For £20, Saints Row The Third or Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition?

I've only played Fallout: New Vegas of these two, but I have played Saint's Row 2. I don't like Saint's Row 2's disdain for reality.

After the disaster when Game cancelled all ME3 preorders, I now have £20.32 in Game credit. Looking through their catalogue I would either buy Saints Row The Third for £27, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition for £25, or just £20 worth of microsoft points for xbla.

Saint's Row 3 is falling rapidly in price, so you might want to wait for that. Fallout NV Ultimate might not even be worth getting as all but one of the DLC packs weren't amazing. They were -alright-, but nothing you really need to play.

I'd vote SR3, though.

Depends on what you're into, I guess. Having played all the Saint's Row games and all the Fallout games, I'd say I had more fun with Vegas. It'll last much longer, too.

@Jaytow: They gave me £5, I had £15 before from the Game Reward Card scheme

Saints Row co-op is more fun than anything New Vegas could possibly whip up.

@Sooty: Easy to find another player, or did you play with a friend?

Both are great games, but my vote goes to Fallout: New Vegas here. If you've played Skyrim, however, going back to New Vegas's Gamebryo can be a bit harsh.

Fallout: New Vegas is a great game that will last you a long time (especially with all that DLC, it's a pretty awesome deal).

Haven't played Saints Row: The Third.

I guess it depends on your sense of humor. My vote is for Saints Row.

Saints Row is incredibly over-rated. Wait for the next game. There isn't that much truly enjoyable gameplay. If you do buy it, ignore the DLC. But I'd say New Vegas would give you way more consistently great content. Saints Row is is a 30 hour game with about 4 hours of great content and a lot of slowwwwwwwwwwwwww pacing.

New Vegas. No brainer.

New Vegas, easily. One of the best RPG's of this generation. Actually think it's better than Fallout 3 in some ways.

Saints Row: The Third is a mechanically average open world game with a dull setting (and unfunny "humour").

@Tomkang: Saints Row: The Third is currently on sale on steam for £14.99. Ah just read xbla points, so means you're probably buying the game for 360 anyway, so i guess never mind then.

You can't go wrong with either of them, but it mostly depends on where you're leaning for now.

Do you want Grand Theft Auto wrapped up in a coating of crazy, or do you want Fallout 3 with humor in it?

My personal tastes are pretty much evenly divided. Given the choice I'd have a hard time picking.

fallout is more value.

@MordeaniisChaos said:

Saints Row is incredibly over-rated. Wait for the next game. There isn't that much truly enjoyable gameplay. If you do buy it, ignore the DLC. But I'd say New Vegas would give you way more consistently great content. Saints Row is is a 30 hour game with about 4 hours of great content and a lot of slowwwwwwwwwwwwww pacing.

THANK you! Finally, someone else who shares my point of view on that game..

you can't really compare the two imo, as they're different kinds of games. that said, get Fallout Ultimate Edition. it's an awesome game, and it works great now, except on ps3.

@Sooty said:

Saints Row co-op is more fun than anything New Vegas could possibly whip up.

This is all opinion based. Some people enjoy mindless fun, while others just enjoy taking games at their own pace with more serious tones.

New Vegas seems like the more logical investment

Saints Row: The Third. An easy choice if there ever was one. I just could not get into Fallout: New Vegas at all, but I love Saints Row so damn much that I put over sixty hours into my first run through the game.

SR3 I've played it for at least 50 hours easily

Definitely Saints Row: The Third. It was my favorite game of 2011.

Both are great choices, so you can't really go wrong either way. I'd give the tip to New Vegas, its one of my favorite games of all time.

I recommend Saints Row The Third. I disagree with all these jerks who don't like the game, it's fantastic. They just hate fun.

@Little_Socrates said:

I recommend Saints Row The Third. I disagree with all these jerks who don't like the game, it's fantastic. They just hate fun.

It's not that fun, though. It's got some interesting and crazy setpieces, but they're few and far between. Half of the game is a retread of side missions we've done in the previous games, and even the setpieces aren't really that breathtaking.

@Tomkang:

What sort of game do you want to play?

@GreggD said:

@Little_Socrates said:

I recommend Saints Row The Third. I disagree with all these jerks who don't like the game, it's fantastic. They just hate fun.

It's not that fun, though. It's got some interesting and crazy setpieces, but they're few and far between. Half of the game is a retread of side missions we've done in the previous games, and even the setpieces aren't really that breathtaking.

Maybe I disagree because I didn't play the previous Saints Row games, but found just about every mission fun. The only mission I wasn't so fond of was the one from the Quick Look with the Nyte Blade stuff. I kind of figured you were right when I finished Saints Row The Third, but then I couldn't stop playing, 100% took over Steelport, and got my character all the way to level 50. Heck, even talking about it now makes me itch to go play it. If you're enjoying the gameplay, the setpieces are a lot more impressive. Though I may have different setpiece tastes from most folks, as I totally didn't care for the famous train sequence from Uncharted 2.

I don't necessarily NOT recommend Fallout: New Vegas, but that game goes for about five US dollars during every Steam sale. Only one of the DLC packs is even liked as I recall, though I can't remember if people actually like Lonesome Road or Old World Blues. What I'm getting at is that F: NV is often cheap and it being the "ultimate edition" doesn't do all that much. And I disagree that SR3 is not totally and completely awesome.

(That said, if Ghost Trick for DS is available and you have a DS, you should definitely play Ghost Trick.)

