Fallout 3 has things that NV doesn't, and NV has things that Fallout 3 doesn't. I'd say they're pretty even.

I liked new Vegas better.

I have both and liked F3 more for my own reasons.

New Vegas > 3

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Xplode441 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SGT Rhino 76 lolnope New Vegas is boss.[/quote]This, I know people who would get into a fistfight over someone saying Fallout 3 is better. Any fan of the series that loved it before Fallout 3 will tell you that out of the two, New Vegas is better. Fallout 2 is the best though.[/quote] Agreed, cheers mate.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Rayzor1995 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bergXX09 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PublicToast You see, no one cares what Fallout [i]was[/i] except hipsters. I like Fallout 3 and frankly don't give a damn about 1 and 2 because like you said they are totally different.[/quote] You're a -blam!- dumbass. Seriously, go suck a nut and jizz over CoD you piece of -blam!- casual.[/quote] This post was uncalled for on so many levels, and it only makes you look bad for over reacting as badly as you did. [/quote] I'm glad it looked like I overreacted because I did so to express my hatred for people like the person I was replying to.

Fallout 3 for sure.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bergXX09 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PublicToast You see, no one cares what Fallout [i]was[/i] except hipsters. I like Fallout 3 and frankly don't give a damn about 1 and 2 because like you said they are totally different.[/quote] You're a -blam!- dumbass. Seriously, go suck a nut and jizz over CoD you piece of -blam!- casual.[/quote] This post was uncalled for on so many levels, and it only makes you look bad for over reacting as badly as you did.

I like F3, but get F:NV because Old World Blues.

Get both and decide for yourself.

IMO yes

Fallout 3 is a good game but it should not have been called Fallout 3. It is in no way at all a sequel to Fallout 2. Fallout New Vegas is the sequel to Fallout 2. Overall New Vegas is the better game. Better storyline, better locations, better loot and much more memorable characters. Plus the Karma system isn't heavily played on like it was in F3. Which is a plus because the system was retarded and flawed.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AGLA Froman And... another brain cell lost. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bergXX09 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PublicToast You see, no one cares what Fallout [i]was[/i] except hipsters. I like Fallout 3 and frankly don't give a damn about 1 and 2 because like you said they are totally different.[/quote] You're a -blam!- dumbass. Seriously, go suck a nut and jizz over CoD you piece of -blam!- casual. [/quote][/quote] People like him who actually support the cash-cowing and unloyalty of game franchises should be castrated and be forced to play only Barbie games.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Psychotic Undead Fallout 3 is, in my mind without a single doubt, much better than New Vegas.[/quote]

And... another brain cell lost. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bergXX09 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PublicToast You see, no one cares what Fallout [i]was[/i] except hipsters. I like Fallout 3 and frankly don't give a damn about 1 and 2 because like you said they are totally different.[/quote] You're a -blam!- dumbass. Seriously, go suck a nut and jizz over CoD you piece of -blam!- casual. [/quote]

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PublicToast You see, no one cares what Fallout [i]was[/i] except hipsters. I like Fallout 3 and frankly don't give a damn about 1 and 2 because like you said they are totally different.[/quote] You're a -blam!- dumbass. Seriously, go suck a nut and jizz over CoD you piece of -blam!- casual. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 Two words: Liam Neeson... Actually, a further two words: Tranquility Lane...[/quote] Your father was the dumbest thing in the game. Tranquility Lane was pretty fun but was very limited.

I prefer Fallout 3, but both games are awesome and I've sank hundreds of hours into both.

Both games on PC are AMAZING.

Two words: Liam Neeson... Actually, a further two words: Tranquility Lane...

