• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    Fallout 3 had a better atmosphere than vegas IMO. The ruins of the city, subways tunnels to travel, the absoulte warzone that was anywhere infested by the mutants. It really built up a world that was hostile and ruined. I wish FO3 had the same level of faction depth as FONV.

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      The oppressing feeling Fallout 3’s tunnels had was so great, you felt like everything could pop at your head at any moments.

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        I was so scared the first few times I traveled them, and I really like how some tunnels you had to travel at least once to access other parts of the map.

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      I’d say they’re equal, but also two very different feelings.

      FO3 feels so much like a world reclaiming itself. You have a scant few major settlements, most things are still pretty ramshackle, everything feels shoved together. There’s an air of violent change, and you’re one of the hands helping to guide it down this new path.

      New Vegas felt lived in. Settlements felt more established, you had The Strip as this beacon in the night, and you had outsiders shoving in on top of them. Yes, still striking the feel of “violent change”, but it felt less “Bring order to chaos” and more “The King is dead. Long live the King”.

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      I gotta be honest. I love New Vegas and FO1 but I gave up on 2 somewhere around Vault City. I’m sure the game has it’s good moments, but the total whiplash of all the proto “so Random XD” humor got to me. I don’t mind some random wackyness in FO, it just has to actually be funny.

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      If you’re good with modding, just use NVAC and some other popular bug fix mods, then it’ll run better than any other fallout game. People love this game and have been fixing it for years.

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        Nowadays IMO the best way to play is to install

        https://taleoftwowastelands.com/faq

        https://thebestoftimes.moddinglinked.com/

        That guide explains how to install. It includes the most important stability and QoL mods for modern systems, and brings the features of new Vegas (like aim down sights or hardcore mode) to fallout 3.

        You can choose to play through fallout 3, and then through the story have that character become the new vegas courier, or start right in new Vegas like a standard save and travel to the capital wasteland if you’d like.

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          This is great, if you’re on Linux you can just use Mod Organizer 2 as well. It’s pretty intuitive once you understand what the UI elements mean and it’s very stable. Just don’t update it because it only supports one version currently ha.

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        do NOT use NVAC it’ll make the game crash more nowadays use new vegas tick fix

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      Except for some crashs i found the reason, i never had serious bugs

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      Fallout 3 i can understand but Fallout 4 god no. Every great things in FNV were removed in Fallout 4

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        I have some opinions about 4, but nothing like the vitriol you feel towards it lol. Could I get an example of some things they removed in your opinion?

        My complaints mostly boil down to how mediocre the story, world, and characters are. But I can’t think of anything they removed necessarily, just poorly implemented