Which is the best Game, Skyrim or Fallout 4?

[Win2000Fan]

First I need to mention that I am posting this question in both Skyrim and Fallout 4 Steam discussions. I want to see how people respond to this question in both places. I realize there will be people in both discussion sites that have never played the other game but for those of you who have not played the other game your thoughts are welcomed. Both games are written by Bethesda and both games use the same game engine. There is enough similarity between the two games that I have adapted to game play very comfortably in Fallout 4. Last this is only my opinion and that’s all.

So in my humble opinion which game is better? The answer, hands down, is Skyrim. Still in my humble opinion Skyrim is a world class AAA game and the reason I spent over a thousand hours playing it. It is without question my all time favorite computer game. Yes there is lot to do in Fallout 4 and it is fun but Fallout 4 feels like a game that was written to make money and lacks the passion the program writers put into Skyrim. Yes I know it is all about money but you would have to be very clueless to not see how Skyrims writers spent hours and hours planning, writing and programming this game along with the wonderful art work, music and yes to some extent, story and there is no question, they loved putting their time into it. I do not feel that kind of love coming from Fallout 4.


There are two things that come to my mind that makes Skyrim great for me personally that no other computer game can put a candle to. No other game has had this impact on me personally and my gaming experience goes all the way back to the mid nineties. The first and most important Skyrim experience happened to me only once but it stands out so strong. It was a Dragon kill moment. I shot an arrow at a Dragon who was after me and it must went right into the Dragons heart while he was in the air flying at me. He collapsed fell to the ground and stopped dead right at the very front of my feet. I was breathless till the dust cleared. The next experience is on a more personal level. My Lake View Manor home. I spent close to a month building this in game home and it must have cost close to a half a million peaces of gold coin. Because of its high cost and like bottle caps, gold coin is not that easy to come by in Skyrim. I built it a section at a time. Only a long time playing Skyrimmer will understand this experience. I designed it, black smithed all the nails, door hinges and all other hardware. I went out dug up the stone and clay to help build the home. The home itself is two stories but it also has a three story library tower that over looks the beautiful lake and mountains while I read my Skyrim books. I also can not forget, the complete metal smithing equipment in the cellar.

As fun as Fallout 4 is, there is no shining moment like those two moments from Skyrim. In fact Fallout 4 is about my forth favorite computer game. Maybe I might change my mind after I put in another hundred hours or so but at this point I just do not see it. However, to Fallout 4 credit it is fun enough that I see myself spending as much as maybe 500 hours on the game before I get tired. But over a thousand hours like I did in Skyrim, I do not see it, or at least not yet.

Please what are your thoughts. Thanks for reading.

[Frostbite]

Skyrim is a bit old compared to fallout 4(even though they have been made with the same engine). A bit fairer question would be 'Skyrim or Fallout NV?'. For me its fallout 4, all the way. But they are from different themes, therefore its quite hard to compare them without setting up a filter first, like gameplay wise or story wise etc. To my humble opinion, i find both series(except their first and/or second games) incompotent to give the real feeling of their selected themes(post-apocalyptia and medieval fantasy) and inept to actually project the world and general lore/story to the players(metro and witcher did both of these things in a near perfect manner for example, similar themes as well). So i cant quite bring myself to love or like any bethesda related game because they are all inept and incompotent like that. Its about general design of the games. Moment you lost your scene potency and theatricality in a video game, you lost your player's attention. It all turns into a powerplay 'mine is bigger' feckery from then.

[Pinger]

Skyrim I wanted Oblivion level of quests / customisation / things to do, never got them
FO4 same issue with 3

Devs can't rebottle the first golden instance of a game, they try and come close but remakes or sequels are generally not as good.

But you are now trying to compare two different beasts, might as well ask cat or dog

[MadMek]

Skyrim was more fun the first time around, but settlement mechanics and better combat give FO4 more replayability.

[Samuro]

Since Skyrim was only fun at the beginning and after 100 hours you realize theres absolutely no interesting story, characters or gameplay to discover i go definitely for Fallout 4.

[hawkeye]

Skyrim was a great adventure in a Viking-esque world just waiting to be explored. You can't beat that. Plot twists and turns. Massive "Dungeons and Draugrs". The dungeons were great, even hunting for mineral deposits was fun. It's a great game until you get to the Greybeards and College of Winterhold parts.

FO4 is less about the adventure but more about mucking around with mods looking for something interesting.

