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>Bethesda
>geniuses

>>262787509
>giving it their all

But wasn't there supposed to be more Legion stuff?

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>bethesda
>geniuses

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>geniuses

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>>262787509
>2chan

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NV>FO3

>>262787509

>bethesda
>geniuses

AYYYY

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>>262788105
What is that forum
I'm going to create an account just to tell him how much of a pleb he is.

>>262787702
They ran out of time. Bethesda decided on their dev time. 18 months, from the beginning.

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>>262788105

So much wrong.

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>Genius

>a bunch of underpaid wage slaves cutting corners: FO3
>a bunch of starving artists constrained by time: FO: NV

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>>262788105
>The people who made Fallout are piggybacking off of the ideas and worlds made by the people who made Fallout

>>262787509

That jap is fucking dumb
It's more like

>A work made by simple people with a lot of money backing them = Fallout 3
>A work made by geniuses without the money to fund their work = Fallout New Vegas

>>262789012
Underrated post.

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>the Japanese will never experience the superior FO and FO2

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>>262789012
seems pretty spot on

>>262787509
Who cares about what some stupid gook has to say anyway?

Bethesda make games that they know are going to sell to large audiences.

Obsidian make games that people who like video games and RPG's would enjoy.

>>262787509
Japanese people don't know shit 'bout WRPGs, what a shocking revelation.

>>262789319
It's be 2hard4japs
They'd after the save because there's no linear narrative to hold their hand through it.

>>262789693
>They'd after the save
How the fuck did I manage that, I meant "Quit after the cave"

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>>262789693
>They'd after the save
they would do what? i need to know

>>262789445
>Japan
>South East Asia

I'll admit Fallout 3 DLC > fallout NV DLC

New Vegas outshines fallout 3 in every other way

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>>262790320
OWB > Any Fallout 3 DLC

Oblivion with guns
vs
Mediocre attempt at a proper Fallout game on a trashy, broken engine

>>262790089
fear and loathing in new vegas playthrough
>get addicted to every drugs
>use whenever your high is over
>reside in casino hotels as much as you can

>>262788951
rage now

>>262790664
Too bad drugs are super watered-down compared to Fallout 1 and 2
Also getting off addiction is stupidly easy.

>>262790532
>penis jokes
>enemy hyper spawns

It was almost worth it for stealth suit wiafu

Lonesome Road was atmospheric as fuck, I wish the base game was more like that. The visual design of the map and environment was cool and pretty as hell too.

>>262790643
>Mediocre
give obsidian some credit, for the time they had and their inexperience with the engine it was great

>>262791262

Ulysses could have been a more coherent and well developed character, but having him try to tackle eighteen themes at once had the end result of DABEAR DABULL DABEAR DABULL rather than anything particularly deep.

>>262790863
i agree with everything there, but i still enjoy the game.

>>262790863
music was far from 'hollywood action soundtrack'
the delusional fucks on this board never cease to amaze me

"but it's not more than 10 years old and isn't dark souls!" shut the fuck up

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>>262791668
That, and fucking blaming me for everything.
As a fucking player I can't feel bad for it because either I'm a gigantic asshole dickbag already or have the capacity to understand I had no control of the character at that point.
"Shaping history" my ass. It ain't shaping jack shit if I didn't actually have a part in it.

>>262788105
>there are still people who don't know that Obsidian is basically Black Isle
This is why you're not a "hardcore gamer"

>>262790320
>FO3 DLC
>good
ALIENS ARE REAL GUYS. CHINA IS GLOWING GREEN GET IT? XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>262793334
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>>262788105
>there are people who would consider KotOR 1 superior to KotOR 2 because le piggybacks

>>262787509
But the people behind New Vegas clearly had a better understanding not only of the setting but of characterization, mechanics and choice and consequence. Silly nip.

>>262789012
Correct

>>262793334
Well The Pitt was pretty good, although the moral choice at the end was one of the worst I have ever seen in any game.

>>262793761
We'll see about that. Did you make the correct choice? I'll spoiler the correct one, you go ahead and think about the right one then check yourself. We'll see how simple it was.

Ashur did nothing wrong and The Pitt had stupidly easy morality to figure out for anybody with a hint of foresight

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Wild Card = For the Republic > Veni Vidi Vici >>> The House Always Wins

>>262788105
>there are people who don't even know who Black Isle is
Do all of these games just sell on the fact that they're open world games?
Jesus Christ

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>>262793761
The Pitt, yes.
but remember
>Anchorage was one long fucking corridor with collectible boxes
>Zeta was a pile of shit no matter how you look at it
>Point Lookout was asshole vs. asshole, asshole no matter who you support (though that cthulu plot was good)
>Broken Steel was literally Mass Effect 3

>>262794181
New Coke is the better Coke, fuck all of you nostalgia faggots.

A work made by many monkeys with computers given 7 years
A work made by fewer, slightly smarter monkeys with computers and typewriters in 1 year

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>>262788105
This post actually angers me

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>>262794183

>There are people who actually sided with House

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Is this the "shit 2chan says" thread?

>>262789012

>a bunch of underpaid wage slaves cutting corners: FO3
>a bunch of starving artists who can't quite hit a homerun but are also constrained by time: FO: NV

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>>262794681
>file name
yea, we're totally not being invaded

>>262794352
High fructose corn syrup is not better than sugar. New coke is ass.

Look >>>/mlp/19674301

>>262794352
But New Coke was intentionally made to be awful

>>262794862
Except Classic Coke also uses that if you're in the great great USA.

>>262794862

>tfw you have to go out of the way to find imported mexican coke just to find a coke with actual sugar

I miss living overseas.

>FO3 feels like a post-apocalyptic wasteland
HOLY FUCK
POST APOCALYPTIC AND WASTELAND DON'T FUCKING GO TOGETHER
POST APOCALYPTIC MEANS AFTER THE FUCKING APOCALYPSE
FO3 LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING MID-APOCALYPSE
NEW VEGAS IS GODDAMN POST APOCALYPTIC HOLY SHIT

>>262794681
I posted that because I wanted somebody to justify siding with House

>>262791668
>>262793021
I want to play Lonesome Road now, and neither of you spoiled anything .. quality posts

Pretty accurate.
Too bad their all wasn't good enough

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>>262794905

New Vegas totally fucked up the Rep system, IMHO.

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>>262788525
I guess the game was rigged from the start

>>262793959
the problem is that the game wants you to think that Ashur was the villian.

>>262788105
oh this fucker. this fucker.
FO3 wouldn't be present had the guys in Obsidian actually created the goddamn game in the first place.

>>262795141
but he is the best choice

>>262787509
But Obsidian was the one putting in as much effort as they could ever since before they even WERE Obsidian!

They're like BioWare, except they get to bend over to every single publisher they've ever worked for.

