Fallout 4 jumps to No.1 across Europe following TV show launch

I fired up fallout 1 after watching it.

I (unrelatedly) finally started playing new Vegas just a few days ago. Is the show any good?
- It's really freaking good somehow.
- It's surprisingly good. Two of the leads are really good. The other one gets better as the show goes on. The prop and stage design is as close to 1:1 that you can get, which is impressive.
  It kinda fizzles out at the end, but the journey is a lot of fun. Definitely recommend it.
- I haven't watched it, but my understanding is they fucked up the NCR. Someone on rock-paper-shotgun described it as "Bethesda wants fallout to be kitschy mad max and nothing more", and that felt pretty apt. But again I haven't watched it so I'm just second hand griping.
My kinda guy. First time playing it?
- Nope. Played it all the way through when it first came out. But haven't touched it since then.
Is there any mod that helps with modernising the control? I have no idea how me from 8 years ago able to chew through fo1 and 2
- I wonder how it'd play on the Deck with controller inputs

It helps that it's dirt cheap right now. It's only $5 on Steam.

I was going to make a remark about the price of dirt, then I remembered buying non-clay soil for the garden. In retrospect, it's cheaper than dirt.
- Plus how many hours of fun is that dirt going to give you? Probably not 80!
- But if it were in DVD format, a 40Lb bag of fallout disks would cost like around $5,517 at that rate.

FALLOUT 4 IS FAR FROM THE GREATEST FALLOUT.

I think most people agree Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas or that fancy blend of both, take the top spots.

I describe it to people I know as:
Fallout 4 is, far and away, the best "game" of the modern ones. It feels much better to play in almost every way than the other ones. Especially the combat. There's some interesting stuff in it, but it's largely the mechanics that keep you coming back, not the RPG or world.
Fallout 3 has perhaps the better realized world out of them all; the way it all fits together is great and there's a lot of rewarding exploration in it.
Fallout: New Vegas is, far and away, the best Fallout game...it harkens back to the roots way more and is the best RPG -- by a long shot -- of the 3.
Obviously YMMV and others will feel differently, but that's how I've parsed out this series so far.
- Fallout4 has so much nonsense "game" in it with the way levels work. All of the modern ones are pretty bad about it ("headshot on the naked bandit! ... he's fine, he's level 30"), but FO4 was especially egregious.
  Also the way it does power armor is kind of stupid. You can tell they wanted to have power armor early on for some marketing wow, but it cheapened it for me.
- People really are afraid of Fallout 1 & 2's age, it seems. But they are still the best.
- I really like Fallout 3 but the ton of invisible walls and the shitty metro tunnels turn it into a game I often hate to play.

Good, reward the company when they actually make a good thing and maybe other companies will finally start to listen.

We don't want adaptations from people who hate the source material. We want adaptations from people who love it.

Okay it's finally entering my "cheap enough to be interested" range. Which version is the best for mods?

If Bethesda/MS made a new game, or at least a remake to launch next to the show, they would be making bank right now. Instead they are barely seeing any money from ~5 dollar downloads of a 6 years old game. Lacking strategy/foresight like this is the reason while Sony is eating their lunch in the console game market.

So, Bethesda is making money for doing nothing rather than investing millions of dollars and years of development. Hmmm...
Idk about you, but i feels like they plan the discount accordingly to ramp up the player base.
FO tv series premier on 10th April, FO game franchise start having sales on 11th April till now. People who haven't play Fallout will start playing it. They barely did anything but still rake up money purely from the people the tv series pull. All that money from across the franchise without the risk of a new product being a disappointment cash grab, all profit, no cost.
Compared to when Halo tv series premiered and there's barely a bump for the master chief collection and halo 5, i'd say Bethesda is doing extremely well with this one.