Fallout 4 is available for pre-order on Steam.
It’s available for pre-purchase on Steam (and is in the top ten sellers, above The Witcher 3(!)), no release date though.
Thanks for the mod tips. I read about the Josh Sawyer one and I am umming and aahing a bit. It feels a bit too much like pushing the standard experience closer to the hardcore experience.
Oh boy! I’m finishing up NV again, tying up loose ends. I’ve been dragging my feet going back to Big MT because I don’t want to leave Cass ( and her marksman rifle) behind. Let the modding begin…
I’ve had a lot of fun with Project Nevada. I think my next play through will use it and Sawyer’s mod mentioned above. I’d read about, but never tried Sawyer’s, but evidently they work well together if you don’t use PN’s rebalancing.
I usually play it on Hardcore though, so my recs may not work for you. The DLC is fun, and worth your time, IMHO, even if a lot of the loot is ridiculously overpowered.
So, I haven’t played any of the Fallout games. Should I start with 1 and work my way through, or just jump in at 4? I figure 1-3 will figure prominently in the Steam Summer Sale…
START WITH 1!!
Sorry for the caps ( no pun intended) but really.
I would just start with #4. Each one is a standalone game, and just because you enjoy the First Person RPG of the more recent games does not mean you’ll enjoy the old games.
With everything else in the Fallout world so radically different, what makes you think the Big Dig would be allowed to stay completely unchanged from today? 
Actually, they could recycle the Tunnelers from the FONV Lonesome Road DLC. Those are always fun to play against, and the setting would be right. It would take some lore-wanking to put them on the East Coast when the storyline spun in Lonesome Road is that they originate in the Divide, but Bethesda has played fast-and-loose with continuity before.
One thing I hope they bring back in 4 that was missing in New Vegas was the various random events happening in the wasteland. My favorite moment in 3 was walking up to an abandoned house only to have a guy on fire being chased by a raider come running around the corner.
Depends. 1 & 2 are old so you’d know better than I would your tolerance for low res, turn based isometric games. They’re definitely worth playing (and I’m a rare soul who liked 1 considerably more than 2) in that they tell a good story and have interesting worlds, but the presentation might put you off.
3 and New Vegas are more modern games with more modern presentations. Both also worth playing (I think 3 is the weakest story out of the four games but still well worth a run) and if you enjoy your games looking like they were made in this gaming era then I’d start with 3. As mentioned, they are all stand alone and although there’s callbacks, you could play any of them alone and get a complete story.
Can you play 3 on any modern system? I’d like to play it (or parts of it, anyway) again, but so far as I know, it was never made compatible with Windows 7, much less anything newer.
I run Windows 7 and Fallouts 1, 2, 3 and New Vegas all work without any faffing about.
Wow, I thought it was compatible with 7 and 8.
1 and 2 are available on Steam and don’t appear to have any version restrictions.
FO3 has some issues dealing with multicore processors. It’s ridiculous that it wasn’t fixed but if you have problems it’s an easy fix on the user end.
Fallout 3 required Games For Windows Live. Since Games For Windows Live is now a dead service, I don’t know whether that would cause problems.
Fortunately, with Window 10, backwards-compatibility issues will be a thing of the past!
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The problem that it won’t even try to run if you have more than one monitor persists. Otherwise, it seems to run.
Oh it’s mos def’ meant to be played with hardcore mode enabled. But then hardcore mode is sort of the default toggle for me :o - IMO you can’t really get a proper post-apocalyptic Mad Max survivor experience when you can haul three times infinity bullets, three hundred stimpacks, a dozen repair kits and fourty-three different guns. Being forced to make choices, play a bit more cautiously and not mindlessly hoover every lootable in sight actually improves the game for me.
The bio needs (food/water/sleep) are really not a big deal when every town has a doctor that can heal up any radiation poisoning for 100 bucks a pop. Drink from glowing toilets and eat ghoul feces if you have to, who cares :).