Hahah. Yes, I believe I'm fairly alone with that perspective.Jaedar wrote:Someone just said Fallout3 is more faithful to the series than New Vegas.
I think I've seen everything now.
But don't misunderstand me: It's both more and less faithful. New Vegas is considerably more hardcore in its game mechanics, but it's still very far from how hardcore fallouts 1 and 2 were.
NV railroads you during the beginning of the game; F3 doesn't.
In NV, you can find everything of import by simply following the road. In FO3, you need to actually talk to people to get locations. You don't merely stumble your way through things; you're looking for something, and it's location isn't obvious.
The thematics are much closer to the former fallouts. You're a vault dweller, and FEV plays a part, there's super mutants and super mutant production, vaults aren't simply dungeons but actually serve a purpose and some are still inhabited, you're on a quest of actual importance to you... Not to mention that the world has moved on and is constituting government, whereas the old fallouts are almost completely lawless, apart from city-states.
Nearly all of the ways in which NV is less like the old fallouts than F3 is a big improvement however. In fact, I think trying to be like the old fallouts is the biggest problem for F3 - it could easily have been much more of a game onto itself, set in the same universe but with different and more original problems, just like NV is, instead of a rehash of the old games. The worst part is, I think the reason Bethesda didn't do this is because they tried to please the very vocal, hardcore fallout fanbase, who they obviously could never please anyway, and who as a whole have no idea what makes them like specific games and hate others.
The places where NV is more like the old fallouts is in the way it was made, and the ideas that went into it. The take away is a much more wholesome piece of narrative and game mechanics - it's designed to be good sci-fi, not to please internet trolls. It's much more subtle, like the older games, unlike F3 that was blatantly copying things without regard for making it fit together.
It's a supperior product because of these things, and in many ways it plays much more like the older games than F3 - but there is far fewer superficial similarities.