Fallout 3, the objectively 5th-best Fallout game, is free to keep via Twitch Prime right now

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One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times.

Fallout 3, right? What a game. Bethesda's first foray into the Wasteland was also a lot of people's introduction to the series. To this day, it's easy to find people who call FO3 the best game of the lot.

Come the revolution, that opinion will be banned. To those of us who get our videogame takes directly from a ghostly plane of objective truth, Fallout 3 is actually the fifth best in the mainline series, behind, and I suspect my placement of 4 on that list will be the most controversial thing I say in this article. FO3 may, or may not, be better than Fallout 76, Fallout: Tactics, and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which unfortunately no one yet living has ever played .

But don't get me wrong: The fifth best Fallout is still a very fun game, and I have fond memories of my time galumphing through the Capital Wasteland. If you'd like to make some memories of your own, you can currently pick up a free GOG key for the game—in its all-dancing GOTY edition form—over atThat means you get base Fallout 3 plus its various expansions like Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta.

If memory serves, Broken Steel is particularly essential: It's the one that allowed you to keep playing after the endgame and which let you actually make a rational choice during the original ending . So if you're one of the vanishingly few people that doesn't have FO3 yet, or you just want a backup GOG copy in case Gabe Newell loses his mind and takes his knife collection to Steam's server racks, I'd recommend picking it up. I might be a bitter old Fallout grognard, but I give credit where it's due: Fallout 3 is a good time. The fifth-best Fallout ain't nothing to sniff at.

 

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