@GreggD said:

@Little_Socrates said:

I recommend Saints Row The Third. I disagree with all these jerks who don't like the game, it's fantastic. They just hate fun.

It's not that fun, though. It's got some interesting and crazy setpieces, but they're few and far between. Half of the game is a retread of side missions we've done in the previous games, and even the setpieces aren't really that breathtaking.

As someone who played quite a bit of Saints Row 2, I can safely say that I enjoyed Saints Row: The Third far, far more, retread side-missions and all.

@Hailinel: When you put it that way, yes. SR3 is a phenomenal game. But SR2 was incredibly mediocre, in my opinion.

@Little_Socrates said:

@GreggD said:

@Little_Socrates said:

I recommend Saints Row The Third. I disagree with all these jerks who don't like the game, it's fantastic. They just hate fun.

It's not that fun, though. It's got some interesting and crazy setpieces, but they're few and far between. Half of the game is a retread of side missions we've done in the previous games, and even the setpieces aren't really that breathtaking.

Maybe I disagree because I didn't play the previous Saints Row games, but found just about every mission fun. The only mission I wasn't so fond of was the one from the Quick Look with the Nyte Blade stuff. I kind of figured you were right when I finished Saints Row The Third, but then I couldn't stop playing, 100% took over Steelport, and got my character all the way to level 50. Heck, even talking about it now makes me itch to go play it. If you're enjoying the gameplay, the setpieces are a lot more impressive. Though I may have different setpiece tastes from most folks, as I totally didn't care for the famous train sequence from Uncharted 2.

I don't necessarily NOT recommend Fallout: New Vegas, but that game goes for about five US dollars during every Steam sale. Only one of the DLC packs is even liked as I recall, though I can't remember if people actually like Lonesome Road or Old World Blues. What I'm getting at is that F: NV is often cheap and it being the "ultimate edition" doesn't do all that much. And I disagree that SR3 is not totally and completely awesome.

(That said, if Ghost Trick for DS is available and you have a DS, you should definitely play Ghost Trick.)

On the NV topic, I actually am enjoying all the DLC I've played from it. I finished OWB (FANTASTIC) and I'm currently working on the one that takes place at the Sierra Madre Casino. This one's slightly less enthralling, but then again it doesn't have James Urbaniak.

@GreggD: I don't get it, seriously. Half of the great moments (falling from a plane in a tank shooting shit) are drawn out wayyyy too long to the point of being annoying and boring, and sometimes repeated to be doubly so, and the rest are so far and few between the rest of the mediocre missions. At least GTA IV missions always had interesting story at the beginning or end, and usually throughout. Yes, there are INCREDIBLE moments in that game. The start to the game was one of the best openings I'd ever experienced. The Mars ending may actually be my all time favorite video game ending ever. But there was too much mediocre/frustratingly boring or janky parts to that game.

Do you like fun? Choose SR3.

Forgot to mention, New Vegas actually has some fantastic DLC (not that you'd need it considering the main game will last you over 100 hours).

@Little_Socrates said:

Only one of the DLC packs is even liked as I recall, though I can't remember if people actually like Lonesome Road or Old World Blues. What I'm getting at is that F: NV is often cheap and it being the "ultimate edition" doesn't do all that much. And I disagree that SR3 is not totally and completely awesome.

Lonesome Road and Old World Blues are both great. Dead Money has a great story and some memorable characters, but is fairly far removed from how you usually play Fallout so it's somewhat polarizing.

Of course, Old World Blues alone has more quality in it than the entirety of Volition's pitiful DLC package for SR 3.

Edit: Yes, as a Fallout fanboy I am biased. I just find Saints Row 3 to be terribly overrated.

forget the DLC crap that's not what fallout does well, just get the normal edition which no doubt is cheaper and be satisfied with that.

Saints Row 3 is a lot of dumb fun. I played that sandbox game with the reckless abandon I played Vice City with. New Vegas was a buggy, broken mess when I picked it up on launch day. It was so busted, I traded it in before I beat the game due to it eating my save file. It does have some sharp writing and a cool atmosphere. If you have the ability to fix it, I hear it's been patched. I've given up playing Bethesda ass Bethesda games on consoles due to performance issues. I suffer through playing them on computer as a 3 second load screen is worth the effort of connecting my gaming laptop to my TV.

So, if you have a PC for Fallout, maybe go with that. Otherwise, my vote goes ever so slightly to SR3, assuming you have the internet connection (steam, psn, xbox live) to get NV patched.

@Fjordson: I agree that the DLC hasn't been so awesome for Saints Row The Third. Although that wouldn't be part of this conversation all the same, as it's vanilla SR3 (which I disagree is overrated) against full FNV (which I'll grant you a bonus if OWB and LR are both great.)

Get Saints Row 2, it was a lot better than 3 anyway.

I actually had to make the same decision recently and went with Saints Row The Third (mainly because I heard New Vegas on the PS3 is crazy broken)

I was not disappointed.

Even with so many of the games high points spoiled by all of the bombcast discussions I still found it to be really enjoyable.

My first play through was as an obese naked blue man with make up that made him look like a 1920's prostitue with a dali moustache, I also chose the zombie voice option (which sounds less like a zombie and more like a heavy impersonation of Sylvester Stallone and a Murloc) so every cutscene and conversation was totally absurd.

I have a low bar when it comes to combat and driving in third person open world games (my last one being Just Cause 2) so the gameplay was actually quite enjoyable for me, but nothing really that special.

I can see how if the humor didn't click the game would be more or less ruined for some people, but i've been having an absolute blast so far.