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I'm a few years younger and I had this experience in part with Baldur's Gate 1, but even more so with Asheron's Call. No MMO has come anywhere close to creating the sort of wide-open world we got with that game.

Honestly, I am not an old head fallout fan. I am 20 years old. But, Fallout 1, case and all, was a hand-me-down from my uncle who was. I played it not just because I already was a fan of the series, but because my uncle gave it to me on a basis that I would also enjoy it. Honestly? There are many RPGs like Fallout, but when I first booted it up, it felt magical. I already knew the wasteland from 3/NW/4, but this place was nothing like that. It was a goddamn journey through and through and the box proudly sits on my shelf as a memento to this day.

Thanks for sharing this, I felt like I was experiencing it right there with you

I feel you, old games with emerging graphics really set things apart. I wish I found fallout sooner. PC games in general were difficult. My cousin had more opportunities so my fist exposure was from him. Old DOS games and Nintendo.

Skyrim was my intro to the F3/4 style of game, and yeah, it was insane as a kid to spend dozens of hours just wandering around, never knowing what was around the corner. I didn't feel a need to look at the map or my quest markers at all.

i first played fnv and it did not feel like it was something that had never been done before. while i absolutely love fnv it didn't leave a massive impact on me.

I think I had a very similar experience playing Fallout New Vegas for the first time. I was more of a new comer to RPGs and the ones Ive played had little depth only ranging from bad choices to good choices and what sword you were carrying. But playing Fallout NV and seeing my actions having consequences on so many different levels, seeing the endings and results of my relationships with different factions was mind blowing. I got lost in the world with NPCs so tightly written that I will never forget meeting people like Easy Pete for the first time Your words really resonated with me on Fallout just that we experienced different parts of the series just in a very similar way :>

Between the boat and the fallout discussion I think I actually like this channel better. It's like seeing my own life if it had been more photogenic, and successful.

We're about the same age, and I think the first time I ever got that sense was Wing Commander on the PC. You could succeed, and be promoted. Or you could fail to Hell's Kitchen. It depended on your agency and skill. Not an RPG. But much the same sense.

as a 10 year old I saw a copy of fallout on the market stall run by washed up tv man don estelle, who was yelling about violent video games, he still sold it to me for £1. I didn't know what Fallout was, it was months before Tactics would come out, but I knew interplay made good games, and it was £1. no box just the disc in a jewel case. it was the first on of those big computer rpgs that felt like it was mine and not my brothers (Baldurs Gate) or my cousins (Warhammer, Diablo, etc) it had such a playful sense of humour that a 10 year old could get that it was playing on that era fastfwd'd. I don't drink alcohol Greg (a taste thing and a not liking buzz), but your videos are great.

My Mom was Obsessed with Beauty and the beast back in the day. I never watched it my self, so I didnt know Ron Perlman's voice until he played Johner in Alien Resurrection..

I still recall the goosebumps i got when i first started any games of the Fallout series i played. And i still get them sometimes.

The fact you’re friends with Tim Cain is badass. Been following you for a few years, love to see how you’ve grown man. ❤

"War. War never changes." It still gives me chills every time I hear it.

Please do the DND episode! That sounds dope!

I got into Fallout after playing StarCraft and MechWarrior, so those in game cinematics and the astonishing immersion they brought, prepared me for Fallout. In a lot of ways I've been repeating that same sense of what a game can be ever since, in my own work. Even making my own Fallout mods to recapture that feeling in a new generation of games.

Greg, you getting passed on both side. Get to the slow lane, my man😅

I came into the Fallout universe starting in FO3 and can see what you mean about it not being the same experience as FO1. That for me was EQ, and to some extent Morrowind. I think I get you with certain things being a place that occupies... uh... a metaphysically physical space in your head.

Ah yeah do a dark sun d&d episode. I loved the psionics and magic system. Such an under rated setting

I played Fallout later on in life, but the game that really blew my mind as a kid was Morrowind. I remember seeing ads for it on Toonami, and telling my parents that I did not want anything for my birthday or Christmas, I just wanted this game when it came out. We went out the day it was available and picked it up for PC, and I remember we all went out to dinner at Ruby Tuesday before coming home and feeling so frustrated at the delay. I read the little manual that came in the box over and over in the car. I remember studying the installation screen images from the game while it chugged away on the family computer. The music of the title screen still gives me that same feeling to this day. And loading up a new game finally, hearing the sound of the boat in the tutorial, making my first character, and stepping foot out into the world, all I could see was endless possibility in front of me. And then I spent the next few hours getting in over my head, dying repeatedly, and loving every moment of it. I still go back to Morrowind every few years, and it still holds a big place in my heart.

Dark Sun being your first campaign setting explains sooooo much.

Thanks for describing in a much more succinct manner than I ever could how it felt to play Fallout for the first time. Fallout was a first true CRPG for me as well and I’m sure you can relate to the disappointment when I found out that I started my gaming journey at the very top as I thought surely there must be a ton of games like Fallout. 27 or so years later I’m still chasing that feeling.