Right... Where to begin? [u][b]Fallout 3[/b][/u] Fallout 3 starts with you being born in a vault (those who have played the game will shut up please) and go through your childhood. While many dislike this section, considering it a waste of time and or boring, I feel that it helps to set the feel for some aspects of the game. It will also give you a "normal" vault to compare to when you no doubt explore another one. [u][b]Fallout New Vegas[/b][/u] Fallout New Vegas starts with a cinematic showing a person with tied hands and legs (You but without showing gender or face) struggling before getting shot in the head. You wake up in an unknown place with an older man in front of you. You do the ususal thing of, make character, stats (S.P.E.C.I.A.L) and tag skills. An older thing from the previous Fallout games is also introduced, traits. These can affect the gameplay in a number of ways. The building is not really significant and doesn't have the same feel or effect as the vault. [u][b]F3[/b][/u] To the lower right of the map are the ruins of DC, crawling with Super Mutants. These guys are fairly common and will present a little challenge at first, they come in different types with different health and weapons. Most of the capital is only reachable via the metro tunnels filled with ghouls.(You love killing zombies? These guys may sate your thirst.) The western and northern sections of the map are a wasteland and as such, are mostly empty BUT, there are MANY locations scattered around from the remains of some pre war streets to the remains of towns. Unlike NV the majority of the map has content. [u][b]FNV[/u][/b] The main place to go in NV is the strip, I wouldn't be surprised if it's the first place you want to go as it is very visible around the area you start in and most upper terrian areas on the map. Obsidian, possibly to stop you charging there, made the two quickest routes deathtraps. One is filled with Deathclaws (Given a massive buff next to their F3 cousins) and the other is filled with Cazadores (Giant wasps of death, in swarms). The safest route also happens to be the longest and the quest system will EVENTUALLY take you to the strip or you can skip the quests and the story. I hope you like sandy brown because you will see ALOT of it, the wasteland in NV is bare. The map does have a few locations dotted around but not as many as F3. There are uneeded cliffs taking about 5-10% of the map space and around 1/5th of the map is inacssessable Due to invisible walls and cliffs that are strangely unclimbable. [u][b]F3[/b][/u] You'll find the story to be linear with minor options that don't affect the outcome much but the main questline has a fair length to it. The side quests can be rather long too (Wasteland Survival Guide springs to mind) and can be very rewarding. Some of these quests can be done different ways (Wasteland Survival Guide can be lied through, have the bare minimum done or go for top marks and get extra for doing so. Or the great Megaton option (You evil people!)). You may also stumble across a few unmarked quests. [u][b]FNV[/b][/u] The main quest in this is fantastic compared to F3 as it gives you a nice little surprise when you think it is over. Side quests do exist and are also very rewarding in some cases and the unmrked quets can also be found. The main quest is no where near as linear as F3's but choices you make change how people in the Mojave react to you. I know this is long but stick at it. [u][b]F3[/b][/u] Combat in F3 is nothing spectacular, zooming in with guns gives no view down sights, though there are ones on the weapon models. V.A.T.S also makes you near invincable in F3 as you only take 10% of the damage you normally would outside vats. With a few particular perks you can become a vats god. Unique items bassed off other stock items look like their stock counterparts sadly but do boast better or at least different stats. There are no armour or ammo types so you won't have to go switching rounds for a diverse group of enimies. Melee weapons are what you'd expect, powerful up close but useless far away. Your ranged weapons come under different skills, Big Guns, Small Guns and Energy Weapons (Unlike FNV with only Guns and Energy Weapons). [u][b]FNV[/b][/u] In NV sights can be used or turned off. In vats you are no longer god like taking 75% damage and a few of the perks being changed. Armour and ammo types exist so you may be throwing money at different types of ammo just to cope with all possibilities. Unique items now have their own models and textures unlike F3 making having them a little more desireable. Melee weapons also work the same way as F3 for the most part, save for special moves in vats. One thing that FNV has over F3 is weapon mods, most weapons have three different mods that can do extra damage, add a scope, increase magazine cap, increase rate of fire and in some cases give you free ammo or split laser beams. [u][b]F3 + FNV[/b][/u] Fallout 3 has your level cap set to 20 and will give you a perk every level while Fallout New Vegas has it set at 30 BUT only gives you a perk every two levels. [u][b]DLC[/b][/u] DLC may be the deciding factor for what is the better game. Fallout 3 has 5 full DLCs named Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta. I won't go into detail but these DLCs are of varing length and play differently. Each adds many new items and perks, Broken Steel also raises yout level cap to 30 and adds new perks for those levels (you'll be a 30 perk god!). Fallout New Vegas's DLCs are quite different, Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road. All link together and the last large DLC for NV was the climax of the previous ones. Each DLC in NV raises your level cap by 5 levels (20 more levels with all 4 (25 perk level 50 god!)). There are also two other DLC for NV, one adding all pre order DLC and another that adds more unique items and offers alternative, moddable replacements for some of the non-moddable weapons in the stock game. You can get either game with all DLC as game of the year eddition for Fallout 3 or ultimate eddition for Fallout New Vegas. Hardcore mode is also worth noting as it adds a small layer of challenge to Fallout New Vegas but do not expect having to find food, water, sleeping areas, wieghted ammo and visitng doctors to completely change the game experience. If I missed anything guys please forgive a tired guy for missing a few bricks in the wall. TL;DR - Your attention span is pitiful and you should not expect others to summarise for you [Edited on 09.16.2012 3:50 AM PDT]

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] theHurtfulTurkey They're both awesome.[/quote] Also people don' care about the world set in ancient isometric turn based RPG's. Fallout 3 had a unique design and while New Vegas was awesome, the less built up world of Fallout 3 was a more engrossing experience to the majority that never played the first two. [Edited on 09.16.2012 2:10 AM PDT]

