Question about Fallout 3.

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#1 Anterline
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After hearing all the troubles that Skyrim had. Does this game function as well as it would on the 360? What about New Vegas?

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#2 caketoo
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Ive played skyrim and for all i heard ive had about 3 freezes in over 70hours of play. When NV first came out it froze at least once a day for me, but once they started releasing patches for it, it got much better and the freezes became rare. F3 is going to freeze and depending on how much you play it,it could be every other day but as long as you SAVE OFTEN its tolerable. F3 was the only one of these games i played on 360 and I had plenty of freezes and crashes with it, no more or less then i had with the ps3 version.
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#3 MonkeySpot
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I've been playing it recently, it plays fine. There are the usual hiccups (bizarre camera angles during conversations, some weirdness here or there to a minor degree only), but it's payable. Just save often, and keep several saves in rotation.

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Buy and enjoy.

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#4 bluefunky
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I've recently replayed the entire Fallout 3 with 4 of the 5 DLC's and I didn't have a single freeze or crash! Fresh install. I put the disc in, fired it up, patched it, installed the DLC and played.
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#5 SoNin360
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Fallout 3 isn't bad until you get to playing the add-ons and have a large save file, though I think the latter is the main issue. Before I got the GOTY edition I had played Fallout 3 for 50+ hours and very few freezes. Once I got to playing the DLC, it froze a lot more and got worse the larger my file got (I have one at 16MB) I did eventually reinstall the game, and that seemed to help. Still enjoyed the game though despite the problems I faced. I don't think there's too much of a difference when it comes to the 360 vs. PS3 version. Maybe a few nitpicky things, but nothing to worry about. New Vegas has ran quite well for me after all of the patches it has received. Freezes are rare and there are a lot less issues compared to when it first released. Havn't gotten to the add-ons yet, but I'm hoping they don't cause my file freeze up more than in Fallout 3.
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#6 Anterline
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Thanks for all your replies, it was very helpful. Just purchased both Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

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#7 MonkeySpot
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Thanks for all your replies, it was very helpful. Just purchased both Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

Anterline

Good ****.

Hope everything runs well for you, and remember to save a LOT. It's an interesting game. I'm not that into it, honestly, but I seem to be in a very small minority.

:)

Don't take no **** from them Raiders!

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#8 bluefunky
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Play Vegas first. 3 is the better game and playing 3 first might leave you feeling duped slightly. Saying that though they are both amazing games!
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#9 Jackc8
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Fallout 3 was okay. Frame rate was kind of sluggish, there's some odd bugs that don't affect gameplay here and there, and it froze on me, I dunno, 15 times maybe in 100 hours. I had the plain version, not GOTY, and once I downloaded the Broken Steel DLC it seemed like the amount of bugs shot up a bit.

New Vegas was pretty much fine after the mega patch. Froze about 3 or 4 times in 100 hours. A few bugs but they were fairly rare actually. Nothing that affected gameplay.

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#10 SoNin360
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[QUOTE="bluefunky"]Play Vegas first. 3 is the better game and playing 3 first might leave you feeling duped slightly. Saying that though they are both amazing games!

I would say play 3 first. New Vegas feels refined in a few significant ways (better aiming, many more factions and characters to interact with, and the companion wheel to name a few) I would agree that Fallout 3 is the better game, but not by a whole lot. But it might feel like a step down if you play New Vegas first. Still, I would say Fallout 3 has overall a better atmosphere, which may not sound like much, but it really makes a difference.
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#11 unrealtron
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I patched new vegas and it works just fine. I do not know about Fallout 3
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#12 campzor
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i played fallout 3 at launch...and bought the GOTY edition a year later....and there wasnt anything wrong with either..
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#13 ra84ma
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Fallout 3 is a great game..

a lil bug, or weird camera angles sooometimes, not much as i played. is not reason to complain or not get a great game like this ;D

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#14 CTR360
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fallout 3 and fallout vegas its great games