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When it comes to the debate of Fallout 3, NV and 4. I think it comes down to Narrative, Game-play, Atmosphere. Fallout 3: Best atmosphere, they really leaned into Lovecraft and it's loaded with a lot of disturbing locations and quests. Fallout New Vegas: Best Narrative, Great story, interesting factions and dialogue. Fallout 4: Best Game-play, NV and 3 always felt clunky. The game was mechanically refined to play from shooting, enemies and crafting. In retrospect all three of them really excelled at something and I hope Fallout 5 can really bring all three together for an S Tier.

Fully agree with this list, ItalianSpartacus (except for Fallout Shelter which I wasn't a big fan of)! Always great to hear your thoughts on games, especially a series I care about a lot!

Been a long time subscriber, keep doing the great work! Also, mr Spartacus, would you say 76 holds up when played completely solo?

Perfect video to dive into Fallout with! Thank you 😄

I have spent hours in Fallout 4 just building bases or exploring the world. It is one of the few open world games where getting lost can be fun. The random encounters also help

Fallout 1 has the best intro trailer in the history of video games.

Fallout 2 is definitely my favorite, a lot due to nostalgia since it’s the one I played during my childhood. Fallout Shelter was a surprisingly good game, and the monetization while annoying could definitely be ignored.

To anyone who is a fan of fallout 3 and new vegas, i highly recommend checking out the tale of two wastelands mod that combines the games into one, where you can go between both game worlds/stories on one character in one playthrough and it is glorious, albeit quite a tricky mod to set up for a luddite like me but it comes with great set up instructions.

The first two games have a special place in my heart. Great list! ❤

omg finally ... my favorite series ranked, by the favorite channel 🎉

Really great video as always and excellent list. The only thing I would say is that the main story in F76 is actually excellent IMO. Yeah, it's delivered in an unconventional way because much of it is happening through audio tapes that you find but it's so well written and performed. It ties back to the origins of the Brotherhood of Steel and even for a faction that I don't like, the storytelling here is so damn good.

thanks great take on the history of fallout!😀

Here’s my tier list S: Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout NV A: Fallout 4 B: Fallout 76, Fallout Tactics C: Fallout 1 D: Fallout Shelter E: Fallout BOS 💩💩💩💩 Disclaimer fallout 3, 4, and NV with mods are all SS+ tier but I’m rating vanilla.

Really liked this video and this rating list. Here are some of my thoughts: -Tactics was meant to be what you said it is and in that it had succeeded. There were times I would get home and just wanted to blow things up and not have to deal much with paying attention to the story of a game. I know I am not alone in this because there are new games made to fill this role to this day. The game was kind of like a souls-lite game for me before it was even a genre. -The ones in S and A tiers are spot on, though Shelter is the only Fallout game I have not played so I am unsure of its place anywhere on this list. -Where I do not disagree with the issues you mentioned on 4, I feel that those may be some minor issues for most and that the game is overall as good as New Vegas in its own right. -76 are good where it is know, even though I am still bitter about 76's launch and how they took almost no input from Alpha and Beta players before launch, my buddy being part of both groups and myself being part of the beta. I would have put it in the D tier at launch but I recognize its has gotten better and B tier is the right place for it. -Brotherhood of Steal is not only the only Fallout game I returned after purchase but it is the only game I have returned a game in the same day I got it. I guess there was a reason it was in the used bin for a low price less than 2 weeks into its launch

76 at launch should really be so far down the list you have to scroll down under the comment section to find it imo..

Saying that fallout 76 is better then 3, is an insult to the whole fallout community. Fallout 76 is a product that was delivered broken, doesn't matter if now is more stable, we are not beta testers. Changed completely the formula, and it was transformed in an always online game, filled with micro transaction. This is not the game, that Tod promised to us, is only a liar, and we can see the same behavior with Starfield. IMAO, fallout76, should not even consider a fallout game, and confronting it with the other insult in nonsense.

My main gripe with your criticism of fallout 4 being "I'm constantly looking at the ground" is that you don't have to play that way, especially on PC.

One other aspect about fallout tactics you didn’t mention was it was the only other game with multiplayer that was the whole reason I bought it and bought it was ridiculous but also fun

Fallout 1. It has the best atmosphere for a post apocalyptic world par none. The brutality of the world had the most impact.

I prefer 1 over 2, although they are pretty close. Of course 2 has some QoL changes that are great and a lot more content and locations than 1. But I prefer the more focused story, the more coehesive locations and the darker tone of 1. Of course I played NV more than the other 2 combined, but there are no bad games in this excellent trilogy. A shame we haven't gotten a new Fallout in over 13 years.

