My favorite is fallout 3, because of the quests, and characters. I also like the followers more.

Yay for more vs thread. Fallout 2 best one yet.


Should this be a poll thread?

I personally prefer Fallout 3, because I think they did an overall better job designing the world, and making it have awesome landscapes and views that kept you interested and were fun to explore. I also feel like it's less buggy than New Vegas. It feels more 'end of the world' and anarchistic as opposed to 'the beginning of a new society' which has military and organization. I also feel like in FO3, they did an awesome job making it a familiar, but mysterious world, (with the ruined monuments and all). New Vegas also did that, but it didn't have the same effect, since not everyone is as familiar with things like the Hoover Dam, as opposed to things like the Washington Monument. It might just be that I live in the same general region of the US as Washington DC, so its style of houses, streets, and buildings had more of an effect on me.

FO3 for me. I love Beshesda's open world games. New Vegas kinda seems linear to me. Could not get into it.

I like the original Fallouts but FO3 is my favorite over all.

Fallout 3.

I've never played 1 or 2, mainly because I dont think I'd enjoy the gameplay, I'd rather be in the action rather than taking turns killing eachother.

So far as I'm concerened Fallout 3 is among the best games ever made, the thing that does it for me is the scale of the game, the map is huge, there are plenty of quests, tonnes of weapons and other items, loads of quests etc. It also has great replay value because of all the choices to make in the game and different ways to set up your character.

Fallout NV is good, but it's a bit meh, compared to Fallout 3. They shrank the map down, and to me its a shorter and less interesting game with overall less content.

FO3.

New Vegas, for some reason, I couldn't naturally get into, had to work for it. And the GUI design prevented me from getting into the first few games (I'm fine with 2D... it's just that the controls are incredibly clunky and not really all that inutitive (I need to actually take the caps from the Merchant's inventory and bring it to the table to get it?!?))

Fallout 1 ~hands down. They got it right, and while FO2 has some much needed fixes ~they never quite got it right IMO; and it was rushed. (close 2nd though).

IMO Fallout (1) had the most believable setting of all the fallout series and spin-off games to date.

Fallout 3.

I liked New Vegas, but there was really no need to play it once I'd tried all the different storylines. It was a good story, the world made a lot more sense than Fallout 3, and the cities were more lively and interesting. But the exploration element wasn't as good as Fallout 3, and the map design was rather tunnel-like, which was OK the first few times but made it much more repetitive. A shame, because the mechanics were honed and improved from Fallout 3, but I just didn't feel the same desire to wander, which Fallout 3 was really good at.

Fallout 1 I liked, I haven't played it all that much, I'm not really into the top down style RPGs, but it was a good game and much less flawed than it's sucessors. What it did, it did brilliantly.


Fallout 2 I cannot stand. Flintstones houses and forcefields (however technologically feasible ingame) made it feel too modernised, "edgy" "advlt" themes that came out ridiculous, and the constant fourth wall breaking jokes made it feel more like Monty Python more than Fallout. New Vegas did a much better job of the recovering society, in my opinion.


FO Tactics I own but have not played, BOS I would not touch with a ten foot rebar club.


Fallout 3, for all it's moronic issues with storytelling, gimped RPG elements, apparently deliberate squalor (people live in shacks right newxt to a perfectly good house) still had much more that was worthe exploring, and really did the urban wastelands well. To be honest, it was Oblivion with guns, and that was always going to be it's market, which I am part of.

I can't help but think the same sort of game could have been made as a new IP, without twisting the Fallout franchise into what Bethesda though would be fun.

Fallout 3, But im Playing New Vegas now because i played for like 10 hours of fallout 3 and it never auto saved and wouldn't let me save:(

fallout 3. cant stand new vegas. thats why i brought it back

I've not played fallout 1 or 2 so I have no opinion there yet comparing fallout 3 to fallout new vegas I have to say that I enjoy Fallout 3 more. Fallout New Vegas had some minor good improvements but I just have this better feeling with playing Fallout 3.

I've only played F:NV and 3 and of the two I like NV the best. That's not to say I think it's a better a game, it's not, 3 is far better realised world and better polished than it's successor, it's just I prefer the atmosphere, quests and it was great to have my own flying robot. The first time I stepped out of the doctor's office and I found myself in a bright sunny world I loved it.

And A World of Pain is the best mod I've ever played.

I'll go with New Vegas, far more replayability.

People are acting like it is Boarderlands or something in terms of exploration. There is a little more structure to the map and less vast open spaces.

Since I have only played fo3 and fo nv my opinion is tainted

I thought fo3 was the best all around game ever created by humans. I felt in the game, and the detail of DC was really great. I had alot of action all over, and it s story and setting made me feel like the cw really needed me. I put just over 2400 hrs in in that game with all the dlc s. I don t think another game can make me fell like fo3 did. I don t even think fo4 will be as good as fo3 was to me. I hope im wrong.

