Personally I prefer bullet time, it's kinda more realistic than vats.

VATS consists of pausing the game in the middle of a fight so that you can pinpoint your enemies easily. Way too easily. It deprives the fight of every uncertain factor and actual enjoyment.
I prefer Bullet time. It helps, but it's not overly powerful and doesn't pause the game, you still have to look out for yourself. I think it fits Fallout more.

Bullet time is my preference really, Don't break up combat like VATS although seeing a .308 round flying through the air in VATS and splattering some dudes head all over the place always a good feeling.

I'm trying to avoid both of them, until I have a huge need to feel badass x)

I personally like VATS more. Not only as a feature but a gameplay mechanic itself. Bullettime is essentially just slow motion. VATS stops time completely and allows you to pick where you aim, displaying your hit chance. To me that was a very cool and amazing concept the first time I encountered it in Fallout 3. Then followed by the fact that you can see your bullets fly into your enemy's face, I thought VATS was THE gameplay mechanic. But bullettime is still cool too, but for me VATS takes the cake.

To me, it's depends on what I'm doing. If I'm trying to snipe or keep an automatic weapon on target, bullet time all the way, but when I'm sneaking with a silenced Lil Devil or ALSiD and I walk into a room full of enemies, VATS gives me the time to strategically target my enemies and dispaches them faster than I could, usually allowing me to stay stealthed.

I use bullet time when i play a sort of gunslinger character and vats if im too lazy to aim but both have their uses

i find vats inacurat at early levels I can use bullet time pretty easy

Bullet time is pretty awesome, especially in a close fire fight.

However, I run a few graphical enhancement mods, and so there is a lot of DOF and blurring in my game. Which means that some times I won't be able to make out enemies until too late. In those cases, V.A.T.S is a life saver.

I prefer bullet time as I find it to be more unique and helps keep things interesting.

i have to go with bullet time love it

they both like easy mode but i prefer bullet time

I prefer VATS because it looks cooler. I do like bulltetime though as it retains that aspect of challenge of landing shots.

Although both are close to equal, I prefer Bullet time, I love to role play, and as I do this, I really don't like using Vats since it ruins my immersion. For me, I guess it comes down to this.

Vats: Normal gameplay, etc
Bullet time: Roleplaying, etc

I never use bullet time even I have that feature. VATS for the win, brings back memories of old.
For bullet time I can go to the original Max Payne
VATS feels more...natural for me, least in the Fallout series.

I prefer Vats I rarely use bullet time unless I`m using a sniper

I prefer bullet time, i find vats to be inaccurate and i tend to be able to hit whatever i am shooting at when i have more control over exactly where my bullet is gonna go, which i feel vats lacks, imo.

totally agree with rebillion76. it would be awesome if fallout could incorporate some cool bullet time mode into the vanilla game, it woluld make the game more cinematic and actioney

I've have to say VATS just because its more lore friendly, but it would be nice to see bullettime in fallout 4 (if it ever comes out).

nick85 wrote:

I have played with both but can't pick one,how do you play bullettime alone,vats or both.

After playing hundreds of hours of fallout on console, im done with VATS and having a blast with bullet time.