@@pat9529 The first one i played was FO4, i played a lot but it was like Skyrim with guns and npc's were bland and robotic, soulless. Then i met New Vegas it was the complete opposite of FO4, where the game lacked in mechanics and grafics won me over with the characters and the story, and that incredible dlc Dead Money made me love the game even more. For me it was New Vegas who changed my life. I mean i agree that the first FO game you play might be a life changing experience but FO4 didn't click with me after a 100 hours or so i didn't want to play anymore. I also finished FO1 and i have to say, i prefer 1 over 4 lol.
@@sylphy6662played FO4 and tried the first 4 hours 3 different times due to my friends begging and it being a Bethesda title. I hate that game. Bought New Vegas on a 90% steam sale three years later and I have 700 hours. It accomplished the same feeling of emotional investment and connection Morrowind did for me regarding the Elder Scrolls for Fallout's world. It's one of the best sandbox and lore based rpg games of all time. I can't say either really changed my life like Dark Souls 1, KOTOR, Mount and Blade, Portal 2 or the afore mentioned Morrowind tho. I desperately want to play FO1 and especially 2 but I've had the plot spoiled already so I'm trying to wait a few years before jumping on it. Let me know if you like 2!
unfortunately with the hardware I possess, I'm unable to play Starfield. However, the release of the game had me wanting to play a Bethesda title, so I've been playing Fallout 3 since and its been immensely enjoyable - the backwards compatibility of Xbox recently improved the game to 60 frames. @@FalconMain3
I really would love a return to Fallout 1 level atmosphere and dread, it really had some of my favorite lore with the Master. I would love to see a port of 1 and 2 or a full on first person remake.
Check out wasteland 2 it's kinda like what fallout 3 would have been in an alternate universe where Bethesda didn't buy the fallout rights and Interplay lived on
Fallout 1 really messed me up when it came out. It introduced me with mature problematics and literally turned me into a young adult, and Fallout 2 finished the job. Murder, prostitution, drug and human trafficking... They were dark games.
While New Vegas is my favourite Fallout game, I hold a lot of fond memories from Fallout 3. First seeing it advertised at a bus stop in London, to buying my first copy on EBay, then finally purchasing the GOTY edition. As well as in game moments, like leaving the Vault 101 for the first time, and seeing the wasteland for the first time, nothing will ever beat that feeling...
Fallout new Vegas is a special flawed little gem that changed peoples lives it's undoubtedly one of the best PS3 Xbox 360 first person shooter open world RPG ever made
@@Boxinghotspur57I only played new vegas going into fallout 4 and MAN realizing how different the spirit of the game felt wrecked me. I had no idea obsidian did the franchise justice that much better than Bethesda. Only played it through once and haven’t touched it since
My brother gave me Fallout 3 on ps3, when I was younger, and I've been a fan ever since. F3 will always be my favorite Fallout game, next to New Vegas, it was definitely a upgrade in gameplay and a new story set in the West. The Capital Wasteland and the Mojave are both my favorite places to roam.
Fallout 3 was the first game I got 100% on PS3 including the DLC. I binged the game so much, I didn't play another Fallout until yesterday when I bought New Vegas for £1 second hand.
@@jacobturnerart damn bro im jealous that you get to play new vegas for the first time lol. if you like fallout 3 then new vegas will be enjoyable for you you might even like it more
Fallout 3 will always have a special place in my heart. My first platinum trophy and first true RPG. Ill never forget that step out moment! I remember getting the Prima Guide for Christmas after my family saw how much i loved that game. Was able to find all the power weapons and hidden things with that guide.
Oblivion was my introduction to BGS. I remember seeing the Fallout 3 trailer and was so pumped to see a post-apocalyptic BGS game. I had never heard of Fallout before then but I've been in love ever since.
My uncle got me on fallout 3. He said its a shooter and you cant beat it. I accidentally rushed the story and beat it in a few days, and just said, "wth, you said this doesn't end"
That’s my experience with Fallout 3 everytime, I always add it to my new Vegas playthrough with tale of two wastelands but never get more than 7-10 hours worth of story out of fallout 3 I have no idea what I’m missing with that game
I got into Fallout in 2020, right at the beginning of Covid, after loving TES since Oblivion. I knew BGS made Fallout but just never got around to playing it until later. I’ve never played 1 or 2, but have read up on the stories/lore. I fell in love with Fallout right away and have sunk hundreds of hours into 3, NV, 4, and 76 since 2020. this may be a controversial take, but I loved FO4 and put more hours into that than any other FO game. I love the game world and the overall lore of the universe. So unique and unlike any of the traditional post-apocalyptic tropes. I’d even be willing to say the Fallout franchise is my favorite in gaming (Starfield may be stealing that title though, we’ll see lol). Really looking forward to Fallout 5 in 2040!
Very good video Matty. I'm much older and had the same feelings when I got Fallout 3. I missed Fallout 1 & 2. Three Dog made my experience in the DC wasteland more enjoyable. I'm only on console. The mods on Fallout 4 for console were fun to play with. I still play Fallout every month.