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sp4rksLT "Fallout 3 captured the post-apocalyptic feel better" < Half of the people in this thread. Come on, seriously? Yes, it did capture the apocalyptic feel. But it wasn't the fallout apocalypse. God damn it, Fallout 1 and 2 had huge cities compared to Fallout 3, and that was only like a hundred years after the bombs fell. That's the point of Fallout, it was a post-apocalyptic civilization. From Tribes into cities into whole countries. The rise of the NCR and such. Fallout 3 was bland, everything was grey, had only a handful of side quests and from that handful only a few were actually good. The story was retarded (the image was linked people, go and find it in this thread). Fallout 3 excels at one thing only, marketing and making dumb people love it without actually understanding anything about the Falloutverse. NV was better than Fallout 3 in most ways. I am a PC Gamer, so I made it a bit harder with a few mods, and most of the bugs have been fixed by patches, so if you can people - grab the Ultimate edition. The writing was by far better, it had actual story. The setting was way better, can't say I really liked the cowboy theme of some things, but it was kind of OK. Hell, Obsidian atleast knew what they were doing, quite a few of the original two Fallout games devs worked there, and they knew what Fallout was supposed to be. NV sticks to most of canon from the original duology and the gunplay is way more fun than 3. Also, Fallout 3 animations were so terrible, I had to play in first person. Yeah, thanks. People who say Fallout 3 is good are ignorant on every level. The atmosphere was wrong for the series (not saying it was bad as an apocalyptic game, but it was bad as a Fallout apocalyptic game), you were mostly forced to VATS, because gunplay in first person sucked and did half the damage VATS shots did (mostly fixed in NV), the main story was bad, the side quests were meh and there were three cities and a bunch of average villages. Look at Vault City, then look at New Vegas. That's what fallout cities should look like. Civilization is coming back![/quote]You see, no one cares what Fallout [i]was[/i] except hipsters. I like Fallout 3 and frankly don't give a damn about 1 and 2 because like you said they are totally different.

"Fallout 3 captured the post-apocalyptic feel better" < Half of the people in this thread. Come on, seriously? Yes, it did capture the apocalyptic feel. But it wasn't the fallout apocalypse. God damn it, Fallout 1 and 2 had huge cities compared to Fallout 3, and that was only like a hundred years after the bombs fell. That's the point of Fallout, it was a post-apocalyptic civilization. From Tribes into cities into whole countries. The rise of the NCR and such. Fallout 3 was bland, everything was grey, had only a handful of side quests and from that handful only a few were actually good. The story was retarded (the image was linked people, go and find it in this thread). Fallout 3 excels at one thing only, marketing and making dumb people love it without actually understanding anything about the Falloutverse. NV was better than Fallout 3 in most ways. I am a PC Gamer, so I made it a bit harder with a few mods, and most of the bugs have been fixed by patches, so if you can people - grab the Ultimate edition. The writing was by far better, it had actual story. The setting was way better, can't say I really liked the cowboy theme of some things, but it was kind of OK. Hell, Obsidian atleast knew what they were doing, quite a few of the original two Fallout games devs worked there, and they knew what Fallout was supposed to be. NV sticks to most of canon from the original duology and the gunplay is way more fun than 3. Also, Fallout 3 animations were so terrible, I had to play in first person. Yeah, thanks. People who say Fallout 3 is good are ignorant on every level. The atmosphere was wrong for the series (not saying it was bad as an apocalyptic game, but it was bad as a Fallout apocalyptic game), you were mostly forced to VATS, because gunplay in first person sucked and did half the damage VATS shots did (mostly fixed in NV), the main story was bad, the side quests were meh and there were three cities and a bunch of average villages. Look at Vault City, then look at New Vegas. That's what fallout cities should look like. Civilization is coming back!

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Gottalovec4 Can do more stuff/multiple playthrus in New Vegas depending on the faction you support. But I like Fallout 3's atmosphere wayyy better overall. Although, the first 4 hours of Fallout New Vegas are hands down some of the best I've played in a game. However, fallout 3's atmo is just so....so perfect in every way. Just walk north from Megaton for a few minutes and stop at a highpoint. The emptyness and lonelyness is insane. Sooo good. GNR is better than Radio New Vegas in every way, and the in game music is spectacular. Best way to describe the difference is in the different exploration music [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZxBtLGxvvA]Fallout 3[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4rzwLbnFM&list=UUNR2p_7Uj7KAUxHNYLjaK9Q&index=0&feature=plcp]New Vegas[/url] Still desolate, but you know a giant ass city is just over the next ridge. [/quote] Fallout 3 had atmosphere ? There were only 3 places in the whole game that had a lot of NPC's and the atmosphere consisted of Hi's barely any socialising or talking. FNV was slightly better cause it had the strip. If you think Fallout 3 has atmosphere play Metro 2033 the level Market has more atmosphere that Fallout 3 put together

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Slayer1878 Fallout 3 is definitely better. I found just about everything about it to be more enjoyable than New Vegas. The location, the story, the characters, the radio, etc.[/quote] "This is three-dog owwwwwwwwwwwwwww, live from the capitol wasteland"

Fallout 3 is definitely better. I found just about everything about it to be more enjoyable than New Vegas. The location, the story, the characters, the radio, etc. Not saying New Vegas is a bad game, because it was still fun. But Fallout 3 was better IMO. [Edited on 09.16.2012 1:52 AM PDT]