Fallout 4 jumps to No.1 across Europe following TV show launch

I fired up fallout 1 after watching it.
- I (unrelatedly) finally started playing new Vegas just a few days ago. Is the show any good?
  
  It's really freaking good somehow.
  
  It's surprisingly good. Two of the leads are really good. The other one gets better as the show goes on. The prop and stage design is as close to 1:1 that you can get, which is impressive.
  It kinda fizzles out at the end, but the journey is a lot of fun. Definitely recommend it.
  
  They even nailed the Fallout grotesque
  
  The show is pretty good honestly. As a pretty big fan of the franchise I'm enjoying it compared to the dumpster fire that is Halo.
  
  It's not The Wire or The Sopranoes.
  It is genuinely fun and bingeable.
  
  I haven't watched it, but my understanding is they fucked up the NCR. Someone on rock-paper-shotgun described it as "Bethesda wants fallout to be kitschy mad max and nothing more", and that felt pretty apt. But again I haven't watched it so I'm just second hand griping.
- My kinda guy. First time playing it?
  
  Nope. Played it all the way through when it first came out. But haven't touched it since then.
- Is there any mod that helps with modernising the control? I have no idea how me from 8 years ago able to chew through fo1 and 2
  
  I wonder how it'd play on the Deck with controller inputs

It helps that it's dirt cheap right now. It's only $5 on Steam.
- I was going to make a remark about the price of dirt, then I remembered buying non-clay soil for the garden. In retrospect, it's cheaper than dirt.
  
  Plus how many hours of fun is that dirt going to give you? Probably not 80!
  
  But if it were in DVD format, a 40Lb bag of fallout disks would cost like around $5,517 at that rate.
- It's also going to get a pretty big update at the end of the month. So it's a good time to buy.

Good, reward the company when they actually make a good thing and maybe other companies will finally start to listen.
We don't want adaptations from people who hate the source material. We want adaptations from people who love it.

FALLOUT 4 IS FAR FROM THE GREATEST FALLOUT.
I think most people agree Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas or that fancy blend of both, take the top spots.
- I describe it to people I know as:
  Fallout 4 is, far and away, the best "game" of the modern ones. It feels much better to play in almost every way than the other ones. Especially the combat. There's some interesting stuff in it, but it's largely the mechanics that keep you coming back, not the RPG or world.
  Fallout 3 has perhaps the better realized world out of them all; the way it all fits together is great and there's a lot of rewarding exploration in it.
  Fallout: New Vegas is, far and away, the best Fallout game...it harkens back to the roots way more and is the best RPG -- by a long shot -- of the 3.
  Obviously YMMV and others will feel differently, but that's how I've parsed out this series so far.
  
  People really are afraid of Fallout 1 & 2's age, it seems. But they are still the best.
  
  Fallout4 has so much nonsense "game" in it with the way levels work. All of the modern ones are pretty bad about it ("headshot on the naked bandit! ... he's fine, he's level 30"), but FO4 was especially egregious.
  Also the way it does power armor is kind of stupid. You can tell they wanted to have power armor early on for some marketing wow, but it cheapened it for me.
  
  See, what they need to do is update the graphics on 1 & 2. I would definitely replay those, bugs and all. Bozar was of course OP but the way it was so story driven was excellent.
  The only issue is the potato graphics.
  
  I really like Fallout 3 but the ton of invisible walls and the shitty metro tunnels turn it into a game I often hate to play.
  
  I played 3 and NV on 360, both games were badly marred by being as much loading zone as they were game. Ruined the experience of snooping around for loot and side quests as opening a door back into the wasteland could take minutes. I had to stick to mostly the main quest.
  4 was a far better "game" for being played on PC, but I agree NV plot was great. I just didn't want to replay and get the different endings, as the game itself was painful to play.
  I should replay them on PC someday, especially if there are graphical update mods available.
  
  The main problem with FO4 is the voiced PC and the asinine dialogue structure. The map is amazing, I'd argue it's better than the F:NV map.
- FALLOUT 4 IS FAR FROM THE GREATEST FALLOUT.
  I don't like the dialog system in Fallout 4 as much as in earlier games in the series, but the first two 3D titles, 3 and New Vegas, are also getting pretty long in the tooth.
  When I go back to play a modded Fallout, I do 4.
  
  When I go back to play a modded Fallout, I do 4.
  Do so now and be quick, or wait a while. In a few days a huge next-gen update is dropping and everyone expects mods to be broken afterwards unless they are fixed. Since modding is usually done on PC, you may be able to downgrade the version, but it's more work.
- Don't you need a patch for have the good ending with f3 ?
  
  You just need the Broken Steel DLC. Buying Fallout 3 nowadays usually includes all the DLC for cheap
  
  Idk. I've never played 3. I started on NV

Okay it's finally entering my "cheap enough to be interested" range. Which version is the best for mods?
- PC. The console versions only support mods from bethesda.net, and are far more limited in mod scope and availability. PC has access to Nexus and other sites for mods, and there are tons to choose from. Mod managers make modding your game pretty straightforward as well.
  
  Do you know if there's a difference between gog and steam versions and all that?

If Bethesda/MS made a new game, or at least a remake to launch next to the show, they would be making bank right now. Instead they are barely seeing any money from ~5 dollar downloads of a 6 years old game. Lacking strategy/foresight like this is the reason while Sony is eating their lunch in the console game market.
- So, Bethesda is making money for doing nothing rather than investing millions of dollars and years of development. Hmmm...
  
  What you talking about? They've already spent billions of dollars and years of development making a game, just not a fallout game so they're not getting any benefit from it.
- Idk about you, but i feels like they plan the discount accordingly to ramp up the player base.
  FO tv series premier on 10th April, FO game franchise start having sales on 11th April till now. People who haven't play Fallout will start playing it. They barely did anything but still rake up money purely from the people the tv series pull. All that money from across the franchise without the risk of a new product being a disappointment cash grab, all profit, no cost.
  Compared to when Halo tv series premiered and there's barely a bump for the master chief collection and halo 5, i'd say Bethesda is doing extremely well with this one.
- They're raking in huge amounts of additional revenue across the franchise and its associated content, getting new F76 players in to their microtransaction store, etc. The last thing that they are doing right now is kicking themselves.
  And the show was actually good.

On USA Steam, the GOTY edition is $9.99, with all the DLC. The Season Pass, which is just the DLC, is like $12.49… So I bought the GOTY edition & threw away a copy of Fallout 4.
- Send it to me.
  The playstation dtore has the game for 10 and goty for 40
  
  They didn’t give me an extra. Just told me I already had a part of the bundle & would not be given an extra copy.