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

[vegetablearian]

I've only played FO1 twice, unarmed character each time so I often wind up between him and the enemy. The first time I had high charisma and he never shot me. The 2nd time I heard it's pretty useless so it's low and he shoots me all the time!! Conclusion: Ian only shoots you if he thinks you're ugly. And he thinks I'm ugly now :(

[highlander_ii]

FO1 also has this horrid issue where if one of your companions is in a doorway - you're pretty much f'd until they decide to move or you go to another location so they follow you. An issue fixed in FO2 with the 'gtfo of my way' pointer option.

Ian is legit the worst companion for shooting your character in the back. Tycho would never. and Katja uses melee.

[vegetablearian]

Omg yeah it's the worst, especially going back to it after FO2 where it's no longer an issue! (Or, no longer the same kind of need to reload issue - I remember my whole huge party trying to squish up in parts of the tanker where that was really not possible and playing a stupid kind of sliding tile puzzle to get us all back out.)

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.

[highlander_ii]

there's a walkthrough for Fallout around somewhere that tells you how to keep Dogmeat alive through the Enclave bit at the end in FO1 (assuming the fool hasn't gotten himself off'd earlier in the game). it doesn't much worry about the rest of the companions.

[vegetablearian]

The base? I managed to get him through all the forcefields, somehow (lots of trial and error). But he died when I was sneaking up the cathedral tower ;_; And would have died in the reactor basement anyway (I really savescummed and glitched my way out of fighting the two super mutants guarding the button, it was soooo hard). I kinda wanted to play more combat-focused this time to have a better chance of keeping him alive but I'm too attached to punching people in the eyes/nuts

[highlander_ii]

found the walkthrough that helps you keep Dogmeat XD -> https://the-spoiler.com/RPG/Interplay/fallout.6/stevefo1.htm

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.

[vegetablearian]

Thanks for the links! :D It's a little confusing how the quest order per area is like, not in order lmao (eg the Tandi/radscorpion one), but it looks like a good thing to read through anyway.