Fallout: New Vegas, sub-par? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:52 pm

Yeah, perhaps the capital wasteland is kind of undersettled, but we have to take into account just how hard the capital would have been hit in an all-out nuclear war between the world's last two fully intact governments. Perhaps the chance to resettle has only come recently.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:18 pm

if you mean below par, in the sense that, it's got the higher score in a round of golf, then yes, i agree, fallout new vegas wins all rounds of golf

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:29 am

if you mean below par, in the sense that, it's got the higher score in a round of golf, then yes, i agree, fallout new vegas wins all rounds of golf

:rofl: :clap: Very good Moondog, like it

I do think that removing random encounters was a very bad idea and that is my biggest problem with NV.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:45 pm

Fallout 3 felt very detached from the rest of the series. It also pissed me off that the people living in DC just complain about how bad everything is yet they don't make any attempt to farm (apart from that one Bhramin in Megaton), all they do is scavenge and get eaten by a ridiculous amount of Super Mutants that stream from an FEV filled Vault o.O

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:47 pm

snip

Glad, we agree. Just a little misunderstanding. If people want a a game with a "just after the wasteland feel," Fallout 3 has that over New Vegas. Even though it's the wrong setting for the time and place that Fallout 3 is set. It gave many people the wrong idea of Fallout, in more then just setting.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:21 pm

Fallout 3 felt very detached from the rest of the series. It also pissed me off that the people living in DC just complain about how bad everything is yet they don't make any attempt to farm (apart from that one Bhramin in Megaton), all they do is scavenge and get eaten by a ridiculous amount of Super Mutants that stream from an FEV filled Vault o.O

Heh. In Failing Fallout Joe suffered a miniature psychotic break visiting megaton for the first time:
At first glance you could mistake Megaton for a light in the darkness; a beacon of civilization in the atomic wasteland. But the truth is that it’s just a group of grave robbers, clustering together for mutual protection while feeding on the corpse of humanity.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:57 pm

New Vegas is a far better game in just about every way.

This. It's like Super Mario 2 compared to Super Mario 3, one was the odd one out and was just kind of an awkward entry, while the next set the series back on track. FNV inherits the engine but just about everything is done better.

That said, they both have a problem with scale. Maybe due to that engine. Factions and smaller towns (i.e. not New Vegas or Washington) seem too small, though FNV had the sense to offer some sprawling, complex environments. Even then, things like Fortification Hill feel too small and especially underpopulated for what it's supposed to be.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:55 pm

If it's a dump your opinion here thread:

New Vegas I prefer overall as a better game.

Fallout 3 is fun to pick up if I want some good fights with big monsters, like the mutants near the BOS base. New Vegas misses out on that for me.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:40 pm

The day that NV came out, I had just finished my 14th play-through of Fallout 3 and was eagerly awaiting for NV. After a couple weeks of playing NV, beating the story, doing alot of side-quests, killing alot of people, I went back to Fallout 3 just to check on my guy and his armaments. 2 minutes turned into 20 minutes, and 2 hours turned into 4 hours of playing Fallout 3. Shocked at how long i'd been playing, I went back to NV the next day, and was disappointed. Fallout 3's quick load screens were turned into long, tedious minutes just to go from inside house to outside a house. I turned on the Mojave radio station and immediately wished for great songs like "Butcher Pete" and"I don't wanna set the World on Fire". I tried scouring the wastes looking for some "Super Mutant Mayhem", but instead found not a single hostile mutant. And to this very moment, I refuse to pick up NV. I just can't, after experiencing the greatness that was Fallout 3. What is the communities take on this? Do you guys think Fallout 3 is better than NV? :bowdown: :fallout:3

Ffs did you really have to make this thread?
Your just provoking people like kylem (who was firt in this topic apart from op to compare them) to bash it to death.I like fo3 more marginally and yes i played the originals but there all great can't we just drop these threads.