Same here, I started with four then got new Vegas then played 3, I fell in love with 4 and Vegas, 3 was a bit meh but it was still fun to play, however I’m not a fan of isometric styled games so I probably won’t be playing 1 and 2 but I understand why people enjoy them, I’ve watched oxhorns videos on them so I know the story behind the two games.
@@Argyle117 as someone who has put the time in to play atleast the first game I'll tell you that while playing and experiencing the story from the isometric view and tackling the game head on may overall be a better experience for an rts freak like I used to be, it might be better for alot of people just to use more videos. On that note I've avoided all of his fallout 2 videos before I beat the game and still love his content
I’m the exact opposite, “I started with NV and then the classics but I’ve never played the Bethesda titles but understand they are not as horrible as some people say they are.”
Same here. FO3 was my first, and I sank countless hours into it, both on console and eventually jumping down the modded fallout rabbit hole on PC. I will admit that fo3 hasn't held up very well over the years though
I started with 3, them played New Vegas, 4, then finally 1 & 2 (then went on to play wasteland 1,2, & 3). In my opinion New Vegas is the best, followed by 1 & 2 then fallout 3 & 4 both being either in the dumpster or dumpster adjacent. I haven't played 76 so I can't judge it but I doubt I ever will. It's definitely worth playing 1 & 2 but it can be hard to get into if you've never played old school rpgs
@@NorrskyI think thats an accurate ranking I’d swap 3 and 4’s places My reasoning?: *has iron sights on the gun, squints instead* Also tactics, 76 then bos as non-cannon entries (76 is non-cannon, fight me)
Yeah. Me too. I've got Fallout 1 on my Steam but I mostly play the newer games. I love the universe of Fallout, even if most of my time spent there is in the newer games
Here’s a couple thoughts: 1. Can you imagine FO1&2 with the Bethesda 50’s wash? 2. Can you imagine FO3&4 (especially 4…) without the Bethesda 50’s wash?
I've considered it several times and every time I come to the same conclusion: the wash isn't really that big of a change. The original Fallout opens with "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire", a song from 1941 by the Ink Spots. Also, there are several little references/nods to the greaser subculture in the first two games, including the Stranger's leathers. Also, some of the vehicles bear a slight resemblance to "World of Tomorrow" theoretical designs which were very popular in the 1940s and '50s. However, the world seen is one that has reverted to something far more tribal, with more primitive architecture taking the place of modern cities (which may or may not have been obliterated, depending on the setting) and there being very little left to remind one that the games are set in America (this was because the games were spiritual successors to Wasteland). Meanwhile, on the east coast, McCarthyism took hold. Washington was still the seat of power even after Canada was annexed, so while its influence waned in the west, it remained strong east of the Mississippi. As a result, Cold War aesthetics made a comeback, as did the music and culture in an attempt to inspire a more nationalistic mindset in the citizens. Of course, that all fell apart when food shortages and similar problems hit and the country went into martial law. So basically, you have Infocom Fallout and F:NV happening in a part of the country where the government's control was waning and people spent more time worrying about themselves than the commies. And the Bethesda games are all happening to the east where Washington DC has a stranglehold on the populace and nationalism is being strictly enforced. There's a bit of '50s in the original Fallout games and a bit of '80s in the new Fallout games when you start looking at the details. And I kind of like that fact.
@@Greedyselfish97 You're referring to the version released on Steam. On the original CD version, the intro video shows a 1950s-era TV and as the song "I don't Want to Set The World on Fire" begins to play, the camera pans back to show the TV is in the ruins of a house. There were some copyright issues, so the intro was changed to Maybe and the entire intro sequence redone slightly and expanded. The sequence was again redone for Fallout 3, this time with a bus radio and including the original intended track. I'm not sure when they changed the intro, as my CD copy is pretty old and safely packed away since I now have a digital copy. I do know the revision happened prior to 2000, however.
I started with Fallout 4 and I love it but New Vegas became my favorite. As far as what I like or dislike, I have a pretty positive opinion about every game. And yes, that includes 76, if only lore-wise in some aspects. I just really enjoy Fallout lol it's so unique in the post-apocalyptic genre I think due to its mix of seriousness and campiness.
