I'm currently playing through this game for the third time. Technically 4th, I have two charectos now.

One's the crack shot gunslinger with a heart of gold, the other a crazy psycho Red Head Chick with a sledge hammer.

Just yesterday, I went into Vault 3, Fiend territory, told the wounded NCR ranger to leave, get medical help ...

this friggen guy starts sneaking past 5 fiends, all who can see him, but get's away. What a weird thing.

Fast Foward about five minutes, I'm outside on the second floor of some ruined building, chucking dynamite sticks at a fiend ...

Who should wander across the battlefield but that same NCR Ranger, still sneaking, as he made his way back to Camp McCarran.

Little funny things like this have happened a million times in this game.

I can say without any doubt that no other game has earned as much affection, love and respect from me as Fall Out New Vegas. I love it.

I can't wait for a sequel, I've decided to start playing part 3.

Cheers to everyone that helped make this game, those guys did a fantastic job.

IMO Fallout 3 was the best game I've played, only game that could actually hold my attention for 4 playthroughs, besides Uncharted 2. Just got New Vegas today!

I don't think New Vegas is the best Fallout, but the very fact that it's a Fallout still ranks it very high in my overall list.
No Fallout is the best game I've ever played, but definitely some of the best RPG's I've played.

Its second for me, right ahead of Dragon Age: Origins and right behind Grand Theft Auto IV.

Fallout new vegas is a fantastic game that should be cherished for along time and doesn't get the effection it deserves because of "dem graphix sux wtf nooo online hiw im a spose to pwn noobs".
I recommend trying fallout 1 and 2 aswell as fallout 3.

I'm gonna play 3, I got to. new vegas was too much damn fun. You're gonna love Vegas.

More than likely you will enjoy Fallout 1, 2, & possibly tactics.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment! I was blown away by Fallout 3, love the urban post-apocalyptic setting, but then I installed New Vegas... I just LOVE how everything you do has consequences, even more so in New Vegas than in FO 3. I am very happy that I finally decided to give the Fallout games a chance. I love the TES games, but was rather disappointed by Skyrim and that your actions had NO consequences what so ever. Imagine my joy when I discovered New Vegas. It's a brilliant game! I'm on my 2nd play-through right now! (oh and it's amazing how the DLCs are inter-connected)

Fallout 3 and New Vegas definitely rank in my top 10 best games ever list. (Half Life 2 is up there, Neverwinter Nights - Mask of the Betrayer, Oblivion, Assassin's Creed 2, Dragon Age: Origins, The Longest Journey and Syberia, just to name a few)

Fallout 2 best game ever.

Hey, quite agree it's a top class game. I'd say it's the best made game ever. Excellent story, classy setting, loads of dialogue, choices, consequences. Player agency maximised! And an almost believable setting, not in space or dragons and spells and stuff. Quite flawless game.

However I actually found FO3 to be the best game I ever played. It has way more faults and is more childish, kind of naive somehow. But nevertheless I found it to be a more compelling experience to play. I don't know why exactly this is. It was almost like FNV lost something with it's strict adherence to certain principles and the series lore. Maybe the range of options watered down the intensity and drama of what you were doing.

Anyway I am not taking anything away from FNV. It's still the 2nd best game I've ever played. Maybe it depends on the one you play 1st. See what you think of FO3.

I'll have to give 1 and 2 a shot, is it like 3 and 4 with all the choices and exporing and different outcomes?

Not much exploring. We are talking about games made in 1997 and 1998. There is a world map you use to travel between cities (Fallout 1 and 2 are set in California/Oregon area) and the cities itself are somewhat same size they are in the other games.
But there are different outcomes. The main ending is the same but when you complete the game the narrator goes through most cities and important people and how they will go on after you came by.

It's possible that you simply prefer the setting of the Capital Wasteland. For me I loved the cowboy/Vegas setting along with the superior writing, so it was no contest with me. I did play FO3 first though.

It might be top 5 on my list but I don't know if it's the best game I've ever played. It's certainly the best Fallout that I've played. Fallout 3 might have a better open world and atmosphere but New Vegas destroys it in every other department including the most important one, stability. New Vegas after the patches is very stable, can't say the same thing about Fallout 3.


Fallout's 1 and 2 are very different from a gameplay perspective. Both games are worth trying out though especially when the classic collection is dirt cheap right now, with no DRM besides putting the CD in one time to install everything.

Before playing Fallout 3, I didn't like the idea of mixing guns into RPGs. Wow, I was amazed. I played FO3 and all of the expansion packs, but stopped sometime during Operation Anchorage, which I played last. I really enjoyed the character designs, idea of the wasteland, 40s (?) music, and just the entire game. Don't remember not liking anything really. After loving this game so much, I was more than happy to play for FNV. Man was I disappointed. It felt very short, and very empty. But I did love Best Friend Tabatha's speech about dumb dumbs. haha.

I respect your opinion, but I am confused by the "very short" part. I haven't done a single playthrough in New Vegas that was less then 40 hours, there was one time when I was 100 hours in, at level 50, had completed all of the DLC, had over 200k caps and hadn't even talked to Mr. House yet. New Vegas can certainly be rushed though, I would personally consider any vanilla playthrough under 20 hours to be rushed.

Sounds kind of like Arcanum. Has anyone ever played that? "Of Steam Works and Magic obscura?"

What? All RPG's aren't just overdone fantasy bs (I'm serious about this, the fantasy setting is more overdone the zombies), Fallout 3 isn't the first RPG with guns, there have been non fantasy RPG's with guns forever.

I'm serious this just confuses me to no end.

Also New Vegas is short? I usually get 30 to 40 hours out of a playthrough, my first Fallout 3 playthrough only took me about 15 or 20 hours, with side quests (all 5 of them). And of coarse its empty, its a wasteland, that's kind of what wasteland means, Fallout 3's wasteland felt cluttered with random piles of junk and raiders every 5 feet.

I never got the criticism that the Mojave was empty. It really doesn't feel empty to me. In fact the Capital Wasteland felt a lot emptier (outside the DC ruins). Though I say that without any sort of judgement.

People say that the mojave is empty cuz they probably dont know where to go. You got a big ass city, various setlements (one of em is praticly a cowboy town), a dam, snow at the north west, various caves, craters, valleys, vaults, ... Yet people complain and i gotta ask, isnt it kind of unreallistic that the DC ruins are practicaly untoched by a rain of atomic bombs? There most have been more then 50 targeted at washington yet most buildings are still intact!

Which is no coincidence. Arcanum was made by Troika, a company founded by the big names behind Fallout (Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason D. Anderson) after they left Interplay. Great RPG. Anyone who enjoys the original Fallouts should give it a try.

they ever do a sequel to that?

1: World of Warcraft Classic
2: World of Warcraft Burning Crusade
3: World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King
4: Skyrim/Fallout New Vegas
5: WoW Cata/Fallout 3/Oblivion/Area 52

Fallout 3 is my favorite. But I really like New Vegas as well. It's probably tied with Skyrim as my second favorite. We wont' talk about my Call of Duty online gaming obesession.

nothing wrong with call of duty, battlefield with the jets look cooler but i won't begrudge anyone their COD. Wish Fallout was online. As long as there are no changes to single palyer ofcourse.