IGN survey: Fallout 76 is on the 6th place of the best Fallout games

[Wade]

https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/whats-the-best-fallout-game-ever/results

Fallout 76 is behind Fallout 1. As expected, Fallout New Vegas is the best Fallout game ever by community votes. Too bad we won't see a remaster.

[EJR]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Originally posted by EJR:

Not surprised, not many people in the fanbase have played the original Fallout games (Tactics included) because they are CRPG titles and not First-Person RPGs. It's a shame cause they have a unique charm and sense of immersion that their First-Person cousins just don't have and vice versa.

They where also developed by different companys. (So did New Vegas btw)

Yeah but NV was made in the exact same engine as 3, it looks and feels the exact same from gameplay, visuals, to the amount of technical issues. Only real difference is that you actually look down sights instead of just leaning your head forward a little bit.

[hawkeye]

Survey science is taught in Human-Computer Interaction courses. The IGN survey wouldn't be accepted by a survey professional as anything more than just how IGN viewers feel about some games. It definitely doesn't prove anything about the games themselves.

The most important point to understand is that surveys aren't about the object being surveyed. The purpose is to gain insight into what the survey respondents feel. The subject of the survey is the people being surveyed.

Also surveys that ask the respondent to rank things are problematical. The nature of the survey constrains the response.

Plus the games themselves come from different eras. It's like asking whether Napoleon or Patton was the best general. A complex question with the answer constrained by the shallow format of the survey.

etc

[Wack-A-Mole MLRS]

Nothing was better than Pong-Except Double Pong.

[Mooman]

Classic example of click bait. Fallout is trending ATM due to show. An article about said topic can contain many links to other articles. Clicks = advertising revenue.

Listicles and surveys are the lowest form of 'journalism' these days and should be avoided, they won't... but they should.

When we reward mediocrity with clicks all that does is encourage future mediocrity.

[lockwoodx]

Originally posted by Mooman:

Classic example of click bait. Fallout is trending ATM due to show.

it broke 50k players today on steam that's some damn good results for just "trending"

[Aribad]

The only area where FO 1 is better than FO 76 is nostalgy. While there's some disgusting problems with FO 76, i'm not delusional. It's not a bad game. When they nerf the bloodied build and lower the hitpoints of boss mobs the game will be much better. Of course they also need to be adding content or people leave the game but that's normal.

[jvjd]

That expected because fallout has always been a single player game , to suddenly jump to multiplayer means you are alienating a part of the player base and you are trying to attract another player base that would have bigger demands than what we have.

So no surprise that its 6 th.

[IceMan PJN]

People keep pretending New Vegas is best, just like they keep pretending Elden Ring is awesome. Pretending doesn't make it true, though. They're just lies everyone secretly got together and agreed on.

[Halcyform]

Originally posted by RMPyro:

Personally I think Fallout 3 was best, didn't like Fallout NV as much because they put less effort into it. Don't think they should be rewarded by making a lesser game. Its like 65% of what fallout 3 is.

I would say that NV probably did a better job with story content, but FO3 did the best job on the overall atmosphere. In FO3, you can practically taste the hopelessness.

[wkett]

Who cares what IGN thinks, we have actual sales and play numbers on steam.
Fallout 76 best in franchise sales, Fallout 4 best in franchise player count.
Actual stats beat surveys.

[Heathy]

good old 'too much water' IGN