If it's like in fallout 2 where you're decended from the previous main character then it could work, like you find yourself climbing down a well looking for a boy and you say 'I have a strange feeling I've done this before'
or maybe searching the well for a fortune in bottle caps (that are now...
Fallout: Favourite weapon was either the combat shotgun (auto) the magnum or the turbo plasma rifle, cause I just remember this bit where theres some guys holding a brotherhood of steel member hostage (you find that out later) and I picked up an auto shotgun off one of them and my very first...
I snatched it off my older brother who got the original fallout, umm five years ago, played through it in a day cause it was so cool I couldn't stop =D and then played through fallout 2 but that took more like a week, and tactics which was cool but I didn't enjoy as much...