>>262787509
>Japs in charge of taste

Nothing to see here.

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>>262795659
Please explain

>>262787509
Flip it around and I'll agree

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Fallout 3: A work made by average people cutting corners.

Fallout: New Vegas: A work made by geniuses giving it their all in a limited amount of time.

>>262794905
What the fuck dude

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>Mfw people who think Yes Man route is better than House
They're the same fucking route but with you ending as the leader instead of House you faggots.

NCR > Roman wannabes.

>>262788380
That's a neogaf splinter board.

>>262789693
Japan has taken some established products and made them more difficult.

Early Wizardry -> Somewhat hard
Later Wizardry -> Really easy
Japanese Wizardry -> Harder again

Well, its better to look at mainstream products anyways, I guess, and those would be the same in any country.

FO1/2 ---> Not really hard but you can at least mess up.
FO3/NV ---> You can't even die unless you drink little girl's piss for an hour to rad out

Early FF ---> Some fights that might require a bit of effort, have to figure out where you're going
Late FF ---> Follow this one path and hit x until you win


rip videogames

>>262788105
He is right through, Obsidian is garbage, they never deliver on their promises.

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>NCR: A peaceful wasteland for all, naive but good natured.
>Legion: Might makes right. Honest, but brutal.
>House: HERR DERR I'MMA MAKE THE WORLD LIKE IT WAS PREWAR WITH ROBOTS THAT'S HOW THAT WORKS

Why did they even bother making a House ending?

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>screencaps of the bore in /v/
mods help

>>262795767

He's got a thing for being right and I believe his future projections for being in space in 100 years

>>262793458
KotoR2 is bad without the restoration patch.

A real broken incomplete mess.

>>262790532
jesus fucking christ i hated OWB with a passion

>>262788105
it's true tho

>>262796378
It's bad even with the patch

it sucks because the actual combat and weapon customization are great

>>262795767

He has the best technology, and is an immortal, genius dictator. Plus he offers the courier immortality.

NCR is just repeating the mistakes of America, and they've got a big famine on the way

Legion is dead without Caesar

Independent Vegas is dead without the courier

>>262793458
>>262796378
Fucking this, Kotor2 was rubbish that lead to nothing. Thanks for killing the franchise Obisidan.

>>262796563
I thought it was fine but all the bugs and incomplete stuff bothered me.

>>262796624
There was no franchise.
EA would have shat on it anyways with TOR

Fallout 3 a shit, never got past megaton.

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>>262796624
Thank LucasFarts for that. They pushed it for a christmas release, and then fucking denied Obsidian making a free restoration patch themselves.
It's literally the same fucking situation as with Sonic '06 except the devs actually developed the game

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>>262796579
>they've got a big famine on the way
Good thing my Courier's is a fucking genius with 100 science, 100 repair, 100 speach, barter and unarmed.

>>262796264
>>262796579
People who benefit from the Mr House ending:
House
Courier
White Glove, Chairmen, Omertas

People who do not benefit from Mr House ending:
Everyone else

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>>262796579

>He has the best technology, and is an immortal, genius dictator. Plus he offers the courier immortality.
>Implying House is going to keep his word and not just have the Courier killed the first chance he gets once he has no further need for the courier

You got reeled in, anon. Hook line and sinker,

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>>262788951
>bethesda forums

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>>262790863
>quantity is more important than quality

>>262796984
Did you even play the game?

>there was no choice to unite all factions into one super faction
fallout nv a shit

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Honest Hearts > Lonesome Road > OWB > > > > > > > Fallout 3 > > > FO3 DLC > > > > > > > Dead Money

>>262787509
Discuss what was said or the two games?

Personally, I'd like to think I'm far beyond being biased considering it's been years since FO3 was my first Fallout game and I've since beaten New Vegas and Fallout 2, but between 3 and New Vegas I generally prefer 3 because of the setting and atmosphere.

I get it's been hundreds of years since the nuclear fallout and life has come pretty damn close to resembling what it once was before the bombs fell, but I really liked the total desolation and destruction of the Capital Wasteland.

KotOR1 - A game made by average people giving it their all.

KotOR - A game made by geniuses cutting corners.

We can all agree on this, right?

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>>262797038
lol obshitian

>>262787509
Bethesda had far greater resources at their disposal than Obsidian.

Are you sure you didn't get the translation backwards?

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>>262797038
>Fallout 3
>Quality
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>262796980
>Implying anyone else deserves to benefit from House winning

Are you some kind of communist?

>>262797113
Well, I agree that dead money was the worst of all the dlc.
But the pitt was still the best of all the dlc, and that was fo3.

>>262797081
OH YES I'M SURE LEGION, KHANS, NCR, BOS AND BOOMERS WOULD GET ALONG JUUUUUST FINE!

>>262787509
fallout 3 is the better of the two, end of discussion. It had a better story.

>>262797035
>GLORIOUS
>PERCENTUAL
>BASED
>SKILL
>CHECKS

I legitimately got cancer from reading that

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>>262797113

>Lonesome Road
>Good

HEY COURIER LETS FIGHT ONE ON ONE OH WAIT LET ME SPAWN TONS OF ENEMIES AND RUN AROUND LIKE A BITCH WHILE MY HEALTH REGENERATES STUPIDLY FAST ALSO LET ME EXPOSIT THAT YOU DID SHIT BECAUSE FUCK SHOW DON'T TELL

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>>262791668
Ulesses and Lonesome Road were a huge letdown
>Blah blah blah war metaphor. Blah blah The Bear.
Not to mention how linear it is.

Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road are tied for worst NV dlc

>>262790532
im with you anon i fuckin love owb

>>262797136
>KotOR - A game made by geniuses cutting corners.
This is a new level of Obsidian dick sucking.

>>262797236
That's what it says for sure, but maybe the poster mixed it up.

>>262797038
i seriously hope you are kidding.

that happens when you are trying to prove that the freelancer bodyguard is actually scamming people out of their money by acting out scenarios where people are robbed and he takes them out easily.

all the bodies remain intact and you hurting the bodies kills them, this was probably a glitch and considering i beat the game a week ago, patched long since

>>262788525
Yep. They were given allotted time and a budget, they knew it from the beginning, and they still didn't deliver.
Great.

>>262795141
>>262795659
>>262795767
>>262796058
>>262796249
>>262796264
>>262796579

I am the only one that realizes that Obsidian fucked up the personal route to power.

No matter who you choose, the wasteland is worse off for it because they are all shit. The only correct choice as it is is to choose no one and let the wasteland sort it out itself.

If Obsidian knew how to do non-linear storytelling, they would have had a several choices to your personal ascent to power:

>Asshole Hitler route.
>True Neutral beta route. You're worse than NCR.
>Good route. Intelligent placement rather than good natured.

