What makes Fallout New Vegas such a much better game than Fallout 3 or 4?

What makes Fallout New Vegas such a much better game than Fallout 3 or 4?

Caesar's Legion

Skills in dialogue
Skills opening up alternative methods of finishing quests
Reputation system
Consistent thematic writing
Good internal consistency
Callbacks to the original games

No dumb tacked on family plot that caters to normies.
You can actually roleplay your character if you kinda ignore the lonesome road

All Lonesome Road adds is "you did more than one job as a courier". It hardly stifles player backstory.

writing

Well yes, but it might go against your headcanon backstory that you established yourself.
Still it's miles better than "muh dad" and "muh son" shit

its an RPG

better story
better setting
consistent setting
better characters
companion wheel
ammo types
iron sights
survival mode
stop making this thread every day

>better setting
>better characters

lol no

Here you go buddy.

>runs on gamebryo
>good game

>>>/tumblr/

huh, no wonder i didn't like fallout 3

lol shitpost

Immersive world that was believable and explorable in a way the other two games don't even attempt
Three times as many quests not counting the way the main story was split up
Speaking of which, actually decision making in the main story
Huge thematic value
Interesting and expansive lore that stayed true to Fallout's history
Likable characters were everywhere
Game world wasn't structured around cool points and level scaling which at least invited the idea of high risk high reward
Art design was great
DLCs were great or at least better than the other two

So yeah, lot of stuff went really well, but it mostly comes back to talented and committed writers. Would have been amazing to see what they could've done if the game hadn't been rushed so much.

rude tbfh

I liked the exploration in fallout 3 more, but thats because I love exploring the same copy-pasted metro system for half the game!!!!!

seriously fuck Fallout 3

wait fallout 3 had over 15 weapons
i can remember like 20

>stretching so hard you pretend the van Graffs or Crimson Caravan are legitimate factions
Sad.

Reading this thread has made me very relieved that I didn't purchase Fallout 4 on Steam a few nights ago.

*150

Hey man I didn't make the image, but yeah that's still 12 factions over Fallout 3's 2 factions.
Fallout 4 isn't horrible by any means, but good lord do NOT buy it full price.

Your opinion

Memorable good characters.

Fallout 3 has.... well... Liberty Prime.
Fallout 4 has Nick. And maybe Cornflakes.

They definitely did better with 4 than 3.

>buying FO4
For what fucking purpose. You can get the game with all DLC for free on Qbittorrent you stupid goy.
Though even for free i felt ripped off after playing it.

Hey Hancock is pretty good.
And Curie is Purie.
don't buy Fallout 4