"I Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle" gets stuck in my head for days at a time.

i like how fallout had random encounters but dlcs were on par with each other but fallout goty crashes on me ALOT it gets me real mead

New Vegas has a better story and gameplay mechanics but Fallout 3 has better exploration. I found exploring the Mojave kind boring there wasn't much point in it and nothing interesting to find. Also the animals out there are pretty lethal so I never really bothered to do it to much

it gets me real mead

When I get real mead I can't stand anymore.

When I get real mead I can't stand anymore.

i like how fallout had random encounters but dlcs were on par with each other but fallout goty crashes on me ALOT it gets me real mead

I prefer New Vegas in nearly every way, but the Mojave can get dull, I admit. The Capital Wasteland had a better exploration factor, despite it being at times more linear.

I think a lot people feel this way, but I just.. don't Maybe it's because I like the desert areas of the Southwest in real life, but I preferred the exploration in New Vegas over the exploration in Fallout 3. Does anyone else feel this way?

My own opinions:

Fallout 3- Good, solid, story that lacked dynamic supporting characters. The Capital Wasteland is a vast and largely uninhabited treasure trove waiting to award the brave (and well-armed) adventuer. The game overall favors those who love character customization and exploration.

Fallout NV- Brilliant, multi-sided story that presents the player with gray decisions and inter-linking side stories. The Mojave Wasteland is a smaller and more settled expanse. Not as much in the way of items is yielded to the intreped explorer, but the player is often linked to the haunted echoes of a turbulent past. FNV tends to favor those who prefer being enthralled by a story and more deeply role-playing their characters.

One thing that Fallout 3 did well was allowing the player to make their own game. I was checking up on a quest, and I noticed that FO3 has a total number of quests that is less than 60, including ones that are just "take x amount of y to person z for a reward", and it still seems as full as the Mojave with its 100+ quests.

I guess people would get more out of New Vegas' exploring if they didn't limit "exploring" to simply random running around, but actually exploring the gameworld as a whole. Seeking out interesting NPC's and quests (and solving them in the various offered ways) is as much exploration as random grinding -- and, imo, much more so as there's an in game point to it.

I found Fallout 3's exploration to be boring and repetitive combatitive sightseeing (albeit the sights were somewhat nice) with no real purpose other than being self serving distraction. There was too much of it, and too little of it challenged or rewarded the player with anything worthwhile.

I agree with you on everything but the part about New Vegas' story being brilliant. I found it to be good but not brilliant. Excluding the established Fallout lore from the previous two installments and inconsistencies, I liked Fallout 3's story better than New Vegas'...even though it is linear.


I prefer Fallout 3's side quests to the side quests in New Vegas. The smaller amount of side quests made them seem more worthwhile to complete.

I found the Mojave to be more interesting to explore. Too much time is spent in tunnels in Fallout 3. It's repetitive. I like being above ground. It was nice to a see a couple sewer systems in the Mojave, but not 35 of them.

They both did a great job capturing the environment. D.C. is a huge city and they captured the ruins pretty well. You really got a sense of how bad the war was. you don't get that too much in Vegas but it's still painfully obvious how bleak things are now.

Yeah the Subway system in FO3 almost killed the game for me. The first couple of times I got stuck trying to travel somewhere only to realize it was impossible without going into the subway first. I realized the subways were 100% length padding and artificial ways to make the game seem bigger/longer. Which was the last thing FO3 needed.

I won't say they were length padding, because they could have just opened up the surface more. But yea, ONLY being able to get to certain areas via the subway was absurd. I get maybe 1 or two places but I spent forever trying to find (I forget exactly what now) some location and it was only reachable by a subway I had already explored and forgotten about.

This was around the time I found the Wiki.....

I HATE those subways. First time I ever completed the game I didn't realize I was at the end and still had lots of stuff to do. It took me about 3 months before I would play for any reasonable amount of time, just so I could avoid the subways.

although i love nv more then fo3 i have to disagree. Fo3 had some great sightseeing while new vegas itsself (not counting dlc) was mostly desert...