Why Elder Scrolls Will Always Be Better Than Fallout

The Fallout games are in no way bad, in fact, it’s quite the opposite - but they quite literally pale in comparison to their competition. Wandering around the scrap metal towns of Fallout and navigating the irradiated wastelands only serves to offer one or two different shades of brown, and gets old pretty quickly.

There’s nothing particularly exciting or breathtaking about the environment the game offers in the same way as The Elder Scrolls, which ranges from dank caves to snowy mountain ranges, quaint villages to built up cities, and has every type of summery hillside and grotty bog in between.

It’s truly beautiful to behold in all its range - something Fallout has never particularly been able to offer in the same league.

Fallout is also obviously rooted in fictional history, but it’s one that resembles our own closely enough to make everything that bit nearer to home. As much as you’d think it would make it more accessible and interesting, the fact that it’s entirely based on a retro-futuristic America is arguably alienating for players not from the States; the novelty of seeing crumbled landmarks not bearing the same weight for those not native to the area.