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hodj
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Amzin
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With mods in the picture I would agree, NV is better, but straight out of the box with no mods I'd say it's pretty much a wash, they end up being fairly different. NV also has significantly more bugs without player patches as well although I don't know how many ultimately matter.
popsicledeath
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Go back and play the original then work your way up to FO4. In a year or two the GOTY edition will be cheap and mods will be matured. Win, win.
Cybsled
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I would recommend just jumping into FO4 if you haven't played the previous. I made the mistake of trying to jump right into NV after FO3, but I had game fatigue and the two games (engine and gameplay wise) were pretty much the same, so I stopped playing NV.
Don't potentially fuck up your enjoyment of FO4. If you haven't played the previous ones, don't until you have a nice FO4 run through. Even then, I would wait awhile between finishing FO4 and picking up the other ones.
Don't potentially fuck up your enjoyment of FO4. If you haven't played the previous ones, don't until you have a nice FO4 run through. Even then, I would wait awhile between finishing FO4 and picking up the other ones.
This is exactly what I would recommend.
The games are great. Some of the best really but you can only play so much of the style before you need a break and going through 2 huge RPGs right before another new one launches isn't the best way to go about it. New vegas and Fallout 3 are not going anywhere. If you try to binge through them you'll burn out.
I replayed them a few months ago just in anticipation but I wouldn't do that so close to 4 launching.
Quineloe
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Unless you have unlimited time to play everything coming out anyways, you're far better off waiting a year or two for a GOTY Version with all DLC for 20 to 30 moneys on Steam. I got FO NV with Dead money, Old world blues, Honest Hearts and Lonesome road on top of all the silly pack addons for ?20 and put 115 hours into a single playthrough.
So popsi is dead on, if you haven't played any of these titles before, get yourself some Fallout 3 GOTY, it's at 20? right now, you get Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken steel, Point lookout and Mothership Zeta addons. Probably a hundred moneys if it had been bought on each release day. That's probably a hundred hours of gameplay right there.
And then there's bugs. Reading through the wiki as I played FO NV, I saw soooo many remarks of "this was bugged, and is fixed in version 1.x"
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Caliane
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yeah. people are seriously recommending someone skip FO3/NV in favor of a day 1 Bethesda purchase on a game not out yet? for real? preorder-day 1 on a game buggy as HEEEEEEELL?
come on. 2015 no more preorders. Wait till the game is patched up at least.
Vorph
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New Vegas also has some of the best DLCs ever made for any game. Old World Blues especially, but I thought they were all excellent. (You people out there who hated Dead Money and/or Honest Hearts are fucking weird, btw.)
I'd grudgingly agree that some parts of FO3's map are better, mostly in the sense that there's less empty spaces, but the downtown DC "maze" is just so awful and contrived. Still find it hilarious that people criticize NV for invisible walls near the quarry when all of DC is gated by that shit.
Fallout 3 did have a much better radio station too.
I'd grudgingly agree that some parts of FO3's map are better, mostly in the sense that there's less empty spaces, but the downtown DC "maze" is just so awful and contrived. Still find it hilarious that people criticize NV for invisible walls near the quarry when all of DC is gated by that shit.
Fallout 3 did have a much better radio station too.