Should I buy Fallout 3 or Oblivion on Steam?
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Same thing I tell everyone who asks this type of question: save up until you can afford both, then flip a coin to see which one you play first.
Not wanting to rant at you, but that argument has always been a pet peeve. It's so easily turned around, example: You can even become addicted to drugs, can you do that? Like I said, it's just a pet peeve, no offense needed.yaydod said:
As for what you should get, I would say both. They're both amazing games, but it all comes down to personal taste. They both have very big flaws, and run like crap on a lot of systems but they both have things they do better than the other, I think the levelling system is much better in fallout 3, but I think the expansion for oblivion is
Much better than anything fallout 3 had.
Unless you mod it which OP plans on doing. After modding up Fallout 3(with just the basics: FWE, MMM, etc), I didn't have any problems.LedChicken said:Windows Vista runs FO3 even worse than 7 though. Sooooooo many crashes
While I personally enjoyed Fallout 3 more than any other game this gen I would have to say OP should get Oblivion just because it has more (and some more impressive) mods.
Really? Iron sights broke it for you?kortin said:
Once again, OP plans on modding it and will most likely have them.
The things that New Vegas improved upon (except the story) started as a F3 mod... most of its in FWE.
And what's wrong with VATS? It gives the player a cinematic kill; way more elegant and fun (not to mention that it shows that some devs put some effort into gameplay design) than a QTE.
I agree about crysis and the witcher, but Stalker? All of those games run incredibly well on my pc, getting about 100fps always. Whereas the witcher 2 on max settings is nigh on unplayable. May I ask what Stalker game you were talking about? Because I actually don't own clear sky, so I may be wrong somewhat. Sorry fir the off topic, I'll add a little bit more on topic. To the OP, I would reccomend getting some of the big overhaul mods for each game. The wanderers edition mod for fallout is an incredible improvement upon the main game. Since your pc is actually very good, I would get some of the graphics mods like the texture packs and the enb mods which improve shading a ton.Andy of Comix Inc said:
Fallout 3. Oblivion's still a great game, but Fallout kicks it out of the park. You'll also get your money's worth with the GOTY edition, since you get the Broken Steel content. Oblivion, on the other hand, has one of the worst GOTY Editions I've ever seen- Shivering Isles, Knights of The Nine, and if you're lucky? Horse Armour.
I also think Fallout has a better story and sidequests.
I also think Fallout has a better story and sidequests.
Call of Pripyat can really push systems, at least on Extreme. See also Metro 2033.ToastiestZombie said:
Though I take STALKER back. I'm gonna go ahead and say Serious Sam 3. That thing is murder. Not as much as Witcher 2, which I'm willing to bet is the most system-crippling game out right now, but certainly it's up there. Though I'm... I'm starting to think these things are poorly optimized and not actually more advanced. That is exactly the case with Clear Sky, which outright doesn't work properly with ATI cards fullstop.
I modded it and it still didn't work. No iron-sights with realistic guns is a no deal for me. I despise hip-shooting unless it's an unrealistic gun (a la most guns in TF2)GonzoGamer said:
It's not fun, it's incredibly dull. In NV I turned off cinematic kills because it was a waste of time. It's also unbearably stupid to have cinematic kills for a gun.
Well, I don't have that many mods (less than a dozen at least...including Mod Manager and all that) but one of them must do the iron sights thing because I got it. It might be a setting in FWE, that one has more options that I haven't completely explored. And what game are we talking about that has realistic guns anyway?kortin said:
What I think I like most about VATS is that it makes the game accessible to people who don't play shooters AND (as you pointed out) it & the killcam are optional.
Besides, I think of as being more of an RPG than a shooter.
New Vegas I'd say, it's way better than Fallout 3, as is the DLC, (Big Empty and Lonesome road being my favs), if you have Skyrim, I wouldn't bother with Oblivion as while it's a great game on its own, it's going to feel very clunky after having played Skyrim.
Your graphics card is substantially more powerful than mine and I can play just about every modern game without taking an FPS hit (except The Witcher 2, but that still looks gorgeous on lower settings).Glass Joe the Champ said:
Seriously, you have one hell of a gaming rig there.
To answer your question... Fallout 3 is the more compelling game, but be prepared to Google fixes to the myriad issues you'll have running it on a modern OS.
Still, I much prefer New Vegas, which also has the benefit of running just fine in Windows 7.
This is coming from the guy who has never had a computer crash on him. On 98, XP, or Vista. I might just have really tough machine spirits fighting against the Vista minions. But it works fine.LedChicken said:
Some mods do make things more unstable than others, though. That NV mod that adds 100s of new areas made me crash plenty of times as I entered a new area.
I prefer Oblivion, i guess its just because i prefer the setting, and if you get the Shivering Isles expansion you get this cheery character -
