Your favorite Fallout game.

[Hat']

The title is pretty self-explanatory!
I'd say mine is Fallout 3 because it was my first one and I kinda love the atmosphere. I also enjoyed the whole karma system.
Also the graphics makes it a little bit less scary. (This game gives me severe anxiety but I just love it so much so I just let my companions kill the radscorpions/mirelurks.)

I really like Fallout 4 too! The settlement thingy is very cool as I like to have my little cozy places in this whole mess.
I also like the companions who are much more numerous, especially Curie!

(I never played New Vegas but I know I definitely should as apparently the story is very cool!)

What about you?

 

[TheCrystalClods]

I grew up with New Vegas so of course it would be my favourite! Lol

 

[BarbaraC]

I love Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas. I liked how they reworked the power armor in F4, but overall the game was terrible. So, I prefer stick to the classics. I also loved fanmade projects based on F2 engine like Fallout Ressurection 1.5, Fallout Nevada and Olympus 2207.

 

[Cory]

New Vegas is one of my favorite games of all time. Incredible story and world building. The only problem is that it crashes a lot but there are mods for that.
Lonesome Road DLC is probably my favorite part of that game. The story there is incredible and E-DE and Ulysses are great characters.
I haven't had the opportunity to play 1 or 2 but I think I would like them.

 

[HistoryH22]

Of the ones I've played, Fallout 3 got the most hours out of me. An absolute blast today and I loved exploring Capitol Wasteland. I enjoyed New Vegas and Fallout 4, but they didn't keep me coming back the way the third game did. I refuse to try out 76, though. That looks like quite the train wreck.

 

[Halloqueen]

I'd probably have to say Fallout 3. It was my first experience with the series and I put a lot of time into it, beating the main story and all of the DLC content.

I played a lot of New Vegas but I've never once completed a playthrough and it seems like a buggy mess. I might try to complete New Vegas sometime in the future but I also might not. I didn't and still don't have anything that could run Fallout 4, so I completely missed out on that one. Fallout 76 sounds like a disaster. Meanwhile, I've never played Fallout 1 or 2 but I've read about them and seen some of the gameplay and they seem neat.

 

[Zura]

New Vegas baby!

 

[Stella-Io]

Omg a Fallout thread, I was just thinking about the game too.

I'd have to say New Vegas. I like that's it's not all dirty and grimmy (yeah I know end of the world BUT) there's colour, lights, bright and bold stuff. I don't know if this was in F3 (watched my dad play pretty much all of it, haven't played it myself yet) but I like the factions, like I can dress up as a powder ganger and walk right up like I own the place without them attacking me.

 

[Tao]

I prefer 1 and 2.

The 3D ones I'll give a hard pass since I'm not particularly a fan of Bethesda's attempts at RPG's.

I know New Vegas isn't developed by Bethesda, but I just really don't like the 3D style it uses.

 

[Sadduck]

I prefer classic versions only and maybe New Vegas.

 

[Rusolando-Kun]

My favorite would be New Vegas. Just because of the music and some quests, the main story which was actually interesting - yeah, there's quite a few things I liked about New Vegas. Though, I enjoyed playing it back in the day, I wouldn't call it my favorite game - just too gory for me.

Omg a Fallout thread, I was just thinking about the game too.

I'd have to say New Vegas. I like that's it's not all dirty and grimmy (yeah I know end of the world BUT) there's colour, lights, bright and bold stuff. I don't know if this was in F3 (watched my dad play pretty much all of it, haven't played it myself yet) but I like the factions, like I can dress up as a powder ganger and walk right up like I own the place without them attacking me.

If you like that kind of thing (costume dress-up and etc), you might want to try Skyrim if you haven't played it yet and Hitman series. Hitman is kind of brutal and I don't play it myself because of that, but it's pretty amazing with all of the "use this costume to sneak that area" and just little features that make you say 'wow, so cool". And for some reason, a lot of females seem to enjoy Hitman, so there's that. :3

 

[DookieTuesday]

I'm ready for all the torches and swords but fallout 76

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

so torn between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4! I hope they remaster Fallout 3 soon

 

[oath2order]

I'm ready for all the torches and swords but fallout 76

One of the biggest issues I see with the mainline Fallout games is that they take place 200 years after the war, and yet everything is still ruined, corpses still left where they are, etc, etc.

Fallout 76 taking place 20 years after the war seems more appropriate, because basically everything is still ruined, corpses still left where they are, etc, etc. It's more appropriate to the stories Bethesda seems to want to tell. It's also a great overworld.

Has the rubber-banding gotten better?

 

[Introspective Onlooker]

One of the biggest issues I see with the mainline Fallout games is that they take place 200 years after the war, and yet everything is still ruined, corpses still left where they are, etc, etc.

That's an issue with Bethesda's Fallout, not the mainline games as a whole. Bethesda specifically focuses on just the "post-nuclear apocalyptic" aspect of Fallout while the world-building that made the first two games and New Vegas special takes a serious backseat.

Fallout 76 taking place 20 years after the war seems more appropriate, because basically everything is still ruined, corpses still left where they are, etc, etc. It's more appropriate to the stories Bethesda seems to want to tell. It's also a great overworld.

The decay and ruins everywhere makes sense when it's a quarter-century after the War, but you have to factor in that it wouldn't make much sense for an isolationist technophile faction like the Brotherhood of Steel to just send a signal all the way to West Virginia from California. Or the Super Mutants just existing this earlier on. They decided to put these things into the game because iconography trumps lore consistency, I guess.

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For the OP: It's a toss-up between Fallout 2 (the most fun I had on a moment-to-moment basis with any Fallout game I've played) and Fallout: New Vegas (easily has the best writing and role-playing opportunities in the entire series).

 

[oath2order]

That's an issue with Bethesda's Fallout, not the mainline games as a whole. Bethesda specifically focuses on just the "post-nuclear apocalyptic" aspect of Fallout while the world-building that made the first two games and New Vegas special takes a serious backseat.

The decay and ruins everywhere makes sense when it's a quarter-century after the War, but you have to factor in that it wouldn't make much sense for an isolationist technophile faction like the Brotherhood of Steel to just send a signal all the way to West Virginia from California. Or the Super Mutants just existing this earlier on. They decided to put these things into the game because iconography trumps lore consistency, I guess.

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For the OP: It's a toss-up between Fallout 2 (the most fun I had on a moment-to-moment basis with any Fallout game I've played) and Fallout: New Vegas (easily has the best writing and role-playing opportunities in the entire series).

Yeah okay.

 

[Beanz]

i’ve completed the main story of fallout 3 and fallout new vegas so far, i’m currently playing through fallout 4.

new vegas is my favorite as it was my first fallout game and i really enjoyed the setting. i don’t enjoy fallout 4 as much, maybe because i don’t really understand it but i’m still determined to play through the story. i also have fallout 1 & 2 on steam but i didn’t really give them a chance because they’re point and click games.

 

[tazmily menace]

torn between fallout new vegas and fallout 4. leaning more towards fnv though because