Doesn't FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS deserve its own thread?

Also, is it just me or are caps pretty plentiful? Kind of guessing I'll need them when I get around to going near NV?

Boone + ED-e turn you into a death squad.

Caps are plentiful, until you start needing to spend them on expensive shit. Depends on your play style I guess.

i just don't like the way the companions constantly stand in the way in battle.

i got Rex instead. Also i got his head sorted out but I've since found the brain of a better dog. Can I get it transplanted a second time? oh, hang on, i think i remembered that the doc might be dead. will check. Will ED still be available if i go back to where he returned?

i've come across loads of companions, are all the others rub?

also, i'm carrying a lot of fiends 'heads'. not sure what for, but it's satisfying to see it crunch off their body.

Incinerator is awesome.

ED should still be available. His actual attacks aren't super useful but his perk makes enemies pop up on the compass from really far away. Very useful for a sniper build.

ah so i'm screwed to get Boone as a companion? i had him nail the wrong guy in front of the dino. now he won't talk to me. dammit!

Anyone know what the ghoul or nightskin companions are like? might ditch veronica for one of those.

also, fuck those flying Cadava or whatever they're called yellow and blue fucking fuckers.

pretty much stopped playing this

obv this was an absolute whopping fib

Do you folks generally complete quests as you get them, or do you collect a few quests and complete them at your leisure? I've noticed I'll tend to get a little bit into a quest and then realize that I'd rather go get more experience or wait until I have more toys to complete them. On the other hand, it seems like characters can't wait to tell you where new locations are in this game, so I have been doing a lot of exploring.

I've been wandering around Black Mountain. Is this place just the mother lode of caps and weapons, or what?

at first i was knocking the quests out like they were going out of fashion, now i've racked up a half dozen that i can't do for whatever reasons.

happy to wander about right now.

and yeah, just done black mountain. serious score.

my friend said this about boone: "when you're travelling with him, it's like HE'S the main character, you're the companion." he's one helluva tough guy to have by your side. travelling through the mountains past those wasp bastards would be impossible without him.

one of my favourite moments of the game was me and boone spending about an hour blowing away the mother and alpha male deathclaws and their clan in that mining pit. avoided it for so long as i'd heard deathclaws were pretty much unkillable this time round but boone + missiles + incinerator + my cunning technique of running up a mine chute squealing like a girl soon sorted them out.

im up to about level 24 now, only just entered the strip and i can sense the old FO3 syndrome of it getting too easy starting to kick in. been doing a bunch of no-risk 'wander about and chat to people' missions in camp mclarran and freeside and it's all getting a bit zzzz. the xbox loading times between locations is frustrating as hell too.

I might need to tweak my graphics settings because dudes are firing at me and I can't even see them! Similarly, Boone shoots at guys a loooong way away. He's a hell of a sniper, even with bad guns.

I can't believe there's a plasma rifle at the Powder Gangers hq

I dont want to get all captain internet geek pissy pants, but you'd think bethesda/oblivion would announce the release of the patch to fix the damn game before they announced new dlc for the xbox..

great session on this tonight, caved and spent the cash to get into the strip and all of a sudden i have a dozen extra quests. And then in turn even more quests. Completed lots of them, am burned out now. phew.

is it actually possible to use the flight sim machines at the helis base?

The VR flight machines are locked out in this version. Future DLC perhaps?

On my 2nd play-thru now, this time as a blue-haired anime chick melee-type. I'm using throwing knives this time round, and it's awesome.

The latest PC patch(mixed with the Compiled Community patch) has improved to where more quest triggers and whatnot are working better.

so do i buy this today for $40 y/n

y

Yes. By the end of the year they might even make it playable without wanting to punch a wall.

see now that is worrisome

is xbox version more/less fucked than the rest, or about the same?

I'm on PS3 and it's hit or miss. Sometimes I can go two hours of playtime (or even 12 hours when I first started) before a freeze, or I can go 4 minutes. It also sometimes freezes on the first loading screen. Totally buggy.

HOWEVER, when I can play I love the damn thing. I really liked Fallout 3, but this is so much closer to what I want from a Fallout game. It's not just the setting but the feel that seems true to the spirit of the first two games.

All that said, I've put it aside for now and won't play more until/unless the patch hits.

^^all that, same on pc too.

I'm on PC and I've mostly just had problems with crashes, and not so many of them after I fiddled with the settings. YMMV.

And I still think you should buy it for $40. Won't find it cheaper for quite some time and IF they do fix it in the next few weeks as they've hinted at you'll be all set.

I'm running it on PC and it runs okay enough to play. Well enough to purchase, at least.

Done and done

Now if only I had time to actually sit down and play it

Drink enough beer, lad, and you'll find all the time you need.

On a related note, I'm disappointed that throwing knives ricochet offa helmets. If I aim at you face, I'm expecting to see dropforged steel sticking into yo sinus cavity, not harmlessly twanging off yer motorcycle helmet into the sagebrush.

alternating between the pardcast-a-thon and fallout new vegas. loving this game but the desert just feels so empty...

loving this game but the desert just feels so empty...

this this this. And why i'm inclined to repeat how I prefer F3 because of this. The map just seems a bit bare. F3 map felt tighter, far more interesting.

but still, it's great even despite the crashing. I can get long sessions out of it though, most of the time if it crashes it will crash in the first five minutes. Thank god for auto save - if i'd had to restart at checkpoints my feelings on the game would be different

so...this is kind of dull so far. no crashes tho!

hoping that theyre still kinda tutorialing me here in the first few towns - digging that theyres already been more story side stat tests so far (repair/science/speech/etc) than in the whole last game.

i won on hardcore last night. overall it was good but flawed. the occasional bits of weirdness made me wish there was a lot more. for all the Obsidian vs Bethesda talk, it felt very much like a gigantic expansion to fallout 3.