I did get into "settlement building" in Skyrim. I built 10 and had about 80 "settlers" living in them. Jaxonz Positioner let you pick up any object and take it home. So my LakeView manor had props looted from dungeons like dwarven gas lamps lining the road to and along the lake. Another settlement had a fort, a farm, a brewery. I travelled by boat down one of the rivers until I got killed going over a waterfall. Who didn't like fighting the bandit chief and knocking him off the narrow bridge at robber's gorge, or the jurgen windcaller quest (someone pinched the horn), or whats-her-name's ghost or even Lydia?

[Count Von Count]

I preferred Oblivion to Skyrim, and Fallout 3/NV to 4... so I would really pick any of those over these two

I believe Skyrim to beat Fallout 4, since Skyrim, while dumbed down as an RPG, was still an actual RPG. I never found Fallout 4 to be a real player driven RPG, and it could have been so good and missed the mark by both so little and so far

[Galactic Origins]

both games are good, and very different
both have a lot of footwork while travelling
both have fast travel once a place is discovered
skyrim is fantasy (swords and spells), fallout is guns

I play both
I think I enjoy fallout better, it has better character skill progression
(I like training my character in games, fallout is a tad better than skyrim for that)

[Win2000Fan]

Another issue I have with Fallout 4 relates to what I said in my opening question. Fallout 4 feels rushed into production to make a profit. Example, any of you explore any of those crashed airliners out there in the commonwealth of Fallout 4? Notice that there is no cockpit of any kind. Nothing, zero, nada, zip. I mean there is not even a pilot seat. All they had to do is design one generic complete cockpit for the different airliners and most people would not have notice the difference. Sorry folks but that is lazy program writing. How about checking out the inside of those cool looking 1960's retro cars. Where's the cool retro dashboards? It spells rushed into production. Skyrim says, I was written by a master craftaman who wants to make money on his work but is proud of what he/she did. Fallout 4 says I was written by a Banker who wants to turn a profit.

[Minty]

Remarkably different games in terms of settling. Too many variables. Both pretty damn good, especially once fully modded to your taste.

[ah, salmonn]

Oblivion remake with upgraded fallout 4 engine would be decent.

[Omario]

Skyrim is the better game, but Fallout 4 requires much less in the way of modding to fix the usual Bethesda slew of bugs. And that counts for a lot.

[danconnors]

Fallout 4 gets my vote hands down. The reason is the clunky, awful, control system used in Skyrim. If you decide you want to use the left mouse key for forward movement, you are given no end of trouble. Thank God Bethesda did away with that nonsense for Fallout 4. I got tired of having to go on the internet every time I acquired one of those stupid claw keys.

I recieved no end of "tough break" s from the Skyrim crowd when I complained about the controls. In addition the original game had a very bad habit of breaking down and tossing silverware and dishes in all directions if your frame rate exceeded 60. It was not meant to be played on a modern computer. The special edition that came out in 2016 did away with the frame rate problem, but insisted in perpetuating the nonsense with the controls.

This ended up making the game a giant pain in the behind to play. I played a character up to level 48 in expert mode, then gave it up as being more trouble than it was worth. So, sorry, but I don't recommend Skyrim as a good game to play

[trey]

Fallout is better in every aspect. I never followed or played bethesda games so I had no expectations with fallout 4. I didn't even know what fallout was tbh. And I did uninstall it after ~25 hours because the vanilla game is hot dump truck garbage juice and I still wouldn't recommend it for PS4 players...but with mods it's one of my favorites.

I tried Skyrim because people kept saying its better but I uninstalled it the same day I bought it. I played WoW for like 9 years so Skyrim's story wasn't anything new or impressive, and at this point I don't care to hear another d&d story (or any story for that matter), I care more about combat and graphics.

Fallout 4 had those things on top of companions, settlement building, funny dialogue and story, and of course a good modding community. Playing fallout 4 first I tried other Bethesda games and all of them felt like downgrades. I tried Skyrim, fo3 and new vegas and they were worse by a landslide. I honestly don't get how people can even compare them.

[IXI Shaun]

Skyrim by far is better fallout 4 is bug central

[gdgsratmtv]

For what each game is both are Best in that genre. Just like the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is an inland big city, Fallout NV is a desert city, Fallout 4 is a coastal big city, each game is different because of the location, the peoples quirks are different, so one game can't be compared to an other. When playing games like these, dig out a real map of the gaming area and see where you are.