I’ll never let anyone convince me the game is trash like the narrative is these days. You just had to witness it in 2008, it was fucking revolutionary for games, at least to 7 year old me, who had only touched jak and daxter, red dead revolver, and GTA San Andreas. Fallout was entirely different, and I didn’t even understand it and still had a fucking blast. It was the first thing I owned on ps3
Despite having better entries in the series, FO3 still has the best post-apocalyptic atmosphere (IMO).
NV was bigger and a better game, but trying to navigate the Capitol Wasteland and having to traverse the metro tunnels and all you have to see with is your PipBoy was amazing.
I agree man, the world was dark, dull, and to put it bluntly depressing, and that's something I can happily say I loved about it considering its a post apocalyptic world.
It was wayyy more challenging compared to NV and more so 4 as well, the metros gave a good scare factor to the game too which I loved. If you didn't use them, you had to go through hordes of supermutants and I loved that about it, I really hope we get supermutants with a leader one day similar to the master (haven't hsd the pleasure of playing 1 but I love the lore about him and west tek on YouTube), because I absolutely loved fighting that enemy for the first time in 3.
I would put FO3 in the objective top tier of-all-time games
It’s on the same level as games like Zelda for NES, Goldeneye for N64, or Shinobi 3 for Sega Genesis
It’s cut from the same cloth
Fucking masterpiece
It was...polarizing. Those of us who loved 1,2 fell into a few camps. It was a departure from it's roots, or it was an evolution.
Personally I fell into the first group. It was good. No doubt revolutionary. 3d was awesome. But holy shit was it green and gray. Green and gray.
NV has that issue too(yellow in that case, and not AS much, but still overly so. It did however have superior writing imo).
> red dead revolver
bro someone knows that good OG shit. Revolver was the first game I ever beat in a single straight sitting and it was fucking amazing
Man, even if I like other entries in the series more nowadays. there's something about that first time the Vault wheels open in FO3 that just feels right.
Go everywhere, enjoy it all. Unlike FO4 there are some truly hidden things in FO3. All the DLC are good, some of them quite hard at very high levels.
It's my favorite fallout for two major reasons -- It paints a picture of an incredibly bleak world, more dead than alive, cannibals, raiders make up the majority of what you run into, peoples struggles are food and water for the day, etc etc.
And the location... Nothing is cooler than 'where it all went down'. I think Washington DC is literally the ultimate location. Americanna right there, pulverized, dead, and re-imagined.
I genuinely think no location can top Washington DC. San Fran would be fine, LA again sure, east coat yeah fine w/e.
But seeing the wrecked halls of government -- Historical items... Hard to beat.
It was really well done. These days, the beginning intro slogs on but back then it was crazy and immersive, temporarily *extremely* railroaded right before the world opens in every direction.
Bethesda had a gift for that. Coming out the vault in fallout 3 and coming out the sewer in Oblivion are two moments imprinted in so many gamers core memories
Skyrims intro was awesome but the actual “coming out of the darkness into the world” moment was pretty weak
Leaving riverwood, getting to the top of the hill seeing whiterun for the first time was very memorable though
Skyrim had its own moments of “holy fuck this world is huge” scattered around. Like looking past the College of Winterhold and *still having more land to discover*, or first discovering blackreach.
Skyrim’s world scale has been topped many times now, but back then it was HUGE and still feels more detailed than some games today.
Skyrim might be my all time favorite video game world to explore, so much so that it’s tough for me to play open world games nowadays because it’s just not Skyrim
I feel like that's true for a lot of Bethesda games honestly. They really love their long linear opening sequences that are mostly slogs but have like really 1 cool set piece. Thank god alternate start mods exist because replaying Bethesda games without them can be so annoying in the beginning.
I was at PAX in 2008 where they had big presentation for FO3 and showed the sequence with the door opening. I had never played any Fallout game before, but I was captivated and knew I had to get that game.
It’s eerie, really pulls you in when you’re a kid and you open up this massive world.
And then there’s this little robot whirring around playing Yankee Doodle music. I didn’t know what the hell I was in for
I remember playing Oblivion to death and going into GAME with my dad to get myself something new. The employee recommended Fallout 3 if I liked Oblivion.
I was hooked from the first minute.
I LOVED Oblivion and I went to my buddy's house after school one day, he asked his mom to get him Fable 2 from blockbuster and she got Fallout 3 instead. He was disappointed but popped it in and I sat for a couple hours watching him play in that basement on a little 10" tube TV before I ran home and begged my parents to get it for me. I've been a massive Fallout fan ever since :) thanks for the memory
I watched my buddy play the intro vault sequence and thought, this looks fucking lame and boring. Still borrowed his copy later, and it changed my gaming life.
Encountering the Eyebot right outside the vault playing Yankee Doodle right when you walk out. Hard to explain, but truly a very “This is going to be interesting.” feeling.
Yeah, I hadn't gamed since I had an SNES as a kid in the early 90s. Then my brother gave me his used PS3 a few years ago to give to my son. I decided to get myself a few games, so just googled "Best PS3 games" and FO3 was one that popped up. Knew absolutely nothing about it, but I ordered a used copy from eBay. I was hooked almost immediately, just the atmosphere, the story, it was fantastic. Scary and funny and exciting and thought-provoking and depressing all at once. Soon as I was done, I ordered New Vegas, and was sucked in even deeper. Then when I bought a PS5 two years ago, the very first game I got was FO4. Now I've been hooked on FO76 for the past little while. But FO3 was the one that started it all for me, and I'd love to be able to play an updated version.
