After playing New Vegas I was really happy with it and enjoyed it. I was going to start a second play through but I thought that it would be a great idea to go back and play through Fallout 3 again before I did that. So I load up 3 and almost finish all the stuff to do in Megaton and I find myself not wanting to go any further with it. I already miss the personality's of New Vegas (besides sunny I just hate her). The characters in New Vegas are much more fun to interact with. I just don't know if i can get through Fallout 3, I don't like any of the companions, they are all kind of boring. has anyone else had this problem? Tried playing Fallout 3 only to wish you where playing New Vegas? also the environment in Fallout 3 just gets me down, unlike New Vegas.

I recycle my games as I have a few that I love over many, but am pretty FO3 worn since I played for 2 years mostly on than off.
I did run it to test a few things, and must admit the V.A.T.s tactic kills and more user friendly / easier gamestyle makes it something I would play again just to relax with like a comfortable blanket.

I got mods to make it hard (arwen realism tweaks) and also got ironsights to make it feel more like new vegas but that didn't help that much

Word, man.
I must say I am also more of a "story" RP-er, so I didn't really got blown away by the amount of the 'wasteland tourism' in F3 etc.

But I am still willing to give that game another go. After installing all those big-ass gameplay enhancement mods of course.

in many ways NV kind of obsoletes FO:3 ... i feel sorry for it, because in its time Fo3 was a damn awesome game : ( but hell, pretty soon FO:4 will come along and make NV look like a childs plaything, at least - i hope so

Taking a break with another RPG is a great idea - Fallout 3 may not be the best choice though

Somehow all the arguments about RPGs on this board inspired me to start a new game of Dragon Age: Origins. I did kind of burn out on New Vegas and DAO takes a very different approach to the genre. Once I get all the way through DAO again I might be ready for more NV (maybe Dead Money will be out for PC by that time ... really looking forward to it).

Or maybe I'll go back to Alpha Protocol, which I was actually really enjoying as a "waiting for New Vegas" kind of game

But yeah, F3 doesn't seem like a smart way to refresh the palate ... just like NV, only not as good? That's not going to give you that "oh, wow" feeling about anything!

Yeah the writing in fallout 3 becomes pretty laughable after you play F:NV.

Moria......I realized she is f***ing annoying as hell.

I do miss some of those crazy dungeons in FO3 though

I just made mods of my own, I used fo3 for that reason as I liked the core system but felt melee and npc tactics lacked a little bit.

I too prefer a story based game, my favourite game ever is Planescape : Torment, but FO3 had the beth charm of making up most of what you did which with the scale of their games is pretty great.

That said if I spent 5 years of my life enslaved to PS:T, NV will get at least a year, but at some point I'll play FO3 too, but Oblivion called me before release and I liked its mods heavily.
So any older game I'm likely to play is that one, but then again there are at least two new rpg's released over the new year to my knowledge so after the drought comes the flood.

I was playing FO3 today and found that I actually missed hardcoe mode, the different guns and ammo, and a few other things as I did a few main quest missions. I wouldn't have thought the few changes to the game mechanics would make such a big difference. Guess I was wrong.

Moria has always made me hate megaton, I blew it to all hell my first play through to get rid of her only to find her as a ghoul when i returned!!!! so then i told her that her book was a waste of time and would get people killed or something.

The guns in Fallout 3 aren't so different, i did like the iron sights but as luck would have it theres a great mod for that. and same with the ammo types so that was fine. i guess its just the story and characters you meet that ruin it now for me.

It's because DC is so dangerous and unforgiving. New Vegas is more open and tries to just be a game where everyone can have fun, but if you want you can find a challenge. P.S. :flamethrower: NCR

How you make it sound is that New Vegas is for the weak and Fallout3 is some how more hard core? I played through fallout 3 on very hard my first play through and didnt die for the most part (that bridge my the mirelurk nest with all the mines was to hard to resist running across to see how far my body could fly!). These games unmodded are a joke in difficulty.

This topic is an old school fallout fan boys dream!

Of course new Vegas will seem better. Its newer. Most of us have played FO3 to death and after a while it becomes tedious.

I used to play oblivion ALL the time. I loved it but I went back to it and even with all the mods just cant seem to enjoy it anymore. It's just one of those things that happens with games, they lose their spark.

