Best Fallout Game

The best Fallout game is Interplay's Fallout 1 followed by Black Isle Studios' Fallout 2. Strictly speaking, no other Fallout games are worth writing much about.

Fallout 1 is not only the best Fallout game in terms of design, aesthetics and writing, but it is seminal, ground-breaking and sparked a new era of reactive cRPGs as well as a Renaissance in cRPG History, which would lead to Fallout 2, Arcanum, Planescape: Torment and Mask of the Betrayer.

None of the above games would even exist if it wasn't for Fallout 1, and none of them are as good as Fallout 1 even though they verge on greatness themselves. In short, Fallout 1's influence in the genre of cRPGs has been incalculable.

In the Fallout "series", only Fallout 2 can stand alongside Fallout 1 and not be laughed at, booed and egged off-stage. Much like Jagged Alliance 2 (the apex of cRPGs), Fallout 1 will never be surpassed.

Bethesda's Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are only Fallout games in name. They are nothing like Fallout 1 or 2, which are the only Fallout games that count. Indeed, I often call Fallout 3 Oblivion With Guns because that's exactly what it is.

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