Fallout New Vegas

Loved New Vegas , it's one of my favorite games.
I tried to play one and two but the gameplay was too clunky for me.
I don't like FO3 at all.
And FO4 was overall really good for a Bethesda game but it's no FO:NV.

I'm still waiting for a new open world game with the quality of FO:NV .

I´ve played them all and enjoyed it. Character development and storyline are not their strong points, but the atmospheric setting and freedom of play more than make up for it.

Of the newer ones, I agree that NV´s story was easily the best. I really liked FO4´s setting and gameplay (maybe influenced by my fondness for Boston as a setting), and the settlement building was surprisingly fun, given that I don´t normally have the patience for such things. The main story did not thrill me nearly as much as I wanted it to. There was a lot of potential depth that was just not there. For all their supposed brilliance, the Institute did not seem to have a very convincing motivation beyond the "we are the future of humanity" repeated ad nauseam, which was really disappointing. The only sad thing about blowing them up was the loss of the classical music channel for me .

But I digress. Still clocked 200+ hours on that one, and I´ll likely play the next one as well. I just hope they can up their game in the story department.

This is mind blowing! I wish Bethesda hired those guys.

It's also supposedly the closest in style to the original Fallouts as well as the original vision for FO3 (Van Buren).

Eh whatever floats your boat. 

I tried playing them a year ago off of GOG.

the first Fallout game has aged pretty poorly, kind of like the first Diablo and Baldur's Gate in the total devoidness of character. Fallout 2 was better but my problem with it is how it's so uneven tonally. I am not the biggest fan of the ridiculous stuff all the time. It works in small doses and Fallout 2 has the same problem as Fallout 3, where it is dialed up to 11 at times and is in there just for a laugh. 

I also have to admit that most of the characters and the main storyline of Fallout 2 kind of fall flat with me that time too, save for Marcus and  John Cassidy (though that is due to Rose ). I really just lose it mainly because of the Enclave; they are such poor villains to me, especially when compared to the other government groups like the Institute or even the Brotherhood of Steel, who let's face it, are pretty villainous at times. 

I don't know, just doesn't hold up as well as I remember. 

Yeah I had the same problem with FO3 this year. It's a nice game but I like FO4 better in most ways.

NV I played 2 years ago for the first time and LOVED it. Modded it's still good enough looking.

Playing 3 after NV was probably the problem. At first I thought they weren't so different but FO3 just ended so abruptly and poorly that I had to revise mit verdict. NV is a much better game.

As for humor in Fallout games: I only know the newer ones. What I like about the franchise *is* the over the top evil humor. If Fallout was serious once it sure isn't anymore and I like it that way.

Ah, my bad.  The way I read your post you only played it for the first time a year ago.

I rarely take that trait honestly. Thankfully its am option.

My favourite moment in New Vegas was when Colonel Moore told me to go and assassinate Mr House - I asked if that wouldn't destabilise New Vegas and she just said "We don't care about New Vegas - we only care about the dam". That's when I realised I'd sided with the bad guys! I stuck with them, though.

FNV is a lot of fun and since Vegas is my kind of place, I loved it a lot, but it got old pretty fast for me. I think my most enjoyable parts were the DLC and side quests in Vegas. I got bored easily after finding Benny no matter how many times I tried to play a different courier or choose a different side. I always seem to just start over after he runs off or I kill him. I never have the trouble with 3 or 4. Maybe NV is just too overwhelming with side stuff and I as a completionist kind of go crazy and burn out by the time I reach Vegas.