>tfw there will never be good plots or storytelling in a fallout game

>>262797395
Still better than Dead Money

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>>262790532
OWB was fucking delicious

>>262797270
>factions are just a series of linear quest chains that make you pretend you're going up in rank only to get a "thanks, all our problems are solved, now fuck off"
Gee I wonder who could be behind this post, other than the obshittian defense force.

>>262797347
>you actually gain infamy for persuading BoS to join with NCR

That was kinda neat

>>262797680

I can't argue with that. Fuck dead money

>>262797675
Um, House was actually the best ending. It stops the Legion from advancing and keeps New Vegas a shining epitome of the Wasteland.

Seriously dude, House.

>>262795193
I enjoy Lonesome road because it feels like what they were trying to do with Dead Money - having it be a struggle to survive in a recently post-apocalypse instead of the fairly leisurely post-post-post apocalypse of the rest of the game. It's also got a bunch of weapons that are cool but grounded in reality.

But the writing just sucks.

>>262790532
OWB is definitely the best DLC only because it captures what nerd humor actually is

I...
I...
I enjoyed Fallout 3 more.
I felt that the world had a better atmosphere, and the events were more memorable.
I get that it "wasn't a true Fallout," but I still loved it.
Is that bad?

>>262797902
>Is that bad?
Yes

Please commit Sudoku

>>262797902
Anon, who the fuck cares what you like

just don't say "what i like is best"

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>>262788951
>this perfectly valid reason is invalid because Betehsda WANTED it to be this way

>>262797902
As long as you don't deem the entire game superior to NV just because "ATMOSPHERE" then you're fine.

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>>262797902
>I felt that the world had a better atmosphere
a green tint and urban ruins is not atmosphere. you enjoyed the setting more. that's it.

>>262797764
Only a negligible amount. It's like "failing" the quest when you turn in the star caps.
>>262797902
No. Different people can have different opinions, and that's okay.
For example, I prefer New Vegas, but I hate the originals and didn't even finish 2.

>>262788525

Those were the terms of the contract, if Obsidian couldn't do it they shouldn't have taken the contract.

>>262797680
>>262797791

May I ask what all the Dead Money hate was about? I thought it was passable. Nothing amazing, but nothing too awful.

>>262797643
Right, i-its just a glitch, obsidian games have so many bugs and glitches that it's clearly just a glitch!

quick kotor question, first playthrough and an asshole spoilered me the plot twist, is there any point in playing it? I was having fun...

>>262797902
>I enjoyed a game, is that a bad thing?

No anon that isn't a bad thing

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>>262796249
>Might makes right
>Metal Gear image
Did you know, anon?

>>262798192
i'm glad that you made clear you can't read for shit anon, otherwise i would've had to counter-argument your statement

>>262798070
Yeah. The atmosphere is part of the setting.
The setting also includes the time period, the world design, and the music choice. (The time period is irrelevant, but I pretty much like 3's choices more than NV's as a whole.)

>>262798070
Muh atmosphere beats the hell out of muh more quests and muh lore

>>262798172
It was a survival horror game, except using New Vegas' mechanics. It was like Operation: Anchorage, except with competent writing. Actually playing it was still a nightmare.

>2chan
>knowing shit about anything

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>>262798192
you do realize you're defending bethseda with that aren't you

>>262795497
okay you got me

>>262796889

so much this, finally someone gets it.

>>262798172
It's 2 hours of linear corridor shooting with the occasional "press button, fight off waves of enemies" event.
Atleast it had 3 puzzles that were brain-damaged levels of easy.

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>>262797902
Plenty of people enjoyed the Star Wars prequels, that doesn't mean there's anything objectively "wrong" with them. But from a critical point of view you're going to be crowded together with all of the other actual retards out there.

Sorry, but if you don't like it then just leave. Stick to reminiscing about moments in Fallout 3 with your actual friends, not us. You do have those, right? Friends?

>>262798194
The plot twist was shitty and the rest of the game is amazing, so yes

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>>262798194
Fucking shut up and play it faggot.

>>262797113
I only enjoyed the first part of Dead money. The rest of the DLC was shit.

>????
>??

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>262797675
You can make neutral ending any of those. Do every quest in the most beneficial way possible? The Mojave flourishes, and everyone is happy and safe as they can be. Do nothing? Everything stays pretty shitty honestly, but not that much worse off. Do every quest in the most "evil" or unhelpful way? Shit's fucked, man.

>>262798423
>criticizing one thing necessarily means defending another
I hope you're b8ing, anon. Everyone I know that actually thinks this way is an idiot.

>>262798559
Yes, I have friends.
And I do like New Vegas - it's a fantastic game. I just prefer 3.
I'm probably one of the most casual gamers on /v/, though, so may that has something to do with it.

>>262798294
the music choice honestly really pisses me the fuck off because the bombs dropped in fucking 2077
why the fuck does he only have music from the 30s
did three dawg find an ancient box of phonographs or something

>>262798194
So he told you that your character is Darth Vader?
I was pretty surprised too. Did NOT expect that. My character was female for fucks sake, but shit man lava can ruin anything.

i prefer FO3

>>262795068
I'm lucky, I just have to walk 5 blocks to the nearest Sunoco

>>262787509
most retarded opinion I've seen today

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>>262795497

New Vegas was shit. 3 was awesome. Anybody who thinks different is probably some preteen faggot that thinks Skyrim is God's gift to gaming.

Protip: it's not.

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>>262798336
>Atmosphere is more important than gameplay

>>262798873
More importantly, why the hell is he the only person in the entire damn game to speak like that?

>>262798070

Fallout 3 had a much more desolate setting. less friendly people, less towns and civilizations, that all contributes greatly towards a lonely, foreboding atmosphere.

that game is still shit compared to NV though.

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>>262795497

>>262799063
>New Vegas was shit.
gr8b8m8

>>262798194
It's a shitty plot twist anyways, one of the worst in video game history.

Name any plot twist, even Star Ocean 3's 4d shit, and it's better because IT ACTUALLY TWISTS THE PLOT.

KotOR's twist does ZERO to the rest of the story. The game proceeds EXACTLY as it had before, just with this revelation added.

>>262799063
how the fuck did you even leap to that conclusion

I wouldn't say "geniuses", maybe people with more money and people and assets and what not.

Why discuss the same shit every day?

HOW IN THE FUCK does one save the NCR president? I can't even get that part of the mission because by then NCR is mad

>>262799063
1/10

>>262799515
If NCR is mad, and you can't even talk to the Ranger for the quest, then it's unwinnable. However, the quest should have failed, in that case.
You could try using an NCR uniform, but guards and the dogs will recognize you as a genocidal maniac.
You could also try doing sidequests that add to NCR fame, to balance out your infamy.