I started with 3, but even then I was kind of put off by the back story, but I borrowed fo3 goty from a friend, just for something to play, back in 2011ish I was confused seeing 50s style aesthetcs with robots and Lazer guns thrown in the mix for the first hour or so I was running around (took me a while to notice the compass/directional thing) wondering if the cold War had boiled over, but that was the 60s and this fridge looks like it's from the 50s and then they made robots after the apocalypse? I was just blown away by the whole scene, the whole story was all explained to me through friends later but even then It just didn't make sense that people would have no desire to change the aesthetics of their environment
A very big agree from me I adore the perk systems of fallout 3 and particularly the perks in New Vegas because it got rid of most if not all of the straight upgrade to points perks (if I remember right) from fallout 3 that felt redundant. Even starting with fallout 4 I felt less enthusiastic about its perks system even compared to Bethesda's classic Skyrim and thought they could have made gameplay more varied
I actually like the Fallout 4 Perk system. It feels more rewarding when leveling up than the separate skills system does. Because I could pump all my skill points into one skill in 3 & NV, & it could have made no effect on my character at all. In 4, when I level up using that Perk point will definitely chelate up my character in some way, shape, or form. Making leveling up actually seem like your character is getting better as time goes on gradually because even if you can'tuse it on any Perks because they're level locked, you can still use them on your SPECIAL to get up to that level making your character feel like it's actually getting better through experience. It's not just an arbitrary number that as soon as you hit that certain number threshold you all of a sudden jump up in skill Let's use lock picking as an example. In 3 & NV lock picking is a Skill. So my character has 27 points in lock picking, & can pick average locks since 25 points is the threshold for average locks. I get about 15 points for leveling up. I pump all 15 points into lock picking. What has changed about my character? Nothing because to pick hard locks I need 50 points, & 27 + 15 = 42. Damn I'm still 8 points short. Nothing changes about my character because I didn't reach that arbitrary number. Now in Fallout 4 lock picking is a Perk. Needing 4 Perception to unlock Rank 1, Lvl 7 to unlock Rank 2, Lvl 18 for Rank 3, & Lvl 41 for Rank 4. Now let's say I have 2 Perception & level up. I drop my 1 Perk point into Perecption, I still can't lock pick. But what has changed about my character? Well, upgrading your Perception from 2 to 3 (or from any level to the next) will give you a better percentage chance to hit in VATS, better percentage chance to pick pocket, & a better percentage chance to lock pick once you can actually do lock picking...no matter what. You're not just SOL if you don't have enough points to raise that skill. Yes, there will be times in 4 where you can't do something because of arbitrary SPECIAL or character levels you need to be at. But here's the big difference. Unlike 3 & NV where you have to pump all those points into that skill without gaining anything & then wait to level up again before being able to hit that arbitrary number to finally be able to go up in lock picking. In 4, if I don't have enough Perception to unlock the lock picking Perk, I can put that Perk point into Perecption itself, just as putting skill points into the lock picking skill & wouldn't be able to lock pick the next level. So in that way, it's pretty similar. But the difference is what I stated earlier about going up in levels of Perception. I gain something for putting a point into Perception in that example, & in general when using Perk points in 4. While in 3 & NV, It is very possible I can pump one skill with all my skill points for a level up & not gain anything at all besides a higher number in that skill which also grants nothing unless the number you reach is that arbitrary number.
@@BraddahSpliff I like both honestly, New Vegas and 3, the perk points system allowed more freedom for what you could do with your points. With Fallout 4 the perks are instant. No set backs. I like that you are gaurunteed that your character grows. Then we have Fallout 76 with it's terrible perk system. It's bad, really bad. It depends on pure luck alone instead of you being able to choose them like the other fallouts. Terrible system.
I'm the lore nut fan. Little bits of dialog or documents that expand the story beyond the games just make me giddy. The games are great. But if you had an hour long deep dive on the energy cells lore I'm watching it to just absorb
I'm a variant of the lore nut, the _ethereal lore nut._ Named as such because I haven't played a fallout game in my life and just really enjoy the worldbuilding, consuming it all through the internet. In truth, am I really even a fallout fan? As I lurk in the shadows of wikis for hours, do I even really exist? The world may never know.
I didn't even know what Fallout was until I was around 16. I was asking some of my friends in high school what games they recommended. I bought my first console, a PS3, back in 2011 and wanted some recommendations. One of my friends said to try Fallout and Skyrim. So a year later I went to a Game Stop and noticed a game that had the title Fallout on it. It was Fallout New Vegas. So with no knowledge of the series, I went into it blind. I actually hated it at first and found it boring because I wasn't used to this type of game. After I saw my brother having fun with the game, I decided to give it a chance. Eventually I grew to enjoy the game, then I grew to love the series and wanted more. To this day, I've played nearly every Fallout game and enjoyed most of them. To this day, New Vegas is my favorite one of them all because it was my introduction to one of my favorite franchises.
You forgot the most rare type of fallout fan. The giga chad fan. They think that you should enjoy whatever game you like and that arguing about which is better or worse is cringe.
Started with New Vegas, worked my way back through 3, 2, and 1. New Vegas is where the franchise peaked in my opinion. Obsidian managed to merge the narrative tone and feel of the classic games with the 3D open world of the modern games.
every real fan would agree. the best games are 1 and 2, but new vegas just hits different. i love 3 and 4, but something about mojave just keeps me wishing for nuclear winter
Number 1 rule of fallout don’t let any mention of the west coast happen in a east coast game a time collapsing paradox will ensue destroying everything we know and love
For me my faves are nv, 1 and 2. But my 1st was fo3 Edit: I've only recently last year have played the originals and I fully agree on the missing out thing. The originals are actually brilliant. Addictive.
I respect that but its strange to see someone say “76, 4, and 2 are my favorite” because of how different from one another they are. You are a very courageous man my friend.
Apparently I'm Godlike. Played them all. The part I love about fallout is the critique it makes about our world. An alternate reality or mirror of our darkest indulgences intertwined with a desperate fight for survival and the need to thrive. Hands down a series that changed the RPG landscape.