Buying fallout 3 as a kid was a monumental moment. I didn’t know it walking out of Bestbuy with two games from the bargain bin just what I was in for. But the moment that slideshow hit and ron perlman started narrating I was hooked. It’s probably for the best I played it as a kid, the same way older fallout fans got introduced to the isometric games. I can still remember the fear I felt going through downtown dc and the museums. I think they did well to capture that ominous music and dreadful atmosphere.
Excellent video Matty, Fallout 3 was my first BGS game and ever since I’ve loved ever single BGS game…currently 43 hours into Starfield and feel I have that Fallout 3 feeling all over again!
I played Fallout NV first when I was a kid and absolutely loved it even though I never actually finished a single playthrough when I was younger. It's what hooked me to the fallout franchise and I've loved this series dearly ever since then. I have all games now and I adore each one.
I played Fallout 1 when it came out. I played it on a government computer deep underneath a mountain in an underground millitary complex. Not joking. I was in the marines as a dieselrat, taking care of the engines on all the small and medium boats and ships. There was a request comming in it asked for an egineer who knew how to operate their diesel backup generators. I don't know who I managed to pi** off but I was sent as a replacement. The ordinary guy had gotten sick or he quit or whatever so they needed an "intern" to manage the spot until they found a guy with the "right stuff". Now this entire base ran on the mains grid so the backup generators was never used but they were always needed to be manned just in case. So all day long I did nothing but sit there playing snake on the central computer. After a week I had some leave coming up so I checked the specs on the computer I was using and my first stop was the local computer game store. And there it was on a shelf, brand new and shining, Fallout 1 in all it's glory, so I bought it and brought it back. Installed it the next day and since that day, that moment the intro movie started playing I have been Vaultboy.
yes I've been playing it through for the first time this month. I find that Washington is a much more memorable landscape than Boston, I guess because Washington is widely recognisable in its architecture and political presence. Upon reaching the Washington Monument, it was quite the sight to behold, the eery green haze of the Capitol building upon the horizon. Subsequent entries into the franchise have greater customisation with guns and outfits (and base building), but the disquieting groans of D.C conjure a bleaker atmosphere - The weapon sounds are also sensational, especially when in one of the many connecting metro stations littered around the world map, the .44 magnum sounding utterly beefy, ripping fools in half. I'm really enjoying the ambience of the game.
@@bolshevi3187damn I am going to buy a ps3 soon I only got a ps4 and I will play these old fallout games I can’t believe I didn’t play them back in the day…
They were the "real" Fallouts. Bethesda never came close to their disturbing atmosphere imo. Not serious enough. They weren't games for me, they were alternate lives in a post apocalyptic world.
@@GoatBoat22 Yes because they want everyone to be able to enjoy it, includind kids. Fallout 1 and 2 were pushing you to think as an adult, to grow up basically.
I read the Fallout 3 manual so many times because of how much I loved the game. I made so many builds for my characters with that survivors guide manual. The ps3 one had all the perks and their requirements. I need to play F3 and FNV again!
Being that I’m from Vegas I remember me and my friends in high school absolutely gushing over this game up to its release and after! We all just thought how awesome it was to have a fallout game that represented our city at the time! Man that game is a classic!
Playing new Vegas right now! Having a blast, haven’t played it since 2012 and it’s like my first time all over again. Spent 13 years cracking Skyrim and F4, yet I have never revisited new Vegas and F3 since I first beat em
Played fallout 4 first then New Vegas, but Fallout 3 had me so hooked because the atmosphere felt so dark but the funny seemed almost light hearted around it all. Love them all
I live less than an hour from Boston so I got often, and every time I still geek out when I see something that was in Fallout 4 (even though I'd been to the city long before I ever played that game).
Matty makes really a good point about wasteland 3 and fallout coming together to make a new ISO fall out. I play wasteland 3 as in my mind part of the fallout cannon
I remember going to blockbuster with my Dad looking for a 2 player game to rent and play with him. I must have been about 12/13 years old. The only games I really played at the time were Call of Duty and Fifa. We picked up a Racing game but he also picked up Fallout 3. He wasn't a gamer at all but he said it looked cool. I was annoyed that he picked it up because my small child brain thought it looked 'Scary' and it would be a distraction from the racing game! He played it for about an hour and never touched it again. I decided to give it a chance and I swear to god I must have spent that whole week glued to the PS3 controller. When the time came to give the game back to the store I made him buy me the Full Game! I got to start all over again. One of my favourite games of all time. I would give anything to experience playing it again for the first time. It also opened my mind to playing more than just Call of Duty and Fifa.
Not even a megaton of PC crashes stopped me from sticking with and finishing FO3. The idea of being able to walk to, reach, and enter a building that you see across the map was the most intriguing!
Again nice recall video Matty,i played Vegas as my first Fallout and i think it can't get better till i played Fallout 2,Fallout 2 gave me big chunk of Context on NV.
Honestly this video just showed me that obsidian is the goat for making some of the best written games (kotor 2 new vegas) it’s incredible how good they write
My first bethesda game was f3. To me at the time the graphics looked similar to borderlands 1 which i was in love woth at the time. I quickly loved every aspect of f3 and was very excited to play skyrim up to its release.
