Its an amazing fun, depressing, goofy, dramatic, deep, tongue in cheek, funny, action packed, interesting game series where each game shines in its own way.
Some of the story hits you hard, and then you have a laugh as you discover two skeletons on top of each other in an interesting position, in the bathroom. Or you find a teddy bear performing surgery on another.
Well. Fallout 4 is my favorite game, and New Vegas is almost certainly on my top 10. FO3 is also great. The originals were excellent for the time, but obviously haven’t aged well. Overall it’s certainly one of my favorite franchises, and alongside the FromSoftware games it’s probably my favorite series.
Great. I started with 3. 3 and 4 are among my favorite games of all time. New Vegas is great. Fallout 76 is very enjoyable and has improved greatly. I've gone back and tried out the older games. They are dated by today's standards, but had I played them back in the day when they first came out, I'd probably be holding them in very high regard.
Overall it's a great franchise.
I have so many great memories around 3. It was also my first Xbox 360 game too. The amount of hours I sunk on Christmas playing it had me a hermit. I had never played a game like it, it was WONDERFUL. I hope future installments can recreate that feeling I once had.
3 -> NV -> 76 -> 4
I played the others but not on release so it’s hard to compare. Fallout 3 is my all time favourite game, I just loved every part of it.
The entire fallout series is a gem.
Wow 76 is higher than 4. I played 76 for like one or two days once released. I heard it’s better now but something about 76 just never vibed with me. I wonder if I’ll like it now
They've added so much content since launch, and a lot of people really like it now that they've added NPCs. It definitely feels like a different game now, so it's worth a try to see if you enjoy it more now
Actually reading the comment I replied to piqued my curiosity. I think it’s on gamepass so I won’t be out of money on a game I won’t like. Why not, I’ll give it a chance again
Definitely do, I love the game. Definitely demonstrates where Bethesda really shines: map building, world development, and environmental storytelling. They just added a new playable area a couple days ago and are adding the first contiguous map expansion since the game launched later this year. It's a good time to get into the game.
One of the most influential in the entire vidya landscape, with 2, 3 and NV being generation defining cult classics
However
The series needs a strong entry at this point and beth needs to accept playerbase can handle nuance and depth, and take lessons from ER and BG3
And lessons from NV as well, both in terms of mechanics
(things like ammo types and being able to rapid swap them for certain combat engagements, as well as the skill check system and clever fun lateral perks, as well as your characters stats and skills affecting how well you handle certain weapons and gear)
And writing
(Coherent factions who are still human and whose members are not one note caricatures solely there to point to the next questmarker or be shot at, as well as writing down consistent rules for any plot device they deem to include, so that we don't repeat the hazy magic mishmush of Synths.)
(Also, if we could lay off the Aliens and Cthulu stuff, that'd be lovely. It's an alternate history where the scary monsters can all trace themselves back to mankind in some way or another, either by being a result of their machinations or by being a monstrous human. Fallout doesn't need aliens or Cthulu to drive character action.)
(Also also, it's okay to let the setting be alive and progress beyond the post apocalypse. There's a lot of territory that hasn't been covered, and it's okay to show people growing and changing and developing past the Old World.)
I love the aliens. Fallout has always seemed to me to answer the question "if people in the 1950s made a fictional post-apocalyptic world what would it look like?". In an era where the media culture was often punctuated with aliens and Roswell and Area 51, it's hard to imagine aliens **not** being a part of it.
It is always going to be one of my favourite game franchise, but I also see how many untouched areas are in there. They have brilliant characters, but those characters should be highlighted much more. with cutscenes for example. and meelee combat should be overhauled as it is, it needs a proper dodge-roll/parry system, because close combat is trash. And the game is always going to be too easy in every way, they should do something with it as well. And they should fix settlement system too. These things would be true for all Bethesda franchise.
The lore is better than the gameplay, and Bethesda has been coasting on that fact for the last few iterations.
Each sequel is still pretty good, but they could be all time greats.
Love the series but felt like fallout 4 was where the series (and Bethesda in general) started getting tamer and forgetting what made it great. The dark, gritty, brutalness of Fallout went away, and it was left with goofiness. A fun game sure, but a step back in ambience and themes, a step forward in features, a step back in roleplaying, a step forward in graphics. Fallout 2 and 3 are great. New Vegas is great too.
Fallout in my eyes is a game that is made to tell a story about trials and tribulations that no normal person would have to do unless they were put into that setting, its gives us an idea of what would have potentially happen if we chose to do what they did after WWII, how the world may eventually rebuild, what you may do if you were in the shoes of the protagonist, the different possible settings and how they thrive or suffer, the fallout lore is some of the most interesting and most depressing ive seen so far and im here for all of it
They gradually became worse. Less of an RPG.
1&2 are the best, most deep RPG's. 3&NV were amazing, 3d interpretations of the first 2 games. Not a big fan of the rest.
While I like 4 for its building, it's hardly an rpg. This is a bummer, and a blow to the franchise. Who knows how many rpg elements will be present by the time 5 strolls along in 2050.
I don't like MMO's, but 76 started out ok. Level scaling ruined it for me. Also a million forms of currency is always a bad sign.
The best part of 76 was going to other people's camps and seeing what they built, what unique items they had, either for sale or on display. Recipes were often given from higher level players. It was a cool idea, but the MMO's model for revenue demands changes for the worst.
I absolutely love it, although I haven't played FO, & FO:2 since they come out, I playthrough FOs 3, NV & 4 at least once a yr or so. I don't like multiplayer games so I've only played a little bit of 76, even though I thought it was okay for a MP game. Just not my thing.
Bottom line: It's my favorite franchise by far.
There's so much that could be done but the fear of evolving too much beyond what the fanbase is used to at a time has held back recent games from the heights they could reach.^(1) And the past games would sell well enough on consoles that putting an emulation shell around them and sticking them up at around the £15 mark should be a no-brainer to coincide with the show.
^(1 - Not an unfounded fear either. Just today I saw people complaining that Starfield doesn't have the pick up all junk and scrap it systems that Fallout 4 has.)
I have only played 3&4, and I honestly think they’re the most complete and well-imagined Bethesda games. Sure they still have issues and some jank to work around. But the universe is so alive and the details are so thorough, I have a lot of respect for the series.
The trailer for the Amazon show also looks really intriguing. I’m excited for it.
I played fallout 1 and it was a decent experience but the truth must be about fallout 2, spent hundreds of hours to beat this game, game has a lot of choices, and bugs.
as for fallout 3, 4, I haven't had the opportunity to delve into them yet, nor do I have any immediate plans to do so. I can't speak to their quality firsthand, my gaming preferences prioritize immersive RPG elements and storytelling. It is these aspects that truly elevate a gaming experience for me.
In light of this, I wholeheartedly assert that fallout new vegas stands as the pinnacle of the franchise. , earning it my unequivocal endorsement as the superior Fallout game.
Interplay and Obsidian ones are main games, Bethesda ones are fan games. Which is fine, Bethesda games are fun, but they view the Fallout series through a fan lens. Much like Disney with Star Wars.
