What was the first Fallout game that brought you to the series? (Poll)

Can I start by saying your wrong at least for me as I have only played one Fallout game and it was https://store.steampowered.com/app/588430/Fallout_Shelter/ (not on Steam) and I was very bad at it

The first Fallout was the one I played first... and didn't really get into it.
Many years later I tried Fallout 3 or New Vegas... and I didn't really get into it.
A year or two ago, I finally played Fallout 4.... and I didn't really get into it.
These games are time sinks, and I guess I kinda lost interest in them before they got interesting?

for mine, it is the same as the release order,

I expect to see fallout 3 here as the hype it created by marketing for the ones that got no idea about fallout and the original Fallout series was for a core audience, whereas fallout 3 is for I can say touches more audience.

I got more than 2000 hours in the first trilogy before steam, steam says https://steamcommunity.com/id/osmaniac/ I got 891 hours in fallout 2 :D . I got them installed always

Fallout one for me. I loved it,as well as the 2nd one, new vegas was cool too. I totally disliked 3 and 4

Predicting Fallout 3 will dominate the poll. Both because of average ages of users and because CRPG could only hope to be as mainstream as a FPS/RPG hybrid.

I was impressionable youth in 2008 and F3 felt amazing... but simultaneously I coudn't even finish it. Also fond memories of a game that made my PC crash like no other that year. Only GTA IV with it's all time dogshit masterclass of a PC port by Rockstar crashed more often and violently.

For a story driven genre like RPG Bethesda's characters and dialogue were just pitifully bland at times. Ofc later down the line they would make F3 look like nothing short of a masterpiece in writing/rpg mechanics when Fallout 4/76 came out lol. New Vegas was the only one I finished...cause you guessed it it's an RPG with actually good writing for a change.

One day I would like to sit down and give a shot to 1/2/Tactics but probably with some mods involved. Or maybe see them get a faithful remake/remaster.

Poll is missing Fallout Shelter for shits and giggles though.

Fallout 1 back in the days. Still the best in the series.

Haven't played any Fallout game (yet).
So have a bump at least.

Fallout 1 got me into the series but Fallout 2 is the standout game for me!

Agree with Everyshadeoflife regarding SG demographics and fallout 3 should win!

It would be interesting to see if another poll asking about their favourite fallout game would be that different to the answers from this poll!

The first one was also my entry into the series. Haven't played 4 or 76 yet but I enjoyed every series entry so far. And New Vegas was the best.

I got Fallout 1 from a friend in late 1998 and never got into it. The start with the cave and the time limit just didn't do it at all for me.

When Bethesda took over and people talked about 'Oblivion with guns' I wasn't too hyped about it, but I got it eventually. I actually enjoyed my time with Fallout 3 quite a lot.

Fallout New Vegas was a slow burner for me. It didn't click the first time I played it, but it became my favorite game of the series.

The base building and the Minutemen quests in Fallout 4 drag the game down in my opinion. There's still some interesting bits to find (the DLC are mostly good), but it doesn't reach the fun I had with 3.

I started with FNV on Xbox 360, then, many years later, I continued on PC with FAPNRPG (great abbreviation, innit?), then I played F76 mostly as a co-op with my friend and right now I'm back at FNV again.

Being an old prick wisened gamer Fallout 1 was my first foray into the series, unless you're prepared to go all meta in which case I'd say it was Wasteland that I played a couple of years earlier. Picked it up about 9 months after it came out in Aus iirc, by which point it had ended up in the bargain bin at Harvey Norman. $10 AUD and damn if I didn't I get my money's worth, another one of those games I still feel guilty about not paying a proper price to support devs (please forgive me System Shock 2 😭.....)

It grabbed me instantly, the design, the strategy, the world building, the humour the retro-futurist aesthetic. I was so hooked that I didn't do a deep dive into the game mechanics and made a very poor first character who died rather miserably trying to rescue Tandi from the Raiders. I then took a good couple of days to read the manual (a chunky tome, always a good sign in my experience and for anyone who's interested has a great breakdown of the real nature of nuclear war and what likely comes afterwards). My next character was much better and I saw out the game with him. I did multiple playthroughs, changing my tactics and decisions each time, always curious to see what would change and was never really disappointed.

Fallout 2 was very much more of the same, bigger and more diverse, with perhaps a bit more tongue in cheek than what many people preferred but I quite enjoyed it. The 2 of them together really highlight for me what can be done with a good setting and good writers who recognise the value of having meaningful options for the player. Played the tech demo of Van Buren when it dropped years ago, sigh, what might have been....