I think I know what it is game play wise, it just seems so boring to me to be fighting super mutants now. its more fun to be fighting an army of humans rather then crazy super mutants that are only smashing stuff to smash stuff. I know that they arent the whole main enemy. and how that i think about it, the plot of fallout 3 isn't that great. the BoS are at war with the super mutants but then you come along and then your like i got this GECK to get the purifier to work and then the enclave is like "do want" then the BoS forgets all about the super mutants and helps you do your thing. that doesnt seem to right? lol sorry a bit off topic but just a thought i had plz correct me if im wrong its been awhile since iv completed fallout 3

Fallout 3 is a brilliant landmark game and it always will be. You should never forget your old friends just because you've made some new ones.

good game yes, landmark no, not at all. fallout 3 didnt reinvent a style of game play, didn't create a bold new IP, it didn't have any qualities of landmark games. All that it did was give life back to an old IP (btw my favorite game of all time is Fallout 2). Along with bringing this IP back to life it was made into a household name. Just about everyone you talk to now a days will know what Fallout is, its great and kind of sad knowing i don't have the game as a hidden gem anymore.

But noone was saying anything about forgetting about Fallout 3, I was just stating how I am trying to get through it once more and having a hard time because of the characters.

I kind of like wandering around the DC wastes...the scenery is better, I think. And I think that there is more purpose to your character in there. In F3, you are the story, in FNV, you are peripheral to it.

But yes, a rest away is a good thing.

However, if I ever want to remember what it was like when VATS worked, it's back to F3 for me....

I do miss the atmosphere of FO3. Bethesda certainly know how to create it, and to come up with good story ideas. The trouble with Fallout 3 was always that they failed to capitalise on those good ideas by rushing the player through the plot and skimping on detail. Obsidian don't have any better stories than Bethesda - indeed a lot of FNV is flat and uninvolving - but they clearly care much more for the stories they do have and put a lot of effort into them.

FO3 is a really fun game but there's just so much stuff in the game that made no sense.

NV's world is much more logical and internally consistent, except for Caesar's Legion. They nerfed the Legion way too much from the way they were supposed to be in Van Buren.

I played F3 before Vegas. I still think it's a great game but I can't see myself playing it again for a long time to come. Plus I kind of regret playing it just before Vegas because I got a bit burned out on it, just played too much Fallout. It hit me when I was sneaking through some office building, searching through desks and filing cabinets and I thought "God I'm just so tired of this." I love scavving, but I'd simply been doing it too long.

I kinda feel the opposite way - playing New Vegas is making me want to start F3 again. But I won't as I'm barely 1/5 of the way through FNV at the moment. Its not that I don't love FNV, I do, its just that I miss certain things that haven't been replaced - Chinese Assault Rifle, Clover, Dogmeat, the whole urban DC setting. :shrug:

I love that in FNV deathclaws are truly dangerous now, and that DT makes things much tougher/realistic. hardcoe mode is also good. Lets hope that F4 contains the best of both!

Two favorite things about FO3:

1. Nuka Grenades
2. Collaring people and sending 'em to Paradise Falls

I miss both of those. I miss them a lot.

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New Vegas was a much better story then Fallout 3 and much less flat. If Obsidian knows anything its stories and character development (not to say they developed the main character (you) very well but that was left open for role playing) but other characters and factions as whole. Fallout 3 was so flat the whole game boiled down to "turn this thing on" just a whole bunch of enclave got in your way. The water purifier was a very boring story compared to an all out war between the CL and NCR. Also in fallout 3 your character no matter how you wanted to play the story made your character out to be a whiny lil [censored] in search for your papa. New Vegas your made out to be the most dedicated bravest and badass package delivery boy the wastes have ever seen :mohawk: !

If your going to make such a claim please support it please. I would like you to explain why you think 3 has a better story and is less flat then NV. And maybe i could understand why you see it that way. I still like 3 but NV was much deeper and more fun


I must say I forgot about enslaving people. that was random brilliant fun. when people pissed you off, off they go to Paradise!


there is a dog but it isn't dogmeat but hes cool hes my favorite friend to have in New Vegas

Please don't accuse someone of lying. Saying it is untrue is doing so. You don't see it that way and I don't see it that way but we both must accept that not everyones truth is our truth. And they don't have to explain why so we understand, they may just simply state their perception of things and we have to accept they are telling the truth. Just like if you say liver tastes good and I disagree, I can't accuse you of not being truthful and ask you to prove it. It's just your taste.

I did not mean to say that hes lying, i will remove that part of the post though, sorry about that. and I would love for him to explain his reasoning so maybe I can see it his way about why New Vegas is flat. I just believe if your going to make a claim of any kind you should atleast give a little insight on it you know? But sorry if it came off a bit rude

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all fixed up now