Best Fallout series entry game?

[Lydia]

I found this game on the special page and it looks really good, is it ok if i jump into this game, do i have to know anything from past games?

[psychotron666]

Yeah all of the fallouts are stand alone games, though this one takes place in the same general area as fallout 1 and 2 and takes place 30 years after fallout 2. But there's no direct continuation, they are all self contained stories. There only a few Easter eggs, a character here or there, or mentions of past events from previous entries. If you've played any elder scrolls game, it's the same idea, you don't need to play previous ones to understand new ones.

[PurpleBeast]

You don't have to. There's some quests/lines/locations relating to the past events, though there's one NPC that happens to be in Fallout 2, but nothing too major.

[Damon]

Iirc every related ones will already shortly explain what happened at that time. So you won't miss any detail.

[Chronocide]

Originally posted by Bill:

I found this game on the special page and it looks really good, is it ok if i jump into this game, do i have to know anything from past games?

This series is kinda weird in that respect.

Each game is stand alone, with only the setting sort of progressing - there's no reoccurring main protagonist. Each game also features significant user interface/quality of player life improvements over the last, so going back and playing the older versions is hard. Each game is also set in different parts of the world, for the most part, so even where some of the factions carry over, encounters with background between areas is often just rumor or little bits of writing you find.

Fallout 1 and 2 are turn based isometric RPGs.

Fallout tactics is that also, but focus shifts from RPG to a mission based combat game.

***then long break of no games***

Fallout 3 is the first person shooter style RPG not unlike the Elder Scrolls games, and is the first game created by the new owner Bethesda. While this game successfully reboots the series, it doesn't really make for a great sequel to the older games. It goes it's own direction.

New Vegas is also FPS, but is made by Obsidian with permission from Bethesda. New vegas is a better sequel to 1 & 2 & tactics.

Fallout 4 is like "what if you marketed fallout to people that play the sims..." Fallout 4 is fun in it's own right, but it's not really much of a sequel to any of the games, it's more of it's own thing. Another Bethesda fallout.

Fallout 76 is the one I haven't played. it's a MMORPG version of fallout with heavy use of cash shop things to buy. No idea how well a sequel it is, but I have doubts. If it's anything like Elder Scrolls online, it's a hollow shell of what the other games in the series are.

Anyway, to answer your question, Best is relative to what you want to play. I think fallout 2 is best in the respect of isometric RPGs. New vegas is the best in terms of FPS RPGs. Fallout 4 is the best as a sims game. Fallout 76 is the only multiplayer option, so is best there.

That said, all benefit from playing earlier version prior, especially as playing newer versions becomes harder due to getting used to the quality of player life improvements in each respective newer game.

[Pissluffare]

Start with new vegas ,skip all the others
once you're done with new vegas start modding new vegas

[jomigaru]

Originally posted by Chronocide:

Fallout 3 is the first person shooter style RPG not unlike the Elder Scrolls games, and is the first game created by the new owner Bethesda. While this game successfully reboots the series, it doesn't really make for a great sequel to the older games. It goes it's own direction.

New Vegas is also FPS, but is made by Obsidian with permission from Bethesda. New vegas is a better sequel to 1 & 2 & tactics.

To avoid confusion for newcomers I have to stress something out: Fallout 3 and New Vegas are not First person shooters. You can switch to and from third person perspective any moment. Thats an objective fact.
And their rpg elements are still enough to consider them more rpgs than shooters, but this last assert is subjective.

[Tommy Wiseau]

I would say this is the best FO FO3 i could not get into NV polishes everything up.

[White Knight]

I've loved them all, and each one has new things I liked, and other things I didn't. The first would probably be my pick if I had to choose, since it was so different from everything else I'd seen up until that point.
Fallout 2 was definitely not the best.
Here's a fun fact for y'all, every game since Fallout 3 has been swarmed by idiot trolls.
Fallout 4, whether you love it or hate it, was a clear sign that the devs are watching these comments. Much of that game could have taken ideas from this very forum. As a player, I have to say that is a little bit awesome.

[The Real Private Kowalski]

you need to know the lore of fallout extreme to understand the story of new vegas

[lukandroll]

Look no further