>>262799063
> some preteen faggot that thinks Skyrim is God's gift to gaming
>Protip: it's not

Congrats Anon. You successfully learned that the majority of /v/ dislikes something and are now showing off your new-found knowledge by attacking a strawman of your former self. But, it would appear you mixed that sentence up there friend! You see, if you want to blatantly copy the popular opinion, you have to say NV beats F3. Just thought I'd tell you. Welcome to /v/ you fucking sheep.

>watching obsidiots justify this terrible game every fucking fo3 vs nv thread
>only defenses are "well, it wouldn't be so shit if bethesda gave them more time, after giving them strict deadlines over a year in advance"
and
>"well, at-least it's better than fo3 right? I mean, it's obviously new vegas is shit, but if I compare it to a game that's pretty much on the same level of shittiness, maybe 1 iota of shitiness more shitty, then new vegas seems good by comparison, right? RIGHT?!"
Delusional little faggots. You're hung up on the lore in a game that never took itself seriously enough to make any kind of lore worth merit so much you are defending an objectively shit game. You should all kill yourselfs and stop falling for the fo3 fan's baits.

>>262795497

FUCK YOU CARLOS

>>262799094
>implying new vegas's fetchquest gameplay was good in any possible way

>>262800134
>implying fallout 3's "go here and talk to guy" questing is even fucking questing

>>262800134
Every Fallout 3 quest is literally "Go to this location and kill all the mutants" and "Go here and kill X amount of Y"
It plays like a fucking MMO.

Fuck whatever everybody else says, that girl in Goodsprings that gives you the tutorial had the worst voice actor in any game in the last couple years.

>>262799959
Dude Vegas and 3 are awful games. Vegas is just less shitty. The worst game by Obsidian is better than the 2nd best game by Bethesda, which is hilarious.

>>262800335
And this is different than "Go here and get the solar panels" in what way?
Or "go here and clear out the fire ants!"
Or "go there and clear out the repcom rocket facility of super mutants, good now go fetch some shit from the junk yard!"
Litterally every fucking quest in new vegas was also mmo shit.
YOU ARE COMPARING THE EXACT SAME GAME TO THE EXACT SAME GAME.

>>262800458
Nah. Yuri Lowenthal was far worse.
>Yeeeeeaaaaaaah, who won the lottery? I did!
>[grunts of pain]

>>262800547
>And this is different than "Go here and get the solar panels" in what way?
Because there are a variety of ways to approach and complete that quest.
New Vegas quests have options and branch, Fallout 3 quest are linear and generic killing shit.

>>262800505
If fo3 was 3.0/10
New vegas would be 3.1/10
Neither of them deserves have the threads or praise that they get here.

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>>262797113
>implying Fo3 DLC wasn't better than the game itself
The Pitt and Point Lookout were so good.
The Pitt > OWB > Lonesome Road > Point Lookout > Honest Hearts > Dead Money > Broken Steel > shit > Mothership Zeta > Operation Anchorage

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I think the main problem with people who actually like Fallout 3 is because they were literally their first PRGs. The only games these types of people had really played before were huge blockbuster hits like CoD and Halo. Just look at the release dates of all these games, the rise of casualization in 2007, it all lines up.

If all you know about video games is that there's guns and you go around shooting the guy in front of you, then anything going off a different angle is going to seem like a hidden gem to them. And when their mechanics and story are similar (including a perk system, gaining experience, helping the good guys go kick some bad guy ass!), it's even easier to get into.

These people don't actually like RPGs, they like the thought of playing an RPG. It's different, it's edgy, it's something "new"! And everything that's not in 3D, first person perspective is just for nerds. :^)

>>262800707
IT WAS STILL BORING AS FUCK
The quests consisted of
>ok, you can either go here and fetch some shit, or, if you have 100 repair you don't have to fetch anything!"
You think this is good game design?
This is fucking dogshit, there's no replay value in that crap because the only difference is are you going to fetch shit, or are you skilled enough to skip fetching shit and still get the xp.

>>262800860
What did you like about Point Lookout? I didn't get anything from it.
The Pitt was great though. Wish I could play it without replaying so much of Fallout 3 over.

>>262800624
I got a bit of an RPG feeling a couple weeks ago, and I recently tried to play through NV again, when I came upon that part.

God, why did they keep that in the game? Imagine if you're that guy, and your employer asks to have samples of your voice acting in the most popular games you've been in.

>>262801019
It's the same with Baldur's Gate, KotOR and Oblivion.

>>262800860
I'd put broken steel above dead money but other than that solid list.

>>262800458
Aside from based Neeson and the guys who did OWB I thought the voice acting in both games was awful all round.

>>262801043
You also have the option of choosing where the power goes based on your faction decisions, or make it into a super weapon for yourself. That it literally the definition of replay value.
No matter how hard you try to play it down, it's always better than "Go kill the mutants in this cave"

>>262800624
At least Yuri Lowenthal had an ounce of character in his voice. Tutorial girl sounded like they just nabbed some intern's nervous girlfriend and had her deliver the line in one take.

>>262801074
The enemies were tough. Plus I love the atmosphere of the DLC.
>rednecks are tougher than Enclave soldiers suited with high tech armor and guns

>>262801381

>He likes bullet sponges

>>262801318
I would agree if she were meant to deliver some sort of emotional line. She's just kind of explaining Goodsprings, how to make healing powder, and "the town mom".
She wasn't very good, but there's worse examples within New Vegas itself, let alone "da abs'lute wers vee-ayy err!"

>>262801297
It's not better, because it's still boring as fuck. The quest to get those 3 options is boring as fuck and short of the superweapon option the other 2 don't actually do fuck all because the factions are static props that stand around and jerk off.

>>262801525
Fallout doesn't have great gunplay, so I was content that the enemies weren't made out of plastic.

>>262801043
Exactly, anon. That's better than
>here mutant
>you shoot

>>262801273
Joshua Graham was done well, in NV DLC. All of Dead Money was done well. I liked Ulysses quite a bit.

>>262801241
You mean Morrowind. Oblivion may be bad, but it wasn't the one in its own series to start a downward trend in the complexity of roleplaying games.

Please be kind to your elders, Morrofags.

>>262801381
Doesn't help that the avg. Enclave soldier's armor was in shit condition.
Were they trying to emphasize that their equipment was worn from trekking all the way from the west coast or something?

>>262787509

>new vegas
>Yet ANOTHER crappy sequel that they made that nobody really wanted, but hey, it appeased the neckbears over at nma and obsidiots
>Fallout 3
>Shitty plothole ridden game coded and made on the horrible gamebryo engine, meant to revive a franchise which SHOULD HAVE STAYED DEAD.

>>262801774
No, it's not anon, it's equally shit.

