Why do you people prefer Oblivion over Fallout 3 ?

[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.
Lightning from your finger tips or a mini nuke. Mini nuke would win in a fight, but which is more badass?

[small]Lightning =D[/small]

 

[Jekken6]

I like both. But Oblivion has environments that are much more pleasing to the eye, especially with mods.

 

[TheLefty]

I have a friend who likes to preach to me about my taste in videogames, and suggest games to me all the time (PC games, which I usually can't play on this piece of shit any way) and he's told me many times that "Oblivion is Fallout 3 times infinity" in term of memory, which he attributes to a bigger world, which he attributes to a better game.

Granted I like the exploration of Oblivion, and I've wanted to try it out for a long time, so I might like it, but since I'm STILL playing fallout 3, almost two years later, I find it hard to believe Oblivion can knock Fallout of it's pedestal.

 

[CyanideSandwich]

Honestly, I hate them both. Which was a shame because I heard they were both so good. Oblivion had a pretty amazing open world, but I just found myself quick-travelling around the place anyway. And the combat sucked. I prefer Fallout 3. Not because it was a good game, but it was less awful than Oblivion.

 

[veloper]

Answer: we DON'T.

 

[Twad]

Oblivion is boring and badly broken ( everything is badly designed in oblivion, everything! SO much potential, but it isnt good at all)
Fallout 3 is brown, but at least there are funny easter eggs pretty much everywhere, plus combat is reasonably satisfying (blowing up someone's face is always entertaining)

 

[Danzaivar]

Oblivion lets me be a vampire wizard. The level scaling thing sucks balls, but being a vampire wizard kind of makes up for it.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Honestly, I preferred Fallout 3, but Oblivion did a few things better. It was certainly more colorful, and I believe the world was bigger. That was really about it.

 

[Cpu46]

I love both games to death but I always did enjoy the fantasy element of oblivion more than the Post apocalypse of Fallout.

 

[Aethren]

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And Oblivion actually didn't include any fairies, much to my chagrin. Luckily there were mods to change that. <3

 

[Misterian]

I like both games, but I favor Fallout 3, it has better combat, beter voice acting, and if you don't count the Metro station, you can say that Fallout 3 has alot more variety in it's locations, unlike Oblivion, it has more copy-pasted caves, ruins, and forts, like the Alyeids all have the same taste in housing.

The only apprecible thing about Oblivion that I think why people would favor it is the HUGE amount of quests. It's like Bethesta already figured people would complain about the voice acting and samey environments and decided the best way to compensate is to load it with enough quests to possibly shame a whole year-round D&D campaign. I guess It's selling point is that you never run out of things to do in Cyrodiil, I just wish the real world nowadays has people giving you quests and rewarding you for your success, would compensate for a high unemployment rate, even if it might have to mean fully legalizing weapons and an increase in body count.

 

[10zack986]

Though I liked Oblivion, Fallout 3 did a lot of things better. The character introduction was much better, and although the world is really gray, I still enjoy the game more overall.