What game is worth playing?

[Quinicc]

I Have watch the new show and now want to try the game what fallout is best to start with? what ones should i stay away from?

[Vin]

all of them are a good pick for post apoc theme. if you are not used to modding and unwilling to learn, try fallout 76.

fallout 3, NV for story, fallout 4 for action if you are willing to mod.

you can skip 1 and 2 on the premise that wasteland franchise is a more update RTS that is apoc theme. but if intersted in the lore 1 and 2 for sure.

[Krayton]

The fallout games are pretty great, they all have their pro's/con's. I started with 3 but became consumed by New Vegas after it's launch, quite easy to roleplay a bounty hunter and get lost in the desert for year's lol. 4 is a good game, the settlement battles are unique and can be annoying but it's still a good game. You can pick up the entire franchise relatively cheap right now but if your looking to get into one i'd go with 4. You can get 3 and 76 on Twitch for free right now.

[BIGMAC]

You can skip 1 and 2 there both really old only playable with fan made patches and you don't mind turned based combat and looking up guides because it's painful for new players https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCT2SG4ohgI&t=557s I'd say most people started off with Fallout 3

[Bermbom]

Fallout 4 is best for exploring and finding out all these intricate details.

Fallout 4 also has the best DLC in the form of Far Harbor. Which is a full game in itself. Story is epic too.

[thelastone96]

Ehhhh.... No, with all respects, new vegas has the best DLCs.

[Nats]

Fallout 4 would be recommended all the previous ones are too dated now and Fallout 76 is multiplayer focused.

[Death Approaches]

HEY! All of them are worth playing! You're a gamer, aren't you?

1, 2, and even Tactics are all damn fun... I even enjoyed Brotherhood of Steel more than I thought I would, but it's more like Origin's Bad Blood (1990)[archive.org] (play for free in your browser for that dose of classic, at archive.org) than a Fallout game, pick your hero and play.

if you can handle the fact the first 3 are iso projection and turn based combat not realtime 3D. My library has plenty of turn based things, especially these, Wasteland 2 & 3, and if you know of Cyberpunk tabletop from before CDPR made it into a computer game, you also know of Shadowruns... anything that Jordan Weisman / Harebrained Schemes does, actually. (the creator of FASA and Battletech and Shadowrun) Turn-based does not make a game bad, just makes it... slower. :-)

the graphics are feelin' quite dated, but that actually fits the whole '1950s-but-future theme anyway.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Pass on FO1 it's to dated. Maybe FO2 ok, but I'd rather play Wasteland 2 than Fallout Tactics.

FO3 is my fave due to the local and exploration. I love the wasteland, metro, DC ruins. The albino rad scorpion, super mutant wielding tri laser overlord and Ghoul Reaver are total BS bullet sponges when they pop up after reaching a late game higher level though.

FO4 is modern gamer easy. Level 50+ highest difficulty is a cake walk (more so in power armor). My runs end up close to level 100 before I finish up. Quad launcher wrecks everything. Lots of faffing around with settlements. Building them, assigning the settlers jobs and arming them with weapons and gear. Good game for the casual gamer for sure. A pack of FO4 Death Claws are like mole rats from FO3. A single Death Caw getting the drop early on in NV still makes me poo my pants. One hit two hit kill and the speed OMG.

FNV local is boring and a bit anti-climatic, but has the best DLC imo. NV is a solid arpg experience. I find that the hardest of all the games by far. I don't like faffing about with the ammo types. So that makes it harder for sure. NV is the most challenging for sure.

[IceMan PJN]

You'll commonly hear that New Vegas is best and 76 is awful. Neither are true. New Vegas is best for people that singularly care about just the story, but if you factor in the total package it's not the best. 76 used to be pretty empty but it's been tweaked a lot since 2018 and is now better than before, though it's still a MMO.

[TheShadowHatter]

FO3 is good to start just so you can get the atmosphere and themes of Fallout imo. 3 was my first game, and it took me a bit to understand it, until I finally got to recognizable monuments of DC and realized the cool concept of how a US state would look after a nuclear bomb is dropped on it. After that, I was hooked on the series and enjoyed it ever since with it's 1950s aesthetic combined with future technology. FO3 was my first and so I recommend it to be everyone's first. Especially since future games evolve in terms of graphical fidelity along with small gameplay improvements here and there, so it won't feel so dated as opposed to if you played FO4 first and then went backwards.

[Nats]

I played New Vegas just yesterday to remind myself and was surprised how much it had dated. There may be mods to make it look better but my version just looks brown. Everywhere. Theres no doubt Fallout 4 is the best game they have done that is still very playable today. Sure there are issues, like the fact all Bethesda games are roughly the same and feature the same sorts of character interactions and rather bland NPCs but if you ignore that its a good game.

[Batsly]

Don't forget the the mod Fallout London to be released in a few days (23 April 2024) for Fallout 4

[Neo]

FA3, 4 and new Vegas are all great games. I'd recommend FA4 if you liked the show because the power armour in FA 4 is almost exactly the same as the shows PA. In the other games the PA is more like putting on clothing.

In FA 4 it's an actual armour you need to climb into and it uses a fusion core.

[EolSunder]

fallout 4 for current systems. All the fallout games are fun, 1 and 2 are very old style games you can try those out on sale if you want but some current players don't like that old school rpg type game. I would say at the minimum fallout 3 then new vegas, except fallout 3 is horrible getting to run on current systems to if you can get it to run, great, but many can't. So when it comes down to it, i would say new vegas should be your first one simply because it usually actually works for an old game. Then the current fallout 4. If you like those games you can then grab 1-3 when on sale and test them out and see what you think, but 100% definitely new vegas and fallout 4, and the rest? maybe.

[BoogieMan]

I can't imagine why anyone would recommend Fallout 76 unless you just have to have a multiplayer game.

I think the first two games are the best overall, but they are dated. If you can't deal with the older presentation, Fallout 4 and New Vegas are the next best.