» Fri May 04, 2012 8:09 am In fact, its' probably the best Pure RPG I've played. And I'll tell you why. Skyrim, technically, is a great game. The game world is gorgeous, there's plenty of things to do, and it has polished gameplay, and an appealing interface. But the game is ruined for me due to a serious issue that infests the whole game. The game, touts itself as an immense detailed world(which it is), but there isn;t much interesting to do within it. And, yes I get that there's hundreds of side quests, and even more "Miscellaneous Objectives", but few, VERY few of the quest quests are very memorable at all, and are usually all "fetch this, or kill that type of quests". What's worse is that most of them suffer from minimal character interaction, and those interactions are not written very well at all. What's even worse is that you can go ahead and assassinate the Emperor, Slay Potema the Wolf Queen, or liberate a town from Vampires, and it doesn't effect the game world at ALL. No one talks of your achievements,s o you don;t feel all that accomplished. And you don't feel like an adventurer because your adventures are never really that grand. They all FEEL samey. A beautiful world that has very little in terms of depth. It's like Bethesda expected the world to be so wondrous that it would fill in that blank. Well it doesn't. It kind of creates a barrier. Skyrim is not so much a deep RPG, as it is a giant playground for you to mess around in, rather than a dangerous place where every little thing matters. While New Vegas has far more quests than Fallout 3, NV does a fantastic job of making EACH ONE unique and worth playing through. The stories and characters are just so good. And each one effects the game world dramatically. Beyond that, there's usually different ways to each quest you do, and that effects how the game world reacts to you. There's so many factions in the game, and that's where these choices come into play. There's Good and Evil in terms of a universal sense, in NV, and then there's how each faction feels about you. And depending on how they feel about you, that determines if they shoot you on sight or help you with whatever you need. and it WORKS. And people will talk to you or react to you about it. You'll get full quests out of it. Say I'm part of the Great Kahns, that means if I walk near and NCR encampment, they'll all try to murder me. HOWEVER, I can disguise myself as an NCR soldier and perform recon on them in disguise. IT's all so awesome! On my first playthrough, I assaulted the King's base of operations and killed ALL of them. Because I felt like it. It was a joy to hear all the city folk talking about "some guy wiping out all of them", and then having random members try to take revenge on me. It's a system of world immersion lacking from Skyrim.
It doesn't help either that enemy variety is lacking. I know EXACTLY what I'm running into every time I enter a cave or dungeon, based on the type it is in Skyrim. Do something fun with your enemies, Bethesda! What if I walked into a dungeon and found a captive giant being guarded by an arch mage trying to use it as a sacrifice. I have to fight two Earth Atronachs to set him free, or set him free to help me with the mage. You don't HAVE to do ANYTHING with that. You already have all the models done. Just place them and their stats on the dungeon accordingly. It's not hard to show a LITTLE creativity with what you have. Fallout: New Vegas isn't afraid to mess around with the bestiary in terms of their sizes and behavior and locations.
As for Fallout 3? Fallout 3 had a much worse story than New Vegas, and the only reason I think most people like 3 more is because it was there first. Despite NV being FAR more faithful and full of content than 3, 3 had that initial "shock value" attached to it. I cna understand why someone would look at NV and see how it looks samey on the surface, but it really is just the superior game in EVERY possible aspect. If this was the game released in 2008, 3 would look like a joke. So many good stories, adventures and memorable characters. Phenomenal game that's VERY under appreciated. Buy the Ultimate Edition. The DLC's are GODLY. Simply masterful.
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