Of course, because for the world to feel apocalyptic, we must have bobble heads randomly scattered around the world.

FNV is no less post apocalyptic than FO3, you're just experiencing this thing called nostalgia.

i will since i havent got mothership zeta yet

I might play it a little bit after I know for sure Vegas didn't vandalize the fans on my Xbox :sadface:

Well, after getting FNV on day of release...I've ditched it already and unfinished.

The bugs and glitches (for me) were just too bad and the patch just too slow in coming out to be able to continue the game. Not a bad game, if you can get past the bugs - I found that it was pretty much only gloss on top of F3, and that wasn't enough to stay entertaining for long.

I'll slide back into F3 before I have another go at FNV I think.

I have been playing New Vegas since day one through all the bugs, most of which were just annoying, some of them are pretty big game breaking bugs. I do have confidence that Obsidian/Bethesda will straighten these bugs bugs out in time, I agree with others I've seen that Obsidian appears to have been somewhat sloppy in designing and testing it, however even with all the bugs I'll still play it over again repeatedly, because it really is a good game despite it's sloppy release.

Bah... I got off track, oops!!!

Umm yeah, I intend on continuing to play FO3 even though New Vegas is out now. Come to think of it I haven't stopped playing Oblivion either, however I do not play that nearly as often as I used to. Here's to hoping for TES V to be released before this decade is over.

well I'm actually back already IMO FNV was to linear for my liking . That and the multitude of bugs/glitches/quest breakage is more then i care to list. I cant believe obsidian only had 2 tester that tested that game . Well the condition of i was i can believe it .

New Vegas needs at least a year's worth of modding to be anywhere approaching fun, imo. I've been back here for a couple weeks. Let's all join hands around the bomb, sing "Kumbaya" then get back out there and hunt some Muties. First one to bring back an Overlord's head wins a cookie!

Probably will balance between 'em. But NV is great and it certainly does NOT take two hours to kill TWO dogs like the person above me said in a different thread. :rofl:

I never said it took two hours to kill two dogs. I said I walked for two hours and only encountered two dogs :rolleyes:

Ah, well, probably misinterpreted your message. Apologies. Still, it's a wasteland, not a green-tinted Diablo-like safari grindfest.

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; 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.

I feel exactly the same way..

New vegas's wasteland feels well....not wastelandy enough, personally I dislike the desert setting though and would be absolutely content if they never revisited that climate type again for any future games, its just not the same as the Capital Wasteland (this is also why Im rooting for a midwest/St. Louis area setting for Fallout 4 :whistling: )

Fallout 3's atmosphere is, for me, unbeatable, I never been able to find a game that replicates the sense I get when wandering that landscape. The ruins of DC are also sadly missed in New Vegas, vegas just doesn't have the same feeling...

I've just started a new game. It's been a about a year since I played it, and after playing through New Vegas a couple of times, it's nice to revisit the Capitol Wasteland and check in with my good friend THREEEE DAAAAAWG!

As much as I prefer President Eden to three dog..i'd have to agree, Mr. New Vegas seems a bit stale compared to three dog's dialouge, "Methinks we're screwed...." Love that part :lmao:

Personally, I'm glad Eden is gone, and I find Mr. New Vegas Quite refreshing. Quite a different experience than Three Dog's over the top performance.

I could not get myself to play FO 3 more than once. I did pretty much everything my first time through and find that I keep thinking, "Been there. Done that." when I try new character types. After playing NV I really do not see myself spending more time with FO3 and will probably play other games instead.

After 100 hours in NV I am done with it. Now I am playing my 200+ hours save in Fallout 3 again and kicking.

Even after so many hours I keep finding stuff I missed or forgot about them, since the world is so big.

Probably I wont play NV until some new DLC comes out. As many said before Fallout 3 atmosphere is superb. Good story and quests in NV are nice, but they get boring, I prefer the bigger world of Fallout 3.

Truer words have never been spoken...

I’ve got about 160 hours in FNV, at level 28, patiently giving it a “chance” to be awesome. It’s OK, and growing on me, definitely like the hardcoe, survival, iron-sights, and factions, but it just hasn’t grabbed me like FO3, and I suspect it never will; but I won’t give up on it just yet.

I know I’ll be back to FO3! Recently purchased a gaming PC, and will eventually buy FO3 for PC and start experimenting with mods. I saw FO2 for the pc fairly cheap, may just go ahead and get that also.

210 hours into New Vegas.

Got well over 500 in Fallout 3.

The first number will rise...Fallout 3 is now uninstalled and I'm looking for friends who want a cheap copy of the GotY edition.

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:

I completed all four playthroughs of NV and am back to F3. The issue I've found with NV is how Obsidian fought against their own sandbox, choosing to drop invisible walls, fields of deathclaws, cazadors and giant rad scorps to force you into the same direction every time.
F3 could be staged out as: Fallout NV could be staged out as:
Vault 101 - Tutorial to the basics. Good Springs - Tutorial to the basics and to factions.
Then you can wander off however you like. Primm/NCR Correctional - Tutorial to reputation
Mojave Outpost/Nipton - Tutorial to the NCR and the Legion
Novac - The tutorials are over and you may now wander.

The quests and writing were better but after four playthroughs they got old while the game didn't have a dynamic sandbox to fall back on since so many locations were just glorified quick travel points. Once I reached the novac step above I realised just how dull a sandbox is when there's nothing in it.

500+ hours in 3? You must've found everything ever added.

Well, I'm going back again. I've always wanted to play a Big-Guns Character and New Vegas enforces only small guns...

If they ever get NV working right.

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.