>>262801996
Who are you quoting?

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>>262788105

Its funny cuz its true!

HUEHUEHUEHUE

>>262802137
Who are you replying to?

>>262801905
Daggerfall and Morrowind are both great games with serious flaws, but Oblivion only sold what it did because it launched when the 360 had no games and did EVERYTHING wrong..

My first TES was Arena. I thought it was OK but not great. Only played Morrowind years after it came out because someone had got it with a graphics card or something and was clearing out their shit and gave it to me

I'll never understand Japan's obsession with Fallout 3.

>>262802121
>both are exactly the same
>except one has choices
Bethesdrones get the gold for mental gymnastics

>>262787509
>geniuses

damn I love japan they're so cute

>>262801817
Yeah I'm probably being a bit harsh, there's a few other performances I can think of who did a good job.

Though poorly or awkwardly delivered lines kill my immersion quicker than anything, and F3, NV were filled to the brim with them

>>262802121
How are they equally shit when one is a direct upgrade from the other?

>>262788105
I don't agree with most of it, but I do agree with the last part. People suck Obsidian's cock so much for making simply above average games and praising them as the greatest games of all time.

>>262788105
>all these replies

>>262802226
>2 replies
>screencapping your own post

>>262802349
They have an obsession with Fallout 3?

>>262797902
>Is that bad?
No, it's just the NVfags that constantly spout their shit that would make you think so.
3 may have had it's problems, and there's no denying that, but it's still a pretty great game. and I enjoyed it more than NV.

I asked this in a thread last night but my net dropped lol. Does anyone know how to fix that menu and pip-boy mouse acceleration cross "if i was lifting my mouse of the pad every 2 seconds" bullshit in both games? its so annoying

Ill buy something on steam if someone can help me.

(it worked fine on this pc a year ago all i changed was my mouse, its now a death adder)

>>262794837
not him, but sometimes when i dont have an appropriate reaction pic i search google for one, and usually find what i want- you guessed it, hosted on tumblr. instead of saving it, I just past the link to the image into the upload field, and direct link to the image which retains its tumblr name.

>>262802367
>mental gymnastics
holy shit my fucking sides thanks

>>262801651
>not enough exploshuns
fuck off

>>262795021
Well see that's the thing. It's the same way with New Vegas. New Coke was just a conspiracy to be able to use the cheaper HFCS instead of sugar and get people to accept it. They made "New" coke which tasted like shit and everyone hated it, and used HFCS. Then they brought back the flavor of "old coke" as "coke classic" but still used HFCS. So instead of everyone complaining that their coke got real sugar take out, everyone was happy that their coke tasted more like the old coke again.

Same with fallout. The original fallouts were the original coke. Excellent writing, isometric view and turnbased elements in the form of AP, rich RPG elements, etc.

Fallout 3 is the New Coke. Shittier RPG elements, oblivion with guns on gamebryo, shitty writing, everything worse than the originals really.

NV is coke classic. They retained the shitty gamebryo and FPSRPG design from F3, but they made the writing and RPG elements closer to the originals. Not the same, but closer. Enough to satisfy some, but still not the exact same as the old coke.
Do you understand?

>>262795608
Well until you find out that the other guy is basically a scumbag raider who was formerly Ashur's right hand man and really just wants power over the pitt himself, and is willing to disregard the baby's safety to do haphazard experiments that might not even result in the cure being found.

Whereas the baby's mother is an accomplished scientist and will take the care to ensure that a cure is extracted without harming the baby.

>>262796058
And that's exactly why it's better. Unless you're a house fanboy or you make a low int, low cha character, there's no reason why you'd think he's more qualified than you to run shit.

Especially when you can conceivably leverage assets you acquire in the DLCs to make your nation unstoppable.

>>262796264
Personally, as the Courier I think you have a better chance of getting to space than House. I mean you actually have practical results and send GHOULS to space, where it is heavily implied in the ending that they've created some sort of advanced society under Bright's guidance. Don't ask me how.

>>262796579
>Independent Vegas is dead without the courier
Then you should make yourself immortal instead, and do it right, unlike house. You really have all the tech you need to do it at big MT too.

You come out of that place being nearly half cyborg anyway.

>>262788105
What the fuck.
_________{____________________fart___________

Don't you guys realize New Vegas is a reskinned Fallout 3? It's the exact same gameplay.

>>262805072
Yeah.

>>262805072
yeah nah

>>262805072
>Survival mode
>DT damage reduction
>ADS

Do you think Obsidian are going to work on a new Fallout once they are done with Project Eternity or whatever it was called?

>>262805336
Nope

>>262789303
Overrated meme

>>262805072
New Vegas is more like modded F3.
They stole ideas from some of the more popular mods for F3, like weapon modding, ADS, the "hardcore mode", etc.

Jesus Christ, it's actually amazing how unintelligent the average person who browses /v/. Sometimes it really is astounding. Anyone with the ability to critically read a children's book would be able to see that New Vegas was built around the fact that politics are futile. There is no best option. This is akin to arguing about consoles.

Mr. House's plan is entirely reliant on the NCR. If you did not know this, you did not play New Vegas. Simple as that. His plan is the halt the Legion and use the income of NCR tourists to jumpstart industry around the city. He will also rely on it for technology and a workforce. However, it is repeated numerous times throughout the game that the NCR will not last long, even if it defeats the Legion. The NCR fails, Mr. House fails.

Yes Man only exisrs because Obsidian knew you'd want to kill all the faction leaders and needed a way to complete the story if you did.

>>262805570
>They stole ideas from some of the more popular mods for F3
It's not stealing if the assets used are owned by them.

>>262787509
Here's their Fallout thread btw:

http://jun.2chan.net/31/res/2071404.htm

OMG WHAT ARE THEY SAYING??

>>262789012
Ahhh fuck. I dont like to admit it but yea. This

>>262795497
I kek'd

>>262789012
>a bunch of starving artists constrained by time: FO: NV
I wouldn't call them "Artist", i think they're more "epic poets" then "artist"... actually same thing forget it

Fallout 2 question
Should I ditch Sulik and take Marcus? I can only have one companion because I have abysmal Charisma and I don't want to waste a perk to have 2 companions at a time

>>262805630
if they put him in just because of that then they would of just not let you kill one of the leaders i think

WHAT GOOD IS AN IMAGEBOARD WHERE YOU CAN'T POST IMAGES?

>>262805336
>bethesda
>ever allowing obsidian to touch Fallout again
Nigga Bethesda hates Obsidian, they did all sorts of shit to fuck up the development of NV.

