I played Fallout 3 when it came out, and just got bored with it fairly quickly. It’s got that Bethesda vibe where everything is great at first, but then you start to get further into the game and everything starts to seem copy+pasted to make the game artificially larger and longer. Is it like that at all? I see it mentioned as a great game all the time, but I also saw that about 3 when it came out.
Mechanically, its almost the same game. Maybe a few UI and movement tweaks. Lots of re-used assets, although there was a bit more attention to detail when putting everything together.
Where it shines is the writing & vibe of the game. It’s got a lot of charm in the world that fallout 3 petered out on. The story (esp the DLC quests) is very hit-or-miss depending on your tastes, but generally held to be at least decent.
I’ve never played 3 but liked New Vegas a lot. Didn’t seem repetitive to me at all. It’s worth noting that the two games were made by different developers; Fallout 3 marked the point where Bethesda took over development from Obsidian Entertainment. Despite not being a Bethesda-developed game, it’s still buggy as hell and the combat is super clunky. But there’s some really cool RPG mechanics going on underneath all that
It plays more or less the same as 3, the difference is in the quests and the writing. The vast majority of sidequests actually affect the main story and moral choices are significantly less black and white or predictable. It feels more like a real world than a theme park.
I have more hours put into New Vegas then Fallout 3 and 4 put together. The writing is better like every one is saying If you have played fallout 1/2 it has a lot more of that really weird yet charming vibe those two games had. Also perhaps most importantly your choices actually matter, you don’t get three different options to say yes and one to say ill come back later.
