Poll: Which one do you prefer, Oblivion or Fallout 3?
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I wholeheartedly agree with this poster, while some people whined about it being "Oblivion with guns", I, for one thought to myself when I got Oblivion:imaloony said:
"I know how this game can be cooler! With guns!"
So Fallout 3 was something of a dream-come-true for me.
Oblivion was also lacking in some areas (spells not entirely awesome, houses not entirely awesome) and the mods really helped it in that regard, but it can't really beat the gunfest that is Fallout 3.
You better not ask most of the Fallout/Fallout 2 fans this question, beacuse many hate Fallout 3 precisely beacuse of it's similarity to Oblivion. XD
Anyway, I personally perfered Fallout 3, even though the VATS system made combat kind of ridiculous at times. The music and atmosphere is absolutely fantastic. Furthermore, even though the game takes place in a wasteland, it still manages to feel a lot more varied compared to Oblivion (where, as Yahtzee said, most of the land feels like it was copypasted). The better voice acting also helps a lot.
Having said that, I would say that Oblivion had superior quests. Particularly the Dark Brotherhood quests are some of the most well-designed and thought up I have ever experienced. Far superior to the main questline which had you running around in the same looking dungeons and caves over and over and over again....Heck, I simply stopped playing Oblivion altogether when the Dark brotherhood had the audacity to ask me to go to a cave.
Anyway, I personally perfered Fallout 3, even though the VATS system made combat kind of ridiculous at times. The music and atmosphere is absolutely fantastic. Furthermore, even though the game takes place in a wasteland, it still manages to feel a lot more varied compared to Oblivion (where, as Yahtzee said, most of the land feels like it was copypasted). The better voice acting also helps a lot.
Having said that, I would say that Oblivion had superior quests. Particularly the Dark Brotherhood quests are some of the most well-designed and thought up I have ever experienced. Far superior to the main questline which had you running around in the same looking dungeons and caves over and over and over again....Heck, I simply stopped playing Oblivion altogether when the Dark brotherhood had the audacity to ask me to go to a cave.
At the moment I'm going to have to say Fallout 3. I'm currently on my 3rd playthrough, still have 2 DLCs to finish and I'm almost at perfect stats (SPECIAL all 10s, Skills almost all 100s). Just love this game. The bugs are getting a bit more common as my save files are getting so massive, but that's just how it is.
I only got Oblivion recently, but I like what I've played so far. It's nice and familiar after Fallout 3 and I do enjoy the fantasy setting as well. Not sure about the levelling system yet (I'm sure that's been mentioned a lot).
So Fallout 3 is my favourite (sitting on my all time top 10 actually), but I haven't gotten very far into Oblivion yet.
I only got Oblivion recently, but I like what I've played so far. It's nice and familiar after Fallout 3 and I do enjoy the fantasy setting as well. Not sure about the levelling system yet (I'm sure that's been mentioned a lot).
So Fallout 3 is my favourite (sitting on my all time top 10 actually), but I haven't gotten very far into Oblivion yet.
Fallout 3 is my favorite game period. I just love the world, the music, the 50s jetsonts-nuked-themselves vibe, the side quests, the people, everything.
I'm playing Oblivion 2nd and I haven't really got into it as much so far(I'm still playing it). I guess it was the story just felt disconnected and lonely. There is no love interest, friends, family, traveling companions. It's the only rpg I can think of where you don't at least get the option to have someone/something follow you. Two things they do better in Oblivion are readable books and all the different houses. Imagine being able to buy a bunch of houses in Fallout 3 or read every issue of Grognak the Barbarian.
P.S. And if you can get followers that aren't temporary in Oblivion without a mod and I just haven't found them please tell me where n_n
I'm playing Oblivion 2nd and I haven't really got into it as much so far(I'm still playing it). I guess it was the story just felt disconnected and lonely. There is no love interest, friends, family, traveling companions. It's the only rpg I can think of where you don't at least get the option to have someone/something follow you. Two things they do better in Oblivion are readable books and all the different houses. Imagine being able to buy a bunch of houses in Fallout 3 or read every issue of Grognak the Barbarian.
P.S. And if you can get followers that aren't temporary in Oblivion without a mod and I just haven't found them please tell me where n_n
Haven't played Fallout 3, but it HAS to be better than Oblivion, which I found to be a complete let-down.
It wasn't the first game in the series, so the broken parts should have been fixed ages ago and tweaked to perfection. Instead, it's hardly playable without mods, which is lazy game-development at its worst. It has good visual aspects, but the entire underlying construct (leveling, combat) is horribly flawed.
The old excuse "well, once you figure out what you've been doing wrong for the last 30 hours with regard to your leveling and character-build, it's not that bad" is bullshit. It shouldn't have been that broken to begin with, and if it was, it should have been explained a helluvalot better. I'm sick and tired of lazy developers relying on the internet to fix the problems they created.
It wasn't the first game in the series, so the broken parts should have been fixed ages ago and tweaked to perfection. Instead, it's hardly playable without mods, which is lazy game-development at its worst. It has good visual aspects, but the entire underlying construct (leveling, combat) is horribly flawed.