>>262797902
Look dogg, i dont care wtf you like better, just dont try and pretend the shit you eat is better then NV

>>262790865
NV:F&L edition

>Get addicted to med-x
cant eat, sleep or stay hydrated if you don't get a fix, character has to stop to shit/puke every few mins and has min agi/end/chr

>addicted to jet
Stay up for days and start seeing shit, world goes into slow mo and you get depressed min chr/agi when you cant find any

>alcohol
shakes and DTs

>psycho
start attacking random people for no reason seeing them as demons, slowly lose hp when you cut off your own flesh

I've recently been using a random start mod for both F:NV and F3. Along with other mods, I wanted to play the games in an Ironman kind of way. I would randomly generate a character, then use an alternate start mod to spawn in a random location on the map. I'd try to stay in character and if I died, that was that.

After doing all the balancing I could. I found that F:NV map was pretty terrible. Enemy spawns were scripted and since there was no level scaling you got ass-raped if you didn't spawn near goodsprings, and if you did, you had to follow the same god damn trail everytime.

In Fallout 3, at least with the help of Mart's Mutants Mod, creatures spawned at random, this combined with F3's map, which was an how a sandbox map should be, where you can go in any direction from Megaton at the map's center without having to worry about Cazadors that stop you from going off the traveled path. It just worked better overall.

I also found that FWE was far more enjoyable as an overhaul mod than Project Nevada. There's actual survival involved. It's not like in New Vegas where it's nearly impossible to run out of ammo or starve and crippled limbs can be fixed in an instant with handy dandy doctor bags.

>>262806543
>starting the game in areas that you weren't designed to start in doesn't work
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

>New Vegas is set up like an RPG
>Fallout 3 is set up like a sandbox
>durr NV sucks I should be able to go anywhere I want as a level 1 fuckstain

>>262806543
>starting the game in areas that you weren't designed to start in doesn't work
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

>New Vegas is set up like an RPG
>Fallout 3 is set up like a sandbox
>durr NV sucks I should be able to go anywhere I want as a level 1 fuckstain

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>>262806897
>262795141

>>262806543
>someone actually defending level scaling
I never fucking thought anybody would be this fucking stupid.

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>>262806897
>lore that fallout 3 established
>lore that...3 established
>3

>>262788105
>Hollywood

>>262806897
SM?

>>262806964
>starting the game in areas that you weren't designed to start in doesn't work
>HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

It would if there was a way to turn on scaling it wouldn't be an issue, but there isn't, have to play the game the same way each time, no matter how much you try to make a character different, the same enemies spawn in the same spots and you do quests and visit towns in the same order.

>New Vegas is set up like an RPG
>Fallout 3 is set up like a sandbox
>durr NV sucks I should be able to go anywhere I want as a level 1 fuckstain

F:NV is for people who make one character and do everything in the game with that one character. Everything before you hit the strip feels like a tutorial.

I don't know about it being an RPG though, it's still just a glorified sandbox, it's definately more polished, but it's so scripted it hurts and it has less replayability.

>>262807445

Normally I wouldn't, but a good level scaling can still have you run into challenging enemies.
It's all about having a wide range.

>>262806897
This has got to be someone from /v/ trying to get a rise out of the internet
I refuse to believe anything else.

>>262807671
>F:NV is for people who make one character and do everything in the game with that one character
What the fuck. New Vegas is one of the few modern RPG's where you CAN'T do everything in one playthrough. It sounds like you have 3 and New Vegas mixed up.

>>262807671
Scaling is objectively a shitty mechanic that completely removes any uniqueness from the game.
Randomly generated scaling enemies are the best way to make your game feel repetitive and boring before it's even halfway done.
>F:NV is for people who make one character and do everything in the game with that one character
Funny because that's literally impossible in NV, whereas that was exactly what everyone did in F3.
>I don't know about it being an RPG though
It's an RPG, F3 is a shitty sandbox that tries and fails to be an RPG.

>>262807671
Fallout 3 doesn't do good level scaling though, whatsoever.
You can go straight to where you meet your father the second you leave Vault 101 and you're not punished in any sort of way, you're at no disadvantage or anything.
Level scaling is only good if it's done the way TLR does it, and that's if it's designed so that the enemies are always at a decent level with you, but they can actually surpass you if you get greedy

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>>262807671
>F:NV is for people who make one character and do everything in the game with that one character.

>>262808346
That wouldn't work in an open-world game though.

Make it like Morrowind, where normal areas will choose random low-level enemies and you'll only run into powerful enemies near/inside ruins and things like that, and more importantly, DON'T CHANGE STATS, just spawn more powerful enemies at higher levels.

>>262807836
It's not that you can't do everything, it's that you have to go through a tedious gauntlet until you can actually do something significantly different.

>>262807927
>Funny because that's literally impossible in NV, whereas that was exactly what everyone did in F3.

Well yeah, I never said that F3 doesn't do the same thing. It's just that when trying to make multiple characters to explore different playstyles, I'd rather do it in a way that actually allows me to do so without going through the forementioned gauntlet.
>It's an RPG, F3 is a shitty sandbox that tries and fails to be an RPG.
Both F3 and F:NV play the same, an fps sandbox with rpg elements. Only major difference is that F:NV tried to be more fps than rpg with ironsights and added more content.

>>262808346
You CAN do that, or you cannot, if you're that desperate to do the story quest you have a choice to do so. If you're the kind of person who rushes the story quest and goes 'Look I beat fallout 3! I win the game!' If not, you can explore and maybe look for something you feel more like doing.

Both ways will give you a decent challenge without running into bullet-sponge enemies that you have to wait until you're a high level with superior equipment.

>>262809010
>Only major difference is that F:NV tried to be more fps than rpg
But New Vegas is much more of an RPG than 3
Am I being trolled?

>>262787509
They're both shit games in a shit series.

Elder Scrolls > Fagout

>>262809260
How did it try to be more of an RPG exactly? Did you like the characters better? Were the numbers tweaked in a way you liked?

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>>262809010
>Only major difference is that F:NV tried to be more fps than rpg

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>>262809325
The Elder Scrolls is Fallout with down-syndrome.

>>262809465
The game allowed for more role-playing, by giving the player factions to side with and decisions to make during the story. All the quests also have a variety of ways to complete them, with multiple endings. Perks, skills, and SPECIAL also have a more influential change on the gameplay and role-playing, giving you more choices in dialog.

>>262809548
Says you. Fallout has close to no lore at all. No depth. No challenge. You can fucking PAUSE TIME.

>b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but my immersive enviroment

Any elder scrolls game does immersion 2000% better than all fallout games combined.

>>262809762
>Fallout has close to no lore at all
If you think that's true, you mustn't know much about Fallout.

>>262809915
>oh shit bombs
>go underground
>bombs gone?
>no
>let's wait a bit longer
>ok bombs gone
>let's rebuild society

Done.

So when did the bombs fall and when did the first vault open?

>>262808989
Except it totally fucking will work in an open world game.

