I think that it should be Fallout 4. When Fallout 3 came out there was 4 Fallouts that were already published (1, 2, and BoS). Since New Vegas used the same engine i think that the next one should be Fallout 4. I'm not saying that New Vegas was bad but since it used the same engine I think it should be considered 3 1/2.

How much Jet have you inhaled?

Very confusing

I don't think the engine really has anything to do with it, but I do agree that Fallout New Vegas shouldn't be considered FO4.

I don't think it really matters personally; though in all honesty I don't see a good reason not to consider New Vegas Fallout 4. There were more changes between Fallout 3 and New Vegas than Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.

I don't think there is any question that it will be 4. Personally, I think New Vegas should be the 3rd game because FO3 was pretty much just like a spin-off.

Since fallout 2 was called fallout2, and some other fallout games were made that were not called fo3 , then fallout 3 was made, and fo nv does not say fo4, and fo4 will be called fo4. I think it s pretty clear that fo4 will in fact be fo4.

Um yeah - I'm also pretty sure Fallout 4 will be called Fallout 4.

If they wanted New Vegas to be Fallout 4, then that's what they would have called it. (And personally, I'll never get this idea that a game somehow has to "earn" a "3" or a "4" or whatever. I don't get as how there's some form of inmate value judgement to the nomenclature - as if a "spin-off" were inherently of less worth.)

Thats kind of how every video game company does things, if they make a game in the seires but don't give it a name, Fallout BOS, or Fallout New Vegas
They aren't really counted as parts of the series itself, like Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout 3. If they make a new one then they will either give it a name like New Vegas has or give it the number 4.

It's difficult to say though as Fallout games tend to have vary little in common with each other in terms of what happens in the story. You can make connections though like how the water in New Vegas isn't radiated and connect that to Fallout 3's purifier.

Still i'm confident they will make another and give it a name or give it the #4 title.

They also do things like this to limit confusion, i'm sure a lot of p[eople would think if the next game came out and it was called Fallout 5 people would be going like "WTH where is Fallout 4?"

That would have worked but I think they came up with New Vegas after they had already made Fallout 3, that and New Vegas is set 10 years after the events of Fallout 3 so it being Fallout 3 would be confusing.

Does it need to have a number?
I mean, Fallout 3 was as much of a sequel as Terminator was to Aliens.
Is there a point with having a number on the end?
Can't the games just be Fallout: ____ from now on?

NV was 3 years after FO3

By that logic Fallout 2 should'nt have been called Fallout 2.

Fallout 1 and 2 using the same engine = Fallout 2 is actually Fallout 1?
Fallout: Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel both used different engines so they'd earn a full number, or just ? because they are spin-offs? Ok then, we're at Fallout 2? now.
Then Fallout 3 is made, but should actually be Fallout 3? because as a full game on a different engine it adds 1, but then some people consider it a spin-off since it hasn't much to do with the original Fallout story so it adds an ?, and it becomes Fallout 3.
Fallout New Vegas is on the same engine, so therefore it's just Fallout 3? now, but it's closer to a sequel to Fallout 1 and 2 (sorry, Fallout 1 and Fallout 1?) so does it deserve either 1 or ??
So if New Vegas is a ?, and the next Fallout installment is on a new engine and is a sequel of any of the Fallout stories, then it becomes Fallout 4?. It becomes Fallout 5 if either Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas was considered a 1.

See my math?
The next Fallout is clearly Fallout 5 or 4?.

Why must you make my brain hurt?

English please.

5 "internet cool points" says it's Fallout 4.

F4 will be F4..

If anything i thought I had heard something about naming because of the lisence they had..
but thats another story for another place

Fallout 3 is the Fourth Fallout Game.

1) Fallout
2) Fallout 2
3) Fallout Tactics
4) Fallout 3
5) Fallout New Vegas

So technically the next Fallout (Fallout 4) would be Fallout 6.

BTW there is no Fallout game known as Brotherhood of Steel :stare: Any more mention of it will bring the Fallout Inquisition :shifty:

This, and try to give it an inspiring name. Like rename F:NV into something like Fallout: Gambler's Heaven, or Fallout: Mojave Mayhem, there's probably better names out there, I'm not really good at coming up with names and titles.

Oh, and just because this option is missing:

POLL IS RACIST



You also have to not expect them.

I always expect them everytime I mention

Biggus dikeus!!! Oh sorry....

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel :chaos:

It will almost certainly be either Fallout 4 or Fallout:____


I'm hoping for it to be Fallout 4: Chicago, styled like that.

That has nothing to do with it. I don't think the intention of Project Purity was to purify every bit of water in the country, because if it was... well... I wouldn't believe it. However, the plot of ED-E and the Wasteland Survival Guide are two things that make a connection.




OT: I don't care, so long as the game is good and worthy of the Fallout title it has.

From my understanding project purity was to purify the Tidal Basin and the Potomac River in one shot. Broken steel changed it all and made it so only the water that goes into the Jefferson Memorial gets cleaned and the BoS give it out in oil drums. Which makes the Enclaves plan totally useless.

Fallout Quattro: Habana ???? No? OK, me voy..................

-Gunny out.

I wouldn't say "totally useless" at all really. Here's why I think that:



Anywho, I'm going off topic, personally I think it doesn't really matter what the number of the next game is, or whether New Vegas should be considered Fallout 4 or not. In short:



This

*Snipes Savage with a bozar*

It would be either 4 or Fallout: