So I have just crested the 30 hour mark of Fallout 3, and thus feel compelled to jot down the differences between it and Oblivion that I preferred. Because I want to.

Fallout 3 Did Better:
Voice Clips- No longer do I have to hear the EXACT same thing every time I walk through a town, the amount of voice clips seem to be much greater.

Fixing Items- I hated the sound of that little hammer breaking in Oblivion, I like how you can mix similar items together to fix stuff much better.

VATS- I really enjoy slowing the combat down whenever I want, also the ability to concentrate fire on one part to do specific things is great.

Enemy Difficulty- I am not 100% sure how F3’s enemy scaling works, but I prefer it vastly to Oblivion’s, where if you ignored the main quests you would find giant flame-beasts in the first one when you got around to playing it eventually. And even though I never had a huge problem with it I know people who just quit the game because they couldn’t hack it.

Achievements- F3 has many more fun achievements, Oblivion had ones purely based on quest lines. Boringggggggggg.

Oblivion Did Better:
Visual Variety- I know that the visuals in Fallout 3 are fitting for the setting, but man I am sick of seeing drab browns, mountains, and beaten up cars everywhere I go. Oblivion was able to draw from the whole ‘fantasy’ setting, and had much better variety of locals because of it.

Clubs to Join!- In Oblivion you could join the mage guild, fighters guild, dark brotherhood, do the arena.. were there others? a thieves guild maybe? But anyway this added a whole lot of interesting quests that were based of character choices, F3 has no sweet clubs to join. Lame.

SHIELDS!!- (picture James T Kirk yelling this) I hate that F3 has no sort of energy shields, or like being able to use a stove lid or something for a shield. I don’t like dodging bullets in a slow-paced FPS RPG.

Both Games Suck Here:
No Titties- In a vast game like these there really should be some naked elves/mutants. Seriously, get on those digi-tits.

3rd-Person View- Oh holy christ, if you have played either game I don’t need to explain this to you at all. Jeez.

ok im done, time for dinner.

TTFN
-Kid C

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