I played 3 on the PS3 and New Vegas on the PC- the former didn\'t work at all on my PC for some reason.
I\'m glad someone else was willing to admit to liking Fallout 3\'\'.
I haven\'t actually played Fallout 4, I\'ll admit, but in a vacuum one of my biggest problems is that it took a bunch of things I liked in Fallout 3 and did horrible violence to them to try to please the angry 1 and 2 fans who were never going to like it anyway.
Among the list of complaints I'd throw in the poorly written dialogue choices. Whenever you are given some kind of dialogue choice that requires some kind of skill or attribute, then usually at least one of the following happens:
A) It's written in a way that anyone with even moderate intelligence should be able to say that, yet everyone treats it as a super intelligent thing to say;
B) It's a short sentence that somehow miraculously causes the NPC you're talking to to do an almost 180 degree change in personality, apparently wowed by your "incredible" speech skills and having seen things in a completely new light, instantly eager to drop their plans at the drop of a hat.
Valiona, it's probably your PC then. Either that or you didn't verify the integrity of the cache. Seriously, look it up. The PS 3 version of Fallout 3 and New Vegas is consistently ranked as the worst version.
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Very Good, Albeit Not As Much As New Vegas
Full Disclosure: I played Fallout New Vegas first, so some of my opinions might have been influenced by doing so.
Fallout 3 is a significant departure from its predecessors in many ways, and serves as the introduction to the series for an entirely new generation of fans. Some will ask whether those changes are necessarily good, and I say they are, even if New Vegas did most of them significantly better.
The plot involves you searching for your father, along with clues as to why he would leave your vault and not want you to follow him. It's a bit of a departure from the other games, because while you're free to act in any way you see fit, your character is less of a blank slate, having an established past. The game does a good job of getting you somewhat invested in your father and the rest of the vault, but apart from that, the rest of the plot and characters aren't quite as interesting as New Vegas.
The skill system from previous Fallout games returns, and grants you a great deal of freedom to customize your character. Perks are doled out quite frequently, and while it does encourage you to try out some of the stranger or more obscure ones, it also doesn't require you to put as much thought into choosing them well, especially since many of them do little more than add points to various skills. Many skills don't see much use, and some, such as Speech, are useful at crucial points, but don't see use quite often enough. The game overall seems easier than the other installments in the series, with more plentiful ammo, healing items and weapons (in an odd twist, the relatively few kinds of each weapon makes it easier for you to repair the ones you have).
The new combat system, enabling you to spend action points to aim at people's body parts, is a nice way of making Fallout's combat system relevant in more fast-paced modern RPGs, while still allowing tactical depth to it.
There are quests to keep you busy in the Capitol Wasteland, but there's significantly fewer than in New Vegas, so there's less incentive to get out and explore the map compared to that game. There's also less choice in how you complete those quests, as in most cases, it only boils down to a choice between killing someone and convincing them to do what you want. The ending is essentially based on a single choice, and none of your other decisions seem to have any impact on it.
All in all, Fallout 3 is a highly enjoyable game, but New Vegas does most of what it does as well or better. 3 is worth checking out, but I'd recommend New Vegas if one of the two has to be your first or only Fallout game.