Poll: What's your favorite Fallout game?

[woodaba]

So I've been revisiting Fallout 2 while afflicted with various illnesses, and I've got to thinking about the Fallout series, and how different a lot of the games were. Fallout 3 is rather infamous for alienating a lot of fans of the series with certain decisions made in it in regards to lore and writing, but I don't think it's entirely fair to to call that game out as the black sheep of the series when each Fallout game has it's own identity. Fallout 1 feels much more like a traditional post-apocalyptic setting, lacking a lot of the things that would come to make Fallout what it is, for example. A result of these differences, I think it's fair to say that each game in the series is going to be some people's favorite (except for Brotherhood of Steel because Fuck You), and I was curious to hear what you all thought was your favorite game in the series.

For me, it's gotta be New Vegas. It feels like an evolution of all the things that worked from Falout 2, while excising a lot of the stuff that irritated about that game (ludicrous difficulty, tedious combat, pop-culture references), while at the same time maintaining an identity of it's very own. It's got a great main story in the base game, utilizing a faction dynamic better than any other game I've played, and some of the best examples of DLC I've seen in any game, with the genius idea of having a metaplot run through each one.

 

[Barbas]

Oh yes, New Vegas. You had to sweat blood to get it to work, but when it did, you raised your hands to the heavens and screamed a long string of incomprehensible praise. The iron sights were a real improvement from Fallout 3's weapons and the faction loyalty was a welcome addition too. Sure, there was no ending and that sucks, but all the stuff you did in the time it took to get there was what mattered.

 

[woodaba]

Oh yes, New Vegas. You had to sweat blood to get it to work, but when it did, you raised your hands to the heavens and screamed a long string of incomprehensible praise. The iron sights were a real improvement from Fallout 3's weapons and the faction loyalty was a welcome addition too. Sure, there was no ending and that sucks, but all the stuff you did in the time it took to get there was what mattered.

Have you played Lonesome Road? While it doesn't end the game, I felt that it proved to be an excellent and fitting capstone to my New Vegas experience. It brings the story back to a personal one about the Courier and their past, while at the same time potentially changing the future of the Fallout setting forever based on your choices at the end of it. Pretty much all of the New Vegas DLCs or so good it's hard to pick a favorite, but if you put a gun to my head and forced me to pick one, I'd say Lonesome Road.

 

[Elfgore]

Three is my favorite. Runs like shit on everything that isn't Xbox, which even then was iffy, but God damn was it a blast. Primarily in three aspects, world, quests, and locations. I think the DLC is amazing and just generally enjoy everything about it.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Hmm, I'd have to go with the first Fallout. I did enjoy Fallout 2, but I think it got a little overboard with the culture references and stuff and sometimes it took me out of the atmosphere the first game built. The first Fallout is probably the most atmospheric game I've ever played, and while it does have its humour, it never lets it get ahead of that atmosphere. Whenever I think of the term "post-apocalyptic", Fallout 1 is the type of vibe I envision. It's fucking fantastic. I also preferred the more gritty setting, that civilisation is still slowly rebuilding in the first game. Obviously by the time of Fallout 2, vegetation was regrowing and there were large, organised settlements and even small nations formed. And while the Enclave were cool, I think the super mutants and the Master in particular were just overall better antagonists.

Fallout: Tactics was quite a cool game, also with a strong atmosphere, but I never got too far into it due to its difficulty. Only other Fallout I've played is Brotherhood of Steel which was... well, No Mutants Allowed might have a lot of very extreme opinions, but they're right on the money concerning that game. 'Nuff said, there.

 

[Barbas]

Oh yes, New Vegas. You had to sweat blood to get it to work, but when it did, you raised your hands to the heavens and screamed a long string of incomprehensible praise. The iron sights were a real improvement from Fallout 3's weapons and the faction loyalty was a welcome addition too. Sure, there was no ending and that sucks, but all the stuff you did in the time it took to get there was what mattered.

Have you played Lonesome Road? While it doesn't end the game, I felt that it proved to be an excellent and fitting capstone to my New Vegas experience. It brings the story back to a personal one about the Courier and their past, while at the same time potentially changing the future of the Fallout setting forever based on your choices at the end of it. Pretty much all of the New Vegas DLCs or so good it's hard to pick a favorite, but if you put a gun to my head and forced me to pick one, I'd say Lonesome Road.

I'd take it over the Hoover Dam ending, for sure. The Courier's past as explored in the collected DLC was infinitely more interesting than that battle.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Fallout 2, without a doubt.

There's just so much stuff to do. Tons and tons of little side quests scattered throughout every zone that make use of all the different skills in the game, various hidden bonus perks that you can earn for completing different actions in the game (like getting completely wasted off synthetic alcohol in Vault City), and extremely open-ended main quests.

That said, the game's combat can sometimes be a bit unfair, so frequent saving is practically a requirement... and some of the pop-culture references are pretty groan-worthy, but overall I don't mind either issue too much.

 

[Reaper195]

I grew up on consoles, so I never played the first few games. Fallout 3 was my introduction to the Fallout games. As much as I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic gameplay, I was not a fan of the setting in both 3 and NV. Granted, I'm not from America, but the whole 50's America thing is completely lost on me. TO me, it adds nothing to the game worth noting. In saying that, I do need to clarify because I know people on the internet seem to think we need a "You are either in passionate love with something, or you hate it more than you hate Hitler.". I don't LIKE the 50's stuff. I don't DISLIKE it, either. It's simply there and I have no real feeling for it one way or another.