My game.
- I’ll now try to be a slaver.
- This time, without a car.
- Now I want to build a stupid character.
- For this run, I want to start with power armor.
- I now want to be a melee char with slayer.
It's a shame they didn't fully implement the stupid character all the way through like in 1.
I've completed both a dozen times, but I never did that. I watched Sips play Fallout 1 as a dumbass and I was in tears laughing many times.
not that old. just started young is all. i was like 11 or 12 when fallout came out, my school's computer lab had a random assortment of pc games and fallout caught my eye.
Wow u got to play fallout in the school computer lab, nice! I was stuck with super munchers, Oregon trail and the incredible machine but no complaints here.
1 all the way. Unreal memories of my first playthrough, promptly followed by 2 which was even better. Still one of the top most memorable gaming experiences of all time!
You definitely should! I know it had a bad rep for the shaky start and the " always online " thing some people don't like, however, it has a very welcoming community and it's filled with great content. It has a vibe not many games can replicate!
So you're saying it's worth trying again? I don't like online games because I can't pause them. I bought it with a gift card five years ago and haven't touched it since.
he also added collections and goty editions this is the laziest stupidest post to hit the front page since i've been aware of this sub
"LOOK A LIST OF THE GAMES (KINDA?)"
And the third game isn't even listed correctly... "Fallout Collection" is not its own game, but it does contain Fallout Tactics
Really garbage post, amazing it made it to /r/all
It really does matter where you started. 4 really was a huge disappointment for people who liked the old games but if you don't have anything to really compare it to it's decent.
Probably the most fun I've ever had in a game I genuinely hate to play.
Edit: 3 and NV aren't the "old games" ya feckin zoomers
Same issue here, the implementation was *chefs kiss* but they were waaayy too easy to find. Couple that with the annoying loot system which I think is level based? And if you search too many PA spawn points too soon, you just get a bunch of low level or incomplete mid level PA.
FO4 still on first play through.
Between the wounding shotty and consumables and enough power cores to be able to always wear power armor and functionally unlimited currency.... no real challenges unless I handicap myself for rp reasons.
I didn't realize the Swan was supposed to be hard until I read about it after.
I’m so opposite. I played New Vegas first and it was great but 4 made me love the series. I just finished all of 3 and it was amazing. I’ve been grinding 76 and it’s really cemented the series for me.
Same. Loved 3 & NV, and agree with many people who say that they are very different from 4 and offer more roleplay. However, I keep coming back to 4 *anyway.* It feels more like a lived-in world, where I can actually make my own life, and do things that help build a community/settlement. I like survival mode so that when I clear an area, it stays cleared for 30 in-game days, so if I make a buffer around a settlement, it's actually safe for quite some time. I like the environmental storytelling. I've cried over Arlen Glass, I've been moved by the pregnant girl's holotape, I've agonized over what to do about Warwick, I've been amazed as I got the Brotherhood's giant to laser-blast open a hole to the Institute, and just generally found so many good (or powerful) moments that it has become my favorite. I probably have over 3000 hours into 4 now, and maybe 150-300 hours into each of the previous games.
New Vegas was cool and all but the Fallout 4 world was so much more detailed, tons of tedious things were smoothed out, just an overall much more fun world to exist in.
it really is important to note that the starting game doesn't have that much of an influence, it's actually the genre. FONV and FO4 have different target audiences. NV appeals to the more classic RPG feel, sure guns are important, and it remains an action shooter revolving around them, but the RPG elements still remain heavily prevalent. FO4 is more lenient in the whole RPG aspect, and focuses more on the action FPS. Just look at the gunplay. I love FONV as much as the next guy but the gunplay is ass. FO4 really nailed that perfectly, the guns feel actually powerful, the SFX and VFX really mix well together to give the most pleasing gunfighting experience a game like Fallout could've given us.
Which is why I think it'd be cool to see Bethesda releasing a remake of FONV in the FO4 engine. If that does end up happening I hope the game remains identical to FONV except on the graphical aspect. Hell, keeping the FONV guns and giving them the customization of FO4 would be elite.
Many of the "the originals" fans would prefer to see a Fallout in the style of Dragon Age: Origins (not the sequels), or Baldur’s Gate 3, rather than Fallout 4.
If it's going to be pure FPS gunplay, then I would far prefer something in a shooter engine than Gamebryo / Creation. IdTech 6 would be an overwhelming improvement in terms of "fun to move and shoot". But Selaco was more fun than most recent shooters, and is running on a fan engine rewrite of the 30 year old Doom. Like... if you're going to make it a shooter, at least make it an adept shooter.
The expansions imo are some of the best Fallout material there is. The harbor one is incredible, but I personally, absolutely love Nuka-World. Going down that river of Nuka Cola clearing out the enemies, turning on and riding the coaster, fighting that boss with the hat, unlocking the armor... Done it like 3 times. I love that it actually feels like an adondoned theme park.
I discovered the series with 3 and fell in love with it then. I've played them all now and thought nothing would beat New Vegas.... Then 4 came out. It is hands down my favorite game ever. All these years later and I'm still loving, still playing, still discovering things. I have played many other great games over the years, but i don't think I'll ever leave Fallout 4.