I watched my dad play fallout 3 as a kid and was immediately hooked. I’ll never forget seeing him put on power armor for the first time that shit was hype asf
As someone who was also there when FNV came out, the reception was definitely meh at first but it seemed like it was being held to a different standard than F3. I think that’s why FNV’s perception is so different than it was at launch compared to its peers.
Fo3 is a seminal game for me. I went into the game intending to play evil on my first playthrough. I blew up megaton out the gate, and wondered towards tenpenny tower. I was wondering near tenpenny tower and stumbled across a gas station that had a secret underground door that lead to a vault hiding tranquility lane. I stumbled on tranquility lane completely by accident. Subsequent playthroughs led me to understand that I missed a huge portion of the beginning of the game in downtown DC. Still my favorite fallout game (NV is a close second)
16:29 dude !!! same man ! i always heard of fallout and in the first few years of owning my 360 Oblivion was one of the first games i played and in middle school i had a buddy that had this game and he never played it so i asked him if i can borrow it and i played thru the first few hours and was like this is it?? and gave it back to him because i didnt like it at all. After i while and watching youtube vids i asked him if i can borrow it again for a week and really put in the effort and fell in love, i ended up trading it with him for my Fifa 2011 and have put hundreds of hours into it and still own it to this day, top 5 games for me !
The voiced protagonist made the immersion so much better and a big part of why FO4 is my favorite in the series. Having played the mute, amnesia victim in so many games my whole life it was a welcome breath of fresh air and truly made the world feel more realized. The settlement stuff and crafting was annoying, but luckily you can just ignore it if you want to
Same. I wished they leaned more into the voices and had more options than just the two, because dragon age and saints row both pull off a voiced protag well imo, especially saints row (albeit I’m thinking of all the games before the remake 😂) Imagine a world where they had different voices to choose from and also went more in depth with the rpg stuff instead of the settlement stuff. Fo4 would have been the perfect fallout game for me for now, until we can get to a proper fallout VR game
They gave us both OG Baldur's Gate PC games on playstation and Xbox, if they gave us the same thing even with only the 1st two Fallout games it wood b awsome as hell 🤘
i rented Fallout 3 from family video…i got to the washington monument and i kept dying to super mutants. “this game is hard” i returned it. years later this is my favorite franchise….
Fallout new Vegas had the best weapons. They had the blade runner pistol, alien plasma rifle, and all secret locations that had unique guns. Death claw quarry for the unique sniper was the best
Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games ever. There's something so charming about the game which I've always loved. New Vegas is much more gritty, it's still an excellent game, but I'm picking F3 over the two.
The the first fallout game I played was fallout brotherhood of steel which was on the original x box Although it had a quite good storyline the gameplay was unbalenced because when you fight your first boss you have very basic armour basic weapons that only do about 2 damage per hit only 7 hp and the boss has About 100 hp half decent armour and uses dynamite That can do 12 damage per attack which means that they can kill you in two attacks max
You're quite a bit younger than me Matty, but it is weird how much your own experiences of these games mirrored my own. I also didn't like Fallout 3 at first. I rented it, played the part in the vault, and just didn't get, or like, it. I almost sent it back early, but I kept playing, and once I left the Vault and started wandering the wasteland, it blew my mind. It is probably my favourite game of all, simply because of the effect that it had on me. I just could not stop playing it. I also didn't like New Vegas, and I really wanted to love that game; I know that people say it is the best, with the best choices etc, but it just wasn't as fun. I kept waiting to get over the bump, like with Fallout 3 where I'd just find the game amazing, but it never happened. Although I loved the DLC for it. I thought Fallout 4 was much better and is the game that came the closest to the Fallout 3 feelings that I had. Played it through again before Starfield, and don't understand the complaints against it. It had all of the best elements, and admittedly some of the worst, from Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
I bought a PlayStation 3 and was looking for a game to buy that I could play all the time. I was in Best Buy and Fallout 3 just called to me. I knew nothing else about it but what the case showed. It was like a magnet and I’ve never looked back
I cant really decide between 3 and New Vegas on which one I like more.I feel like they both bring something fantastic to the table.Definitely 2 of my favorite games of all time!!!!
The way you feel about 4 is how I feel about 3. I honestly thought most people felt 3 was the one to change everything. New Vegas was very split between my friends. Some loved it and some hated it. 4 was great but 3 was the revolutionary one in my opinion.
I swear, if Bethesda & Nintendo work it out somehow and bring F1, F2, F3 and FNV to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo will be able to clear out most of their Switch inventory to give way to the Switch 2. Like imagine these games were released at the end cycle for Switch. It would be the most epic “Peace Out Hombres, I won” to PS4 and Xbox One.
4:57 I’m disappointed in my 2009 Bethesda physical reprint of fallout 2 because there took all the music out of the game. I’m told it’s because all those songs adds gong to be used in new Vegas, which they were
I still feel like they should have gone with a, what I call, "borderlands" style of multiplayer for 76. probs would have held up better in the long run.
