They're similar, but dont be fooled into thinking that they're the same thing. While the gameplay is pretty much the same, the world and story are insanely better in New Vegas than the green washed-out world of FO3's D.C. FO3 was made by Bethesda, the makers of the Elder Scrolls games, after they purchased the series. They did a decent job, but New Vegas was made by Obsidian, which included people that worked on Fallout 2.
New Vegas is not a direct sequel either, so honestly you should just skip FO3 as New Vegas is just superior in every way (especially in the story DLC department). There is a small minority of people that insist that Fallout 3 is better than New Vegas, but they are wrong and you should ignore them.
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Fallout 3, New Vegas, Elder Scrolls 3-5 are great examples for open world games. And what keeps you in the game, playing? When you go to do a quest for example, the Mage's guild. Then your way you see a deer and jokingly try to hunt it. Then accidentally go to random cave with nexromancers. Kill them, find some nice loot, maybe some loot / notes - story about the cave, even a quest. On your way out from the cave you see a strage stone only in 3-4 minutes of running from there. You start going there. Aaand you find even more adventure, and probably you'll forgot about the quest you started to do if you're not paying attention :)
TLDR: always something intresting/ something expensive/ (:3) something killable/ something from you need to flee / something adventure lurking at every corner. In falllout 3 I started going from A to B, then ended up discovering a dozen locations near the two, even when the route would take only ~5 mintues normally :)
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Because my internet is down so I have less distractions. Its how I finished Dragon Age: Origins.
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because of that "what comes next, what will I find, what will my next armor look like" feeling
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Generation that watchs short youtube sketches with kittens and never read any book except those in school cant focus enough to stay long with a good story.
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The question answers itself. The games are openworld.
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Rich lore and intresting sidequests / side-chains storylines. If all RPG offers for side quests is go here, kill the bad guy and that's it, go look for other quest giver I will just stick to main storyline. But in some games (TES series is a good example here) sidequests storylines can even be more epic than main story :>
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I've put hundreds of hours each into Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim...
Without finishing the main story in any of them.
One word, FREEDOM!
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There are so many: characters to talk to, stories to hear, quests and sidequests to complete, monsters to kill, weapons and armors to collect, vanity items to obtain, books/notes/messages to read, easter eggs to find, game mechanics to learn and master, skills and spells to try, puzzles and mysteries to solve, ways to approach a specific quest, races and classes to play, factions to join; and I could go on and on.
I've done and still do all this in two absolutely amazing open world, free roaming RPG series: Gothic and The Elder Scrolls.
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I won't let you dooown, I will not give you up. Gotta have some faith in the souuund~
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Well, just all the others things there are, like, when I initially started Skyrim I spent ages doing side quests, exploring, leveling up skills etc. I didn't even finish the main quest until maybe a year afterwards. I didn't play the game with the intention of beating it, putting it aside and playing a different game. I just played it, and enjoyed almost every minute of it, doing whatever.
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I should say first that I've never played an open world RPG, at least for a long enough time to appreciate it fully. I tried the Witcher 2 for a few hours, but I just felt like the game wasn't for me...
But apart from that I'm curious as to how people could get engrossed in one thing for so long. I find most 10h games pretty testing, and I could not even dream of playing the same game for anything longer.
So what makes you play these games? What do you do after you finished the main story? Do finish all the optional quests? What after that?
Maybe someone can enlighten me. Thanks!
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