Why do you people prefer Oblivion over Fallout 3 ?
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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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
Seconded.DuplicateValue said:I just love Oblivion's setting and atmosphere much more than Fallout's.
But then, I'm a sucker for medieval fantasy.
Where would YOU rather go for a walk? In a bombed-out desert area, or in a lush, green forest? Fallout 3 is a great game, but Oblivion is set in a more attractive world!
Wurek said:
i do like both games and im actually playing fallout 3 right now, BUT for discussions sake:
well first off, the super shit brown apocolyptic colors dont catch me at all, its so boring and honestly it seems more samesy to me than oblivion does.
to kind of catch on to that point, there is like what, 2 towns that are actually worth calling towns in fallout 3? i know its post apocolypse and all that shit, but its so fucking empty out there, there is no depth to good people hardly at all.
next step is the music, honestly i am so bored with that fallout 3 music i can't stand it, it gets so annoying, so thank GOD for the iPip player so i can play my own music station over that stuff, it helps SO MUCH MORE getting through that game.
the main quest in fallout 3 is complete facepalm stupidity (not that oblivion is so much better, but i think it has more depth to it on how much it takes/the length of it)
i think the combat has more depth too for oblivion, such as magic/arrows/sword and shield, melee in fallout 3 is freaking stupid, you will get mowed over by guns/rockets galore of super mutants if you just run around with a sledgehammer. (no offense to anyone who does use that playstyle)
now these are just what came off the top of my head, the games are both still great and i love the modding communities of both of them!
I didn't. Fallout 3 had a lot more depth and personality, and more unique quests and better dialogue and choices.
The reason I like Oblivion over Fallout 3 is simple. The combat. Fallout 3's VATs system is great but the real-time shooting is kind of lacking and dodgy.
Main story was so much better, saving the world from the demons from Oblivion, or Purifying a lake. The gameplay of Fallout 3 was better.
