Your opinion on Fallout: New Vegas VS. Fallout 3

[Heart's Home]

Keeping in mind that I only ever watched my girlfriend play these two games I enjoyed Fallout 3 a great deal more. The sense of self preservation and urgency just seemed so much more real and impending. That and, from what I saw, the story seemed to do a better job at making the player care about what the outcome was.

 

[Alssadar]

Playing both F3 and NV, I personally preferred Fallout 3 as it gave you more of a role than just "a courier," where there were people who knew you (Like your father, and survivors of the vault).
Being with a crappy computer, action was slow for me, which was equally the same between both versions: Target the Head, Fire like heck, then just spam rapid fire.

 

[Peteron]

I feel alone when I say that Fallout 3 was much better compared to new vegas. From the discussions I've seen, Almost everyone thinks that new vegas is better. I completely disagree. Seriously, Play new vegas for a few days, then play fallout 3. Fallout 3's graphics are better than new vegas'! Plus when you start out in new vegas, Its secretly linear. Because if you go anyway but south toward Primm, you get either eaten by cazadors or mauled my deathclaws. I'll admit it opens up once you finally start heading north, but still. Plus the story of revenge just doesn't resonate with me as much as finding my father does. Oh, and if you say that new vegas is better because of the new weapons and mods, well listen to this. Almost EVERY new addition to game play(i.e. new weapons, weapon mods, special ammo etc.) all of that had already been done by the modders of fallout 3. Everything that makes New vegas unique from fallout 3 was already done before obsidian began development on next game. There were new weapon mods, weapon mod... mods,special ammo mods and even desert mods for fallout 3.

But I digress...

So which do you think is better and why?

I understand what you are saying, but I disagree. While the feel of Fallout 3 and its story were better, New Vegas had much better mechanics overall. Its graphics were better, so you are incorrect. Notice even the people now had more than 2 voice actors, and the characters are given a much more lively appearance. They basically improved Fallout 3 by adding a lot of new material and good one at that. I miss ThreeDog and loved Fallout 3 much more than New Vegas, but that was just because I personally preferred the story, music, and setting it provided.

 

[kabooz18]

Simple Fallout stands for a special kind of game feeling and even some fallout games didn't have it like FO:brotherhood of steel(a dark alliance rehash) or FO tactics:brotherhood of steel...
for me Fallout 3 also didn't have the Fallout feeling with the very linear story (much more linear than fallout 1 and 2) and with linear I don't mean that you have to do things in a special order... I mean story linear you have almost no impact whatsoever... (again compared to fallout 1 and 2)

also the way the world Fallout world is told is in Fallout 3 very much inferior to almost any other FO game... actually every other except for FO:Brotherhood of steel... the descriptions are mostly not funny or original and very much not descriptive... FO:NV is better in this regard if you ask me evenif it's not by much^^ the characters are much more like fallout in FO:NV!

last but not least the graphics... I think both are atrocious... bethesda makes some of the ugliest games with the technology they use I can think of... I liked the asthetics of Fallout but the graphics were ugly as hell... and no sense for bumpmapping (I mean really... I'm no sucker for graphics... but when blood is as thick as my thumb it just breaks immersion...)

so FO3 and FO:NV only playable for me with heavy modding... (for the record, I prefer the fallout 1 and 2 graphics over the new one since it doesn't break immersion as much in my opinion ugly is not worse than bad graphics)

also FO3 and FO:NV still have a very bad thing going on where almost every voice actor has at least 20 characters... and the faces look all very much alike -.-

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Both games are totally awesome, the only reason I'd pick New Vegas over FO3 is because I've literally played FO3 to death, it holds no suprises for me any longer.

 

[kabooz18]

NV no doubt,nothing like the fear of a deathclaw again,by 15 i could kill a group of deathclaw in FO3 but in NV not a chance even with a companion like veronica,i can kill all but one then that last one always gets me,and that's just normal deathclaws,not alphas or the black one in the salt mines

yeah I know what you mean FO3 was boring (fighting wise) for me until I modded it and turned the difficulty much higher but worse than deathclaws were the supermutans... in FO 1 & 2 they were absolutely hardcore in FO3 I could kill a troop with a repitier rifle ... laughable

 

[kabooz18]

The Capital Wasteland felt more like... well... a wasteland, and New Vegas has more bugs than the Marigold tunnels.

On the other hand, Rose of Sharon Cassidy.

... you do realise that both games are buggy as hell... I mean really I don't know anyone who hasnt lost either a savegame completely or had to install them several times and it got worse if you had DLCs or mods ... bethesda don't take enough time to make games ... or their QA is just not existant^^

 

[Funkysandwich]

I've been a long time fan of the series ever since I found a burned copy of Fallout 1 in a desk my parents bought in 2002. Not knowing what it was, I put it in my PC and spent the next 8 hours playing it non stop.

Now, I was excited when Fallout 3 was announced, and put about 60 hours into it. But it just doesn't feel like a Fallout game. If you walk into a town in the First fallout game you immediately get about a dozen interesting quests to do, which tell you more about the way the world has changed, the backstory of the minor characters etc.
In Fallout 3 there is only one other large quest chain (wasteland survival guide) and most of the tasks for that are things like: Go here and fetch 5 of this or kill 6 of that.