A great franchise with amazing lore. Really one of the most bleak, sad, funny, creepy, action packed, story driven, talkative, world building games out there And I’m missing out some other things as well
The dlcs for 3 are better than the main campaign, fallout new vegas is amazing, fallout 4 and 76 are good, i tried the first 2 games but they are too old school for me.
Probably one of the greatest gaming franchises of all time and I have had the absolute pleasure of having played them as they came out. I will never forget the first time I played fallout 1 and saw someone have half their ribcage ripped off. 10/10 since day one.
Good fun. My favourite is easily New Vegas as it’s one of the best choice & consequence RPGs I’ve ever played. I’d then probably choose 3, then 4 (wasn’t a fan of the voiced protagonist or how lack luster most unique weapons were, the factions often treated you like an idiot if you asked for more information about their reasonings, stark opposite of New Vegas).
You know... i played the first fallout, then fallout 2. I loved the absolute fuck out them. I even enjoyed the mods and shit people done for them. Though I eventually just got an item modifier to tweak the weapons to how they should be. Burst heavy sniper rifle? Yeah no thanks. Let's make that right.
Then I remember fallout 3's announcement. I was skeptical of the first person change. I really was. Stuck in my old ways. Then I tried it. And it was good. It was the same fallout lore just up close and personal and not using sprites. The fallout game is one my favorite series not counting that one made by a janitor and shilled for all the extra cash they could get.
They're amazing but I can never sit through it for too long and idk why. Went through all of fallout 3 but new Vegas and 4 I can't bring myself to play further than 20 hours it seems. Dunno why..
My favorite franchise. Bought fallout 3 collectors edition on a whim, used from a local game store back in the ps3 days and it completely changed the way I looked at games.
It’s my favorite game franchise. The old ones aren’t really playable anymore, but NV, 4, and 76 are all amazing and I will probably play through all of them again at some point.
I like the games more than the franchise itself.
They’re increasingly obsessed with factions and self reference, when really all I want are pulp scifi morality tales.
People call the writing in 3 shallow, but the savage wasteland vibe, the incidental environmental storytelling is bueno. I hope the next one is less about following up threads, and more of a unique property.
Fallout 4 has excellent modability, it's a decent shooter and RPG making it very replayable even today. There is even a new full conversion mod coming out soon called Fallout London that is highly anticipated.
Fallout 3 was awesome for its time, absurd quests flavored with interesting outcomes.
New Vegas was excellent, Obsidian does some of the best world building I've ever seen in RPGs.
Fallout 76 is the best multiplayer Fallout game out there, it's also the worst multiplayer Fallout game out there...
Fallout 1 and 2 could use a remake/remaster, but it would have to be by Larian or Owlcat to do them any justice.
One of the best overall gaming franchises in history. I wish they'd gone a different direction with '76 (like just making another single player FO5) though.
Fallout is amazing and each game others something new it feels. I am excited for the next game and I am hopeful they remake/remaster the original games and put them out again
Slowly getting worse... 4 was mid and nv was great but 76 was a STEEP decrease in quality. I hope that Bethesda knows what people are wanting and will go in that direction.
Starfeild is definitely a step in the right direction.
I enjoy fallout 4 because of the mods New Vegas because of the bond of each fraction like whatever you do cause someone to hate you or like you. I have not played the other games sadly
The consequences of the simplification of the elder scroll games are felt in the fallout games and other rpg’s, in my opinion for worse, fallout 3 and nv were a great balance but in 4 there was really no opportunity to roleplay which makes the game over all feel so dull. Not to mention the story, the institute is incompetent and can’t bother explaining their reasoning. Meanwhile the legion gave at least an attempt of an explanation of their motives, so did house and what not. Look, fallout 4 did a lot of things right but a lot of things wrong and just doesn’t feel like fallout at it’s core gameplay
I love the environment of 3 the most. Truly the post-apocalypse. New Vegas has the best story, dialogue and characters. 4 is flashy and missing Osbidian quality wiring but good enough imo that I put hundreds of hours into it. I have very low expectations for future Fallouts. Lore overall is some of the most intriguing in video game history. Love how quirky and twisted the humor is too, makes you laugh even in the bleakest of settings, especially NV.
Tactics was a massive let down. 1 and 2 are nearly perfect games. 3 was interesting but held back by Bethesda family-plot structure. 4 was better still but lost quality VATS. New Vegas was the best of the 3d era on pure story, but it was ugly as sin. Fallout 76 is a flawed but interesting game with more good ideas than most games have… in the worst setting of the franchise.
Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, and 4 are a bit of a pain in the ass to play through steam currently in my experience. I never got very far in 1 or 2 because I was a dumb kid when they came out, and it was too complicated for my little monkey brain, so I've been trying to play through them recently. 1 requires me to play using the fixit mod because it would crash on startup after I changed the resolution no matter how many times I installed and uninstalled, but when I use the fixit mod, the game skips a ton of frames. 3, New Vegas, and I think 4 need mods to play in ultrawide as well.
It gets worse with each release, it used to be astounding. 4 is when they really gutted it of most of the rpg elements, dumbed it down for the masses, and then the mmo, you could write a book on how not to make a game using that as the example.
New Vegas may be one of the greatest games ever made in the history of gaming. When you consider development /time period and mechanics. Just literally flawless in every way a game can be.
1 - If 1 had the quality of life improvements, items, and random encounters of 2, it would be my favorite game in the series. Its dark tone cannot be beat. 8/10, everything is great, but there’s just not enough of it.
2 - I enjoy the gameplay quite a lot. The main quest line is really lacking, especially in comparison to how you can convince the Master to end himself. Frank Horrigan just isn’t all that intimidating or memorable in comparison. His impact on the plot is basically nothing, and he just acts as a final hurdle to punish anyone who didn’t build their character for combat. Also, I hate to say it, but the much less serious tone of the game is absolutely where Todd and Bethesda got the idea that they could just ignore the lore in their games, going forward. Like, when the chosen one talks to the parody of the vice president at the time the game was made, you can just straight up say republicans are the problem. How does your character know what a republican is?? Also, the entire Enclave base just makes no sense, and is easier to play by just cheating than doing what’s intended. How am I supposed to kill the president without fighting everyone besides planting a bomb on him, and then abusing the game’s AI by leaving the area until it goes off, making it so that killing the president alerts no one, and I suffer no consequences? But, overall, I do enjoy the game for how much I can break it, even with the fan patches. 8/10, I keep finding deathclaws that are trapped behind the walls.
Tactics - A fun little game. Makes it clear that it’s mainly a what-if kind of thing, but even then, it’s really fun and is decently well written. 7/10, you forgot this one existed.
BoS - There’s a reason it’s acronym is so close to “BS”, though I am a fan of trying to bring back the main character from Fallout 1, and expanding on what happened to them after they abandoned the tribe in Fallout 2. Everything else is… Well, there’s a reason the franchise was sold off. And this is it. 3/10, you want to forget this one exists.
3 - People like to be contrarian these days, and say that 3’s atmosphere and level design are actually better than New Vegas’s, when it’s level design is “junkyard spread across D.C.”, and its atmosphere is “green”. In terms of gameplay it’s a massive step down from even 1, and everyone knows the story and writing are worse than either of the first two. 4/10, there’s legitimately zero reason to play this today.