I remember my introduction to fallout was with 3 watching a playthrough on youtube and seeing mothership zeta (favorite expansion) and got hooked first time I played it. Did get ripped off though with a pre owned copy of the goty version and only had the 1st disc so I had to buy the dlc separate
I hate to admit my first fallout game was 4 and missed out on the older games. I’d love to play these titles on the switch in handheld hopefully Bethesda can do that but that’s a long shot
New Vegas was my first introduction to Fallout and I became infatuated with it. After New Vegas, I played fallout 3 and it became my favorite fallout game. I had a great first impression on the series when I played New Vegas. I just prefer fallout 3 because of the dark post apocalyptic atmosphere. I also enjoyed the 1950s America vibe fallout 3 had.
@@XxHessxX7 No doubt gameplay is FO4’s biggest strength, especially if you play on PC. The disappointment comes from it’s story and quests imo. Also how despite giving the player dialogue options characters almost always react the same way no matter what you say.
Luckily I loaded all of the fallout games onto my steam deck before going on vacation. I’ll probably mainly play bg3, as I just bought it, but I think it’s time to wander the Mojave.
I'll be the first to admit that I actually love fallout 76, dont get me wrong there was no Excuse for how it released at launch and it was an absolute Dumpster fire. Luckily I got the game after Wastelanders came out so I didn't have to suffer thru Fallout 76 day one. Fallout 76 actually has one of the most friendly Community's out there, and while there are still some Dickhead players. Majority of the time when you encounter another player they are more likely to help you than they are to screw you over. Word of advice btw. If you are a Noob player and you see public events going on...dont be afraid to join it. I promise you that the Higher Level players arnt gonna care that you are low level. They'll be happy just seeing another player enjoying the game.
You never forget the first time you play a Fallout game, the experience is life changing.
For me it was FO3. Still remember daydreaming about it when I was in middle school lol. First year i failed a class
@@pat9529 The first one i played was FO4, i played a lot but it was like Skyrim with guns and npc's were bland and robotic, soulless. Then i met New Vegas it was the complete opposite of FO4, where the game lacked in mechanics and grafics won me over with the characters and the story, and that incredible dlc Dead Money made me love the game even more. For me it was New Vegas who changed my life.
I mean i agree that the first FO game you play might be a life changing experience but FO4 didn't click with me after a 100 hours or so i didn't want to play anymore.
I also finished FO1 and i have to say, i prefer 1 over 4 lol.
Same for any Fromsoftware games
@@sylphy6662played FO4 and tried the first 4 hours 3 different times due to my friends begging and it being a Bethesda title. I hate that game. Bought New Vegas on a 90% steam sale three years later and I have 700 hours. It accomplished the same feeling of emotional investment and connection Morrowind did for me regarding the Elder Scrolls for Fallout's world. It's one of the best sandbox and lore based rpg games of all time. I can't say either really changed my life like Dark Souls 1, KOTOR, Mount and Blade, Portal 2 or the afore mentioned Morrowind tho. I desperately want to play FO1 and especially 2 but I've had the plot spoiled already so I'm trying to wait a few years before jumping on it. Let me know if you like 2!
@@OpaqueNihilist Will do! If i can find this comment section again in the future :D
Fallout new Vegas was the first one I ever played. Loved it so much and been a fan of the series since
Yeah amazing game and so much replayability. I just got starfield but honestly am just itching to go back to my new vegas playthrough.
unfortunately with the hardware I possess, I'm unable to play Starfield. However, the release of the game had me wanting to play a Bethesda title, so I've been playing Fallout 3 since and its been immensely enjoyable - the backwards compatibility of Xbox recently improved the game to 60 frames. @@FalconMain3
Rip Obsidian 😭😭😭
I really would love a return to Fallout 1 level atmosphere and dread, it really had some of my favorite lore with the Master. I would love to see a port of 1 and 2 or a full on first person remake.
Check out wasteland 2 it's kinda like what fallout 3 would have been in an alternate universe where Bethesda didn't buy the fallout rights and Interplay lived on
@@jakemiddleton1783i love wasteland games. So good
@@jakemiddleton1783Funny how Wasteland is at the same time the inspiration for Fallout and the one who continued nuclear isometric RPGs.
Fallout 1 really messed me up when it came out. It introduced me with mature problematics and literally turned me into a young adult, and Fallout 2 finished the job. Murder, prostitution, drug and human trafficking... They were dark games.
Or even better imagine an HD-2D, like Octopath Traveler but with the Fallout art style, I'd buy the fuck out of that
While New Vegas is my favourite Fallout game, I hold a lot of fond memories from Fallout 3. First seeing it advertised at a bus stop in London, to buying my first copy on EBay, then finally purchasing the GOTY edition. As well as in game moments, like leaving the Vault 101 for the first time, and seeing the wasteland for the first time, nothing will ever beat that feeling...
