Should I choose a Bethesda game...

[Pedrito]

Steam sale's up, and as usual it makes me want to burn some money, so:

- I never played a Bethesda game
- I don't like First Person, I'll surely play the game with a third person perspective.
- I hate mouse+keyboard, the combination strains my wrists, so I'll play with a controller (Logitech Rumblepad)
- all of the games are on sale these days, many of them with the GOTY edition that includes most of the addons
- the gaming rig is pretty good if not properly new: i5-2500, 8GB RAM, GeForce 560GT.
- mods will be heavily used, and will be discussed after the choice is made.

Thanks

L.

[Tamas]

New Vegas and Skyrim. But if you HAVE to choose, then New Vegas.

[Caliga]

Disagree.  Both are great, but Skyrim is the greatest CRPG of all time.  I mentioned in another thread that I've been playing it (with varying degrees of intensity) pretty much since it first came out.  I was playing it last night, in fact (it runs perfectly smoothly on max settings on my new PC  )

[Josquius]

Fallout 3 > New Vegas
I'm not sure on where Oblivion fits in.
Never played Skyrim.

[Grey Fox]

KSP is awesome.

[grumbler]

Disagree.  Both are great, but Skyrim is the greatest CRPG of all time.  I mentioned in another thread that I've been playing it (with varying degrees of intensity) pretty much since it first came out.  I was playing it last night, in fact (it runs perfectly smoothly on max settings on my new PC  ) 

Agree that Skyrim's a better game than NV (which is, in turn, much better than FO3, which is better than Oblivion), but there are a lot of great mods for FONV, and not so many for Skyrim yet.

It really probably comes down to which fictional world he is more interested in: classic fantasy, or post-apocalyptic.

[Pedrito]

I like both the settings, with a slight preference for post-apocalyptic. I'd give FO the edge because of the long range combat, that I prefer when playing real time combat games, too.

L.

[11B4V]

Buy them all. Look for the GOTY editions

[Pedrito]

Ok, I'm gonna buy FNV (plus addons) and leave Skyrim for the Christmas sale. If I get the right discount, I could pull the trigger on Fallout 3 GOTY, too.

Can I play it vanilla, or are there any absolutely necessary mods?

L.

[grumbler]

Ok, I'm gonna buy FNV (plus addons) and leave Skyrim for the Christmas sale. If I get the right discount, I could pull the trigger on Fallout 3 GOTY, too.

Can I play it vanilla, or are there any absolutely necessary mods?

L.

I'd play NV vanilla the first time through. 

Fallout 3 needs the Fallout Wanderer's Edition (from which Obsidian shamelessly stole) for things like hunger and thirst, and to avoid the trench warfare style combat, where everybody takes a dozen bullets to go down.

[DontSayBanana]

Skyrim for sheer scale and open-ended play.  Especially if you pick up Dragonborn and Dawnguard.  Hearthfire is an interesting gimmick, but meh overall.