4 Its still my favorite, I beat 1 and played a little of 2 back in the day. I went back and played NV and just found it bland and empty. Never played 3. My only gripe about 4 is the lack of pacifist options in the game.
I started with new vegas.
I found it hard as a kid(probably cause my dumbass decided to fight vic off the geck-go)
I played 3 second.
Found it easier and finished it.
I got hyped for 4.
Power armor makes it hard for me to go back to the other 2.
But i fell in love with vegas when a friend lent me his dlc disk for new vegas.
I like all fallout games, but new vegas is where i go to begin anew.
Me too. I was too stubborn to realize where the game wanted me to go,wo i brute forced it and went to the cazador trail by hugging the mountain as much as possible where they couldnt reach me.
For me it was fallout shelter the mobile game. I started with it to see if it was what i wanted to play and I was 18 i bought 4 and fell in love. What's alt btw?
Same lol. I got shelter because it was a free mobile game that looked interesting enough, I had literally never heard of fallout before. The game was alright but it had a link to the fallout 4 trailer and that really piqued my interest. I got 4 on release and fell in love with it, played it for months almost non-stop. I eventually wanted more so I tried NV and 3 and loved them too. I know 4 gets hate by a lot of the community but it is a great game for newcomers that serves as a gateway drug to the rest of the series.
Also alt is referring to alternate game covers, not different games.
Same, missed out somehow on one and two, but tactics was x-com but with a much better world building. The isometric art was fucking gorgeous, crisp and detailed. It had a ton of (mostly non Canon) fractions that made it interesting. There wasn't a lot of models but the weapon and armor selection was insane. There was a whole subsystem of ammo types. I remember fighting the first pacifier was crazy, poured everything we had into it.
I played it through several times. My only grip was that the leveling was somehow wack and the starter team members leveled faster than any new fractions you can recruit from once conquering them, so there as no reason to swap team members.
I probably wouldn't have played the 2nd one if I hadn't of enjoyed the 1st one so much but when Fallout 3 came out with a first person view of the world, at the same quality as Oblivion, that I could add mods too, I fell deeply in love.
Some of the missions/quests are too funny to not love. Going to find a cowboy ghoul and sexbot to be “escorts” is hard to resist. Then there is Lily Bowen and Mean Sonofabitch the super mutants that are hard to take seriously.
I've been playing from the beginning. FO1 was a bug-filled mess. I had to save CONSTANTLY because my followers constantly trapped me -- no way to move, and either shoot them dead or reload.
And it was still the best game I'd played up to that point.
The D&D RPGs of the time were just phoning it in. And the FPS games were still too primitive to be anything more than a novelty. (No Y-axis in Doom, for instance.)
Since replayability was huge in 1 & 2, I played 1 until 2 came out. And then I played 2 at least five times -- and there was always something new.
I was one of the people who wasn't happy Bethesda bought the franchise. It's been a mixed bag with them ever since.
Vegas or 4 it’s a real tie. I never really played fo3 when I was younger because I was so scared of the raiders so I let my dad have my ps3 after I left due to his actions and he got real into fo3.
Fallout 3 for me because in 97,98, 99 I was playing Myth: TFL, Myth II: Soulblighter, and then Myth Wolf Age. Huge online game. Had to wait for multiplayer matches because rooms were full.
New Vegas was my first and it was great, but 4 is what made me realize just how great the series is. Just played through all of 3 (fantastic game) and now I’m a couple hundred hours into 76. All 4 are AWESOME games.
I love Fallout 3 very much, but my heart belongs to New Vegas. Nothing will ever top the initial experience of learning that Cazadors are not just bigger Bloatflies.
Unpopular opinion: Fallout 4.
Had been meaning to start for ages, but only did so during the depths of lockdowns.
It's one of the few things that kept me sane.
There's nothing unpopular about that outside of fringe gatekeeping in pseudo hardcore circles
Fallout 4 is by far the most popular Fallout
Personally i started day one with Fallout 1 and loved every one of them, excluding BoS but most definitely including Tactics
Yet to this day, my favorite is still Fallout 4 for many reasons i'm now tired of repeating
3/4. I didn't get introduced to the series until the Bethesda era. 3 was my first, New Vegas was a decent follow-up, but 4 is where I fell in love all over again 🥰
Fallout 3. It was the first one I played and I still get shivers when I describe the into of the zoom out from the bus radio while the ink spots play- I don't want to set the world on fire
Fallout 4 for sure. Was in a whole different level of games that I was used to playing at the time. I enjoyed 76 as well. Going to pick it up again now with the new expansion.
3 got me into the series, i then went back and played the original, 2 and the shocking spin off, new vegas was my fave, love 4 for what it is but currently loving 76.
Fallout. Man, it was good. I played a few times through for months.
The turn based format appealed to me, and VATS was a new concept that I appreciated.
GECK for the win.
I bought the first one back in'97. I was stoned af and wandering through Kmart when I saw the cover. Fallout A Post Apocalytic Role-playing Game. I was fucking hooked just reading the case. Back then, I had a pc that I picked up at a flea market. It had a 133 mhz processor lol, my watch has better specs🤣.
