What are the benefits of GOTY?

[green]

Apart from obviously having the dlcs what do they offer such as total play time added or items and areas added to the map?
I've decided to take the risk and buy a Fallout 3 even though the fixes aren't 100% going to work.

[CALDAWGZ]

From a fan and someone whose beaten them all twice on console they add so much content, weapons items and the areas stories and characters are rather nice, worth every cent

[Baby Red ☭]

The main benefit apart from the others mentioned above is that with the game of the year edition u can continue to play even after the main mission storyline ends, which wasnt possible if u only have the main game.

[green]

Originally posted by CALDAWGZzz:

From a fan and someone whose beaten them all twice on console they add so much content, weapons items and the areas stories and characters are rather nice, worth every cent

I own NV on the console and would playing 3 too make it feel like I'm playing the same game?
I've only bought NV a couple of weeks ago

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Originally posted by ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º):

Originally posted by CALDAWGZzz:

From a fan and someone whose beaten them all twice on console they add so much content, weapons items and the areas stories and characters are rather nice, worth every cent

I own NV on the console and would playing 3 too make it feel like I'm playing the same game?
I've only bought NV a couple of weeks ago

Nope. I played New Vegas like you, first, and then got 3 and I have to agree when the majority of critics rate and call Fallout 3 the better of the two games.

New Vegas is set in a desert with tons of inhabited houses and communities that seem well-off.
Fallout 3 is set in an urban wasteland where everything's "hit hard". You can tell it's an apocalpyse and there's a lot of abandonment.

Instead of a courier; you're a vault dweller who is not on a revenge mission but a personal story.

From there, this is all my opinion: Fallout 3 has fewer but more interesting side quests, next-to-none invisible walls, far less bugs and offers you a far better story and atmosphere. Travelling through tunnels and lonely, dark areas offering horror that you wouldn't experience in any other Fallout game. Also, Fallout 3 has a legendary introduction and does a far better job of "easing you into the wasteland for the first time".

Some of the gameplay is subtlely changed and lacks some of the modern game mechanics that New Vegas featured (the most obvious of which you'll notice: iron sights). Fallout 3 didn't have them but trust me; after a few hours you'll forget that. The gameplay is basically improved in New Vegas but somehow, and I wish I could explain this better, I liked the gameplay of Fallout 3 better. Not sure if it was the enemies, environments, etc. Fallout 3 feels stripped and changed in some ways (some new stuff in character creation you'll notice though) but it shouldn't negatively expect your experience in the slightest.

New Vegas had two great DLCs (but some were downright terrible while 3 only had 1 terrible DLC pack). So Fallout 3 GOTY --> Fallout New Vegas for me.

Playing-wise, both games are a mess. Fallout 3 needs a bit of fixing while New Vegas works "out of the box". New Vegas, however, has a ton more bugs and serious performance problems (the game behaves worse on my new, modern gaming rig than my laptop). Several of my friends can confirm this. Keep in mind I've tried pretty much every fix for New Vegas and 3. For 3 - 3 seems to play nicely once you get it working with a modern OS by use of several fixes available.

P.S. Die-hard fans will argue New Vegas is the better of the two because of few references to the original, top-down Fallout 1 and 2 and the classic "Fallout-y" humour... that was terribly executed though. Fallout 3 is an independent game but without it, I think Fallout 1 and 2 would have remained cult games IMHO. Fallout 3 made the Fallout universe important at the time, in a big way.

TL;DR - Same engine, very different games that have the apocalpyse in common, some factions the same (with different motivations, New Vegas' follow the lore's interpretation more correctly though) and similar gameplay. But they do feel like very different games and you're experience will be mostly different. Remember, I played New Vegas first (and Fallout 1 and 2 before that) and then 3 after.