I enjoyed Fallout 3 more due to the emotional context. Starting off by being born, growing up in the vault and then heading out to find your character's dad helped to form an emotional connection to the character you were playing. I cared a lot about my character, I wanted to help her find her dad, I shared in her grief as well as her fears and hopes.
New Vegas is a good game, but I don't find revenge to be as much of a motive compared to trying to survive in a wasteland of the dead. Also I didn't enjoy the political angle of New vegas all that much, neither side was any better than the other, they were all too full of themselves.
Fallout 3 also used emotion in other aspects, like the skeltons in the houses at Minefield, the ruins and the way the game's sun would rise and set on the wasteland. Add that with the music and it was a very emotional game.
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Very well said. I too could not connect with my character in New Vegas. Where as I felt pretty much involved in fallout 3, exactly because of the fact that i followed my characters life right from his/her birth through his teenages and finally when i get to leave the vault in search of my character's father the story was too personal and immersive.
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