My first game was Fallout 4, just a couple of years ago. Gameplay wise, it is my favourite fallout game and i really love exploring that world. Then i played New Vegas, absolutely loved it and is my favourite fallout game over all, then i played its dlcs and i grew to love it even more. I actually love Dead Money dlc, exactly because it takes all your gear and forces you to scrounge and use what you find. Thats also how i chose to play other dlcs as well, just using their gear. I love honest hearts for Joshua Graham, i love Old World Blues for its sheer insanity and i love lonesome road for Ulyssies philosophies and the dread of the Divide. Not big on Fallout 3. Too gray and boring, both in story and gameplay, especially after immideatly playing 4 and NV. But i loved the dlcs. Operation Anchorage is fantastic, actually experiencing one of the key moments of Fallout universe, The Pitt, the crazy environment and weapons (please, bring back the auto axe, its such a fun weapon). Mothership Zeta was just bonkers, getting kidnaped by aliens and meeting a whole bunch of people from across the time, since aliens kidnaped various people at various time and froze them. Point Lookout may be my favourite however. The bayou is an amazing location, the mutant hillbillies make for disturbing enemies and Desmond Lockheart is one of the greatest ghouls ever. Not to mention the Blackhall quest, for its lovecraftian goodness. I dont play online, so i have no interest in Fallout 76 and as good as Fallout 2 is, i doubt im going to play it. The oldest game i played was probably Jedi Knight Jedi Academy, but the gameplay is amazing, so i did it. Whatever comes next, i just hope its not an unfinished mess made with Creation Engine

Always nice to hear other peoples opinions on these games, New Vegas will always be my favorite, but each has some great aspects to it. Frank Horrigan is one of my favorite final bosses ever though, fking love that psycho. Don't think I've laughed harder when playing a game than when he offered to take everyone to lunch after pulverizing a guy lol

BTW I find it kinda funny that everyone says you have an amnesia in Fallout: New Vegas. As the devs say, you'r character can have memory loss if you want, of course. But nothing really indicates that. Other than you can ask NPC:s about the lore of the area and the world, like you wouldn't know what's going on. But you could be just new to Mojave or can just simply skip the lore questions. Your backstory is yours to invent, and that's one reason I love Vegas the most.

Fallout 2 being the best is a very reasonable opinion. Try some mods for it. You can do an entire new story in Nevada for example

I think settlements in Fallout 4 was cool, but it was a completely missed opportunity to add an automatic settlement feature It would have added to the lively-hood of Fallout 4 if settlements could be settled by inhabitants, and they do the actual settling in order to get the location ready for new citizens Tiered settlements that could also actually continue to build, and “level up” after the basics were done would have been cool as well. Like giving the town a specialized trait such as ammo production, or scavenging, farming, etc

I don't agree with everything, but still this is a really well articulated video. You've made me want to replay (nearly) all of these (even Fallout 2 😉).

You were incorrect about the origins of Fallout 1. Fargo leaving EA to form interplay had nothing to do with Fallout. Fallout was Tim Cains idea, and a side project he was working on, it wasn't even commissioned by interplay. Also, The vaults being a social experiment wasn't a thing in Fallout 1, that was a Fallout 2 retcon

I would say to me, Fallout 4 would go one tier higher on the list only because of the combat gameplay, when compared to Fallout 3 or NV. The story and other little details / "the feeling"* in NV ofcourse is way higher, but the gunplay in F4 works far better. I still hope we would get new isometric Fallout game, much alike to Fallout 1 and 2. ( I enjoyed Wasteland 2 and 3 alot as well ).

I’d watch you play Fallout streaming dude. It’s funny that you end up playing or talking about the games that I’m playing at the same time. First Diablo, then BG3, then Dragons Dogma, now Fallout. Do it? A modded FALLOUT 4 with setting up mods is golden content right now with the show just released.

Triggered instantly, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel was a great game

Tale of Two Wastelands is S Tier. I would move Fallout 4 to A+ Tier for one simple reason. The engine has depth.

Fun hot take time: I was never able to get into FNV. Not because I think it's terrible, or anything; I just found the Mojave to be a fairly bland, unnappealing setting.

Good Tier-list, except Fallout Tactics. It is an extremly underated game (in real time modus) .

100% agree with your take. A very measured and intellectual take on the franchise. Very rare for the internet lol.

3D: New Vegas. All time: Fallout 2, OG Fallout is a close second. I’m heavily biased to the isometric (even if they are technically not isometric) games though. I played them when they originally came out and have a lot of hours in them.

i loved fo2 so much... omg.. best story(s).. and it hinges from pt1. and u get a car to travel.. if they were to remake..or go back to the map on another date... fo2 is my pick...

