Fallout 3 or Borderlands?

[cyber_andyy]

I've been thinking about Fallout 3 for a while. But then along came borderlands, and now I'm stuck.

I'm not a huge fan of mmos, and Torchlight and Diablo are the only good experiences I've had with RPG's. So I was wondering which one is easier to ease into the whole genre, and generally which one is better value for money?

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I preferred Fallut 3. Still do.
I haven't really gone back onto Borderlands. it doesn't suit me.
too cartoon-like for me.

 

[Blazing Steel]

Here's what everyone though when someone asked this last week: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.154125

OT: Fallout 3 GOTY by far.

Easy to get into and at £30 the GOTY Fallout 3 I think is better value.

 

[Jandau]

Borderlands has smoother combat. However, Fallout 3 has a better plot and a vastly more interesting game world. Specifically, Borderlands' combat flows better, but FO3's combat is not bad. However, Borderlands is just flat out boring and is basically a FPS with RPG elements set in a bland uninteresting world, while FO3 is an RPG with FPS combat set in a well crafted vision of post apocalyptic Washington.

Personally, I'd say FO3 is better value for money since I found it interesting enough to play through 2-3 times, while I coulnd't bring myself to finish Borderlands even once. FO3 is available for a smaller price too, since it's been out for a while (even bundled with all its DLC). Also, if you're getting it for the PC, FO3 has a ton of mods that you can get.

Basically, Fallout 3 > Borderlands

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Definitely go for Fallout 3. It's not that Borderlands is a bad game, it's just that Fallout 3 will give you your money's worth.

 

[TheTygerfire]

Fallout 3
Borderlands has better combat, but Fallout 3 is a better overall game.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I enjoyed Borderlands more, but my experience is based around playing with a team of real life friends and we always play together. If I had to take both in as a solo experience, I'm not sure.

A better way to think of this would be: Do you like Oblivion or Diablo better?

- J

 

[El_Sam]

i have played both and each has their own advantages and disadvantages...but overall i prefered borderlands.

 

[gibboss28]

Both.

 

[cyber_andyy]

Here's what everyone though when someone asked this last week: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.154125

OT: Fallout 3 GOTY by far.

Easy to get into and at £30 the GOTY Fallout 3 I think is better value.

*doh* Forgot to search bar approve.

 

[dmase]

Like blazing steel said fallout 3 goty. I bought it for 60 bucks and have paid another 40 so far for add-on's you can get that plus motheship zeta(which i have downloaded yet) for only 60 bucks.... I think there is a lesson in that statement, next time bethseda releases a game if i can hold myself back i'm waiting or the goty edition to save myself some money.

 

[Wutaiflea]

I had to get in on this.

I'm primarily an RPG fan, and I enjoyed Oblivion (for all its many frustrations) by Bethesda, so my husband talked me into trying Fallout 3.

Last night I became so monumentally pissed off with the slow character development and trudging back and forth through confusing terrain that I decided not to go back to it.
I despised the combat. I'm shit at shooting games as it is, without being blighted by lack of ammo and areas around your early quests filled with enemies you can't even begin to imagine killing until you're level 200.
Particularly on this subject, salt was rubbed in the wound by seeing my husband merrily running around one-shotting everything in sight on his game, because he'd levelled up a bit higher- in other words, the game is merciless to new players, especially those of us who don't usually play anything shooty.

Borderlands, however, is something my husband talked me into because he wanted someone to play co-op with and I'm really enjoying it- so much so I might even play it by myself.
To coin a Yahtzee-ism, although the plot can go fuck itself, the missions are interesting and the difficulty curve is handled so nicely that I'm finding it manageable but also challenging.

And at least in Borderlands you can make sense of the FUCKING map.

 

[malestrithe]

Why choose?

 

[Wargamer]

Honestly, it depends what you want.

Fallout 3 is a great game for the sheer amount of freedom and flexibility in it, but it can't come close to Borderlands when it comes to sheer bloody carnage. Yes, stomping around in a suit of T-51b with a Plasma Rifle blasting the Enclave, but it doesn't come CLOSE to blasting your way through the Crimson Lance with a shotgun that fires rockets, an SMG that shoots fireballs and a magnum full of acid.

Overall, I would summarise thusly; if you want a plot, choose Fallout. If you want a world where you can choose to be the hero or the villain, choose Fallout. If you want a game where you can explore and do things in your own way, choose Fallout.

If you want a shitload of guns, choose Borderlands. If you want multiplayer, choose Borderlands. If you want a "Role Playing Shooter" rather than a "First Person RPG", choose Borderlands.

 

[orangebandguy]

I've heard Borderlands is really repetitive, but I haven't played it so I admit that's not a reliable judgement.

But having played Fallout 3, and loving it. I'd say that.

Fallout 3 was a real example of a brilliant game using the admittedly low resources of a nuclear wasteland. It's immersive, and creative. The sequence as you exit the Vault was nothing short of epic, on a movie kind of scale. The sense of emptiness isolation and wonderment captured in that 'shot.'

The start of the game holds a better atmosphere for me, when it's just nomadic wastelanders and junktown-esque settlements. With scatterings of Raider groups. When the Enclave show up, as big of a plot twist as it was. (I've never played the previous Fallouts.) it kind of loses it but i still loved it.

Spoiler: Spoilers Sirs and Madams

I genuinely thought enclave radio was a pre war recording, and that those eyebots were just old machines the government used to keep patriotism up and that President eden was the man who lost his mind and caused the muclear holocaust. How wrong could I be?

 

[bew11]

I preferred Fallut 3. Still do.
I haven't really gone back onto Borderlands. it doesn't suit me.
too cartoon-like for me.

The whole calshaded thing is quit a turnoff for me, but dont get me wrong borderlands is still a great game, but i still prefer fallout 3. ive got about 150 hours of play time on one of my characters. (it help that i have a hardback copy of of the stragaty guide)

 

[j1nx]

Borderlands might be more fun the first few hours. but it gets repetitive sooo damn fast, i think i might have spend like 10hours in that game. 10 fun hours tho.

Fallout on the other hand, hohoho, put at least over 100hours in that and it still amazes me.
It goes way deeper + with the right mods it becomes an even better game.

I'd go for fallout any day.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Bananas or Broccoli.

Completely different, with only guns and a wasteland in common.

 

[KokomoMan]

Go Fallout. It's a way better game. I played Borderlands for about 15 hours and really got sick of the (literally) IMPOSSIBLE difficulty swings. One second you're one shotting a guy in the leg with a pistol, the next your getting a dude down to half health with 90 rockets to the head, and no, that is not an exageration. Not only that but Borderlands SPAWNS ENEMIES BEHIND YOU. Unforgivable.

Fallout will give you a perfect experience with a first RPG. You will not regret getting Fallout 3.