I have never played a Fallout game in my life...

I have never played a Fallout game in my life. I usually play turn based RPGs and fantasy shooters like Mass Effect and Bioshock. Which one do I play first, Fallout 3, 4 or New Vegas?

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>I usually play turn based RPGs
Fallout 1 or 2

Setting - Fallout 3

Story and actual roleplaying with choices- Fallout New Vegas

Gameplay - Fallout 4

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Are there any pros for playing this series in release order?
>Setting - Fallout 3
What do you mean setting? Are the story and gameplay bad in 3?

The story is lackluster. You have no real options except for one that doesn't actually change anything visible.

Fallout 3 captures a bleak and miserable world the best to me. Also the DC tunnels are super fun especially if it's you're first time and you're not using a guide.

The DC tunnels are fucking terrible, what are you even talking about? They're literally just hallways with enemies.

The gameplay is okay bot nothing special. Melee is pretty simple in all of them just bash the attack buttton.

Guns require aiming of course but there isn't really a lot of options .

Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3 have the same game engine by the way, there's even a mod where you can play 3 if you have new vegas

New Vegas and 2 are the best, Dont bother with the rest

You get different enemies, you can't see everything and you don't know where you'll end up. I guess I should have said the entire DC region.

Everywhere has different enemies, it's not difficult at all to see, and you know exactly where you'll end up because they're all just fucking hallways like I said.

Play 1, then 2, then NV, and then don't touch anything else in the series because everything else is shit.

I meant more you don't know where in the DC region you'll end up.

You're gonna be in a different, smashed up green shithole, like everywhere else in the game.

2 is my fav, new vegas second best and is probably the most serious game.
4 isnt as bad as people make it out to be but its a generic shoot em up game.

Play 3, then NV, then 4.
Skip 76.

3 is my personal fave but I understand it has significant flaws. I just find the world so captivating.

NV has a less engaging world but the characters win the day in this one, with several quests dependant on certain actions.

4 is an attempt to recapture 3. It is more refined, which is great but it doesn't have that same feeling 3 gave me for some reason.

Play 1, 2, 3, NV, and 4 in that order
Some are better than others but none are truly bad games despite what some Zig Forumsedditors may think

The entire Fallout series is good, some entries are better than others. Even the shitty console exclusive BoS isn't THAT bad. I would personally play 1,2 and then New Vegas for story consistency. Fallout 3 and 4 (I guess 76 too) are Bethesda's own retarded lore and story.

Everyone who says Fallout 4's gameplay/gunplay is better is a moron because Beth didn't bother to include any alternative ammo or real resistances to the enemies like in New Vegas. Fallout 4 just has bullet sponge enemies that makes it painfully obvious you are playing a skyrim mod

I'll be honest I always thought Fallout 4's gunplay is really mediocre and only stands out because it was so bad before. Every gun has ridiculous recoil and the gun models all suck balls so it's hard as fuck to land accurate shots.

ps2 BoS was indeed that bad

1, 2, and NV
Maybe tactics and 76 if you're feeling adventurous

>automatic weapons are just 20% weaker for no reason
>linear damage upgrades
>shitty legendary effects that don't scale with level
>poor implementation of environmental effects

They made all this modular shit that could allow for cool loadouts and builds but they didn't do that.

3 then nv to appreciate how much better it is, then finally 4 to realize how low bethesda has fallen

Meshuggah and Slipknot were on the soundtrack. It was pretty based bro.

and their enemy balancing is just all over the place. the most egregious one I found was with the rad-rats they added in nuka world.

>Rad-Rat Pup (16)
>Damage: 50
>Mangy Rad-Rat Pup (24)
>Damage: 75
>Rad-Rat (32)
>Damage: 100
>Infected Rad-Rat Pup (40)
>Damage: 100
>Mangy Rad-Rat (48)
>Damage: 125
>Infected Rad-Rat (56)
>Damage: 150
>Plagued Rad-Rat (64)
>Damage: 200

vs. Deathclaws

>Deathclaw (22)
>Damage: 60
>Alpha Deathclaw (31)
>Damage: 75
>Glowing Deathclaw (41)
>Damage: 90
>Deathclaw Matriarch (51)
>Damage: 105
>Savage Deathclaw (61)
>Damage: 120
>Albino Deathclaw (71)
>Damage: 135
>Chameleon Deathclaw (81)
>Damage: 150
>Mythic Deathclaw (91+)
>Damage: 175

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Nuka World was just ridiculous, every other enemy was a bullet sponge that would take two full mags of the best gun I had at level 40, the mirelurks especially.

it was supposed to be a fallout game. Fallout should not have heavy metal.

I couldn't even be bothered to play through Nuka World. I was pretty drained from Fallout 4 since I was maxed out on gear at that point.

It just felt random and tedious fighting all the variants like in Skyrim. Enemy scaling does not belong in RPGs. The game should be designed a level cap because gear stops

Even 3 had broken enemy balance. Mothership Zeta's aliens and the Reavers were pretty insane health wise. Bethesda just sucks at gameplay

>level 64 Nukalurk Queen, a unique variant of a giant mutant crustacean = 1,500 health
>level 69 Operator Butcher, a raider = 1,300 health

at least you could buy Splattercannon at the market once you're in the park, and proceed to melt everything with un-resisted stacks of rapid-fire bleeding damage.

I replace the OST with 90's nu metal everytime play a fallout game. It just feels better to walk across the wasteland listening to "Rollin" by Limp Daddy Bizkit

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Can I just play New Vegas?

The stories aren't really connected, go ahead