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Fallout Beginner's Guide: Best Game to Start With | Push Square
19.04.2024 - 05:31 / pushsquare.com / Best Game
What's the best Fallout game to start with if you're looking to explore the post-apocalyptic franchise for the first time? If you're new to the series — perhaps you've just watched the Fallout Amazon live action adaptation — then you have a number of options available to you. In this Fallout beginner's guide, we're going to break these options down and help you decide on the Fallout game that's best for you.
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The short answer, for most people reading this guide, will be Fallout 4. It's the most readily available release, and it's the most modern mainline Fallout title, with gameplay that feels nowhere near as dated as what you'll find in previous games.
But if you want a longer answer...
The best Fallout game to start with will largely depend on the kind of experience that you're looking for. The original Fallout games — Fallout and Fallout 2 — play very differently to Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, because they were made by an entirely different developer in a completely different era.
The first two Fallout games are old-school, isometric role-playing titles that are incredibly clunky by today's standards (although the writing and storytelling is still great). As such, they're difficult to recommend unless you're already a fan of more hardcore RPGs — but then you'd probably already be aware of their existence.
The mainline Fallout games made by Bethesda — Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 — are much more welcoming thanks to modernised game design. They're open world RPGs with real-time combat, featuring branching quests that can be altered through player choice.
However, so many years after its initial release, Fallout 3 is really showing its age. It's a slow, often awkward game compared to more modern RPGs, but its world building, setting, and quest design still hold up. Fallout 3 is a decent place to start your Fallout journey if you can stomach its inherent jankiness, but we think there's a better option...
Which brings us to Fallout 4. If you're completely new to Fallout, this fourth instalment is probably the best place to begin because it's the most streamlined title in the entire series. It's also the closest game, tonally, to Amazon's Fallout show.
Fallout 4 has the series' most refined gameplay mechanics, and its dynamic open world is still a joy to explore. That said, Fallout 4 does stumble a bit in terms of storytelling and role-playing. It's not as in-depth as previous games, offering a reduced degree of player choice, and generally speaking, the writing and world building isn't as engaging. Still, for most people, numerous gameplay improvements will be enough to outweigh Fallout 4's narrative flaws.
Fallout 4 is our standout choice as the
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