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

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.

yes man owns, and i was delighted when i realized he was voiced by dave foley

I know, right? The entire scene with him explaining the Mark 2 weapons is beautiful.

ok so to save other people the same problem, magazine bonuses do not stack, which i learned by reading the repair one 3 times to boost up to fix that stupid food processor in camp mckillan or whatever. harummph.

also anyone sprung for the dead mans hand DLC yet? still way to early in the game for it atm but curious to say the least.

don't try any weapon mods on unique weapons btw. crash city.

I kind of burnt out playing my tough guy who kills everyone. Its like using a cheat code where its fun for about 2 minutes then the game is ruined.

still loving this game but:

A) no one in the entire world will ever get excited about the stupid survivalist thing
B) some of the fixit quests are a little badly designed ie "here is a broken food processor, and here is the list of 74 pices of junk you need to fix it. no, we will not keep track of this for you, so i hope you have a pen and paper handy"
C) some of the quests are pretty counter-intuitive, ive had to gamefaq a couple which always sucks.

that being said roaming the tight vault passages fuckin peeps up with a chainsaw is like the best shit ever

just got just cause 2 and am gonna put this on hold while i play that instead.
Good idea? Y or N

hahah check yer email for my opinions on that

the one thing i will say is that the controls are so second nature at this point in FOIII/NV that I can kinda put it down and pick it right back up without any relearning curve, so it lends itself to split sessions thx to that (unlike dead space which i finally just restarted because all my instinct memory on that was shot after letting it lay for like a month.)

Gah loadtimes on my 360 are getting intolerable - little worried I am headed for another corrupted save file.

Can't you just save your data on a usb drive or something?

I got tired of wandering around and doing clean-up quests so I beat this thing a couple weeks back. It was pretty decent!

i was watching some youtube guy and he says that the 360 version doesn't free up memory/or storage for this game. so the more you play it the longer the load times are. you have to delete a load of shit to get it working again apparently.

Completed this on Sunday. Thoroughly enjoyable, especially the stupid survivalist thing.

Hardcore + Normal not quite hard enough, over too quickly for someone used to Elder Scrolls games, some infuriating quest bugs that had me running to the wiki which is NAGL. In general though, much less buggy than I expected and only CTD'd about every 10 hours of gameplay, which is totally liveable IMHO.

Looking forward to a 2nd run through with mods up to the hilt, then getting into the GECK myself. Lots of ideas I'm excited about developing, once work backs off a little.

xpost: certainly when I've played it for 3+hours straight it's really noticeable that the load times are getting ridic, but I just make a new save, turn off and back on, and the load times are back to their usual, "spritely" 10-20 seconds - had the misfortune of seeing how quickly everything loads on my brothers PC before sitting through xbox load times :(

ha:

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started playing this after submitting C&P vote, now 35 hours in. just took out the Mother Deathclaw in the cave, holy shit was that tough. Veronica is my best buddy. think this has crashed more than FO3 though :/

am totally stuck in the brotherhood. where is the fricking comms terminal it keeps asking me to hook up veronica with? i've looked everywhere.

deathclaws pretty much kill me instantly. what's the trick?

Archimedis II imo

well i'm at lvl 30 & they are still tough. either send in Veronica to distract & pound them with missiles or use terrain & pick them off with sniper rifle. Think that comms is in a shack near Gibsons Scrapyard?

i started playing this again after taking a couple months off - game's so huge, still havent finished

aaarggh so its not actually in the brotherhood base like it led me to believe? ffffffs

I decided last week that I'd quickly run through the main storyline so that I at least could have finished the game once. That was 20 hours ago of gameplay and I've only just gotten to Hoover Dam.

i've got to get around to the damn hoovering too

(here all week etc)

i told myself that i'd finish f3 before i started this one, never happened. so i at least need to finish f3 before i finish NV.

and then i need to finish red dead, and shift, and mass effect2, and lbg2, and buy gran turismo and ...

i did the speed-ahead-to-the-ending thing w/FO3, but mostly just cuz i was sick of the game

i've took my time with f3 because i was so impressed by it, and trying to see as much as i can that the game can offer. interuptions from other games helping this task.

The slow progress with NV is just plain lack of interest.

For the first time in a game, I'm tempted to buy the strategy guide book (both games) for completion sakes.

when i was a teenager i did that for JRPGs, which always seem designed with the strategy guide in mind

But... there's a wiki for that!

i love this game despite it still crashing at least every 2 hours for me. btw guaranteed funtimes = rolling through the wasteland w/rex and lily.

this game is so ridiculously full of content, i must be 60-70 hours in and ive got like 20 unfinished quests and several vaults to get through and im still finding weird caves and other random shit.

still pissed that i was dumb enough to do the weird wasteland perk which has shown up now a whopping 4 times i think.

has anyone on this thread collected the requisite number of star bottle caps to do that quest?

yeah i did

I completed it. Had way more star caps than I needed by the time I got around to it.

I really recommend it - the "reward" is great.

im right on the brink w/the star caps - also equipping lily with the unique supersledge called "oh boy!' or whatever makes her a boone level death machine. its ridiculous.

how do i not trigger the endgame btw (if that can be expressed w/o spoilers) im assuming it is house/yes man related? or do i have to stay away from hoover dam in general?

House/Yes Man is one way of getting there. You're going to have to mess with him, but there's still a ways left at the Dam.

Ok so after hitting my limit with freezes and lockups I did the stupid both bumper plus x boot trick and it seems to actually work

i've kind of just skimmed this thread cuz i want to avoid spoilers, but how do you guys think this ranks against Fallout 3?