Fo nv is well worth the money, the lack of action and "mindless exploring" are my biggest complaints, but it is a very good game none the less. I don t like the 27 ending thing either. That is what really took me out of the game. I soon as I noticed what they had done it took alot away from the feel. A good game though everyone should get it.

I have played all of the main series games. It's hard to decide. It's definitely not Fallout 3, though

It'd have to be a tie between New Vegas and Fallout 1. Fallout 1 because it's what started it all and it has a great story and is a great RPG. New Vegas because it has a lot of what I love about Fallout in a new style of play.

Fallout 2. Even without the Restoration Project it is everything that Fallout was but bigger & better in my opinion; I never really liked Fallout's main story.

Fallout 2 because it was the game that introduced me to the series and I've played it for a decade and still find it extremely fun.
Fallout 1 "is" better than Fallout 2 but it's also very short in comparison.

FO3 for me. It may not have had the story of New Vegas, but it had the atmosphere, and that is more important in a computer game imo (if I want story I'll go read a book)

Fallout 2. Game that introduced me to the series when I was like 9, though I didn't play it much at all. I grew up infront of the computer in my brother's lap while he was playing, and that's where from I got it. Now when I'm older, I can understand everything better when I play it. Also, the Restoration Project. I know many criticize the immaturity of Fallout 2, compared to the serious world, but I kind of like it. I like the irony, I like the black comedy, I sometimes like "breaking the 4th wall", the six and all that. It's also longer than Fallout 1, and has much needed fixes and a companion system.

Though I admit, the first game of a series (and book, and movie, and music) is always the best because it's what started it all and got a fan base enough to make sequels. If you wanna debate if something is Fallout, then Fallout 1 is the template to go after. And also, even in Fallout 1 they've rebuilt more than in Fallout 3 (compare like Shady Sands and Megaton or Rivet City) Jeez.

Edit: Oh, any story is also very important, atmosphere is not what makes a game single-handedly. An example is Killing Floor - it has the atmosphere in the world (well, minus the metal music that pumps you for the action rather than setting a horror mood), but there is no story, there is nothing but killing zombies with your friends... and it's really boring if you don't play it with friends. You could say that games with a bad or too little story NEEDS multiplayer, so you can think of something else than go exploring and learning about the story and all that, and just kill stuff with your friends as they proceed to do do dirty jokes that breaks your immersion, which doesn't matter anyways because you don't have any immersion anyways.

The original Fallout, it was short but I think it had the best story, and most of the content was of high quality.

You know, I like all of them. I've played them and enjoyed them(can't comment on the burned game since I've never laid my hands on it).

Still, Fallout 1 has to be my favourite. Closely followed by New Vegas and 2. :fallout:

And horable mention: Tactics and Fallout 3

1) Fallout: It started it all

2) Fallout 2: A close second

3) Fallout New Vegas: A worthy modern sequel in spirit.

4) Fallout Tactics: Not an RPG but it was not sold as one. It has a great story IMO

5) Fallout 3: :ermm:

Well for me I would have to say Tactics all in all as my Favorite so far, though to be honest its really a close call among them as I have really loved em all. Heck even brotherhood of steel managed to be an effective time killer for me though it was pretty much bottem of the barrel as they go.

The main reason Tactics rates as my top is mostly alone by play time I put into it, I think (for me at least) this is out of them all the one with true variation possibilty's and great replayability because of the squad aspect you really can completey change up playstyles. (All the other games three seems my magic number of playthroughs I can do without seeming to start rehashing a hero/ anti hero skillsets and bingo I need a break and pull out tactics heheh though I do return to the others. I will be the first to admit though the story might not be as strong as the other games (and thats to bad too man if they had only polished it up more) and some of the scenerios are disjointed feeling (that may have changed if the have added new content I am stuck with the old one heh.)

But really the great thing some people miss is it does not matter what one is your favorite, its just that well everone here has a favorite, which means we will all be idiots and jump on the next one they produce. Gotta love a fan base cause that means more GAMES weeeeee! (lets just cross our fingers that the next one is our new best game ever hehehe)


Wow I was serious for a whole post thats not good better make an ass outa myself the next one.

Well ,i am not really into turn based games. F3 was very immersive and i see it as a stepping stone for future games. not perfect by any means. but still a lot of fun. It has more replay value than most any game ive played, and thats huge for me

Fallout 2 for me. Fallout has a better story and overall setting, but I played the second first and just got attached to it more. If New Vegas had shared the gameplay and mechanics at least to a certain - although, much larger than now - degree with them, it would've competed with the first two and fared well.