I started with Fallout 1 and fell in love with the franchise. I was very appreciative for the innovations in 2 and the story is perfect. Tactics was good, but it felt too linear. Fallout 3 lifted us into the Gamebryo engine and though the story wasn't the best, the moddable engine in Fallout was incredible. Fallout NV, to me, is the best written story and the best development of characters and made use of the Gamebryo Engine. Fallout 4 again had a weak story, but excellent concepts (I am a Minuteman!) and the settlement building was a great idea (horrible execution, again thanks to mods it made it fun). Fallout 76: I don't own. It's not really Fallout to me. It's a cool game, but as a Fallout title, it lacks. Brotherhood of Steel for the original XBox is just a bad memory. I hope to see a title with the in-depth writing and concepts of New Vegas, but the gameplay of Fallout 4. We can only hope right?
You have a baldurs gate portrait as your youtube avatar, so I believe you played and completed the first two games. And you agree that tactics is good. You sir are a true pure fallout fan.
Honestly I think I identified as two types of fans. the interplay just did it right redditors (even tho I don’t use Reddit) and a turncoat. I started with fallout 4 I really liked it because it was the first thing I ever saw like it. After finishing 4 I started 3 I’m still halfway through still haven’t finished it but yeah I moved on to new Vegas and loved it. After finishing new vegas I heard the classics where really good. I was a bit skeptical because some people said that most young people don’t like the classics and I’m pretty young myself. But still I played fallout 2 and loved it then i played fallout 1 and really liked it. Overall my favorites are fallout 2 and new Vegas but I still really like the other games not really 76 tho but still I get why some like it. Anyways amazing video
@@GokenSayajin dude for my first 3 attempts at fallout 1 I had no idea how to save so I had to keep restarting the game over and over, I was like “how the fuck do you beat this with one life?? Man, interplay was hardcore with the realism” lmao
I started with Fallout 1 and 2 and have replayed them many times, particularly 2. I understood Fallout 3 would be somewhat Oblivion with guns, but that was ok because Oblivion and Morrowind scratched different itches for me already and I was happy to see the series survive as it was clear Interplay was dead. Fallout New Vegas was something special a real fusion of the old and the new and probably for me is the best modern Fallout. Fallout 4 I've put plenty of hours in to, it's a real Fallout, for me. I do worry though that Bethesda makes it it's goal to strip out systems in each of it's titles in it's view that it's for the better. I do really think New Vegas got the balance right. I empathize with new gamers that don't want to play the old games, I can't bring myself to play the OG Wasteland even knowing it's the precursor title to fallout.
It's kind of a shame I can't get into the old Fallouts I tried months ago but I was really bad at the turn based combat. I think I need to give those games another try.
@@MackBanjo23 I failed to get into them at first. Tried them again another time and loved them, so much so that they far surpass F4 and just edge out F3 for me. I think you need to push yourself far enough into the game to get invested in the story and characters and then you'll know if the game is for you. Choose high Agility to make the combat better. That's what I did.
@@foghornfoggyface Yeah I actually started playing the first one and I'm almost finished. I followed a guide for the build though. It's actually really fun now that I have the hang of it.
see I love Wasteland 3 but can't get into the first 2 or the first 2 fallout's for the same reason the controls were too clunky and really show their age, it's why, since Microsoft owns all 3 game studios to touch Fallout in some way, I would love to see remakes of Fallout 1 and 2 made by inXile, my dream is to break the development studios into regions of the Fallout map with Bethesda handling East Coast, Obsidian handling West Coast and inXile handling the Midwest or Southern regions
I started with FO3 and N.V. Moved on to 4/76 and finally played the original games and tactics. They were all fun in their own way and really have never not had a good time.
Fallout 3 is my favorite, both from a combination of nostalgia and love for the atmosphere. I've only really played the Bethesda era games, getting decently into 1 and never past 2's tutorial (own but haven't touched Tactics, and have the good fortune to have never seen a physical copy of BoS) but I concede that every game has its own strength, and as a result it is much better to look at every game individually and not compare it to the others. Plus, the games are so replayable that I don't quite see the point of complaining about a game you don't like when you could just play the one you DO enjoy.
Fallout 3 is my favorite too, although I'm old enough to have played 1 and 2 when they came out. What makes it stand out to me is that every other Fallout is a fantasy game set in the post-apocalypse while Fallout 3 is *about* the apocalypse. It is full of stories and records about the mindset that created the war and the people that died in a thousand different ways afterwards. It's not about politics, but about emotion. Most of the world only exists for its own sake, to silently convey the feeling of what was lost.
I can't see where I fit probably because I need to play more of the fallouts to find my true category. Started with 4 and loved it and decided to start going backwards while still playing it. Loved New Vegas even more and did the same. Got to 3 but didn't get far because the crashing was too frequent even with all the fixes. Couldn't understand fallout 1 because smooth brain and decided to put playing the classics on hold until I had more time. Was disappointed in 76 and also put it on the back burner. Now I have over 1k hours in 4 and NV and extensively modding them has essentially become my hobby. I don't watch playthroughs of fallouts I haven't beaten because I intend to play them eventually... I swear... just too addicting to modding. I might fit into a label but I can't see it especially since I now enjoy turn based combat in tabletop rpgs and will have no problem with that when I finally try the classics again. Maybe I'll become a turncoat lol
My favorite game is fallout 3. The atmosphere is fucking phenomenal and even though there’s a binary karma system it serves to balance the experience NOT to dictate morality.
