary, whatever happens :)
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AUGH ADHESIVE
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That and constantly missing at low levels. Hehe :)
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Ian is legit the worst companion for shooting your character in the back. Tycho would never. and Katja uses melee.
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The worst one I remember was Ian, Katja and Dogmeat working together to block me in on that bridge across the sludge, the Gun Runners' moat. I was like, what are you guys trying to tell me? Or maybe they were just sick of being dragged up and down the map and wanted a very precarious break, idk.
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he did one for FO2 too: https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/07/08/fallout-2-walkthrough-529104
these are fun for catching if there's a quest you missed or what could happen if you pick another option or whatever.
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-- so i had to go check out my Amazon order history to double check, but i got the OG Fallout in 1999 when i was in grad school and played it for way more hours than is probably healthy
Were you hooked from the start, or did it grow on you?
-- see above re: unhealthy hours playing =)
Do you remember how you heard about Fallout?
-- yes! somewhere i found out that Richard Dean Anderson (the OG MacGyver) had done a voice for one of the characters. so, that was enough for me to throw down a few dollars to get it.
Have you ever encouraged someone else to play any of these games? (And, successfully? :D)
-- i hooked my sister. she got FO4 before i did (i still haven't played it bc i don't like the way Bethesda does the games and FO3 irked my soul)
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I didn't realise Killian was played by a famous actor! He does have a great voice - he's impossible to dislike. MacGyver is something else I was too young for. I was only 8 when Fallout came out :D
I didn't start FO4 until last year. I think it's worth playing for what it is, which is a game where you desperately hoard and craft adhesive. It has some great characters, too. I'd play for Nick Valentine alone! I couldn't face it without this silent protagonist mod and some dialogue wheel unwheelers, though.
I love that you converted your sister!
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Interplay/Black Isle was working on their FO3 (project titled Van Buren) when they went poof. The skeleton of that became New Vegas. so yeah, i think Tactics was their last attempt/release.
RDA isn't the only famous voice from FO games - Ron Perlman, Tony Shaloub, CCH Pounder, Clancy Brown, and a whole host of others just in the 1st one. =) apparently they didn't have as much budget for 2, the cast celebs is shorter.
no such thing as 'too young for MacGyver'. it's on Paramount+ if you're in a place where that's available.
oh - i'd def not play FO4 w/o mods. and def the one that turns off the player char voice - that just sounds freaky.
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Tactics is very odd. I think I mentioned to you previously when I was about to start it and you said you weren't keen. For me I think it's the combat system itself which obviously makes the whole game pretty pointless. But putting it into the more FO1/2 turn based mode actually made it even less fun somehow, so I just went back to FO1!
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ah - probably. i think Tactics is one of those where they had a good idea, but it was limited by the tech of the time.
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When did you first play a Fallout game? Which one was it?
According to this post, Fallout 3 first came out fourteen years ago. That's when I first played one of these games!! It was Fallout 3. I have yet to play the first two games but I have a PC now so that's bound to change in the future.
Were you hooked from the start, or did it grow on you?
I was hooked from the start. I absolutely loved everything about Fallout 3. I'm big into creepy vibes in video games. It hasn't hit the same like that since Fallout 3 though.
Do you remember how you heard about Fallout?
Uh, no. I think at the time I was living with my significant other. He was the one that got excited about it. When he brought it home, I decided to pick it up and play it because it was just a new video game to play! And then I was hooked from there. ^^;
Have you ever encouraged someone else to play any of these games? (And, successfully? :D)
I think I did meet some people on the playstation network that I talked to that hadn't played the Fallout games. I don't know if I successfully sold them on the games but most gamers I talk to in person have already played one of the Fallout games. :) I tend to gush the most about Fallout New Vegas, ironically.
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I totally recommend giving the classic games a try some time! I love FO1 and I'm not so keen on FO2, but a lot of people say it's the best game in the series. So, you have a good chance of loving at least one :)
I probably gush the most about FNV too, hehe :D
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Oooh, I'll definitely give them both a shot! I'm sure I'll like at least one of them too! ^^;
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FO1 is great, still one of my faves XD. FO2 is considerably longer - tons and tons of quests and ways to entirely screw up. like 'oh, you didn't grab that rando item back in that location from 7 quests ago? best run back to the location to get the thing so you can finish THIS quest'. =)
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