really new vegas better than 3? I enjoyed 3 a lot more than new vegas :/ even the plot was better, well the ending sucks hard (FO3) but overall I think it's a much better game than new vegas

*Throws rotten food at you.*

*puts out a shield that cleverly had prepared for the occasion*

1: Fallout 1
2: Fallout 2
3: Fallout NV
4: Fallout Tactics
5: Fallout 3

Doesn't deserve a number: Fallout BOS

Up until the very last one I liked them all, that's mainly just order of preference.

I've played them. Lonesome Road was interesting but still lacked any major mystique beyond the central character, Honest Hearts I really didn't find all that great, though Old World Blues I definitely wish I spent more time on. I plan on doing so when I get back to the game, but neither were that memorable on the first go around. OWB particularly had so much dialogue, funny though it was, that getting to the point was a major issue. There's a lot to discover, which I appreciate, but it's perhaps a reverse problem of the rest of the game. Too much to do in not a big enough space, and having to do the same thing multiple times just to get all the endings.

+1 Same order for me too

The fully patched, non-modded New Vegas was so buggy and unstable that it ranks among the ten worst games that I have ever played. The rest of the series do not.

Fallout 3
Fallout 1
Fallout New Vegas
Fallout 2

Everybody's different when it comes to taste.

really liked New Vegas for some reason and used my favorite melee weapon the Rebar club throughout the whole game

for me it's

Fallout 3
Fallout 2
Fallout tactics
Fallout 1

& if it's ever made available to me then I'll try ...
Fallout New Vegas

I don't do Steam

really nasty horrible experience I will not do again

I haven't played Fallout 2 and Tactics yet, but here's mine:

1) Fallout 1
2) Fallout: New Vegas (enjoyed the DLC, at least the ones that didn't crash on me that often)
3) Fallout 3 (enjoyed The Pitt and Point Lookout, didn't care for the other stuff DLC wise)

The plot is pretty decent up until you leave Vault 112 - after that I went to explore the wasteland for as long as I could, did every possible quest, found every stupid PipBoy doll and played through all DLCs (apart from Mothershim Zeta, which I don't own and don't intend to buy because the idea behind it is so stupid :)).
And then I returned to the cringeworthy story about filtering-water-through-sand-several-times-would-do-the-same machine :) The only highlight after Vault 112 was Eden :)

Fallout 1 is good with the TeamX patch, NPC patch, and resolution patch.
Fallout 2 is good with the Restoration Project patch (which includes everything you need).
New Vegas is good with Mission Mojave, JESawyer mod, and UI mod.

I can't in good conscious recommend Fallout 3 to anyone unless you're particularly masochistic for kindergarten-tier writing and completely illogical plot.

well that's what I mean, the water thing plot it's very good, it was very poorly implemented and executed specially the ending which was atrocious but again the main plot but decent enough, the fallout new vegas on the other hand was pretty lame from the get go..not bad but just average

New Vegas was not my cup of tea. It was simply too bland with not much to explore.