I love RPGS, I love first person shooters, I love gamesas I ADORED oblivion its my fav game of this generation. So then you have Fallout 3, a roleplaying first person shooter developed by gamesas using much of the same mechanics that was used in Oblivion, first person view, Radiant A.I Etc. So why is it, I don't like Fallout 3? Iv tried so hard to get into, I just find the game slow, boring and depressing. I try to get into it, I try to play a role and see the fun and addictive side of the game but I just can't. I try to go off exploring, looking for interesting stuff, doing dungeons and trying to make friends and enemies but it just ain't happening. Maybe its because of the environment? Doom and gloom and hardly any green, I don't know what it is. Anyone else had the same problems, did you eventually get into it, if so what was it that got you hooked? I know its not a bad game, I know its an excellent game for the fans, but I just ain't getting the same feeling from it.

It is the setting. It is a depressing, bleak setting, where Oblivion is all nice and green with lots of happy people in it. You are not the only Oblivion player to feel as you do. Post apocalyptic and pre apocalyptic.

I new that I would love F3 as soon as I left Vault 101.

Maybe your just one of those people who can't get into a depressing post-apocalyptic game, a friend of mine is the same (he was ignorantly saying F3 just looked like a crappy shooter).

I think it's safe to say that us FO3 players love the wasteland BECAUSE it's stark and bleak. If you're not enjoying it now you likely never will. If you want to fall in love with the setting try some post-apocalyptic media. I recommend The Road (the movie).

I'm the complete opposite, I'm probably the only person in the world who couldn't get into Oblivion, I couldn't bring myself to continue playing after the first oblivion gate. Fallout 3, on the other hand, had me hooked the moment I left Vault 101, I guess this proves that these games aren't made for everyone.

I had trouble with the landscape at first, but you do get used to it.

What are some aspects that you consider different between the two?

The Fallout series is designed around an oppressive and depressing setting ~on purpose; I would say that's part of the reason for the 4th wall pokes (at the player) from the special encounters, and the subtle (and not) humor in the game. The locations themselves are not fun places, and friends are scarce to almost non-existent. But in FO3 the entire series changes , and I just chock it up to a tinkered formula that no longer works as intended.

The setting may be a bit bleak, but I don't find it depressing at all, as the atmosphere is so good.
And ... there is some greenery in Fallout 3, although you'll have to search hard for it or pick up the right quest.

Fallout 3 is by far the most depressing and bleak of the games... But the problem here is that you came from Oblivion and probably expected that Fo3 would be similar. It's not. It's a huge change between a green utopia with fun and fashion, to a post-nuclear crapsack world with no bright future ahead of it.

Fallout 3 is by far the most depressing and bleak of the games... But the problem here is that you came from Oblivion and probably expected that Fo3 would be similar. It's not. It's a huge change between a green utopia with fun and fashion, to a post-nuclear crapsack world with no bright future ahead of it.

You may just not like the post-apocalyptic setting. Personally I love the exact thing you just described.