But I hope New Vegas is to Fallout 3, what SKYRIM was to Oblivion.

Or maybe not, maybe not...

The reason I kind of 'hedge' there is because I got SKYRIM first, and then found that Oblivion was in a lot of ways a much bigger and more intricate game. I still don't know which I like more.

I am now doing in F3 what I once did in ES4, and the continual restarts as I find new stuff that I can screw around with are not frustrating at all. I expect that.

Any truly cool game has to be played several times before you really begin to "GET IT"

Fallout: NV is a more story-focused game with some new and expanded mechanics.

In this case, Fallout 3 is skyrim and NV is Oblivion