Which Fallout installment made you fall in love with Fallout? (poll)

My previous poll turned out to be more successfull than I anticipated, so I'm adding a new one.
This time I want to know which Fallout game / show made you fall in love with the world of Fallout (if any)..

List of all Fallout games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(franchise)
Fallout TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(American_TV_series)

A bit about my personal history with Fallout:
I encountered Fallout 2 completely on accident.
I was at a school mate's birthday party (probably around 1998-1999) and he was raving about this amazing game everyone should play.
But wouldn't go into details, as he said it would spoil the game for us.
Only said it was an RPG and set in the future.

I was a bit reluctant and not really excited by the explanation, so it took me a few months (and few other people that were at the party, and did play it - recommending it) until I finally installed it.
And immediately felt underwhelmed.
The character creation was fun.
But then you're playing as some uncivilized villager... and immediately get killed by mines and huge scorpions... so I just dropped it.
It took me a whole week until I was bored enough to start playing it again, and finishing the first village part of the game.
But as soon as I did - I was hooked!
I finished the game several times - trying out different character builds.
I downloaded and installed all the latest patches of the game. Which was non-trivial at the time. I believe still had dial-up back then (or maybe a very slow ADSL) and Fallout 2 was the first game ever I bothered downloading and installing latest patches for.
It was also quite buggy and had crashes without them...