Regardless of which game you think is "best" or circumstance, what is to this day is your favorite Fallout experience(s)/memorie(s) that stick out among the rest? I've always loved ED-E playing "<dramatic music>" at the end of Lonesome Road with the nuke activation or my first time playing through the GNR Building Plaza Battle during a rainy night with my only assault rifle.
Fucking flying deathclaw soaring to the sky, only to come straight down and murder Dogmeat and fly back up again.
Probably running the deathclaw gauntlet in the quarry the first time i ever played fnv
A moment in Fallout 2. I blasted some supermutant to pieces and his last words were "i like gum".
One time in Fallout 4 vanilla survival mode I was pinned down by some raiders so I hid behind some cars to patch myself up.
I was pretty sure I was gonna die so I was prepping myself to pop all of my chems and hope for the best, but thats when they started shooting at a vertibird which came in and my boys in power armour jumped down from it and mucked them up.
They were like big metal guardian angels delivering hot laser death to my enemies and it was awesome.
That's why I'll only ever side with the Brotherhood (or minutemen if I am feeling passive) in Fallout 4 - they got my back.
I remembered hoarding anti-material rifle rounds from the beginning of my second playthrough just so I could go do quarry junction later with confidence.
Getting the Enclave Tesla Armor in New Vegas
Okay so it's like , 2am, I'm with my best friend, we're playing FO3. He's in the tunnels near Tenpenny Tower and he loses control and we hear "WHAT'RE YOU DOIN HERE SMOOTHSKIN" his view suddenly gets twisted 180 degrees and there's a ghoul like 3" from his face. We damn near shit ourselves
Doping myself up to my eyeballs in F2. Meet some gangster asking me what I want. My guy replys "WORLD PEACE!!!1". Gangster asks if I want a lead sandwitch. Doped Chosen One responds "ME NOT LIKE LEAD taste gross"
Being killed for 999 damage by the Leutenant in F1 after being captured. Being able to come back and fill him full of holes.
I walked into a building once in FO3, and a random scavver was inside at the entrance. She came up to me and went "You shouldn't be here" and right then a sentrybot open up a door across the room, rolled in and mowed her down in front me of.
My favorite memory is insanely mundane compared to others, but it's actually one of my favorite game memories in general. I achieved some level of sleep-deprived perfect immersion for a split second.
It was one of my first TTW runs and I had gone from the Mojave to the Capital Wasteland. Emerging out into the DC ruins, I felt insanely humbled as the beefed-up super mutants presented a challenge to my character for the first time in dozens of hours. It felt really natural, running around such a contrastingly-ruined location compared to where I had just been, being hounded by abominable super mutants inflicting damage like I had never seen before.
I had ducked into a nearby shopfront that had been opened by DC Interiors, and hid there while the group of mutants that were following me lost interest. I was crouched behind the counter, occasionally peering up through the windows to see the stray head of a wandering mutant.
While I was waiting for my stealth meter to 'reset', I began physically scavenging through the ruins, using the hold key to drag and drop rubble as I searched for loot. Under a rock I found a shopping basket with some food I desperately needed a single stimpak, enough to get me back on my feet.
Then I stop and reflected how fucking natural the whole experience was, and felt this jarring shift back into reality. For some reason, I was incredibly honed in the game in that moment. It was at the tail end of a pretty late gaming binge so it could have been that, but I like to imagine the combination of hardcore survival mods, graphical overhauls and other miscellaneous mods culminated in some moment of perfect immersion.
I can't remember any other point in any other game where I actually had to kill time by sifting through rubble while I waited for terrifyingly powerful enemies to wander off, in doing so finding just enough 200 year-old candy and medication to get me by.
My favorite memory is probably my first ever run with Fallout 3, being new to the entire franchise and a impressionable kid.
I was in awe upon exiting the vault and I couldn't believe that this entire world space could be explored.
