Poll: Mass Effect or Fallout?

[Blatherscythe]

Apples to oranges man. Fallout's a freeroam RPG FPS with a large amount of skills and decent story and dialouge. ME is a linear, RPG with great story elements driving the plot and a terrific way of making the dialouge interesting and a minimalist skill tree.

 

[Maxman3002]

I prefer Fallout. Althought mass effect is an amazing game and im greatly anticipating the 3rd I cant deny my RPG player inside. Mass Effects RPG elements are getting far to watered down for my liking, what happened to Biowares KoTOR days of having turn based attacks and putting the effort into the leveling system? What happened to having a hacking skill? I miss them...

 

[Sieni]

I'd say Fallout 3. I liked Mass Effect, but I didn't like it that much.

 

[Blatherscythe]

After playing Fallout 3 I wanted to know everything so I got the first 2 and played those through and then spent hours on fallout wikia reading about anything and everything Fallout.

I did the same thing, except I dug the first two games out of my dads garage after playing fallout 3. Then I went to the wiki.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Fallout 3, game of the year edition wit' all the DLC goodness.

mass effect had terrible DLC

 

[bob-2000]

No matter how much I like Fallout, Mass Effect has BioWare's great writing which means very much to me.

 

[Ancientgamer]

It's not a very fair contest, with the exception of F3, Mass effect has 10 years worth of design theory and technology over fallout. As far as direct comparisons go, that makes gameplay and design elements incomparable.

 

[Slayer_2]

Personally, I find Fallout 3 has WAAAYYYY more re-playability.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Mass Effect, but I haven't really played Fallout. I played it a couple of times on a friend's console, and kept getting really bored with the samey landscape. I guess if I actually went from the start, made my own character and played through it all with dilligence I'd like it. But I ain't got the money and I ain't got the inclination. (If anyone wants to try and sell it to me, now's the time.)

 

[CrashBang]

I really love them both, they're both fantastic game series which completely got me immersed in the experience, but I have fonder memories of playing through Fallout 3 than either ME game

 

[RatRace123]

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[MicrosoftPaysMe]

This should be Mass Effect vs Dragon Age ..or.. Fallout vs Elder Scrolls

[small/] (because they're the same companies) [/small]

 

[Chicago Ted]

I have to give it to Mass Effect just because I consider it the best Sci Fi I've ever experienced.

 

[TheLefty]

Fallout 3 was my favorite game for a long time...until Mass Effect 2 came around. Let's list it.

Fallout 3 > Mass Effect 1
Mass Effect 1 > Fallout 1
Mass Effect > Fallout 3

So from the above data I have to say Mass Effect, but only slightly. But I must admit giving up on Fallout 1 shortly after starting.

 

[happyvampyre]

I adore Mass Effect, but I just couldn't get into Fallout.

I think I didn't really like Fallout because they didn't get me emotionally invested in the game like Mass Effect did.

 

[Flaming Icecicle]

Since i have 500+ hours on fallout 3 im going with that

 

[DustyDrB]

Mass Effect. It's not even close. People complain about the barren side planets of ME1. That's all Fallout is.

 

[koichan]

EDIT: noticed you're talking about the series, not just the latest games.

I withdraw my post. I can't comment as i've not played any fallout games except fallout3

 

[BEASTMAN SP]

I'm like Taishere on this one: I only played Fallout 3 (plus The Pitt), but I enjoy the Mass Effect franchise far more. The choices you make are more significant in the long run, plus the conversation system is much more engaging.

 

[blindthrall]

Fallout 3 was my favorite game for a long time...until Mass Effect 2 came around. Let's list it.

Fallout 3 > Mass Effect 1
Mass Effect 1 > Fallout 1
Mass Effect > Fallout 3

So from the above data I have to say Mass Effect, but only slightly. But I must admit giving up on Fallout 1 shortly after starting.

This is pretty much exactly my opinion, except I played all the way through Fallout 1 and I haven't played ME 2. I actually liked Fallout 2 least out of the good ones (rampant bugs, a little too tongue-in-cheek), with Fallout 1 and Tactics being about even(Fallout 1 for story, Tactics for gameplay), with Mass Effect being better than both, but not as good as Fallout 3(story sucked, but I've always dreamed of an open-world shooter Fallout. It was everything I was hoping STALKER would have been). Is the general consensus that ME2 is the better one?