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2. Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout 3 was a just-okay game with a decent engine. So when Bethesda loaned that engine and the Fallout License to Obsidian, a studio comprised of many who worked on the original Fallout duology, the result proved exactly what Fallout 3 could have become in the right hands: the masterpiece of the franchise, Fallout: New Vegas.
When a courier is shot in the head by a well-dressed scumbag named Benny over one of their packages, they decide to make the trek to the jewel of the Mojave Wasteland - New Vegas - to get to the bottom of why. A simple premise that spins out into one of the most complicated and well-told stories in gaming.
What makes New Vegas so fun and replayable is that there is not a single boring quest. Every eccentric weirdo you talk to sends you to either another eccentric weirdo, or an entire section of the map that you weren't even aware of in your last 15 playthroughs. No two playthroughs of Fallout: New Vegas are alike.
The series has yet to reach the heights demonstrated by New Vegas. Heights that make its constant instability on current hardware more than worth the headaches.