The Witcher 3 vs Fallout 4 - Gameplaywise

[SvennoJ]

The Witcher 3 is cheaper now and after 10 major patches pretty stable with a lot of improvements over the launch version.

I'm currently hooked more on Fallout 4 than I was on TW3. TW3 has superior story telling both in main and side quests, although the quality does go down a bit towards the end. Fallout 4 is great too, yet a bit familiar after playing the previous entries. You do have more freedom to tackle quests in F4. Don't want to bother with a quest, murder everyone to get what you want. TW3 is very restrictive in who you can kill.

Fallout 4 has the superior open world, more interesting, more diverse and the settlement building is actually quite a lot of fun. The Witcher 3 got very samey in the open world department with lots of repetitive ? locations and contracts. It does feature 2 full different open world locations and a few smaller ones.

Inventory management was a pain in TW3 yet that's mostly fixed with lots of short cuts added and ingredients don't add to the weight anymore. In Fallout 4 you'll be hitting the weight limit a lot now that junk items all serve a purpose. Both are absolutely bloated with loot, TW3 wins in sheer amount of loot able items.

Crafting is easier and more versatile in Fallout 4. Yet hunting for recipes and templates in TW3 added another reason to explore everything in sight. Plus you craft better versions of your spells in TW3. It's just a bit lacking in the armor and weapon department. In F3 I've already made some crazy sniper rifles, custom deep pocketed armor and some crazy looking melee weapons.

F4 has the different perks to define your character (and unlock more upgrades). TW3, you just need a higher level to be able to craft better items and defeat higher level enemies. The amount of damage you do and receive is based more on the level difference than anything else. It's also very easy to out level quests in TW3. I haven't played F4 long enough to see what effect level has on enemies. (I'm lvl 15 after 35 hours, taking my time)

Movement was sluggish in TW3 yet maybe that's fixed too. I find moving around in Fallout 3 a lot more responsive even with the dips to 25fps. Plus you get to choose between 1st and 3rd person in F4. TW3 is 3rd person only. Swimming is simple but just works in F4, it was annoying in TW3.

Both games are glitchy yet TW3 has the benefit of 10 patches by now. The save system in F4 is better. Multiple auto save slots, near instant quick save (also multiple slots).

Anyway what do you prefer
- Fantasy or Sci-fi
- Swords or guns
- Horse or dog
- Follow a story or create your own

Create your own character from scratch, do what ever you want and build your own place to live.

Me in my penthouse suite of the 5 story hotel I build in Sanctuary.

Or become Geralt and get to know a set of very interesting characters in a colorful world

Part of the Skellig isles, awesome map to explore.