Just so you guys know, I'm talking about the Xbox 360 version of the game. My friends reckon that Fallout 3 is better than New Vegas, whilst I think New Vegas is better. What you all think?

Fallout new vegas is a thousand times better than fallout 3...... but the two let downs are that vegas was a bit small and the radio made me go insane..

New Vegas hands down...

I liked Fallout 3's story better, but NV beats it on replayability.

I played through Fallout 2 twice... Once normal mode, and once with the DLCs, and there was a year between the two plays...

I am currently on my fourth playthrough on NV... Odds are I will restart when the new DLCs start coming out also.

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I mean fallout 3 not fallout 2...

I think you should be get some sandbags ready to be made into barricades because this is likely going to get messy.

My personal opinion is that Fallout: New Vegas is better than Fallout 3. I play on the Xbox 360 and my introduction to the series was through Fallout 3.

Ok, I though so too. I am so buying the new 'Dead Money' DLC for NV when it comes out. Perhaps it'll allow us to carry on with our characters after we beat the main quests, like the add-ons did for Fallout 3?

I don't think so , but they are raising the level cap to 35.

I think fire extinguisher and water cannon is better.

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Obsidian decided on the permanent ending so they could make the story more meaningful. The player gets to make big decisions that have a major impact. It's extremely unlikely that the developers are going to change that decision in a DLC release.



I'm partial to tear gas myself. Or that nifty Active Denial System that the military is working on!

I don't think I would care to compare them - I love them both for different reasons, and both are excellent IMHO.

There is a lot of improvements and additions that FONV has that FO3 did not.

Companion wheel
Companion perks
Weapon mods
hardcoe mode
More quests
New factions
Gambling
Traits
Binoculars
Night/Thermal vision
Nightkins
Snow
More Freindly Super-Mutants
More than twice the guns
More joinable factions
Reputation
New drugs
Repair kits
Doctors bags
Unique speach options for low intellegence characters.
Crafting
Poison/Medicine making
Ammo crafting
Disguises
180 quests
Ability to Play-Through as a pacifist
Ability to kill every person in-game except for one.
Iron Sights
Non-Lethal ammo types
Ammo Type Switching
Faction ranking
Advanced power armor
Deeper Main Quest
More choices/endings
Electricity
hokers/Strippers
Stregnth/skill requirments for weapons
More Currencies
Courier Missions
Higher level cap
Vegetation
Perks every 2 levels
Perk that allows you to repair armour with another piece of armour SIMLIAR to your armour (Power Armour repaired with Metal Raider Armour) (Duster repaired with Long Coat).... not sure if there is a "Long Coat" in game, but that is an example. Metal to metal... leather to leather... cloth to cloth

I think FONV wins...

They made a few tweaks to the feel of the game that makes New Vegas feel like a superior game.
hardcoe mode, iron sights, etc. However, these are all present in my copy of Fallout 3, as these 'new' features are mostly directly copied from community mods for Fallout 3.

Being in close proximity to the NCR, that has been around for hundreds of years now, makes New Vegas feel less like a post-apocalyptic RPG and more like... a present day RPG set in a slum or something.

People aren't struggling to survive in a changed landscape. They're working their dayjobs in farmsteads or 'prospecting'. Waiting to get their paychecks so they can go to a pub for a drink or a prosttute.

Things aren't as tamed and structured in the Capitol Wasteland as they are in the Mohave. When you're paying for a post-apocalyptic RPG, I think you're looking for a gameplay experience more like Fallout 3 than New Vegas.


New Vegas isn't bad, at all. Granted, you may need a couple.. dozen drinks before you can see past all the little bugs and lazy scripting. But I think Fallout 3 better delivers the post-apocalyptic experience.

Better RPG: New Vegas
Better Fallout game: New Vegas
Better sandbox game: Fallout 3

I guess it all depends on your preference. I personally prefer story, writing, dialogue, character interaction, faction interaction, choices, RPG elements, and a lot more that New Vegas offers that Fallout 3 cannot over exploration.

I was so satisfied by my first playthrough of New Vegas that I have yet to take the time to play another. I just can't get over how good it was, and I have no desire to play it again because it was so good, if that makes any sense.
Fallout 3 just whetted my appetite but always left me hungry for more, so I played it constantly and multiple playthroughs.

In my personal opinion the fallout series is awesome.

Both are good in their own respect.

But in my opinion Fallout 3 atmosphere was better. It gave you that "this is the end of the world" feeling. :mohawk:
Fallout NV atmosphere is more like a "Wild West" in an alternative universe. :twirl:

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Getting out the old soap box.. FO3 got its atmosphere wrong IMO. FO3 takes place 200 years or so after the "end of the world." Things should have improved at least in the terms of less radiation and more plants a blue sky!. FO3 was going for that "end of the world" making DC look like the great war was only a few decades ago. Fallout One has the best "end of the world" but it still showed that things were starting to get better, trying to at least. Fallout Two showed the most improvement and New Vegas continues it. To me fallout is humanity rebuilding getting better dealing with mankinds mistakes. FO3 was just sitting in the mud again. I know people can give the old "DC was hit worce therefore it would have not improvement." I am sure no matter were you are in the world things would have improved to the point were things no longer look like the great war was yesterday.

I am in agreement over your agreement..but then again, FNV had better exploration in my mind.

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I can agree with this. Personally I think the sandbox element is of no consequence as I never even wanted the game to mimic that style to begin with - and more over, I still don't quite get what's the real difference between the games in that regard, both have a ton of locations and NV just happens to have tougher enemies and a bit less meaningless stuff and embracing corpses in bathtubs with toasters and empty syringes.

I to think FO New Vegas has better exploration, just from what I have been reading, FO3s exploration is more sand box and New Vegas is not. So I'll agree that FO3 is a better sand box for what its worth.

No they are never going to release a "play after the main story" DLC. They specifically started in the info released about Dead money that you have to use a save game before the ending sequence for the quest to trigger.

I really miss the dark atmosphere of Fallout 3. I was always on the edge of my seat whenever I went inside a building and literally got scared and left a couple of places. Fallout New Vegas' goofiness just isn't doing it for me ie; silly dressed mutants and such. I still like it, it has some good quest lines but none that have kept me on the edge of my seat yet.

Indeed.

Won't compare, as they have both been my favourite at one time, as have 1, 2, and tactics.
Different feels, each has elements I personally would change, but saying one is better just because it's cool to do so is not my thing.
Just my feelings on this, and go compare threads tend to get too heated if you disagree.

NV I like the people more, but FO3 had a lot of details to create mini storys with.
I like some freedom to use my imagination sometimes, and others I want a great story adventure.

Go to Vault 34 or Camp Guardian. Both had me in suspense for different reasons.