I’d say the atmosphere is the one thing about Fallout 3 I still enjoy. I replayed it recently and honestly the Capital Wasteland is a great idea, but I think it was pretty poorly executed in regards to the story. I wish I didn’t feel like I was being railroaded when I played Fallout 3
The Pitt and Point Lookout I do agree with you, The Capital Wasteland??? Nah it's just pure fookin' garbage in terms of look, Uninteresting gray, browns and toxic green...
I first played 4 and found it to be extremely fun when I was younger however since then I have played both new Vegas and the originals religiously and personally I do prefer interplay
I'm Probably a Turncoat interplay just did it right. I started the fallout series with nv(With the dlc) on my 360 and loved it so I got 3(with dlc) and thought it was pretty good too, I knew it came out before nv. I didn't bash it it much for being the first modern fallout, and appreciated nv more for making the world feel more alive and the world responding to your choices. 4 was a pretty big let down for me, but I do think far harbor is very good. (not much for nuka world other than its cool aesthetic) same for 76 and I played it through with friends after the first big patch's and it was like 13$. Then I finally tried the classics. I never knew how much I was missing out on with fallout 1 and 2. they had such a different and amazing feel to them. The writing and world building was amazing! The Retro-Futurism Gothic 1950 mixed in with Gritty 1980-90's aesthetic was so fucking cool! The soundtrack ambience is the best I heard for a game. (Even noticed many came back into new vegas) After my first playthrough of both, I played them again but with the cut content mods and community fixes, and they became even better. I thought I loved new vegas, but god fucking damn. fallout 2 is bumper to bumper behind it with 1 behind 2. I have never seen an rpg like fallout 2 and still haven't experienced everything it has to offer me. I found myself crying of laughter at the dialog and references you can find and choose. plus the ways you could play it and the things you can do. Also the fucking Highwayman! I also love now that I've played through the classics a few time's that when I do a new vegas run I find cool Easter eggs, and appreciate them bringing back traits and perks, and references to the Vault Dweller from vault 13, or his Grandson from Arroyo the chosen one. Or others like Marcus, and the Wrecked Highwayman or Daisy Whitman with the vertibird crash back in fallout 2 and many more. Man, I can just gush about how much I love the west coast fallouts. it is true, Interplay just did something right. and made something so S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Thank you for genuinely creating worthwhile entertaining content on my favorite series. The new mic shines. May your channel and your pockets grow fat my friend.
I love ‘em all! For different reasons, but I love them all, the concept, the lore, the worlds, varying aspects of game play. I just love fallout, give me all the fallout you can, I just love immersing myself in these worlds. My favorites are fallout NV and the isometric oldies, but I also love Bethesda’s fallouts.
I'm one of the many who jumped out into the series with Fallout 3, but I've played all the Fallout games sans 76 just cause I'm not too into Multiplayer only games. But Three will forever remain my favorite in the series, and its the one I've completed the most (Twenty completions, come last night cause I finished it again.)
While not particually fond of Fallout 3, from the aesthetic and artstyle alone i find the game to be the best looking Fallout game. I like looking at pictures of Fallout 3, and praise it more as an artwork than a game itself. When i play it as a game i find myself quickly bored. It looks like what i feel Fallout should be, but the game itself sadly doesn't match it's aesthetic that well. I think if Bethesda had improved upon that style, instead of going for a more futuristic and realistic artstyle in later games they could have made a far more visually interesting franchise. People praise Fallout 4 for it's color variety, but i feel it takes away from the visual terror of the world and makes the game look too friendly and comforable for a Fallout game.
Awesome video man! 😎👍🏼. Honestly I’m the kind of fan that likes them all. I was born in 93 and I didn’t get into the franchise until 2009(High school). So yeah my first fallout game was F3(and that one is still my favorite). Then I pre-ordered NV and I had a blast with that one! After I played those two, I looked up the story for F1 & F2(watched detailed walk-throughs on RU-vid & read some lore wikis). After I studied the lore of the first two games, it made me love F3 & NV even more. Then I had a blast with F4 in college(my second favorite). However I didn’t start playing 76 until 2020(for obvious reasons 😆). 76 is pretty fun but I wish it was more of an RPG not a multiplayer game(this one is the weakest in the series). Yeah F3,NV, 4, & 76 have their flaws but they’re still extremely fun Fallout games. I’ve played each one four times(3, NV & 4). I’ve only played 76 twice. I never played the first two because I just couldn’t get into the gameplay style but the story is fantastic!
I started playing fallout because I was really in to retrofuturism and 50s aesthetics and fallout 4 was my first fallout. Currently my favorite games are new vegas and 4, and I play 76 too and I'm going to try out the originals too. New vegas really got me interested in the history of old las vegas and the atomic age.