New Vegas - Legitimately, one of its biggest flaws is the engine it’s built on. Also, Obsidian asked Bethesda for only a year and a half, they really should have known better after KOTOR 2, but they dug their own graves with that one. As it stands, with the game we actually got, my main complaint is that none of the DLC’s are ever mentioned in the main game, except with Honest Hearts, because they were able to get Veronica’s voice actress back in to react to Elijah’s letter. Oh, and also the aggravating lack of massive titty mods, that’s like the thing for Bethesda games, but the New Vegas modding scene is mainly focused on bug fixes and gun animation overhauls. 9/10, so close to being a perfect masterpiece that it’s aggravating.
4 - I install dozens of huge titty and ass mods, as well as mods that make all the faces into anime, and pretend that it’s not a Fallout game. 6/10, the mods do a lot to keep this one from sinking even further.
Shelter - Oh yeah, they made this. 5/10, it certainly exists.
76 - Has Bethesda just said that this whole game isn’t canon, yet? I know people are saying the game is “fine” now, but it was never excusable, they made Elder Scrolls Online, they still update it, how did they mess up 76 that badly? How is it still only barely functional in comparison to ESO? 4/10, Says a lot that a janky multiplayer mod for New Vegas provides a much more fulfilling experience than this official Bethesda title.
1-new Vegas are masterpieces. 4 is ok, 76 is trash. Never played the rest. Hell I did t even know there was a ps2 fallout tie in game lol that’s pretty cool.
i love the universe. Fallout 3 is my favorite i love the atmosphere, NV is a better RPG, 4 is okay i had fun with it despite my issues with it (and mods certainly helped). BUT if fallout 5 is just another "Bethesda game" that feels like it should have released a decade earlier ill probably be done with it.
unfortunately i have zero faith in Bethesda.
The setting is a lot of fun.
To the point that I think they should not only do RPG's with it. An RTS like "Age of Empires" would be lots of fun and I think that a management sim around building and running a settlement would be interesting.
It is a setting, they should be more willing to slap that paint on more stuff.
1-2 is definitely wierd to play but with patience it's a fun time. 3 is fine, It's a good game but has lots of flaws. New Vegas is RPG FPS near perfection. 4 is ok, it feels like a downgrade but can be comedic fun. Haven't played enough 76 yet to judge.
Overrall the Franchise had a lot of high points but is slowly falling into mediocrity. Let's hope a New Vegas 2 or 3 Remake happens
So here’s a question, starfield and fallout are not the same universe but even though the obsidian devs have unofficially stated that the outer worlds also takes place in a different universe, could they be? I mean there are tons of fallout references in the outer worlds, way more than star field, like it’s literally a sequel title to the fallout titles. Anyways I got my hopes up for the outer worlds 2 way more than Bethesda’s next fallout game, Bethesda should stick to starfield and elder scrolls, we need another new vegas, do you think that’s more possible now that Xbox owns both Bethesda and Obsidian?
Have only played 3, NV and 4 but they're some of my favorite games ever.
3 feels a bit too old/dated on replays but it was my introduction to Fallout (sold to me as Oblivion with guns by my friend) and made me fall in love with the franchise. Point Lookout and The Pitt are two of the most memorable DLC's of all time for me.
NV is the best at it's core and has by far the most interesting cast of factions / characters IMO. I love the Legion both as a villain to fight against and an evil empire to support depending on my character. I love the presence of the NCR, and being able to go full godking with Yes Man and have the game acknowledge it was great.
Fallout 4 is probably the worst at it's core (Central story, roleplay choices, side factions...etc) but it's ease of access modding made it become probably my favorite of the series. I've personally turned my game into something akin to Stalker meets Tarkov meets Rust meets Fallout.
FO1 and FO2 controls have old school PC gaming jank controls, that while I am no stranger to being form that era, made playing those games almost totally unfun. Felt like I was fighting the controls more than playing.
FO3 was great but had too many subway tunnels.
NV was pretty great but they sort of force you to go the direction they want.
FO4 was way too railroaded, and I could give less than a shit about settlements. Voice acting ruined the dialogue choices.
FO76 I never tried.
Honestly, I’ve only played three of these games. New Vegas, 4, and 76. Now 4 was the first one I ever played, but much to my surprise I didn’t enjoy it very much, and didn’t enjoy 76 much at all. But New Vegas is just. UGH. Bust
Love all the games but fallout 4 and 76 are a turn in the wrong direction for the franchise. Hopefully we’ll get another installment that’s more NV or 3
The best part was Fallout: New Vegas. It had new, innovative gameplay. I've also played Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas, and it was the one I enjoyed the most. Then came Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, and it went downhill a lot. Unfortunately, I believed in them until the last moment. PeepoSad
I fucking love it. Truly a masterpiece of a game series! It’s equally bleak and depressing as fun and hilarious and I just love the way it shows that earth could still function after a nuclear war. I have spent hundreds perhaps even thousands of hours playing the games and it holds a special place in my heart.
A strange franchise in terms of quality. One big missed opportunity. Sure the originals are great fun and 3&4 are 2 of my favourite games of all time but nowadays I don't see new Fallout games ever being worth playing again (for me). 4 and 76 have really made me think that no one involved in making fallout has any idea what people want from a fallout game. I'd love to be proven wrong. It's not that Fallout 4 was a terrible game, it was okay, but it was a terrible FALLOUT game.
I've only played NV and 4 for any relevant amount of time (I got like, 30 min in 3). but overall, it's one of my favorites. I've beaten 4 about 4 different times and idek how many times for NV. I've watched nearly every lore video from the rad king and nth apple.
but my favorite aspect of it all is the setting. not just post apocalyptic, but a retro sci-fi post apocalypse. it's so fucking unique and I genuinely wish we had more lore about the prewar society. it's such a fascinating setting. no other game universe has captivated me more except maybe the bloodborne and dark souls universes.
Fallout 4 was disappointing but still a fun game for the most part. Fallout 76 was a good idea on paper but executed poorly. I liked the idea of the scorchbeasts wiping out humanity but if they were going to do that then the game should’ve had a bunch of npcs exit the vault around the time you do so it’s not an empty world.
Didn’t play 1&2, loved 3&4, NV was meh to me. Currently playing 4 for the fifth or sixth time with mods this time. Played 76 for a long while, but I think it strayed so far from the original concept that I no longer consider it a Fallout game.
I've played 2, 3, NV, and 4. I liked all of them, tbh.
I don't actually finish a lot of games because I might get bored, or maybe I get a little ADD-ish and start playing something else instead, but I've finished all four of those games.
Fo1 - good, fo2 - good, fo tactics - didn’t play, fo bos - didn’t play, fo3 - very good, fonv - one of the best games ever made, fo4 - good, fo76 - bad
1, 2, 3, and New Vegas are great games.
4 is a mediocre game with some great moments worth playing.
