So, ive been playing FO:NV for a few weeks, and just got FO3 any differances that i should know of?

Fallout 3 doesn't have the following:

Traits
Damage Threshold
Iron Sites
hardcoe Mode
Multiple Endings
Reputation System
Companion Quests
Faction disguises

The game is pretty much Good vs Evil and you will be forced to join the BoS and kill the Enclave. The game is based on karma and you will be attacked just for being good or just for being bad. The writing is just bad. It isn't as "mature/advlt" as New Vegas.

Oh, within the few hours i noticed no iron sights, and noticed that dmg was lower and DT was higher, but you get attacked for you karma? Thats rather stupid, because i steal stuff frequently. And since i havent met any factions i had assumed that, but thanks for pointing out the differances.

No problem. The more you get into the game the more noticeable it will be, and there isn't anything you can do about it, unless you radically change your karma.

Since there is no reputation system, people won't know about you. A guy on the radio will talk about you, but no one else will. You know how in New Vegas were if you piss off say the NCR and then all the NCR guys know about you? That isn't in Fallout 3. If you bug a town, just wait a couple game days and they will forget.

Hmm, i like having faction consequences though, so if i help someone out his/her area wont care at all? Guess wanting to have an evil character wasnt such a good problem after all.

Fallout 3 has what fallout NV does not ..

Fallout 3 has a game world which is basically 10x better than NV. don't let the 2nd post disappoint you . The wasteland is a massive place with 1000nds of things to explore.. am in my 10nth playthough and i still keep finding out new things... The story and quests might not be that good... The DC urban wasteland is a million times better than that pathetic excuse of Vegas they built... not saying NV is bad ,,fallout 3 is better..far far better in terms of exploration... and NV is better in terms of game mechanics and storyllne .. but for some reason...i keep cmming back to fallout 3..

and if your paying on PC...there are enough mods out there which will drastically change the game...

Simply put Fallout 3 and New Vegas are two different games. Fallout 3 is a TES game with a Fallout paint job and New Vegas as a real Fallout game true to the series.

Pretty much everything in New Vegas that isn't in Fallout 3, is in Fallout and Fallout 2. Fallout 3 fails in pretty much everything Fallout.

As Maddy21 said Fallout 3 has a different wasteland, but it is completely inconsistant with the Fallout series and with reality. The other thing about exploration, there is alot to explore in New Vegas as well as in the original Fallout games. Fallout isn't based around exploration, it isn't the main focus.

They are both great games. NV has the better settings with hardcoe mode, weapon modding, etc. But FO3 has TONS more to do then NV. I've never played FO1 or 2, but from what I have read, I would agree with the posts that NV is more true to the Fallout series. Doesn't take away anything from FO3 though. NV just gets too lonely at times, in terms of lack of NPC's about in the wastes of the Mojave. But I do love the weapons in NV a lot better...I keep doing this lol I say one good thing about one game, and then I find something I like better in the other. They are both just kick ass!

New Vegas has far more quests than Fallout 3, marked quests, unmarked quests and companion quests. There are far more options in how to do those quests. There are four main ways to finish the game. You can join or help pretty much every faction in the game, which you can't do in Fallout 3.

Funny how you say New Vegas can get "lonely" cause wasn't that the point of Fallout 3 "Lone Wanderer?"

The differences in Fallout 3 do take alot away from Fallout 3. It is why people are so critical of it.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Fallout 3 for what it is, I just don't think its a very good Fallout game. I rank it 5th out of the 5 canon games.

I do need to get my hands on the first two games. Would love to try them.

Theres more quests in New Vegas? I didn't know that. Feels like the FO3 quests are a bit more lengthy though, and sometimes NV can be a little talk/dialogue heavy. But I understand that its the type of game that it is, it is an RPG afterall.

And what I was saying about the lonley comment, it wasn't about companions really, just more towns or settlements, friendlies, and enemies. Just seems to be a huge gap(of empty) in the map at times with NV, compared to FO3.

That being said, I love what they did with NV. I love the settings, hardcoe mode, and how they made the normal mode much more difficult then FO3. There is no 'god' mode in NV, and thats really cool.

