Fallout 3 is my favorite.

I've completed FNV about 8 times normal, 3 times hardcore, and 1/4 of the way through on very hard mode.

I've played FO3 for about half an hour - one hour.

FO3 was definitely scarier in dark areas, and it felt more like a wasteland. In FNV when you came across a person you just ignored them because of how common they were. In FO3 I ran to the source of any human voices because they were a pretty rare sound.

New Vegas. It's the much better RPG of the two.

FNV is just FO3s expansion.

I suggest get both and a good PC. With Requiem For the Capital Wasteland you can do both.

FNV is a different area, different characters, different storyline, different goal. Basically an entirely different game. What the hell are you thinking with "expansion"?

Because. at its core,FNV is all of Fallout 3+ some of its best mods in the desert.
The weapon mods? Takin from Alistars Weapon Mod Project
Hardcore Mode? Take from Fallout Wanders Edition/FOOK.
The devs themselves even admitted to using them as "inspiration".

The game itself is extremly sloppy in its execution and not well thought out. While I love it to death,the constant bugs,script errors and often catastrophic errors in coding make me not want to play this as much as I do Fallout 1,2 and 3. Its sad when you have the same errors from all the games that used the same Gamebryo engine for the past 5 years+ and you still cant fix the bugs. Its sad really.

Obsidian makes amazing stories. Cant do shit for coding. Basically,FNV is Fallout 3s mega expansion while I agree the DLCs have improved,it still felt like it was not done all the way and should have not been released so soon. It felt sort of Half baked to me.

I never found any glitches. Only the infinite caps glitch, which I exploited like crazy in hardcore mode.

I'll admit, a lot of the game is very reminiscent of a modded FO3, but I do think it's a game in its own.

New Vegas on PC was broken for a ton of people. Me included. They also broke it a couple times during the patches and it made it totally unplayable for some people.

Oh. I played on 360.

360 was somewhat more stable than the PC versions. We had to basically come up with our own bug fixes and hotfix patches well before OBsidian could.

Shut up anon. Nobody cares. They really arent two seperate games. They should have been the same game because FNV is so halfassedly done.

Requiem for the Capital Wasteland fixes that and actually makes it much more fun.

I liked New Vegas more because you have more influence on the ending of the game. New Vegas's story is more about tracking a man through the wastes of the Mojave desert to get your revenge after he tried to kill you. While doing so getting caught up in a war and choosing who you want to side with. Fallout 3's story is more about finding your dad and carrying on his legacy while choosing between good and evil.

Fallout 3 is the better game to start, I think.

Dananaaaa! your are the winner! Fallout 3 it is.

If you're looking to get it on PC, there's this nice torrent I used to obtain it for free.
thepiratebay.se/torrent/7344814/Fallout_3_Full_game_
It doesn't come with DLC though.