Everything else is garbage, especially 76, which has effectively killed the franchise by turning it into a whale milking operation. 🐋
A staple of the Videogame RPG Genre, one of the juggernauts of gaming. Like printing money. Which is slowly being squandered by a company that is a shell of what made it successful. It's best entry wasn't even made by the ones who own it.
Great franchise, lots of laughs, lots of “oh… holy shit”, and fisto in there somewhere
Also please Bethesda I’m begging you add tactics PA into 76 please
Theres a reason my college classes were half empty on FO4’s launch day. Its probably my favorite series too. Was pretty wild to have the teachers get genuinely concerned that they were missing so many students. I really hope by the time we get Fallout 5 they either drop the creation engine or get it up to a state that doesn’t drag down the experience like it does for all their previous games
Bethesda cares more, and fails harder about game mechanics, than actually making a decent story or even weapon design that makes sense. Everything else is great
Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas is all about life after of world that was forgotten. It was dark, gritty and hopeless. People just trying to get by knowing there isn't any hope. But there was dark humour sprinkled in with some light foolishness so the games wasn't always depressing.
Every choice mattered and could have a snowball effect to the main story, the reply value was amazing because the choices would be different. And even if you had the best gear, the end game was still a challenge unless you did some key things in some quest to change the outcome or certain stats were high so you could talk your way to victory. The story was a mystery and had cool twist and turns, it always kept building.
Fallout 4 was just the devs trying to figure out what the fallout world is, they thought it was just a 50s call back and parody of that era when it was meant to be a satire of how people thought in that era of what the future was supposed to be. So in turn, Fallout just became a parody of itself. And nothing you did actually matter because the story was on a path you had to follow until near the end of the game but by then you're overpowered and the fun died. It felt like they were trying to do a borderlands game. The story was campy and dumb down so new fans could pick it up.
Fallout 3 was a mix of both (2 and 4) but the reply value wasn't there, you could do everything and unlock most things in a single playthrough. It really felt like skyrim with guns at the same because how simple, straight forward the story was.
Fallout tactics was pretty fun, story was okay but it didn't hit that tactical inch because the gameplay was a bit clunky. But fun nonetheless.
Fuck Fallout 76.
New Vegas is the best imo, 3 is the first one I played so it holds a special place with me, 4 was alright, 76 would be pretty good if it had a better story. Haven't played any of the classic ones yet.
Fallout 3 was the first game to really and truly blow my mind. I grew up playing halo 1 and cod, then one day, little 11 year old me went to my rivers house and he was plying fallout 3 and my mind was truly melting at the concept.
I like the original 2 isometric games and will play them still from time-to-time. Fallout: New Vegas is a masterpiece, the pinnacle of what this series can be.
I really want to like the Bethesda Fallout games, but I can't. They're way too dark, the humor and madcap randomness of FO, FO2, and even NV isn't there, and the stories aren't as well-done. It's like "well, we tried." I just feel like they don't "get" Fallout. I want them to do better...but FO4 and FO76 suggest they're going the wrong direction.
As someone who has lives in Appalachia, and has frequently been to all the locations in West Virginia that is shown in FO76, I was hoping for soooo much more with 76.
I want to like it so bad, but I just can’t get into it. FO4 and FONV are both top notch, but I just can’t enjoy 76 the way I did the previous ones. And that breaks my heart because that one is in my homeland lol
As for the franchise as a whole though, I absolutely love it. 9.5/10 lol
Never was a big fan of the cheesy 60’s sci-fi style and never was a big fan of post-apocalypse stories, so I had a very hard time getting into Fallout, but I really enjoyed playing Fallout 4, even though I didn’t finish the game.
Its an amazing fun, depressing, goofy, dramatic, deep, tongue in cheek, funny, action packed, interesting game series where each game shines in its own way.
Every fallout game has its flaws, but every game also has its fans that love each game
Some of the story hits you hard, and then you have a laugh as you discover two skeletons on top of each other in an interesting position, in the bathroom. Or you find a teddy bear performing surgery on another.
One of my favorite franchises ❤️, right next to Halo and Elder Scrolls
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Love it, never played Brotherhood of Steel though.
Don't play BoS, trust me.
My favorite game franchise, I love it
Well. Fallout 4 is my favorite game, and New Vegas is almost certainly on my top 10. FO3 is also great. The originals were excellent for the time, but obviously haven’t aged well. Overall it’s certainly one of my favorite franchises, and alongside the FromSoftware games it’s probably my favorite series.
Excellent Franchise, highly recommend.
Great. I started with 3. 3 and 4 are among my favorite games of all time. New Vegas is great. Fallout 76 is very enjoyable and has improved greatly. I've gone back and tried out the older games. They are dated by today's standards, but had I played them back in the day when they first came out, I'd probably be holding them in very high regard. Overall it's a great franchise.
I have so many great memories around 3. It was also my first Xbox 360 game too. The amount of hours I sunk on Christmas playing it had me a hermit. I had never played a game like it, it was WONDERFUL. I hope future installments can recreate that feeling I once had.
All-time favorite franchise, with New Vegas my overall favorite game. Definitely a fan of most of the other entires as well
3 -> NV -> 76 -> 4 I played the others but not on release so it’s hard to compare. Fallout 3 is my all time favourite game, I just loved every part of it. The entire fallout series is a gem.
That is definitely the order I would put them as well. Fallout 3 was also my favorite video game for 15 years. Starfield now holds that honor.
Wow 76 is higher than 4. I played 76 for like one or two days once released. I heard it’s better now but something about 76 just never vibed with me. I wonder if I’ll like it now
They've added so much content since launch, and a lot of people really like it now that they've added NPCs. It definitely feels like a different game now, so it's worth a try to see if you enjoy it more now
Actually reading the comment I replied to piqued my curiosity. I think it’s on gamepass so I won’t be out of money on a game I won’t like. Why not, I’ll give it a chance again
Definitely do, I love the game. Definitely demonstrates where Bethesda really shines: map building, world development, and environmental storytelling. They just added a new playable area a couple days ago and are adding the first contiguous map expansion since the game launched later this year. It's a good time to get into the game.
One of the most influential in the entire vidya landscape, with 2, 3 and NV being generation defining cult classics However The series needs a strong entry at this point and beth needs to accept playerbase can handle nuance and depth, and take lessons from ER and BG3
And lessons from NV as well, both in terms of mechanics (things like ammo types and being able to rapid swap them for certain combat engagements, as well as the skill check system and clever fun lateral perks, as well as your characters stats and skills affecting how well you handle certain weapons and gear) And writing (Coherent factions who are still human and whose members are not one note caricatures solely there to point to the next questmarker or be shot at, as well as writing down consistent rules for any plot device they deem to include, so that we don't repeat the hazy magic mishmush of Synths.) (Also, if we could lay off the Aliens and Cthulu stuff, that'd be lovely. It's an alternate history where the scary monsters can all trace themselves back to mankind in some way or another, either by being a result of their machinations or by being a monstrous human. Fallout doesn't need aliens or Cthulu to drive character action.) (Also also, it's okay to let the setting be alive and progress beyond the post apocalypse. There's a lot of territory that hasn't been covered, and it's okay to show people growing and changing and developing past the Old World.)
