I played fallout a few years ago, really enjoyed the game. Now im looking at getting new Vegas as the prices have gone down considerably, but how does it stack up against fallout 3?.

I Don't really want to fork out for a game that only has a play time of 20 hours and is basically a Fallout 3 dlc.

Thoughts?

I started playing it again last weekend, started a new character.  I never finished the first time through so cant comment on the length but so far im having a blast.

I haven't played Fallout: New Vegas. Just gotta remember that Obsidian develped the game and not the original team. From what I've heard is that it's good but not quite the same level as Fallout 3 but I don't think the length of the game is an issue. I'm sure it's quite long.

Originally posted by Jakard

I haven't played Fallout: New Vegas. Just gotta remember that Obsidian develped the game and not the original team. From what I've heard is that it's good but not quite the same level as Fallout 3 but I don't think the length of the game is an issue. I'm sure it's quite long.

Actually the team that made Fallout: New Vegas was the original Fallout and Fallout 2 team.  The Fallout 3 project was robbed from them by Bethesda and they couldn't do the game the way they wanted to.  Bethesda gave them the chance to make the game they were going to make with the promise of using their engine.

Anyway Fallout: New Vegas is pretty different from Fallout 3.  First off it is far more linear and has far less quests.  A one time playthrough is roughly 30 hours.  If you want to 100% the game you are looking at closer to 50-60 hours.  As far as balance goes I think New Vegas is more balanced than Fallout 3.

I'd recommend it as a buy.  I've played through it twice and some day I might come back to play through it a third time.

If you're the kind of person (like me) that likes to do every single quest I would suggest getting the Ultimate Edition for an extra $20.  It'll basically triple the life of the game

Originally posted by Mellkor

I played fallout a few years ago, really enjoyed the game. Now im looking at getting new Vegas as the prices have gone down considerably, but how does it stack up against fallout 3?.

I Don't really want to fork out for a game that only has a play time of 20 hours and is basically a Fallout 3 dlc.

Thoughts?

 

The only thing that New Vegas doesn't win when compared to Fallot 3 is the soundtrack. New Vegas is an awesome Fallout game and it was worth the full purchase price =D The game play is MUCH longer and the seemed to fix all the problems that Fallout 3 experienced like the sudden game ending and the monotonous sewers and town. The people were also much more memorable, to me at least.

Personnally i enjoyed New Vegas more than i did Fallout 3.

Originally posted by Jakard

I haven't played Fallout: New Vegas. Just gotta remember that Obsidian develped the game and not the original team. From what I've heard is that it's good but not quite the same level as Fallout 3 but I don't think the length of the game is an issue. I'm sure it's quite long.

Who did you hear this from?  Fallout: new Vegas is better than Fallout 3.  Not only is it made by the original fallout people and a bit more authetnic.  It is also much more open in its story line.

The main quest in New Vegas is far superior.  It can't even be called a main quest as you can do more than 3 factions interact with many ancillary factions and end each faction a different way.

Fallout 3 just had a linear main quest.

New Vegas is far more authentic to the real FAllout experience.  

I bought the ultimate edition (Which comes with all expansions) so this thread interests me.

So you guys are saying new vegas has less random events/shit when wandering in the wildern?

1 thing I liked about fallout 3 was wandering searching for something to do apart of the main story.

Like one of the adventures I remember was:

I was wandering when I reached a camp with super mutants, after beating them I went dwelling inside it. Inside I found a hostage and saved it, she asks you to go save her friend which is optional but I did it anyways. Went till the bottom but found him dead. Went back to her and asked me to escort her back to a small town, when we reached the town she asked if I could teach them how to use guns because super mutants where going to come to scavenge them or something like that, so I "thought" them how to fight with guns and finally helped them defend the small town from the super mutants.

That shit is what I'm looking for in fallout new vegas, so will I expect random quests/storylines when I'm wandering outside or not?

Thanks.

Originally posted by bloodaxes

I bought the ultima edition (Which comes with all expansions) so this thread interests me.

 

So you guys are saying new vegas has less random events/shit when wandering in the wildern? 1 thing I liked about fallout 3 was wandering searching for something to do apart of the main story when reaching a camp with super mutants, dwelling inside it, saving a women which asks you to go save her friend, found him dead, escorted her back to a small town, was asked if I could teach them how to use guns and finally helped them defend the small town from the super mutants.

 

That shit is what I'm looking for in fallout new vegas, so will I expect random quests/storylines when I'm wandering outside or not?

Thanks.

dont stop exploring! there is tons out there.. yes probably less than Fallout 3 but still tons. I have always been an explorer in games.. I tend to find the quest end before I find the quest and I wasn't disappointed. I will say one thing.. SAVE YOUR GAME.. there are some real nasties out there and you may end up there before you are ready or know what you are supposed to do.

The general response has been positive so ive purchased it..

Originally posted by Mellkor

The general response has been positive so ive purchased it..

yay! enjoy! and large radscorpions... they hit like an effing truck... >.<

Originally posted by ariboersma

Originally posted by Mellkor

The general response has been positive so ive purchased it..

yay! enjoy! and large radscorpions... they hit like an effing truck... >.<

Alot of things in FO:NV hit like a truck.

Also make sure your luck is good, it is vegas.

Fallout New Vegas is probably the most underrated game I have played. I did not play Fallout 3 but I have played fallout NV plenty and I can say it has probably the best storyline I've played in an RPG.

