[QUOTE="superclocked"][QUOTE="Barbariser"]Oh please, the fact that Fallout 3 stuff is weirder and far less sensible does not at all imply that it is actually better.What kind of mentally impaired idiot writer thought up concepts like Little Lamplight, Three Dog, the entire main story, Megaton or that village populated by like five cannibals? Also, I'm not sure that you have noticed this (I wouldn't be surprised, you think New Vegas can be finished in two days, I have no idea how much content you missed :roll: ), but vaults also exist in New Vegas and their stories (especially Vault 11) beat out anything Fallout 3 has to offer.
Why the hell would anyone put a labyrinthine metro network in New Vegas? Aside from the fact that almost all the terminals and tunnels in Fallout 3 are almost identical in layout (making exploring them confusing them as hell), New Vegas is set in the Mojave Desert. You seem to think that Fallout 3 is better because it has more random sh!t lying around even if there's no reason for it to be there or that reason makes no sense. I'm sorry, I actually want to play an RPG, develop my character and actively change the world to fit my wants instead of wandering around cloned metro stations. In all of these aspects New Vegas is infinitely better.
Barbariser
The game is set a couple hundred years in the future. Saying that there is nothing interesting to explore because it's set in the Mojave desert is a bad reason. Fallout New Vegas is a good game, but it's a puny little thing when compared to the behemoth that is Fallout 3... Do you have reading problems or what? I said that there's no METRO NETWORK because it's set in the Mojave Desert. I didn't say that Fallout New Vegas has no "interesting locations", because it certainly isn't true. New Vegas's vaults and settlements are far superior to their Fallout 3 counterparts, the former because they all actually have unique designs and more interesting stories and the latter because they're far larger, more populated and more active. Your only argument is "Fallout 3 has more identical metro stations and weird nonsensical things" which hardly proves that Fallout New Vegas is a "downgrade in every way".While the Mojave has it's moments, as a location it is a massive downgrade compared to the DC ruins and Capital Wasteland.
All of the Capital Wasteland has this feeling of desperation, of being a ruined world that was once thriving. The world design is much more memorable, I remember places like the White House, the Metro tunnels, Andale, Big Town and Springvale more than most of the locations in the Mojave because they felt more well put together, more unique while they all had interesting unique stories to tell as well.
The Mojave feels like it's ALWAYS been a desert, without much of a story to tell outside of the vaults, and Las Vegas itself is this painfully tiny, walled off location that lacks the massive feel of DC. You could argue the Vegas is different since it was barely touched by the bombs, but that makes it worse when you consider how much more tiny it is, how unpopulated it feels and how dirty it still is. The actual settlements just feel normal and civilized, and New Vegas as a whole lacks the post apocalyptic feeling for more of a Sci-Fi Wild West feel now.
As far as world design goes, Fallout 3 did a much better job of making a more memorable, more well crafted location to explore.
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