fallout 3, new vegas or skyrim, which is best?

I see it as a choice between their settings - post-apocalyptic or fantasy. Between the Fallouts there is no clear leader... My preference is Fallout 3 but others prefer New Vegas equally.

Now give us 4!!!
 
Fallout 3 edges it for me closely followed by Skyrim. I really didn't get on well with New Vegas at all - which surprised me because of how much I enjoyed Fallout 3.


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Out of all of them I've given Fallout 3 the most game time but New Vegas is also amazing.

I've tried a few times to get into Skyrim but it doesn't do it as much for me. Its amazing graphically but I'm finding it difficult to get beyond the opening stages and keep my enthusiasm up for it. Definitely worth a look though.
 
Oh wow! Whatever you pick you can't lose as they're all great. Skyrim would probably be my pick if I was forced to choose at gunpoint :)
 
I totally loved the setting for NV: the dusty, more sparsely populated Mojave fits the whole post-apocalyptic feel for me far more than Washington DC did. Skyrim is a bigger, all-round better game though.
 
Fallout 3 for the story, New Vegas for the DLC, and Skyrim for the immersion.

They're all awesome, Bethesda have a winning formula.

edit - ~250 hours into F3 across PC and 360, ~160 into NV, currently tracking ~200 into Skyrim.
 
They are so different I couldn't pick a favourite. Skyrim was an exellent game and the feeling of a living world was exceptional.

Fallout obvisouly is not going for a living wold feeling but it captures the feel of a barren wasteland brilliantly. One of my best gaming experiences in 30 years gaming was sneaking around Springvale School early in the game. I could barely fight one on one with a single raider let alone a gang of them.
 
I've put more time into Skyrim than the other 2 but then I prefer the fantasy setting. As the most modern of the 3 to me it feels a bit more polished (if you can ever really say that about a Bethesda game!) and the selection of mods available is unbelievable. Having said that I do intend to go back to NV fresh with a load of mods when I get some time.
 
Fallout 3 and New Vegas for me.

Much prefer the Retro Sci-fi setting and projectile weapons, over the fantasy and swords/magic of Skyrim.

It also has much more dark humour IMO and more memorable NPC's and quests.

Fallout 4 with a better graphics engine than Skyrim (proper 64bit...) would be ace.
 
Fallout 3 GOTY + New Vegas GOTY (with all the DLC). Both epic retro sci-fi worlds 100s of hours of gaming enjoyment much of it is still to be bettered 6-7 years later.
 
Fallout 3 by a mile then NV. Skyrim is a complete bore fest to play, if you look at other threads you will see many people agree that modding Skyrim is more fun then actually playing it.
 
For me it is skyrim then NV. I have never played fo3 due to lack of time.

I love skyrim especially when I have a good number of mods that just work. Then I just get immersed and hundreds of hours can fly by.

I have never felt the need to mod new Vegas. I had over 120 hours played (and I hadn't finished the story) and never thought "this needs improving with a mod."
 
New Vegas for me.

FO3 is definitely easier to get into, but the player choices in NV are much more important to the story/world. You really can role play it just about any way you like.
 
Edrof said:
Agreed, but they all have large holes in them that are almost always filled only by the modding community and I hate that.
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Yep, but I think that's also part of their enduring character. The community and modding scenes for all of the aforementioned games is strong, alive and well with no signs of slowing down.

When they're first released the games are buggy and glitchy, and often have quest ruining annoyances but for some reason I'm OK with it. Be that because they're fixed eventually, or there was a workaround or just a reload needed to pass the point. I think Bethesda's approach to the community (i.e by not being grade A chumps like certain game devs in the spotlight these days...) in welcoming modding and improvements shows how important it is to embrace your customers rather than dictate arrogance to them.
 
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