Fallout 3 GOTY or New Vegas?

Heya folks, I'm pretty sure Fallout 3 and NV are going on sale some time this sale season and I was wondering which did you guys like more? FO: NV( a steamworks game) is $10 at best buy with free shipping to the store but I'm guessing FO3: GOTY will hit under $15 sometime soon. Which would you prefer, or which did you enjoy more? I've never played a Fallout game before so which would be accessible?

From my prespective of people answering these type of questions, like The Elder Scrolls series. If you played the first one, first and then the 2nd. People typically answer the first one. BUT, if you played the 2nd one first, and then went back to the first one, people tend to pick the 2nd one as their favorite.

I personally liked and enjoyed both of them throughly. Though, I would have to pick the first one as more enjoyable as it was, at the time a new idea/experience. These two are, in pretty much every sense of it, the same game. So, running into new vegas after fallout 3, there was no excitement just the same stuff I did in Fallout 3.

i'd say go for New Vegas, it has much more interesting story and a lot of fun places to go. It's not as buggy as it was at the release day, the patches fixed it up pretty good. To make it clear i own both games with all the DLCs and imo New Vegas is a better deal ;)

Im hoping for a huge Fallout NV price drop on Steam.

Im hoping for a huge Fallout NV price drop on Steam.

mhofever

Also these games have graphics mods or hires textures right? :o how are the mod coms on these games?

Depends, were you a fan of FO1 and 2? if so go for FO:NV.

Never playied a FO game before? well FO 3 will do fine :) It is longer overall, with more things to do. altho less well written, and less of an rpg.

Heya folks, I'm pretty sure Fallout 3 and NV are going on sale some time this sale season and I was wondering which did you guys like more? FO: NV( a steamworks game) is $10 at best buy with free shipping to the store but I'm guessing FO3: GOTY will hit under $15 sometime soon. Which would you prefer, or which did you enjoy more? I've never played a Fallout game before so which would be accessible?

CoolSkAGuy

I highly suggest you start with Fallout 2, with the essential mod - Fallout 2 Restoration Project, which adds a ton of improvements & additional content. Then after you finish that masterpiece, you'll want to play Fallout: New Vegas, which is the next best thing.

New Vegas is the better experience; it's packed with more locations and more interesting quests.

F3. The setting is tons better and the DLCs are way better. Other than that they play the same but with different story lines.

Get both

New Vegas is a better game, but if you haven't played 3 get it. More content for the price.

That is, if it's under $15. If it doesn't get under $15, just get New Vegas. It's waaaaay better than 3, just less stuff since it doesn't come with the DLC.

New Vegas is a much better game, bugs are much less of a problem on the PC version, has had two ok DLCs instead of four garbage ones and one decent one with Fallout 3.

If this were a System Wars poll, F3 would win lol

I enjoyed both. Vegas maybe slightly more because of the smoother gameplay with less bugs.

But if you like Fallout 3 you'll like Vegas and vice versa. I see no reason not to get both as they're not that expensive right now.

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Im hoping for a huge Fallout NV price drop on Steam.

CoolSkAGuy

Also these games have graphics mods or hires textures right? :o how are the mod coms on these games?

... it's $14.99 on steam right now, have you not checked todays daily deals yet?

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[QUOTE="mhofever"]

Im hoping for a huge Fallout NV price drop on Steam.

Meat_Wad_Fan

Also these games have graphics mods or hires textures right? :o how are the mod coms on these games?

... it's $14.99 on steam right now, have you not checked todays daily deals yet?

Id say both..Fallout 3 was more barren type of area..Think new vegas had a lot more going for it in this area...Both are very decent rpg type games..Im sure fallout 4 will also come out after syrim is done..Unless they go on to make elder scrolls six right away for the next systems..

I love FO3 because you get to fight super mutants and all kinds of creatures, and everything is packed so tight that it never lets up, it's almost arcade like. However I also loved New Vegas when I played it, and playing either before the other does not really matter. The biggest letdown of NV was that there were no epic creatures like the gigantic super mutants that were in FO3, and that there are no super mutants which imo are much more fun to kill than scorpions and humans. The best in NV are the 4 legendary monsters, which are great but not in the same way.

New Vegas, New Vegas, New Vegas. FO3 is really **** compared to it and crap when it isn't.

I love FO3 because you get to fight super mutants and all kinds of creatures, and everything is packed so tight that it never lets up, it's almost arcade like. However I also loved New Vegas when I played it, and playing either before the other does not really matter. The biggest letdown of NV was that there were no epic creatures like the gigantic super mutants that were in FO3, and that there are no super mutants which imo are much more fun to kill than scorpions and humans. The best in NV are the 4 legendary monsters, which are great but not in the same way.

True_Sounds

Fallout 3 was something totally different when it came out. New vegas feels more like an expansion than a full retail game (for what I've heard). Still I'd pick both up. Fallout 3 must be less than 10 at this point, while NV is about 15.

Fallout 3 was something totally different when it came out. New vegas feels more like an expansion than a full retail game (for what I've heard). Still I'd pick both up. Fallout 3 must be less than 10 at this point, while NV is about 15.

TailBlood

Edit - Oh, "so you heard." Do you believe everything you hear?

I liked FO3 more than vegas, a better world, bigger, more to do, more locations, longer game, better story. It is way more buggy though but that didnt break the experience for me.

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Fallout 3 was something totally different when it came out. New vegas feels more like an expansion than a full retail game (for what I've heard). Still I'd pick both up. Fallout 3 must be less than 10 at this point, while NV is about 15.

millerlight89

Edit - Oh, "so you heard." Do you believe everything you hear?

Fallout: New Vegas is a much better game unless you are a fan of terrible writing.

The biggest pro's for New Vegas are the addition of ironsights (but I bet there's a mod for this in FA3) and that there are some pretty good story-driven sidequests, where Fallout 3 was more about exploring the world and discovering the secrets and less focused on a story (lets face it the main plot is as cliche as they come). But the reason I think FO3 is still a good choice is that you get the full package, and they are both great games so you will probably want to come back and play New Vegas afterwards, and by then hopefully the last few DLCs will be released, which as far as I understand help flesh out the main plot. After you beat New Vegas the game ends and you can only keep playing if you reload an old save. So it kind of sucks not having continuity if you want to play the later DLCs.

New Vegas is a better game: better RPG, more factions. more choices, much better writing. Fallout 3 has a better setting and some really fun quests. Overall, New Vegas is better but I would get both of them because they are very fun and addictive. Even though Fallout 1 and 2 are still far more superior.

I haven't played New Vegas, but F3's gunplay just wasn't fun to me. I didn't like feeling reliant on VATS, and shooting the gun w/o vats wasn't satisfying. Everything else was pretty cool though. I also kinda wish it felt like my attributes affected my game more. It seemed like the perks and skills didn't change the game much.

I love FO3 because you get to fight super mutants and all kinds of creatures, and everything is packed so tight that it never lets up, it's almost arcade like. However I also loved New Vegas when I played it, and playing either before the other does not really matter. The biggest letdown of NV was that there were no epic creatures like the gigantic super mutants that were in FO3, and that there are no super mutants which imo are much more fun to kill than scorpions and humans. The best in NV are the 4 legendary monsters, which are great but not in the same way.

True_Sounds

New Vegas has Super Mutants.

Perhaps there were some and I had forgotten, but there were not nearly as much as in FO3. Almost all the enemies were indigenous wild creatures or different factions of humans. There were other varieties of mutants yes.

New Vegas (by far). It's better written, a better RPG, and it's closer "in spirit" to Fallout 1 and 2. I really dislikedFO3 but I enjoyed NV probably more than I should have.