Fallout 3 vs Fallout 4

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

Is fallout 4 far harbor the best dlc in the fallout universe?

 

[Butter]

Is fallout 4 far harbor the best dlc in the fallout universe?

It's probably the best Bethesda-made Fallout DLC, but it's still worse than the story DLCs for New Vegas (even Old World Blues).

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Old World Blues is good but it feels so odd in the context of New Vegas, even though it has important plot details leading to Lonesome Road. Still, it could've been a separate game. It's like 25 hours long on its own, probably the longest DLC for New Vegas.

 

[9ted6]

Old World Blues is good but it feels so odd in the context of New Vegas, even though it has important plot details leading to Lonesome Road. Still, it could've been a separate game. It's like 25 hours long on its own, probably the longest DLC for New Vegas.

Disagree there, I don't even like New Vegas but OWB feels insulting. It's just nonstop jokes that aren't funny the first time and definitely not funny the 100th time you hear them set to a backdrop of bullet sponge enemies. It also makes no sense that this hyperadvanced basket of tech has sat untouched and unnoticed by the Enclave, the Brotherhood, and House for centuries. Of all the DLCs it's the one where Obsidian didn't give a single fuck and just phoned it all in.

 

[Lemming42]

The argument with your own brain is the only good part in OWB. The jokes throughout are absolutely abysmal though, completely laugh-free. Big MT is such a boring-ass place to explore too.

Of the other Fo3/NV DLCs:

Boring Steel - awful, a DLC so bad it retroactively ruins the base game by messing with enemy spawn lists. Only worthwhile thing it does is add some post-game C&C that nobody cares about
The Shitt - good idea, boring to play
Mothership Gayta - terrible. I don't even mind the aliens, it's just boring as fuck
Operation Wankerage - zzZzzZZzz
Point Fuckout - I like this one quite a bit, the shootout in the mansion with the crazy bastards breaking in is genuinely one of the cooler things on the Gamebryo engine, and the part where you get a lobotomy is amusing

Dead(bored of playing Dead)Money - good but the writing gets pretty tedious and pompous toward the end, and the fun pretty much stops gameplay-wise as soon as you get inside the Sierra Madre
Honest Sharts - some interesting story and a few good characters, Graham obviously and I like Waking Cloud, but fucking hell it starts to drag, I couldn't get out of that canyon quick enough
(Should have)Loaned Some(better writers for this DLC) Road - zZZzz, boring combat and listening to Ulysses voice Chris' meta-complaints about the Fallout franchise is unbearable

 

[Zlaja]

Getting materials for my little towns gives me more enjoyment than finding out where the fuck my son is

- Have you seen my son? A middle-aged guy.

 

[SharkClub]

Boring Steel - awful, a DLC so bad it retroactively ruins the base game by messing with enemy spawn lists. Only worthwhile thing it does is add some post-game C&C that nobody cares about

Amusingly, Broken Steel is one of the "good DLCs" of Fallout 3 that I see people mention, and the only reason that is ever cited for this is that it "fixes" the game ending at the end and not having a post-game to finish quests in and raises the level cap. In reality it is a fucking awful and retarded blockbuster sci-fi action movie conclusion to an already awful and retarded story. What's more is that the way it handles continuing on from the end of the final quest in the vanilla game is absolutely nonsensical. If you don't heroically sacrifice yourself then you get berated for having someone else do it even after spending the entire game doing the heavy lifting every step of the way, if you do heroically sacrifice yourself then you inexplicably live perfectly fine despite massive radiation poisoning that would probably make your skin start to slough off. It's common among the ever-shrinking fanbase of Fallout 3 to point at Mothershit Zeta and Operation Anchorage as the "bad ones" and Broken Steel and Point Lookout as the "good ones", with The Pitt somewhere in-between. Broken Steel really has more in common with Operation Anchorage than it does with the vanilla game, and I think everyone agreed even back then that Operation Anchorage was trying too hard to be a linear military first-person shooter campaign in the most dogshit engine imaginable for one.

 

[Ryzer]

Old world blues is a terrible DLC, filled with cringe reddit tier writing, among a stupid plot, main quest, and horrible re-skinned enemies. The only joy coming out of this is having content to do other than wandering in the boring empty dried-out open-world in new Vegas.

 

[undecaf]

They’re both shit for the same, but also sime different reasons.

Shit is shit, no matter how you explain it.

 

[Just Locus]

 

[Gahbreeil]

If Fallout: New Vegas was actually done after Fallout 4, it would be a perfect game. I mean it. Some of the innovations in Fallout 4, and I don't mean the settlement building, you cannot do without after playing it.

So, play New Vegas first, Fallout 4 afterwards. The story and the dialogues of 4 are not too thrilling but it is an improved New Vegas in terms of gameplay.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Both are worth playing. FO3 has a lot better writing.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Both are worth playing. FO3 has a lot better writing.

Have you seen my dad? Middle aged guy.

 

[Doctor Gong]

The only good part of Fallout 3 is Point Lookout.

Fallout 4 does a great sin by locking the player into playing a specific person, and outside of the occasional fun mission I rather explore, do settlement building, and just poke around.

Fallout New Vegas is its own beast which I really enjoy.

 

[quaesta]

New Vegas is better because I can shoot everyone and I get bunch of guns. I just play that game like shitty Postal 2 and have a good time in it.