Happy birthday, Fallout!

[vegetablearian]

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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Poll #27618 Fallout lovers poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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Fallout?

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Fallout!
2 (33.3%)

FALLOUT!
4 (66.7%)

Fallout.
2 (33.3%)

f a l l o u t
2 (33.3%)

War. War never changes...
3 (50.0%)

YEAH! WHO WON THE LOTTERY? I DID!
3 (50.0%)

You see nothing out of the ordinary.
3 (50.0%)

You have become addicted to Jet :)
3 (50.0%)

Requires: Adhesive
2 (33.3%)

Comments

[highlander_ii]

When did you first play a Fallout game? Which one was it?
-- 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)

[vegetablearian]

Omg, I love that you still have your receipt after so long :) I still have mine, though it's only from 2013. I got FO1/FO2/FOT for free from GOG. I think it was Interplay's last move before losing the rights entirely?! It was 7 years after that before I played them.

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!

[highlander_ii]

amazon keeps everything. i did have to get FO1/2 from GOG bc my old CDs won't work on new windows and it's WAY easier to get the adjusted/fixed code from GOG than try to do it myself (which would take way more work than it's worth). i have Tactics but i hated it so much the one time i tried to play, that i don't care about that one.

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.

[vegetablearian]

I'm rarely subscribed to any streaming service - I don't watch a lot of telly - but I'll keep my eye out for MacGyver then :)

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!

[highlander_ii]

i think a lot of ppl sign up for like a month and watch a bunch of stuff, then cancel =)

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.

[vegetablearian]

Yeah :( The cutscenes I watched were pretty funny, and I liked the character customisation, but yeah, the combat is just not as fun as it needs to be to carry the whole game like that.