I played and enjoyed them all. i didnt play fallout 4 as much as the other 2 mostly because of how many games i had at time of release. I picked new vegas. I have the most play time and lot fun memories of it
FO 3 has a clearly defined 'good' goal. It wraps up the Harold & Bob story from the first two. Some of it's DLC is delightfully weird '50's era science fiction elements. Overall, it takes itself less seriously than the latter games.
FO New Vegas end goal isn't as clearly defined. The different factions you can choose to support are neither good nor evil. It's end goal and story is more open to choice.
FO 4's story is rather scattered between all the different factions you can choose to support or try to kill off. The crafting is significantly more involved than previous games. Settlement building is a love/hate relationship. You'll quickly find out why people want to put a bullet in Preston Garvey's and Marcy Long's skull.
Replayabilty can be hit or miss. You have to commit to a different build. I always seem to end up with avatars that have the same skills regardless of what I try to start with.
None of the three have any continuity between each other. You can play them in any order and you won't see any spoilers or story elements that are shared except for the world they occur in.
I'd say Fallout 3 and it's DLC are overall better than the other two. Unless you really like to create settlements.
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My personal favorite is FO4, but overall I'd recommend New Vegas as the one to try.
I also recommend a strong stealth/ sniper build if new to these titles, worked very well for me in FNV. Also rifle specs provide same bonuses to shotguns.
Shotguns are a bit meh at first so use them only for up close killing of rad scorps and only if you can't kill them at range. Once you get the automatic combat shotgun
Melee builds can be very challenging especially until you get your first power armor set.
If going heavy weapons I found mini guns pretty underwhelming in both FNV and 4. Missile launchers however were awesome, especially when killing death claws at range.
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I forget 3 since I played it so long ago and I never played New Vegas. So FO4 by default.
I did put a couple of hundred hours in it and have gone back 2 or 3 times. But like @Grunty said above, try as I may I always end-up using sniper rifles and shotguns
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Fallout 3 game of the year edition for me was just amazing. NV was good but not as free roaming as i would have liked. It had some really good things like weapons crafting. I played Fallout 3 with and without mods for 2 straight years.
Just buy the ultimate edition you have linked, three of those DLCs are well done.
Final advice, do not slavishly follow the main story line or the game will end way too quickly. Some folks claimed to do it in 35 hrs, took me 175 plus.
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i am not a huge fallout player but i started again and its fun play them all buddy start with fallout 3 game of the year edition it has hundreds of hours of gameplay;)
FO 3 has a clearly defined 'good' goal. It wraps up the Harold & Bob story from the first two. Some of it's DLC is delightfully weird '50's era science fiction elements. Overall, it takes itself less seriously than the latter games.
FO New Vegas end goal isn't as clearly defined. The different factions you can choose to support are neither good nor evil. It's end goal and story is more open to choice.
FO 4's story is rather scattered between all the different factions you can choose to support or try to kill off. The crafting is significantly more involved than previous games. Settlement building is a love/hate relationship. You'll quickly find out why people want to put a bullet in Preston Garvey's and Marcy Long's skull.
Replayabilty can be hit or miss. You have to commit to a different build. I always seem to end up with avatars that have the same skills regardless of what I try to start with.
None of the three have any continuity between each other. You can play them in any order and you won't see any spoilers or story elements that are shared except for the world they occur in.
I'd say Fallout 3 and it's DLC are overall better than the other two. Unless you really like to create settlements.
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Fallout 3 was my personal favorite. Something about fallout 3 captured that Americana 1950's vibe so well, It was very immersive. Dont get me wrong i love all 3 of the games but New Vegas felt a little too sci-fi and Fallout 4"s explorable world didn't feel quite as massive in scale to me despite actually being larger (I think).
One correction, Fallout 4 is all about looking for aluminum......always pick up everything made of aluminum or buy it from vendors when you see it.
Actually there are a number of key materials, adhesive, screws, springs, oil, and about 4 more, depending on what you want to build.
Encumbrance is a very real thing and I always took every perk or gear mod to increase carry capacity.
You are golden when you get strong back to the point where you can fast travel regardless of being over encumbered or not.
My anecdotal experience with fast travel in FO 3 and FO:NV was it would cause the assassination squads to come after me more often. In FO 4 it caused more settlement attacks.
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One correction, Fallout 4 is all about looking for aluminum......always pick up everything made of aluminum or buy it from vendors when you see it.
Actually there are a number of key materials, adhesive, screws, springs, oil, and about 4 more, depending on what you want to build.
