You never forget the first time you play a Fallout game, the experience is life changing.

My uncle got me on fallout 3. He said its a shooter and you cant beat it. I accidentally rushed the story and beat it in a few days, and just said, "wth, you said this doesn't end"

I really would love a return to Fallout 1 level atmosphere and dread, it really had some of my favorite lore with the Master. I would love to see a port of 1 and 2 or a full on first person remake.

Fallout new Vegas was the first one I ever played. Loved it so much and been a fan of the series since

Ahhhh brings me back 8 years ago to Mrmattyplays fallout days

All Starfield has done is make me crave an open world experience so I’m playing Fallout 3 again

New Vegas is a life changing experience,it made look at video games like I never did before

My brother gave me Fallout 3 on ps3, when I was younger, and I've been a fan ever since. F3 will always be my favorite Fallout game, next to New Vegas, it was definitely a upgrade in gameplay and a new story set in the West. The Capital Wasteland and the Mojave are both my favorite places to roam.

While New Vegas is my favourite Fallout game, I hold a lot of fond memories from Fallout 3. First seeing it advertised at a bus stop in London, to buying my first copy on EBay, then finally purchasing the GOTY edition. As well as in game moments, like leaving the Vault 101 for the first time, and seeing the wasteland for the first time, nothing will ever beat that feeling...

Fallout 3 will always have a special place in my heart. My first platinum trophy and first true RPG. Ill never forget that step out moment! I remember getting the Prima Guide for Christmas after my family saw how much i loved that game. Was able to find all the power weapons and hidden things with that guide.

Going through the intro in Fallout 3, and hitting up the school being used as a raider base was shocking. I did not expect all the gore in that building, that atmosphere instantly got me stuck into that world!

What a thumbnail matty love the artwork!

I love Fallout 4 as well. I had played Fallout 3, and I was eagerly anticipating Fallout 4. I'll never forget the day Bethesda released the announcement trailer, the hype leading up to the release was unreal. To me, the hype paid off. Years later, I played New Vegas, and yes, it's the best 3D Fallout and one of the best RPGs ever made. Then I went back to Fallout 4, thinking I would hate it after playing New Vegas, but I had just as much fun as ever. I honestly think that the Commonwealth is the best Fallout map, better than the Mojave, but the only way to truly appreciate it is by playing without fast travel.

16:15 Matty, as someone who lives in Maryland, quite close to DC, Fallout 3 was something VERY special to me. Some of the cut content mentioning the Burkitsville vault is so strange, considering I’ve driven through there so often, or how my hometown (Hagerstown) is canonically a massive crater from the Palandine spacecraft. It really steps up the immersion factor for me. I’ve been near real life Raven Rock as it’s irl location is Smithsburg, MD. Fallout 3 is really a nostalgic and close to the heart game for me.

I was lucky enough to be introduced to fallout 2 by my older brothers friend around 2001. Ive been in love with old music and fallout ever since

Fallout 1-2 hold up really well IMO

Brother, this video was amazing! I love history of game videos and you did a great job. I'll be watching this one again and again.

Loved this video, amazing job! Very well curated and put together, can definitely feel the love for this franchise

Love this setup way more than the earlier one, really helps add the retro tone you were aiming for.

Excellent video Matty, Fallout 3 was my first BGS game and ever since I’ve loved ever single BGS game…currently 43 hours into Starfield and feel I have that Fallout 3 feeling all over again!

When you opened the manual of the Brotherhood of Steel game, with the camera view close on it, I actually could smell the scent those booklets had back in the day for a second. Thanks for this channel!

It's 2008. You just got your first decent PC and Fallout 3 comes out and you're in trance. Shortly after FNV comes out and you start messing around with mods perfecting the games in every way you want. You start doing the same with skyrim and it's godly. By the time FO4 is out you mod the game after a 3-4 test hour run (thanks Gopher) and you get a near perfect game as Matty said back then (I agreed with the added mods). Starfield is coming out and I can't wait to do the same. BGS games man. You either get them or you don't. But for those of us who do, it's truly an event.

