Fallout Demo

Phias · Post by **Phias** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:17 pm

If anyone has any nostalgia about the fallout demo, maybe talk about it here.

You know, your first introduction to Fallout.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:40 pm

My first introduction to Fallout was Electronic Gaming Monthly....Read the review, went out and got the game.

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:45 pm

My introduction to Fallout was way back when, when I more of a noob than I am now. I got one of the BG games (first one? I dunno) I kind of liked it, then someone told me to throw away that shitty game and play Fallout. I did so, and I played it for six hours straight, just running around the Hub, doing shit. I was so immersed. I attempted to play BG again, but I just couldn't enjoy it whatsoever after playing Fallout.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:50 pm

My first experience was when I picked it up at the store because my dad said he would buy me one game. I had no idea what it was about, but I'm sure gald I chose it!

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:23 pm

I first played Fallout throughout summer 2000, so I'm fairly noobish. It was my first real RPG, and I never really liked anything much after that. Rest assured, it ruled, and I was hooked like an acid addict.

airsoft guy · Post by **airsoft guy** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:41 pm

My freind called me up and told me his freind let him borrow Fallout and I just had to see it, told me it was an RPG, I wasn't much into RPG's because of the D&D thing, but I came over and tried it and was hooked as soon as I blew some little kid away with a SMG, I begged him to let me borrow it, he agreed, I don't think he ever finished it because he's always switching games and such.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 12:46 am

I first heard of Fallout in a game mag I read. In 2000 I saw it in EB and bought it. Finished it in 2 days and went back there and not knowing that there was a Fallout 2, asked if they had it in stock.

Bought that then and there and that took me a good 7 months to finish.

Doyle · Post by **Doyle** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:16 pm

I can't remember the first time I head about Fallout. It might have been in Computer Games Strategy Plus article, but it seems like I might have heard about it before then. Either way, I downloaded the demo, and bought the game when it went on sale not too long after that. I was still on my old Pentium 60 MHz PC when I first got it, so when my brother came down and brought his 133 MGHz PC with him (It seemed like a monster at the time) I installed the game on that so it would run better. I still have that old issue of CGS+.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:20 pm

I got into Fallout through Fallout II. All my friends raved about it so I went out and bought the bundle. I still haven't finished Fallout II, but I've gone through Fallout a few times. Still one of the only games that can hold my interest.

Wejdas · Post by **Wejdas** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 11:55 pm

I saw Fallout 2 commercial in a Dragon magazine. Later I saw my friend watching intro of the game and fell in love with the game at once. This was one of my first PC games ever and my first love.

I played Fallout 2 several times before I managed to finish it (lost save games, etc.). Then I got my hands on Fallout which actually seemed a little bit worse and more buggy than FO2 to me (first love... [sigh]). I enjoyed it very much though.

Later I ran into FO demo, which I downloaded and played for fun and extra little piece of Nirvana. :)~

FO2 is still probably the best game I've ever played.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:56 am

I can clearly remember my experience with the Fallout demo. After walking through the blue dumpster gate thing I went up to an old person and started punching him. Good fun.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:16 am

I got it the year it came out. I still have the box... gotta love that "explode into chunks of meat like a blood-sausage" or whatnot description

I'm so glad I got this game.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:26 am

Yeah...I got it a few months after it was released...Got FO2 the day it came out.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:29 pm

I backordered FO2 for like 2 months 'cause I didn't know when it was to be released.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:47 pm

Heh..I was working at a software store at the time, so I had the all the l337 secrets.

Bennor · Post by **Bennor** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:42 pm

i first heard of it march 2002 so i'm a total noob on the grand scale. 2 of my friends were talking about it and i asked them what they were talking about and they said it was a post-apoc rpg having said that i told them to shut up and tell me where i could get this game so after searching for both fo1 and 2 invain. i asked one of them to lend me a copy and was hooked the moment i heard 'maybe' and watched the mr handy ad. I love post-apocaliptic stuff cause unlike star trek and stuff like that where humanity kinda no longer suffers, you get to see and do things than are only done by people experienceing humanity at its best ie. striving to overcome the extreams of the universe

ps. thank you for your time

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:20 am

My first dance with Fallout I actually resulted from my interest in post-nuclearism. During grade eight, one of my friends had Fallout II, we talked about it and I was about to buy the copy off of him. Alas, he wouldn't. Bastard.

I did some research and I became obsessed with finding FO I and II. I had the minigun battle between the two gangs in Junktown, I read DAC news, and one day during X-Mas, I happened to go into a Radio Shack.

Score. Fallout I and II Bundle, $20 Canuck. Went home and played Fallout I non stop. Those Square fanboys had nothing on me, yo.

It sparked my interest in RPGs and I went out into the wasteland in search for Planescape: Torment, but that's another story.

PIPBoy2000 · Post by **PIPBoy2000** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:49 am

I loved the demo, it got me hooked.

When I got the real game, I was majorly dissapointed that it didn't have the Mini-Guns in the fridge in Junktown like the demo.

Calal · Post by **Calal** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:48 pm

Mad Max RW wrote:I can clearly remember my experience with the Fallout demo. After walking through the blue dumpster gate thing I went up to an old person and started punching him. Good fun.

Yes, it must have been something along these lines for me too. Unluckily no shop or store around here seemed to have it in stock and afterwards I kind of lost track of it, got interested in some other game I suppose, so I forgot the whole thing. Untill a friend bought himself a gamepack containing some rather stupid games. Behold, in it was also Fallout and when I asked him as to where the game was he told me he sold it to a friend of his. So I tracked down the friend and in the end bartered for it with a Morbid Angel cd. Heh, best trade ever. But it took some years to realise there was a sequel though.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:00 am

It seems that everyone had trouble finding it... are you just too cheap to use the internet/stores?