"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!