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

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?

My vote is better

Bought this used for $30.

Played it three days in a row after work and finally put it away tonight, despite not being close to done, because I have no idea how you can play Bethesda games in moderation i.e. without losing your job and mind.

I got so pulled into the game I'd come home at 7Pm and wouldn't turn it off until 2AM or so. I just cant do videogames like this any more*

*still getting L.A. Noire tho

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 put in 13 hours prob and only was getting to the Strip. I thought you could plow through the main story, kinda like in Fallout 3, but it's overwhelming.

I vote better than FO3. Funnier. More fallout-y. Iron sights. Better dialogue.

Oh, it's terrific, I just can't afford to give this the time right now.

Definitely better than Fallout 3 on content. Way buggier though.

i liked the environment of FNV better than FO3, it was better looking and just more varied and interesting. but definitely more care and detail went into populating that environment in FO3. if you wanted to just roam, FO3 was way more rewarding. the random scripted encounters were a fun element that they abandoned too. i did like pretty much every change they made to gameplay and character development in FNV. on balance tho, having been through both of them pretty thoroughly, i enjoyed FO3 more. i knew after my first playthrough that i would want to put it on again to find some cool nuggets i missed, but there's no similar compulsion with FNV. and yeah, towards the end FNV nearly drove me up the fucking wall with crashes.

yeh i'd agree with that, i like just wandering about & discovering new places, and things seem better scripted/more interesting in FO3 - in NV it just seems like i'm discovering caves, blasting everything in the cave & getting some sort of weapon near the back of the cave as a reward.

I vote better than FO3. Funnier. More fallout-y. Iron sights. Better dialogue.

― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Saturday, February 12, 2011 2:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, this

though yeah the exploration in FO3 is a lot better - feels more like a rewarding game mechanic than in FNV. I just think NV is a better RPG.

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

― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, February 9, 2011 6:01 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

if anyone's still having trouble, I recommend the Pew Pew with Max Charge ammo (important). give Boone an anti-materiel rifle with AP ammo. and keep some C-4 on hand for really tough encounters - I used some on the Legendary Deathclaw. C-4's a very limited resource because of how powerful it is, but you can use it to easily game many encounters.

ok just bought this, haven't played it at all yet, really nervous about the instability (xbox here)

so, qns: does loading it to HD have any noticeable effect?

and, what the hell is the " stupid both bumper plus x boot trick"?? sounds like an urban myth!

just beat the game. one thing NV definitely has over F3 is that, like F2 + F1 (and unlike F3), the ending made me all weepy.

i picked the No Gods, No Masters ending. not sure if i have the patience to replay it for one of the the other endings (tho i am curious about the Legion questline)

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Best glitch ever?

woah

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