You can get Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics in a pack for pretty cheap around $15 to $20 and if you download them from steam you get the patches so they play right on modern computers (Windows 7).

Fallout 3 bothered me with the number of random raider attacks and the predictable Talon Company Merc attacks. A merc we can't pay to go away? That is just stupid. By that I mean no option to go to the leaders of Talon Company and go "here is X-amount of money, now piss off and leave me alone" and if that fails, show them all the fingers from the mercs you killed.

Anyways its supposed to be a wasteland. Yet there are people all over the place, a settlement over every hill. "Settlements" with only two people. What is the point of that? I rather have large settlements through out the wasteland, than have one or two big ones and dozens of smaller pointless ones.

Ive gotten about maybe lvl 12 in 3 days or so, and i like the fallout 3 map more than nv, though i have to say nv story is abit more interesting. I also find fo3 much easier because you pick a perk every level, not every two like nv.

Every two levels I assume was Obsidians way of compromising with Bethesda, cause in the Original Fallouts it used to be every three level that you would get a perk. There was even a trait that would make it every four levels.

Oh, was there a level cap in the originals?

Yes, but its really hard to get to, I have played them countless times and I don't recall ever reaching the cap. Leveling and skill point distribution is very different. Kill points cap at 300 and the higher your skill goes the more skill points it takes to go up. Leveling requires more and more and more XP everytime. Perks are every three levels not one or two.

So the orginals are more of a challenege in that sense and it allows for better character creation.

Hmm, i might be interested in getting them now.

I disagree, Fallout 3's wasteland was dull, ugly and poorly designed to the point of taking me out of the game, that and it felt really friggen tiny. And I don't see how you can keep finding new things, I was able to explore the whole map pretty quickly and nothing is new to me anymore, maybe you just forget things and rediscover them.

And DC was a joke, the only way to get around is the metro's and fast travel, and most of the buildings are closed off, that and for the most bombed place in the USA it fared extremely well, it barely looks touched by the war.

I thought New Vegas's world was far far better in terms of design, because it looks and acts like its been a long time since the war, and not a couple years like Fallout 3. And I love deserts, so that probably has something to do with it.

U will enjoy it, if you like NV you'll love 3. And btw, there's a lot more things that want to kill you in fo3.

Cheers

[censored] me why don't you just spit on him and burn his copy of fallout 3?
Good v evil is [censored] enclave are no way evil you first need the ashes for the Phoenix to rise . Again fallout 3 has multiple endings ,and forced to kill the enclave maybe the patrols that aint heard the news at the end of broken steel wich he doesn't have but end of mq notyou get a choice then bs (wich I hate erases the choice picking its own canon story but then offeres another choice at the end).
.ohh op fallout 3 has a massivly superior open worlds that will entertain you 10fold what the mojave has to offer and has some of the best atmosphere in gaming ever and it's storyline has a little more emotion then put your vote in a ballot box.

The rep system and karma system are both flawed punch one guy and the full of the ncr some how know about it same goes for karma but it is a little different though.
I've shot up the strip got villified and went back 3 days later with nothing attacking me same as fallout 3 it has no baring on the reputation system .

Remember what I said about reading what the topic is about before you go all ape [censored] over your love for Fallout 3? Seriously you need to work on that. He asked what the differences were between the games. Also keep in mind that he started with Fallout New Vegas.

Yes differences so why didn't you say for example fonv has an inferior world to explore wich is most people agree on?

Cause he already started with New Vegas. He knows what that game is like and he likes New Vegas. He wanted to know what Fallout 3 was like.

I can't help that Fallout 3 has so much missing from it. Got a problem with it take it up with Bethesda.

Also exploration isn't the damn point of Fallout and Fallout 3's game world is completely inconsistant with the series and with reality.

Exploration isn't a part of fallout 1 and 2 you mean theres a new developer in town hadn't you noticed with a big ethos on exploration wich is going to be implemented to fallout so your statement is bull.And you played the game lots says you I would thin you woud have something positive to share to.counterbalance the neagative so he can make up.his own mind and not have your opinion forced on him .

They want to kill anyone who is not "pure" in their eyes, since when is Genocide not evil?

Enclave = Nazi's in power armor