Fallout television series executive producer Jonathan Nolan says Fallout 3 is his favorite game in the post-apocalyptic RPG franchise, offering a controversial opinion as the show's second season gets closer to launch. While the heroes from the Fallout show on Amazon Prime are heading towards the bright lights of New Vegas, the game that the big city is based on doesn't make the top of the showrunner's list.
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The original two Fallout games were CRPGs that came out in the late '90s, with Interplay developing the first game and its subsidiary, Black Isle Games, taking over for Fallout 2. While a third Fallout CRPG was planned, it never officially made it to market, and after Bethesda fully bought out the rights in 2007, the series took a bold new step into the open-world RPG field on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Still, between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, Bethesda invited some of the game's original development squad, who had since founded Obsidian Entertainment, to come back and develop a spin-off to Fallout 3, set much closer to the series' original west-coast roots.
Fallout TV Series Executive Producer Loves Fallout 3 Most of All
While the fan base has gravitated towards Fallout: New Vegas as the best game in the series, Nolan still ranks Fallout 3 as his favorite. In an interview with PC Gamer, he noted that it was the first game in the series he'd ever played, and the experience shaped his view of how much fun America could be after being showered with bombs and radiation. Nolan first picked up Fallout 3 on a recommendation from a friend while searching for a diversion from co-writing a draft of the script for one of the movies in The Dark Knight trilogy. The distraction was successful, as he found it "dark and mysterious, but also gonzo and weird and funny and extremely violent," and the massive amount of time he invested in playing it "nearly derailed" his film-making career.
Nolan's preference for Fallout 3 could be troubling news for fans, as the end of Fallout season 1 finally united Lucy, Maximus, The Ghoul, and Dogmeat behind a common enemy in Lucy's father, Hank MacLean. After Lucy discovers that Valt-Tec was behind the apocalypse and that her father was cryogenically frozen and working for the bad guys all along, Hank escapes in Maximus' Brotherhood power armor and is last seen standing before the New Vegas skyline. Additionally, flashbacks to the days before the war hinted that season 2 would bring a lot of joy to fans of Fallout: New Vegas, including a cameo by the game's central figure, Robert Edwin House.
Although Fallout 3 is Nolan's favorite game in the series, that's a personal experience, and he even admits it's not technically the best. "I would definitely say Fallout: New Vegas is a better game, and Fallout 4 is the game I play when I'm in the mood for some Fallout these days—but Fallout 3 was my first, and I think it'll always be my favorite," he explained during the interview. The fan base tends to agree with him. Fallout: New Vegas' concurrent player count on Steam still peaks above 5,000 daily, and its reviews put it above any game in the main series, with a 96 percent approval rate among all-time reviews in English. That compares to 95 percent for the original Fallout, 94 percent for Fallout 2, and 81 percent for Fallout 4, while Fallout 3 lags behind in last place with 79 percent.
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