I would enjoy a tier list of the elder scrolls though maybe not as relevant as the fallout show is out which is whole other thing to discuss . Great except for the laziness or perhaps hate against Obsidian for the 2277 event

anybody ever tell you that you sound alot like the original lead of fallout tim cain, your cadence is creepily similar

Fallout 1 was so ahead of its time!

Shelter getting an A was a little generous -- FO3 and Shelter probably could've been swapped

Watching while exploring the Mojave rn.

I am so happy to see Fallout 3 in C tier it is genuinely the worst of the mainline fallout games IMHO

I agree with your list but I'd swap FO4 and Shelter. The former is an excellent game but Shelter is a bit more a niche game that doesn't have the same depth, in my opinion.

Hearing 1997 being nearly 30 years ago was sad. What was MORE sad was realizing that it's been NINE of those 30 years since we've had a mainline fallout game made by Bethesda (main division) Instead we got space game. You know, the one so mediocre you probably already forgot it existed.

Depends what you want to play. Old school smash mouth....F1 RPG where it feels your decisions matter...NV Into building, crafting and survival....F4

Fallout New Vegas is by far the best FO game to me, I did not like 3 and 4 is ok but NV was amazing.

I remember when I first started playing Fallout with Fallout 3 GOTY. So it must have been around 2011-2012 as NV was already out a couple years. Absolutely loved Fallout 3. Amazing amazing game. Especially so for it's time. It's weird because I remember the sentiment amongst fans being that 3 was amazing and NV was unpolished garbage. By the time 4 came out that sentiment flip flopped entirely.

putting fallout 76 that high is a crime

I think a certain subsection of the internet needs to accept that the majority of people like FO4, and that not every FO fan wants to only discuss New Vegas 24/7 After all these years, FO4 sits with a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, and was almost always in the top 10-15 best selling RPGs each week, even prior to the show. But any time someone talks about FO4, like clockwork, someone jumps to the comments to say "New Vegas is better!" 🙄 We get it, you like NV. But not everyone feels the need to ONLY talk about 1 single out of an entire franchise. Sometimes we like talking about other games! Crazy, I know. As some that loves NV, it's still annoying to constantly have people derail every FO conversation.

I hated the annoying building. I wanted a story not to have to keep stopping to build crappy settlements and do dumb quests for them or they starve to death.

I consider Fallout 4 to be a looter shooter game like STALKER Anomaly/GAMMA and not an RPG like its predecessors.

I agree with the ranking, but if someone told me that there is only one game I can play for the rest of my life,I would choose new vegas ove fallout 2.

The temple of trials was so infuriating it did honestly put me off Fallout 2. I’ve always felt like New Vegas was fallout 2 perfected .

I agree on 3, I just went back, after 3 being my favorite game forever, and it is a snooze. There is nothing happening in this game.

Before watching, it's going to be FO2 or New Vegas 😂

Fallout 76 in B tier with 3? Surely thats a massive typo

Fallout 2 is the best.

You forgot Fallout Shelter Online, not to be confused with Fallout Shelter.

its a shame that fallout shelter in asian markets has pvp yet here in the US it doesnt :(

S - agreed, 100% A - Never played Shelter but otherwise agreed B - Are you fucking drunk!? Fallout 76 in B?! No way, never ... (Fallout 4 in B is fine though) C- Yeah works out D - Nope ... nope, nope. nope. F:OT is either B or C Brotherhood Of Steel - Agreed, although I'd put F76 in Brotherhood Of Steel Tier too xD

No way Fallout 76 should not have been talked about! Fallout First 100$ a year to loot yeah no way

Putting 76 and 4 above 3 is criminal. New vegas is S tier for me and 3 would be in A tier. I hated the voiced protagonist in 4 and it just didn't enjoy it as much as the previous 2.

Fallout new Vegas has a great story but it’s so full of bugs I’d easily put it on D tier. I would crash every 5 minutes when playing it, and lost 3 playthroughs to save corruption. Meanwhile, 4 worked. Buggy, but not nearly as bad

Fallout Fallout 2 Fallout: New Vegas Fallout 3 Fallout 4 I don't like Bethesda's style of games in general, so 3 and 4 are last. But Fallout 4 combines the typical Bethesda shallow characters and world with a terrible main story.

