Everyone I ask (in real life) says (about 12 people, some family, some from my school) "Wow. You actually liked Fallout 3 more than Fallout New Vegas?" or "Fallout New Vegas is way better" or some variances of that.

But, I just could not get into Fallout New Vegas. I should, and really try to...but it just doesn't hook me like Fallout 3 did/does. FO:NV has crafting, and I love it...making my own bullets, food...the setting is nice, especially since there are places I can say "wow, I know this place! I've been here!"...but there is just something about it I don't like at all.

On the other side...Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game, maybe that has something to do with it. But I later played Fallout 2 and loved that as well...so FO 3 being first shouldn't have anything to do with me liking it more. I loved FO3 setting a lot more than Vegas...but that isn't really it either. The atmosphere to me was way better, but that again isn't it. I played FO3 for literally a year, I was REALLY into it...still do bursts of playtime on it. I racked up hundreds and hundreds of hours in FO3, but I didn't use Xfire at the time until near the end. Where as FO:NV I played a week, and said "meh". I really loved the vault scene in FO3...but that is kind of minor, since it is more of a tutorial thing. Maybe it is a lot of reasons all added up...

Am I the odd one out, and one of the few that actually liked Fallout 3 more? Any of you liked it more than Fallout New Vegas? My friends think I'm weird for liking FO3 more...not like I care what others think, but just curious if any others feel the same as me?

Originally posted by Explorium

 

 My friends think I'm weird for liking FO3 more...not like I care what others think, but just curious if any others feel the same as me?

 More or less, you're simply weird by liking FO3.

Originally posted by Explorium

Everyone I ask (in real life) says (about 12 people, some family, some from my school) "Wow. You actually liked Fallout 3 more than Fallout New Vegas?" or "Fallout New Vegas is way better" or some variances of that.

 

But, I just could not get into Fallout New Vegas. I should, and really try to...but it just doesn't hook me like Fallout 3 did/does. FO:NV has crafting, and I love it...making my own bullets, food...the setting is nice, especially since there are places I can say "wow, I know this place! I've been here!"...but there is just something about it I don't like at all.

 

On the other side...Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game, maybe that has something to do with it. But I later played Fallout 2 and loved that as well...so FO 3 being first shouldn't have anything to do with me liking it more. I loved FO3 setting a lot more than Vegas...but that isn't really it either. The atmosphere to me was way better, but that again isn't it. I played FO3 for literally a year, I was REALLY into it...still do bursts of playtime on it. I racked up hundreds and hundreds of hours in FO3, but I didn't use Xfire at the time until near the end. Where as FO:NV I played a week, and said "meh". I really loved the vault scene in FO3...but that is kind of minor, since it is more of a tutorial thing. Maybe it is a lot of reasons all added up...

 

Am I the odd one out, and one of the few that actually liked Fallout 3 more? Any of you liked it more than Fallout New Vegas? My friends think I'm weird for liking FO3 more...not like I care what others think, but just curious if any others feel the same as me?

I know what you mean. I also prefer Fallout 3. I really liked the post-apocalyptic atmosphere, unlike the third-world country atmosphere in Fallout: New Vegas. 

I liked them both about the same. Both games had their highs and lows. I did however like the DC setting in FO3 better but the overall game was about the same. There did seem to be a lot more places to go and things to do in FO3. Again however I judge them both about even on the fun-o-meter.

Bren

New Vegas seemed smaller, even though it probably wasn't.

I preferred the old desert to DC, and the Old Western feel.  Gameplay-wise, I didn't notice enough of a difference to judge one better than the other.

FO3 was certainly less buggy, that's for sure.

While I liked both, I prefered FO3 more than FO:NV.

NV had better dialogue and story than 3, but the overall gameplay felt more restricted than with 3. In 3 there was a lot more to explore and you weren't quite as restricted in where you could go, where in NV there's a number of gating mechanics to push you in certain directions.

Had NV had 2-3 times the areas and POIs that it does, I'd probably have liked it more than FO3.

Originally posted by Robsolf

New Vegas seemed smaller, even though it probably wasn't.

I preferred the old desert to DC, and the Old Western feel.  Gameplay-wise, I didn't notice enough of a difference to judge one better than the other.

FO3 was certainly less buggy, that's for sure.

I haven't had the opportunity to play New Vegas yet, decided I would wait on a GoTY edition with all the DLC included.

But, in all seriousnes.... is New Vegas REALLY buggier than Fallout 3?  I ask this because Fallout 3 was riddled with bugs, glitches, and performance issues.

NV was buggier at release than FO3 was.

Fo3 was a little more cinematic and scifi. It felt more like an immersive postapocalypse setting while FONV has a distinct wild west feel in my opinion.

That said: FONV is more sandboxy (hardcore mode ftw!) and I like it a lot ... but only with a couple of mods which I wouldn't ever want to play without again.

