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

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)

http://i.imgur.com/f1nmX.jpg

Best glitch ever?

woah

http://i52.tinypic.com/mijg1y.jpg

haha, but i see a jet plane

then u should join the boomers

I have to admit, in every Fallout game, there's at least one town where I decide the residents are creeps and I kill them all. Caesar's Legion was such an easy choice in this one.

i'm really loving this so far! i'm trying not to go in a hurry. it seems like the landscape is a little more linear... it's harder to wander, maybe? i mean, of course you can wander, but there are a lot of places that are designed to be off-limits to low-level people (the deathclaw area, the irradiated ghoul town, etc)

i really like all the crafting, even if it's fiddly and frustrating at first. the ammo is a little more 'realistic' than FO3. i kind of hope you eventually get an owned house with the work benches and a campfire but i kind of doubt that'll happen

seems like the locations, factions and story branches are better thought out too. i like that there are a lot of different groups and subgroups, i love shit like that. the legion is such a cool idea too, what a great enemy

Did you guys wander across the river to the east? Don't do so until you're higher level, then go and have fun. There's a large group of deathclaws around a dead guy with power armor.

It's not even that the deathclaw area is off-limits to low-level ppl so much as they want to direct you through a particular path to get to New Vegas (thru Novak, presumably so you can follow the storyline properly and get exposed to the Legion nice and early) and if you could just cut north you'd avoid all of that. It's not like there's anything super interesting in the deathclaw area imho.

I think you're thinking of the western deathclaw area near the mines?

I'm thinking about that area that runs north of Goodsprings Cemetery, where you can cut through that ghost town full of bandits and basically major short-cut into NV.

sloan is what i'm talking about

Yup, there is a completely different deathclaw area on the east side of the river, north of the main Legion camp and south of the end-game camp.

It's unmarked on the map, though.

there are also a lot more places where the landscape is unclimbable/impassable. roads and breaks in the mountains are a lot more impt to your progress. i think this is good!

I went nuts a few times trying to find the "correct" paths to places, though.

jacobstown a particular pain in the ass to get to

I think it was the Khans' camp for me.

Wandering thru an actual forest was a nice change of pace in this game, says me who lives in a city surrounded by mountains and carved out of tree stumps.

it makes me wonder what you could do with a game set in more of a snowy, forested area, like Michigan or parts of Eastern Washington

this Caravan game is iiinteresting but not really well thought out imo. took a look at a few strategies online, and it's really easy to win with few simple moves.

sort of cool/sort of odd that all your different kinds of "money" are biddable in the game at full value even if your barter is low. i think the first time i had some NCR money in my inventory that's where i got it, and i didn't know that's where it came from!

speaking of which, different kinds of money! such a cool idea. i'm really impressed by this game so far in just about every way. kind of buggy though innit.

definitely felt more buggy then FO3.

oh it is

played caravan a few times and won often, but i didnt really bother much because once again, i never ever need to buy anything so i have like 8000 caps and nothing to do with them at this point

actually wait i said that oddly, i won caravan every time i played it so it wasnt really any fun

i played caravan enough to get the 'played 5 games' achievement and then forgot about it. i watched a tutorial and still didnt understand that shit.

i have 80,000 caps and im 150 hours into this and im still not close to finished ._.