fallout new vegas is better? here's the story of that "RPG", you wake up in goodsprings, go to primm, in these two towns, you'll be facing powder gangers which are pretty much the weakest gang in the game, maybe you'll see the NCR correctional facility but you wont meet any true NCR, (i mean with a rifle) go to the mojave outpost and meet the NCR for the first time, ghost ask you to check what's wrong with nipton, you go there and then you meet caesar's legion for the first time, then you move on to the right of the map, you'll have two options, right or left, right means camp searchlight and probably cottonwood cove (before you turn around), left means a ranger station, in either of these two you'll eventually get to novac, in which you'll meet the robot again, then the only way is up, reaching helios one and then for the first time you'll meet the great khans, then going up you'll eventually get to new vegas.
thats pretty much how shit goes, you cant go any other way unless you want to face a giant pack of deathclaws, plus the deathclaw mother and the deathclaw alpha male, which means your death is pretty obvious.
in fallout 3 you can go to any place you want from the beginning, just like in the other fallouts, in fallout 3 you get the touch of isolation when you are in the wasteland, in new vegas, when you're in the wasteland you can see new vegas miles away, and even worst, you can even hear the freaking music coming from the city, that takes away the apocaliptic feeling entirely.
in fallout 3 you get a true reason to scavenge the wasteland, you're looking for the only member of your family, your dad, then the game gives you a personal reason to hate your enemy, in this case the enclace, when they kill your dad.
fallout new vegas has one of the shittiest plots i've ever seen in a video game, you're looking for the man that shot you? you get shot alot of times while looking for the man that shot you?, thats shit and we all know it, but no one wants to accept it, then you, what? you join the ncr, the legion, mr. house or you take over everything for what reason exactly? there's no reason to do anything aside from the shitty reason of you getting shot...
in fallout 3 you want to see the enclave destroyed, you want to see it in ruins after they killed the only family you had.
people think fallout new vegas is better cuz it has more from the other games,
they mean the nightkins, marco in jacobs town and other references from the past game, but this isnt a past game, and the references shouldnt be counted when we are speaking about a game's quality in general