Fallout 3 or Oblivion

[Tomboy Fan]

have a limited budget, which one do you guys prefer?? also, which one has more good mods?

[Brandybuck]

Originally posted by KaiTenSatsuma:

Either walk like a pleb, or jury-rig an athleticism buff spell that wouldn't kill you.

When I was a kid we took our giant flea to school. Uphill in the school. Both ways.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

Originally posted by cyäegha:

Originally posted by KaiTenSatsuma:

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nice non-sequitir

Pretty sure I didn't say that, nor even made any edits to a post like that.

[Enemy of the PLZ]

If you get fallout 3 get new Vegas as well and dl the tale of two wastelands mod. You won't be disappointed. Personally I enjoy oblivion more but either way they're both solid games.

[Bansheebutt]

I still come back to oblivion occassionally after all these hours and years.

Haven't touched 3 since New Vegas came out.

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by KaiTenSatsuma:

Pretty sure I didn't say that, nor even made any edits to a post like that.

okay, in simple terms then

my statement was referring to scripting practices
your statement, aimed at me, was irrelevant to the topic at hand, and tried to infer something from nothing

[Not Revan]

Originally posted by Brobot The VIII:

have a limited budget, which one do you guys prefer?? also, which one has more good mods?

I would say oblivion. But responding to your question about the leveling system. No, its much different than Skyrims system. Oblivion is closer to a classic D&D system. By no means is it a D&D system, but its way closer than Skyrim.

The way it works is you pick a class, or make your own at the start of the game. The class has two "favorite" that could be anything from Strenght, Enduance, Speed, Agility, Personality, Intelligence, willpower, or luck.

A class also has 7 major skills. Each attribute (other than luck) governs three skills in the game. For example strenght governs the skills: Blade, Blunt, and Hand to Hand. The class you pick, or create will have 7 major skills. These major skills are skills that will contribute to your characters level. Thats where people start to get turned off. If you want to level up, you can only level up by leveling up your "Major skills". If you never picked destruction magic as a major skill (therefore making it a minor skill) you will not level up by using destruction spells. You will get better with destruction. But your overall character level will not increase.

Lastly, actually leveling up works like this. When you have increased enough major skills a message has appeared telling you to rest and meditate on what you have learned. Once you sleep. The level up screen will appear and you will get to increase 3 attributes. The amount of points you can increase an attribute by depends on how much you increased the skills under it by to a maximum of 5. For example if I level up hand to hand 10 times. And then sleep to level up my character. I will be able to put 5 points into strenght.

Heres a chart for further reference:


0 skill increases, then you will get one point for picking that attribute
1-4 skill increases, then you will get two points for that attribute
5-7 skill increases, then you get three points for that attribute
8-9 skill increases, then you get four points
10+ skill increases, then you get five points for your selected attribute

It sounds like alot I know. But you'll get the hang of it I promise!

[Starbug]

Difficult one. Both are excellent. In terms of value for money, there's probably more to do in Oblivion.

[Southpawe]

Fallout 3 may have less mods, but it is much easier to install mods in Fallout 3 than Oblivion. (due to the fact you can just use NMM for Fallout 3)

[Southpawe]

Originally posted by Andreas Slavicus:

Originally posted by Southpawe:

Fallout 3 may have less mods, but it is much easier to install mods in Fallout 3 than Oblivion. (due to the fact you can just use NMM for Fallout 3)

You can use NMM for Oblivion too.

The difference is that mods for Fallout 3 actually work with NMM, plenty of Oblivion mods will not install through NMM. I was tempted to just use NMM for Oblivion modding but after looking at all the mods it could'nt install I decided to give TESMM another go.

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by Andreas Slavicus:

I wouldn't say it's difficult as much as it is time consuming, because of all the double-checking.

i would just say it's best practice to use one of the more powerful suites on principle, unless you're only using a handful of mods

if you start slamming overhauls and other large or intricate mods together, you literally need to know how to use wrye bash, or you're in for it

[Zenith]

Originally posted by Goat-Man:

Originally posted by Brobot The VIII:

have a limited budget, which one do you guys prefer?? also, which one has more good mods?

I would say oblivion. But responding to your question about the leveling system. No, its much different than Skyrims system. Oblivion is closer to a classic D&D system. By no means is it a D&D system, but its way closer than Skyrim.

The way it works is you pick a class, or make your own at the start of the game. The class has two "favorite" that could be anything from Strenght, Enduance, Speed, Agility, Personality, Intelligence, willpower, or luck.

A class also has 7 major skills. Each attribute (other than luck) governs three skills in the game. For example strenght governs the skills: Blade, Blunt, and Hand to Hand. The class you pick, or create will have 7 major skills. These major skills are skills that will contribute to your characters level. Thats where people start to get turned off. If you want to level up, you can only level up by leveling up your "Major skills". If you never picked destruction magic as a major skill (therefore making it a minor skill) you will not level up by using destruction spells. You will get better with destruction. But your overall character level will not increase.

Lastly, actually leveling up works like this. When you have increased enough major skills a message has appeared telling you to rest and meditate on what you have learned. Once you sleep. The level up screen will appear and you will get to increase 3 attributes. The amount of points you can increase an attribute by depends on how much you increased the skills under it by to a maximum of 5. For example if I level up hand to hand 10 times. And then sleep to level up my character. I will be able to put 5 points into strenght.

Heres a chart for further reference:


0 skill increases, then you will get one point for picking that attribute
1-4 skill increases, then you will get two points for that attribute
5-7 skill increases, then you get three points for that attribute
8-9 skill increases, then you get four points
10+ skill increases, then you get five points for your selected attribute

It sounds like alot I know. But you'll get the hang of it I promise!

And then because the game designers were morons you have to put the skills you want to actually use as minors and the less used skills as majors because everything and everyone levels up with you. So you're actually better off not levelling up at all or very, very slowly.

[Guts]

I would get Oblivion I have both on PC and console but I like Oblivion way more than Fallout 3, I would get Oblivion.