NV literally has soo many ways you can do the main storyline and even moreso for the many plenty of side quests in the game. Its story and dialogue options are deep and immersive. Its dialogue puts to shame any elder scrolls game I've played as you can flat out open dialogue with someone and say "I don't like your face, time to die." I have not played any game that gives you the option in a dialogue sequence to pretty much do what you want.

I mean you can help a gang kill and destroy the town and doctor that saved your life, then turn around and backstab that gang. Actually you can pretty much side then backstab then double backstab any faction in the game.

You can screw any of your companions over whenever you want to however you like. You're teammates are literally at the mercy of the attitude you have when youre playing the game or the style of your roleplaying.

SURPRISINGLY its probably the only rpg game that I have found that I can ACTUALLY Roleplay in to an almost 100% satisfaction. There are literally almost no bars to the story and some of the DLCs deeply expand on the main storyline too.

I would play it again right now but i deleted off my comp a while ago to make room for some other things, and i forgot that i had a shitton of mods that took me hours to install and configure, but ima probably go around to install all of it again.

MOD the game nao! buy the expansions NAO! you will not be dissappointed.

edit: had to edit this in. You're character is basically god in that you're not bound to any plot within the game and you can do pretty much anything as you please even in the storyline.

But if you like to be realistic you character can become at the mercy of the desert if you play on hardcore mode. Its redonkulous

Yes.  It is a GOOD game.

* and yeah what that guy said about mods.  there are plenty of great ones.

I own Fallout 3 and did own Fallout NV.   I played a few hours of Fallout NV for about a week and just quit. 

Having played Fallout 3 through half a dozen times, there was something really off to me about Fallout NV.  Its baffling to me because as soon as I began playing, within ten min, I felt it.  Its a lot like Fallout 3 of course, but there's something about it I could never really put my finger on. 

It felts somehow like a poor mans Fallout 3 to me.  The world design didnt seem quite as rich.  And as I played I just wasnt having the fun I had with Fallout 3.  I was trying really hard.  At the time I didnt even know it was made by a different developer other than Bethesda.  I even said out loud, " This just doesnt seem quite like a Bethesda game.  Its like another developer is trying to emulate it 100% but its just off " to my wife. 

Sure enough some time later I find out it WAS another developer after all.  Who was in fact trying to 100% emulate Fallout 3.  But it just wasnt the same.  The magic was not there.  And in all this time Ive never really wrapped my head around what the differences were that drove me away from it.  Its really odd to me, because usually Im good at pinpointing what Im not happy or what I am happy with. 

Sorry to Fallout NV fans.  Anyways, if you havent played Fallout 3 OP, do so.  I feel its superior.  As for Fallout NV, if you must play it, you either get it for the PC or Xbox 360.  Same with Fallout 3.  Bethesda does not know how to code properly for the PS3.  They never have and in all this time have never figured it out.   Which also baffles me. 

New Vegas has more quests, more factions, it's less linear, better main story, iron sights, etc.

If i remember right... NV has like 4 times more quests, and they have different endings and ways to finish them, while F3's quests where all linear.

New Vegas > Fallout 3

Edit: Found it, yup.... NV  > F3

I really hope Bethesda lets Obsidian develope the new fallout game.... F3 was not only short, it had some serious lore raping stuff, Bethesda should stick with Elder Scrolls and let Obsidian do quality RPGs with more than 10 quests xD

I still play it. I even still play it more than I play Skyrim.

The immersion and atmosphere are unparalled in my opinion.

Very inspired writing behind that game, great VO's. Also nice to have a survival mode ("hardcore mode") where you need to eat, drink and sleep. I only play with that activated + very hard difficulty.

Make sure to install a few kick ass mods though. My favorite ones are A World Of Pain (adds much, much more challenging dungeon content and enemy factions by using the game's assets to keep the mod light but with an amazing polish to it), Weapon Mods Expanded + the patch for AWOP weapons.

Next to that I use stuff like a back pack mod, a good looking body mod, a mod which lets you fill empty milk bottles with Brahmin Milk if you click on a brahmin, etc.

Fallout NV is one of my favourite games, i like it much more than Fallout 3. Some hardcore Fallout 3-fans prefer Fallout 3, tho.

Fallout NV:

- Main quest is better and longer

- Quests have more choices & consequences, side quests feel more connected to main quest

- Better companions with more "character"

- It's more "authenic", like Fallout 1+2

- No level scaling, some new features

- Better DLC

Fallout 3 was or is definately one of the best games in the last ten years for me, but you have to mod it for sure. Without lots of community mods the game is only half fun and with mods you can get up to 80-100 hours. Some kind of survival mod is really great, without speed travelling, without using the too easy VAT aiming system, with additional companions, harder monsters and so on....to eat to drink...just a little more hard when it comes to surviving and you will have a fantastic game.

Fallout Vegas: same ...look for mods and dont play the game out of the box. For me FA3 is the better game since some of the quests were a lot more extraordinary, but Vegas is fun aswell...if you mod it ! =)

Wished Bethesda would make another game which isnt fantasy like oblivion or skyrim, even I do like these games.

Just a different theme would be that great again and soo refreshing, western style, napoleon era or whatever would be cool.

I really enjoy the Fallout games, and "New Vegas" was great, But some of the dlc is not, while some is. Look that part over.