Encumbrance is a very real thing and I always took every perk or gear mod to increase carry capacity.
You are golden when you get strong back to the point where you can fast travel regardless of being over encumbered or not.
My anecdotal experience with fast travel in FO 3 and FO:NV was it would cause the assassination squads to come after me more often. In FO 4 it caused more settlement attacks.
You could be right, I never did figure out what the triggers for those were.
By the time the assasination attacks started in FNV I was well armored and skilled so they really were opportunities to pick up some great loot.
FO4 I learned to mostly ignore settlement attacks or put massive defenses that could lay waste to anything.
Didn't matter if I had to repair, I was basically rich from my muti-fruit farming and couldn't spend the caps I made.
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I'm a huge fallout fan, to me, NV is the best game, but Fallout 4 had the best gameplay mechanics. 3 was just okay for me personally, its not good at all without mods its the "Oblivion" of the fallouts.
NV, FO4, FO3 in that order. None of them are BAD games so play whichever speaks to you most, but yea IMO NV is the best of the 3.
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I liked Fallout 4. I messed my game up so bad and the game let me. Institute nuked. Railroad butchered. Prydwin bombarded. Settlements taken by raiders and Preston won't talk to me. Raiders killed by me. Far Harbor taken by the fog. Children of Atom nuked themselves. Arcadia butchered like the railroad. I have no radiant quests and anyone I run into I know I can shoot first and ask questions later.
If I could import 4's power armor mechanics and settlement building into New Vegas, it would be the ultimate first person Fallout game. Yet even as it stands, it's still the best one by far. Obsidian's showing with the franchise is better than either of Bethesda's attempts by a mile.
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I didn't like the way S.P.E.C.I.A.L and the perks worked in FO4. You couldn't make a gibbering cretin with off the charts Charisma.
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FO 3 has a clearly defined 'good' goal. It wraps up the Harold & Bob story from the first two. Some of it's DLC is delightfully weird '50's era science fiction elements. Overall, it takes itself less seriously than the latter games.
FO New Vegas end goal isn't as clearly defined. The different factions you can choose to support are neither good nor evil. It's end goal and story is more open to choice.
FO 4's story is rather scattered between all the different factions you can choose to support or try to kill off. The crafting is significantly more involved than previous games. Settlement building is a love/hate relationship. You'll quickly find out why people want to put a bullet in Preston Garvey's and Marcy Long's skull.
Replayabilty can be hit or miss. You have to commit to a different build. I always seem to end up with avatars that have the same skills regardless of what I try to start with.
None of the three have any continuity between each other. You can play them in any order and you won't see any spoilers or story elements that are shared except for the world they occur in.
I'd say Fallout 3 and it's DLC are overall better than the other two. Unless you really like to create settlements.
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I also recommend a strong stealth/ sniper build if new to these titles, worked very well for me in FNV. Also rifle specs provide same bonuses to shotguns.
Shotguns are a bit meh at first so use them only for up close killing of rad scorps and only if you can't kill them at range. Once you get the automatic combat shotgun
Melee builds can be very challenging especially until you get your first power armor set.
If going heavy weapons I found mini guns pretty underwhelming in both FNV and 4. Missile launchers however were awesome, especially when killing death claws at range.
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The rest of the games in your list are not even proper fallout games, imo.
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I did put a couple of hundred hours in it and have gone back 2 or 3 times. But like @Grunty said above, try as I may I always end-up using sniper rifles and shotguns
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Final advice, do not slavishly follow the main story line or the game will end way too quickly. Some folks claimed to do it in 35 hrs, took me 175 plus.
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Actually there are a number of key materials, adhesive, screws, springs, oil, and about 4 more, depending on what you want to build.
Encumbrance is a very real thing and I always took every perk or gear mod to increase carry capacity.
You are golden when you get strong back to the point where you can fast travel regardless of being over encumbered or not.
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I only did one play through, might go back and revisit before plunging into FO76.
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My anecdotal experience with fast travel in FO 3 and FO:NV was it would cause the assassination squads to come after me more often. In FO 4 it caused more settlement attacks.
By the time the assasination attacks started in FNV I was well armored and skilled so they really were opportunities to pick up some great loot.
FO4 I learned to mostly ignore settlement attacks or put massive defenses that could lay waste to anything.
Didn't matter if I had to repair, I was basically rich from my muti-fruit farming and couldn't spend the caps I made.
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NV, FO4, FO3 in that order. None of them are BAD games so play whichever speaks to you most, but yea IMO NV is the best of the 3.
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