Why do you people prefer Oblivion over Fallout 3 ?

[Korovashya]

My theory, there were two types of people who played Fallout 3.

1. The Elder Scrolls fans who were just happy to have a new Bethesda Games.
2. The venerable veterans of the original Fallout's who just wanted a new fallout game for the suddenly resurrected franchise.

The problem with this is the in-built human resistance to anything new. The oblivion fans were angry because they interpreted it as an elder scrolls RPG with guns added to the mix, and the fallout veterans interpreted it as the defilement of a classic franchise by changing it.

The second reason is that the games are similar enough to be compared as part of the same series, (Not my opinion but I'm stating fact here) and it is a natural reaction to regard the 1st of anything superior.

Of course, there are also the smart gamers who judged it on its own merits. Personally I fall into both categories mentioned above, as I have played Bethesda since Morrowind, and I remember playing Fallout 2 as a kid.

And guess what? I Thought Fallout 3 was the best of both worlds.

so apparently people dont pick up games from companies theyve never heard of and only stay with what is familiar. if this was true there would be no games market. only nintendo.

That is not what I meant. I apologise if i conveyed the wrong idea.

Of course there are people who like to try new things, I didn't say there aren't. However, most players of Fallout 3 fall into those categories, and they make up most of the people who compare the games.

 

[Zer_]

Fallout 3's controls felt clunky and unrefined. Oh sure, Oblivion suffered from the same drawbacks, but at least it didn't impact the gameplay as much when engaged in melee combat.

 

[CrustyOatmeal]

The world is more colourful and has more variety. The sneaking gameplay feels a lot more useful. You get a lot more freedom in creating spells and enchantments, your equipment is more interesting since it doesn't just amount to "get power armor, equip and win game" Since even if you get to the level where daedric armor appears in Oblivion you might not want it depending on your build if you're a mage or you use light or medium armor instead. The DLC/expansion is a lot more satisfying too. This of course is all purely personal opinion.

if you get the expasnion to fallout 3 you can have stealth armor which i use all the time

i personally like fallout 3 more because it was the first post apocalyptic game i played that i really liked and it was set during a period i love to see games in. both the music and the entire feel just felt humored and yet gritty. i just prefer that style over fantasy but if your not playing on PC you really arent getting the full experience

 

[Phoenixlight]

Might be due to the crappy V.A.T.S. feature of fallout 3 which is just annoying, I don't really like either game though.

 

[WolfThomas]

Why do people prefer Morrowind over Oblivion? Which I do.

 

[SimuLord]

They're completely different games, and as far as preference, if I could only have and play one, especially if you didn't let me have any mods (except for the Unofficial Oblivion Patch and Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch, which are mandatory on the PC), it wouldn't even be a close vote.

As it stands, FO3 is the bronze medalist in my list of greatest games of all time and Oblivion (with KCAS and Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul to fix the most obvious of its annoyances) ranks sixth. If I were restricted to vanilla Oblivion it'd be near the bottom of the top 25.

 

[Eduku]

I prefer Oblivion because I like fantasy settings, and I don't like post-apocalyptic settings. I also prefer melee combat over ranged combat.

 

[captainwolfos]

I don't even compare the two, they're very different. Anyone that thinks FO3 is "Oblivion with guns" is a moron.

I prefer Oblivion since I enjoy fantasy and I love the lore of the Elder Scrolls universe, but I also happen to enjoy Fallout 3 a lot as well. I'm not quite sure why people like to compare them, they are rather different if you think about it.

Quoted for truth, and The Root Beer Guy also happens to have an awesome avatar.

I love Oblivion, and have never really been one for 'apocalyptic' games. I much prefer being a fully armoured stalwart hero to shooting things in the face. Although the latter can be fun too, I generally think swordplay > guns. Also, The Dark Brotherhood.

[small]I'm going to be a knight if I grow up >_>[/small]

 

[Nieroshai]

Fallout 3 forced me to learn so many freaking variables from the beginning, whereas Oblivion let me bash stuff and learn as I go.

 

[Nexus4]

Hmm... I prefered combat in Fallout 3 to oblivion. In Oblivion I found the combat to be stiff and the animations very awkward to look at. Besides that Oblivion has more charm and depth to it's universe, better immersion too. Both have their high points and are excellent games in their own right.

 

[Nomanslander]

I don't, I played Oblivion for 2 hours and got bored to tears by it, with Fallout 3 I've spend over 300 hours and I'm still going back for more.

 

[JediMB]

I actually couldn't get into Oblivion at all, but loved the crap out of Fallout 3.

I just couldn't get into Oblivion's abuse-friendly combat/magic system, nor did I feel very interested in the world itself.

 

[CpnBeef]

I loved both of them, they're two of the only games i've ever spent as long playing.

I do prefer Oblivion over Fallout 3 but that's because personally i've always enjoyed a fantasy setting more than a sci-fi one, magic and myths are unkown to me. they can do practically anything whereas science, although somewhat vague in Fallout will only ever be capable of what developers can logically imagine.

Also Shivering Isles was some of the best DLC i've played to date, i got absolutly lost in it's story. Fallout had some pretty good DLC but nothing on that level IMO.

 

[HK_01]

They're both great, but I had a better time in Oblivion overall. I can't really explain why, it just had a better atmosphere and was more fun, especially with mods.

You can also see which I prefer by the time I've spent on them:

FO3: ~90 hours
Oblivion: ~500 hours

Edit: Just to clarify, I amassed those 500 hours over the course of three or four years, not in a couple of months. Not that anyone thinks I just spent weeks only playing that game, that would be a little too extreme for me.

 

[Withall]

I personally find Fallout 3 to be a better play-through. It feels refined than Oblivion (case in point: the UI. In Oblivion, you have to install plenty of mods to make it even remotely enjoyable to use. In FO:3? It's tied to a believable piece of equipment: your Pip-boy.)

Also, the difficulty scale is, in my mind, alot more fair.

 

[joshuaayt]

Because it has a better shooter crosshair.
But, no, really, I have no preference- if I want to be a mage, I'll play Oblivion, if I want to be a small guns/sneak/lockpick prick? Fallout 3.
And that's all I play for either- I hate Melee classes, and...
Actually, fuck it. I hate Oblivion, because the end reward assumed I was a Melee class. There we go, solved. That pissed me off to no end. That is a perfectly legitimate reason to hate a game, I'm sure.

 

[Fangface74]

FO3 needs a ride, whether it be a two-headed horse, an albino scorpion, or some smoke spewing hog of a motorcycle. I know there's a feel of desolation to adhere to but can you really go through everything you went through (Flying saucers & Motherships, complex simulations, guns that are technologically more advanced than cars) and NOT get a working combustion engine? or a perk that lets you domesticate a Deathclaw to the point you can saddle up? (maybe not that!)

I DO like the 'loner walking the wastes' image (even if it's with a dog or a gatling laser wielding mutant), but my love for the game makes me want what the character would inevitably want.

 

[LitleWaffle]

I prefer oblivion over Fallout 3, but I don't really compare the two directly.

I prefer Oblivion more because I prefer fantasy genre.

I still like Fallout 3, but not as much because Sci-fi, to me is decent, but not great.
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