Comparison Of Bethesda's Fallout And The Elder Scrolls

Bethesda Softworks is the creator of many of the greatest video games of all time. Bethesda has created every sort of video game on the market today, but they are most renowned for their role-playing games. Bethesda’s role-playing games give the player the power of choice in a huge open world. Bethesda’s two most successful franchises, Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, are also the two most popular role-playing franchises in the world. Bethesda’s two most successful games, which happen to come from their two most popular franchises, are Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Both games are beautifully made and are incredibly fun to play, but which game is the greatest role-playing game in the world? Fallout 4 takes place in Boston, in the year 2287, two hundred years after the nuclear holocaust. The world is a shell of what it once was, but humanity fights on. A very small percentage of humanity made it to underground vaults and continued their lives underground. The player takes on the role of a vault dweller, but the vault he was in is unique. Vault 111 used cryogenic freezing to preserve the vault dwellers until it was safe to go aboveground. The vault dweller is woken up early to witness the kidnapping of his son and the murder of his wife. The player is frozen back to sleep, but …show more content…
However, Fallout 4 falls short of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim because the world of Skyrim has so much more in it. Fallout 4 allows players to make choices in the main story of the game, but the side plots are not even comparable to the wonderful side quests in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is four years older than Fallout 4, but The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is still enjoyed today by millions of players. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not only the greatest role-playing game of all time, it is one of the greatest video games of all