Set it so that enemies surrounding certain low-level will be low-level, and the deeper in the wilderness you go, or if you go into a higher level city, you fight harder enemies
It also brings in the concept of risk vs reward, where if you're skilled you can take down a dungeon that's higher than your level, and gain loot that you can use to clear normal areas faster, or allows you to enter higher level areas more regularly.
It's called freedom without making everything balanced to your level, Fallout 3 and Skyrim both balance EVERYTHING to your level, so even if you enter the highest level dungeon where you fight fucking deathclaws in FO3 or Draugr Deathlords in Skyrim, you're only going to find shitty iron swords and 20 gold pieces even while unlocking fucking master chests.

>>262810041
Mundus is the plane or realm of existence that encompasses Nirn, its moons, and attendant Aedric planets. For all intents and purposes Mundus refers to these heavenly bodies alone, as they themselves float in Oblivion. Mundus is a collaborative construct created by many divine beings. It was first conceptualized by Lorkhan, who then convinced other et'Ada (except the Padomay-aligned et'Ada, i.e., the Daedra) to assist him in its construction. Of these et'Ada, Magnus became the Architect, who drew up the plans for Mundus.
Some of the et'Ada gave parts of themselves entirely to the creation of Mundus. These became the eight planets of Mundus (not including Nirn); they are also identified as the Eight Divines, or Aedra. Some Aedra gave themselves completely to their creation, and became the Earthbones that form the substance and life of the final planet: Nirn. Soon after the planets had formed, Magnus became disgusted at what Mundus was, and so left for Aetherius, his passage ripping a hole in Oblivion (the realm of Daedra that surrounds Mundus and separates it from Aetherius). This rip is viewed as the sun, and is responsible for much of Mundus' magical energy. Others soon followed after Magnus; these et'Ada left smaller holes, which became the stars. Some et'Ada did not manage to escape or chose to stay on Nirn as spirits. These et'Ada changed into the Earthbones (Ehlnofey) or simply wasted away into nothingness.
Because of Lorkhan's trickery of the other et'Ada, the Aedra met at Direnni Tower (also known as the Adamantine Tower or the Ur-Tower) to discuss the punishment of Lorkhan

>>262810305
>Except it totally fucking will work in an open world game.
No, and here's why:
>explore instead of doing story missions
>naturally level up because of this
>do it too long and you're now extremely high-level and the game will "punish" you for being "greedy"

Why don't you stop treating all Japanese as geniuses whose cerebral cortex is folded over 1000 times.

>implying Emil Pagliarulo isn't a genius
>implying Christiane Meister isn't a genius
>implying Adam Adamowicz wasn't a fucking genius

you miserable, ignorant little shits ought to be ashamed of yourselves

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>wasteland 2 in 7 days
I am ready

>>262790183
>gook
>not a general racial slur against all slant-eyes
You are a massive retard

>>262810651

Did they expand on the game at all? I played it when it got released to all backers, but it still cut off at the prison

>>262810651
is that like Fallout?

>>262810757
Of course, that part was only the first half. The second half was kept under wraps as to no put any spoils.

I should play FO3 again.

I remember liking it a lot and playing new vegas yeaaaars later and liking it just about the same.

See what all the hubbub about these threads is really about.

>>262810490
What the fuck does this even mean
Isn't the point of an open world RPG to have the choice of doing story missions or not? By having the world be set to a preset level for each zone, you can have the player still follow the main story, and the game will guide you there as you play, but it also allows the player to have the freedom of exploration without having the game hold the player's hand the entire time with enemies that stay the player's level, not giving you any threat or any worry that you might be in a zone too dangerous for you.

I really want to play NV again, but I can't decide what path to choose. I overthink the fuck out of this game

>>262810772
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hPDdLMuN0

it's pretty much what F03 wouldve been.

>>262790863
maximum mad

>>262810898

Oh thank god.

My only real problem with the game is that I can't get to the town in the far east, or th doctors hideout. Shit has SO MUCH FUCKING RADIATION that even if I come with like four dozen medkits, I still just die before I get there, even when I have a suit!

What do, anon?

>>262810772
Let me put it this way; The first Wasteland game in the 80's lead to what would become the first Fallout. So yes. Very much so.

>>262796896
so what? you won't be able to help anyone. The courier will survive regardless, were talking about whats best for the people of america.
Also you're fucking retarded for not realizing the context, just pointing that out.

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>tfw fallout NV with every possible difficulty and immersion mod possible

say what you will but I cannot think of a fallout game without maximum immersion anymore. I probably wont buy FO4 day one just because I know it won't be IMMURSIUN enough for my needs, unless Bethesda suddenly got gud at making games, which I highly doubt.

>thinking about reworked inventory systems and amazing gunplay in a bethesda game

I mean, if you're going to convert a top down turn-based RPG into an fps, you may as well do it right.

>>262809737
All of those things were in Fallout 3, F:NV just quantified them.

F:NV did a lot better overall, but there's less freedom, more linearity. It creates a great world for you to explore, but then makes you explore it the way the devs want you to, from Goodsprings, to Primm, to Nipton, every time.

>>262811982
I agree with that. Anytime I start a new character I always want to just sneak my way straight to Vegas, but I always end up going the intended route so I don't miss out on the EXP and gear that I would miss out on otherwise.

I love NV to death, but man oh man do I wish they designed that differently. I get the notion behind it, but goddamn is everything that happens before you hit Vegas tedious and unfun as fuck.

I liked fallout 3 better sorry

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Anyone who says 3 is better than New Vegas is either retarded or trying to stir shit up.

I can't believe it's 2014 and you retards are still arguing about this. The only thing 3 had going for it was that it was spoopier, but it lost even that beuse of the repetitive fucking metro tunnels and basements.

>>262796178
>japanese wizardry
>harder again
But anon, wizardry 4 was made in clapistan.

>>262812681
I'm not trying to say it's better.

I'm just saying that in certain areas it's more enjoyable that F:NV.

You can false flag it as trolling and use whatever reaction image you have in your folder all you want, but people like F3.

>>262808346
>You can go straight to where you meet your father the second you leave Vault 101 and you're not punished in any sort of way, you're at no disadvantage or anything.

This is a Fallout tradition and it might even just be a shout-out. It's also sort of a Bethesda tradition as there's a famous shortcut in Morrowind which, come to think of it, might itself have been a nod to Fallout.

It's rare that people stumble on Dad's nap spot by accident, and if they do what happens is believable enough. There's no reason to assume the vault dweller would be at a natural disadvantage to the wasteland regulars who are plagued with sickness, injury, and psychosis while Kid 101 grew up in a clean environment. Also surrounded by bullies and the offspring of two very intelligent people.

