{"id":809593,"date":"2025-12-07T02:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9Uzt2DiifJWRZnuuCA4wu8"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:22:40","slug":"fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 isn&#8217;t the best Fallout game, but it&#8217;s the best one to play today"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/fallout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prime TV&apos;s Fallout show<\/a> is here, and if you&apos;ve watched all eight episodes you might find yourself in the mood to play one of the Fallout games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fallout 5 is still a decade away, and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/upcoming-fallout-mods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fallout 4&apos;s most ambitious full conversion mods<\/a> aren&apos;t out yet, so if you&apos;re gonna play a Fallout game it&apos;ll have to be one that&apos;s been around for a while: the first two Interplay games, Bethesda&apos;s trio of shooters, or Obsidian&apos;s classic RPG. So, which Fallout game should you play?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&apos;s a pretty big clue in the headline: It&apos;s Fallout 4. But before you get angry, all I ask is that you take some time to read my reasoning so you can get <em>really<\/em> angry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZY5SSSGIuA\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lauren, Jody, and I recently got together on a video chat to sort out the Fallout series. We put them into a tier list from Dogmeat (the best) to Dogshit (the worst). You can watch the video embedded above. Most of the results weren&apos;t all that surprising. Fallout: New Vegas is a top-tier Fallout game, along with the original Fallout, with Fallout Tactics being dumped in the lowest tier where it belongs.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in the tier list discussion, Fallout: New Vegas is the best Fallout game. At the same time, I would call Fallout 3 my <em>favorite<\/em> Fallout game. But while it&apos;s not the best <em>or<\/em> my favorite, Fallout 4 is the best one to play right now. If I&apos;m gonna sit down today and play some Fallout, it&apos;s definitely gonna be 4-flavored. Here&apos;s why.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fallout-4-has-the-best-companions-6\">Fallout 4 has the best companions<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"geESa9waxTQDkdTzrADvVN\" name=\"20220414195700_1.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Valentine\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bethesda)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fallout 4&apos;s companion game is stronger than any other, and not just because a mutant named Strong is one of them. While I really like New Vegas&apos; Boone and Lily, I&apos;d still rather spend time with Fallout 4&apos;s Nick Valentine, who I think is maybe the best character in any Fallout game, ever. Not just because of his excellent backstory and questline, but because he&apos;s a cool synthetic detective and he can hack terminals. There&apos;s nothing I find more aggravating in a Fallout game than a terminal I&apos;m not high-level enough to hack, because I know, once I do level up enough to hack it, I&apos;ll never remember where it was.<\/p>\n<p>Curie, the French robot, doesn&apos;t just have an interesting storyline and character development during her quest, but also has an awesome healing perk. Hancock, Deacon, and Piper are fun to spend time with for a laugh, and while I&apos;m not a huge fan of the Brotherhood of Steel, Paladin Danse is the least annoying of them and he can carry <em>so much stuff<\/em> for me.<\/p>\n<p>And I know you get a Dogmeat in every Fallout game, but surely Fallout 4&apos;s Dogmeat is the best Dogmeat. At least he&apos;s the cutest.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fallout-4-apos-s-gunplay-is-better-than-the-rest-6\">Fallout 4&apos;s gunplay is better than the rest<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1447px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"PJyH2nu6KANDhahLJxbVKa\" name=\"mod1.jpg\" alt=\"Fallout 4\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1447\" height=\"814\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bethesda)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&apos;s no doubt that Fallout 4 would be a better game if there were more options and opportunities to talk instead of shoot. Charisma is barely a factor except in securing lower prices. Despite the character being a voiced protagonist, there&apos;s rarely a chance to talk your way out of a fight. Almost everything in Fallout 4 ends in violence. Almost everything <em>begins <\/em>in violence, frankly.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&apos;re willing to lean into it being more action-oriented than other Fallout games, all that gunplay is a blast. The weapons are fun and extensively moddable, from the cruddy hand-cranked laser rifles and pipe pistols you start with to the legendary rocket-powered hammers and explosive bullet-spitting tommy guns you&apos;ll turn people into pulp with once you&apos;ve crisscrossed the Commonwealth a few times. At times it feels like more of an FPS than an RPG, which isn&apos;t a compliment. But if a game is gonna have more shooting than necessary, it helps when the shooting is this good.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fallout-4-is-packed-with-surprising-side-quests-6\">Fallout 4 is packed with surprising side-quests<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"qreRRkYqJFg22m78oEHL7B\" name=\"f42.png\" alt=\"The USS Constitution\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bethesda)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To be fair, you could say this about just about every Fallout game. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/movies-tv\/just-like-the-games-the-fallout-tv-show-works-best-when-it-ignores-the-main-quest-and-gets-sidetracked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Side-quests are usually the best part of Fallout<\/a>, especially quests with twists, turns, and unexpected endings. But I don&apos;t think it&apos;s just because Fallout 4 is relatively recent that they&apos;re my favorites, I think they are genuinely the most surprising side-quests in the series. And there are a bunch of them.