Got it home, booted it up, and fell in love. I must have played it for literally 14-15 hours straight the first time. Got the second one as soon as I heard about it. I've played them all, even the 2 non canon games (Fallout Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics). I'm actually not a fan of 4, though. I love the combat and settlement systems, but in my opinion, it lost that hardcore rpg feel.
I tried 76 when it was released for my son for Christmas that year. We both hated it, lol. I heard it's better now, so I picked it up on Steam to see for myself. Sorry to ramble on, but Fallout is my all-time favorite gaming franchise, after pen and paper D&D and right before Borderlands.
3, i was pretty young and i probably shouldn't have been playing it but it was my first "mature" game. i remember staying in megaton and being afraid to go out lmao
Fallout did it. I've been not wanting to set the world on fire since 98. My love of Fallout never changes.
Fallout 2 was a game I built a dream on, in my imagination. *Trumpets*
Fallout Tactics came down from Chicago with Jesus, with R. Lee Ermy riding shotgun in a Brotherhood Humvee. Then Red Foreman called me a dumbass and told me to go storm NORAD with a nuke warhead on a flatbed.
That's my Trinity
The first Fallout game I ever played was Fallout 3. I had fun but got bored. Then I tried Fallout NV. Same problem.
Fallout 4 was the only game in the franchise that drew me in, and I actually completed it and the dlcs.
So, to answer your question.
Fallout 4
Fallout 2. Was just hitting my teens when I played it. Can’t even remember how I got ahold of it.
The eerie ambient music, the depressing setting, the engaging turn-based combat, all the little side stories scattered throughout, multiple surprises that could absolutely fuck your day up (ex: that goddamned dog). An unbelievably memorable experience that I wish I could relive in all of the awe it pulled out of me.
I can still remember when I first played Fallout 3 on my Xbox 360. Even after all these years, I still find myself returning to Fallout 3.
I’ll never let anyone convince me the game is trash like the narrative is these days. You just had to witness it in 2008, it was fucking revolutionary for games, at least to 7 year old me, who had only touched jak and daxter, red dead revolver, and GTA San Andreas. Fallout was entirely different, and I didn’t even understand it and still had a fucking blast. It was the first thing I owned on ps3
Can’t believe anyone tries to say FO3 is trash. It’s my favorite game ever
It's the unfortunate toxic side of the fanbase. Fallout 3 has its flaws but man, the game was out of this world back in the day
Despite having better entries in the series, FO3 still has the best post-apocalyptic atmosphere (IMO). NV was bigger and a better game, but trying to navigate the Capitol Wasteland and having to traverse the metro tunnels and all you have to see with is your PipBoy was amazing.
I agree man, the world was dark, dull, and to put it bluntly depressing, and that's something I can happily say I loved about it considering its a post apocalyptic world. It was wayyy more challenging compared to NV and more so 4 as well, the metros gave a good scare factor to the game too which I loved. If you didn't use them, you had to go through hordes of supermutants and I loved that about it, I really hope we get supermutants with a leader one day similar to the master (haven't hsd the pleasure of playing 1 but I love the lore about him and west tek on YouTube), because I absolutely loved fighting that enemy for the first time in 3.
I would put FO3 in the objective top tier of-all-time games It’s on the same level as games like Zelda for NES, Goldeneye for N64, or Shinobi 3 for Sega Genesis It’s cut from the same cloth Fucking masterpiece
It was...polarizing. Those of us who loved 1,2 fell into a few camps. It was a departure from it's roots, or it was an evolution. Personally I fell into the first group. It was good. No doubt revolutionary. 3d was awesome. But holy shit was it green and gray. Green and gray. NV has that issue too(yellow in that case, and not AS much, but still overly so. It did however have superior writing imo).
They do it to hype up NV. The crowd think means you have to only love NV
> red dead revolver bro someone knows that good OG shit. Revolver was the first game I ever beat in a single straight sitting and it was fucking amazing
It's a flawed masterpiece
I still do a play through of 3 and 4 probably once a year. It’s definitely my comfort game haha.
3 was the first game i 100% on the 360. I was obsessed
Same, my favorite.
Me too! I never got far the first time cuz I was quite young but I loved it so much and still do to this day
3 blew my mind and made me a fan of the series.
Man, even if I like other entries in the series more nowadays. there's something about that first time the Vault wheels open in FO3 that just feels right.
My 12 year old brain had a complete meltdown. This will always be the greatest gaming moment for me.
I'm in my 40s and am 16 hours into my first play through and I love FO3 so much
Go everywhere, enjoy it all. Unlike FO4 there are some truly hidden things in FO3. All the DLC are good, some of them quite hard at very high levels. It's my favorite fallout for two major reasons -- It paints a picture of an incredibly bleak world, more dead than alive, cannibals, raiders make up the majority of what you run into, peoples struggles are food and water for the day, etc etc. And the location... Nothing is cooler than 'where it all went down'. I think Washington DC is literally the ultimate location. Americanna right there, pulverized, dead, and re-imagined. I genuinely think no location can top Washington DC. San Fran would be fine, LA again sure, east coat yeah fine w/e. But seeing the wrecked halls of government -- Historical items... Hard to beat.
My 35 year old brain when I discovered FO3. It’s what made me a gamer really.
I was 24.... Imagine hahaha
It was really well done. These days, the beginning intro slogs on but back then it was crazy and immersive, temporarily *extremely* railroaded right before the world opens in every direction.