New Vegas is a life changing experience,it made look at video games like I never did before
Fallout new Vegas is a special flawed little gem that changed peoples lives it's undoubtedly one of the best PS3 Xbox 360 first person shooter open world RPG ever made
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Seems like New Vegas & Wasteland 3 are the two best ones i have.. Fallout 4 at #3.. It’s unfortunate about some of the glitches however
New vegas is truly the greatest game ever made. I think it’s made me not like so many other games since as they pale in comparison.
@@Boxinghotspur57I only played new vegas going into fallout 4 and MAN realizing how different the spirit of the game felt wrecked me. I had no idea obsidian did the franchise justice that much better than Bethesda. Only played it through once and haven’t touched it since
My brother gave me Fallout 3 on ps3, when I was younger, and I've been a fan ever since.
F3 will always be my favorite Fallout game, next to New Vegas, it was definitely a upgrade in gameplay and a new story set in the West.
The Capital Wasteland and the Mojave are both my favorite places to roam.
Fallout 3 is the most immersive game I have played to date.
Fallout 3 was the first game I got 100% on PS3 including the DLC. I binged the game so much, I didn't play another Fallout until yesterday when I bought New Vegas for £1 second hand.
@@jacobturnerart damn bro im jealous that you get to play new vegas for the first time lol. if you like fallout 3 then new vegas will be enjoyable for you you might even like it more
@@tha.infamouzz Definitely enjoying it!
All Starfield has done is make me crave an open world experience so I’m playing Fallout 3 again
Same, but I chose Fallout 4 instead.
Fallout 3 will always have a special place in my heart. My first platinum trophy and first true RPG. Ill never forget that step out moment! I remember getting the Prima Guide for Christmas after my family saw how much i loved that game. Was able to find all the power weapons and hidden things with that guide.
What a thumbnail matty love the artwork!
When it comes to dead money, you either love it or you hate it. I’m right there with you it’s definitely my favorite dlc.
Oblivion was my introduction to BGS. I remember seeing the Fallout 3 trailer and was so pumped to see a post-apocalyptic BGS game. I had never heard of Fallout before then but I've been in love ever since.
My uncle got me on fallout 3. He said its a shooter and you cant beat it. I accidentally rushed the story and beat it in a few days, and just said, "wth, you said this doesn't end"
That’s my experience with Fallout 3 everytime, I always add it to my new Vegas playthrough with tale of two wastelands but never get more than 7-10 hours worth of story out of fallout 3 I have no idea what I’m missing with that game
@@ChichiNaka you didn't like the story of 3? I think that's funny bc my cousin and I don't like NV because of its story. Lol
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Fallout 3 is an incredible, incredible game.
I got into Fallout in 2020, right at the beginning of Covid, after loving TES since Oblivion. I knew BGS made Fallout but just never got around to playing it until later. I’ve never played 1 or 2, but have read up on the stories/lore.
I fell in love with Fallout right away and have sunk hundreds of hours into 3, NV, 4, and 76 since 2020. this may be a controversial take, but I loved FO4 and put more hours into that than any other FO game. I love the game world and the overall lore of the universe. So unique and unlike any of the traditional post-apocalyptic tropes. I’d even be willing to say the Fallout franchise is my favorite in gaming (Starfield may be stealing that title though, we’ll see lol). Really looking forward to Fallout 5 in 2040!
Love this setup way more than the earlier one, really helps add the retro tone you were aiming for.
Your look at these disc sets and manuals reminds me of my old days of gaming in the 90's and very early 2000's.
I agree that a Fallout 1&2 remaster would be amazing. I have the physical disc and case for them on PC but never could play them haha
They should let beamdog make enhanced editions of them
I have the first edition of both of them mate. Relics from the past...
Wish i still had them, no idea what happened to my copies. It has been so long.
Very good video Matty. I'm much older and had the same feelings when I got Fallout 3. I missed Fallout 1 & 2. Three Dog made my experience in the DC wasteland more enjoyable. I'm only on console. The mods on Fallout 4 for console were fun to play with. I still play Fallout every month.
Literally just got sucked in to playing New Vegas. The freedom and story are awesome. Honestly makes me worried for future games.
don't be pessimistic - something will come through
@@bolshevi3187 I hope your right. It's getting ugly out there
GOAT thumbnail dude, holy shit 🔥🔥🔥
Buying fallout 3 as a kid was a monumental moment. I didn’t know it walking out of Bestbuy with two games from the bargain bin just what I was in for. But the moment that slideshow hit and ron perlman started narrating I was hooked. It’s probably for the best I played it as a kid, the same way older fallout fans got introduced to the isometric games. I can still remember the fear I felt going through downtown dc and the museums. I think they did well to capture that ominous music and dreadful atmosphere.
Excellent video Matty, Fallout 3 was my first BGS game and ever since I’ve loved ever single BGS game…currently 43 hours into Starfield and feel I have that Fallout 3 feeling all over again!
Just wanted to stop by and say how much I love this thumbnail!
If Fallout 4 and all of its DLC was as strong as Far Harbor it would be a perfect follow up to New Vegas
I remember playing fallout 1 in the 90’s. Crazy to see where the franchise has gone since then
I played Fallout NV first when I was a kid and absolutely loved it even though I never actually finished a single playthrough when I was younger. It's what hooked me to the fallout franchise and I've loved this series dearly ever since then. I have all games now and I adore each one.