I am one of those who played other older games with my dad, born in 01, like age of empires, and first learned about fallout 3 around the early 2010s, and looking back, I wish my dad had the original fallouts. I know I would have loved them as a kid.
I was swept up by the hype of Fo76 but since I had an absolute potato of a PC so I could only play the classics and then I fell in LOVE with them. I have since played the newer titles and have thoroughly enjoyed every game up to 76.
Originally started with and loved Fallout 3, quickly changed my mind once I went back to replay them and realized no matter how polarizing my choices in game it didn't really impact the story or ending. Fallout New Vegas is now my current favorite. The pursuit of lore and origin stories drove me to own Fallout 1,2, and Brotherhood Tactics. I am not on the Bethesda bandwagon, but I am on the Obsidian train. I agree that without Bethesda the Fallout franchise would have probably prematurely met its end though.
Fallout 4 is a pretty boring and simple game. But it has my favorite Faction in it. The gameplay is... well you shoot things and gain Exp. What always really bothers me in all Bethesda games is the random inventory on Traders. You'd think a Trader in the Brotherhood would have very different inventory than a Trader in for example Diamond City. Instead everyone has the same randomized trash.
I started with 1 & 2 (and tactics but i never really played it much) but when 3 came out it blew my mind. It was everything i hoped for in a 3d take on a great rpg. I loved the VATS system as a nod to the turn based combat and focus on characters skills and gear and player choices. I remember reading about it in the magazines for months before it came out while i waited and everything about that game is perfect as crazy and broken as it is in places. It was such an incredible change from the older titles and I'm sure introduced a lot more new players to the old games than they otherwise would have had. Those first rays of light when you finally emerge from the vault and the total freedom you have to explore the wateland perfectly captures everything I imagined it felt like to actually live in that world when I played 1 & 2. Mostly I love it because before Fallout 3, Fallout was a weird thing that I talked about with my brother and nobody else I knew had heard of. Thanks to Fallout 3 i was able to share the worls i love so much with a whole lot more people and that's awesome. New Vegas is definitely a better tribute to the old games in terms of the lore and atmosphere but Fallout 3 made such a massive impression that even though it's better in a some ways, Fallout 3 will always be something special. Great video, thanks for posting!
I love them all each have their strengths and weaknesses. Love what the series has become tbh as I am one that has wanted to play fallout with my friends.
Technically started with fallout 3, but New Vegas hooked me and I get more enjoyment from its writing every time I play it. Would probably say I’m “All About That World” but a lot of my favorite lore is from the originals
I love all the games. Yes, even 76. I cant wait for yhe continuation of the series and just want yhe best result. Anyways, thank you for your time in putting together this funny and accurate meta.
I started with Fallout 3 when I was a teenager. I had get the game when I saw the trailers and seen people play it. I became addicted to it. Fallout 3 is the only fallout game that I completed the main storyline and all the DLCs. I need to complete the main storyline for Fallout New Vegas get around playing Lonesome Road and I never played Lonesome Road. Giving Fallout 4 try again since last time I played was 5 or 6 years ago and really enjoying the settlement building with the DLC addons. Also I'm playing the original Fallout I just got the water chip. My goal is complete all the Fallout games main storylines. I think now Fallout Tactics has turn-base combat for steam so I'm going to give it a try again that Fallout Tactics looks awesome. The amount weapons in Fallout Tactics is insane the graphics look good for early 2000s game.
I was born 1 year before fallout 3 came out luckily my father showed me the old fallouts, I have great respect for 1 and 2 and They are actually my 2 and 3 favorite in the series with new Vegas being my favorite. The older fallout games in my opinion aren’t faulty by age and I feel any person who just plays 4 and 76 could pick them up and enjoy them.
I remember joining the Fallout Wiki in 2008 as a new fan of Fallout starting with 3. Immediately I was branded all kinds of interesting names and insults, and the Old Guard were very quick to make the judgement that I somehow hated Fallout 1 and 2. I didn't, I came to the wiki to learn more about them. When New Vegas came out, the Old Guard split between those who were happy to see a return to the classic style of storytelling and those who avoided it like the plague because it used Fallout 3's engine. I have never seen so many grown men cry.
I started with 3 and it was awesome, vegas even better, 4 is even better (i just love it). For a long time i thought 76 is trash until i bought it 2 years ago and it is the best fo experience i had so far. Fo is getting better and better with every new release, i hope this trend will continue.
