Your opinion on Fallout: New Vegas VS. Fallout 3

[GundamSentinel]

I liked Fallout 3 better than NV. I much preferred walking the Capitol Wastelands because I felt more free to go where I wanted. The Capitol Wastelands felt more like an apocalyptic environment than the Mojave. It was more dreary while at the same time it felt like a more 'lived-in' place. The story of both games was crap so I won't go into that, but I feel Fallout 3 had a lot more going on in it. Probably because in New Vegas everything was related to the presence of the NCR and Caesar while Washington was pure anarchy.

 

[Super Toast]

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This. Infinity times this. The amount of memorable moments I've had in NV could be counted on one hand. However, my experience with F3 is, hands down, one of my all time favourite memories.

 

[sumanoskae]

Things in Fallout 3 seem much less black and white then they are in New Vegas(So far, I haven't finished with New Vegas yet), what with the business surrounding the ghouls, or the quest with The Family.

Things in Fallout 3 are less black and white? Are you kidding me?

Do I even need to mention Megaton, or about the Brotherhood being the unambigously good guys unlike they were in the previous games?

No, but the Fallout games are huge, your experience may be very different from my own.

 

[OakTable]

Don't know what was so "immersive" about Fallout 3. You have a dad that no matter what act of genocide you do still loves you, a friend that is still your friend after you belittle her and call her fat when she is 16, and a bully who calls you poindexter despite your rippling muscles and low intelligence. People go on and on about how growing up is so god damn immersive, and all I'm thinking is that it's boring as fuck that I have to do this everytime I make a new character and there aren't any meaningful choices whatsoever in the Vault.

 

[Legendairy314]

New Vegas has some definite improvements over Fallout 3 but I think F3 has done a few more things right than NV. Both are very enjoyable but if I was forced to pick I'd have to stick with Fallout 3. Overpowered characters with unlimited ammo and alien blasters included.

 

[mavkiel]

gameplay wise new vegas is great. To bad the story seriously sucks compared to fallout 3. Really some guy shoots you in the head, takes your 100 dollar package and buries you alive.

Why on earth would I look for this guy? I think I will call it even and kill a single bandit and earn more cash. Once you make that leap, the whole story pretty much comes undone, you have no incentive to advance the quest.

Finally, the world in fallout nv just felt smaller. There seemed to be very little to explore. Some of my favorite parts in fallout 3 consisted of walking into massive battles. brotherhood/talon/super-mutants going at it one area for example. There doesn't seem to be a comparable area.

 

[OakTable]

gameplay wise new vegas is great. To bad the story seriously sucks compared to fallout 3. Really some guy shoots you in the head, takes your 100 dollar package and buries you alive.

Why on earth would I look for this guy? I think I will call it even and kill a single bandit and earn more cash. Once you make that leap, the whole story pretty much comes undone, you have no incentive to advance the quest.

Finally, the world in fallout nv just felt smaller. There seemed to be very little to explore. Some of my favorite parts in fallout 3 consisted of walking into massive battles. brotherhood/talon/super-mutants going at it one area for example. There doesn't seem to be a comparable area.

Why would I look for my dad? He fucking abandoned me. Fuck him. I'd rather go randomly kill a town with a nuke because an old Brit wants it gone for some stupid reason ("I say, that shacktown blocks my view of NOTHING. Go blow it up and what not?") and will give me 100-300 caps.

See, I can apply that logic to Fallout 3 too.

 

[Tibs]

I prefer FO3 by a large margin to NV. I loved the tone it had, the music and the scenery. Everything felt and looked better than NV in my opinion. I love nearly everything about FO3, NV not so much. Also, FO3 felt more open then NV to me.

 

[OakTable]

What tone did it even have, besides one of, "We're trying too hard to make it depressing"? Not to mention the scenery is buildings, green skies, and monuments you've seen a million times in the movies. At least New Vegas added colors beyond green and gray. And once again, Gameplay>Story>>>>>>>>>Exploration. Exploration isn't important.