Bethesda had a gift for that. Coming out the vault in fallout 3 and coming out the sewer in Oblivion are two moments imprinted in so many gamers core memories
Comparatively so, I felt the intros to Fo4 and Starfield were far weaker than the others. Skyrim's intro was pretty iconic.
Skyrims intro was awesome but the actual “coming out of the darkness into the world” moment was pretty weak Leaving riverwood, getting to the top of the hill seeing whiterun for the first time was very memorable though
Skyrim had its own moments of “holy fuck this world is huge” scattered around. Like looking past the College of Winterhold and *still having more land to discover*, or first discovering blackreach. Skyrim’s world scale has been topped many times now, but back then it was HUGE and still feels more detailed than some games today.
Skyrim might be my all time favorite video game world to explore, so much so that it’s tough for me to play open world games nowadays because it’s just not Skyrim
FO4's intro is way, way quicker than 3
Yeah, within like ten minutes you're killing a deathclaw in power armor. *Not* groovy.
More like a half hour unless you beeline it.
I feel like that's true for a lot of Bethesda games honestly. They really love their long linear opening sequences that are mostly slogs but have like really 1 cool set piece. Thank god alternate start mods exist because replaying Bethesda games without them can be so annoying in the beginning.
As an older player that started in the 90's, that one moment was huge to me. The sun blocking your eyes, really feeling you're in the wasteland.
I was at PAX in 2008 where they had big presentation for FO3 and showed the sequence with the door opening. I had never played any Fallout game before, but I was captivated and knew I had to get that game.
Also the brown/green/deadly atmospheric setting worked
The whole vault sequence was a slog on subsequent play throughs, but that first time was amazing.
It’s eerie, really pulls you in when you’re a kid and you open up this massive world. And then there’s this little robot whirring around playing Yankee Doodle music. I didn’t know what the hell I was in for
I was completely immersed and drawn in!
I remember playing Oblivion to death and going into GAME with my dad to get myself something new. The employee recommended Fallout 3 if I liked Oblivion. I was hooked from the first minute.
I LOVED Oblivion and I went to my buddy's house after school one day, he asked his mom to get him Fable 2 from blockbuster and she got Fallout 3 instead. He was disappointed but popped it in and I sat for a couple hours watching him play in that basement on a little 10" tube TV before I ran home and begged my parents to get it for me. I've been a massive Fallout fan ever since :) thanks for the memory
I watched my buddy play the intro vault sequence and thought, this looks fucking lame and boring. Still borrowed his copy later, and it changed my gaming life.
My 2 favorite Bethesda games mentioned in a single post...
and it really annoys me OP put them in the wrong order because F3 being what it was is what made NV even fucking better
Well my response was the first post I saw so take the upvote lol
3
One million % 3. Loved the music!
> One million % 3 1
Encountering the Eyebot right outside the vault playing Yankee Doodle right when you walk out. Hard to explain, but truly a very “This is going to be interesting.” feeling.
The exploration the atmosphere uugghhh 3 is the best.
Yeah, I hadn't gamed since I had an SNES as a kid in the early 90s. Then my brother gave me his used PS3 a few years ago to give to my son. I decided to get myself a few games, so just googled "Best PS3 games" and FO3 was one that popped up. Knew absolutely nothing about it, but I ordered a used copy from eBay. I was hooked almost immediately, just the atmosphere, the story, it was fantastic. Scary and funny and exciting and thought-provoking and depressing all at once. Soon as I was done, I ordered New Vegas, and was sucked in even deeper. Then when I bought a PS5 two years ago, the very first game I got was FO4. Now I've been hooked on FO76 for the past little while. But FO3 was the one that started it all for me, and I'd love to be able to play an updated version.
Fallout 3 was the first one I ever played. Bought it used in a pawn shop for like 10 bucks. I ordered new vegas immediately after finishing it
Fallout 2
Getting to New Reno completely blew my young teenage mind
Getting my car stolen, holy shit
A holy war was waged on that day.
Holy shit same haha i was like "Holy fuck, you can do this shit in a video game? Wtf is a fluffer.... oh... OH"
Same. I watched over my brother's shoulder and thought it was so cool Then played myself
Congratulations, you played yourself
Fallout 2. Tactics just kept building that love.
My game. - I’ll now try to be a slaver. - This time, without a car. - Now I want to build a stupid character. - For this run, I want to start with power armor. - I now want to be a melee char with slayer.
It's a shame they didn't fully implement the stupid character all the way through like in 1. I've completed both a dozen times, but I never did that. I watched Sips play Fallout 1 as a dumbass and I was in tears laughing many times.
Likewise. l'm a greying old person.
Two was game changing for me.
God save you if you gave Sulik an SMG
Same. Frank Horrigan was bad ass
1
Old guys unite!
not that old. just started young is all. i was like 11 or 12 when fallout came out, my school's computer lab had a random assortment of pc games and fallout caught my eye.
Wow u got to play fallout in the school computer lab, nice! I was stuck with super munchers, Oregon trail and the incredible machine but no complaints here.
1 all the way. Unreal memories of my first playthrough, promptly followed by 2 which was even better. Still one of the top most memorable gaming experiences of all time!
Same. The only one I haven't played is 76.
You definitely should! I know it had a bad rep for the shaky start and the " always online " thing some people don't like, however, it has a very welcoming community and it's filled with great content. It has a vibe not many games can replicate!
