3 but then went back and played 1 and 2 later.

Fallout 4

I got 1 and 2 in a combo pack at target when I was a kid. Then I was let down so hard when 3 came out.the series is dead to me now.

Wasteland.

I started with Fallout 1. I had played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 but missed out on Fallout when it came out the first time. I made friends with a guy who was super into it and first played it in 2005. What I enjoy most about Fallout 1 and 2 is how much variability in quests and character interactions there are for different playstyles and character builds. I wasn't as hung up about it playing a certain way or the skills and perks being set up in a certain way like a lot of fans of the original games are, so I still found Fallout 3 fun even if it was ultimately a more shallow experience that didn't reward experimentation as much. New Vegas does a better job, and even though Bethesda didn't make that game, they look at what was done well in that game and incorporate those lessons into Fallout 4.

@bocckob: I don't think it's bad as much as you are just bad at it. If you don't spec out your character a certain way and do specific things during the opening hours of the game it's going to be rough on you. Old CRPGs like Fallout and Fallout 2 are super unforgiving compared to modern games. It's more trial and error than anything else.

Fallout 3 was my introduction to the series. I'm not sure if I could ever give the first two games a chance since they're so drastically different than what Bethesda did with 3. I'm not entirely opposed to at least giving them a try if I had the time to do so.

I remember my experience with 3 being mixed. When I first bought it, I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. My first run resulted in me wandering in the wrong direction after leaving the vault which resulted in being ambushed by raiders slaughtering me over and over. I got frustrated and stopped playing since I was prevented in making any progress and there was no way to escape the ambush without insta-death.

After a few months I decided to give it another chance and it became the only thing I played for hundreds of hours. Based on a couple of posts on here I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one that needed to give it a second chance.

Totally in the same boat.

I'm sure I messed around with Fallout 1 and 2 when I was a kid, but Fallout 3 honestly.

I'm not a PC game so I never heard of Fallout until 3 came out.

Fallout 1. I remember playing a demo of Fallout 1 when I had a subscription for PC Gamer. The demo featured Junktown and I played the demo several times, going through the different scenarios. I was so impressed I ended up buying the full game.

Played the original Fallout first back in 1997. Lots of nostalgia there. Actually remember playing the pre-release demo on a PC Gamer disc, which if I recall actually involved some weird scenario not found in the finished game--warring gangs if I remember correctly. Fallout 2, I recall, came out around my birthday in 1998. I remember riding my bike to the nearest shopping mall after school, some ten miles, just to get it. It was dark by the time I was heading home and I nearly got killed riding along a regional highway without reflectors. (Worth it.)

Original Fallout back in the day. I have fallen in love with it and was anticipating Fallout 2 like a crazy person. After release of the second game I was obsessed with them. I even tried to make custom pen and paper version of the game to play with me friends during our D&D/ other games like that sessions.

First was Fallout 2 in the early 00s. I've never played 1 and the whole time constraint thing turns me off from trying it. Anyway, from what I hear, 2 is basically the same but better. I loved it immensely.

Otherwise I've played all of them except Brotherhood of Steel. Tactics wasn't so great, but ok all things considered. 3 and New Vegas were fantastic, even with all the Bethesda jank.

I'm pretty stocked to play 4.

Another person here who now feels old with all these damn kids and their Fallout 3.

I bought Fallout on day one after getting a dope-ass Interplay VHS tape in the mail that showed some of the opening movie.

Edit: Hell yeah, Youtube pulls through. Also, Die by the Sword is one of the gangsterest games ever made and playing 4 player Ogre Hockey with a bunch of beer was a weekly tradition for me and my friends.

Fallout 3 was my first though I didn't have much interest in it when it first came out. It wasn't until early 2010 when I was between jobs that I gave it a go and that I fell in love with its world and characters and the sense of exploration and mystery.

I got both Fallout and Fallout 2 free with some magazine back in the day.

My first fallout was Falout 3 on 360. I was never a PC gamer outside of World of Warcraft, so I never really got into playing the older style fallout games.

I'm pretty sure it was 2, which I borrowed of someone and played a bit of. I think I probably got to the Den before I had to give it back. That was probably in '98 or '99. After that I bought a double pack of the first two games, so the first one would have been the first game I completed.

I think I'd probably already played Baldur's Gate by that point, so I knew I enjoyed isometric RPGs. With that said, Fallout is a lot simpler than Baldur's Gate, so it certainly was the game that really solidified my love of RPGs!

I played Fallout 2 around when it came out. Then Fallout 1, then Tactics, then 3, then New Vegas. I never played BoS.

