Originally Posted by EPOCH6

I love both games and have played through both recently. All that fans who preferred F3 seem to defend over New Vegas is style and atmosphere. And all of that is subjective anyway, I'm a sucker for desert apocalypse styles and a sucker for faction / guild options in RPGs, making NV the more memorable game to me, subjectively. Where New Vegas is objectively superior is in gameplay expansion:

- Larger and more open ended map, less invisible walls, and still more marked locations
- Dynamic multi-path quests, many more main quests and many more side quests
- No more level scaling, much more difficult early on
- Improved VATS balancing, stat balancing, perk balancing
- Multiple factions (less good vs. evil, more realistically flawed organisations)
- Hardcore mode provided a lot more excitement / challenge for RPG oriented fans

In the end obviously personal preference and style prevails and really determines your taste in games, but it can't be denied that New Vegas really put a lot of effort into expanding and improving upon every gameplay element that Fallout 3 fans complained about post-release. And again, I love both games and don't tend to choose favorites, but Fallout: New Vegas deserves recognition for its strengths.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.