I strolled around aimlessly and after a few hours I got the hang of the game and wanted to see the big city so I moved towards it.
Eventually had to swim across a river and got hurt by something halfway, turned around and saw 3 mirelurks (which I had never seen before) close on me real fast.
I got ganked and I was scared shitless after that, I immediately unistalled the game and it took me at least a year to give it another shot.
I remember when I first exited the vault in fallout 3. I don't think I've been able to match that feeling of pure exploration and aimless excitement. When the sunlight hit me I just knew I was gonna like the game.
Walking around my Lucky 38 trophy room for the last time, after doing a run where I HAD to take some kind of trophy from every enemy I killed and display it in the cocktail lounge.
But also the time my girlfriend was playing fallout 3 (ttw) and she jumped because a ghoul rounded the corner and screamed at her, fired her shotgun involuntarily, hit one of those empty oil drums you can fling around- which proceeded to fly into the air and collide with a nearby eyebot that fucking exploded from the impact damage.
The first moment I genuinely pissed myself laughing early into my first time playing FO3. This was nearly 10 years back so my memory is foggy, but I remember exploring the ruins and getting shot at by a bunch of what where either mutants or raiders. Some npc's that'd spawned nearby all shout "WHERE?" simultaneously and proceed to run past me, fists out, straight into a minefield. One by one I watch their ragdolls and limbs fly off in all directions. It was around that point where I became a fan of Fallout.
Hiding in the deathclaw sanctuary in NV with a stealth boy and taking out all the deathclaws one by one.
I love that it made you uninstall the game.
My favourite memory would have to be when I discovered that you could destroy an entire settlement. Pretty damn cool, I thought.
Fallout 3:
-The first time I played the Tenpenny Tower mission and tried to resolve the situation between the Tenpenny residents and Roy Phillips. I came back some time later to find only Roy's people remained and eventually found the Tenpenny residents murdered. I generally had good karma, but I accepted the bad karma that came with killing Roy (and unfortunately, the other ghouls).
-Finding Butch in the Rivet City and getting him as a companion (more so because I liked the idea of a childhood bully becoming a good friend).
Fallout New Vegas:
-When I first entered Nipton to find it burning and people crucified. As soon as Vulpes Inculta was done speaking, I drew my gun and killed all the Legionnaires because I was actually shocked by the display.
-Later, I hadn't even met Caesar and just stumbled upon Cottonwood Cove and The Fort. Boone and I had been roving the Mojave for a time and my favorite companion at the time and we assaulted the Fort and killed everyone. When I got to Caesar's tent and killed him along with the Praetorian guard and saw all the quest failure icons pop up I was like "...oh, that was Caesar... Now what?"
-Going 'The Magnificent Seven' on the Van Graffs. I was not willing to give up Cass to the Van Graffs so I got Cass, ED-E, and a hired bodyguard and attacked them. The Kings and the criers down the street joined in and a battle occurred on the strip. Everyone but my companions and I were killed.
Fallout 4:
-Roaming the Commonwealth with MacCready. I liked the fact that he was a familiar character from Fallout 3 and for my character he felt like a surrogate son.
-Defending Warwick Homestead against a shit-ton of Gunners with a full compliment of settlers, fortifications, and during a radiation storm.
-Any sarcastic option.
I'm sure there's more, but I recall those the best.
At the very top of my mind, dealing with Benny in New Vegas, due to the outrageous number of ways it can be accomplished, the majority of which are audacity incarnate.
Every time I play the game I try my best to change my approach to Ring-A-Ding to something completely different than the last
First time getting the .44 magnum while exploring the metro tunnels, got into a battle with muties after i exited the metro entrance. The first mutant I killed with the magnum exploded into chunks and made me go "woah." I ended up dying in the battle but god damn it was a good first impression.
When I was a teenager I had a €300 laptop which I used as my general use computer, but my brother and I had a shared PC. He got into some game (I can't remember what) so I tried to play Fallout 3 on my laptop.