New vegas was by far the best and the fact it wasn't even made by the same company is hialrious 🤣

Tactics is set around Chicago. For me F: Tactics, Fallout 1/2, Fallout 4... OH! BTW Im not sure its THAT new news. BUT mr Howard, through IGN confirmed ALL Fallout games are CANON, yes Tactics too ( though some rewiring of events might be needed, the MW BoS are canon no matter what though ). I can * deep breaths * rest, knowing.. maybe SOMEDAY we will see in future Fallout games and the show, the Mid Western BoS with their pragmatic big group consisting of not only normie humans, but also ghouls and super mutants! Work hard, prove your worth and earn respect. Higher grades means a really unique and BADASS type of power armor, horned, with orange or black capes for some grades, orange eye visors and bunch of purple clad scribes/ scientists to back em all up. Cant effing wait! Thanks mr.Howard, faith mostly restored and finally getting back into Fallout after a looong hiatus😂

Can 76 be played solo??

Good list. Personally I'd have 3 lower (I think it's total garbage) but respectable list nonetheless

New Vegas hands down. Best story and experience combined with all the dlcs. But with that said I still had a lot of fun with FO3 and with the mods on FO4. I hated Fallout Shelter with every fiber of my being.

One. The End.

New Vegas is best

Really hated the timer in the original Fallout.

fallout 2 eternal !!!

The party system was awesome also. Different companions had different talk styles. Why no real companions in FO 3? BGS didn't understand the game! But when they came out with FO 4 it still didn't have a real party system. BGS missed the most fun feature of the game. So, instead of making better, they made it lesser game. They still don't really understand what made the game popular. Switching to real-time-combat didn't bother me, but it didn't seem that they understood what made the game great, and failed to add to that.

They need to lower the sub to 5 a month period.

Fallout tactics was the best.

Loved New Vegas, and Fallout 4. I couldn’t get into Fallout 3 and skipped Fallout 76 because of the rocky launch and I don’t have the internet to play it. One thing I love about Fallout as a whole is the extensive lore and the games have something for just about everyone.

I dont think there was really a difference between fallout 3 and new Vegas except for the plot. So determining which is better is based entirely on which setting, story, characters, and writing resonated with you more. Which for me was fallout 3 by a long shot, it was just more memorable with more impactful set pieces. Like the megaton vs tenpenny tower questline was the single most memorable quest line of any fallout game. Fallout 4 is just modern, it was alright.

I played Fallout 4 without vats so there was no real role-playing element to combat.

For anyone looking to get New Vegas, be warned that if you have the radio on whenever possible like me, you will hear about Johny Guitar... A lot.

ffs 12.99 monthly in 2024? geez

Fallout 3 by far.

Fallout 2 S tier, good lad. *pat* *pat*

Fallout 76 isn't even F2P. It was completely misleading how they promoted the game. Now it's still buy to play, have to buy expansions, on top of the monthly sub, on top of the fact you can just swipe for resources. That's disgraceful no matter how far the game has come.

Fallout 3 is my favorite. Vegas 2nd. I can not believe you placed Fallout 76 and 4 above fallout 3. Thats insulting

Heh. Tried 76 earlier today. The fact that the bombs were dropped only 25 years before exiting vault was too bizarre to me. The area has flush forrests and is pretty full of life, idea being that people will now start to rebuild. This pretty much blows the lore of any other Fallout game out of the window, as in 3, Vegas and 4 the world is still a radiated wasteland over 200 years since the bombs fell. I swear the writing is just getting worse in Bethesda games.

New vegas followed by tv show

Big fan of fall out 76, played for about a year and wanna check out the updates just never enough time lol

My list: Fallout 1 Fallout 2 New Vegas The rest can fill my garbage bin.

How in the god damn could you put Fallout Shelter above Fallout 4 and 3. I just cannot take this tier list serious...

Well , you lost me at "Mr house is an AI controlling Vegas" !! 😑

I feel like Fallout 4 is as good as New Vegas in most ways that matter for an adventure RPG. The dialogue is extremely stunted but the world to explore out there is fantastic. The technological innovations aren't just "a bit better graphics", its a night and day difference. For example the enemies actually have different behaviors, while in old games a deathclaw and a mole rat were basically the same

76 isn't free to play unless you game pass

I wouldn’t say 4 is better than 3… 3 has proper choices and freedom, 4 is an open world game, that’s it, with feck all rpg mechanics

Fallout 4 because I live to gather junk and use it to literally rebuild civilization!

i feel like i failed as a fallout fna.. i coudln't stand new vegas... i found it hella boring... i never got to New vegas.....

Bethesda has been an absolute disaster for the fallout franchise. Look at the slop tv show

FNV>Fallout2>Fallout1>Fallout Tactics>Fallout 4>Fallout 3

Putting a mobile game as A tier is pretty terrible. "It originally only came out on phone" is all you needed to know that it is NOT a top of the line Fall Out game. It's barely even a real video game, like most mobile games. And you only spend like 30 seconds on it compared to everything else. You know it sucks. Be real.