I’m addicted to these retrospectives man 👏👏
Fallout 4.. one of the best games ever created. In my top 3 of all time!
I played 3 along side my old mate in party chat.. those were the days.. swapping tips and helping eachother out with the quests.
I played Fallout 1 when it came out.
I played it on a government computer deep underneath a mountain in an underground millitary complex.
Not joking.
I was in the marines as a dieselrat, taking care of the engines on all the small and medium boats and ships.
There was a request comming in it asked for an egineer who knew how to operate their diesel backup generators.
I don't know who I managed to pi** off but I was sent as a replacement.
The ordinary guy had gotten sick or he quit or whatever so they needed an "intern" to manage the spot until they found a guy with the "right stuff".
Now this entire base ran on the mains grid so the backup generators was never used but they were always needed to be manned just in case.
So all day long I did nothing but sit there playing snake on the central computer.
After a week I had some leave coming up so I checked the specs on the computer I was using and my first stop was the local computer game store.
And there it was on a shelf, brand new and shining, Fallout 1 in all it's glory, so I bought it and brought it back.
Installed it the next day and since that day, that moment the intro movie started playing I have been Vaultboy.
I can't believe fallout 3 will be 15 years old in October. It's a masterpiece.
yes I've been playing it through for the first time this month. I find that Washington is a much more memorable landscape than Boston, I guess because Washington is widely recognisable in its architecture and political presence. Upon reaching the Washington Monument, it was quite the sight to behold, the eery green haze of the Capitol building upon the horizon. Subsequent entries into the franchise have greater customisation with guns and outfits (and base building), but the disquieting groans of D.C conjure a bleaker atmosphere - The weapon sounds are also sensational, especially when in one of the many connecting metro stations littered around the world map, the .44 magnum sounding utterly beefy, ripping fools in half. I'm really enjoying the ambience of the game.
@@bolshevi3187damn I am going to buy a ps3 soon I only got a ps4 and I will play these old fallout games I can’t believe I didn’t play them back in the day…
I enjoyed Bethesda's Fallouts. As games and for introducing Fallout to a new audience.
Fallout 1 & 2 were an absolute treat!
They were the "real" Fallouts. Bethesda never came close to their disturbing atmosphere imo. Not serious enough. They weren't games for me, they were alternate lives in a post apocalyptic world.
@@s.z.9517exactly Bethesda fallouts feel like a kid wrote the dialogue not Enough mature themes
@@GoatBoat22 Yes because they want everyone to be able to enjoy it, includind kids. Fallout 1 and 2 were pushing you to think as an adult, to grow up basically.
I read the Fallout 3 manual so many times because of how much I loved the game. I made so many builds for my characters with that survivors guide manual. The ps3 one had all the perks and their requirements. I need to play F3 and FNV again!
I still remember the weekly fallout 4 wishlist
Keep going 💪
Being that I’m from Vegas I remember me and my friends in high school absolutely gushing over this game up to its release and after! We all just thought how awesome it was to have a fallout game that represented our city at the time! Man that game is a classic!
F03 has easily got the best exploration out of the more recent ones
Playing new Vegas right now! Having a blast, haven’t played it since 2012 and it’s like my first time all over again. Spent 13 years cracking Skyrim and F4, yet I have never revisited new Vegas and F3 since I first beat em
Played fallout 4 first then New Vegas, but Fallout 3 had me so hooked because the atmosphere felt so dark but the funny seemed almost light hearted around it all. Love them all
I like that the humor tried to be light hearted because the dark atmosphere was so much stronger, so the humor felt like and giant F-U 🎉.
I live less than an hour from Boston so I got often, and every time I still geek out when I see something that was in Fallout 4 (even though I'd been to the city long before I ever played that game).
Loved this video, amazing job! Very well curated and put together, can definitely feel the love for this franchise
Man seeing that beginning of fallout 3 on the beginning intro to Matty's new retro channel makes my insides tingle
Matty idk if you’ll see this but the thumbnail goes HARD I’m definitely a fan of that
Matty makes really a good point about wasteland 3 and fallout coming together to make a new ISO fall out. I play wasteland 3 as in my mind part of the fallout cannon
I remember going to blockbuster with my Dad looking for a 2 player game to rent and play with him. I must have been about 12/13 years old. The only games I really played at the time were Call of Duty and Fifa. We picked up a Racing game but he also picked up Fallout 3. He wasn't a gamer at all but he said it looked cool. I was annoyed that he picked it up because my small child brain thought it looked 'Scary' and it would be a distraction from the racing game! He played it for about an hour and never touched it again. I decided to give it a chance and I swear to god I must have spent that whole week glued to the PS3 controller.
When the time came to give the game back to the store I made him buy me the Full Game! I got to start all over again. One of my favourite games of all time. I would give anything to experience playing it again for the first time. It also opened my mind to playing more than just Call of Duty and Fifa.
