Fallout 1, 2 & 3 Which is Best In YOUR Oppinion.

[Dommyboy]

Fallout 2. The atmosphere was great, I loved the combat, there was many witty lines and if you use the Fallout 2 Restoration Pack, the game is even better. Fallout 3 felt ruined for me. You could just fast travel anywhere, and combat was easy with just spamming stim-packs.

 

[SonicKoala]

I don't know about anyone else, but I couldn't STAND the gameplay mechanics in the original two fallouts. Seriously, the turn-based combat system ruined those games for me. So therefore, I have to go with Fallout 3. That has to be one of my favourite single-player games ever.

 

[Shinigami214]

Fallout 2. Hands down.

Fallout 3 was a cake-walk for me - I far preferred the challenge Fallout 2 posed.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Own all three, yet I prefer Fallout 3.
But allow me to qualify this;
Whereas there's no dispute to be made about the fact that Black Isle had far more proficient writers than Bethesda, the immersive factor is crucial in making this particular setting come alive.
Turn-based combat never worked well for me.
I admire the original games profusely, but I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed them very much on that basis.

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

Depends on how you judge them. Fallout 3 is easily the most fun, no dispute there at all.

LOL, that is the funniest thing I've heard this year

Glad to have made your year. I am however a bit concerned that that was the funniest thing you've heard all year, try getting out more.

 

[tmo99]

I say Fallout 3 since that is the only Fallout game I have played.

 

[ldbmikey86]

Original Fallout is most memorable for me, but 2 and 3 have more content and replay value. It's hard to say, really. And why isn't FO: Tactics an option? That one was pretty damn good, too.

Anyway, I'll go with the original Fallout for introducing the universe and the best story of the 3.

 

[Lordmarkus]

All three get's 9/10 from me but Fallout 1 is the winner in my book any day. Better atmosphere, better story. Sure, Fallout 2 had more things but it is a sequel in all it's glory, bigger, grander but not necessarly better. BoS has only a minor role and the fact that civilized vaultpeople turns to be tribles with bones stuck up their noses bothered me to much to like the sequel better than the allmighty original.

Fallout 2 are a truly a great game. It contains probably the best dialogue I've played and story are really intresting, it continues excellent on the original and fits the more "grittier" world of Fallout 2.

Fallout 3, if you ignore the no more than mediocre mainquest, are a great game too. Immersion are easier since they kicked the game into 3D. Though the lack of real Fallout feeling, i.e. amazing story and dialogue, it continues the world with and gives the world the true red scare feeling that the originals didn't manage to get. It also adds several new beings that fits the universe, for example Librty Prime and Behemoths.

Though I miss the Wanamingo's.

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Fallout 3. It's just better than all the top-down viewiness of the first two.

 

[veloper]

Fallout 2

It reduced some combat issues from FO1 by including the AI tactics menu. My PC didn't get shot in the back as often by his companions in the sequel, because AI behaviour became more predictable as you set it yourself.
Companion inventory was a very useful addition too.

The skills were more valuable in FO2 too, because more appropriate scenarios were included.
Barter was still useless, but other skills like science and lockpicking actually became valid choices.

Because FO2 takes longer than FO1, logical character progression to energy weapons or big guns through a TAG perk became possible.

FO2>FO1>FO3
(btw I don't hate FO3, but stuff like medkits and ammo everywhere ruin the challenge)

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Fallout 3, I haven't played the others, they look okay, but this one is awesome. Except for the combat. Which sucked.

 

[Ninjamedic]

Fallout 3. By far.

Turn based combat gives me anal herpes.

no, your boyfriend gives you anal herpes. its a well known internet fact. BURN! I AM THE INSULT MASTER!

PS. if you actually know what that reference was from...well...you earned 1,000,000 cookies.

Meatwad, athf

 

[TheEndlessGrey]

Fallout 2 is probably my top game of all time, so that should answer which is best in the series as well. The original Fallout would be a close runner up, if I didn't consider them to be more like two parts of the same game. Kinda like Ultima 7. Technically there were two of them, each with an expansion of their own, but I still consider them two parts of the same game. Anyway, I'd actually put Fallout Tactics next in line, just because I think they got the Tactics part of it right, and even though the rest of it was a bit... off.

Now it's not that I don't like Fallout 3, because I do, but it's just not as good as the earlier ones were. Fallout / Fallout 2 absolutely blew my mind when they came out. Fallout 3 did not. It kept me busy for about a month, during which I admit staying up a lot later than I should have most nights, and then another week for each DLC, but I haven't gone back to play it again with a new character.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Fallout 3. By far.

Turn based combat gives me anal herpes.

I'd like to know how that would work.
You know, with the disk and all, how would it fit in... on second thought I really don't want to know.

OT: F3, I just couldn't get into the first two. So, like he said, minus the herpes.

Life must be quite confusing for those who take jovial expressions literally.

What you do is you get the controller and stick the-

 

[Carnagath]

Fallout 2 for me definitely. I never managed to replay 1 once 2 was released, there's just so much critical stuff that they fixed, especially the option to click your party to move away if they are blocking you, without this I find Fallout 1 unplayable anymore. Also, Fallout 2 is one of the best-written games ever and definitely the one that offers the most freedom in ways to approach every situation. I still recall the "The world is your oyster" feeling when I first entered New Reno with all its conflicting families, characters and plots, and how I managed to work for everyone at the same time until I betrayed everyone, again at the same time, and turned the whole town into one giant Casino-shootout bloodbath. Fallout 2 is unmatched.

 

[Leviathan_]

Hate Oblivion, Love Fallout 3

EDIT: I did play Fallout 1, but I'm not really a fan

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Fallout 3. By far.

Turn based combat gives me anal herpes.

This.
I would LOVE to get into Fallout 1 and 2, hell even Tactics, but I cannot fucking stand TBC.

Yeah, Fallout 1 was fun and all, but it was so tedious having to watch the enemies smack you over and over and over... then randomly dying to a huge critical hit.

 

[reg42]

I've never really been a fan of classic style rpg's. The lack of dialogue kind of gets to me after a while. So i'll have to go with Fallout 3.