It's also worth noting that finding Dad serves just fine as the beginning of your character's story. You don't have to confront the main asshole immediately. You can do it after exploring the wasteland. That exploration isn't arbitrary, it's full of little stories to which you receive nudges from many sources. The Finding of Dad is just as valid a starting point as siding with Tenpenny.

The beauty of Fallout 3 is that if you are cautious you'll do alright, but if you get cocky you'll usually wind up in trouble, and the game is full of temptations to be cocky. Fallout, since the first game, was not actually that dangerous a setting from the start. In the original Fallout, the first town you visit is almost serene and it's tempting to just stay there. Danger in Fallout comes as a consequence of the vault dweller's decisions to take on risk in order to save the vault, the tribe, or his father.

And with 3, let's not forget that the game is absolutely incomplete without at least some of the DLC. One of those DLC transforms the wasteland into a ferocious challenge, and while it may have taken you 200 hours to get there, the payoff is a lot of fun.

>>262806391
>Psycho
See demons in town that actually attack you, once you kill them, they revert back to whatever random NPC they were.

YES.

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>>262797035
>glorious % chance system

>>262798873
...30's? What's the matter, sad it didn't have that toilet-bowl shit Skrillex?
If you're gonna talk shit about soundtrack, do some research.
> 50's Era

>>262810305
>this way of level scaling would work the best
>no it wont
>yes it will, you just have to remove any form of level scaling

huh?

>>262802349
They were nuked you know.

>>262811982
But the complete opposite is true. In New Vegas you can advance the story and play how you want, the story was non-linear. Meanwhile, Fallout 3 was completely linear and forced you to play the same every time.

>>262811038
I honestly wasn't that excited for Wasteland 2 but this was just too good.

>>262805072
Yeah, Obsidian does that with every game, the biggest difference is that the story and characters are better.

>>262815859
It's got a ton of the silly dark humor that F01/02 had as well. Theres a skill that lets you talk to enemies and have them help you in battle (but you have to be directly in front of them to "talk" to them and convince them to help).

>>262812681

New Vegas has its share of problems. The NPCs are much more likely to talk to you as though the time since your last conversation is much longer or much shorter than it actually was. This happens in every game, but in NV it is constant and an endless distraction.

The game is very linear for a good long time, which would be ok but it LOOKS LIKE an open world game; yet you are brutally punished if you wander off the path laid out for you.

The game periodically dumps you into huge dungeons for no real reason, without telling you that you're on a side quest. This is a side effect of the low stakes posed at the start of the game. What happens just does not matter. The player isn't even offered a compelling reason to heal from his wounds and do anything more than drink himself to death. The motivating factor is dumb curiosity or a bruised ego.

Then you get to Vegas, and it's emptier than any self respecting Fallout city ought to be. No doubt a technical limitation Fallout 3 was wise to avoid. An abandoned Vegas might make sense anyway, but you are endlessly reminded of how dangerous, unpredictable, and debaucherous this place is.

When the big reveal comes, it makes little sense, and while the player struggles with what he's learned he receives memos from every obscure group of bandits and cultists, promising him that his actions up to now have NO CONSEQUENCE. Half these people are total strangers.

And if this doesn't shatter whatever was left of your immersion in the game world, your standards need work. How does any of this make sense? Even if it did, why would this person care?

It may surprise you that I like this game and am not out to slam it all that hard. All of the Fallout games have problems, but let's not kid ourselves that NV is this soaring example of the series just because it's irradiated with delicious Avellonium-238. It's fun and it has a great vibe, but it's a mess, and it's easily the weakest in the series unless you count Tactics.

http://strawpoll.me/2541728

I'm curious how this will turn out.

>>262787509
Fallout 2 > Fallout 3 > New Vegas > Fallout > Fallout Tactics > Fallout BoS

You know it's true you fucking faggots.

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>>262817947
>3 better than New Vegas and first Fallout
>3 being in any position not firmly glued to the bottom of the list

>>262805072
>>262815921

The best thing about NV is the changes it makes to basic gameplay.

There's a fine set of characters, but as many silly ones as any of the other games have, and not so much of the really intriguing and haunting shit like the Fort Constantine incident, the radio towers, the messages people left for each other long ago.

The various settlements mostly lack the charm of those in 3, and the game is weak on moral conundrums like the Tenpenny ghoul problem, Harold, Constantine again, etc.

What NV did very well was add a level of TES style complexity to crafting, improve the item system, improve item wear & repair, and give the weapons more individuality while keeping the low yield guns formidable instead of rendering them useless like F3 eventually did.

>>262817947
This is an interesting ranking I haven't seen before. Most people who swear by 2 have a bug up their ass about 3, but what strikes me as weird as how low you rank 1. Why?

>>262818983
>and the game is weak on moral conundrums like the Tenpenny ghoul problem, Harold, Constantine again, etc.
Haha what? Those wear clear blatant black and white. Not to mention the main quest/story didn't have any choices at all.

>>262805072
Did they even have a choice?
They had tons of troubles with the engine and zero experience in it. Even hired some well-known Oblivion modders to help with New Vegas.

>>262802554
Not even above average. Just look at that piece of shit Alpha Protocol, it had really cool ideas but the game itself was a horrible mess that people praise as one of the greatest action RPGS ever made.

>>262788525
also bethesda made a cool deal where they get a bonus if the metacritic score was higher than fallout 3's score (it wasn't by one point which makes no fucking sense)

>>262812889
He's talking about Wizardry 6-8 I think.

You should be grateful though, how many series were lucky enough to have both a "sequel" for "gamers" and a real sequel for legit fans of the series? Look at what happened to RE4, there was no RE4make, same for Tumb Raider.

>>262819173
It just didn't grip me like Fallout 2 did. I guess I should place it above New Vegas though.

>>262818495
>look ma I'm fitting in

>>262819576
I think it's partly loyalty to Avellone. That guy carried the fire for us for years when Fallout had been effectively abandoned. Put together a 150+ page bible pretty much out of the sheer goodness of his heart and was otherwise good to the fan base when no one else seemed to give a shit.

When you combine that with the fact that he's a good writer, sometimes a great writer, and that we have him to thank for not only F2 but Torment, he gets a few bonus stars. Add those stars to New Vegas, which all things considered was pretty damned good, and it magically becomes the greatest game of all time.

When in fact it was just damned good, which makes it the worst of the four real Fallout games.

>>262797270
This image would be good without the problematic homophobia and antisemitism.

>>>/vg/

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>>262817721
>The game is very linear
>it's easily the weakest in the series

This is really poor bait.

>>262820845
It wouldn't be good because Fallout 3 does everything better than New Vegas.

>>262820842
>the four real Fallout games.
>four

FO3 wasn't even a "real" Fallout game.
I enjoyed for it was but it had none of the appeal that the original Fallout games had.