Poll: Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas

[BstrdChris]

new vegas had an empty story, throughout the game I knew multiple endings in a franchise just means in the next fallout, new vegas will be completely ignored. Bethesda should've taken a hint from Bioware and made it so your decisions actually mean something further down the line. Fallout 3 had a linear story, for the most part, and a much more iconic, emotion inflicting setting. Both games fail massively on the technical side, with, in my case, new vegas coming out on top as more stable, slightly better looking and features that should've been implemented in fallout 3. Also, Washington felt bigger, I don't know if it was, but it felt like there was more to see and do compared to new vegas, which felt really shallow. Sure, theres side quests here and there and lots of cool weapons and easter eggs in new vegas, but I had done every quest much faster than I did in fallout 3. Also, new vegas is not immersive at all. It starts out as total bullshit, you don't survive gunshots to the head, and when you do, you just infected from bugs crawling into your open wound and onto your brain so beginning new vegas I was laughing at how ridiculous the game was. Fallout 3 on the other hand is very immersive with the story beginning with your character being born and living a childhood in a dank bleak "vault". New vegas barely has anything to do with the vaults, which is the biggest part of the franchise. So incase you haven't noticed yet, fallout 3 is soooooooooooo much better than new vegas... in my opinion at least.

i just thought i'd mention that people survive gunshots to the head QUITE OFTEN, even DIRECT hits. and as far at the "bugs crawling in", the game DOES mention Victor digging you up immediately after Benny and the Kahns leave so he can get you to the doctor. i doubt they stuck around for hours, drinking beers and playing Caravan after they buried you.

And how on earth are the Vaults the biggest part of the franchise? You start in one in FO1, but leave it almost instantly and don't venture into many others (less than NV) in the rest of the game. The character in FO2 has nothing to do with any vault, coming from a tribal village established by the FO1 character after being exiled at the end of the first game - again, there's less vaults in FO2 than NV. The Mad Max references and retrofuturism are central to the franchise, as are the 'choosing the least evil amongst a bad lot' factional choices, and the intertown/intratown politics, but the Vaults? It's Fallout, not Vaultboy.

Heck, I would have thought that having separate dialogue for low-intelligence characters ('Me hit ray-dee-ooh thingy but no play music') was far more central to the FO1-2 than the vaults.

good point there. i mean, the Vault-Tec experiment is always an underlying theme as a back story element, and there are are always vaults to find and explore( in varying states of condition), but i've never been under the impression that if i had never ventured into a vault in a Fallout game that i wouldn't be able to COMPLETE the game...

i love finding the abandoned vaults and exploring them, and finding out what jackass social experiment it was conducting ("Gaaaaaaaaaarrrry.... Garyyyy?")... but that's just one of the perks of getting your ass out into the game and putting your legs to work, really lookin around for shit...

 

[EHKOS]

New Vegas got more hours out of me and after I sat back and thought about it after the first NV playthrough I realized that NV kicked the teeth out of 3. IMO.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Shades of Grey (not fully implemented, since there still was the karma system) are better than Good versus Bad scenarios.
It at least tried to go in that direction, but it failed miserable (karma still up and running, some factions hostile without consideration to relations... I'm looking at you, dynamite prisoners!). It tried to a bit darker and more mature by trying to remove the fixed desicions of being good or bad.
On a more gameplay related note, Fallout 3 had much more easter eegs than Vegas. I wish Vegas had at least a quarter of the brilliance put in by Fallout 3 devs... I'm talking about the plunger room of death. Go and look it up.

 

[Brinnmilo]

I never really experienced many technical difficulties with New Vegas and they fixed and added some little things, that were lacking from FO3, so I was quite happy.
Having said this, FO3 had a radio that was 1000 times better than New Vegas and was much more atmospheric, had a slightly better story line etc. But as far as immersion goes I found New Vegas much more immersive, also the interactive nature of your story line was a nice but simple idea.

 

[doxeelady]

FALLOUT THREE RULES.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I never had problems with New Vegas, but it wasn't really fun. The weapons were pretty bad and the only real thing in it that was better than 3 was weapon attachments. The crafting seemed rather pointless, the map was smaller, and the game was just bland. Fallout 3 was amazing. I've played through it multiple times and probably will again in the future.

 

[loc978]

I'm one of those anomaly people who actually encountered more bugs in Fallout 3 than in New Vegas... and I liked New Vegas' writing, setting (closer to Van Buren), and humor better. In short, I liked Fallout 3 well enough, but I consider New Vegas to be vastly superior... and a truer sequel to Fallout 2.

**edit**
Fallout 3 had a far better soundtrack, though.

 

[Tibs]

Fallout 3 by FAR. Fallout three just felt better, looked better, and played better. All IMO.

 

[King of Wei]

I'll wait til all the patches/DLC for New Vegas come out to make my final decision, but at the moment I'd have to say Fallout 3 for no other reason that the fact that it actually works. I absolutely love the hardcore mode in NV, and the .357 magnum, and the overall environment but I can hardly play it. So Fallout 3 for now, though I'll likely switch that when NV is finally accessible.

 

[natster43]

I liked New Vegas more. The characters were better in my opinion, especially the Partners. More, better weapons. The fact that other stats played a role in speech. I enjoyed traversing the Wasteland more in NV. And this is after a glitch fucked me over for Gannons quest, and the fact that they did not put a speech option with the new leader of the Brotherhood at the end to join the NCR. Though I did enjoy the ending and story a bit more in Fallout 3.

 

[Teh Jammah]

Fallout 2 or bust.

Quoted for truth sir, quoted for truth.

Of the two mentioned, New Vegas was buggy as hell, but had a much better story and felt more like the fallout games i grew up on than 3, so of the two it gets my vote

 

[MrGamer]

FNV for me.

 

[beema]

I love both of them, but I probably have to go with Fallout 3. The "amazing" improvements everyone was talking about in New Vegas I really didn't notice. It just felt like playing FO3 in a different setting.

 

[Vausch]

New Vegas. Once the patch fixed the issues I was having, it became enjoyable to no end, and on top of that it feels better written and I like the factions a lot more. Rather than just being all around evil it seems to make more sense that someone would attack you based on you wearing inmate armour rather than the karmatic glow around you only they can see.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

Vegas felt way too, well, wrong to me. After killing Caesar and his entire camp, I started to feel like a god. Then everyone started praying to me, and I felt like Bruce Almighty. I don't like being the bringer of life and death, I just like a game where I can pacify local miscreants, save a pretty girl, give her a sniper rifle, and dare anyone to attack my little homestead. Sure, Fallout 3 didn't have that either, but it made me feel more like one of the Lions instead of the Ruler Of The Wastes.

 

[replingham153]

So I've played through both of the recent Fallout games (sans DLC) and after playing New Vegas for a while I realized that I wasn't having as much fun as I had playing Fallout 3. True, New Vegas has a better story line and characters in my opinion but I found the Mojave Desert really boring compared to the Capital Wasteland. Also, even though they fixed a bunch of the problems that I had with Fallout 3 like adding true ironsights and weapon mods I always found the overall gameplay in Fallout 3 to be better. I talked to a few of my friends and some said that I was right and Fallout 3 was the better game and some said New Vegas was better so I was just wondering, what's you opinion?

I did not like either. They were boring just like Black Ops or Halo Reach. Club Penguin was a brilliant game though, wonderful graphics, really great story line. MUCH better that Fallout 3 or New Vegas.