This one's a tough call, but I'm going to have to go with The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion over both Fallout 3 and Mass Effect. I think what it really comes down to for me is that the world of Oblivion is just beautiful. You can really lose yourself in it. I mean you're walking along and find yourself in the middle of a field next to a forest and you're just like wow this just looks fantastic. I know, I know, it's all about "teh gameplay," but when choosing between these three games, for me, it comes down to Oblivion's environment. Mass Effect has by far the best story of the three, but that pointless driving around of the Mako on barren planet after barren planet just to go through a button pressing exercise to open the 100th crashed space probe gets to be just too much sometimes. And Fallout 3, well, I've played the hell out of Fallout 3, maybe a bit too much, so I'm a little tired of it now. Fallout 3 has it's own beauty of sorts, but compared to Oblivion, that DC wasteland environment just gets you down sometimes. Plus, between Oblivion and Fallout 3, I think I prefer Oblivion's gameplay. Spells, archery, and hack and slash combat verse guns, I guess I just think the former is a little more interesting, though I think playing an Elder Scrolls game with a V.A.T.S. like system could be very interesting.
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