Skyrim or Fallout 4 for VR?

[Bullett00th]

Seeing as both games cost a penny, I'm willing to get one for the time being, very curious about how Bethesda handled the whole VR thing.

Therefore the question for those who tried both experiences:
which of the two is the more complete, immersive, stable and smooth experience?


I know Skyrim is highly moddable and that's a plus, while Fallout sounds like the more logical gameplay option with guns and whatnot (Skyrim VR combat looks terribly basic to the point of breaking immersion).

Any advice much appreciated.

[Grestorn]

Matter of Taste. You need a strong PC to handle Fallout 4 VR.

I had loads of fun with both games. Many people seem to prefer Skyrim, but gameplay-wise I prefer Fallout 4.

Both work well enough with VR, even though some people might disagree with me :)

[Bullett00th]

I have a beefy enough machine: GTX1080, i7 7700k, 16 GB RAM.

Right now it's not as much about my gameplay preference as it is about how well the experience works in VR, because I've heard of various technical issues with both versions.

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by Noobs Holocaust:

But I prefer F4 for different reasons.

Could you elaborate please?

[chuck]

Personal pref is Fallout 4 VR. It beats out Skyrim by a small margin mainly due to how it feels. Lots of connections to the real world in that there are no magic or dragons. Building settlements and running companion quests also suits me a lot more. Stable and smooth are hard to quantify. I ended up having to upgrade my system a bit (my better half was happy that I could re-use my old case, keyboard & mouse) but coming off an i7 3770, R9 390 I was running both games O.K. but FO4 was harder to get good visuals and smooth play.

[viceVR]

I have both and everyday I face this very same problem.

[Kainite]

I have both and skyrim runs better no doubt. I am useing a GTX 970 and it slugs with Fallout and works perfectly with skyrim. I just ordered a GTX 1080 so im hoping for better results. Question to anybody - will my new gtx 1080 work much better than my gtx 970 or will the differance be small?

[Plato’s Gooncave]

From a functional standpoint I prefer Skyrim. It runs much betters and with fewer bugs in vanilla mode. I have not even modded it since the vanilla mode is working fine and the character face models are the cleaned up version seen in the special edition

Fallout 4 was super buggy on release and has gotten better but it is still far below what should be acceptable. I run it with mods since the vanilla weapons are trash. Fallout 4 VR is the most finiky and buggy game I've played in VR. It is super difficult to work with for modders. I love the shooting mechanic when it works right which keeps me coming back. Bethesda jsut leaves finishing their broken and unfinished games to the modding community. This is fine except for the fact that they are unsupportive of modding. The amount of troubleshooting it takes to run mods for fallout is unacceptable.

In short Skyrim is recommended and Fallout is buyer beware. They don't even have the DLC for Fallout working in VR yet.

[Kainite]

agreed

[Nogix Snr]

Game Play : User preferance so its either bow and arrows or guns.

Performance : Skyrim smooth as butter all high settings, FO4 stutter heaven even with low settings.

[Despiser]

When fallout came out I posted Skyrim would use what they learned from that launch plus the ps version and apply it to Skyrim vr for pc. This is why it’s better. But it’s a stretch to say they’re mod unfriendly when they’re the most modable games ever produced. People commonly use hundreds of mods (I use 10-12) on a mid-spec computer.

[MowTin]

Get Skyrim first because maybe later the DLC will be released for FO4 VR or some fix will be found for the DLC issues. The DLC is a huge part of FO4. You can create your own robot companion and there so many settlement building options. There are a few more major quests and new weapons.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Seeing as both games cost a penny, I'm willing to get one for the time being, very curious about how Bethesda handled the whole VR thing.

Therefore the question for those who tried both experiences:
which of the two is the more complete, immersive, stable and smooth experience?


I know Skyrim is highly moddable and that's a plus, while Fallout sounds like the more logical gameplay option with guns and whatnot (Skyrim VR combat looks terribly basic to the point of breaking immersion).

Any advice much appreciated.

I love both. They both have different playstyles and feels to them. Dystopia vs. wilderness, guns vs. magic and melee, etc.

[larry.nog]

Yeah, they scratch different itches for sure. The gun fights in F4, especially with a few mods to make them as deadly as they should, can be intense in VR. Found myself crouching physically behind wall, crawling on the floor under a truck to kneecap raiders by surprise... It's awesome.
Skyrim however fulfills the fantasy, blasting spells left and right, the adventures,...
Technically speaking however, Skyrim is better at the moment, smoother, comes with the DLCs and with few compromises. Fallout however runs barely good enough on the recommended rigs, has no DLCs officially and had to compromise on the scope mechanisms. Lack of two hand weapons handling is also more annoying in F4 than Skyrim IMO.

[Kurtino]

Personally, I felt that Skyrim was far too a dated game for me to enjoy. I did buy it, but quickly refunded it after I realised I did not want to return to the world of elder scrolls unless it was a newer title. I also found the melee combat to be very lackluster compared to other VR titles (obviously because it's very dated as well). Also I better note that I haven't tried any mods for both that might enhance anything, but I really don't think the player should have to modify games to improve them.

I also didn't like the environments in Skyrim (VR, I loved the environments when Skyrim first came out), which is the opposite of a lot of people's reactions strangely enough. For me it just felt unreal, like it resembled green, grass, forests and stuff, but didn't hit any marks for believability. For me personally, FalloutVR is more immersive to me because it is almost unbelievable, like a post-apocalyptic world, a what if scenario. It's hard to explain, but because it's something so unlike anything we would see in real life, it's more immersive.

I would go for FalloutVR, because in general I think it's theme/design is better suited for VR due to the focusing being on guns, which are always simple and fun. The problem at the moment however is that SkyrimVR is better designed for VR as its the newer game, whereas FalloutVR came out first and had a lot more problems at launch, and even now. There is a beta build that is implementing the additional VR support/fixes that Skyrim has, but I would wait until it's officially updated. As a Oculus user, I'm waiting in general as well because FalloutVR is basically unplayable without heavy user modification and no beta branch.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by larry.nog:

Yeah, they scratch different itches for sure. The gun fights in F4, especially with a few mods to make them as deadly as they should, can be intense in VR. Found myself crouching physically behind wall, crawling on the floor under a truck to kneecap raiders by surprise... It's awesome.
Skyrim however fulfills the fantasy, blasting spells left and right, the adventures,...
Technically speaking however, Skyrim is better at the moment, smoother, comes with the DLCs and with few compromises. Fallout however runs barely good enough on the recommended rigs, has no DLCs officially and had to compromise on the scope mechanisms. Lack of two hand weapons handling is also more annoying in F4 than Skyrim IMO.

The DLCs work fine if you already own them for Fallout 4. There are tons of How-tos out there to get your addons to work with Fallout 4 VR. It's basically the same as it was for Skyrim VR, but with two extra lines in another file. That's really it.