Which Fallout game?

I hadn't touched FO4 for over a year but when I last loaded it up a couple of weeks ago, fell over almost immediately with a CTD which it never did previously. Not sure what's brought that on - might try a clean install, kill all the mods and start a fresh game. I like the fact there is no level cap so you can basically keep working on XP ad infinitum and really turn your character into a tank. And I always, but always, do the move at the start to ignore Preston Garvey so you don't keep being lumbered with his Minutemen radiant quests.

FO3 is a bit dated now and again possibly funky on modern hardware and O/S. Level cap means you have to manage what you upgrade very carefully.

I think NV probably my favourite though the plot can get a bit convoluted and loads of side missions. The Deathclaws are hard as nails as are those weird flying insects you encounter from time to time. Another one with a level cap, so if you do all the side missions eventually you are grinding XP for nothing.
 
I've put hundreds of hours into Fallout over the years, and my overall favourite is still New Vegas.

In order...

NV, 3, 2, 1, 4, Tactics 76, Shelter

76 has improved massively since launch. Adding in the NPC's made it start to feel like a Fallout game again. Well worth playing, especially with it for free with Prime Gaming at the moment.

4 - I hate the settlements. I want to mininuke Preston Garvey from the moment I meet him....

The board games of Fallout and Shelter are pretty good. Fallout especially once you get the Co-op expansion. Shelter is a bit simpler.
 
I've only played 4, would love to play 3 and NV but I just can't be doing with the graphics. I wish I could.
 
New Vegas im playing now properly on hardcore, years ago in 2010 i uninstalled after around 20 hours. Now though going deeper into the game its best one.
NV+FO4 is only ones id play now.
 
arc@css said:
^^ You need to check out some mods for them. Have a dig on YT.
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I'll give them another look but when I looked previously they didn't seem that great to me tbh. That's primarily my fault as I didn't play them first time around so I don't have any memories to latch onto and be more forgiving about.

If that makes sense.

I heavily modded FO4, SIM Settlements completely changed my attitude towards settlements. I think I had a mod where you could dispose of Preston too. God he's annoying.
 
Seems Fallout 4 is split over settlement building.

I like it personally but many don't.

The only thing I would say you don't really need to do very much of it at all if you don't want to.

Personally I love modding fallout 4 to make it a survival game, play hardcore (obviously) then add war on the commonwealth which increase random spawns significantly, then put enemy damage up 400% and your own damage up with another mod, and just try surviving.

It makes it so you more or less die in one shot depending.

You can't just hide forever as you'll run out of food and water, good fun.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Seems Fallout 4 is split over settlement building.

I like it personally but many don't.

The only thing I would say you don't really need to do very much of it at all if you don't want to.

Personally I love modding fallout 4 to make it a survival game, play hardcore (obviously) then add war on the commonwealth which increase random spawns significantly, then put enemy damage up 400% and your own damage up with another mod, and just try surviving.

It makes it so you more or less die in one shot depending.

You can't just hide forever as you'll run out of food and water, good fun.
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Yeah, like I say, I wasn't too eager about it but then SIM Settlements changed all that for me. It's still evolving, no idea where it's at now as new characters and missions we're getting added when I stopped playing last time.

To be fair though, playing the vanilla playthrough you don't have to do that much settlement work if you don't want to. Some for the story sure but not that much.

Picked up FO4 VR when it was on sale a good while back, will be good to see what mods have been added/upgraded.

Those survival mods sound right up my street though.
 
I've been intending to play New Vegas ever since it came out but somehow just never got to it - can anyone recommend some mods to make it look half-decent on today's hardware?
 
[HB]Rugrat said:
I've been intending to play New Vegas ever since it came out but somehow just never got to it - can anyone recommend some mods to make it look half-decent on today's hardware?
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Go here and click on most endorsed or top files and look through either of these. You can then take your pick as to what you want.
 
Fallout 3 is the only one i completed, so that says a lot...4 is ok though, i get some enjoyment out of it and still looks quite good even without mods
 
syks said:
Fallout 3 is the only one i completed, so that says a lot...4 is ok though, i get some enjoyment out of it and still looks quite good even without mods
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I think fO4 has the best gunplay and new New vegas the quests and depth as well as factions. If the devs could do a remake of NV with FO4 gunplay it would be great.
 
Josey Wales said:
I think fO4 has the best gunplay and new New vegas the quests and depth as well as factions. If the devs could do a remake of NV with FO4 gunplay it would be great.
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Yup agreed.

They really improved the engine in 4, the shooting/FPS combat feels pretty solid. On the previous 2 (Particularly 3) it just feels really awkward and janky.

But agree New Vegas definitely had a style to it, such a shame when New Vegas was released it has some game breaking bugs, CTD on the slow mo replay death cam thing, 100% of the time, yes you could fix it by disabling it in game options, but I mean wtf, don't release a game with stuff like that?!?

This gave the game a very bad rep to start off with, which I'm not sure they ever fully recovered from, despite the later versions of the game being fine, and I can't help but think the game may have been more commercially successful if they had just waiting and ironed out some of these things before release.

New Vegas was also the first to officially have a survival/hardcore mode which in my opinion is a must on any play through as it adds so much more depth.
 
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