Oblivion vs. Fallout

[NightDragon83]

thelifatree said:

Barozi said:
I think Fallout 3 is the best game of this generation.

It is an Oblivion with guns kinda. But that's something very good IMO.
And thanks to V.A.T.S. it's not only a shooter. Leveling system is also way better. Main storyline is more interesting and longer and there are more side-quests as far as I can remember compared to Oblivion. Fallout 3 also has your typical dungeons and fantasy creatures.

Only thing I don't like as much is that there really aren't that many towns. Lots of small villages, yes, but only 2 important towns that you will visit more than once.
(Note: I'm not counting Washington DC as a traditionally RPG city)

I agree with everything you said

And since I played morrowind. Oblivion wasn't the sequal was that I hoped it to be while still good.

And since I never played Fallout 2 I had no expectations. Fallout 3 was better for me and VATZ was better than Oblivions bad combat, but fallout non-vatz combat was worse then oblivion

but they both need to fix their bad combat systems, so it's not like driving a bus.

and I normally like swords and magic :P

Completely agree 100%... combat inside the VATS system is awesome and probably the best part about Fallout 3's gameplay, but the game is far to heavily reliant on it, and when you're outside the VATS system in regular combat, you just end up spraying bullets everywhere until your enemies are finally vanquished, while you just stand there like a chump and take MASSIVE DAMAGE lol.

Certain guns in the game like scoped / sniper rifles are completely useless too, because even in VATS you don't have much better range with scoped rifles than you do with standard guns and assault rifles, so you'll still end up just wasting multiple shots and giving your position away when trying to target enemies from a decent distance away.  And good luck trying to hit anything with a sniper rifle outside of VATS.  I know this game isn't Modern Warfare, but at least SOME realism would be nice with the combat to offset the random chance RPG system that the combat is based on.