Borderlands or Fallout 3 GOTY Edition?

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There's something amazing about VATS when you throw a perfectly lobbed grenade to someone's face.

I started playing Borderlands (hit lvl 20 - rifleman), it's a neat game, F3 is far better out of the 2 but Borderlands is highly enjoyable. I love crit kills in that game, my guy does awesome smack talk. :)
 
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There's something amazing about VATS when you throw a perfectly lobbed grenade to someone's face.

I started playing Borderlands (hit lvl 20 - rifleman), it's a neat game, F3 is far better out of the 2 but Borderlands is highly enjoyable. I love crit kills in that game, my guy does awesome smack talk. :)
Smack talk in Fallout or Borderlands? I've heard some complaints about Borderland's smack talk, but, playing as Lilith, I love the child like psychotic glee she uses when she kills. It's like she just found out she has a natural knack for catching fish, except instead of catching fish, it's killing dudes by the score. I almost wish the game had some kind of dialog system, so I could see more of the bloodthirsty bitch character I've gleaned from her few lines of speech.
 
If you like the music, try the "GNR: More where that came from" mod. It's in the top 20 on fallout3nexus. It adds one HUNDRED more songs to the playlist, all of a similar style to what's already in the game, with many of the same artists. It's a massive download (I think all the track packs combined are around a Gig) but VERY worth it, since although I liked hearing the radio, it got repetitive because of only 20 songs. With 120, it's just good.

But ya, lots of other great mods too. Too many to list, but you'll always be able to find SOMETHING you like.
 
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If you like the music, try the "GNR: More where that came from" mod. It's in the top 20 on fallout3nexus. It adds one HUNDRED more songs to the playlist, all of a similar style to what's already in the game, with many of the same artists. It's a massive download (I think all the track packs combined are around a Gig) but VERY worth it, since although I liked hearing the radio, it got repetitive because of only 20 songs. With 120, it's just good.

But ya, lots of other great mods too. Too many to list, but you'll always be able to find SOMETHING you like.
Yup. The community for Fallout 3 is huge. There are literally thousands of mods out there. I do love all the side quests and add on quests for FO3 :)
 
If you like the music, try the "GNR: More where that came from" mod. It's in the top 20 on fallout3nexus. It adds one HUNDRED more songs to the playlist, all of a similar style to what's already in the game, with many of the same artists. It's a massive download (I think all the track packs combined are around a Gig) but VERY worth it, since although I liked hearing the radio, it got repetitive because of only 20 songs. With 120, it's just good.

But ya, lots of other great mods too. Too many to list, but you'll always be able to find SOMETHING you like.
Every time I've tried that mod, I don't know what I do wrong. I install it like it says, hell I use mods to track my mods, and it seems to work fine, until I enter a room with a radio on or something where you end up with two sources of sound and the game sound goes apeshit and crashes.
 
I find it incredible that every game you play, regardless of either that it's console or PC, whether or not it's the XBox, the Wii, the PS3, whether it's Windows XP, Vista, 7, ME, heck even 98, you always manage to deliver a post about something somewhere, somehow, in some crazy way... has gone terribly wrong.

Colisse de chialeux Quebecois. :)
 
In this thread, maybe.

I love Fallout 3.

And the Borderlands thing was well documented all over the internet. It was TOTALLY insane too and completely isolated to me alone.
 
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Ugh... it's got squad play? :eek:rly:
Well, if you want to you can go online with up to 3 other players - totally optional, though, since you just save progress to the character and don't have to play with them.

I've got both Fallout 3 and Borderlands, and while I'd recommend Fallout 3 over Borderlands, they're really very different games.

Fallout 3, is, essentialy, a single-player only RPG with gigantic modding potential, in a huge open world. Think Oblivion or Morrowind for a reasonably close benchmark.

Borderlands, on the other hand, is a 1-4 player RPG that shares a lot of things in common with Diablo or Hellgate: London (Though, Borderlands is essentially what H:L should have been).

In any event, I'd really recommend whatever gametype you're more interested in - if you want to play either game with multiplayer, ever, it'll have to be Borderlands, since Fallout doesn't do that. But for the length of time you may be playing them, Fallout 3 will probably get more mileage simply due to the huge mod community out there for it - I specifically got the PC version of Borderlands for the inevitable modding for it, since it could really shine (Just like Fallout 3 does) with some decent mods for it.

On a side note - if anyone's got a level 40ish character and wants to do something, hit me up - I've got the best luck ever when it comes to drops for this game. (Level 42 or 43ish soldier.)
 
I'm not sure what to do. I own Fallout 3 w/ Broken Steel and The Pitt.

I was never interested in Operation Anchorage, but Point Lookout and Mothership appeal to me.

Should I buy the GOTY edition or just the two addons? Hm.....
 
Just buy the add-ons.

Point Lookout is probably the best one, it's definitely the most involved RPGish one. Mothership Zeta is another glorified Operation Anchorage, basically being a corridor shooter with you killing aliens instead of communists.
 
Mothership Zeta does have some very nice Alien energy weapons however, including one that blows the unique plasma rifle away.
 
Just buy the add-ons.

Point Lookout is probably the best one, it's definitely the most involved RPGish one. Mothership Zeta is another glorified Operation Anchorage, basically being a corridor shooter with you killing aliens instead of communists.
I really like all the little side stories in Fallout. They don't have to be very in depth (I loved the Dunwich building tapes, etc) and what you're saying is that Mothership really brings nothing storywise?
 
There's a little (very little) but nothing compared to Point Lookout (which funnily enough continues the Lovecraftian Dunwich stuff).
 
Mothership Zeta does have lots of little logs scattered about, from people who have been abducted by the aliens. They are actually pretty cool, but I don't know if it's a story per-say.
 
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