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

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

should put this in the lols thread but..

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-10-massive-fallout-nv-patch-out-now

check out the quest list. I think thats all of them.

i'll likely go buy this tonight with that fix.

Got to play about 90 minutes post-patch before it hard froze on a loading screen. Also had lots of microfreezes that in the past would have been lock ups. So it's better, but I had a quest not appear on my list until after I got another one and a couple of wild screen tears as dead stuff fell through the geometry and were stretched in multiple directions into vector oblivion.

So it is better, but still a bit fucked.

what did you expect, a game that actually works properly?

Another freezish - this time the never-ending load screen from hell. After 5 minutes I just killed the thing.

Starting over in the hopes maybe there was something wack about my previous saves.

If anyone hasn't got this yet, Amazon are selling it for £22 in the UK at the moment.

Playing this game like a fiend again. Made an evil character to do new missions yet I found myself last night doing the same old goody two shoes missions! Maybe I just cant stop myself from murdering all the fiends in vault 3.

haha yeah i just chatted my way into vault 3 and negotiated the "peaceful" option, but then was so fucking irked by the motor runner dude that i head shot him anyway.

ok so the only really frustrating glitch i keep experiencing is that every so often when ed-e is with me NCR dudes will just flip out for no reason and start whaling on him which has led to like 5 irritating restarts i didnt really feel like dealing with.

well that and getting stuck in the rubble pile on the tarmack behind camp whatever and having to fast travel to get out of it, thus creating a situation where i would have to backtrack through the whole concourse at which point i basically said fuck it.

I played 2.5 hours two nights ago before I realized I took on an aspect of a legion mission that made me public enemy #1 with NCR that resulted in me getting attacked everywhere I went. lol?

ED-E started attacking the Boomers' doctor for no particular reason one day! I have never had the NCR become hostile to him, but there are definitely a few weird glitches occasionally.

Still working on my first playthrough. I want to do all the NCR missions I can before continuing with Yes Man, since the game warned me that the NCR will catch on that I am not in their court. I think I'm down toward the end, so I'll probably bum around the wasteland a while before making any more NCR/Vegas moves.

I feel kind of proud that I killed all the Omerta bosses, even the dude I was working with. Due to an entertaining glitch, you can just start shooting away at him after you jointly kill the other two, and he doesn't even really fire back.

ps3 version on the way from amazon

btw even 98 pound weakling can melee pwn with the chainsaw u get for killing motoguzzi fiend dude. its way more fun than it should be tbh

Is there any loot in that execution chamber room of the one vault? You know, the one where you can watch a video about how noble your sacrifice is and then the robots try to laser you to death.

I'd also like to say how awesome it is I made $14k off of SNOW GLOBES

the fact that i have no idea what either of the last 2 posts are about makes me so happy about how lolhueg this game is.

i was going to ask if anyone ever found any reason to go into the underwater room in vault 3. seems weird to give me just that one opportunity to drown

I haven't gone back there yet, but SPOILER HINT:

There is a quest if you keep going along with the Boomers where eventually you get a gadget that lets you breathe underwater.

the obsidian guys went crazy with submerged vault corridors.

I have like 24k in moneys right now but jack shit to spend it on since I dont use guns or have companions.

So my winter break is coming up. Is it safe to play this thing yet or is it still buggy as hell?

I have had few issues, playing on PC. ymmv.

my 360 copy has only had a couple of glitches, so id say go for it. unless the occassional slight lag when wandering the wasteland will make you CONTROLLER SMASH ANGRYYWYY like some reviewers seem to have been.

this is gonna be my winter break ps3 THING unless DC Universe turns out to be fucking amazing

I have the 360 version and I have had the game crash on me once. I have been noticing some obnoxious shit with companions recently tho.. Like the damn robot dog disappearing for a couple hours then just mysteriously showing up when I try to get into the strip. Also cant seem to trigger Veronica training me on the new hand to hand move when I give her a pretty dress even tho I did it earlier on a random playthrough I had to quit because I broke the game..

didnt realize how retarded this sounds when I typed it

Also cant seem to trigger Veronica training me on the new hand to hand move when I give her a pretty dress

there is one spot in a train tunnel right in front of a door where you fall through the world. I tried to jump it like 10 times.

I'm kind of pissed off that companions seem to stay in the lobby of the Lucky 38 whenever you go in and leave. Guys, I own this place now! You can follow me anywhere.

Yes Man is so great.