Fallout: New Vegas Is Still The Most Popular Game Among Fallout Fans
The Fallout community on Reddit has a time-honoured tradition every year: an informal poll to see which Fallout entry is the most popular in the series, discover other interesting facts about the community, and collectively dunk on Fallout 76. And to no one’s surprise, Fallout: New Vegas is leading the results by a landslide, with 52.6% of responses listing the game as their favourite. This is followed by Fallout 4 in second place, with 25.5% of players ranking the game as their top Fallout title. In fact, New Vegas’ popularity also saw the game topping the list of Fallout games that players want to see remastered or remade—surprisingly trumping the foundational Fallout games that were originally developed by Interplay Productions, but now feel largely dated.
Conversely, Fallout 76 is said to be the weakest game in the Fallout series—a popular consensus by 30% of the respondents. But one of the more perplexing results is that the Fallout 4 companions were also the most popular ones among the community at 49.5%, besting even those of Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda has never really been great at creating believable characters; I can barely remember most of Fallout 4’s companions aside from Preston Garvey, and that’s mostly because of his ceaseless, inappropriately timed reminders about settlements that need my aid.
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Of course, the poll is by no means comprehensive or is carefully calibrated to contain an optimal sample size. Plus, the results were similar to that of the poll from the previous year, which may simply mean that New Vegas has some of the most overzealous fans in the community. But the fact that New Vegas remained so popular only
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