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Fallout 3 is for players who want an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic US. It's not great in regards to storytelling, and neither is its sequel, Fallout 4, but you can spend many hours exploring if that's what you like.
Fallout New Vegas has the benefits of both Fallout and Fallout 3, and could have easily been my favorite Fallout title if it didn't use the Gamebryo engine. You'll realize why if you choose to get it.
fallot 1 and 2 are, as said above, fairly complex and there are many times when moral values and idealisms will have to be questioned, and unlike 3 and 4 where information to win the game is handed directly to you, you have to go looking for stuff yourself and find out stuff with little to no provoking
id saying start with 1 so you can truly grasp at the francise in the way it was meant to be played but dont expect a cake walk like 3. 4 or new vegas, but thats your decision to make
Also, what is Fallout tactics? Has F1 or F2 have any DLC or any ''GOTY edition''or something like that?
Pls believe me that all of them are worth playing.
I've never tried Fallout Tactics, so I can't speak to it.
Fallout 3 was great in the wat Mario 3D was great for successfully bringing the Mario franchise into 3D. It's worth the play through if you like other sandbox/open world games. The DLC was really hit and miss, however.
Fallout New Vegas is still my favorite of the bunch though. It's a bit more guided than Fallout 3 (sandbox with more well-defined breadcrumb trails), and Vegas just works for the setting in a way Washington DC and Boston didn't, for me. Obsidian, as a company, is simply better at storytelling than Bathesda, and this is very apparently the high level of quality in the DLC. This one is worth going back to even if you've started the series on Fallout 4.
Fallout 4 is technologically the best of the Fallout games, but the story seemed less 'Fallout' to me and more 'Post Apocalyptic SciFi'. I wasn't very impressed with the Vaults, which had become one of my favorite features since Fallout 3. It improved on the quality of story over Fallout 3, I think... and iterated on the sandbox/open world element. An obvious 'need to play' if you haven't and are interested in the series, but I wouldn't start with it neccessarily as the mechanics will likely make going back down to 1, 2, 3 or New Vegas more difficult.
Final note: Last I tried you had to patch Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 to run on any modern version of Windows. Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas have display issues on wide screen or triple screen monitors that need tweaking. Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas have intermittant crashing issues that were never resolved that train your to hit F5 frequently while playing (to auto-save), but a memory patch helps somewhat with this. Fallout 4 has been fairly stable, with a few DLC-introduced exceptions.
You heard wrong. Start with 3, then when you feel like seeing what post apocalyptic America would look like with Romans, Elvis impersonators and prohibition era gangsters stuffed into a game with no rhyme or reason, try Vegas.
Very weird! I've read people saying Fallout 3 is the best Fallout. They must be the sort of people who don't like Hegelian dialectics or empty deserts masquerading as post apocalyptic wastelands.
New Vegas is a a spin off for many people too. Especially those of us desirous of the post apocalyptic ambience Fallout 3 expressed so well.
Although it seems others like a good dose of Casino games and pretty flashing lights. Whatever blots out the post nuclear war devastation, I suppose.
i love new vegas because it follows that similar style of the first two games, giving the player moral choices and ambiguities that question what you truly believe in, plus it builds upon the roleplay elements that 3 failed in, since, from what i experienced during a short 3-4 hour playthrough on the xbox version a few years back, that game gave the player very little choice and more often than not put you as the good guy looking for his father, not giving much room on if you want to be good or evil because youre always going to end up at the end with the same objective with the same characters following you, saving the capital, ending up as the good guy once again which just felt comical and way too common for me to enjoy
i find nv rectified that, allowing you to pick what side you wish to fight for, and even shape the ends by killing certain characters and even follow your own path if you pick the right choices, laying waste to the two factions that you came across during your path as the Courier, but your path and karma dictate what you're like after the ending, a brutal individual that laid waste to those who crossed them or a merciful being who gave mercy and a second chance to those who wronged them
if i wanted to, id probably go onto 4 about why it was even worse than 3 at giving the player proper choices, but we're talking about 3 verus NV so that OP can decide what to play first