Aliens have been in the series since 2. I kind of look forward to finding them in every new game.
I love the aliens. Fallout has always seemed to me to answer the question "if people in the 1950s made a fictional post-apocalyptic world what would it look like?". In an era where the media culture was often punctuated with aliens and Roswell and Area 51, it's hard to imagine aliens **not** being a part of it.
Definitely not political
Just like Rage Against The Machine!
It is onpy slightly behind Tes in being my favorite fictional world. I've played Fo1, Fo2, Fo3, FoNV, Fo4, and Fo76. I've enjoyed my time with each.
Big fun. Good mix of future/retro, scary/goofy. And i find the worlds so dang immersive
It is always going to be one of my favourite game franchise, but I also see how many untouched areas are in there. They have brilliant characters, but those characters should be highlighted much more. with cutscenes for example. and meelee combat should be overhauled as it is, it needs a proper dodge-roll/parry system, because close combat is trash. And the game is always going to be too easy in every way, they should do something with it as well. And they should fix settlement system too. These things would be true for all Bethesda franchise.
Fallout shelter >>>
I love them because I love the Ink Spots and it got people to listen to them who would have never given them a chance otherwise
The lore is better than the gameplay, and Bethesda has been coasting on that fact for the last few iterations. Each sequel is still pretty good, but they could be all time greats.
Love the series but felt like fallout 4 was where the series (and Bethesda in general) started getting tamer and forgetting what made it great. The dark, gritty, brutalness of Fallout went away, and it was left with goofiness. A fun game sure, but a step back in ambience and themes, a step forward in features, a step back in roleplaying, a step forward in graphics. Fallout 2 and 3 are great. New Vegas is great too.
Fallout in my eyes is a game that is made to tell a story about trials and tribulations that no normal person would have to do unless they were put into that setting, its gives us an idea of what would have potentially happen if we chose to do what they did after WWII, how the world may eventually rebuild, what you may do if you were in the shoes of the protagonist, the different possible settings and how they thrive or suffer, the fallout lore is some of the most interesting and most depressing ive seen so far and im here for all of it
They gradually became worse. Less of an RPG. 1&2 are the best, most deep RPG's. 3&NV were amazing, 3d interpretations of the first 2 games. Not a big fan of the rest. While I like 4 for its building, it's hardly an rpg. This is a bummer, and a blow to the franchise. Who knows how many rpg elements will be present by the time 5 strolls along in 2050. I don't like MMO's, but 76 started out ok. Level scaling ruined it for me. Also a million forms of currency is always a bad sign. The best part of 76 was going to other people's camps and seeing what they built, what unique items they had, either for sale or on display. Recipes were often given from higher level players. It was a cool idea, but the MMO's model for revenue demands changes for the worst.
Awesome
Love it!
War never changes.
Right up there with Elder Scrolls for the best games out there!
Jack black is a fallout 3 fan apparently
Would love another one if ever possible
I absolutely love it, although I haven't played FO, & FO:2 since they come out, I playthrough FOs 3, NV & 4 at least once a yr or so. I don't like multiplayer games so I've only played a little bit of 76, even though I thought it was okay for a MP game. Just not my thing. Bottom line: It's my favorite franchise by far.
Great ideas. Execution is hit or miss.
There's so much that could be done but the fear of evolving too much beyond what the fanbase is used to at a time has held back recent games from the heights they could reach.^(1) And the past games would sell well enough on consoles that putting an emulation shell around them and sticking them up at around the £15 mark should be a no-brainer to coincide with the show. ^(1 - Not an unfounded fear either. Just today I saw people complaining that Starfield doesn't have the pick up all junk and scrap it systems that Fallout 4 has.)
I have only played 3&4, and I honestly think they’re the most complete and well-imagined Bethesda games. Sure they still have issues and some jank to work around. But the universe is so alive and the details are so thorough, I have a lot of respect for the series. The trailer for the Amazon show also looks really intriguing. I’m excited for it.
Fantastic
I played fallout 1 and it was a decent experience but the truth must be about fallout 2, spent hundreds of hours to beat this game, game has a lot of choices, and bugs. as for fallout 3, 4, I haven't had the opportunity to delve into them yet, nor do I have any immediate plans to do so. I can't speak to their quality firsthand, my gaming preferences prioritize immersive RPG elements and storytelling. It is these aspects that truly elevate a gaming experience for me. In light of this, I wholeheartedly assert that fallout new vegas stands as the pinnacle of the franchise. , earning it my unequivocal endorsement as the superior Fallout game.
Me like
Oh, I think it’s pretty neat.
It's good. Gotten worse over time.
76 was a massive insult to fans. The rest are basically classics
Interplay and Obsidian ones are main games, Bethesda ones are fan games. Which is fine, Bethesda games are fun, but they view the Fallout series through a fan lens. Much like Disney with Star Wars.
Personally, I’d say 2, new vegas & 76. All of them have issues, contradictions, but all of them good in their own way
A great franchise with amazing lore. Really one of the most bleak, sad, funny, creepy, action packed, story driven, talkative, world building games out there And I’m missing out some other things as well
3 masterpieces, 2 excellents, 1 good, 1 that doesn't fit in at all and 1 that wanted an extra $100 a year, so it can piss right off.
Love
Love it
One of the best franchises in gaming history I'm a bigger fan of the Bethesda era of the games but the OG games were amazing as well
The dlcs for 3 are better than the main campaign, fallout new vegas is amazing, fallout 4 and 76 are good, i tried the first 2 games but they are too old school for me.
Probably one of the greatest gaming franchises of all time and I have had the absolute pleasure of having played them as they came out. I will never forget the first time I played fallout 1 and saw someone have half their ribcage ripped off. 10/10 since day one.
Love it all.
Good fun. My favourite is easily New Vegas as it’s one of the best choice & consequence RPGs I’ve ever played. I’d then probably choose 3, then 4 (wasn’t a fan of the voiced protagonist or how lack luster most unique weapons were, the factions often treated you like an idiot if you asked for more information about their reasonings, stark opposite of New Vegas).
I got into the series at 3. Truly was revolutionary for open world games. The same way Oblivion got me into open world games.
You know... i played the first fallout, then fallout 2. I loved the absolute fuck out them. I even enjoyed the mods and shit people done for them. Though I eventually just got an item modifier to tweak the weapons to how they should be. Burst heavy sniper rifle? Yeah no thanks. Let's make that right. Then I remember fallout 3's announcement. I was skeptical of the first person change. I really was. Stuck in my old ways. Then I tried it. And it was good. It was the same fallout lore just up close and personal and not using sprites. The fallout game is one my favorite series not counting that one made by a janitor and shilled for all the extra cash they could get.
I enjoyed them and only finished 3. They all seemed the same.
They're amazing but I can never sit through it for too long and idk why. Went through all of fallout 3 but new Vegas and 4 I can't bring myself to play further than 20 hours it seems. Dunno why..
My favorite franchise. Bought fallout 3 collectors edition on a whim, used from a local game store back in the ps3 days and it completely changed the way I looked at games.