Not even a megaton of PC crashes stopped me from sticking with and finishing FO3. The idea of being able to walk to, reach, and enter a building that you see across the map was the most intriguing!
Again nice recall video Matty,i played Vegas as my first Fallout and i think it can't get better till i played Fallout 2,Fallout 2 gave me big chunk of Context on NV.
Honestly this video just showed me that obsidian is the goat for making some of the best written games (kotor 2 new vegas) it’s incredible how good they write
My first bethesda game was f3. To me at the time the graphics looked similar to borderlands 1 which i was in love woth at the time. I quickly loved every aspect of f3 and was very excited to play skyrim up to its release.
Will always be my favorite game series
Tired of the lack of love for tactics. It has some major stuff carried over into lore.
Excellent video man. What a great trip down memory lane with this series.
I watched my dad play fallout 3 as a kid and was immediately hooked. I’ll never forget seeing him put on power armor for the first time that shit was hype asf
As someone who was also there when FNV came out, the reception was definitely meh at first but it seemed like it was being held to a different standard than F3. I think that’s why FNV’s perception is so different than it was at launch compared to its peers.
Fo3 is a seminal game for me. I went into the game intending to play evil on my first playthrough. I blew up megaton out the gate, and wondered towards tenpenny tower. I was wondering near tenpenny tower and stumbled across a gas station that had a secret underground door that lead to a vault hiding tranquility lane. I stumbled on tranquility lane completely by accident. Subsequent playthroughs led me to understand that I missed a huge portion of the beginning of the game in downtown DC. Still my favorite fallout game (NV is a close second)
16:29 dude !!! same man ! i always heard of fallout and in the first few years of owning my 360 Oblivion was one of the first games i played and in middle school i had a buddy that had this game and he never played it so i asked him if i can borrow it and i played thru the first few hours and was like this is it?? and gave it back to him because i didnt like it at all. After i while and watching youtube vids i asked him if i can borrow it again for a week and really put in the effort and fell in love, i ended up trading it with him for my Fifa 2011 and have put hundreds of hours into it and still own it to this day, top 5 games for me !
Just here to say: that's a fantastic thumbnail that doesn't trigger the shit out of me. Please more of these :)
The voiced protagonist made the immersion so much better and a big part of why FO4 is my favorite in the series. Having played the mute, amnesia victim in so many games my whole life it was a welcome breath of fresh air and truly made the world feel more realized. The settlement stuff and crafting was annoying, but luckily you can just ignore it if you want to
Same. I wished they leaned more into the voices and had more options than just the two, because dragon age and saints row both pull off a voiced protag well imo, especially saints row (albeit I’m thinking of all the games before the remake 😂)
Imagine a world where they had different voices to choose from and also went more in depth with the rpg stuff instead of the settlement stuff. Fo4 would have been the perfect fallout game for me for now, until we can get to a proper fallout VR game
You hit the nail with the discovery of the fallout franchise lmfao
They gave us both OG Baldur's Gate PC games on playstation and Xbox, if they gave us the same thing even with only the 1st two Fallout games it wood b awsome as hell 🤘
Bad ass review and history of the series , good job👍
Amazing video as always, Matty.
You are definitely my trusted source for anything Fallout.
Really love the fallout series. The lore and world building is top notch. Great video Matty☢️
Downloading this banger to watch on my flight back home. Stoked to play Starfield when I get back!!
i rented Fallout 3 from family video…i got to the washington monument and i kept dying to super mutants. “this game is hard” i returned it. years later this is my favorite franchise….
Love the passion, bro. I wanna replay these now.
Fallout new Vegas had the best weapons. They had the blade runner pistol, alien plasma rifle, and all secret locations that had unique guns. Death claw quarry for the unique sniper was the best
Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games ever. There's something so charming about the game which I've always loved. New Vegas is much more gritty, it's still an excellent game, but I'm picking F3 over the two.
Same, Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game then I played Fallout New Vegas. Fallout New Vegas improved many things but still Fallout 3 is my favourite.
I played New Vegas for a year on the PS3 when it vame out. I had to have put 700+ hours into it doing different playthroughs
3:34 not really a spin off, but more like a spiritual successor
also no Tactics?
The the first fallout game I played was fallout brotherhood of steel which was on the original x box
Although it had a quite good storyline the gameplay was unbalenced because when you fight your first boss you have very basic armour basic weapons that only do about 2 damage per hit only 7 hp and the boss has
About 100 hp half decent armour and uses dynamite
That can do 12 damage per attack which means that they can kill you in two attacks max
I remember when Fallout 1 & 2 were in a dual flip CD case for $10 at Office Depot 😂
You're quite a bit younger than me Matty, but it is weird how much your own experiences of these games mirrored my own. I also didn't like Fallout 3 at first. I rented it, played the part in the vault, and just didn't get, or like, it. I almost sent it back early, but I kept playing, and once I left the Vault and started wandering the wasteland, it blew my mind. It is probably my favourite game of all, simply because of the effect that it had on me. I just could not stop playing it. I also didn't like New Vegas, and I really wanted to love that game; I know that people say it is the best, with the best choices etc, but it just wasn't as fun. I kept waiting to get over the bump, like with Fallout 3 where I'd just find the game amazing, but it never happened. Although I loved the DLC for it. I thought Fallout 4 was much better and is the game that came the closest to the Fallout 3 feelings that I had. Played it through again before Starfield, and don't understand the complaints against it. It had all of the best elements, and admittedly some of the worst, from Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
Awww... I liked 'Tactics' the one time I got through it without having a completely game-breaking bug.