If I play Fallout 4 it will be my first Fallout game.

Off topic, but I dont get why so many people say fallout 3 has a bad story; I had fun with it. It isn't Last of Us caliber, but I thought it was well done for what it is.

I can't be the only one who's first Fallout was the PS2 game Brotherhood of Steel can I ?

Yeah and that's bad game design. Getting an illusion of choice but needing to play a certain way if you want to get anywhere and having to keep a finger on the quicksave/quickload buttons all the time isn't fun or engaging. There's no skill or thinking involved in doing the same thing over and over until you stumble into the right path or the random number generator aligns in your favor.

Fallout 3, though I did play some Wasteland on a friend's C64 back in the 80's. That was first non-fantasy RPG I ever played.

I was very excited about 3 prior to its launch, being a big Elder Scrolls fan, so I went back and played 1 and 2 in the months prior. Absolutely killer games.

Fallout, back in the day, because i'm an old fart :)

Wasteland.

But trying not to be that guy, Fallout. It was such a wild game with a mix of 50's Americana, a somewhat prescient view of resource bottlenecks and the growing strength of China, and all kinds of goofy pop culture. I thought Fallout 3 ended up having about the same but with like 50 more hours of depressing green filters on everything. It was only years later that I found out my ending for Fallout 1 wasn't even the best ending and it required a massive amount of sequence breaking and laser focus to finish the game early enough on the clock to get the best ending (which is not canon because it requires all of the above). I did really like Tactics though for being able to make firing lines and having different specialists. I do wish Bethesda was capable of putting in party based stuff into their open worlds.

Played the original Fallout first. Played it around the same time as my older brother and I remember we ended up solving the end of the game in very different ways.

And neither of us knew the other option existed, which I thought was really cool.

Its one of the games and series that introduced me to RPGs and I still hold both Fallout 1 and 2 in high regard.

3 was my first and i'm really looking forward to 4.

I tried playing the old ones but they are not for me.

I have never played a Fallout game... except for the first 15 minutes of New Vegas which I hated. If Fallout 4 is good I will play it.

Wasteland on the C-64!

Fallout 1, someone gave to me a copy of Fallout 1 and 2 for free and i decided to start with 1 first.

Unfortunately, i was more of a fps-action kind of guy, and not being used to rpgs, i got annoyed by the game and gave my copies away, needless to say, a few years later, i want to punch my younger self in the face for giving those two games away.

I played Brotherhood of Steel on the PS2 back in the day, and I still own a copy of it, actually. It really isn't a terrible game from what I remember. It was basically a reskinned Dark Alliance. My next experience with the series was 3. Then I tried Fallout 1 before New Vegas came out but didn't have the patience for it.

My first was Fallout New Vegas. I played Fallout 3 later on and was disappointed in the story branching and choices, but, at the time, I found the world a lot more fun to explore. I've since gone back to New Vegas several times since I love the western like setting and roleplaying as a gunslinger.

Fallout 2. I remember being frustrated with the intro of the game, but I kept at it because I wanted to see what one of my friends was raving about. Totally worth the effort!

Where's Fallout Shelter on that list?

I played and loved Fallout 2 until I had a game breaking bug during a quest about 2/3 through the game. In retrospect it may have been possible to find a fix for it. I don't think I even looked for an unofficial patch before playing.

@bocckob: By that logic than pretty much every CRPG ever made has bad game design. Everything was based around a D&D style dice roll. There are ways you could get around it if you knew what you were doing, but for the most part it was about playing the right build and playing the dice roll. If you run into a combat encounter with someone who isn't spec'd for combat you're gonna have a bad time and so on. The skill involved was figuring out exactly what you could and couldn't do. You can get through the entire game without killing anything, or go guns blazing and kill everything. It all depends on how you spec your character out.

All in all not too different from what you see in hardcore RPGs today, just way more unforgiving. There's no hand-holding in the old Fallout games like in the Bethesda-era games today.

Fallout 3 was the first one I really got into. I tried one of the first two, and tried again to get into them after 3, but I found them impenetrable.

Either I played 3 first, or I played the first one first due to Fallout 3 hype that year. Either way, I like both of them.

Fallout 2, maybe about 10-ish years ago. It's a bit harder to go back to, though.

3, followed by New Vegas straight away
Good times

Like many others I'm sure, my first experience was when I bought and played Fallout 3. Also, the only reason I picked it up was because I was such a big fan of oblivion and was told how closely this game resembled that except in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Mine was 3 I never had a pc back when 1 or 2 came out and did not even know they existed until after 3.