never played the first two.  I have em through GOG.  I tried playing some GOG games yesterday but they didn't play nice with windows 8.1. I bet there's work arounds, I just haven't tried them yet. 

shit....I didn't even think about how my OS would handle this game.  I also have 8.

I bought Fallout from GOG last year.  I tried playing it a few weeks ago and couldn't get into it.  Moving around and attacking was too much trouble.  Maybe I'm doing it wrong. 

I doubt you were going about it wrong; I'm havin a bit of trouble with the dated control system myself.

I want to play the game, but the controls..... .

I want to try out this game too. Moreso now tha tI have a computre that might actually play it. Plus I heard they released a three pack of this game series on CD. One day perhaps, one day.

I played for an hour or so yesterday, just to get a feel for it.  I'm pretty sure that were I to sink more time in the controls wouldn't be such a factor.

I don't think I ever owned a copy of the original Fallout games. I have the last two but I always seemed to avoid these games. Odd.