I would identify myself as a turncoat Bethesda saved franchise kind of fan. Got into the series in 2008, one of my friends got Fallout 3 as a birthday present, and we used to hang out a lot at his place, playing games, having fun. For both of us this was the first RPG we've ever played, and we were super invested into it, so I've borrowed his copy, installed it on my PC, but my rig was too old to run it. I was greatly disappointed, but figured that number 3 in the name of the game implies at least 2 more titles. So, one game shop trip later, I was sitting with full anthology of previously released Fallout games. It wasn't easy, but eventually I've grown to love them, and really appreciated them for what they are. Few years after that, with new PC, I've experienced every Bethesda published title, wasn't disappointed in them, and enjoyed them quite a bit. Although I love OG Fallout - it would be long dead and forgotten by everyone, except for fans, if not for Bethesda involvement. And Bethesda games, while lacking in some way or another - they still very enjoyable, and deserve a lot more credit for things they do right
I think simply said, to each their own. If you like the fallout world then props to you for being interested in something cool, arguing about which franchise better just makes us look like annoying nerds instead of the super attractive and chivalrous people we truly are
Fallout 4 was my first experience with Fallout, I'd played Oblivion and Skyrim, and was interested when I found out about the series. After playing FO4 I saw that NV was on sale and decided to try it out. NV is my favorite but I enjoyed FO3 and 4 as well. FO4 definitely lacked in the RPG aspect though.
I love 3 and NV about equally (though if forced to choose would go with 3), I started with 3 then NV and I can’t stand gatekeeping fans who say I’m wrong for liking 3 and having to defend or validate my opinions. There are even NV far as who have the same toxicity of some of the “interplay” ones. They just can’t accept others have different opinions and are far too loud online. Fallout 3 is genuinely a great game and does things things just as good and even better in some aspects. I fell in love with the post apocalyptic aspects of 3, Lonesome Road, and Dead Money. NV’s post post apocalypse did grow on me and I enjoy that as well, and even if I have preferences in Fallout I can appreciate both of them. NV is too but not flawless as some say. 1 and 2 are good even if the gameplay isn’t my ideal style and they had a learning curve I still enjoy and respect them. 4 and 76 have good things about them but aren’t ideal and have flaws. Shelter is a fun side game, Tactics has good things about it but is different. BoS is will BoS. I do think your assessment of “Fallout 3 fans” leaves out fans who like NV and the rest of the series but just prefer the 3 and NV era and defend 3 from the toxic “NV and classic fans” who won’t let others have a different opinion than them. Overall an interesting and entertaining video. I love Fallout, but the fan base is too much for me sometimes.
I started with fallout shelter but quickly moved on to Fallout 4 when I got my first console (4 is probably my favorite out of the bunch, I’m a sucker for combat, story was decent as well, but what truly got to me was the world/environment of fallout 4). I went on to play 3 and New Vegas and found a liking to New Vegas especially. I also played 76 when it came out and had a fun time, I think I’m one of the few who liked it’s barren state when it first launched (I think it truly helped me immerse myself into the multiplayer aspect of the game and made me feel as if I was truly surviving a post apocalyptic world alone or with very few other people). Soon after NPC’s and battlepass system got added to the game I stopped playing it since it just turned itself into a grind. On another note I would play or at the very least try some of the originals if I had the chance but currently I don’t have a pc to play them on or have the money to get a pc 💀
I was hesitant to start the older fallout games myself as a new Vegas starter for the fallout universe, but once I did the top down game play reminded me of the Age of Empire's series but with turns so I picked it up fast.
I'd say I fall into the All About That World category. I personally prefer the Bethesda titles, but this comes more from a standpoint of preferring action RPGs to turn-based. Fallout 3 was my first Fallout and I gave 1, 2 and Tactics a fair shake, but I just had a harder time getting into Fallout 1 and 2, coming from the gameplay. But I very much adored the writing and world-building of Fallout 1 and 2, and can certainly understand why people have so much love for the first two Fallout games. Plus, it was nice to actually experience some games I missed in my childhood.
I personally started with Fallout 4 over 2020 quarantine and then moved onto Fallout 76. I just recently started playing Fallout 3 and plan on playing on New Vegas after I’m finished. My personal favourite is FO76. The lore and story is just so great and honestly had many missed opportunities with it. But I still love it a lot
I hate saying that new Vegas is my favorite fallout game because I hate the toxic new Vegas fanboys but it was my first fallout game and I can't deny how good it is. Although here's my teir list tho: S: NV & 1 A: 3 B: 76 & Tactics C: 4 & 2 F: BOS
Once a girl at drive thru noticed my fallout wallet And once she did she said safe travels friend After giving me my change We both knew in that moment SHE was a diehard fan and she knew I was too. Had to been there but it was epic!
Fallout is such a truly great series. Bethesda was spot on by making FO3 1st person real time and with a solid storyline, and that game was outstanding. Fallout New Vegas was even better because of even better storyline and side quests which brought the Mojave truly alive. I've always wondered just how much better that FONV might have been if the developers had more time. FO4 also had a good storyline, with power armor entry being a solid improvement. FO76 had as much potential as any game in the series, but Bethesda's leadership allowed that game to be released knowing fully well that it was nowhere near ready. Even though Todd Howard said that they wanted to develop 76 like Zenimax did with ESO, Bethesda has made almost no effort with storyline quests. Instead, they've just fleeced their player base with display items and outfits. As a result, Bethesda has crippled the Fallout series, and it's as if they don't give a damn about the series anymore. It just beats all.