And now that I've got this far I'm too lazy to follow that wall of text up with anything else.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

NV is better than F3 in like every way, especially when it comes to linearity.

Most importantly the characters are actually interesting and you feel like you're in an apocalyptic world, which F3 failed at spectacularly.

Man, even with all the bugs I still think NV is miles better. I mean it's not even close for me. NV is still a long shot from F1 and especially my beloved F2, but atleast it feels like a Fallout game.

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even if the graphics are better, a piece of shit is still a piece of shit no matter how nice it looks, new vegas actually has a visual appeal to it

otherwise the person i quoted really hit it on the head

 

[zehydra]

You had me until, "Plus the story of revenge just doesn't resonate with me as much as finding my father does".

I've heard time and time again that Vegas's story was superior to Fallout 3. Now, the main focus of Fallout 3 IS NOT the story (main campaign), it's the situation. From what I can tell, Fallout 3 does a much better job at displaying a physically descriptive as well as an emotionally descriptive telling of a nuclear apocalypse.

I also find that the claim that everything that New Vegas does new should be cast aside because of existing mods is a silly one. Mods are related to an original game the same way that fan fiction is related to a movie or book. They are NOT part of the original game, and often look and feel very out of place and/or silly. I would take developer created content ANYDAY over modded material.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

I liked Fallout 3 better, primarily because I wasn't forced to max out my speech and barter in order to afford anything and pass a speech check without violence. New Vegas basically forced me to be social in order to properly progress through the game (and get Cass), and I hated that.

 

[AlternatePFG]

From what I can tell, Fallout 3 does a much better job at displaying a physically descriptive as well as an emotionally descriptive telling of a nuclear apocalypse.

I would buy that if this game was set right after the war, rather than further in the future and 1 & 2 were. Because in those games, people weren't scavenging as much anymore, they were rebuilding. It's silly that there seems to be no source of food except for 200 year old crap, no farms or anything.

Again, I think Bethesda should have made it a prequel.

 

[OManoghue]

I'd love to combine them.

New Vegas is a Fallout game to the core. Tons of guns, ammo types, mods, armor and balanced traits.

Fallout 3 however, only has 35 quests or whatever (vanilla that is) but they're all better written and more interesting. The location of DC is also far more interesting due to the fact it's the capitol city of the USA, so obviously way more shit went down before and after the bombs fell. Another thing I prefer is that DC is way more fucked up, you spend far more time killing tribal humans or drug addicts in New Vegas than mutants and other shambling horrors.

 

[Splyth]

I actually like 3 better. If for no other reason than I was able to finish it. NV decided to glitch for the saving of president Kimball. TWICE and on two different save files with two different characaters and I can't vote up a game like that.

But Fallout 3 doesn't escape unscathed. I loved the original game before the DLC ruined it (minus Broken Steel). Once I was able to run around in Winterized t51b, darn close to unbreakable, armor. the game got kinda dull.

 

[zehydra]

From what I can tell, Fallout 3 does a much better job at displaying a physically descriptive as well as an emotionally descriptive telling of a nuclear apocalypse.

I would buy that if this game was set right after the war, rather than further in the future and 1 & 2 were. Because in those games, people weren't scavenging as much anymore, they were rebuilding. It's silly that there seems to be no source of food except for 200 year old crap, no farms or anything.

Again, I think Bethesda should have made it a prequel.

A prequel definitely would've been interesting. I'd have played that.

 

[MightyMole]

Ok, IMO Fallout: New Vegas was the better RPG but Fallout 3 was the better game. What do I mean by that?

New Vegas had better RPG elements. It was more balanced in it's perks and skills, its story was better executed, its characters were more fleshed out, it has improvements such as hardcore mode and iron sights, but it was still lacking something for me that Fallout 3 had.

I think Fallout 3 had a better atmosphere than New Vegas. People rag on 3 for being all dead and gloomy but IMO thats completely rediculous. No one ragged on Bioshock for being dark and wet. Why? Because its set under the sea. Why would you expect any place hit by a nuclear bomb with irradiated water and no organized effort to rebuild there to be any different? To me, it was the diversity of New Vegas that caused its lack of a set atmosphere. I mean you can be at a lake side one minute to a snowy mountain the next and everywhere in between. It never really felt like you were in a 1950's envisionment post apocolyptic America. It felt more like a random cowboys vision of how cool it would be without the goverment or something.

The biggest reason I like Fallout 3 over Fallout: New Vegas is probably the same reason a lot of you don't like it. I liked being able to become a God with perfect stats, 16 followers and every item in the game if you played your cards right. New Vegas has made it literally impossible to do that, and I thought it took away a huge part of the experience for me. Its even impossible to get the Legate's awesome helmet. As an RPG, all that makes the game better but as a game, I find it a lot less enjoyable than Fallout 3.

Thats just my opinion though, to each their own.

 

[Tdc2182]

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas in my opinion, though I truthfully didn't like either of them.

There was really no incentive to explore extra areas in Fallout 3, at least in terms of guns, Because they were all just the same damn thing with a new name put on top of it.

Fallout: New Vegas just wasn't as good. Can't really put my finger on it, though the environment was cringeworthy and the story wasn't at all entertaining.