When it comes to dead money, you either love it or you hate it. I’m right there with you it’s definitely my favorite dlc.

Excellent video man. What a great trip down memory lane with this series.

Oblivion was my introduction to BGS. I remember seeing the Fallout 3 trailer and was so pumped to see a post-apocalyptic BGS game. I had never heard of Fallout before then but I've been in love ever since.

I agree that a Fallout 1&2 remaster would be amazing. I have the physical disc and case for them on PC but never could play them haha

I’m addicted to these retrospectives man 👏👏

Your look at these disc sets and manuals reminds me of my old days of gaming in the 90's and very early 2000's.

Love the passion, bro. I wanna replay these now.

Very good video Matty. I'm much older and had the same feelings when I got Fallout 3. I missed Fallout 1 & 2. Three Dog made my experience in the DC wasteland more enjoyable. I'm only on console. The mods on Fallout 4 for console were fun to play with. I still play Fallout every month.

Never played a fallout game I think for more than a couple minutes. But your enthusiasm is incredible. You make me want to try this franchise someday.

Amazing work👏🏾👏🏾 There were like 10 different times I wanted to re-like this video. Especially the last part about FO4 being co-op. I thought I was gonna get 3 or NV with a friend😢

@Matty I will NEVER understand why all the games have not gotten a re release, even just 3 and New Vegas they would print hundreds of millions of dollars for the studio and fans might not get super pissed waiting a INSANE 10/15 years between titles........

Bad ass review and history of the series , good job👍

I have family in the DC area, so when I was a teenager and found out about Fallout 3 from a let’s play I was really giddy (in a kinda gruesome way) seeing all these areas I’ve visited almost every year of my life. I was excited with 4’s location too since I have family near Boston too.

love the thumbnail matty!

GOAT thumbnail dude, holy shit 🔥🔥🔥

Again nice recall video Matty,i played Vegas as my first Fallout and i think it can't get better till i played Fallout 2,Fallout 2 gave me big chunk of Context on NV.

Great video guys keep it up!!

i think that it is the player base that makes 76 special. when i have finished all the new content and would normally leave from boredom, its the interactions with newer players that keeps it interesting. i like to go to an event and drop a bunch of goodies for others to enjoy!

Just wanted to stop by and say how much I love this thumbnail!

Really love the fallout series. The lore and world building is top notch. Great video Matty☢️

Buying fallout 3 as a kid was a monumental moment. I didn’t know it walking out of Bestbuy with two games from the bargain bin just what I was in for. But the moment that slideshow hit and ron perlman started narrating I was hooked. It’s probably for the best I played it as a kid, the same way older fallout fans got introduced to the isometric games. I can still remember the fear I felt going through downtown dc and the museums. I think they did well to capture that ominous music and dreadful atmosphere.

Man seeing that beginning of fallout 3 on the beginning intro to Matty's new retro channel makes my insides tingle

Idk about brotherhood of steel but hell yeah for putting some respect on champions of Norrath and RTA

If Fallout 4 and all of its DLC was as strong as Far Harbor it would be a perfect follow up to New Vegas

Can’t wait to watch this Matty adores fallout as much as me and can’t wait to see what he has to say about the beginning of the best franchise ever made

I remember playing fallout 1 in the 90’s. Crazy to see where the franchise has gone since then

Man, being into fallout 3 and having the GOTY edition was truly an experience. The wasteland is so interesting to explore and concepts for towns were so cool. The DLCs had their own tone but let us see the world around DC and it just felt like being in a real world and being an active part of it.

I got into Fallout in 2020, right at the beginning of Covid, after loving TES since Oblivion. I knew BGS made Fallout but just never got around to playing it until later. I’ve never played 1 or 2, but have read up on the stories/lore. I fell in love with Fallout right away and have sunk hundreds of hours into 3, NV, 4, and 76 since 2020. this may be a controversial take, but I loved FO4 and put more hours into that than any other FO game. I love the game world and the overall lore of the universe. So unique and unlike any of the traditional post-apocalyptic tropes. I’d even be willing to say the Fallout franchise is my favorite in gaming (Starfield may be stealing that title though, we’ll see lol). Really looking forward to Fallout 5 in 2040!

