So I'm in the town with Boonefer. I remember him being useful when sharky played and I don't like shooting things and Boone seems okay with shooting things. sharky did lead me astray and kept sending me through those big umm deathclaw(?) things and it turns out that isn't even where Boonesville wasI stumbled upon the actual area while exploring further east. So I'll see how that goes!
I've played and beaten the first Fallout. It was good but definitely a different playstyle than the newer ones.
So I got umm Veronica, I think her name is, as a partner. She punches things really hard
They're not supposed to be rookie friendly. Usually you either learn fast or you get smurfed in the desert by raiders and super mutants. The hardcoreness of that is what makes the Fallout series by Interplay so damn awesome.Originally Posted by Vyk
You do have a point, but this thread is about a newbie to Fallout asking where to start, specifying which one would be easiest. So maybe not with the original Fallout, is all Vyk was saying.
I warned you about them, and said I thought Novac was that way, but I couldn't remember. It had been a while.So I'm in the town with Boonefer. I remember him being useful when sharky played and I don't like shooting things and Boone seems okay with shooting things. sharky did lead me astray and kept sending me through those big umm deathclaw(?) things and it turns out that isn't even where Boonesville was
Fallout 2 is, in my opinion, the best Fallout but New Vegas is the next best choice. Fallout 3 is more combat-oriented and plays out more like a Hollywood film than a deep and complex role-playing game. Plus it has very little to do with the other games in the series.
- Considering NV has everything 3 had, and has different types of ammo for all weapons as well as weapon mods to use, it's definitely in the lead there.
- NV used skills better in opening up dialogue options, and used them more often. Odds are if you run with high enough intelligence, medical, science, speech, and a variety of other skills you'll do a lot better at working a lot of situations to your advantage. I just replayed New Vegas and started replaying 3 immediately after and they just didn't use your skills in dialogue as often or nearly as well.
- I might actually give it to 3 though the crumbling city itself is such a maze of sewers and subways connecting various areas that may actually disqualify it. On the other hand, NV has some barriers in the form of really powerful enemies preventing you from taking the most direct route from where you start to Vegas, but it is possible to sneak through there and bypass a ton of the game temporarily. I guess I'll go with NV being more open because I really hate going into Washington in 3, but I'm not giving it to NV by much. They're both pretty even.
- New Vegas was more varied, had multiple factions to visit including numerous settlements, farms, towns, etc. And even the more isolated stuff like the Repconn rocket facility is pretty interesting. 3 had... a lot less of that. It also had a hideous green tinge to everything, some half assed settlements, and no apparent way for them to feed themselves. Ever since I learned that there's nothing in 3 to indicate how they get food it's bothered me to no end. So basically, if you want a game where it seems like everyone still thinks the bombs just fell, most things are irradiated, and you'll mostly trudge through old factories, sewers, etc then go with that. If you want a game that actually has some semblance of civilization 200 years after the bombs fell, and people actually building successful communities, while also facing threat from other factions, and having some variety to the places you meet all of these folks go to NV. You'll still see repeated scenery here and there, but the factions, characters, and conflicts really make exploring the scenery a lot more interesting than in 3.
- See above. One thing I've been reminded after starting 3 again is how little of it actually makes a damn bit of sense. The majority of characters and the quests they end up sending you on are either insane or make no sense. I've actually come across two outside of the main quest so far that were actually pretty well done and not idiotic at all. New Vegas is just a better written and more complete world. Even when it does trend into the zanier aspects of Fallout.
Both are pretty easy on the easiest setting. I'd say New Vegas can get a bit tricky at higher levels because of weapon types, but you can still ignore it, rely on VATS and your companions and do pretty well without much trouble. Just keep the difficulty down.
- About the same really, though when it comes to quests, you'll have a much better chance of talking your way out of trouble in NV than in 3 if you build those skills.
Veronica is a boss.
I got lucky and ended up in the place with the Boomers or whatever. They are friggin insane and I hate them
The first two games may as well be from an entirely different franchise altogether, honestly. I played the first one last year, and enjoyed it, but would definitely point to the newer games for anyone new to the series. I think it makes you appreciate the origins more if you're already a fan of the series by the time you play them. I still plan to play the second one at some point.
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