I have NEVER played a fallout game. Do you recommend playing the first ones before playing Fallout 4?

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@XboxOneX A few things, Fallout 1 and 2 are completely different games. That's when I played, respected, and loved it, but then stopped at 3 because Bethesda—lacking integrity for the franchise—took it upon themselves to change the whole damn game into a ground-up first-person game with FPS elements (Yeah, you could switch to 3rd, but like their Elder Scrolls games, designed with FP in mind). With that said, APPARENTLY Fallout 4 has revamped its combat and gameplay for both FP AND third-person, and you can play the whole game comfortably in third, or so interviews and reports have stated. I am among a tiny, tiny group of people I think that hate that FO pretty much changed their whole game and went first-person, but for the previous reasons I may finally be returning for FO4. I say all of that crap because I'm not sure what type of player you are, if you'd want to tackle FO3, Vegas, or even the top-down old-school Fallout 1 and 2. So I say keep monitoring FO4 gameplay as more videos come out leading up to release, and jump right into 4 if you like it without playing the previous ones because if what they're saying is true and 4 is the "most accessible" to the broadest pool of player types, then 4 may be fitting for you. Sorry for the rant haha; I'm still bitter about FO3.

@XboxOneX, Fallout 3 is pretty awesome, even if some of the Fallout traditionalists didn't like it. It's basically Elder Scrolls in a post-nuclear futuristic setting and much deeper combat. That said, it will probably feel kind of old now. Maybe worth it if you can get it for cheap. I'd just wait for Fallout 4, given how close it is.

I started Fallout 3 for the first time the other day in preparation for Fallout 4, actually. I was surprised looking through my 'backlog' and found it. Sweet find indeed.. : D

Yeah after thinking it through, i think i'll buy the season pass but much later after launch.
Bethesda has made some very excellent DLCs for Fallout 3 and Skyrim, so i have faith in them.

They scrapped paid for mods like 2 weeks after they went live because of the backlash. That won't happen again. No one will go for it.

Was that a Steam thing or Bethesda?

They did scrap it on Steam, but Bethesda themselves said they are going to look into it again.

http://www.idigitaltimes.co...

After Fallout 4 mod kit comes out, they'll probably make that a standard. I don't know why people can even come to paying for mods.

I'm very disappointed in developers and publishers putting things behind paywalls or behind bars. Modding was and should always stay free.

Look at the sheer amount of content that Skyrim had, and they games before that. Anything on the Unreal or Quake engine had quite literally hundreds and thousands of mods.

no never hehe. Will it be or not ?

The original fallouts had cutscenes