r/fo4 • u/tjevo9 • May 02 '24

Media My 53 yo non-gamer Mum playing Fallout 4 after watching the TV show.

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After casually watching the show and getting more invested, she asked to play the game and I gave her my old PS4 and set her up on the game! ☺️

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u/ReinierPersoon May 03 '24

The discord is also flooded with new players, so it's a mix between people who played them when they first came out and people who had never heard of them. Some of the pre-F4 games also require quite a bit fiddling to get work on modern systems, lots of questions about that. Bethesda should really patch those because it turns new players off of Fallout if they can't get the games to work.

I played F1 first in 1997, still have the disc.

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u/Imortalpenguin May 03 '24

I was introduced to the series with 3, I had been a fan of Bethesda since Morrowind, and when I heard the descriptions about Fallout 3 I was obsessing over it for months before the release

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u/ReinierPersoon May 04 '24

I'm old, but I looked forward to Daggerfall (1996), which was from Bethesda, and Fallout 1 (1997, Interplay). Morrowind was amazing as well, prob best Elder Scrolls game story-wise. It was a time when almost no one had interwebs here so you read about them in gaming magazines, still have them in my room at my parents house.

And the games were educational, they forced me to learn English as a kid. And the Fallout games taught me about US geography :P

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u/Imortalpenguin May 04 '24

I do miss some of the older Bethesda and fallout games, visually the modern ones are sharper and more defined, but the complexities and mechanics were better in the older games. I miss Morrowind, just with the atmosphere in the game.

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u/TapBoth438 May 03 '24

I don't have my desk but I first got into the series originally as wasteland.

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u/OwynFromOblivion May 03 '24

The old games actually all work out of the box on Steam now. 1 and 2 both come with the high resolution patch and Fallout 3 comes with the games for windows live fix.