Fallout 3 was the first Fallout game I played, and I was probably around 14 or 15. I got the Game of the Year edition and it was the first open world RPG I ever played, and was an immensely formative experience. When I think of playing that game I get a memory of the cozy smell of my basement, that I spent hours upon hours in getting lost in the Capital Wasteland. Before that, I’d play competitive online games with my friends like Call of Duty or Halo, but never felt I was very good, and would associate playing games with the stress of not playing well or letting my team down. With Fallout 3, I could just be myself, learning how the world worked, learning the lore and gameplay at my own pace, which I learned is my favorite way to play a video game. So yes, I feel like I had a very powerful experience with Fallout 3 similar to how you experienced the first two games!

Fallout is ok.I played the first and second one but not even half way through. My pc I had at the time got a virus and that was it and went to get a nintendo and switched to it and that was that. I am not a fan of Bethesda's handling of Fallout.I don't watch the tv show because I believe it retcons too much. And as you might suspect I didn't like Todd Howard's treatment of Obsidian. Despite what others say including Tim who I respect I respectfully disagree with him over Bethesda and Fallout.I believe Todd Howard has a grudge against Obsidian. I believe Todd should have let Obsidian make more Fallout games and even elder scrolls games which Obsidian made some pitches along those lines to Todd which he rejected. Chris Avallone made those pitches when he worked for Obsidian. This was back several years ago as you may have guessed. I think the problems with Starfield prove Todd's hubris. Expecting fans to wait to 2034 or later for the next fallout game is absurd. I am not vindictive and my disagreements with Todd aren't personal. I think his arrogance is hurting Fallout and The ES series. That's it.

When I finally got my hands on Fallout, second hand from my local store, I was too young to realise just how unique it was. It was only through playing other RPGs (Diablo, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, FFVIII) that I realised nothing else is going to hit the same. Being presented with a situation and letting you decide what skills you were going to use to solve it, and who you were going to solve it for. To go from collecting evidence for Killian, to getting paid to to finish the job for Gizmo 🤯

3 and 4 felt like a linear video games with rpg elements, more of a jrpg then a rpg, New vegas was much closer to 1 and 2 but only closer still good tho unlike 3 and 4.

I started on 3 when I was far too young, and to this day, I have that map in my head. It had a profound impact on my interests.

Great video man! As one of the younger generations, I grew up with stuff like UA-cam, I knew what fallout was before I ever played it, so I didn't really get that same experience, so I'm really glad to hear what it was like for you guys back in the day, thankyou for sharing and I can't wait to hear more stories like this one. Maybe you could do a kinda campfire chats thing, tell some stories, have something 'on the rocks' to sip and pivotal tension building moments 😂. Anyhow, great vid, keep it up 👍.

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Late, but I’ll throw in my experience. I came to Fallout right before New Vegas. I’d been a long time Oblivion fan, and at a friend’s house I got the chance to try Fallout 3. I didn’t even get out of the vault, but I was shook and hooked by the theme. I was used to pretty forests and pastures in Oblivion, and the tone change was jarring but great. New Vegas came out a few months later, and I got it at release. Immediately died to Cazadores and quit the game for 2 weeks. The design choices were also so different from Oblivion, and I fell in love with it.

My favorite cocktail UA-camr joining the ranks of Fallout UA-camrs? Is this Christmas?

My first experience with fallout was new vegas, which I have only just finished this year well past my impressionable teenage years. Nevertheless I feel about that game what you describe about the re-playability of fallout 1 and 2. Extremely memorable and well realized world. Funnily enough it mostly reminded me of how I felt when I learned about darksun a few years ago, such a unique twist compared to forgotten realms. In both cases I scoured the web for source books so I could learn more about each setting. Playing Fallout 3 and 4 now and I'm not sure they capture that same lightning in the bottle, they're ok FPSs but the writing and world building just isn't as sharp.

Somewhere out there is a legend who did, in fact, beat The Whiz

What a time to be alive that was. Fallout also came out a few years after the original X-Com, another game that redefined my expectations for PC games. My favorite part of Fallout was just how much there was to do, compared to many other games of the era. It just kinda let you off the leash, and you had only slightly better of an idea what to do than the protagonist would, emerging into the world for the first time. Only downside to getting to play all those games "back in the day" is that now we're old, lol.

Sadly I never got to play Fallout 1 and 2. I have seen so many playthroughs over the years that It still feels like I played it ^^ I never could let go of the Lore and the Music. Its the main reason this channel exists currently. Fallout has that really special feeling almost no other game or setting have for me! Nuka Cola was the first thing!