<\/p>\n<p>I won&apos;t spoil the details, but there&apos;s The Last Voyage of the USS Constitution, where robots are trying to re-launch the ancient frigate (literally, it has rockets welded to the sides of it) which ends with a satisfying surprise (and gives you a dope weapon at the end). In Here There Be Monsters an old nuclear submarine in Boston Harbor gives the player a rather useful set of beacons to put to use. A mansion called the Cabot House, unlike every other dwelling in the post-apocalypse, is oddly pristine and intact, which leads to some truly bizarre happenings. An out of the way comic shop results in a wonderful quest about a golden age radio show and a new outfit you won&apos;t want to part with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are some great unmarked quests, too, like a chemical manufacturing building where you can test &#8220;products,&#8221; which winds up being pretty hilarious or disturbing depending on your morals, and a parking garage someone (I&apos;m not sure we ever find out who) turned into a series of deathtraps. You can visit the bar from Cheers and the home of an artist with some horrifying hobbies, solve a robotic murder mystery in the Far Harbor DLC, and at some point in the game you&apos;ll even see a UFO streak overhead and you can investigate the crash site.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fallout-4-has-more-stuff-to-do-6\">Fallout 4 has more stuff to do<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1303px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"gYkULFrG475kZJquVzMqWH\" name=\"ocfavfttTFKf.png\" alt=\"Fallout 4 settlement\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1303\" height=\"733\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bethesda)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If I&apos;m playing a Fallout game these days, I&apos;m mostly in it for the open world sandbox instead of a deep roleplaying experience\u2014mainly because I&apos;ve done the roleplaying in Fallout 3 and Vegas a number of times already (and the roleplaying in Fallout 4 isn&apos;t all that deep). I want to hop into a huge game world and find a lot of stuff to do. I want to escape reality for a few hours but not necessarily spend all that time wrestling with moral dilemmas and the consequences of my choices. While the roleplaying and storytelling doesn&apos;t come close to matching New Vegas or even Fallout 3, Fallout 4&apos;s world is a much more enjoyable place to blissfully spend hours of time.<\/p>\n<p>I know not everyone is a fan of settlements in Fallout 4, and even I don&apos;t have the interest in building and maintaining more than one main base and a couple of smaller side settlements. But you can lose yourself for hours in just puttering around, putting together buildings, crafting doo-dads, attracting settlers, and fending off raids. It&apos;s not quite as intricate as Fallout 76&apos;s base-building, but you can have multiple settlements and never have to worry about another player stealing your spot, which is a plus in my book.<\/p>\n<p>Having a base, one I&apos;ve designed and managed and crafted, makes me feel like I&apos;m really living in a game world in a way that just renting a hotel room or sleeping in a spare bed can&apos;t match. Settlements, along with Fallout 4&apos;s elaborate crafting system, keep me busy and ground me in the world, which is exactly what I want from a Fallout game.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fallout-4-has-the-most-and-best-mods-6\">Fallout 4 has the most (and best) mods<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BnDimQHfM2BrbmJFxbpyAn\" name=\"fmod1.jpg\" alt=\"Man in tuxedo holding Lewis machine gun\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bethesda\/Fallout London Team)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&apos;re playing a Fallout game on PC, I hope you&apos;re modding it at least a little bit. There are lots of mods for Fallout games in general (except for Fallout 76, naturally), but there are almost twice as many Fallout 4 mods as there are New Vegas mods, and three times as many as Fallout 3 has. If you&apos;re looking to mod your game, I guarantee you&apos;ll find something you love made by the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fallout-4-mods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Fallout 4 modding community<\/u><\/a>, and new mods appear every single day.<\/p>\n<p>And if you like Fallout 4&apos;s settlements the way I do, or more importantly if you don&apos;t like them at all, you absolutely have to try the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-perfect-way-to-start-a-new-game-of-fallout-4-is-with-the-sim-settlements-2-mod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Sim Settlements 2 mod<\/u><\/a>. It&apos;s a complete overhaul of how the settlements work that essentially turns it into a dynamic system that can grow your settlement even when you&apos;re not there to oversee it, while maintaining the original system if you do want to be a micromanager. Seriously, it&apos;s a brilliant mod and you owe it to yourself to try it.<\/p>\n<p>That&apos;s not even mentioning <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/upcoming-fallout-mods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>the big Fallout 4 mods on the horizon<\/u><\/a>, which will take the Fallout universe to Miami, London, and weirdly enough, even Vegas. Yep, Fallout: New Vegas is being remade in Fallout 4, Black Mesa style. Even Fallout 3&apos;s Point Lookout DLC <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/now-you-can-play-fallout-3s-point-lookout-dlc-in-fallout-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>has been remade in Fallout 4<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See? I&apos;m not the only one saying it. If you&apos;re into Fallout, then Fallout 4 is the place to be right now.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/fallout-4-isnt-the-best-fallout-game-but-its-the-best-one-to-play-today\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime TV&apos;s Fallout show is here, and if you&apos;ve watched all eight episodes you might find yourself in the mood to play one of the Fallout games.\u00a0 Fallout 5 is still a decade away, and Fallout 4&apos;s most ambitious full conversion mods aren&apos;t out yet, so if you&apos;re gonna play a Fallout game it&apos;ll have to be one that&apos;s been around for a while: the first two Interplay games, Bethesda&apos;s trio of shooters, or Obsidian&apos;s classic RPG. So, which Fallout game should you play? Well, there&apos;s a pretty big clue in the headline: It&apos;s Fallout 4. But before you get angry, all I ask is that you take some time to read my reasoning so you can get really angry. 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