Dismissed it when Fallout 3 came out. Then I played it at a friends house and loved it, same with New Vegas, then I played through Fallout 1 and 2.

I watch the fallout 4 announcement trailer came out I was like that seems like a good game.
I invested time in to finding more fallout games and found fallout new vegas and bought it then pre-order fallout 4.

sounds like a lot of us got hooked by FO3 i was just really put off at first by the ironsights, but meh it didnt stop me from going nuts with the Enclave (yes i am a fan of the biggest jerks in the wasteland)

I was just looking for interesting RPG's one day and stumbled upon FO3. Thats it.

So much Fallout 3, huh.

In the late 90s me and my friend used to play Heroes of Might and Magic III quite a lot. Sometimes I watched when he played Fallout 1 and it was quite a new game at the time. I thought that it was really cool looking game. Never got into it so I could play it myself, but some years later I borrowed Fallout 2 in early 2000s and man I was hooked.

Fallout 2 is still the best Fallout to this day in my opinion, I find the lore and atmosphere more interesting than other games. I'm really grateful that I was able to discover the series so early.

god it was years ago my first fallout must have been fallout 2 i had just got a pc an was looking for a good RPG an a friend of mine had fallout 1. Well i couldn't find it for love or money an there was no ebays back in the day or i didn't know about ebays. Anyways i found a copy of fallout 2 an thought yeah ill give it ago well 19 or so years later i still play fallout 2

Fallout 3's box art actually looked interesting to me while browsing Best Buy 9 or so years ago. I always had an interest in the apocalyptic genre, so I took a gander and bought the game. Best decision of my life. While Fallout 3 isn't my favorite game in the series, I will always appreciate it for introducing me to the franchise.

Loved oblivion. Was my first next gen game and taste of an WRPGs, and I was in love. Then they announced Fallout 3 I had never heard of the series before. Funny enough I thought it was Oblivion with guns like many others. But my father brought it and I watched him play it I saw the Character creation and the growing up part and was then every interested and been hooked since.

I discovered fallout 3 when browsing bethesda's youtube account and I founded fallout 3 then I watched it and I really liked the trailer so yeah that is how I found it out

My first Fallout game was Fallout 1, and it was twenty years ago that I first played it. I was 11 at the time, and one of the things I liked to do the most in those days was go to the library. Now, at my local library they had recently opened a tiny PC game section where you could borrow games just like books, and that's where I found Fallout 1.
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I took it home with me, but it made an incredible impression on me.

To this day I still have such fond memories of the time spent with the game, and I come back to play both FO1 and 2 every once in a while.

Got Fallout 3 for Xbox in a game bundle. Originally thought it was a horror game lol.

I found fallout 3 sitting in a bin at gamestop, thought it looked interesting, brought it home and played it.
Next thing I know, I just get to the citadel and I look at the clock, it's 2 in the fucking morning.
Needless to say, I never looked back.

A friend got me a copy of Fallout 3 on the 360 a few days after it launched. At the time I was too hooked playing other games. Got bored, played it, loved it.

It was one of the driving factors for me to convert to the glorious PC Master race after seeing how good mods were.

I am forever grateful to Bethesda for innovating this series and introducing me to it and I wish I could handshake all the members at Beth myself.

A co worker of mine was telling me about Fallout 3 and how such a great game it was. He was telling me about the Super Mutants and a lot of the funny stuff such as hitting a Super Mutant in the face with a Teddy Bear using The Rock-It Launcher. The way he was describing the game and how he talked about it made it sound like the most awesome game ever.
I gave the game a try and have been a fan ever since.

I know I'm gonna get shit for this. I actually picked it up once before but hated it because of how it played (FO3). Fast forward to 2012, I became a fucking brony and read the Fallout Equestria Fanfiction. After reading it and being a Dark Souls lore fan I picked up a copy of Fallout 3 again and got a fresh look at it.

My dad had Fallout 3 on disk, I tried it once, was not interested, tried it once more after a while, I loved it, then I played the rest of the series except for the console exclusives.

I saw FO3 in a Supermarket with 'from the producers of TES' written in the corner, and I loved oblivion, so I bought it

I watched yogscast play new Vegas i think, and i liked what i saw so i brought the game. Eventually i loved it, and played it over and over until i got fallout 3, in which i did the same. I love open world wastelands where you are free to do what you want.

Saw Fallout: New Vegas on discount. No idea what i was getting myself into. It took a while to fall in love with the series but when I did i loved it hard. New Vegas is my favorite game of all time.

I bought New vegas Ultimate edition for PS3,  then again for PC with epic mods. I bought FO2, 3, 4 because of it.