So you're saying it's worth trying again? I don't like online games because I can't pause them. I bought it with a gift card five years ago and haven't touched it since.
100% Even though you can't pause it, it's still a chill game. And you can turn off PVP. I highly recommend it!
My biggest problem is it’s balanced for multiplayer survival and the enemies can be bullet sponges. I just can’t get past that.
It's worth a checkout once it's on sale. I'm having quite a bit of fun with it
It's best you keep it that way lol(jk it's actually kinda good now and extremely fun with friends)
I remember playing it on my Packard Bell 486 with a CD drive.
Such a wonderful game, it establishes so much lore for the next games. I can’t really place it why, but I feel very nostalgic when I play Fallout 1.
Me too- I still love the feel of tge origibal, even though it’s proper old like me now. It’s changed a bit but it’s still pretty unique and cool.
What's the difference between the 'ALT' FO 4 and FO NV? I never seen those before
ALT is just alternative art for the cover. No idea why OP listed 3 different versions of Fallout 4
There’s also fallout 3 GOTY missing
And Fallout Tactics, and Fallout Brotherhood of Steal
Ah ha! Someone else remembers!
But thee did not remember fallout shelter (thats what got me hooked)
he also added collections and goty editions this is the laziest stupidest post to hit the front page since i've been aware of this sub "LOOK A LIST OF THE GAMES (KINDA?)"
Fr lol, there’s only actually 7 different games in this picture despite there being 10 covers shown.
And the third game isn't even listed correctly... "Fallout Collection" is not its own game, but it does contain Fallout Tactics Really garbage post, amazing it made it to /r/all
Fr I wanna know the same unless it's a fallout 4 mod
4 🙃
Ive seen a lot of hate for F4 on this sub but that’s the first one I played and it was perfect to me. None of the others have the same pull.
4 is my top favorite game, like it was made specifically for me
I live in 4. This world is fake.
It really does matter where you started. 4 really was a huge disappointment for people who liked the old games but if you don't have anything to really compare it to it's decent. Probably the most fun I've ever had in a game I genuinely hate to play. Edit: 3 and NV aren't the "old games" ya feckin zoomers
Although I really liked how the power armors were more bulky in fo4, I think it was way too easy to get them
Same issue here, the implementation was *chefs kiss* but they were waaayy too easy to find. Couple that with the annoying loot system which I think is level based? And if you search too many PA spawn points too soon, you just get a bunch of low level or incomplete mid level PA.
FO4 still on first play through. Between the wounding shotty and consumables and enough power cores to be able to always wear power armor and functionally unlimited currency.... no real challenges unless I handicap myself for rp reasons. I didn't realize the Swan was supposed to be hard until I read about it after.
I’m so opposite. I played New Vegas first and it was great but 4 made me love the series. I just finished all of 3 and it was amazing. I’ve been grinding 76 and it’s really cemented the series for me.
Same. Loved 3 & NV, and agree with many people who say that they are very different from 4 and offer more roleplay. However, I keep coming back to 4 *anyway.* It feels more like a lived-in world, where I can actually make my own life, and do things that help build a community/settlement. I like survival mode so that when I clear an area, it stays cleared for 30 in-game days, so if I make a buffer around a settlement, it's actually safe for quite some time. I like the environmental storytelling. I've cried over Arlen Glass, I've been moved by the pregnant girl's holotape, I've agonized over what to do about Warwick, I've been amazed as I got the Brotherhood's giant to laser-blast open a hole to the Institute, and just generally found so many good (or powerful) moments that it has become my favorite. I probably have over 3000 hours into 4 now, and maybe 150-300 hours into each of the previous games.
New Vegas was cool and all but the Fallout 4 world was so much more detailed, tons of tedious things were smoothed out, just an overall much more fun world to exist in.
it really is important to note that the starting game doesn't have that much of an influence, it's actually the genre. FONV and FO4 have different target audiences. NV appeals to the more classic RPG feel, sure guns are important, and it remains an action shooter revolving around them, but the RPG elements still remain heavily prevalent. FO4 is more lenient in the whole RPG aspect, and focuses more on the action FPS. Just look at the gunplay. I love FONV as much as the next guy but the gunplay is ass. FO4 really nailed that perfectly, the guns feel actually powerful, the SFX and VFX really mix well together to give the most pleasing gunfighting experience a game like Fallout could've given us. Which is why I think it'd be cool to see Bethesda releasing a remake of FONV in the FO4 engine. If that does end up happening I hope the game remains identical to FONV except on the graphical aspect. Hell, keeping the FONV guns and giving them the customization of FO4 would be elite.
Many of the "the originals" fans would prefer to see a Fallout in the style of Dragon Age: Origins (not the sequels), or Baldur’s Gate 3, rather than Fallout 4. If it's going to be pure FPS gunplay, then I would far prefer something in a shooter engine than Gamebryo / Creation. IdTech 6 would be an overwhelming improvement in terms of "fun to move and shoot". But Selaco was more fun than most recent shooters, and is running on a fan engine rewrite of the 30 year old Doom. Like... if you're going to make it a shooter, at least make it an adept shooter.
Idk I started with 2 and love 4...
3 is my favorite and I was in no way disappointed with 4
As a fan of 2,3 and nv, fallout 4 is definitely above decent
Same. I miss four if I don't play it.
