Poll: Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas

[Gladiateher]

I definitely prefer new vegas. I just really like the weapons in New Vegas more than the ones from 3. Varmint rifle ftw rofl.

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

it's the same thing from an technical stand point, When new Vegas 1st came out nearly all the weapon and level mods worked form fallout 3 on new Vegas so to me "new Vegas" is just a mere expansion with more exploring to do. I just wish that the game wasn't so buggy that I had to use custom patches for the PC version at 1st. It's pretty stable now but still that's was bad, just bad. I guess If I really had to choose it would be fallout 3 since it's just built a bit better from the get go and has a wider range of mods to play with like iron sighs, level 100 cap, fallout wanders edition etc.

 

[drh1975]

With a few exceptions, I prefer Fallout 3. At least you can choose a new perk every time you level up. That said, New Vegas has its charms. For example, the player gets XP for companion kills. Why couldn't that be in Fallout 3? Damn you, Fawkes. Damn your big, stupid, green ass all the way to hell! Sorry. I got a little carried away.

 

[cainx10a]

New Vegas PC Edition, because Mods are the main reason to get this game imo

 

[Seriin]

I preferred New Vegas, I found the landscape a lot more drawing. As well I liked the additional sidekicks and the added "challenge" of hardcore mode. I always found myself getting bored with Fallout 3, but that wasn't the case with New Vegas.

Plus I played it after the initial mess of bugs were ironed out and didn't run into anything that hampered my game until the massive lag during the ending.

 

[C95J]

Fallout 3 was my all time favourite game, and I thought New Vegas would be the same, but the truth is, it just hasn't had the same effect on me, and I haven't played it as much.

My vote is for Fallout 3.

 

[BstrdChris]

@lbsjr
Tesla-Beaton cannon is a unique weapon at the crashed verti-bird (bring some pulse grenades...), near Searchlight Airport. and you can get Gauss rifles from either killing BoS members, or doing the BoS mission storyline set and eventually getting the Elder's permission to but their weapons and ammo at their shooting range.

 

[DustyDrB]

I've had and will have much more fun in Fallout: New Vegas. I prefer it in every aspect, actually.

There's my answer.

But I actually didn't enjoy Fallout 3 at all. I found the relentlessly melancholic atmosphere and endless sea of grey too oppressive to enjoy.

Beyond that, the faction system is something I have always for years that Oblivion had. Then New Vegas comes along and it's there. It's like they read my mind. I love that there are consequences for who you side with.

 

[DustyDrB]

Yep. It's the devil himself.

 

[Sinisterair]

Tesla cannon, gauss rifle. No more need be said. Til Vegas gets em, I'll stick with 3 GOTY edition.

Uh, New Vegas does have both the Gauss Rifle and Tesla Cannon (granted, the Tesla Cannon has the prototype label and is orange but regardless same weapon).

Theres also the original Tesla, the beta is just a different unique one

 

[ten.to.ten]

I was having fun in New Vegas.
Who am I kidding, I didn't have time to have fun. It fucking crashed every hour.

At least Fallout 3 had the courtesy to work for >4 before it crapped out.

I have Fallout 3 GOTY Edition and Fallout New Vegas on the PS3, and Fallout 3 has had a lot more game breaking bugs in my experience. The worst one being when my partner saved inside the Jefferson Memorial Rotunda and every single time he tried to go to the next area the game would crash. He ended up having to load a previous save where he was five or six levels lower than he was now and lost a whole bunch of stuff. Also things like in Point Lookout and The Pitt, the game grinding to a halt, going incredibly slowly and displaying at literally like one frame every five or ten seconds. New Vegas is far from perfect, but in my experience not nearly as bad as Fallout 3 in terms of bugs and crashes.

Anyway, despite that, even though there was more to do in New Vegas, and even though it was probably more like a "real" Fallout game, I thought Fallout 3 trumped it in every way. Better story, better quests, better atmosphere, better game world, etc. etc.

New Vegas is still an amazing game, though.

 

[Nixzilla]

i like fallout new vegas more than fallout 3 but the bugs that cause loading to be 1 min long, creatures in the ground, quest bugging out, and etc really put me off and made me vote Fallout 3

 

[Sinisterair]

Fallout 3 is better in the atmosphere and exploration department. Not surprising, because that's one of the things that Bethesda does really well with their games.

New Vegas, was better in every other area for me at least. It actually was a Fallout game, factions from 1 and 2 weren't just shoehorned into the game like they were in 3 (There was no reason for the Enclave to be as numerous as they were in 3 and weren't the supermutants completely wiped out at the end of 1?) Bethesda should have really just went with the reboot approach, maybe that would've made me like 3 more. There are just some really silly plot elements.

Both of them were equally glitchy as hell for me. At one point Fallout 3 crashed every 30 minutes for me, had less CTD's on New Vegas, but there were definitely more quest bugs and such.

Edit: I still think 3 is a good and fun game, but it isn't a good Fallout game.

Well if your looking for some insight for the faction problem.....it states that the Remaining Enclave were moved to the east under colonel Augustus's father by order of John Henry Eden im not entirely sure how many there would have been but they had time to shore some numbers up.......and as for the super mutants there were FEV Vats in Vault 87, basically the same method as the master,But no Leadership and because the impure strains of dna they were all stupid Super Mutants......

 

[mireko]

New Vegas. I didn't have any serious trouble with bugs (PC version), and just about everything in the game is better than 3.

Seriously, when you have a franchise like Fallout, don't give it to Bethesda. That's just not what they do. Fallout 3 felt way too much like a Fallout-themed Oblivion TC, whereas New Vegas felt like an actual sequel to Fallout 2.

I should probably point out that I absolutely hated the plot of FO3 as well.

[sub]And a long, unnecessarily drawn-out sequence of childhood/tutorial vs. GETTING SHOT IN THE HEAD AND BURIED ALIVE? Do you even need to ask which opening is more engaging?[/sub]

 

[Kenko]

Fallout 3 was more stable, Fallout: NV was better written.


50/50 shot, really.

What he said.

They both have their pro's and both also have huge cons. Both of them were craptacularly buggy. But the atmosphere, setting and the story of F:NV was ways superior to the bland turd off F3's story. F:NV's gameplay was also alot better and more in-depth (couldve been alot better though but it's a step in the right direction atleast).

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I liked how there were more choices in New Vegas, and I definitely enjoyed the setting of the Mojave Wasteland more than the Capital Wasteland. I felt there was more diversity to the landscape, and I also felt there was just generally more stuff to do.

However, in my 55 hour total playtime of new Vegas thus far, the games crashed on me about a dozen times, which irritates me to no end.
But I'd still say Fallout New Vegas is the better game out of the two.