I found them to be two very different games. I really like Fallout 3, but it hasn't drawn me in nearly as much as Oblivion did.
Fallout has better character graphics, and the lighting effects have been fixed from Oblivion; but Oblivion still looked nicer because of the beautiful lanscape, versus a dreary apocalyptic landscape in Oblivion.
The world in Oblivion is far more open than Fallout as well. Especially in the city.
That said, Fallout is a very fun game as well, and I still play it every day. I just played over 1000 hours of Oblivion, and I am not nearly as addicted to Fallout.
I hope that they take the skill leveling from Oblivion (you get better at things by actually doing them), and remove the ability leveling portion in the next Elder Scrolls game. That was the counter intuitive part of their leveling system. If your abilities would level automatically based on skill leveling, (say one point for every 3 skill points that relies on that ability) then it would take all the power leveling micromanagement out of the game. I would also just take out character levels entirely.
Fallout has better character graphics, and the lighting effects have been fixed from Oblivion; but Oblivion still looked nicer because of the beautiful lanscape, versus a dreary apocalyptic landscape in Oblivion.
The world in Oblivion is far more open than Fallout as well. Especially in the city.
That said, Fallout is a very fun game as well, and I still play it every day. I just played over 1000 hours of Oblivion, and I am not nearly as addicted to Fallout.
I hope that they take the skill leveling from Oblivion (you get better at things by actually doing them), and remove the ability leveling portion in the next Elder Scrolls game. That was the counter intuitive part of their leveling system. If your abilities would level automatically based on skill leveling, (say one point for every 3 skill points that relies on that ability) then it would take all the power leveling micromanagement out of the game. I would also just take out character levels entirely.