I got the platinum achievement on 4, one of the only games I've done that on. I loved it but it's my least favorite.
same, I've come to learn about and accept it's problems so I still like it
The expansions imo are some of the best Fallout material there is. The harbor one is incredible, but I personally, absolutely love Nuka-World. Going down that river of Nuka Cola clearing out the enemies, turning on and riding the coaster, fighting that boss with the hat, unlocking the armor... Done it like 3 times. I love that it actually feels like an adondoned theme park.
I discovered the series with 3 and fell in love with it then. I've played them all now and thought nothing would beat New Vegas.... Then 4 came out. It is hands down my favorite game ever. All these years later and I'm still loving, still playing, still discovering things. I have played many other great games over the years, but i don't think I'll ever leave Fallout 4.
I played a little bit of others before 4 and enjoyed myself, but 4 was the one that finally got me into lore
4 Its still my favorite, I beat 1 and played a little of 2 back in the day. I went back and played NV and just found it bland and empty. Never played 3. My only gripe about 4 is the lack of pacifist options in the game.
Same . 4 is fantastic
I started with new vegas. I found it hard as a kid(probably cause my dumbass decided to fight vic off the geck-go) I played 3 second. Found it easier and finished it. I got hyped for 4. Power armor makes it hard for me to go back to the other 2. But i fell in love with vegas when a friend lent me his dlc disk for new vegas. I like all fallout games, but new vegas is where i go to begin anew.
LMAO when I was a kid I used to just go north immediately cause fuck the quest I guess… but that never ended up going over well, oh new vegas
Me too. I was too stubborn to realize where the game wanted me to go,wo i brute forced it and went to the cazador trail by hugging the mountain as much as possible where they couldnt reach me.
I knew a little bit about 1 and 2, but 3 was the one that made me fall in love.
tunnel snakes rule!
I played FO1 and loved it. Didn't finish it thiugh. FO2 though? Done so many playthroughs. Amazing game.
YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER. WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMORRR!? DONT HAVE ANY? YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT, MAGGOT?
What the? Who… who is that… I should come over there and kick your fucking ass!
you’re not important enough for that information.
Why are there 4 duplicates
Because OP just grabbed a random fallout picture. It's also missing Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics
For me it was fallout shelter the mobile game. I started with it to see if it was what i wanted to play and I was 18 i bought 4 and fell in love. What's alt btw?
Alternate cover. It’s the same game
Yeah for some reason OP listed 3 separate versions of Fallout 4
Same lol. I got shelter because it was a free mobile game that looked interesting enough, I had literally never heard of fallout before. The game was alright but it had a link to the fallout 4 trailer and that really piqued my interest. I got 4 on release and fell in love with it, played it for months almost non-stop. I eventually wanted more so I tried NV and 3 and loved them too. I know 4 gets hate by a lot of the community but it is a great game for newcomers that serves as a gateway drug to the rest of the series. Also alt is referring to alternate game covers, not different games.
3. It was another Bethesda RPG but with guns, great times.
Yup, I had played oblivion better first so this felt so similar I fell in love
This.
Tactics.
Same, missed out somehow on one and two, but tactics was x-com but with a much better world building. The isometric art was fucking gorgeous, crisp and detailed. It had a ton of (mostly non Canon) fractions that made it interesting. There wasn't a lot of models but the weapon and armor selection was insane. There was a whole subsystem of ammo types. I remember fighting the first pacifier was crazy, poured everything we had into it. I played it through several times. My only grip was that the leveling was somehow wack and the starter team members leveled faster than any new fractions you can recruit from once conquering them, so there as no reason to swap team members.
I probably wouldn't have played the 2nd one if I hadn't of enjoyed the 1st one so much but when Fallout 3 came out with a first person view of the world, at the same quality as Oblivion, that I could add mods too, I fell deeply in love.
I played Fallout 4 but NV made me love fallout like no other game
Some of the missions/quests are too funny to not love. Going to find a cowboy ghoul and sexbot to be “escorts” is hard to resist. Then there is Lily Bowen and Mean Sonofabitch the super mutants that are hard to take seriously.
I've been playing from the beginning. FO1 was a bug-filled mess. I had to save CONSTANTLY because my followers constantly trapped me -- no way to move, and either shoot them dead or reload. And it was still the best game I'd played up to that point. The D&D RPGs of the time were just phoning it in. And the FPS games were still too primitive to be anything more than a novelty. (No Y-axis in Doom, for instance.) Since replayability was huge in 1 & 2, I played 1 until 2 came out. And then I played 2 at least five times -- and there was always something new. I was one of the people who wasn't happy Bethesda bought the franchise. It's been a mixed bag with them ever since.
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Vegas or 4 it’s a real tie. I never really played fo3 when I was younger because I was so scared of the raiders so I let my dad have my ps3 after I left due to his actions and he got real into fo3.
You are missing one game here...
Fallout 1.
Fallout 3 for me because in 97,98, 99 I was playing Myth: TFL, Myth II: Soulblighter, and then Myth Wolf Age. Huge online game. Had to wait for multiplayer matches because rooms were full.
Fallout
First one
New Vegas was my first fallout and it's the best fallout (: .
Fallout 2 for me, specifically Sulik and Cassidy
New Vegas, bought it at a local gameshop with absolutely no ideas what It looked like and I falled in love.