I live less than an hour from Boston so I got often, and every time I still geek out when I see something that was in Fallout 4 (even though I'd been to the city long before I ever played that game).

16:28 This happened to me for Oblivion. Got it as a prize at Dave and Busters, didn’t like it, boxes it for years, then saw the cool 5 Year Anniversary Edition and bought that one and loved it.

Loving the new background Matty!

Literally just got sucked in to playing New Vegas. The freedom and story are awesome. Honestly makes me worried for future games.

I still remember the weekly fallout 4 wishlist Keep going 💪

Downloading this banger to watch on my flight back home. Stoked to play Starfield when I get back!!

Being that I’m from Vegas I remember me and my friends in high school absolutely gushing over this game up to its release and after! We all just thought how awesome it was to have a fallout game that represented our city at the time! Man that game is a classic!

Have been replaying Fallout 3 lately so all your love is being echoed in my house

Shoutout to the Fallout 3 gamers who rolled credits before Broken Steel dropped. I’ll never forgot how bummed I was when the game was just over and I couldn’t keep going.

Just here to say: that's a fantastic thumbnail that doesn't trigger the shit out of me. Please more of these :)

Matty makes really a good point about wasteland 3 and fallout coming together to make a new ISO fall out. I play wasteland 3 as in my mind part of the fallout cannon

Gotta say Matty love your vids man especially on fallout content. 🎉

I played 3 along side my old mate in party chat.. those were the days.. swapping tips and helping eachother out with the quests.

LOVING THE NEW THUMBNAIL DESIGN!!!!! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

The production quality was amazing in this video. Keep up the great work Matty!

I do miss being a kid and getting a new game then reading the manual on the way home. Now I just watch KZfaq videos while a game downloads 😂

“Caravan needs about 8 million pages, quite frankly” 🤣

Fallout 4.. one of the best games ever created. In my top 3 of all time!

Thank you for this, a true love letter!

I started on Fallout 4 and went back and played the others, the originals, 3 and New Vegas, 2 and New Vegas are my favorites, but I still love 4, still gotta play more 3.

Matty idk if you’ll see this but the thumbnail goes HARD I’m definitely a fan of that

Will always be my favorite game series

I read the Fallout 3 manual so many times because of how much I loved the game. I made so many builds for my characters with that survivors guide manual. The ps3 one had all the perks and their requirements. I need to play F3 and FNV again!

Not gonna lie. Fallout 4 was my first Fallout game!! Loved every minute of it!!

Fo3 is a seminal game for me. I went into the game intending to play evil on my first playthrough. I blew up megaton out the gate, and wondered towards tenpenny tower. I was wondering near tenpenny tower and stumbled across a gas station that had a secret underground door that lead to a vault hiding tranquility lane. I stumbled on tranquility lane completely by accident. Subsequent playthroughs led me to understand that I missed a huge portion of the beginning of the game in downtown DC. Still my favorite fallout game (NV is a close second)

My fallout 3 goty edition for ps3 has a massive guide, it has the perks and special system in it

Playing new Vegas right now! Having a blast, haven’t played it since 2012 and it’s like my first time all over again. Spent 13 years cracking Skyrim and F4, yet I have never revisited new Vegas and F3 since I first beat em

F03 has easily got the best exploration out of the more recent ones

You talked about Brotherhood and 76, but not Tactics 😭 For real though great video Matty!

Personally I loved the crafting and settlement building in Fallout 4.

I remember my introduction to fallout was with 3 watching a playthrough on youtube and seeing mothership zeta (favorite expansion) and got hooked first time I played it. Did get ripped off though with a pre owned copy of the goty version and only had the 1st disc so I had to buy the dlc separate

Not even a megaton of PC crashes stopped me from sticking with and finishing FO3. The idea of being able to walk to, reach, and enter a building that you see across the map was the most intriguing!

I can't believe fallout 3 will be 15 years old in October. It's a masterpiece.

