Fallout 3 vs. Fallout New Vegas

3 is darker. vegas has more life.

Fallout 3 has a better story line

Fallout New Vegas has better game mechanics.

Each can be modded to your liking. I enjoy both and would rate them equally enjoyable, just enjoyable in different ways. New Vegas has a better companion system. The questlines are easier to follow but You do have to make "life changing" choices where in Fallout 3 there were only a few choices that really mattered.

FO3 Crashes for me sometimes. NV hasn't done that much.

I can't say I like either better.. FO:NV felt like it had better shooting mechanics than 3. I liked the stories in both. SOrry, not to descriptive. I'm tired. lol

I prefer NV in most ways really. It's not as open as FO3 but I think the more guided storyline helps it. Kinda just petered out for me in 3 and I lost interest. Both enjoyable though.

The one thing that really bugged me in NV is the selection of music.

In FO3 every channel had its own (broad) selection of music, most of them are entertaining, plus there's radio shows like that of Herbert 'daring' Dashwood to keep you entertained.

In NV, there are only so many songs on the radio (feels like 5, and all of them suck) and every radio channel uses this pool of songs, and almost no radio shows or other forms of entertainment . If I hear Johnny Guitar one more time I will murder a president.

I MUCH prefer New Vegas. But I've only played the PS3 version of each without DLC. Just got both with DLC tonight in the QuakeCon Pack. But, anyways. I found New Vegas to have a much better story. In Fallout 3, you're a man who was born and raised in a vault and forced to go out into the barren, mutant-infested wastes to find your father. Your only real battle experience is shooting rad roaches with a BB Gun, you never had you fend for yourself or scavenge for food. Those who lived in the wastes were forced to learn to scavenge and to defend themselves, yet you somehow have the combat abilities of a one man army.

In New Vegas, you're a courier who drew the short straw with the assignment you chose and are quickly betrayed, and nearly killed. You miraculously survive and set out to find and punish those who tried to kill you. Sounds like a simple revenge story, but it goes so much deeper. You have many more moral choices in NV than in FO3, and they have a bigger impact. In FO3, you really just choose how to get to the end - The endings are all nearly the same. In New Vegas, you choose your own path - You choose what tribes survive and which become extinct, you choose who rules over New Vegas, you choose to have allies or to become an evil tyrant.

New Vegas also has many gameplay and design advantages: New Vegas has a better karma/reputation system, a better companion system, a better difficulty system (addition of Hardcore), more weapons, no "This road is blocked off, backtrack and find a subway tunnel to go through just to get to the next block" segments, more ammo choices, more groups in the wastes and they all have dark back stories to discover. It is just a superior game in every way.

I played both and all of the DLCs (I just started Old World Blues recently) and really enjoyed both of them. I can't really say if there is one I prefer over the other. Sure there are a few mechanical differences as people have already pointed out, same with the depth of the storyline/decisioning/influence but they don't make one game better then the other imo. I would recommend playing both of them, starting with FO3 + dlcs before moving to NV + dlcs, just in case someone would be afraid in making a step back in mechanics of the game itself.

What a really enjoyed about both parts, was the modding part. I'm no modder myself but a user of those by heart. Even if it took hours over hours to set up the game the way I would like it, I have never regret one minute of the time that I invested. There are really beautiful mods out there for both games and the community is big and activ. My source of mods have been http://www.newvegasnexus.com/ and http://www.fallout3nexus.com/.

To make long things short: I believe both games are worth every single cent, there is no better or worse part =)

Out of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, I've enjoyed playing Fallout 3 more.

I am a casual gamer and liked the more easy going storyline of fo3 but new vegas has more people and feels less desolate.

My only critism about nv is that once you're finished that's it where as fo3 a dlc extended it so you could continue.

A holywar is here!!! Well, New Vegas is better than F3. But F1 and F2 can beat the shit outta New Vegas.

NV has better gameplay but I liked FO3's story and atmosphere much more.

I like the plot of F3 more than NV, but prefer exploring in NV.

F3 was FAR easier than F:NV. By a long shot. And that's not even counting the ability to play it in extreme/hardcore/whatever mode where ammo has a friggin weight, and you can die of thirst & hunger. I'd say Fallout 3 was just awesome, while Fallout New Vegas was awesome plus 1. Only +1, however, due to the ridiculous amount of bugs. Seriously, it could be called Fallout: Bugs and Errors! and it'd make perfect sense.

Still, it's a great game in the series, and the storyline, quests, and dialogue do it's predecessors proud. I am able to enjoy it despite the bugs. The DLC content is better than the DLC for F3, by a long shot. Hell, Old World Blues alone felt like an entirely different game. My favorite by far.

With all that being said, though...if I were to recommend either game to someone new to the series, I'd definitely advise them to start off with Fallout 3.

F3 uses GFWL crap while F:NV doesn't.

Does Fallout 3's story have any relation to Fallout NV?

New Vegas hands down. It improves on every aspect of Fallout 3 and the DLCs are better.

How long has it taken/ is taking you guys to beat the game. Fallout 3 or Fallout NV

i love fallout series except tactics i didnt like that too much