Fallout 3 Vs. Fallout: New Vegas, Comparisons and Debates... Options

[Diamandis]

Woo! Another Fallout thread! Sorry guys

Buuuuuut, on a few fallout related threads I've seen people make comparisons about both games; what people think one does better or what one does a lot worse.

I thought it would be nice to have a thread where our opinions could be put tidily in one handy place

For me, three of my preferences:

I love the way NV does Companions compared to 3. Not only does the companion wheel make things a lot easier, but it is actually fun travelling with a companion. They actually have things to say, back story wise and you feel like you are travelling with a friend In a way. In 3 they are kinda just there. I find it hard to connect with the companions as they are so one dimensional.

Also, prefer the Star Cap hunt in NV compared to the Nuka Cola challenge (sorry mirocu ). I just find it more of a challenge finding the caps as the Quantums in 3 seem to easy to find.

BUT one thig 3 does have the edge on over NV are player housing. Bethesda have always done a great job with what their player housing has to offer, and Fallout 3 is no exception. In NV the player houses (if you can call them that) just never feel like home. They seem bland.

[SubRosa]

I think FONV did the crafting much better than FO3. Being able to recycle used energy ammo, or convert them to different types made playing an energy weapon wielder a lot more viable than it is in FO3. It got more complicated than I liked crafting the regular ammo though. I preferred FO3's very simple ammo press from The Pitt. I just wish there was a press in Megaton...

FONV's main quest certainly gives you a lot more options than the FO3 mq, in the way you can try to recruit varying factions for the upcoming war. Though it still boils down to Legion vs. NCR in the end. But I am not really very interested in doing the main quests in Bethesda's games anway, so this does not really count for much for me. Ironically I have done the FO3 main quest twice now. I never had any desire to do any of the FONV main quest. I could just care less for the Legion or the NCR.

When it comes to radios, FO3 wins hands down for me. I love Three Dog, and hearing him relate my wasteland adventures to the rest of the world. Mr. Vegas just felt flat and dull to me.

When it comes to locations to explore, FO3 also wins hands down for me again. Half of the FONV map is blocked off and empty, with just a strip of places going down the center of the square. FO3 just feels so much bigger, with more to find and more to do. That of course is what I play open world games for, the joy of simple exploration.

The Bugs were definitely much worse in FONV. Even though I played the game years after it was supposedly patched, I still ran into lots of weird glitches, like animals being three-quarters underground. I could not shoot them, but they could still harm me. Or Scorpions that walked around doing handstands. Or a game-breaking bug I found with the quest for the vault overrrun with plants, that I only escaped from by using the console. The only issue I have ever had with FO3 was the occasional CTD for no apparent reason, which was fixed with a simple .ini tweak that made it play nice with my multi-core cpu.

All in all I vastly prefer FO3.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 5 2013, 05:42 PM

[mirocu]

When it comes to locations to explore, FO3 also wins hands down for me again. Half of the FONV map is blocked off and empty, with just a strip of places going down the center of the square. FO3 just feels so much bigger, with more to find and more to do. That of course is what I play open world games for, the joy of simple exploration.

As a fellow explorer, this is a big thing for me and not being able to fully explore the map as I please is a huge, HUGE letdown and something I can´t accept. I didn´t mention it because I had forgotten about it, but this also made me get FO3 instead of NV. But I think I forgot the main thing why I even approached the Fallout franschise; an awesome lets play on youtube! Loved the game and the mechanics right away so I would have gotten FO3 anyway, but hadn´t it been for Steam I would have gotten NV as well.

Money stays in the pocket

Scorpions that walked around doing handstands.

That is so fun to see!

The only issue I have ever had with FO3 was the occasional CTD for no apparent reason, which was fixed with a simple .ini tweak that made it play nice with my multi-core cpu.

I had to make that change too but I still get the CTD once in awhile. Not so often but it´s a major pain if I haven´t saved in awhile when it does happen

Edit: Main reason to get NV: companion Willow. She´s just...
Needless to say she´s not a ghoul like in FO3

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jun 6 2013, 12:01 PM