10 Video Games Better Than The Sum Of Their Parts
8. Fallout: New Vegas
Just look at that screenshot. Beige, beige as far as the eye can see.
It's fair to say Fallout: New Vegas isn't winning any awards for visuals. Or, indeed, gameplay, as New Vegas' combat is as clunky and unsatisfying as you'd expect from an RPG developer's first attempt at making a game where you shoot things in the first person (someone really should come up with a name for those).
Yet despite these drawbacks, New Vegas is routinely championed as the best Fallout game, and with good cause. New Vegas is a staggeringly generous RPG which only Baldur's Gate 3 has subsequently surpassed in terms of open-ended quest design. Seemingly every major and minor quest can be finished in a myriad of ways, and even your companions aren't safe from your poor decision making (Sorry Cass - how was I to know that arranging a face-to-face meeting with your guarded, heavily armed nemesis would end badly?)
Factor in some of Fallout's best ever quests ("Beyond the Beef" being a particular highlight in writing and player choice), as well as the series' best ever main plotline, and you can see why so many players overlooked New Vegas's less-than-glamourous facade and settled themselves in to experience the best show in town.