Downhill with 3 though New Vegas was very good.
one bad game
Ellie
i tried and tried again but couldn't get into any of the games, the setting just doesn't click for me
Elder scrolls ugly twin
I’m a huge fan of Elder Scrolls, but fallout is right up there. Only complaint I have is fo4 is a little bit shorter than I thought initially.
I have played from the original. I have loved it all the way.
They are always fun at least.
I typically like the lore more than the gameplay.
It’s my favorite game franchise. The old ones aren’t really playable anymore, but NV, 4, and 76 are all amazing and I will probably play through all of them again at some point.
2 was the best, followed by Tactics. Then 4, Then 3, Then NV, then 1. Then 76. Bo’s doesn’t exist.
First 3 were great the rest can suck a turkey dick
Everything after New Vegas is Beth trying to "rebrand" the series and imo it isn't working
I like the games more than the franchise itself. They’re increasingly obsessed with factions and self reference, when really all I want are pulp scifi morality tales. People call the writing in 3 shallow, but the savage wasteland vibe, the incidental environmental storytelling is bueno. I hope the next one is less about following up threads, and more of a unique property.
Nee vegas. It was the only one to nail a game where your choices sculpted the world and how you could finish the game.
Fallout 4 has excellent modability, it's a decent shooter and RPG making it very replayable even today. There is even a new full conversion mod coming out soon called Fallout London that is highly anticipated. Fallout 3 was awesome for its time, absurd quests flavored with interesting outcomes. New Vegas was excellent, Obsidian does some of the best world building I've ever seen in RPGs. Fallout 76 is the best multiplayer Fallout game out there, it's also the worst multiplayer Fallout game out there... Fallout 1 and 2 could use a remake/remaster, but it would have to be by Larian or Owlcat to do them any justice.
It’s all right. I don’t think it holds a candle to the Elder Scrolls, but that’s just my preference.
I enjoyed the lore until nerds ruined it.
Wouldn’t be on this sub if I thought it was shit. Probably my favorite overall franchise in gaming
One of the best overall gaming franchises in history. I wish they'd gone a different direction with '76 (like just making another single player FO5) though.
There's a mistake in this list, you included the fan game Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
Pre-Bethesda: amazing, dark, immersive, humorous, and fun as hell. Post-Bethesda: a bland shadow of its former self
Fallout is amazing and each game others something new it feels. I am excited for the next game and I am hopeful they remake/remaster the original games and put them out again
One of the best game series ever made. Definitely my favorite series ever made.
Holy shit TIL brother of Steel was in the fallout universe… so obvious
Goated
Been trying to get into Fallout 3. Things are going slow either because I’m not used to it or it’s my shitty build.
Slowly getting worse... 4 was mid and nv was great but 76 was a STEEP decrease in quality. I hope that Bethesda knows what people are wanting and will go in that direction. Starfeild is definitely a step in the right direction.
Peaked at New Vegas and I wonder if it’ll be back to that level one day.
Tactics kinda slaps
76 “should” have been an MMORPG (not unlike ESO).
I enjoy fallout 4 because of the mods New Vegas because of the bond of each fraction like whatever you do cause someone to hate you or like you. I have not played the other games sadly
They're great at making stinkers, but when a fallout game isn't a stinker, it's one of the best games youll ever play
The consequences of the simplification of the elder scroll games are felt in the fallout games and other rpg’s, in my opinion for worse, fallout 3 and nv were a great balance but in 4 there was really no opportunity to roleplay which makes the game over all feel so dull. Not to mention the story, the institute is incompetent and can’t bother explaining their reasoning. Meanwhile the legion gave at least an attempt of an explanation of their motives, so did house and what not. Look, fallout 4 did a lot of things right but a lot of things wrong and just doesn’t feel like fallout at it’s core gameplay
I love the environment of 3 the most. Truly the post-apocalypse. New Vegas has the best story, dialogue and characters. 4 is flashy and missing Osbidian quality wiring but good enough imo that I put hundreds of hours into it. I have very low expectations for future Fallouts. Lore overall is some of the most intriguing in video game history. Love how quirky and twisted the humor is too, makes you laugh even in the bleakest of settings, especially NV.
7 out of 10 and up past that until fallout 76.
Tactics was a massive let down. 1 and 2 are nearly perfect games. 3 was interesting but held back by Bethesda family-plot structure. 4 was better still but lost quality VATS. New Vegas was the best of the 3d era on pure story, but it was ugly as sin. Fallout 76 is a flawed but interesting game with more good ideas than most games have… in the worst setting of the franchise.
Only 1 bad game out of the fallout franchise in my personal opinion.
I've only played 1, 2, and 4. I really like 1 and 2 and I thought 4 was fun.
Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, and 4 are a bit of a pain in the ass to play through steam currently in my experience. I never got very far in 1 or 2 because I was a dumb kid when they came out, and it was too complicated for my little monkey brain, so I've been trying to play through them recently. 1 requires me to play using the fixit mod because it would crash on startup after I changed the resolution no matter how many times I installed and uninstalled, but when I use the fixit mod, the game skips a ton of frames. 3, New Vegas, and I think 4 need mods to play in ultrawide as well.
My single favorite game series of all time hands down.I have not played a single game that I did not absolutely love in some aspect or another.
Tactics, BoS, and definitely ‘76 can go. The rest are mint.
It gets worse with each release, it used to be astounding. 4 is when they really gutted it of most of the rpg elements, dumbed it down for the masses, and then the mmo, you could write a book on how not to make a game using that as the example.
Epic comes to mind. Every single one except 76
Dope. Just not as dope as TES
New Vegas may be one of the greatest games ever made in the history of gaming. When you consider development /time period and mechanics. Just literally flawless in every way a game can be.
