Poll: Fallout 3 vs Oblivion: which one did you prefer
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Oblivion, i like looking at the pretty sunset not the fucking dog shit brown and gun metal gray waistland crap.
And also i jus tlove my bow n' arrow too much.
And also i jus tlove my bow n' arrow too much.
Fallout 3 is the superior game. It actually features a game world that's worth exploring, superior character development system, better plot (yes, it's bad, but Oblivion's is worse), better combat, etc.
Oblivion is boring, bland, uninspired, monotonous, full of broken game mechanics, terribly written, atrociously voiced, etc.
However, I have a theory as to why Oblivion has such a big fanbase despite being a poor game:
Oblivion managed to come out at the right time. It hit a whole new generation of players who haven't been exposed to the generic High Fantasy settings yet and therefore managed to feel fresh to them. Also, the new generation didn't really have much experience with RPGs (or Western RPGs) and didn't really know any better so this was "The Shit!", so to speak.
Oblivion is boring, bland, uninspired, monotonous, full of broken game mechanics, terribly written, atrociously voiced, etc.
However, I have a theory as to why Oblivion has such a big fanbase despite being a poor game:
Oblivion managed to come out at the right time. It hit a whole new generation of players who haven't been exposed to the generic High Fantasy settings yet and therefore managed to feel fresh to them. Also, the new generation didn't really have much experience with RPGs (or Western RPGs) and didn't really know any better so this was "The Shit!", so to speak.
Both paled in comparison with Morrowind, but I found Fallout 3 to be better than Oblivion. It had a layer of polish on it (yes, I know we're talking about Bethesda here, so it's all relative) that Oblivion lacked, plus a better functioning combat system and a more accessible leveling system (not to say the old system was bad, it was just not implemented well). I think what made the crucial difference for me, though, was the fact that Oblivion had a very generic background that bored the hell out of me compared to Fallout 3 and even more when compared to Morrowind. It just couldn't live up to my expectations I guess, after I waited 5 years for it.
I love Fallout 3, but I can't stand Oblivion. Fallout was very immersive (I found a pack of bobby pins once in a store and could have sworn I needed them until I realized that I only needed them in Fallout) -- I just couldn't get into Oblivion. I'm all for fantasy, but Oblivion was just too tedious.
I feel the same way. I may be biased, because I have a morbid obsession with post-apocalyptic futures, but I just found it to be far more immersive. I just fell in love with the bleak, despairing tone. Even when good wins, the world still sucks.Jandau said:
Oblivion has a lot of potential, but I hated the leveling system and the relative difficulty of enemies, and also the voice acting was questionable.
Oblivion and I've only ever played Vanilla, I don't like mods very often. Very few mods are any good, most are unbalancing and immerision breaking. I've played both Oblivion and Fallout 3 for hundreds of hours but Oblivion may even be reaching into the half a 1000 an more. At least 2 characters have at least 200 hours play time. I love Oblivion.
Fallout 3 was pretty good, but Oblivion's mods are just so much better.
Unless anyone can point me to a mod for FO3 that features special ammo types like perma-freezing cryobullets that let you shatter people (best magic mod for TES4 ever), I don't think Fallout will jeopardise Oblivion's #1 position on my "Best RPG" list. FO3 also has a really cruddy leveling system. Some mods, like the one that let you rebuild destroyed robots with the right perk and some materials are pretty cool though. Not even imbalanced, because fusion cells aren't all too common, and your bots not all too durable.
Unless anyone can point me to a mod for FO3 that features special ammo types like perma-freezing cryobullets that let you shatter people (best magic mod for TES4 ever), I don't think Fallout will jeopardise Oblivion's #1 position on my "Best RPG" list. FO3 also has a really cruddy leveling system. Some mods, like the one that let you rebuild destroyed robots with the right perk and some materials are pretty cool though. Not even imbalanced, because fusion cells aren't all too common, and your bots not all too durable.