 

[Blatherscythe]

So wait, a barely irradiated wastland with tons of farms and a large body of fresh clean water along with a prewar city and power feels more apocolyptic than a barren, irraidiated hell hole filled with monstrosities, impure water, mutation and a destroyed city? Bullshit. When I think apocolypse I don't think New Vegas, besides Fallout 3 had to remove the bad taste that BOS left in people's mouth as well as attract new players and catch them up to speed.

I meant that in terms of lore and character interaction. F3 has a beautiful setting, but the characters and everything around just weren't that believable to me, so my immersion was completely shattered whenever I talked to anyone.

In NV people are more easy going and take the whole apocalypse with a pinch of salt and some heavy sarcasm, which really drives home the apocalypse feeling for me just like in the second Fallout game. Just personal preference. Scenery was awesome in F3, that was believable!

Ah I see. Yeah the engine the Bethesda used for Fallout 3's facial animations sucked, didn't help that the voice actors were mostly phoning it in with a few decent ones. Besides, you can only be told to fuck off by so many wastelanders before it becomes old.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Look what I found guys:

http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=41480

Haven't tried it out myself yet, but it'd be pretty nice to have New Vegas's gameplay in Fallout 3's world.

 

[mavkiel]

Why would I look for my dad? He fucking abandoned me. Fuck him. I'd rather go randomly kill a town with a nuke because an old Brit wants it gone for some stupid reason ("I say, that shacktown blocks my view of NOTHING. Go blow it up and what not?") and will give me 100-300 caps.

See, I can apply that logic to Fallout 3 too.

Well your father did leave you a note. Also, once your kicked out of the vault, it'd make sense to at least wonder WHY he left. Its not like your looking for a guy whose already shot you once in the head. Also, my logic involves a somewhat sane well adjusted person. Yours seems involve a sociopath

 

[thegrimfandango]

I wound up preferring New Vegas. I REALLY wanted to like Fallout 3, and I gave it a solid 80 hours but ended up dropping it.
I think I found the whole place very bleak and hostile and well....brown. It seemed like everything I ran into was pants-on-head-retarded, wanted to kill me, or both.
New Vegas on the other hand, I felt the world was a bit more alive and colourful, characters had more personality, and I enjoyed the companions/factions more. New Vegas just seemed to suck me in, and once I had the hang of the game, I went exploring and just keep finding more locations.
Of course this is just me and the sort of atmosphere I prefer, anyone who prefers a gloomy sense of isolation in the world, and a darker, bleaker game world would probably plump for Fallout 3. Not to say there weren't plent of things I liked and annoyances in both games mind.

I do wish New Vegas had used a new engine though, and had more radio songs (though the repetition does actually make me turn on the ambient tracks quite a lot, which can be surprisingly lovely, and frankly 3-dog got on my tits).
New Vegas has less sewers/sewer-type areas too. For me they're pretty much like dark dank dungeon caves in fantasy games, not a fan.
Mods don't factor in for me, my laptop can barely handle running at the moment.
As with anything like this though, ymmv

 

[Raddra]

I prefer FO3 by a large margin to NV. I loved the tone it had, the music and the scenery. Everything felt and looked better than NV in my opinion. I love nearly everything about FO3, NV not so much. Also, FO3 felt more open then NV to me.

This.

FO3 really felt like a post apocalyptic wasteland. I loved it.

F:NV just felt too.. non apocalyptic wasteland. It felt too modern.. or something. Dunno how to say. It just felt.. I dunno.. it wasn't fallout to me.

I felt it was a great game and I loved the changes to armor etc. The survival skill was a good addition (even though I disliked how hard it was to use it)but it didn't feel right.

It comes down to using the wrong aesthetics.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Bethesda brought a character back from the classics and practically killed him off.

Obsidian brought a character back from the classics and didn't kill him off.

Based on that fact alone NV is better.