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Originally Posted by The Batlord
3 is fun for one play through and then you never need to play it again cause there's limited things to do, the world is largely empty, the story is uninteresting, and the choices you have to make are stupid. People love 3 cause it's the first Fallout they played.
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There's probably an element of truth to that, but it always felt much more free as soon as you got out of the vault (that opening segment ****ING SUCKS on repeat playthroughs, that I will concede). I hated how New Vegas 'tunneled' you away from immediate exploration by filling up areas you "weren't supposed to go to yet" with overpowered enemies. I also don't think that New Vegas was any less empty than 3 - in fact, it felt more empty to me because you'd get map markers for stupid ****. You'd find some barren and abandoned tent with a couple shotgun shells and a stimpak and that **** would get marked on your map as a new location - like what the **** is up with that?
Some people clamored about the Strip in New Vegas, but it felt entirely underwhelming to me - very lifeless really. And there was never a moment where I felt I had as much impact in my choices as a player as I did in 3 when I decided to nuke Megaton out of existence. After New Vegas though, the gunplay in 3 feels really dated as you can't aim down your sights in that one. I'd also pick 3 as having a better soundtrack too (only slightly). GNR was the ****.
Both games are better than 4 though. Fallout 3 remains the only game that I've ever pulled all nighter with - as in I was playing it when the sun went down and I was still playing it when the sun came up.