Poll: The Wasteland or Tamriel?

[TheBestPieEver]

If it were solely a New Vegas VS Skyrim I would go with the wasteland. But I personally love the varied landscape of Tamriel and I can't hide the fact that I dry hump Daggerfall and Morrowind. So... yeah, I'll go with Tamriel.

 

[Jedamethis]

Meh, they're both crap

Not your cup of tea? What games do you prefer then?

OT: Fallout. The Elder Scrolls didn't do much to immerse me, I was just a guy who stole things and did quests here and there. In Fallout I'm a guy who's trying to get back my godddamn Platinum chip, or get into the Brotherhood of Steel, or find out where the hell those trees came from. While stealing things and doing quests here and there.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I find the Wasteland (Capital in particular) to be much more interesting.

There is so much mystery. So much that goes unsaid. It just makes me want to explore endlessly.
Tamriel is cool, but I feel it has already been discovered. Like everything in it has already been seen by someone.

I don't get that feeling from Fallout. The Wasteland just oozes atmosphere and style from every pore.

 

[Nyaoku]

I'd say the wasteland. I have this thing when I'm playing games that everything tends to blur into a "Oh great, the water/snowy/desert/forest/dungeon level." I kind of prefer that the developers focus on just one and do it well than divide the work into sections. The wasteland is a fairly versatile one imo. Sometimes I was fighting my way through the destroyed city, other times I was savaging through ghost-towns just to try to make out what used to be there. One thing that sticks out to me was crawling through the post-apocalyptic ruins of the nukacola factory.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Wasteland. Tamriel just feels predictable. Dungeon, catacombs, cave, fortress. That's about it.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Personally, I prefer the wasteland, but that's a personal choice. I just adore that desolate darkness. Also, all the buildings and locations in the wasteland (at least, in Fallout 3), seem to have their own personal history with evidence of it scattered about their ruins. Tamriel gets a bit repetitive.

 

[scar_47]

While I do enjoy TES games I reall do prefer the Fallout games, it's just personal taste I've always loved post apocalyptic settings and Fallout does a great job of capturing that in its own uniqe way with the 1950's vibe and its brand of SCIENCE! really make an extremely interesting and enjoyable world.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Tamriel. Why? Because, I frakking grew up there. Morrowind was, and still is, one of the my favorite games of all time. I played it all the damn time when I was younger. One of the most unique and strangely beautiful landscapes in any game. Hells yeah.

Any cool stories? Well, there was that time I killed Vivec and got 2 wraithguards. That was pretty awesome. Nothing else sticks in my mind atm...

 

[Random Fella]

Sorry I just couldn't decide, they're both so awesome
Who the F%#$ is voting caw ah dooty?

 

[Patrick Buck]

I prefer Tamrial as a place, but the wasteland's atmosphere. The people, the animals, what you do to survive. I would rather play an Elder scroll's game. But Fallout is a close competitor.

 

[Chalacachaca]

None, I'll go for Nosgoth.

 

[Rariow]

I prefer Tamriel. The new Fallouts felt a lot smaller than the recent Elder Scrolls, and, honestly, though they were indeed amazing games, they both felt like generic shoot-em-ups. I've never found a place of extreme beauty that made me remember it for ever in FO3 or NV, and I think that's what Bethesda games are honestly about: Sightseeing tours. More than once I've had to just stop and look at the scenery for hours at a time in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. In FO3 and NV, I've only ever stopped for 30 or so seconds.

Between the 3 TES games I've listed you could go from a Mushroom filled-hill to a volcanic wasteland to the top of a snowy mountain. In FO3 and NV you could go from generic wastelandy bit A to generic wastelandy bit B, with a bit of desert in small, small sections where you had no reason to go in NV.

Bethesda is, honestly, not that good when it comes to anything other than scenery, and FO3 and NV didn't have much of that. That said, NV's story does make it quite a bit superior to the games Bethesda made without Obsidian. My rating would go Fallout 3< Morrowind < Oblivion < New Vegas < Skyrim. Both series are excellent, but I just prefer TES's non-brown scenery.

 

[Agow95]

I never really got into fallout, I've played fallout 3 as far as megaton, and got bored, and with new vegas I got a bit further but still didn't like it, but I really got into Oblivion and Skyrim, I just prefer the medieval D&D style setting, so I choose Tamriel.

 

[lacktheknack]

I prefer Tamriel, mostly because I am a graphics whore and Tamriel offers much more for me to break my graphics card on.

 

[evilneko]

Didn't we just have this thread?

Oh hey--we did! [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.339495-Poll-Fallout-vs-TES?page=1]

My answer's in there, on the first page.

 

[Thyunda]

I much prefer the Wasteland. The barren flats simply lend more beauty to the parts that are alive...and dangers are much easier to spot against a desolate backdrop. Besides, no game has ever made me feel so lonely and yet so powerful...the ending of Lonesome Road...well, my ending, and the subsequent loneliness of the Mojave - well. That was...something.

 

[Dango]

The Wasteland, the overall atmosphere is much better in the Fallout series in my opinion, especially thanks to the radio.

 

[DanielBrown]

Always been a bigger fan of medieval settings, but I'll go with both in this case. Love running around in Skyrim(dont care that much for Oblivion or Morrowind) as much as Fallout 3.

Speaking of that; in 10 days I'll get my Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition. Finally gonna get to play that game!