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General Category => Off the Record => Gaming HQ => Topic started by: Pedrito on November 28, 2013, 05:27:56 AM

Poll
Question: Which game should I buy from Steam?
Option 1: TES: Oblivion + addons (which ones?) votes: 1
Option 2: TES: Skyrim + addons (which ones?) votes: 11
Option 3: Fallout 3 + addons (which ones?) votes: 0
Option 4: Fallout: New Vegas + addons (which ones?) votes: 5
Option 5: None of the above, get Kerbal Space Program isntead votes: 3
Title: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Pedrito on November 28, 2013, 05:27:56 AM
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.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Tamas on November 28, 2013, 06:06:29 AM
New Vegas and Skyrim. But if you HAVE to choose, then New Vegas.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Caliga on November 28, 2013, 06:23:07 AM
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  :cool: )
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Josquius on November 28, 2013, 07:44:59 AM
Fallout 3 > New Vegas
I'm not sure on where Oblivion fits in.
Never played Skyrim.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Grey Fox on November 28, 2013, 07:59:57 AM
KSP is awesome.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: grumbler on November 28, 2013, 08:06:31 AM
Quote from: Caliga on November 28, 2013, 06:23:07 AM
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  :cool: ) 

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.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Pedrito on November 28, 2013, 09:31:07 AM
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.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: 11B4V on November 28, 2013, 12:22:31 PM
Buy them all. Look for the GOTY editions
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: Pedrito on December 01, 2013, 12:40:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: grumbler on December 01, 2013, 03:35:17 PM
Quote from: Pedrito on December 01, 2013, 12:40:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: Should I choose a Bethesda game...
Post by: DontSayBanana on December 03, 2013, 09:37:28 PM
Skyrim for sheer scale and open-ended play.  Especially if you pick up Dragonborn and Dawnguard.  Hearthfire is an interesting gimmick, but meh overall.