Top 10 Best Fallout Games
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Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2010 by Bethesda Softworks. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic Mojave Desert centered around the city of New Vegas. Players assume the role of the Courier, who is ambushed while delivering a mysterious package.
Fallout: New Vegas has terrible combat, a monochromatic setting, and terrible graphics. But if you're able and willing to look past those surface-level shortcomings, you'll find the most RPG-oriented Fallout of the 3D games (I didn't play 1 and 2, so I can't say anything about those).
Indeed, the writing in Fallout 4 and 3 (and Skyrim) is so puerile in comparison that I have serious doubts regarding Bethesda's writers. I can only hope they were trying to make the games easy to translate by minimizing linguistic depth and easier on children by dumbing everything down, because the only alternative I can think of is this deeply depressing one: that writers like Bethesda's can be and are considered professional.
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Fallout 3
Fallout 3 was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and released in 2008. The game is set in the Capital Wasteland, the ruins of Washington, D.C., more than 200 years after a nuclear war. Players control the Lone Wanderer, who leaves Vault 101 in search of their father.
Fallout: New Vegas I thought was better at first, but then I came back to this game and realized New Vegas had more choices and your choices really mattered. However, on that note, New Vegas suffered from having nothing to do compared to Fallout 3.
What I mean by this is free-roaming. Fallout 3 just had a much more diverse map, and New Vegas just had, well, a boring map to put it simply. If they had chosen a different area besides a desert, it would have been a lot more fun. I mean, come on, a desert is about as boring as you could get for a place to explore, let's be honest with ourselves. And then you get to Las Vegas and realize they kinda bombed that one too - no pun intended. It just felt uninspired, you know?
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Fallout 2
Fallout 2 was developed by Black Isle Studios and released in 1998. The story follows the Chosen One, a descendant of the original Vault Dweller, on a quest to find the Garden of Eden Creation Kit to save their village. The game significantly expands on the first Fallout with a larger world and deeper role-playing systems.
Didn't play this? You expect me to believe that, maggot? The truth is you lost a great experience of seeing a true masterpiece. This game is soon going to come out of your pay, and you will remain a maggot until you are five hundred and ten years old, which is the number of years it will take for you to have genuine "fun" that you have lost. Report to wherever you need to get this game, then report back to me! DISMISSED!
Double-time it over to whatever game center and get your own copy! Then report back to me. Dismissed!
Soldier, you still didn't play this true masterpiece. I gave you a direct order to get a copy. Now, get out of my face until you've played this game!
-You moron!
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Fallout 4
Fallout 4 was released in 2015 by Bethesda Game Studios. It is set in the Commonwealth, a post-apocalyptic version of Massachusetts that includes Boston and surrounding areas. The protagonist, known as the Sole Survivor, emerges from Vault 111 to search for their kidnapped child.
In my opinion, Fallout 4 is better than Fallout 3. Most people who vote for 3 are so nostalgia-blind.
New Vegas is clearly the best, followed by 2 and 1, and then 4 and 3. Why though? Because the story is a thousand times better and you actually have choice. The Brotherhood isn't just some watered-down good guys anymore.
Not to mention the color palette is way better. I grew tired of Fallout 3's colors an hour or two after I started playing because it's all so bland. The settlement building really made looting scrap mean something too, and building settlements is something people spend tens of hours on. Not to mention Fallout 4 is to 3 what 3 is to 2: a departure from the original formula that switched it up and made it more accessible to more people.
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Fallout
The original Fallout was released in 1997 by Interplay Productions. Set in a retro-futuristic, post-nuclear world, the player takes on the role of a Vault Dweller from Vault 13. The main quest centers on finding a replacement water chip to save the Vault's inhabitants.
Masterpiece. Anybody that likes Fallout: New Vegas and thinks it is the pinnacle of the series needs to go back and play this. The story and pacing are perfect, and zero handholding makes you feel extremely accomplished. People always talk about how old the combat system and movement are, but seriously it will take one or two hours and it feels as natural as any other game.
The game that started it all. Damn, this game gives me nostalgia, especially the music that plays when creating your character.
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Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter was released in 2015 by Bethesda Game Studios as a free-to-play simulation game. Players manage an underground Vault by assigning dwellers to tasks such as power generation, food production, and exploration. The game later expanded to additional platforms, including consoles and PC.
This was honestly a fun game. Not all Fallout games have to be long and full of complex stories to be good, though admittedly that does help a ton. However, this game is still underrated for what it is.
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Fallout Tactics
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel was released in 2001 and developed by Micro Forté. Unlike the main role-playing entries, it focuses on tactical, squad-based combat rather than open-ended exploration. The story follows a Brotherhood of Steel faction as it expands into the Midwestern United States.
Micromanagement in this game hurts my mind, so I just played it solo (easy mode). Anyway, things start to get difficult when you're already against robots.
Great RPG, but the game focuses on killing and no dialogues. Did I forget to mention that you can ride cars in this game?
At least you can ride a tank in this game!
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Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel was released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is an action role-playing game with linear levels and a heavier emphasis on hack-and-slash combat than other entries in the series. Players take on the role of a Brotherhood of Steel initiate, battling raiders, mutants, and other hostile forces.
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Fallout 76
Fallout 76 was released in 2018 by Bethesda Game Studios as an online multiplayer role-playing game. The story is set in Appalachia, a post-apocalyptic version of West Virginia, and begins on Reclamation Day as players emerge from Vault 76. Unlike previous mainline entries, it emphasizes online interaction in a shared world.
I actually think this game is good right now. But it obviously didn't launch well and still had heaps of bugs at launch.
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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel