This question has been in my head for quite some time; what group is most satisfied or unsatisfied with Fallout New Vegas. Please check the box in which group best represents you, then pick the box which does NOT represent you.

I am disappointed as a fan of Bethesda's work and a fan of Fallout 3. I was extremely disheartened when I learned obsidian was going to be making FNV I've always hated Obsidian and every game they've made. KOTOR 2 for example was unbearable with it's frequent game-ending glitches and extremely convoluted storyline. Alpha Protocol was horrible in pretty much every regard. And I hope in the future Bethesda doesn't publish a game by Obsidian again, I'm starting to lose faith.

I think the original Fallout players and the Fallout 3 Generation are the most satisfied. I voted Other and Bethesda Fans as being the most disatisfied.

if it weren't for so many bugs and glitches I would be happier. It was 63 bucks well spent for the most part.

I'm a fan of Morrowind, Oblivion and FO3 and appreciate the quest writing aspects of FO NV, but I don't like some of the mechanics changes to the game that Obsidian instituted. Plus the game just seems a little "cold" and serious to me. It just doesn't have the funny, funky character of FO3. Still, quite a lot of fun.

Thank God. Moira Brown wasn't funny, she was annoying. Bethesda isn't funny, it's annoying. Stop trying to be funny Bethesda. Hire some more monkeys with typewriters plz.

I don't think Moira was supposed to be funny. Maybe it was just me though, as I saw he role in the game as the semi-crazy Merchant that is trying to get you to make a semi-crazy book.

Moira Brown is supposed to be annoying, and they have plenty of amusing character and references.

Original Fallout fans are most satisfied, while the Fallout 3 generation is unsatisfied, if this forum is anything to go by.

It's very interesting that the shoe is on the other foot this time around.

Dukov, Herbert Dashwood, etc. While they weren't "LOL I AM LAUGHING SO [censored] HARD RIGHT NOW" funny, they were still lighthearted and less serious than the rest of the characters in the game.

I don't see why you a purposely choosing characters that were not meant to be funny and attempting to use them as examples of how Bethesda isn't producing funny characters.

Dukov would have been better if he were expanded on.

I think that's a critical flaw of any character to be found in Fallout 3: They'd all be better (well, at least the ones that weren't one-trick stereotypes) if they were all expanded on.

Dukov was funny, I'll give you that one. Dashwood wasn't funny or even lighthearted, you can tell him his best friend died. And it's extremely obvious that Bethesda was trying to be funny with Moira and Wolfgang.

arlight. im from the FO3 generation and i liked that. but FNV BLOWS fo3 out of the water imo. so yea.. also fo3 had nothing funny to it whatsoever.. and the only thing i still remember clearly is leaving the vault for the first time. everything else just kind of blurs together in one big shoot this shoot that memory.

This is a hard nut to crack. For every post saying "NV sucxxors" we get 10 "NV IS THE BESTEST GAME EVAR" I'm right there with the majority on this one. Maybe not THE best but its going on my top 10 or even my top 5 and every time I start it up and play I'm reminded of why I play games in the first place .
My first Fallout game is Fallout 3 and I firmly believe NV is by far superior in almost every way... It has motivated me to give Fallout 1 and 2 another try (if I can just find my copy lol)

After playing New Vegas and realizing just how close it ties in with Fallout 1 and 2 both in feel and difficulty, I've almost been able to convince myself that Fallout 3 never happened. New Vegas is Fallout 3, as far as I'm concerned.

Bethesda's Fallout 3 should be re-titled "Fallout: D.C." and treated as a spinoff.

Fallout 3 was good, but I agree with this.

I just bought 1 and 2, because I liked the setting/story.

Fallout: New Vegas is still a spin-off. It's more of a spiritual successor to F1/2 than a sequel because the gameplay is still extremely different.

The original Fallouts were isometric and turn-based, god forbid someone bring them into the new age.

True, but I've accepted the fact that New Vegas is the best we're probably ever going to get from a modern development house that doesn't want to take any risks these days.