I played fallout 3 and nv after skyrim and it was just skyrim(oblivion) with guns for me

Had a longer comment that I scrapped but the short answer was I did have that experience of discovering a previously "unimagined world" so to say, but it was through a pretty abnormal approach to TTRPGs (or Pen & Paper RPGs, a factoid I did know given my poor, socially isolated upbringing) which was basically trying to reverse engineer the hobby/medium with almost no actual mechanical system exposure. It's an interesting story but not one well-fitted for a UA-cam comment. That being said, I'd love to hear more on RPG experiences or just general thoughts. I was one of the few consistent followers of the secondary channel pre Midnight Local (which is a lovely podcast, glad to see it back) and wonder if you ever have any desires to get back into that in some manner or ideas you've never had the chance to see come into fruition. Imagine it isn't easy to produce for a myriad of reasons but I feel you could do a tremendous service to a Fallout campaign, mayhaps using the official Pen & Paper system by Modiphius? :D

You should make a series giving your personal opinion on each fallout game. 🙂

I could have sworn that Fallout came out in like 94, because it seems like I was fourteen when I got it. But no, I would have been seventeen. That is so weird, otherwise I had a mostly similar experience to you, it was one of the first things I bought with my own money after working at Kmart. And your description of how it was to load the game up and see the opening cutscenes is spot on to how I felt. I want to say I'd heard of Fallout coming out because I saw an ad in PC Gamer and I remember that I liked Interplay because of the Castles games, that I played to death. So my thoughts were, I need that. The other one that blew my mind near that time was Star Trek 25th Anniversary. Just seeing the Enterprise appear like in the show was just, chefs kiss.

I am 18 years older than Greg, and I played Falloutwhen it came out and LOVED it. But… I did not have the “this is something totally new” feeling. To me it was more like “this is the best computer rpg implementation” feeling. Probably because I was out of college, making a grown-up living, married with an infant child. I played a lot of computer games. I bought an Apple IIe the year Greg was born. So I had seen other computer rpgs that were working their way up to the masterpiece that was Fallout 1.

I wish I could’ve had a better fallout experience. I was born in 03 and didn’t really get Into “real” gaming until Christmas 2015 when I bought a PS4 that came with Star Wars Battlefront. My first experience with Fallout was 76 which I got for Christmas in 2018. I could never get into it and so never bothered with 4, and didn’t really want to buy games for my ps3 now thY I had a new ps4. With that said I have always loved the world of Fallout. Easily the most interesting and entertaining fictional world IMO. In the last couple years I’ve been playing 76 a bit more, but I’m still to this day under level 40 working on some really early main story missions. Just completed Rose’s quests at the Top of the World. Then last Black Friday I bought an Xbox series S because I wanted to play Starfield, Sea of Thevies, and the large selection of OG Xbox and 360 games, including FO3 and New Vegas. I’ve finished 3 and currently finishing New Vegas. After that I’ll start playing 4. Now I’m fully into Fallout 76 and am actually enjoying it.

I absolutely had the same experience with Fallout 3. When I moved out the guy that lived there before left a stack of 360 disk and at the time I was just playing Forza and CoD. I still remember loading the disk for the very first time without a single clue as to what could be on it. It seemed like every time I ever said "it would be sooo cool if there was a game you could do blank" and put it all in one game. I remember being blown away leaving the cave to vault 101 and seeing the wasteland. I was immersed from the very start and i don't think I'll ever have a gaming experience like that again.

For your question at 19:10, I felt that way about Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It felt like I was literally transported to Medieval Bohemia. It's still one of my favorite games. The level of realism and accuracy to history, not to mention the sheer commitment to a grounded world in which the player could authentically transport themselves into, just absolutely immersed me as soon as I was able to run it. So, yes, it gave me that Undiscovered Continent feeling.

I got hooked into Bethesda games with the Elder Scrolls series and then played Fallout 3 for the first of post nuclear world. The Elder Scrolls games were an easy transition from Dungeons and Dragons with a similar setting, swords, boards, magic, and archery. But since then, I've played hundreds of hours of Fallout games. I love them too!

Came to the series during fallout 3, played it a lot thought it was fun. New Vegas came out and that genuinely felt like a different game. The writing, the atmosphere, the action. It felt like a lot of the other first person RPGs but Distilled to the best of what the genre COULD be. After that I went back and played 1 and 2 and just fell in love. To me what sets it apart is the world build and writing. Writing is everything in RPGs, and to me a lot of the bethesda ones, it feels like writing is an afterthought which is unfortunate

I know it was a throwaway comment, but I discovered Dark Sun shortly after I started playing TTRPGS a decade ago. I had always hated fantasy genre stuff because of its tropes, and what you describe for Fallout I had for Dark Sun (and Planescape). It completely rewrote what I thought a genre could possibly be. I had the supreme pleasure of making my own Dark Sun 5e conversion and running a campaign with it for my group, and by the end they were all true converts too. They could see what I had seen, and could feel the creative fire radiating from it (Conan with big men, yes, but also a Stone Age Mad Max with environmental themes). Beautifully said on everything Fallout. I miss the sense of development 1, 2, and NV had. 3 and 4 just feel like zany Fallout-themed amusement parks in comparison. “Ride the super mutant infested mall!” “Explore the cannibal house!” “Slide down the ghoul sewers!” “Marvel at the darkly ironic pop song scoring a duck-and-cover outtake!”

Great video Greg. I think you might enjoy giving 3 another try, but it's always great seeing you talk about the classics

I started with 2 not the original so I had the chance for actually build a character before it. Also I had played pen and paper RPGs that weren't fantasy, but what gripped me in my first play was the combination of dark themes and 'you don't need to make it kid friendly' which had a major shaping on my later taste in the TTRPG scene. It was definitely formative, just in a different way.