The freedom to bring your character to life how you see it. And ability to learn the game and what is it in to beat it with tactics or brute force.

I was playing Far Cry 2 as well and when I was talking to my friend how do I feel good about in a open world sandbox game with flexible choice and he told me to try Fallout 3 because it's "much larger than any map you could imagine".

That's how the Fallout series caught me.

I remember first seeing Fallout 3 in gamestop and my mam wouldnt let me get it because I was only 11 or 12 and when I eventually got NV for the ps3 I loved it. But when I seen Fallout 3s setting I just wanted to die for it. When I got my new computer I bought it and I was just like and havnt stopped playing it since.

Stalker brought me to Fallout. When I finished playing ShoC I saw on TV, in some gaming show, people talking about FO3. Seeing similarity between two games (apocalyptic open world) made me go to shop and buy FO3, That's how everything began, and when I discovered mods , yeah well, mods make me still play those games before most of new ones

When I was younger I was subscribed to Gameinformer magazine. One year, I think it was 2006, I got an issue that had Fo3 cover art, and inside was a "First-look" article about Fo3. It was full of game concept art and a gameplay images. I instantly fell in love with everything that game promised, and looked forward to it until it came out. When Fo3 finally came out I bought it from a gamestop in the mall but when I got home I wasn't able to play it, I was going to have to wait till the next day. I remember I went to school with the game's manual just so I could read up on the adventure that was waiting for me at home. When I finally got to, I was honestly a little disappointed, I had higher expectations than the game delivered. The power armors looked small and scrawny compared to the big BoS statues that bethesda was selling before release, and the wasteland was almost entirely void of this famous "Brotherhood of Steel" which was supposed to be "crawling all over" the ruins turning them into a warzone, but no such warzones existed in the vanilla game. The wasteland felt pretty empty, and there were no faction wars or battles to be found in this big empty world where it seemed like I was the only one doing anything. I had many other issues with the game, but I still loved it. It was still the best game at the time, and today remains in my opinion one of the best games of all time. I pretty much went through the same thing when NV came out, was equally disappointed. Years later I got a PC started playing them again, and the mods just changed my entire Fallout experience for me. Suddenly I had more control over the Fallout world and I could role play my own stories, scenarios, and adventures in a way you just couldn't do on console.

I got hooked on fallout as soon as i tried I like role playing as if i'm in an actual wasteland lol

Roleplaying your character is an excellent way become attached to Fallout. Back in 2008 when I finally got my little baby hands on that game, even though I had no idea what was in store for me, I still roleplayed every portion of it. The freedom to roleplay your character, who he/she is, what he/she does, thinks and feels really brought it light for me. Fallout 3 did this to me far more than NV, I felt more in a post-apocalyptic place, especially in the DC Ruins. However, in New Vegas I to roleplay in fact... I'm still doing it to this day! Thanks Fallout you brought me to you through your freedom and your mods just make my roleplaying experience 10x better! Thank you again Fallout and let's not forget them... Fallout's Community!

I first started playing Grand theft auto back on the ps2 in the winter days when all you wanna do is sit around! after that I was glued to call of duty until one day I decided to pick up fallout 3 because of the cool armor on the box, first time I played it I hated it! I never even made it to galaxy news radio to see threedog! it was nothing like the games I was used to. I left it for 5 months before picking it back up as a last resort with nothing else to play& fell in love with it open world post apocalyptic setting I played it for months completing dlcs, sidequest, collecting all the unique items until one day I was wating a video play through on youtube & they where using a ak47, I was like wait a minute ive got everything in the hole game what&how? looked through the comments and found out about modding. as soon as I could I went out to get the pc version of it & got straight into modding which has never got old, never did I think when I picked it up id be still playing it 5-6 years later & no games ever come close since

Post apocalypse survival is what got me started on FO2, carried on till new vegas.
also mods always keep things interesting

It all began with fallout 3 from there I started being a fan of fallout and skyrim and i always loved open world apocalypse games.

my first time seeing fallout was when i was just but a padawan it was (fallout 1 by the way)
and my friend was playing it and i was like what that and he was like fallout wanna try and i was like ok ill try later and i did and i loved all you could do the backround what happen the story was all the best and i have loved it all the way up to fallout NV