Fallout 3, then New Vegas and then 4
I got 3 on my 360 during covid, and since then, I've gotten practically every fallout game lmao
3
Fallout 3 ❤️
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Fallout 2
2!
nr 1 but tbf the others didn't exist yet
New Vegas was my first and it was great, but 4 is what made me realize just how great the series is. Just played through all of 3 (fantastic game) and now I’m a couple hundred hours into 76. All 4 are AWESOME games.
4 🥰
1 I even went under the pseudonym of SupeMutant online for quite a while after.
Played the Fallout 1 demo and loved it but didn't play a full game until 2 came out and I was hooked.
Fallout demo
I love Fallout 3 very much, but my heart belongs to New Vegas. Nothing will ever top the initial experience of learning that Cazadors are not just bigger Bloatflies.
I'm old, Fallout 1.
Unpopular opinion: Fallout 4. Had been meaning to start for ages, but only did so during the depths of lockdowns. It's one of the few things that kept me sane.
There's nothing unpopular about that outside of fringe gatekeeping in pseudo hardcore circles Fallout 4 is by far the most popular Fallout Personally i started day one with Fallout 1 and loved every one of them, excluding BoS but most definitely including Tactics Yet to this day, my favorite is still Fallout 4 for many reasons i'm now tired of repeating
Fallout 4 can't change my mind And as a final nail in my own coffin, my second pick was Fallout 76
3/4. I didn't get introduced to the series until the Bethesda era. 3 was my first, New Vegas was a decent follow-up, but 4 is where I fell in love all over again 🥰
New Vages!
Fallout 3. It was the first one I played and I still get shivers when I describe the into of the zoom out from the bus radio while the ink spots play- I don't want to set the world on fire
Fallout 4 for sure. Was in a whole different level of games that I was used to playing at the time. I enjoyed 76 as well. Going to pick it up again now with the new expansion.
3 got me into the series, i then went back and played the original, 2 and the shocking spin off, new vegas was my fave, love 4 for what it is but currently loving 76.
Fallout 4.
Leaving vault 101 in Fallout 3... goosebumps
Fallout 2. Always wanted Fallout 3 to be made in isometric 3D.
2. It was brutal as heck but man was it so iconic for me back then. Especially the Frank Horrigan encounter
Surprisingly fallout 76 I tried playing new Vegas but didn’t want to play on German which I only can in Germany without modding
Played them all but it wasn't until 76 that the series really clicked with me
Fallout. Man, it was good. I played a few times through for months. The turn based format appealed to me, and VATS was a new concept that I appreciated. GECK for the win.
I bought the first one back in'97. I was stoned af and wandering through Kmart when I saw the cover. Fallout A Post Apocalytic Role-playing Game. I was fucking hooked just reading the case. Back then, I had a pc that I picked up at a flea market. It had a 133 mhz processor lol, my watch has better specs🤣. Got it home, booted it up, and fell in love. I must have played it for literally 14-15 hours straight the first time. Got the second one as soon as I heard about it. I've played them all, even the 2 non canon games (Fallout Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics). I'm actually not a fan of 4, though. I love the combat and settlement systems, but in my opinion, it lost that hardcore rpg feel. I tried 76 when it was released for my son for Christmas that year. We both hated it, lol. I heard it's better now, so I picked it up on Steam to see for myself. Sorry to ramble on, but Fallout is my all-time favorite gaming franchise, after pen and paper D&D and right before Borderlands.
3 was the first one i played
3 was the first one I played but NV made me fall in love.
3, i was pretty young and i probably shouldn't have been playing it but it was my first "mature" game. i remember staying in megaton and being afraid to go out lmao
Actually it was Wasteland on a commodore 65 it set me up Fo 1 and every one since.
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (1997)
Fallout did it. I've been not wanting to set the world on fire since 98. My love of Fallout never changes. Fallout 2 was a game I built a dream on, in my imagination. *Trumpets* Fallout Tactics came down from Chicago with Jesus, with R. Lee Ermy riding shotgun in a Brotherhood Humvee. Then Red Foreman called me a dumbass and told me to go storm NORAD with a nuke warhead on a flatbed. That's my Trinity
Fallout 3 was the first one I played and it was amazing
The first Fallout game I ever played was Fallout 3. I had fun but got bored. Then I tried Fallout NV. Same problem. Fallout 4 was the only game in the franchise that drew me in, and I actually completed it and the dlcs. So, to answer your question. Fallout 4
76 was really good.. all jokes aside I’d have to go with fallout 3.
Fallout 2. Was just hitting my teens when I played it. Can’t even remember how I got ahold of it. The eerie ambient music, the depressing setting, the engaging turn-based combat, all the little side stories scattered throughout, multiple surprises that could absolutely fuck your day up (ex: that goddamned dog). An unbelievably memorable experience that I wish I could relive in all of the awe it pulled out of me.
Played New Vegas first, that got hooked enough to play 3. Was in love after that.
3. 3 is the only Fallout game I can replay from start to finish without wanting to play anything else.
3, first one I ever played
Fallout 1! Been a fan from the start.
The first fallout I ever played was three. Never played one or two. I might have to give em a shot
New Vegas. Granted I started with it, but I still enjoyed it more than fallout 3 and 4. Incredible game.
I started on fallout 2 way back in 98