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No kidding. Fallout 2 sold roughly a half million units during its main run.
Whereas fallout 3 sold 4.8 million units during its first fucking week alone.
People is this thread are smoking fucking crack and trying to rewrite history.
No, we're just not measuring success the same way.
I consider a creative work to succeed or fail based on whether I think it's any good. If you view creating games as a primarily capitalist exercise then sure, the original games obviously didn't do as well.
Of course, it might be that you prefer the newer games, in which case you have a different opinion, which is how creative stuff works!
I also love Waterworld, The Postman, and the really, really long cut of Apocalypse Now. I've no idea how they performed commercially but I found them amazing cultural contributions by the teams involved. I wouldn't recommend them to everyone but to the right audience they're great.