Fallout 4 was my 1st Fallout game, it made me love so much the franchise that I bought every fallout game and played them all. However for me I prefer the way Bethesda and obsidian style. My favorites are, in decreasing order, f4, fnv, f76, f3
I’m definitely the 50’s aesthetic type fan, the whole reason I tried one of the games (starting with FNV) was because I had heard that the soundtracks were full of old songs. I like the play style of the Bethesda titles, but appreciate the story and world building of 1 and 2. I will say as an enthusiast of the mid-century aesthetic, Bethesda has started to over-do it a little. Since fallout 4 there has been an over abundance of 50’s styling, and it starts to feel kitsch, loosing its novelty. Maybe I’m just being cynical, what do you all think?
My first fallout game ever was Fallout 3. I enjoyed it immensely. I played it so much I completed and found so many secrets. Even Argyle the ghoul from the Galaxy News Radio show with Herbert Darring Dashwood. I played all the DLC and moved on to the newer games as they came out. When I beat them and explored everything about the Bethesda titles I went back to see it's beginnings. I found I loved those titles too and while clunky and slower paced compared to the ones now I still feel they are still amazing games and hold up well with the stories they tell. I unironically enjoy Fallout 76 as well and still play it to this day. I don't feel one game from the two sides of the coin does things better than the other games. I see flaws with all the games and I see all the good points they all have. I feel that change is needed to breath new life into a title for newer fans to be made but that doesn't mean the older games hold no merit at all. I like seeing it as a house. The older games from Fallout 1 to tactics laid the ground work foundation and skeleton for the games while the newer games built a house around that solid foundation incorporating the old and new together. I don't agree with everything Bethesda titles do but I also know even interplay titles have their own problems. In summary, I just love Fallout games. New or old it doesn't matter to me. If I find something about the game I like I'll enjoy myself playing it. I even try and buy All sorts of fallout based merch from past and current owners of the franchise.
I don't know exactly where I fit in to the chart but I will say my favorite thing about fallout is the over all lore and the 50s post-apocalyptic aesthetic. I wouldn't say I have a absolute favorite game. I've only played 3, New Vegas, and 4. That said I do like some aspects over others. Favorite hero faction: Lyons BoS. Least favorite hero faction: NV NCR Favorite villain faction: Caesar's Legion. Least favorite villain faction: the institute Favorite companions: fallout 4 Favorite companion: Raul Best dog: fallout 4 dogmeat Best robot: ED-E Best DLC: Old world blues. Worst DLC: Dead money. Favorite game play: fallout 4 Favorite leveling system: New Vegas Favorite map: New Vegas (just barely) Favorite vault: 106 Favorite side quest: Oasis Favorite radio host: Three dog Favorite weapon: LEAR Favorite armor: T-60, runner up Hell fire Best crafting: fallout 4 What that says about me, I don't know. lol maybe I'm just wishy-washy.
Fallout New Vegas is my favorite and I can see some of the aspects that I think Bethesda do well be highlighted in FO3 and FO4 but main story wise, NV, 1, and 2 are just objectively better. I personally have trouble playing the older ones but that's because I sometimes find myself frustrated waiting through the turn based combat. I don't normally enjoy turn based strategic combat games and have to be in the right mood for it. Story and lore wise, I love the first 2. Mechanically, I hate FO4's streamlining. I find the perk and level system in FO76 just baffling, dumb, and frustratingly wasteful of my time. What is the most efficient thing? Put on good perks until I get to a lock or terminal, pause the game, then switch out so I can pick/hack the object, do the mini-game, then go BACK into my perk cards and switch them back to my normal load out. That's not fun. Having card packs to have you potentially get ahead of the curve on your build is also more than a little dumb. Then again, I find a lot of FO76 just a lot of dumb.
I started playing fallout only a year ago. I started with new Vegas ultimate and then played fallout 3. Unfortunately I can't play the other games rn but I love the fallout franchise and want to play every game
Wow, didn’t expect that I’d fit a stereotype so well... I was too young to really enjoy fallout 1 & 2, but I’ve played and thoroughly enjoyed new Vegas. Although I enjoyed fallout 4, I mostly played it with mods that changed big parts of it, and got tired of 4 when it crashed one time too many. A friend invited me to play 76, and I tried... I sure tried. But the difference in levels between me and them made killing enemies incredibly difficult for me.
I was in my mid teens when I played the original fallout game and have enjoyed every game (with one exception) since. I also played each multiple times to completion good/bad karma for each and every faction. My list of favorites in order: Fallout new vegas Fallout 2 Fallout 4 Fallout Fallout 3 Fallout 76 Fallout tactics Fallout (we do not talk about in polite company) -the only one I played once and won't play again. I'm in my late 30's now with a vault boy bobble head on the dash of my truck and can't wait for the next Fallout game to come out.