Thanks to someone's generosity on Reddit I've recently tried Tactics on GOG and while it hasn't blown my socks off it's still a fun enough romp through that world, I've had a better experience so far than during the demo I played eons ago. About a third of the way though and while I miss the roleplaying aspects, the combat is fun enough.

Despite this I imagine Fallout 3 will win the poll, and not without some cause. It was a ballsy thing to translate the world of Fallout into an open world setting and in terms of atmosphere and immersion it really can't be denied how effective it was. I remember talk at the time fearing it would just be Oblivion with guns; it wasn't completely untrue but I feel it succeeded more than it stumbled (at least that what I say to justify the purchase of the deluxe edition at launch as a Christmas present 😀). I still remember my first playthrough exiting the vault for the first time (just past dawn game time) and it took my breath away. The main quest left me a bit cold but it was that smaller encounters that really moved me...one of them, an unmarked exploration quest to respond to a father's distress call utterly gutted me at the time and still does, as does reading the computer logs of the medical camp set up outside the Germantown police station

Where it stumbled for me is something that's common to alot of Bethesda games imo; they are brilliant world crafters and open world designers but as Role-playing game makers (yes capital R thank you very much 😁) they're very much 2nd class to other studios (Bioware back in the day, their Fallout predecessor Black Isle, Obsidian (early years?), CD Project and many others). It felt a very on-rails experience, very oppositional without nuance, with only a minor amount of options for true roleplaying, to say nothing about some of their more....interesting story decisions....the game ending before Broken Steel....Bethesda, I'm travelling with a radiation immune companion.....and you want me to believe I'm a bad person if I don't sacrifice myself needlessly....and let's not even talk about one of the outcomes of the Tenpenny Tower quest line, it pisses me off so much I don't actually start that quest anymore!.....that said I never thought getting that swish apartment in Tenpenny Tower would take me where that quest line did, damn I felt dirty the first time I did that quest.....kept the apartment though.....

I'm not knocking it though, while 1 & 2 (the latter is a must with the restoration mod) are my preferred role playing games I can't deny the experience of traveling in Bethesda's take on the franchise and one of these days I'll get round to getting 4 and give that a spin, though from the videos I've seen I can't help but feel it might be getting a bit far from it's roots. And one of these days I'll also finish New Vegas, played it on an ex's console (I know, pity me 🫢) about 40%, damn it was good to have some proper attention to the Role-playing aspects again. I'd love Obsidian or another more RP focused dev (hell, even Telltale if they were still around) to branch out the Fallout universe in addition to Bethesda's mainline effort but I have a feeling it won't happen, which is a shame really, it's such an amazing setting with the scope for so many different kind of experiences.

Fallout 3 pirated back in 2008 🏴‍☠️, most people including myself didn't even know about the series before bethesda took over(oblivion helped bethesda a lot back then). I'm planning to replay the game now because of the TV series.

Fallout 3, it was one of my first PS3 games.

F3. And New Vegas brought me to the first two and also made F4 hurt with its suckage. Three games I would like to see remade the most are F1 & 2 and Steamworks.

i think i saw a friend play FO3, but i played new vegas first

Fallout back in the day, I was big into RPGs and seeing a post apocalyptic RPG was an instant buy for me, my dad even got into it.

But technically it was Wasteland, that was the predecessor to the Fallout series even though it wasn't actually a part of it.

started with New Vegas, eyepatch edition.
decided to give 3, also eyepatch edition a try since I loved it so much

Interestingly enough, my first Fallout game is Fallout Shelter on my old phone. I even spent money to buy those in game packages

Definitely Fallout 3. I'd already played Morrowind, so it was on my radar. When I got a PS3, Fallout 3 and Dragon Age: Origins were two of the first games I bought.

It was Fallout 1 for me. I miss being able to shoot children in the crotch with my .223 pistol.

Well, there are 2 real Fallout games there to be precise, so that kinda narrows it down...

I mean there were a few Oblivion mods (wrongly labelled as "Fallout 3" and some other Bethesda content) a tactical action game, which rightly had the tag 'tactics' in its title, a mobile game and a multiplayer game.

But anyway, the answer is Fallout 1.

The first fallout was the game that forced me to learn English. I loved the lore and the world, but I barely knew any English. I had to read all the Master's notes with a dictionary in my hand.

So, any time you see me writing in English and making mistakes, blame Fallout 1

I don't like fallout 3+
If I hit a person in the face with a rocket launcher... they should die.

I get what they were trying to do with weapon skills, but just put the heavy weapons behind a skill requirement instead..... Normal humans should not be able to laugh at hand grenades and rockets.

I actually played the first game back in the 90's but was not into how the map worked so didn't finish it till recently. The first game that I played all the way through and really hooked me to the series was New Vegas.