If you had to play one of these two...

Fallout 3 - there's simply more game there. In ME you are basically held by the hand and taken where you need to go, don't get me wrong its a brilliant game but FO3 is simply better IMHO.

You can follow the main quest or deviate off the addons add a hell of a lot to it as well. The graphics are much better on FO3 as well.



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I could never get into Mass effect even though I really wanted to , will probably try again sometime but right now really enjoying FO3 so that would get my vote.
 
I got both a couple of weeks ago, played FO 3 for a few hours and really liked it but Mass Effect just grabs hold of you and doesn't let go. ;)

Why just buy one and play until it's finished, maybe buy both and play them both?
 
Both are great but FO3 edges it for me. Just be sure to up the difficulty when it you get too powerful. Once I maxed out my character he was invincible even on the highest difficulty. This happens to me in all Bethesda RPGs, I wish they would sort that out because it's the one major gripe I have with FO3/Elder Scrolls.
 
ME.

3 playthroughs and currently playing ME2.
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Playing FO3 for 30 hours, getting bored and never bothering again.
 
Never played ME, but I have played and completed FO3 three times so far.

I would probably pick ME but that's cus I have never played it :p
 
fallout 3 (+ addons), sorry but mass effect was hugely disappointing where fallout 3 was a stroke of pure brilliance. if you can see it, you can go there..!
 
FO3, both excellant games, both need to be owned. Fallout 3 has given me over 100 hours play time so far, and thats before i get round to modding it. so much to do. Either you should be happy with tbh, just a lot more content in FO3
 
Place in town doing Fallout 3 GOTY edition for under a tenner thinking of picking it up tommorow. Quite fancy a decent single player game and didn't get on with Mass Effect 1
 
thanks now I want to play fallout 3 now, no matter i completed ME twice.... :P need to get into ME2 at some stage.....grand
 
I own both and ME2. Story line wise I just thought that the ME series is epic. I think that the enormity and scale of story, the setting and the whole cinematic feel to it made them fantastic games. (I suppose the cinema feel is why I like Uncharted 2 so much).

Fallout 3 on the other hand is also quite brilliant in a different way. As soon as I entered the the wasteland I felt so depressed, but in a good way. That is the mood the game is trying portray. It is very impressive but it just didn't compel me to finish the story like Mass Effect 1+2 did. I think that is mainly down to the scale of the place, there are so many missions, so many towns, so much grey. It is really grey.

Graphics wise they are pretty much blow for blow. Mass Effect runs the unreal engine which is brilliant whilst Fallout 3 runs the bethesda engine from Oblivion which is highly moddable. Someone back a page said FO3 is better looking, well that is perhaps true after a couple of days of downloading countless GB's of mods for it. Once you do that you really have a Crysis beater on your hands.

As shooters they are both pretty poor I think. The team behind the new Fallout acknowledged this and have meant to have changed it in the forth coming release "New Vegas". With Mass Effect as soon as I got the Marksman upgrade it was click icon, hold left mouse button, mow down enemies: with a pistol.
 
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