alright loving the show, have 15 tabs open on the fandom, huge boner over the world building, never played one in my life, do I get new vegas or 4?
alright loving the show, have 15 tabs open on the fandom, huge boner over the world building, never played one in my life, do I get new vegas or 4?
3
New Vegas. I would say 1 but it's understandable not wanting to start there.
3 then NV then 4 then either 1 and 2 , or 76 atleast untill bethesda dont shut down servers for it, you can try tactics but its OK to skip.
Patrician order is release order 3 > NV > 4 (optional)
Although 3 may not work on your windows.
3 will almost certainly require a bit of tweaking.
The big crash fixer is to go into the User.ini or Userprefs.ini (I forget which) and set bUseMultiThreadedAI=1. That's the big one. Without it, I can almost guarantee your game will crash so fast you can time it with a stopwatch. After that: Fan patch (no Script Extender/FOMM/MO/NMM/Vortex required) to fix a mountain of bugs. Next, and I forget if this does require a manager, script extender, or whatever, but a mod to convert the radio stations to Ogg Vorbis files prevents radio related crashes and fixes them not working if the correct DirectSound components are not installed (if you're running a version of Windows that doesn't end in 'XP' the odds are pretty damn good you don't have it) and the LOD noise texture (you want this. Trust me)
NV requires less tweaking. It still requires tweaking. YUP (again, no other tools required, just drop it into the directory that all the .esm files are stored in and enable it in the launcher if you don't want to do much else) and maybe Lonesome Road True Faction Allegiance? Benny's Lucky Lighter? It's a little overpowered but it's cool. Also the LOD noise texture.
4, uh...Jesus. There's two ways to fix the load screens (20-30% of the game is staring at load screens, by design) one being to uncork the framerate (you probably don't want to do that one, it can fry your GPU) and the other is to dummy it out using a mod (this one works *very* well) but you might want to play the game for a while with them on to get the messages; for some reason huge chunks of Fallout 4's worldbuilding is confined to those screens. There's a fanpatch and I think it's by Arthmoor and Arthmoor is a raging c**t, but his patch work is still good.
You'll find every file you need on Nexus.
The Steam and GoG versions of Fallout 1 and 2 run just fine, there's a mod to restore a bunch of content for 2 but some of that stuff really was left on the cutting room floor for a good reason.
MTA, when editing the ini files for 3, NV and 4, and I cannot emphasize this enough...
<em>Set the file to read-only after you're done with your edits.</em>
Play 3 and new Vegas, then play 1 & 2 if you liked them.
4 is shit.
>new vegas or 4?
Both are good for different reasons. New Vegas is more Role playing focused but it's older so it looks shitty until you get used to it. 4 is fun if you are more interested in zoning out, killing muties, or building shanty towns. It's story is wack and the roleplaying is preschool tier.
1, 2, Tactics or NV.
The rest are non-canon anyway/
New Vegas if you'd just like to mesh your own loathsome real-world politics onto your video game.
Fallout 4 if you want something a little more compelling.
Fallout 76
The only good things I can say about Fo4 is the looks and general gunplay. Shooting shit actually feels smooth and enemies take cover and flank you instead of blankly walking towards you while magdumping their weapons.
Then again NV was barely a side project since it was made in less than 2 years so I guess making this comparison wouldn't be fair
>The only good things I can say about Fo4 is the looks
4 gets a lot of hate but I would honestly start there as an introduction to the series. It's the simplified action version of Fallout, with broader appeal and a more interesting world map to explore. Once you are familiar with it, go play New Vegas for the true RPG experience. 3 is last if you still want more Fallout after playing NV.
4 is a slog and too boring to go thru compared to even fo3
The improved gunplay and graphics of FO4 add more to the experience than it's shitty story and cut-down RPG elements have removed. For me anyway. Plus, Far Harbour is one of the best Fallout experiences. I'm replaying FO3 right now for the first time in like 10 years and haven't really been sucked in yet. The world is map is very boring. And it's not like the main quest is any better.
agreed from a purely utilitarian/commercial perspective, but I think you miss out on a lot of the impact of the BoS' presence if you don't have the context the previous games give you about them
Play New Vegas with the Viva New Vegas mod list, then play 1 with Fixt if you want more. These are good, purist additions that are fit for new players.
Everything else isn't really worth it, unless you wish to see why people complain about Bethesda's Fallouts, in which case you should try out 4.
forgot to add that I am trans, if you are too don't forget to download the new vegas HRT mod!
you "people" are utterly pathetic
I'd say release order. 3 is very memorable as a first foray (it was mine back when it released), with an awesome urban area/underground subway system to explore, but combat is clunky and you need the broken steel DLC to avoid an extremely stupid, inescapable ending sequence in vanilla. NV is generally an improvement in every way, with better dialogue, story and characters, and also marginally better combat. the setting is cooler too, for my money, but i'm a sucker for westerns and Rome, so they had my number with the NCR rangers and the Legion. 4 has the best combat in the series and also the best urban area to explore (it had great verticality to downtown Boston, whereas 3 and NV have zero verticality whatsoever), plus 4 easily has the coolest interpretation of power armor, treating it like an iron man suit you must enter and exit (the show aped it entirely from 4). it sacrificed a lot of RPG elements for the sake of becoming a more competent action shooter though, so be ready for that - there is a voiced protagonist with a set-in-stone backstory and a terrible dialogue system. all of that can be fixed with mods however, so take that into consideration (the following from nexusmods will give you a much more classic bethesda experience: 'start me up redux', 'silent protagonist F4SE', 'SCDC - subjective cinematic dialogue camera'). 4 is apparently getting a big update on the 25th for free, so consider that as well.
You get 76 because it overlaps the most with your shit taste.
spare yourself
just let the show be the only thing you know of the lore.
stop while you're ahead
Assuming you aren't going to play the originals, go 3 > F:NV > 4
>why??
Fallout 3 is where Bethesda took control of the series and it's an entirely approachable and playable game. If you play F:NV first you'll have a worse experience because F:NV is basically 3.5 with better quests, companions, slightly better combat and a revised karma system. Then you play 4 which has bad writing and quests but the best combat and dicking around in the series (thanks to base building).
if OP actually liked the show, they should act like FO4 is the only FO game that has ever existed.
That way they'll stay only a little less happy than they are now, after having watched the show.
I wish I could curb stomp you right now
>all the people ITT seriously pretending the series starts with 3
lmfao
Theres really not getting into Fallout unless your willing to separate it into Fallout and Bethesda Fallout. Unless your the type that doesnt really pay attention to anything besides the most basic gameplay and everything else just becomes a blur to you.
dont bother with one or two except for the story. Personally I'd just do release order, go through the same rollercoaster as all of us, but most people picked up the game when they dropped 3.
Play 3 before 4 and NV after both, so you hit the pinnacle at the end. I 100% recommend playing them on PC for stability patch reasons, and post-initial playthrough modding purposes as well.
It's been years since I played F4. Just did that quest. He says Ad Victoriam...brother
What an absolute man unit.