For me fallout NV was the peak, don't get me wrong 3, 4, and 76 are all ok in their own right but for me one of the best features was the ammo type system. You could for the most part play any type of gun in any situation. (Ex. Youre doing a shotgun run and are going against robots so you switch to pulse slugs and you're good, or if you have a rifle and the target is heavily armored you switch over to the AP rounds. Say you're running a revolver and don't want to use expensive.357 rounds, just switch to .38 special to make it cheaper with a slight damage reduction, etc.) I really think it was a missed opportunity for the later games to keep that system
Started with Fallout 3 GOTY in 2010-ish before getting into New Vegas and then Fallout 4 . Dipped my toes in 76 for periods of time before going back to 4 or New Vegas
F1 - Great beginning to franchise, even if it hasn't aged as well as other old games. F2 - Same as 1 but bigger and better FT - An interesting spin-off idea, if not anything. FBOS - The first attempt at bringing Fallout into the console market. Results speak for themselves, but a different style of game set in the same universe can be done right, so the potential was there at least. F3 - A great basis for a 3D Fallout game, with some missing aspects. FNV - Peak of Fallout, enhancing everything in F3 and returning elements from Fallout 2 and the cancelled Van Haven. F4 - The gameplay and graphics are finally up to modern standards, and the character creator is excellent. The story and RPG elements unfortunately suffered in the translation. F76 - Enhances lore, has good music and having a game set less than 100 years after the war was perfect for Bethesda's approach to the series, but suffered from essentially being a broken F4 multiplayer mod with no NPCs. Needed more development time and less corporate meddling. I guess I'm an Obsidian leaning centrist lmao
I'm probably an Pubescent because my first Fallout game was 76 but I've already liked the Fallout franchise because of watching some Fallout 4 playthroughs. But I don't hate or dislike any of the previous Fallout games in fact in the future I would like to play them, I just like the world that Fallout is set in the history and everything about it. I just don't know which category of the Pubescent I fall in to?
Here's my take. I started with Fallout 3 then went on to New Vegas which I thought was the greatest video game ever. As far as player control, I went back to play Fallout 1 and 2. I was anxiously awaiting Fallout 4. I played Fallout 4 and was let down but back in to fall out 76 was so let down that I didn't trust what was going forward but I love this franchise so much that I will still play Fallout 5 without question. I just won't take people's reviews to heart. I will take them with a grain of soul. I don't know where that puts me on the fan base. I just know that I love this franchise and I want them to succeed so I will always hope for the best. That being said, with the creator of the original fallout on board with the outer worlds, that is probably where I will get that experience the best. So I'm more anxiously awaiting avowed and the outer worlds 2 more than I am the new Fallout game. Now that pentament is out. I have something to hold me by but I follow game developers and the people who are a part of games now more than just the series. But Fallout will always be near and dear to my heart. Like I said, I don't know where that puts me. I don't ever criticize people for how they feel about the series, but I also appreciate the same respect about how I feel about it. I hope all is well. Great video and I hope we can all just agree that Fallout has brought a community together that wouldn't have been here otherwise.
When it comes to me, graphics are very important. Fallout 4 really does the job for me, and I've spent countless hours building settlements. But it's so damn tired to collect materials to build. New Vegas does not allow you to build your own crap, but it allows you to create a far more intelligent story instead
I tried multiple times to play fallout 1, but I just kept hitting walls and kinda lost interest. Eventually I gave it another shot just using a very beginner friendly crit build, and I was breezing through encounters. But just when I was finally thinking that this was going to be the play through; I woke up one day to learn my old toaster of a pc shorted out during a thunderstorm the night before. When I finally get the money for a new pc, I’ll finally buckle down on the interplay games
As a Neophile I will say: It's the building. Legit. F4 hooked me on settlement building. I've got so many hours into that thing just doing settlement stuff and scavenging for more scrap to upgrade things. We're talking 3 stories of marketplace in the alley levels of "wuts wrong wit u?"
I think that i am more a godlike tier centrist. I’ve done all parts several times with dedication, mean that i’ve done many quests, Easter eggs, read lore things etc. I’m into all Fallout franchise. Both old, new and fanmade. Fallout 1, 2, Tactics, Sonora, Nevada, 3, NV, 4, 76. Im start series with Fallout 3 release and will always got a warm place in my heart for this game. And long things short. I definitely think. I know it. I can bet my cat on it. The problem with all Bethesda Fallouts - Emil Pagliarulo. The scenarist of all 3d Fallouts. Im genuinely doesn’t like to insult people and wanna apology for the next line but, God how incompetent this man. He is TOTALLY blind. Chris Avellone showed us this. Look, they’ve made NV scenario in about a year. And it’s not ideal, not the 10/10 but it’s logical and good. The irony is rich - people love Far Harbor DLC for F4 and you know what? Emil was not the Far Harbor scenarist. This, is both hilarious and demonstrative. Want more? Emil done some really good quest lines for the TES series. Like this man CAN do good stuff, but it seems that Todd gave him Fallout franchise to be his playground, because for the all TES games, Todd and his close peoples doing all the work. He doesn’t let Emil to work on the TES scenario and boom. Players got much less complaining about TES series than Fallout. Also great video, greetings from Russia.
my favorite is probably 3 and nv with 4 in a close 3rd i played 1,2, and tactics but the birds eye view turn based isnt my thing enjoy the 3rd person aspect of the new ones
New Vegas was my first Fallout game. I will always go back to it when things are bad. I do like the Bethesda titles and the lore of the originals, but New Vegas gave me that perfect atmosphere will great music playing and that hot desert feel that really brought out that Texan in me.