I've gotten a little annoyed by the large fences around everything and different entrances/exits to some areas, but overall, it's less irritating on this than FO3. The capital city wasteland was irritating in that you *had* to have gone through the right subway stations -- if you tried walking across the terrain, you'd get blocked off eventually.

I think part of why the desert seems so sprawling is that they didn't include as many sections of the map that you can't get to.

Yeah, I like being able to trundle off in pretty much any direction I choose, barring mountain ranges and deathclaws in the way...

Ok characters are def better and the quests in general are more interesting than the first one, I think it's just kind of a sloooow starter.

Yeah, the initial trip to Vegas is a haul

so....is it just me or is this really easy? basically its just me, boone, and ed-e out in the desert pwning peeps without mercy - it seems like companions are doing all the heavy lifting tho because i am basically rolling w/ a speech/lockpick/science/98 pound weakling build.

graphics are also totally fucked a lot of the time, shitloads of floating trees and horrific awful pop up shit going on. holes in the canyon walls, patches of dirt that you have to jump out of, and so on. worse than fallout 3 for sure.

anybody buddy up w/ceasars legion? might prompt a second playthrough since i am currently vilified w/ everybody but the NCR.

oh and - is there a level cap this time around?

also black mountain radio with best friend tabitha and rhonda alone shows that the sense of humor in this game is about 1000% better than FO3. actual lols!

level cap is 30.

I think Boone and ED-E makes it a bit too easy, combat wise. Try some of the other companions - they're all pretty different, and change how you play.

I didn't buddy up w/caesar but might give it a go once the game is patched. If you're feeling it's too easy, try swimming over to Caesar's side of the river. Rumor is it's tough over there (I haven't tried).

I haven't completed the game so I don't know if it's related to a later quest, but has anyone killed everyone in Caesar's camp for the hell of it?

compared to f3, it's a heckuva lot easier. love both games though.

boone is ez mode for sure. i brought him in only when i got annoyed with a fight. I started again as a tough guy out to beat the hell out of everyone i.e. killing the doc who first revives you. frackin cylon.

Wow when this crashes on xbox it crashes hardcore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szvFN6P9slg&feature=player_embedded

has anyone killed everyone in Caesar's camp for the hell of it?

I did. If you're going to do that, I recommend going in while you're still neutral with the Legion and assassinating Caesar first. I did it the opposite way and had a really tough time trying to kill Caesar last. You get set upon immediately by a half a dozen legionnaires at close quarters when you enter his tent while hostile, and it's a total pain in the ass.

ok so i swapped out boone for veronica (the secret BOS lady) and loaded her up with power armor and the incinerator and she pretty much pwns just as hard as he did. this is tempting fate i know but ive only had 2 full crashes so far and ive put in a lot of time. still havent been to the strip because im worried about kinda triggering the endgame but theres still just shit tons of world out there to bash through.

deathclaws are a motherfucker in this game, im pretty much just dodging that valley w/shit tons of them for now - actually not sure ill ever level up enough to really take them on considering the character build i have.

oh yeah and also the peeps that banged on this for not having enough wow moments compared to FO3 are just straight up stupid, they might be smaller scale but shit like the planetarium in the reppcon building or basically the entire ghoul launch quest are great great moments. i am officially off the fence now and willing to say that this is the better game of the two, esp the writing. plus the multi faction thing gives me way more reason to play through it again than the old good/evil from game one.

also dont waste a perk on "wild wasteland" imo - i think ive gotten it to trigger uh 3 times so far? each of which was fairly boring.

oh yeah and also the peeps that banged on this for not having enough wow moments compared to FO3 are just straight up stupid, they might be smaller scale but shit like the planetarium in the reppcon building or basically the entire ghoul launch quest are great great moments. i am officially off the fence now and willing to say that this is the better game of the two, esp the writing. plus the multi faction thing gives me way more reason to play through it again than the old good/evil from game one.

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, December 9, 2010 1:17 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

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yeah, deathclaws are brutal. i still haven't beaten the game and i have 100+ hours logged, the amount of side content is nuts.

what happens during the wild wasteland perk?

i strongly recommend getting a shit ton of missiles and stealthboys, get boone along for the ride and go to that valley and take out all the deathclaws. took a big chunk of the day to demolish but damn if it wasn't the most enjoyable part of the entire game.

good plan to go through the wasteland quests before entering the strip, but once you do prepare yourself for a boring challenge-free slog with very few decent fights or puzzles (im assuming you'll have top notch locksmith/hacking skills by then), and a fuckload of loading screens. still, great game and i enjoyed the ending a lot. probably better than fo3 yeah, but still flawed. the creators badly need to to find a way to keep it challenging from level 18 or so onwards. age-old problem that applies to majority of games, i know i know