Actually, that would be pretty awesome. But it won't happen, because the masses will shout "WTF SO BORING AND SLOW WHERE ARE MY EXPLOSIONS?"

Implying Fallout: New Vegas doesn't have "new age([censored])" gameplay.

In fact, it's more "New Age" because it now has iron sights.

Bethesda did a good job of making it a 3d shooter, but they made it incredibly easy so they could cash-in with mainstream console owners. They could change a lot of the stats back to how they worked in FO 1 and 2 and it would be much more enjoyable for me. There would be less "making 1 character that can do everything well" because everything is based on the skill points instead of a combination of SPECIAL and skills. FO NV changed a bit of it back, but I think they didn't want to alienate too many fans who were introduced to the game via FO3.

I voted original Fallout fans as the most satisfied and Fallout 3 generation as the least. I would hesitate to say Bethesda fans in general were disappointed, since it really depends on how many play these games for the roleplaying and lore versus the action and exploration. That group would also encompass fans of Daggerfall and Morrowind, and plenty of those people were disappointed in the streamlining and shift towards hack 'n slash that went on from Daggerfall through Oblivion and so would probably approve of the shift back toward RPG-mechanics. Fallout 3 by itself, though, has a gameplay style that vastly different from the original Fallouts, so it's not too difficult to imagine the reaction to a game that tries to appeal more to the original style when it's drawing in a crowd from Bethesda's rogue-like dungeon crawler.

I'd technically fall under the Fallout 3 generation / Bethesda fan since FO3 was my introduction to the franchise, but I still think that NV is superior to FO3 -- despite some glaring flaws (invisible walls, overabundance of quest items, etc.) and Obsidian's QA (or lack thereof).

While I loved and played the hell out of it, FO3 has IMO some of Bethesda's weakest world-building to date. As for the "zany" feel that Fallout 3 has and New Vegas supposedly lacks, it only really does so by having its "colorful" characters (Moira, Bittercup, Sierra, etc.) acting as if they were living in the Shivering Isles instead of a post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Likewise, it achieves a more "depressing" atmosphere by removing all plausibility from the setting. Had this been set a few decades after the war and had removed all traces of the Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel, it'd be MUCH better. Then un-scavenged locations, people desperately clinging to old-world culture, still-working electronics, and fledgling settlements would make a ton more sense.



Wholeheartedly agree.

I have to agree with this.
I LOVED Fallout 3, but it was such a digression from the series. It really was more of an oblivion-style spinoff. (PLEASE don't think I'm saying fo3 was "oblivion with guns". I just mean that it was focused on the sort of things Bethesda's other successful games have been: Open world exploration, dungeon looting, that sort of thing. That was GREAT, but it wasn't a direct inheritor of the Fallout series' style.)
NV felt like a much more traditional RPG, it felt like a continuation of the Fallout franchise; not a re-imagining of it.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I voted "Original Fallout players Most satisfied, Bethesda fans Most Discontent"
Although I find this poll to be a bit misleading, since I'm both an original fallout player AND a massive Bethesda fan.
I probably should have voted for the Fallout 3 generation as being the most dissatisfied.

Ya, that how I see it coming off from many threads the past week as well.

That say, as a "Bethesda Fan" I started with Morrowind (I love it), went with Oblivion (questionable/dislike at first but mod fix that), than to Daggerfall (practically tie with Morrowind with my favorite of Beth's game), than Arena (experimenting with the game), than Fallout 3 (I saw it as an "improvement" of Oblivion but I really, really got tick off with the lore, the story, the characters, the ENDING, etc; needed to mod it).

And during the time between Oblivion and Fallout 3, I play Fallout 1 (Got hook and I find it great) and Fallout 2 (I also find this great).

In the end, I am satisfied of how Fallout New Vegas turn out.

I like both styles of game-play so I'm equally satisfied with both of the new FO games (as I was with the originals).

I wish people wouldn't get into camps over it.

I almost wish NV had been a gigantic mod just so I could travel between all the locations (from both games) with the same character. Does anyone else remember Might and Magic: World of Xeen? :foodndrink: