Which Fallout Game is Your Favorite?

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Fallout: New Vegas
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Roxas1359

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Fallout New Vegas gets plenty of my love and praise as I've played that game more than 44 times with different characters.
A close runner-up though has to be Fallout 2 as I loved the introduction of the Enclave in it.
 

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My favourite is definitely New Vegas. I have spent a ridiculous amount of time playing it, and I love it partly because of how much better constructed the world and the story is, and also because of just how much stuff there is in the game. I've played it for over 150 hours with all DLC, and there are still some quests I haven't actually done. The sheer variety of weaponry and ammunition for it trumps Fallout 3 by a huge amount.

Eddie the head said:
New Vegas, for one simple reason. "What do they eat?" The world is just a lot better realized. Just think about the first town you come across in Fallout:NV vs Fallout 3. One is build next to a nuke, the other is build next to a water spring. I hope I don't need to explain why I think the second one makes more sense.

Also I didn't play the others.
Did you happen to watch this video at some point?

 

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Its kind of Hard for me to get into the old school Fallout games. I just dont like isometric perspectives (outside of RTS games) and turned based combat :/

Fallout 3 was pretty great, It was Large and Immerse, It had an amazing setting and atmosphere and has the best writing of any Bethesda game to date. However, the main plot as well as the characters are a huge let down to me.

Fallout New Vegas is almost the opposite to me, While the world is large and pretty good, it doesnt hold a candle to 3. However the Combat, Story and characters are Head and Shoulders above Fallout 3.

Really, I cant decide which is my favorite between 3 and NV. They're strengths are presented exceedingly well, while doing what the other does better in at least a "Good" way.
 

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Elfgore said:
The first Fallout game I played was Fallout 3 and it is also my favorite. I can only compare between NV and 3 since I have no will to play the first 2 (I hate TPS).

So the reasons I prefer 3 would be: Quest are actually unique and do not feel like I'm repeating the same quest, The DLC (minus the swamp one) are awesome (NV's is good too, I just prefer 3's), the quest actually possess consequences like Megaton being destroyed, and lastly the story was ten times better than NV's, god I hated NV's story it was awful.

I better prepare a flameshield.
Why do you prefer 3's story? I really can't comprehend why, so please explain, because I thought its story was boring and completely uninteresting.

I prefer Fallout: New Vegas out of all the fallouts. I suffered through some of 3 and I can't get into the first one, even though I actually want to like fallout 1. I love Fallout: New Vegas's story and the gameplay was pretty decent and the Wasteland is interesting.
 

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When New Vegas came out, I just didn't like it because I had played Fallout 3 to death by that point, I barely got passed the optional tutorial. I have to let Fallout 3 win by default, but I just wish New Vegas had more of an engine change to differentiate it more.
 

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2 then New Vegas followed by 1. Fallout 3 gets a silver meh award for not really feeling like a fallout game at all.

The bit at the beginning where you play as your character growing up I rather liked though.
 

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Wow, I really feel like the odd duck.

Fallout 1 is my favorite Fallout game. It's the one that set the bar for all games that came after it in terms of style rather than gameplay and even the gameplay was well-paced.

I never got very far into Fallout 2 so I can't effectively judge it.

Fallout 3 probably comes last but only because it didn't feel very "Fallout". It felt more like Mad Max, which is awesome but not Fallout.

Fallout New Vegas comes right after 1 in my list of favorites. It takes the best of the original 2 and Bethesda's work and makes something great. Not perfect by any means, but great.
 

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So every since Fallout 3 came out, I had refused to play it because it never really felt like a true sequel to Fallout 2. Fallout, to me, had always been a somewhat strategic, isometric, turn-based rpg. Making it a fps, even if it was an fps with rpg elements, just felt like too big a change. Lately I have been defending Final Fantasy 13 a lot because I feel it gets too much hate and that the main problem a lot of people have with it, is that it's so different from other Final Fantasy games that it is not really even recognizable a part of the series, to which I have always said, "Simply being different, does not make it a bad game." then last night I realized something...I am a massive hypocrite, because that's exactly why I refused to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

First of all, do both games still hold up today. I don't just mean graphics, I know there are mods for that, I mean the way the game feels. Also, which game has more in common with the story of Fallout 1 and 2. I have heard that New Vegas has the better story and more in common with the first 2 games, but logic would suggest that Fallout 3 should have the most relation to the original games.
New Vegas was basically made by the original team for 2 (same creative heads anyway) and has everything in common with the originals, where as 3 was basically just Bethesda fucking up continuity. Both are absurdly fun games, but plot wise New Vegas wins hands down, especially if you're looking for something closer to the older games.

And to clarify this is coming from someone who's favorite is specifically Fallout 2.
 

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Cette said:
2 then New Vegas followed by 1. Fallout 3 gets a silver meh award for not really feeling like a fallout game at all.

The bit at the beginning where you play as your character growing up I rather liked though.
Yeah that part was great, and with the right mods the game is still pretty damn fun and entertaining, but it's plot makes me want to die. Bethesda are the kings of the "I don't want to pick any of these options" dialogue tree.
 

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I've only played 2 and 3. Fallout 2 was probably the first truly great game I ever played. It was the first "THIS is what all developers should do" moment I can remember.

I think 3 was a worthy successor -- the FPS style only worried me until I started playing -- but I've got to pick 2 for my favorite.

Still got Fallout 1, Tactics, and New Vegas in my Steam library....picked 'em up during a holiday sale, never touched 'em. Gotta fire those up sometime.
 

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Ftaghn To You Too said:
Fallout New Vegas. It's like Fallout 3 but made by a competent developer and with a world that makes sense.
Well, as much sense as the Fallout premise ever made from the start, anyway.
 

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Fallout New Vegas is my favorite. It's got good gameplay, really deep plot, great writing, and a well-done leveling system, plus Hardcore mode and the DLC's are amazing.

Fallout 1 & 2 were both all right- the writing was pretty good, but the gameplay was not very good. Skills and perks were incredibly unbalanced, and combat became an uninteresting slog. Personally, I preferred the first game's tone- the second was a little too silly and tried a little too hard to be "mature."

Fallout 3 started good, but lost me around Rivet City. Plot went from "mildly interesting" to "why do I care?", Liam Neeson dies, Little Lamplight happens, Enclave does things for no reason, and so on. Gameplay was pretty good, but New Vegas improved it in basically every regard except level design.
 

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Muspelheim said:
Ftaghn To You Too said:
Fallout New Vegas. It's like Fallout 3 but made by a competent developer and with a world that makes sense.
Well, as much sense as the Fallout premise ever made from the start, anyway.
Oh, of course. It isn't high speculative fiction or anything. But it stretched belief far less than Fallout 3.

Also, though my comment may seem a bit dismissive of Fallout 3 I love me some Fallout 3. That makes Fallout New Vegas one of my favorite games of all time, despite its many flaws.
 

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Eddie the head said:
Just think about the first town you come across in Fallout:NV vs Fallout 3. One is build next to a nuke, the other is build next to a water spring.
Ah, good old Bethesda. Taking "Cool" over "Sensical" ever time.

I've only played the recent two games and New Vegas's Story and world building more then make up for the bugs and inferior design, IMO. As a comment I saw on another website put it, I do appreciate Bethesda for getting the ball rolling (I never played the original games, but I sure am glad the series was revived), but when it comes down to it their approach just doesn't work for me when compared to Obsidian. And since Obsidian was basically the original design team, it's no wonder they seem to get it where it really counts.
 

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Fallout, the first one.

Followed by fallout 2 so close it's a tough decision, and fallout new vegas because it has the fallout feel even though it's a different creature to handle.

Fallout 3 was alright, but I found it rather... I dunno, not gripping, I couldn't get into it as much, partly because the weapons feel shit, and break easily, the environment and characters felt kinda dead, like, too dead. And due to the whole shoehorning in of certain things, like Harold, WHY is harold on that coast? I mean, chances are, if the brotherhood of steel had a hard time getting there, harold woulda been killed off far before he got there, dude's a slow, old, ghoul.

Also he was running a town in fallout 2, so, a little explanation as to why he would want to uproot, and walk across a friggin continent, woulda been nice.
 

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It's between fallout 2 and new vegas I think. I vastly prefer the gameplay of the new ones (and I played the originals when they came out) but I love the storyline and humour of 2.

The whole series is pretty awesome though, I even enjoyed tactics. Something about the setting is just really cool. I love the psuedo fifties theme it's great.
 

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Probably FO3.
I very much enjoy NV as well, but FO3 let's me play a little more how I want.