The old excuse "well, once you figure out what you've been doing wrong for the last 30 hours with regard to your leveling and character-build, it's not that bad" is bullshit. It shouldn't have been that broken to begin with, and if it was, it should have been explained a helluvalot better. I'm sick and tired of lazy developers relying on the internet to fix the problems they created.
Seems kinda odd that the OP only includes two options for the poll, implying that your choice is absolute, and yet the OP says that he would choose both.
Why not have a third option?
OT: Fallout 3.
Why not have a third option?
OT: Fallout 3.
My intelligent side says that Fallout SHOULD be the better game in my opinion, but the simple fact is that it isn't. Oblivion was my very first proper PC game, and my first 360 game as well because of it (I baught it twice), and I must have racked up at least...helll...250 hours playing it and loving EVERY second. In fact, since the day I got my 360 until now, Oblivion is still my most often and most enjoyed game to play out of everything else.
Don't get me wrong, I adored Fallout 3 as well, but not quite as much, for a couple of simple reasons;
1: Grey. It's been said before, but seriously, that game was blaaaaaannnd. I know it was post apocalyptia, but surely SOME paint must have not been burnt off?
2: Not as much choice. Despite the many skill options and exellent perk system, you still got shoehorned into some essential skills like small arms, science and lockpick. As well as this, there really wasn't very much gameplay syle choice either. It was either guns blazing or one of the two silenced weapons in the whole game for sneaking, which still didn't feel nearly as fluid as Oblivions' stealth play anyway.
3: Atmosphere. Fallout's world, while detailed and intreguing, didn't have me feeling absorbed like Oblivion's did. In oblivion, no matter where I was I always felt this sense of awe and...I dunno, what you'd call it...intregue, I guess, about everything around me. I felt compelled to look through every book case, in every chest, explore every town, ruin and dungeon. With fallout 3 everything just seemed so samey, that it didn't have this same feeling, so after a few hours I ended up just fast travelling from quest point A to point B over and over. In Oblivion, I never fast travel, ever. The world is just too amazing to waste on a loading screen.
4: I prefer fantasy better. Simple personal choice. (Although VATS is particularly awesome)
5: Customisation. In Oblivion if you wanted to you could literally create yourself to be whatever you wanted to be, whoever yo wanted to be, and wear whatever you found or even created from scratch. From spells to armour, everything could be customised and renamed to give you a deeper sense of attachment to your character, which Fallout 3 pivotally lacked. Appart from a couple of crafted, pre-set weapons, personal clothing choice essentially boiled down to stat stacking and power armour, which really leaves no room for any sort of attachment to your character itself.
THAT, is why I prefer Oblivion. If my reasons seem invalid, I will endevor to elaborate where needed.
Don't get me wrong, I adored Fallout 3 as well, but not quite as much, for a couple of simple reasons;
1: Grey. It's been said before, but seriously, that game was blaaaaaannnd. I know it was post apocalyptia, but surely SOME paint must have not been burnt off?
2: Not as much choice. Despite the many skill options and exellent perk system, you still got shoehorned into some essential skills like small arms, science and lockpick. As well as this, there really wasn't very much gameplay syle choice either. It was either guns blazing or one of the two silenced weapons in the whole game for sneaking, which still didn't feel nearly as fluid as Oblivions' stealth play anyway.
3: Atmosphere. Fallout's world, while detailed and intreguing, didn't have me feeling absorbed like Oblivion's did. In oblivion, no matter where I was I always felt this sense of awe and...I dunno, what you'd call it...intregue, I guess, about everything around me. I felt compelled to look through every book case, in every chest, explore every town, ruin and dungeon. With fallout 3 everything just seemed so samey, that it didn't have this same feeling, so after a few hours I ended up just fast travelling from quest point A to point B over and over. In Oblivion, I never fast travel, ever. The world is just too amazing to waste on a loading screen.
4: I prefer fantasy better. Simple personal choice. (Although VATS is particularly awesome)
5: Customisation. In Oblivion if you wanted to you could literally create yourself to be whatever you wanted to be, whoever yo wanted to be, and wear whatever you found or even created from scratch. From spells to armour, everything could be customised and renamed to give you a deeper sense of attachment to your character, which Fallout 3 pivotally lacked. Appart from a couple of crafted, pre-set weapons, personal clothing choice essentially boiled down to stat stacking and power armour, which really leaves no room for any sort of attachment to your character itself.
THAT, is why I prefer Oblivion. If my reasons seem invalid, I will endevor to elaborate where needed.
I like the variety of enemies in Oblivion, it just seems, I dunno "Bigger". But I prefer the gameplay/overall experience of Fallout 3.
I think Fallout 3 was a better game... but I would still rather see another Elder scrolls game come out before Fallout. The next newest thing from Bethesda will always be better than the last.
Fallout 3, hands down. Overall better performance, and lasers increase the fun had exponentially, no matter the genre. ^_^