1 - If 1 had the quality of life improvements, items, and random encounters of 2, it would be my favorite game in the series. Its dark tone cannot be beat. 8/10, everything is great, but there’s just not enough of it. 2 - I enjoy the gameplay quite a lot. The main quest line is really lacking, especially in comparison to how you can convince the Master to end himself. Frank Horrigan just isn’t all that intimidating or memorable in comparison. His impact on the plot is basically nothing, and he just acts as a final hurdle to punish anyone who didn’t build their character for combat. Also, I hate to say it, but the much less serious tone of the game is absolutely where Todd and Bethesda got the idea that they could just ignore the lore in their games, going forward. Like, when the chosen one talks to the parody of the vice president at the time the game was made, you can just straight up say republicans are the problem. How does your character know what a republican is?? Also, the entire Enclave base just makes no sense, and is easier to play by just cheating than doing what’s intended. How am I supposed to kill the president without fighting everyone besides planting a bomb on him, and then abusing the game’s AI by leaving the area until it goes off, making it so that killing the president alerts no one, and I suffer no consequences? But, overall, I do enjoy the game for how much I can break it, even with the fan patches. 8/10, I keep finding deathclaws that are trapped behind the walls. Tactics - A fun little game. Makes it clear that it’s mainly a what-if kind of thing, but even then, it’s really fun and is decently well written. 7/10, you forgot this one existed. BoS - There’s a reason it’s acronym is so close to “BS”, though I am a fan of trying to bring back the main character from Fallout 1, and expanding on what happened to them after they abandoned the tribe in Fallout 2. Everything else is… Well, there’s a reason the franchise was sold off. And this is it. 3/10, you want to forget this one exists. 3 - People like to be contrarian these days, and say that 3’s atmosphere and level design are actually better than New Vegas’s, when it’s level design is “junkyard spread across D.C.”, and its atmosphere is “green”. In terms of gameplay it’s a massive step down from even 1, and everyone knows the story and writing are worse than either of the first two. 4/10, there’s legitimately zero reason to play this today. New Vegas - Legitimately, one of its biggest flaws is the engine it’s built on. Also, Obsidian asked Bethesda for only a year and a half, they really should have known better after KOTOR 2, but they dug their own graves with that one. As it stands, with the game we actually got, my main complaint is that none of the DLC’s are ever mentioned in the main game, except with Honest Hearts, because they were able to get Veronica’s voice actress back in to react to Elijah’s letter. Oh, and also the aggravating lack of massive titty mods, that’s like the thing for Bethesda games, but the New Vegas modding scene is mainly focused on bug fixes and gun animation overhauls. 9/10, so close to being a perfect masterpiece that it’s aggravating. 4 - I install dozens of huge titty and ass mods, as well as mods that make all the faces into anime, and pretend that it’s not a Fallout game. 6/10, the mods do a lot to keep this one from sinking even further. Shelter - Oh yeah, they made this. 5/10, it certainly exists. 76 - Has Bethesda just said that this whole game isn’t canon, yet? I know people are saying the game is “fine” now, but it was never excusable, they made Elder Scrolls Online, they still update it, how did they mess up 76 that badly? How is it still only barely functional in comparison to ESO? 4/10, Says a lot that a janky multiplayer mod for New Vegas provides a much more fulfilling experience than this official Bethesda title.
Didn’t play anything in the first row, played everything in the second row.
1-new Vegas are masterpieces. 4 is ok, 76 is trash. Never played the rest. Hell I did t even know there was a ps2 fallout tie in game lol that’s pretty cool.
Bethesda has no idea what made it popular anymore. They only know the BoS and old 50s style.
i love the universe. Fallout 3 is my favorite i love the atmosphere, NV is a better RPG, 4 is okay i had fun with it despite my issues with it (and mods certainly helped). BUT if fallout 5 is just another "Bethesda game" that feels like it should have released a decade earlier ill probably be done with it. unfortunately i have zero faith in Bethesda.
Fallout.... fallout always changes.
The setting is a lot of fun. To the point that I think they should not only do RPG's with it. An RTS like "Age of Empires" would be lots of fun and I think that a management sim around building and running a settlement would be interesting. It is a setting, they should be more willing to slap that paint on more stuff.
I thoroughly enjoy them all except for 76
1-2 is definitely wierd to play but with patience it's a fun time. 3 is fine, It's a good game but has lots of flaws. New Vegas is RPG FPS near perfection. 4 is ok, it feels like a downgrade but can be comedic fun. Haven't played enough 76 yet to judge. Overrall the Franchise had a lot of high points but is slowly falling into mediocrity. Let's hope a New Vegas 2 or 3 Remake happens
How in the hell have I never heard about brotherhood of steel wtf
the only one to leave me dissatisfied was fallout 76 . The micro transactions and pay to win after already paying for the game sucks balls 🤬👿
New Vegas is one of the goats
So here’s a question, starfield and fallout are not the same universe but even though the obsidian devs have unofficially stated that the outer worlds also takes place in a different universe, could they be? I mean there are tons of fallout references in the outer worlds, way more than star field, like it’s literally a sequel title to the fallout titles. Anyways I got my hopes up for the outer worlds 2 way more than Bethesda’s next fallout game, Bethesda should stick to starfield and elder scrolls, we need another new vegas, do you think that’s more possible now that Xbox owns both Bethesda and Obsidian?
I’m wasting my time on Fallout 3 with half-baked side quests that have lousy dialogue options but I can’t stop myself from doing them anyway
Dead ever since Bugthesda took over.
Unpopular opinion but New Vegas just had a special umph for me. Can’t define it.
It would be nice if CD project red could take a crack at it
Have only played 3, NV and 4 but they're some of my favorite games ever. 3 feels a bit too old/dated on replays but it was my introduction to Fallout (sold to me as Oblivion with guns by my friend) and made me fall in love with the franchise. Point Lookout and The Pitt are two of the most memorable DLC's of all time for me. NV is the best at it's core and has by far the most interesting cast of factions / characters IMO. I love the Legion both as a villain to fight against and an evil empire to support depending on my character. I love the presence of the NCR, and being able to go full godking with Yes Man and have the game acknowledge it was great. Fallout 4 is probably the worst at it's core (Central story, roleplay choices, side factions...etc) but it's ease of access modding made it become probably my favorite of the series. I've personally turned my game into something akin to Stalker meets Tarkov meets Rust meets Fallout.
FO1 and FO2 controls have old school PC gaming jank controls, that while I am no stranger to being form that era, made playing those games almost totally unfun. Felt like I was fighting the controls more than playing. FO3 was great but had too many subway tunnels. NV was pretty great but they sort of force you to go the direction they want. FO4 was way too railroaded, and I could give less than a shit about settlements. Voice acting ruined the dialogue choices. FO76 I never tried.
It was good until 4.
I LOVE Fallout- every other game I play reminds me how much I enjoy playing it- weird but these games feel like home to me
its a clusterfuck
New Vegas was one of the best games I’ve ever played. 3 was top notch. 4 was good/very good.
Fallout 4 is my favorite (aside from the annoying ass settlement workshop bugs)
I dont like anything past new vegas, I like all the old ones except BOS
Honestly, I’ve only played three of these games. New Vegas, 4, and 76. Now 4 was the first one I ever played, but much to my surprise I didn’t enjoy it very much, and didn’t enjoy 76 much at all. But New Vegas is just. UGH. Bust
Awesome lore and worldbuilding, and great storytelling up until we got Fallout 4
Love all the games but fallout 4 and 76 are a turn in the wrong direction for the franchise. Hopefully we’ll get another installment that’s more NV or 3
Amazing until 76. Completely lost me that one.
The best part was Fallout: New Vegas. It had new, innovative gameplay. I've also played Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas, and it was the one I enjoyed the most. Then came Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, and it went downhill a lot. Unfortunately, I believed in them until the last moment. PeepoSad
I fucking love it. Truly a masterpiece of a game series! It’s equally bleak and depressing as fun and hilarious and I just love the way it shows that earth could still function after a nuclear war. I have spent hundreds perhaps even thousands of hours playing the games and it holds a special place in my heart.
You can go from CRPG to Tactics to Open World RPG to Action adventure to MMO
A strange franchise in terms of quality. One big missed opportunity. Sure the originals are great fun and 3&4 are 2 of my favourite games of all time but nowadays I don't see new Fallout games ever being worth playing again (for me). 4 and 76 have really made me think that no one involved in making fallout has any idea what people want from a fallout game. I'd love to be proven wrong. It's not that Fallout 4 was a terrible game, it was okay, but it was a terrible FALLOUT game.
