I'm looking for about a $20-30 (or less) game to tide me over for a while and I was thinking RPG because it's been a while since I've gotten into one. I mention these three because I haven't played/beaten any of them and they seem very popular, but I'm open to other suggestions as well (Fable 1 or Bioshock maybe?). If it helps, I'm a huge fan of KotOR II and Chrono Trigger.
Posted Oct 13, 2011, 3:56 AM UTC
Fallout 3 is the best of those choices.
My god, the first time I played that game, I was enthralled. You've got a lot to do, and you'll want to do all of it.
Mass Effect 1. It has the best story of the three games, with more choices to make it "your" story. Your actions have real consequences and shape the universe. Plus, when you decide to spend $20 again, you can pick up ME2 and continue with an even greater story and better gameplay. Also, sex with a blue alien.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Thanks for the feedback.
Not to mention, ME2 allows you to import your character from ME1. ME3 is going to do the same for ME2.
Fallout 3 game of the year definatley.
I'm going to have to go against the other 3 here and say Mass Effect. It has a great story behind it, and you'll find yourself playing through the game again with different abilities and such.
Once you play through that, you're definitely going to want to play ME2.
Fallout 3 GOTY. Definitely, no question and will give you hundreds of hours of playtime.
Borderlands doesn't even come close. Mass Effect 1 is great, but a shorter experience than Fallout and with less replay value.
For me, borderlands by a mile.
ME - all talk
f3 - too much head down in the corner snuffling for bits
I agree, Borderlands all the way. Although, if you get it, pickup the GOTY edition. It includes all of the DLC on the disc.
Well I'm glad someone picked Borderlands lol. Any reasons why you think it's the best choice?
I just really enjoyed Borderlands from start to finish. Then I played again cos the different characters gave it good replayability - having a ranging pet dictated a very different play style to being tanky. It was far from perfect but the downsides never bothered me.
I have no patience for cut scenes in most games. I can't deal with too much dialogue and the action bits felt terrible anyway, so ME got about 2hrs from me.
Fallout I played for maybe 10hrs. I did enjoy it to a point but once I'd learned all the basics it was a bit flat for me. When the owner took it back I never felt the urge to find in on the bargain bin whereas I see Borderlands and think... "hmmm never played any of the DLC..."
I see. Thanks for the feedback man. I have heard good things about the game and a few of my friends play it occasionally. I don't mind dialogue, although way too much can make a game boring for me. Was the DLC worth it?
I heard 3 were huge and the 4th one was thunderdome mad max style place.
Borderlands is CO-OP, end of question.
It's a fantastic game. However, I prefer playing it with at least one other person.
I would say that Mass Effect has the best story, hands down. If you have a trekkie bone in your body, it's a must.
However, you are going to get oodles more gameplay from Fallout.
I'e played Fallout 3 all the way through 3 times, and I'm working on a 4th. You can always find some small settlement with a quest or two, and a random abandoned building to explore. Definitely the most play time out of all of those, though Mass Effect is great as well.
Fallout 3 for the replay value. If you have friends then Borderlands for replay value. If you get Mass Effect 1 you might as well get 2 as well.
Yeah, if I get Mass Effect 1 it would be in the expectation of getting 2 later on.
I've played all three and I would have to say that I enjoyed Mass Effect much much more than both Borderlands and Fallout 3. I really wanted to love Fallout 3, but I just did not. I thought it was too much traveling distances and I did not enjoy exploring a wasteland while fighting off roaches. I did not think it was a bad game, but it was not 100% my type of game. Borderlands was kind of fun to play with a few friends, but when i tried it alone it was just such a drag.
Great feedback, thank you. I'm very interested in the Mass Effect story, it reminds me a lot of KotOR from what I've seen.
Yes the story is very interesting indeed, and the storytelling is superb! Also if you play Mass Effect and enjoy the story you can play Mass Effect 2 which continues it (and eventually ME3).
I agree. I enjoyed it for the first few hours... but all the grey colors of everything just made it bland after awhile. I think Bethesda has made some fantastic games... but unlike every Fallout fanboy, I just couldn't stick with Fallout 3. If I'm going to play a Bethesda game, it's going to be Elder Scrolls (I cannot wait for Skyrim!).
I've played all three of these, but never finished ME. It just didn't grab me like the other two did, and the driving segments are downright painful.
Borderlands is a ton of fun if you have a few mates to play it with, but if it's just you, Fallout is the best choice. It's easily one of my favourite games from the past 5 years. If you get the GOTY edition with the DLC, it would be a bargain even at $30. Point Lookout, Broken Steel and The Pitt were all quite expansive and added a lot to the core game. Overall, the game will blow you away. So good.
Thanks man, this is probably the best feedback I've gotten. I came into this leaning Mass Effect but right now I'm thinking Fallout 3.
I think on amazon you can both Mass Effects combined for less than twenty bucks, and that would be your best bet I believe. Well, at least equally to Fallout 3 GOTY.
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It may not have the quite the free roaming that Fallout 3 does, but the way you talk to people in the game does change the story for ME2 and the upcoming ME3. I for one never have to deal with the asshole turian in the counsel meetings again :)
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FO3 for sure, New Vegas is even better.
I definitely look into New Vegas. I've heard 3 is much better though.
New Vegas is by no means any better. FO3 is amazing but NV is quite inferior and veeery buggy. I figured people were overexagerating the bugs but on my very first gunfight a dead body starts flying all over the screen with its limbs flailing and growing to about 30 feet long. Enemies falling through the ground. Enemies being killed but they're still speaking... BUGGY.
I think it all depends on what you're interested in experiencing right now, they all are amazing games that outperform one another in certain fields.
Thanks for the clarification, definitely leaning towards those latter two right now.
Mass Effect 1 and Fallout 3 are both very good options.
I've put close to 200 hours into fallout. I couldn't even force myself to finish mass effect. Never played borderlands.
If you're a huge fan of KOTOR games, Mass Effect is the way to go. It's made by BioWare. It's the same style of storytelling/gameplay.
Fallout 3. Get the GOTY edition. You'll thank me after you sank a couple weeks of your life into the game. The universe is so rich and beautifully depressing.
That's the one I've played a little bit of before and it truly is beautiful. What exactly is in the GOTY edition?
It contains all 5 DLC for the game in the disc.
make sure you have room on your hard drive to install a few gigs.
I don't have much... Might have to clear some out.
Five expansion packs. One that's kind of bad (Operation Anchorage), two that are good, but not great (The Pitt and Mothership Zeta) and two that are fantastic (Broken Steel and Point Lookout). They easily add 25-35 hours to the game.
of course, the chinese stealth armor is pretty much the shit.
also, if you glitch the stuff out of the simulation, you get some useful stuff that doesn't break down.