My laptop got SUPER hot after about 30 minutes, I had all the graphics settings down to minimum, and was using custom setting to make the game run at lower setting than it normally allows. The game only rendered around 5 metres in front of me, with everything past that being a light grey mist, I had to use VATS to target enemies beyond my vision range.
Playing through Fallout 3 using a cheap laptop's touchpad, with my fingers burning from the heat, not being able to see anything was an amazing experience. I was just happy that I could get the game to run at all.
I had rented Fallout 3 on 360 when it came out, so I was what, 15? I hadn't played anything like it, so the RPG structure was entirely lost on me at first lol. I played the main quest and never did any sidequests because I was unaware that was even a thing you could do. I bought the game on Steam when it was on sale after reading online that there was, needless to say, a LOT of other things to do..
Derp aside.. My favourite/first real memory of it is roaming through the first Metro station you approach on the Fallout 3 main questline, being swarmed by gouls, terrified, while the song below played on the radio. There's a distinct hallway I have burned into my memory as the one I shat myself in.
And that started a deep, burning love for the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpt3yF14oBA
"I'm a courier, remember? Don't you want me to handle your package?"
The entirety of the Dead Money DLC for New Vegas.
I know people shit over it for both the deadly clouds and collars, but i loved the entire experience.
I've been playing through Fallout 2 for the first time recently and I was trying to lockpick a door at 1 hp. I saw that I could target the door so I thought that maybe I could kick it down or something. I kicked it once and received a critical failure that caused me to explode. I can't think of anything that has happened to me in Fallout that made me laugh that much.
Getting fisted by fisto.
https://youtu.be/_mN5juM34Uo
Glitches are amusing, especially when you go out of your way to skullfuck every single plan the Legion had in action before getting the Mark of Caesar just to see what his reaction would be
Oh, headphone users might wanna un-headphone yourselves for this next little clip.
https://youtu.be/RfJXBtiCCUk
I've got a lot of love for the Fallouts that I've played, even if I only did start at 3. Here are two moments that I recall very fondly
FALLOUT 3: Stumbling on the DC trenches for the first time; seeing Talon mercs and Super Mutants skirt in and out of fortified pits, trading lead and laser fire in a blasted hellscape with the Capitol Building in the background blew my mind at the time.
FALLOUT NEW VEGAS: Probably my 10th playthrough by then - character was STR/END/CHA centric, with no skills in sneak, guns or explosives. I'm on the Strip, having scavved enough caps to make it past the gate, in a dress, and high as fuck on psychojet, buffout, and a couple bottles of assorted liquor. I find that ratty fuck that deals in holdout weapons, and smuggle in a pair of spiked knuckles to the Tops, and proceed to sprint inside, beeline it for Benny, and punch his head clean off without initiating dialogue.
I have Project Nevada installed, so I activate bullet-time, neutralize his 4 bodyguards in like, 3 game time seconds, and having no weapons, loot a frag grenade off of one of the bodies, and toss it into the crowd. I had a populated casinos mod installed at the time as well, so the place was packed. 5 wealthy looking bodies fly into the air, and all hell breaks loose.
About half a dozen or more Chairmen open up on the other side of the casino, hitting innocent bystanders, and I scramble for cover. I pick up a fully loaded .22 SMG off of one of the guards I brained earlier and start spraying in the Chairmen's general direction. Remember how I said I put no points into guns? It was awful. I was icing rich geriatrics and unfortunate ranch owners left and right, getting bad karma notifications like a motherfucker, and I probably only managed to cap one of the Chairmen before running out of ammo. I ended up ducking off into a stairwell, and combo'd the Pompadoured motherfuckers as they turned the corner, and I made my escape after that. Good times
I also started in fallout 3 as my first. I really liked the Riley's Rangers mission in 3 and in New Vegas, I had fond memories of hoarding 12.7mm ammo for the smg just so I could really lay some hate to a cazador nest
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