Top 10 Best Fallout Games
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
I actually think this game is good right now. But it obviously didn't launch well and still had heaps of bugs at launch.