I just finished fallout new vegas yesterday. I actually put about 20 hours into the game & decided the choices id made with the charecter were just not working and I also wanted too play it a bit differently. So I started the game over from the begninning and focused on melee weapons and unarmed. and I got alot futher alot quicker and found it much easyer this way. So I just went around killing absolutely everything in site and eventually reached the part where yes man has taken over mr house in the casino without doing any missons atall. Then the game made me do 5 missons before I could get any futher with the main quest, once that was done I went straight for the last part of the main quest. I managed to finish it pretty easy using the melee weapons instead of any of the guns etc. So Id say if anyone is struggiling give up on the guns, I also found the sneak to be pretty useless too.

In some ways it felt a bit like a gta sort of game, because most of the game seems to be focused upon working between all the different gangs which I dont think suited it too much. Its not that fallout 3 was really any better I think its just they havent made any improvments since fallout 3. The graphics are still the game, still lots of minor glitches etc. After playing a couple of the other games last year it does come across as a bit out of date, it does feel like a 3 year old game in my opinion. Thing is though, nothing since fallout 3 has really come out to replace it so its still worth playing. Also I think if you literally just want to do the main quest the game seems to delibertly make it confusing as to what this might be and you can end up doing tons of stuff for the different gangs thinking your getting much futher but really your notprogressing the main quest atall.

I do think fallout 3 was just layed out alot better and a little more time and thought had gone into it. If I was going too say which one to get Id say fallout 3 if you havent played it already.