I played skyrim ALOT more than fallout NV but I like the style of fallout better.

Didn't we already have this same post on here

The problem I find with The Elder Scrolls is lack of effect you have. While in Fallout you actually have choices. The most choice I get in Elder Scrolls is mostly "Will you accept this quest or not?". While in Fallout in some circumstances will be "Will you accept this quest, not accept, or go to the other side." Skyrim just had the civil war in actual choice

Elder Scrolls. Fallout's tedious.

TES is extremely one dimensional. By that I mean there is very little choice at all, and none of those ever effect the outcome of anything. It's always been boring for me. With Fallout, I found it much more , well, things actually mattered. There are like, fifteen different endings, and much different paths to each one. Hell, if you kill the emperor in Skyrim, not a single thing changes. Once you do everything you can do in a single TES playthrough, as long as it would take, there's nothing else to do. Once you beat Fallout, there's the potential for a hundred more playthroughs, all of them being fresh.

While I prefer the setting and premise of TES more, Fallout works much better mechanically. In Fallout all options are equally effective if planned out right. Whether you want to run in lasers blazing, guns a'shooting, and bombs a'throwing, those all work. Maybe you want to go the stealth route and all of its variants too. Sneak up on a man, knife in hand, silenced pistol to his head, bomb in his pocket, or right past him like you were never there at all. Maybe you just want to talk it out, have your followers get dirty if it gets down to it. Despite the multitude of options, none of them have ever felt underwhelming. Yes, there are ways to build that are relatively overwhelming, but nothing feels useless. It feels like I have the freedom to play however I want without being gimped in any way. This is where TES falls a little short. The two games are very similar. Just about anything you can do in Fallout, you can also do in TES (just with less nuclear apocalypse and more of the arcane fantasy). Sure you can try and do things lots of ways in TES, but often times certain approaches feel much less effective. At best it's just a more difficult approach to a problem. At worst, it feels like your chosen playstyle wasn't given any thought in the design of the scenario. One thing that stuck out for me in Fallout was how often your non-speech skills came into play during speech. There were moments in Skyrim (It's not entirely fair to compare with Oblivion, since it came out much earlier) but it didn't feel like it was a primary mechanic. I'm going to spit this next bit outright: Destruction magic is terrible in Skyrim (props to PC mods). The lack of scaling outside of skill points make it very boring to use. I recall on my mage playthrough, I spent half of my time throwing stagger-fire balls at single targets just waiting for them to die. Archery and Melee scale both with the skill stat, points, and equipment (which can be thought to scale doubly since equipment itself scales with Enchanting/Smithing). Next to that, Destruction magic comes off as very disappointing*. *: I haven't played Skyrim past the original edition. So no DLC. I also haven't played through any of the latest patch versions either. Someone correct me if the problems I've stated have been addressed in any of those.

Fallout for mechanics. Elder Scrolls for level design.

Both! Elder scrolls of course is a whole lot longer than fallout but not games as great in my opinion.

I just want Fallout 4 to be announced

Fellderscrolls.

i played fallout 3 for the first hour, i had to throw up because that game is terrible. Story line is too bland. I thought Bethesda studio finally got insane. Then the beauty of Elderscroll Skyrim came out. My faith in Bethesda studio was restored. Before that i had Oblivion so i thought fallout would be good so i gave it a try. I was wrong.......

They should make a fallout online next

And Skyrim was too easy , your weapons and armor never never need to be repaired which I didn't like .

Try [i][/i] with a space between them, OP.