I agree, Fallout 3 at least had random encounters. And trying to see all of them could be take some time and multiple playthroughs. Plus, the free roaming in my opinion...was done properly. You didn't have to worry to much about going to a certain spot and bumping into really tough creatures or fiends who are pretty tough when fought at the early levels.

And the locations weren't very interesting, neither was the terrain. I was expecting to explore more of Red Rock Canyon, or even more of the mountains by Jacobstown. I found that good chunks of the map in NV are unreachable. Around Jacobstown, Nellis AFB, "The Divide", and the so called "Deathclaw Promontory" which just had some loot and a lot of deathclaws. It was a nice unmarked spot, but nothing worth doing more than once. That and a lot of places seemed useless. A lot of the spots around The Strip were empty or lacking people.

There weren't any interesting settlements like Megaton or Rivet City. And most of the city of New Vegas is empty compared to the ruins of DC being full of muties and BoS dukeing it out. Plus, there were a lot of buildings to explore and loot to grab and XP to get. I find only a few locations have good loot, most are full of junk and just about all are small and don't have much

I will say New Vegas has more quests, but most of them either align you with a faction or require a faction alignment to take.

Both are great games, I like how New Vegas kept true to the first games. But I think they need to adapt it to fit the new formula Fallout 3 created.

Same here, I usually get bored of my characters before I get anywhere near the end. I've seen all the endings though, some are better than others. Personally, I like the Wild Card ending.

I played through it once, and it was really really fun. I want to play through it again, but can't bring myself to do it.

If I had access to mods I would still be playing it, but I'm on the 360.

I get bored of the quests you HAVE to do quite quickly. I cant stand doing the recruit the Boomers quest or the deal with the BoS quest. Fine the first or two times but after that just gets monotonous

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i agree with your anolasys, obsidian did improve many aspects compared to FO3, but i wish they made more explorable locations,, it needed a lot more large building complexes and ghost towns like bonnie springs, boulder city or camp searchlight, it was a huge map they left too much of it barren, plus they needed to have non static type spawns and ALL the factions needed to move around and patrol in areas close to their home bases, in FO3 you had outcast, enclave, raiders, slavers, hunters, wastelanders, mercs and regulators pretty much almost anywhere on the map patrolling, you could even follow em crusing around and they would usually run into stuff to fight, plus the enclave dropped off shock troops with vert birds, that made for some suspense when you weren't expecting it.

Are you kidding me how do you have the time to play that many!! How is it not boring...

Saturdays, sick days, and being fired from my job, and my son just looooves to watch me play games.

Also, I don't get bored of things I like that easily, but this forum, it is not one of those things.

Wow that svcks that you got fired. Do you mind me asking what it was or is to personal? But anyways i could kinda see how that fits into play there.

Construction worker, or former at least.

Amen to that! Amen to the post prior to that too! But the fact that someone asked you that? C'mon! Not that I want to see a topic locked but "may I ask what you got fired for?" WHAT? AHAHAHAHA!! I got fired for being obsessed with Fallout!! Seriously though no job here either!!

oh yeah and I'm bore with NV! It's broken!

Was it fun? Mind me asking how much the pay is?

On topic: i wish they added more stuff to the game to make it more interesting. Like i know they added alot more stuff from the orginal but they could have thinked outside the box and done a far better job.

Not exactly exciting but it was alright, the pay was about 2000 a month.

Damn boss never paid me for my last month when I was fired, but this is off-topic now.

I really wish that bethesda gave them a longer time period to make the game, it'd have less bias and show more good and evil in all the factions

Thats decent but not the best or that good.

I dont get why Bethesda put a damn strick date on which it had to be out. Also why didnt bethesda lend them some of there people to help out with it?

Exploration killed it for me. I loved it at first, played it from the midnight release all the way to like Thursday? Until the mods get good or more DLCs come out, its not a game for me.

To be in time for the holiday season, I know, it svcks, but that is what Bethesda sees in Fallout, money, whereas the fans see it as an art-form, they see it as a cash-cow. I just got home and am a little angry.

Yah witch is a joke because there so money grubby they need to take time and do the game in a nice orderly fashion instead of rushing it out the door.

lol i returned it and bought fallout 3 GOTY for the dlc. :tops:

Good decision my man. No need to be bored to death. Just have fun and sit back and relax and have a good game of F3.

Mods keep it fresh, for me just like with Bethesda's games. The modding community is why buying a Bethesda game for PC is always a good deal :nod:

New Vegas is a major improvement over Fallout 3 in most aspects, and there are more than enough mods to cover what it was lacking, and allow me to customise it to my tastes. Still, i wish i could have New Vegas in Fallout 3's map :hehe:

See i dont think you understand that theres two game systems that dont use mods (ps3 and XBOX) so right theres like half or more of the people that play FNV. Whitch there isnt many ways to keep the game fresh with those consoles.

i voted kinda because im not sick of it but im at the point where if i dont take a break im going to be

Thats what i voted to im not completly bored of it. But im getting up there. Plus i havent played i in like a week. Been playing Red dead Redemption :thumbsup: :tongue:

Of course i do. I have a PS3 myself, but i'd never buy a Bethesda's game for it since the mods are always excellent for them. And Bethesda has a tendency to, no offence, [censored] something up. (Oblivion's Level scaling and leveling system, Fallout 3's poor balancing made worse by Broken Steel...)

Console versions have limited ways of making the game more interesting, but that is just a limitation of those platforms.

Hmm, i did miss a "for me" and "for PC" in my original post though...

"already"? it came out in october...

Still waiting on the game to make it out of beta. We're getting closer to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Release_candidate stage.