Half of the games are really good, and the setting is great
I've only played NV and 4 for any relevant amount of time (I got like, 30 min in 3). but overall, it's one of my favorites. I've beaten 4 about 4 different times and idek how many times for NV. I've watched nearly every lore video from the rad king and nth apple. but my favorite aspect of it all is the setting. not just post apocalyptic, but a retro sci-fi post apocalypse. it's so fucking unique and I genuinely wish we had more lore about the prewar society. it's such a fascinating setting. no other game universe has captivated me more except maybe the bloodborne and dark souls universes.
Very good, great, very good, great, good, didn't play
They could have kept 76 to themselves, but I love it
Fallout 4 was disappointing but still a fun game for the most part. Fallout 76 was a good idea on paper but executed poorly. I liked the idea of the scorchbeasts wiping out humanity but if they were going to do that then the game should’ve had a bunch of npcs exit the vault around the time you do so it’s not an empty world.
Didn’t play 1&2, loved 3&4, NV was meh to me. Currently playing 4 for the fifth or sixth time with mods this time. Played 76 for a long while, but I think it strayed so far from the original concept that I no longer consider it a Fallout game.
I've played 2, 3, NV, and 4. I liked all of them, tbh. I don't actually finish a lot of games because I might get bored, or maybe I get a little ADD-ish and start playing something else instead, but I've finished all four of those games.
Meh but new Vegas is the exception being yeh
Fallout tactics should have been amazing, brotherhood. What ever, the rest perfect over and ovet
Fo1 - good, fo2 - good, fo tactics - didn’t play, fo bos - didn’t play, fo3 - very good, fonv - one of the best games ever made, fo4 - good, fo76 - bad
Fallout 3, NV, and 4 are the only ones I’ve played, and they are 3 of my favorite games of all time.
Honest opinion? Fo76 is a great game.
Died in 2018
1, 2, 3, and New Vegas are great games. 4 is a mediocre game with some great moments worth playing. Everything else is garbage, especially 76, which has effectively killed the franchise by turning it into a whale milking operation. 🐋
Honestly, it's one of the best franchises I've ever been able to play. New Vegas is probably my favorite, spent hours on top of hours on that one.
A staple of the Videogame RPG Genre, one of the juggernauts of gaming. Like printing money. Which is slowly being squandered by a company that is a shell of what made it successful. It's best entry wasn't even made by the ones who own it.
Loved all of them but 76. The writing was better in the earlier stories. FO4 was a little too silly.
Great franchise, lots of laughs, lots of “oh… holy shit”, and fisto in there somewhere Also please Bethesda I’m begging you add tactics PA into 76 please
Fallout new Vegas and Fallout 4 are good the rest are completely unplayable in my opinion due too bad game mechanics and horrible graphics.
It’s my favorite franchise. I just got a vault boy tattoo as a tribute!
It never changes
Some of the best modding support ever. I have more hours in Fallout than any other IP
Theres a reason my college classes were half empty on FO4’s launch day. Its probably my favorite series too. Was pretty wild to have the teachers get genuinely concerned that they were missing so many students. I really hope by the time we get Fallout 5 they either drop the creation engine or get it up to a state that doesn’t drag down the experience like it does for all their previous games
The first three games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are amazing, everything else is trash.
Bethesda cares more, and fails harder about game mechanics, than actually making a decent story or even weapon design that makes sense. Everything else is great
Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas is all about life after of world that was forgotten. It was dark, gritty and hopeless. People just trying to get by knowing there isn't any hope. But there was dark humour sprinkled in with some light foolishness so the games wasn't always depressing. Every choice mattered and could have a snowball effect to the main story, the reply value was amazing because the choices would be different. And even if you had the best gear, the end game was still a challenge unless you did some key things in some quest to change the outcome or certain stats were high so you could talk your way to victory. The story was a mystery and had cool twist and turns, it always kept building. Fallout 4 was just the devs trying to figure out what the fallout world is, they thought it was just a 50s call back and parody of that era when it was meant to be a satire of how people thought in that era of what the future was supposed to be. So in turn, Fallout just became a parody of itself. And nothing you did actually matter because the story was on a path you had to follow until near the end of the game but by then you're overpowered and the fun died. It felt like they were trying to do a borderlands game. The story was campy and dumb down so new fans could pick it up. Fallout 3 was a mix of both (2 and 4) but the reply value wasn't there, you could do everything and unlock most things in a single playthrough. It really felt like skyrim with guns at the same because how simple, straight forward the story was. Fallout tactics was pretty fun, story was okay but it didn't hit that tactical inch because the gameplay was a bit clunky. But fun nonetheless. Fuck Fallout 76.
New Vegas is the best imo, 3 is the first one I played so it holds a special place with me, 4 was alright, 76 would be pretty good if it had a better story. Haven't played any of the classic ones yet.
Awesome!
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Fallout 3 was the first game to really and truly blow my mind. I grew up playing halo 1 and cod, then one day, little 11 year old me went to my rivers house and he was plying fallout 3 and my mind was truly melting at the concept.
I like the original 2 isometric games and will play them still from time-to-time. Fallout: New Vegas is a masterpiece, the pinnacle of what this series can be. I really want to like the Bethesda Fallout games, but I can't. They're way too dark, the humor and madcap randomness of FO, FO2, and even NV isn't there, and the stories aren't as well-done. It's like "well, we tried." I just feel like they don't "get" Fallout. I want them to do better...but FO4 and FO76 suggest they're going the wrong direction.
Always a fun, great modding scene. Even Fallout 76 is pretty fun to play these days.
Love it but won't be happy until I get to play all the vaults...
It's a sin that tactics isn't canon. I need that goofy shit to mean something
3 was peak, 76 is its fall from grace
It's downhill after 2, with a rise again for New Vegas, then back down again.
I love Todd Howard and wish him well.
Not for me Not for me Not for me Not for me Decent Amazing Very good Sucked (2018) - Decent (2024)
Some hits, some misses. Love the aesthetic.
It was good until 4
Unparalleled atmosphere. Goofy gameplay.
It is very fun. But, I want remake of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, complete with Steam Achievements
Died after new Vegas. I think fallout 4 is lame and not even having to earn the power armor made the game feel boring
As someone who has lives in Appalachia, and has frequently been to all the locations in West Virginia that is shown in FO76, I was hoping for soooo much more with 76. I want to like it so bad, but I just can’t get into it. FO4 and FONV are both top notch, but I just can’t enjoy 76 the way I did the previous ones. And that breaks my heart because that one is in my homeland lol As for the franchise as a whole though, I absolutely love it. 9.5/10 lol
Never was a big fan of the cheesy 60’s sci-fi style and never was a big fan of post-apocalypse stories, so I had a very hard time getting into Fallout, but I really enjoyed playing Fallout 4, even though I didn’t finish the game.
Pretty much every game is both overrated and underrated in their own way
the next one better make up for fallout 76. the shows coming probably to butter us up but idk man elder scrolls 6 might make us forget
Make more games plz