There's no fallout game without Ron Perlman narrating the intro. I'm looking at you FO4 and 76.
I bought a PlayStation 3 and was looking for a game to buy that I could play all the time. I was in Best Buy and Fallout 3 just called to me. I knew nothing else about it but what the case showed. It was like a magnet and I’ve never looked back
I cant really decide between 3 and New Vegas on which one I like more.I feel like they both bring something fantastic to the table.Definitely 2 of my favorite games of all time!!!!
Thank you for this, a true love letter!
My first experience actually was brotherhood of steel before fallout 3.. but oh man this game was played tp death
The way you feel about 4 is how I feel about 3. I honestly thought most people felt 3 was the one to change everything. New Vegas was very split between my friends. Some loved it and some hated it. 4 was great but 3 was the revolutionary one in my opinion.
I absolutely loved fallout 3 when I was younger. Definitely my favorite fallout
I swear, if Bethesda & Nintendo work it out somehow and bring F1, F2, F3 and FNV to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo will be able to clear out most of their Switch inventory to give way to the Switch 2. Like imagine these games were released at the end cycle for Switch. It would be the most epic “Peace Out Hombres, I won” to PS4 and Xbox One.
I'm sorry you don't have the cardboard case over your New Vegas copy, always adds a little more importance to one of my favorite games
I never got into 3 and I regret it but new Vegas and 4 are two of my favorite games ever
Co-op fallout would’ve been so incredible
4:57 I’m disappointed in my 2009 Bethesda physical reprint of fallout 2 because there took all the music out of the game. I’m told it’s because all those songs adds gong to be used in new Vegas, which they were
I still feel like they should have gone with a, what I call, "borderlands" style of multiplayer for 76. probs would have held up better in the long run.
I remember my introduction to fallout was with 3 watching a playthrough on youtube and seeing mothership zeta (favorite expansion) and got hooked first time I played it. Did get ripped off though with a pre owned copy of the goty version and only had the 1st disc so I had to buy the dlc separate
I hate to admit my first fallout game was 4 and missed out on the older games. I’d love to play these titles on the switch in handheld hopefully Bethesda can do that but that’s a long shot
I’m m sure whatever you’re playing 4 on will play 3 and NV as well. The Games are cheap these days too.
I'm surprised Matty didn't talk about Fallout 3 on PS3. I was under the impression that that was his favorite version 😂😂😂
I would personally like to thank black isle,obsidian and Bethesda for introducing me to retro music.
I wish Starfield had the gore system of Fallout games. Shooting someone point blank with a shotgun just isn't as satisfying.
New Vegas was my first introduction to Fallout and I became infatuated with it. After New Vegas, I played fallout 3 and it became my favorite fallout game. I had a great first impression on the series when I played New Vegas. I just prefer fallout 3 because of the dark post apocalyptic atmosphere. I also enjoyed the 1950s America vibe fallout 3 had.
You missed Fallout Tactics, didn't catch if you mentioned that.
Best video ever
Fallout 4 will forever hold a special place in my heart
It's just not as good as its predecessors unfortunately. The gameplay is fun in Fo4 at least, and Nick Valentine absolutely rules.
@@Cheddar_Wizard I have over a hundred hours just building out settlements
@@XxHessxX7 No doubt gameplay is FO4’s biggest strength, especially if you play on PC. The disappointment comes from it’s story and quests imo. Also how despite giving the player dialogue options characters almost always react the same way no matter what you say.
@@Cheddar_Wizard yeah I agree man Starfield really improved in those areas fallout 4 was lacking in
Judging by some of the non-sponsored content reviews of Starfield, I’d be missing Fallout too.
Still waiting on that Fallout 4 next gen update so i can do another play through. I've been patiently waiting for September 5th for Starfield
Luckily I loaded all of the fallout games onto my steam deck before going on vacation. I’ll probably mainly play bg3, as I just bought it, but I think it’s time to wander the Mojave.
Larian Studios could do a solid remake of 1&2.
I'll be the first to admit that I actually love fallout 76, dont get me wrong there was no Excuse for how it released at launch and it was an absolute Dumpster fire. Luckily I got the game after Wastelanders came out so I didn't have to suffer thru Fallout 76 day one. Fallout 76 actually has one of the most friendly Community's out there, and while there are still some Dickhead players. Majority of the time when you encounter another player they are more likely to help you than they are to screw you over.
Word of advice btw. If you are a Noob player and you see public events going on...dont be afraid to join it. I promise you that the Higher Level players arnt gonna care that you are low level. They'll be happy just seeing another player enjoying the game.
I have the same sweater bro 😎