I hope one day we will get either a fallout 3 remastered or remake or a new Vegas remastered or remake

I played Fallout NV first when I was a kid and absolutely loved it even though I never actually finished a single playthrough when I was younger. It's what hooked me to the fallout franchise and I've loved this series dearly ever since then. I have all games now and I adore each one.

I like Fallout 4's disc art since it's kind of spinning like a literal vault opening. It's a gimmick but it's a cool gimmick, and how the center of the disc holder is part of the design

I played Fallout 1 when it came out. I played it on a government computer deep underneath a mountain in an underground millitary complex. Not joking. I was in the marines as a dieselrat, taking care of the engines on all the small and medium boats and ships. There was a request comming in it asked for an egineer who knew how to operate their diesel backup generators. I don't know who I managed to pi** off but I was sent as a replacement. The ordinary guy had gotten sick or he quit or whatever so they needed an "intern" to manage the spot until they found a guy with the "right stuff". Now this entire base ran on the mains grid so the backup generators was never used but they were always needed to be manned just in case. So all day long I did nothing but sit there playing snake on the central computer. After a week I had some leave coming up so I checked the specs on the computer I was using and my first stop was the local computer game store. And there it was on a shelf, brand new and shining, Fallout 1 in all it's glory, so I bought it and brought it back. Installed it the next day and since that day, that moment the intro movie started playing I have been Vaultboy.

Fallout 4 taking place in Boston (the capital of my home state) is the reason why I bought it having never played a Fallout game before

Played fallout 4 first then New Vegas, but Fallout 3 had me so hooked because the atmosphere felt so dark but the funny seemed almost light hearted around it all. Love them all

I watched my Dad play FO3 when I was younger. Around maybe 10 or so. And I use to have to sneak the game and play it because he figured it was too rough for my to play. But when I’d sneak and play it, even to when I was allowed to finally play it all the time, that game changed my perspective on what a game was. I’d never really played a RPG before. So to have this open world post apocalyptic, retro futuristic style game to play it really molded how I wanted my games to feel after that. And I have always chased the feeling of playing FO3 for the first time. I don’t think anything besides Skyrim ever came close.

Fallout tactics was my first. Wow such a great game back then.

I enjoyed Bethesda's Fallouts. As games and for introducing Fallout to a new audience. Fallout 1 & 2 were an absolute treat!

I remember going to blockbuster with my Dad looking for a 2 player game to rent and play with him. I must have been about 12/13 years old. The only games I really played at the time were Call of Duty and Fifa. We picked up a Racing game but he also picked up Fallout 3. He wasn't a gamer at all but he said it looked cool. I was annoyed that he picked it up because my small child brain thought it looked 'Scary' and it would be a distraction from the racing game! He played it for about an hour and never touched it again. I decided to give it a chance and I swear to god I must have spent that whole week glued to the PS3 controller. When the time came to give the game back to the store I made him buy me the Full Game! I got to start all over again. One of my favourite games of all time. I would give anything to experience playing it again for the first time. It also opened my mind to playing more than just Call of Duty and Fifa.

My first bethesda game was f3. To me at the time the graphics looked similar to borderlands 1 which i was in love woth at the time. I quickly loved every aspect of f3 and was very excited to play skyrim up to its release.

Fucking looove how BAFFLED that Enclave trooper was, dude. 😂

I get the itch to play fallout 2 every now and then, but man i wish there were hotkeys for the menus!

Bro that anhology nuke looks soo good.

New Vegas is undoubtedly the best fallout game of series, its essentially what a RPG should be

Ahhhh! Fallout games. I played the Fallout 2 originally when it came out on PC Loooooooong time ago.. I even got still the pristine BigBox of it in collections. Fallout New Vegas i got first time for PS3.. Its a so much memories related to Fallout series of games.. 🤠🤠

I beat Fallout 1 for the first time outta high school after experiencing 3 and new vegas, and i decided to give it a shot because truth be told, the look of it didnt excite me since its old. But I was so wrong, I think the story is genuinely good and the ending is by far my favorite ending to any Fallout game.