Who will keep playing FO3 once New Vegas is released? : Fallout 3

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:16 pm

Only played new vegas for about 7 hours but I just cant get into it, I definitely prefer the capital wasteland over the gimmicky mojave wasteland.

I agree, I played through New Vegas on House's side and I thought it was great...

But now I really have no desire to play through it again...it lacks that explorer aspect that kept me going. I also agree about it being too gimmicky, sometimes i feel like I have wild wasteland on when I dont.....

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:47 pm

I actually didn't play FO3 until after I played FONV. I loved FONV so much that it inspired me to play the earlier installment. I like them both - but for different reasons.

The Mojave Wasteland isn't really gimmicky, it really is like that in many places - barren, lonely, empty, with only the remnants of civilisation, etc...

The Capital Wasteland is an awesome experience, and I'm glad I decided to give it a shot.

I will continue to play both games.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:16 pm

As much as I love both games, going back to F03 after Vegas made me appreciate it a whole lot more. F03 just has the atmosphere... I can't describe it well enough - Lonely, Beautiful, Deadly, Serene.
As good as FNV is, it just doesn't have the loner feel of F03. In NV, you don't have the sense that something could be sneaking up on you. :fallout:

You've described it well enough for me! :foodndrink: "Lonely, Beautiful, Deadly, Serene" is what I've missed in NV and perhaps why I'm having a difficult time getting into it.

Like a good book, when playing F3 I get totally immersed and forget I'm playing a game.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:40 pm

ive bin every wear and have 75 percent of the special items and i still play it but i also have fallout new vegas and i have bin everywear and still play them both there my fav video games in the world

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:00 pm

Just started a new game in FO3. I played it to exhaustion while waiting for NV. Now I've played through New Vegas five times and need a little break. I'll go back and forth between the two (and work in time for some other favorites). I love both games.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:13 pm

Having played NV enough to be a little bit sick of it, I've since started a new game on FO3. The thing that strikes me most is how much more impressive it is to look at are; the wonderful urban vistas you get around DC, the palette of bleached yellows and grainy blues, the sheer scale of the skeletal architecture of the city. It's odd that the older game should have the prettier backdrop, but it does.

I played for three hours yesterday without so much as advancing a single quest, just exploring and fighting nasties and doing my own thing. Stumbling across Raiders battling Muties or Talon Mercs. Finding Paladin Hoss and his comrades. The world seemed pleasingly dynamic. I even found a Chinese pistol that sets its target alight, which I'd never come across before in all my previous playthroughs. And it was a joy not to feel like somebody's errand boy the whole time.

Though I miss the iron sights and the new perks, and though the world can feel a little lonely compared to that of NV, and the proliferation of skill books seems a little jarring (I found more in Mama Dolce's alone than in practically a whole playthrough of NV), returning to FO3 has only reaffirmed in my mind what a special game it is.

This is pretty much how I feel as well. Very eloquently put, I think. I think F3 has the edge as well by virtue of it coming first. The excitement of discovering grand new locations seems to be lost a little bit in FNV. Most locations are merely map markers, and very little else. Whereas discovering Rivet City, the Museum of History, the Citadel, Tenpenny Tower...all amazing. As good as FNV is, its difficult to recapture all that. So they went for a bright buzzing New Vegas Strip, and it does look fantastic, I admit.

The one significant upgrade that FNV has is its quest design. It is far more advanced than that of F3. In F3 you simply had a 'good' or 'evil' way of resolving a side quest, while the main quest was quite linear. However, in FNV you can resolve things pretty much however you like - side with anyone you like, or noone at all. Its very cleverly done, which is why the game's emphasis was on this, rather than exploration for its own sake.

In summary - if Fallout 4 combines the quest design of FNV and the atmosphere, combat and exploration of F3, then itll be the best game ever!