Not sure if you play on pc and can use mods or maybe you already play with mods but these ones I really like a lot:

A World Of Pain: adds a ton of immersive and more challenging dungeon content, very well polished + a nice player home.

Populated Wasteland: adds more civilians in towns and makes the fiends v.s. NCR and NCR v.s. Legion battles much more realistic.

Weapon Mod Expansion + support patch for A World Of Pain A load of extra weapon mods: three mods for each weapon including uniques + support for the improved weapon rares in AWOP.

And if you like being a hitman you have to check out New Vegas Bounties, adds a load of voiced and hard missions.

I could go on for an hour about good mods, but chances are I am telling you nothing new so I'll hold off for a bit :))

HF

I like new vegas more.. but what pisses me off about both games is you cant continue playing once you beat it. makes me angry.

I liked Fallout 3 more, personally.  Maybe because it was the first in the series of the new engine and provided something totally new, while new vegas was more of "An extended Fallout 3".

Also, my only playthroughs with New Vegas were marred with glitches and game freezing mechanics such as going into my "Hotel Room" where all my weapons were stored and the game froze...every time, no matter how much I progressed.

Also, I wasn't too happy that you had a limit at what you could win at a casino without a cooldown of some sort.  They either needed to make the casinos "Harder" to win money in, or have a higher cap.

Granted I never beat Fallout 3 New Vegas because the bugs frustrated me so much and I quit/sold it.

Just my reasons though.

Overall, I thought the setting and experience in FO3 was better than FONV.

The DC setting was done well and the Enclave were a more serious threat than anything in FONV put together.  I felt the BOS, Outcasts, roving Super Mutants, in combination with traditional Raiders, Slavers, etc. were far better interesting things to see than the combatants of FONV.  The NCR are nothing but numerous, incompetently led semi-do-gooders with no sense of direction and focus and having lots of guns.  The Legion are essentially just a sh*tload of slavers that don't know how to use guns, pretend that they're good with a knife, and have a sense of uniformity.  Finally getting into and exploring the city of New Vegas itself was utterly disappointing.  Nothing like what the promos made it seem to be.

I can appreciate the western desert setting.  After all, FO1 & 2 were set out West, namely California.  The devs seemed to go with a Wild West kind of theme but kind of gave up on it.

Radio chatter?  Sorry, Three Dog was better, though I did like some of FONV's music selection.

I do like the more varied voice work done in FONV.  That became apparent after hours of gameplay.  Though I did expect more out of Marcus / Michael Dorn.  Nice job in getting Dorn back (he also did Marcus in FO2) but there should have been more with this character.

The main thing was this:  With the setting not as done well, the major groups in FONV were nothing to me.  And this is Vanilla gameplay before trying to get mods involved.  Absolutely none of these groups made me feel nervous about being on their bad side.  Not like FO3's Enclave.  Not like the Super Mutants of FO3, and defnintely not like the Super Mutants in FO1 & FO2 (especially the Super Mutants in the Master's Army of FO1).  Getting on the bad side of the NCR just made the desert more interesting... a more target rich environment since all the NCR military are just a bunch of scared retards with guns scattered about the desert, shaking in their boots.

Give me the setting & groups of FO3 anyday.

Imho,  as an RPG game, FO:NV is vastly superior.

For me i like the original fallout 3 better than FO:NV because it has less bugs and for me its more fun, specially when i smoked the bomb with a nuke. lol

Fall out New Vegas was much better, had more story lines and more to find and do. Don't even get me started on how DC looked, I can write you books and pages of how stuff was so far out of where it should be.  and they botched it.

Then lets go over the crash problems I had with Fallout 3 and the patching problems, 

I did not have those with New Vegas.

Just my 2 cents worth New Vegas was much better.

You are not the only one. I like NV, but not nearly as much.

The ONLY thing that ticked me off at Fallout:NV is that it has a close ending. I was really looking forward to going back to Lucky 38 after the batthe of Hoover Dam and just chill. Maybe just go out and collect Deathclaw trophees. Or go on a killing spree in Vegas.

But nooooooo, they had to cut the game short right after I capped that NCR brass. I didn't even got to wear that nice elite NCR armor that's featured on the game's splash screen.

Besides that, I can honestly say I can't wait for F:NV DLC's :) I'll just re-roll, forget about questing and just explore, in the meanwhile.

When I heard Obsidian Entertainment was developing" New Vegas " I was very excited.  Obsidian Entertainment/ Black Isle Studios the guys behind Fallout 1 and 2  and Baldur's Gate series, were getting there chance to work on there baby again.

I thought Bethesda did a good but not great job with Fallout 3, in " New Vegas" it just felt much more alive for the series and I enjoyed it.

.... Where's Baldur's Gate, Obsidian ...I'm waiting =)