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

The writing and the voice-work on Dead Money are great. The survival horror aspect and repeated textures of the town, not so much.

Nice that you finally get a B.A.R, tho. Odd how it doesn't show up in Honest Hearts, tho, from what the main character of that one mentions.

Also, this shit is way Bioshock-y

and kinda inscrutable how they led with THIS as the first DLC

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Finally beat Dead Money last night. Great writing, fucking annoyingly brutal gameplay.

Deadlock/Running Man collars suck. Made it out of the vault with 4 gold bars, tho.

Both fallouts now on super sale on Steam.

Chris Avellone is posting links to SA on his twitter feed, resulting in the discovering of this fan-art:

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

Where's Veronica? Or did the lesbian fisting gag mean she was unsuitable. There are some weird people in here. I don't recognize some of them.

i liked Old World Blues but i skipped through a lot of the dialogue ruthlessly. labored nerd humor is not my thing ("why u playing fallout then" heh)

OCD character-build types take note -- the "book depository" robot thing in your room potentially changes the whole game. you can print up skill books for next to nothing, where previously the game had a handful scattered around the whole gameworld.

Yeah, but you can only make one of each skill book, right? +4 teach stat is a limited effect

oh i only tried it once! i thought you could just keep doing it.

Trying to get the Cinematech mod to work, b/c I want 35mm film grain in this thing.

Christ, Steam says I've played this at least 118 hours already.

Ugh, I think I'm burning out. 140+ hours in on this character, and the last dlc ain't even out yet.

I did install the "orgasm" mod that patches the lack of sound bug during the humping fade-to-black scenes. My blue-haired bespectacled black chick character will fuck her way across the wasteland or die trying, sexdroid or no sexdroid.

your pursuits are noble

http://askarcade.tumblr.com/

kind of loving dead money atm. all the peeps talking about blowing through it in 2 hours are FULL OF SHIT btw. i am a pretty seasoned FO3/NV player and man lemme tell u, u gonna die a bunch of times, esp if you are a compulsive gotta find everything dude like me.

I didn't like the village part of dead money; too many bear traps for my limbs, too few building textures.

I'm waiting for Lonesome Road to hit, and am playing FO3 in the meantime. Bethesda is posting little 60-sec "holotape" mp3s to their blog of Ulysses' diary.

yeah the bear traps were pretty goddamn ridic, i just started into the casino so maybe i am particularly into it right now because getting out of the villa and all the ghost people was such a goddamn relief.

i will prob also go back to FO3 for a bit after i finish this, never did the pitt although i own it and should prob go ahead and suffer through mothership zeta one of these days

Mothership zeta is one note, but has some interesting ideas. Quite short, too.

The best part is probably the audio logs you find.

I just began Point Lookout yesterday; you can see how some bits were tested out for FONV there.

i really really liked point lookout

Point Lookout was the most standalone of the FO3 addons for sure

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/08/25/lonesome-road-coming-september-20th-couriers-stash-and-gun-runners-arsenal-one-week-later/

o i didn't see this part:

Gun Runners’ Arsenal (Xbox LIVE for 320 Microsoft points, PlayStation Network and Steam for $3.99) increases the range of unique weapons,weapon mods, ammo types and recipes waiting to be uncovered in the vast Mojave Wasteland.

Among the unqiue weapons added are the Bozar, an all-powerful 5.56mm Light Machine Gun, the Smitty Special, an overwhelming variant of the Plasma Caster, the MFC Cluster mine, the Esther, a unique Mini Nuke Launcher, and the ridiculous Nuka Breaker – a new melee weapon made from a Nuka-Cola neon sign. In total Gun Runners’ Arsenal adds 27 new weapons, 40 new weapon modifications for existing weapons, 18 new new recipes, and 29 new ammo types — including the 12 Ga. Dragon’s Breath, Hive Missiles, and 25mm/40mm Plasma Grenades. Finally, Gun Runners’ Arsenal also adds more than 20 all-new challenges to the Mojave Wasteland.

i get a little annoyed at how many weapons are "omg kewl" instead of just effective, but maybe i'm not really in the spirit of the game

wait by 20 new challenges, do they just mean shit like "bash 50 dudes in the noggin w/ the Nuka Breaker" or something actually interesting

Usually, yeah. I do the challenges if I get perks or stat bumps

Beat PL tonight, sorta. FONV could use more tripping sequences, and Lovecrafty bits

Love the Bozar in FO2 :D

the bozar is the greatest fallout weapon ever. super pumped for this

Kinda disappointed that there's not more narrative dlcs announced. The writing on each one one has been great, and the voicework on HH/OWB is _fantastic_.

http://cdnstatic.bethsoft.com/bethblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FONV-Lonesome-Road-Screenshot-3.jpg

boss fight!

Possibly. You got yer unlaunched nuclear ICBM there too, giving it the vibe of a Bond film climax.

However, this is Fallout, and one of the great things I love about the series is that you can talk your way thru it. It requires far more skill to create ending drama thru well-written dialogue than just bashing each other with shovels, but Avellone & co can probly pull it off. We'll see.

Playing thru Operation Anchorage. Interesting as backstory, Bleah as gameplay

the boss-fight-through-dialogue thing worked well when it was revealing to THE MASTER that you'd uncovered information implying his race of ethnic-cleansing supermen were genetically infertile and less well when it was just telling malcolm mcdowell his plan was evil until he decided you were right and blew himself up

oblivion with guns

New Vegas really is a lot more fun and not in downer in tone. Actual green things are there, you get the idea that the world is moving on(even in the midst of a NCR/legion war), the writing is far better(deeper + funnier).

There's far more kookiness that is the flavor of Fallout; The game ain't a straight post-apoc story(Stalker handles that). There's always been a zany 50's/pre-JFK/"Science!" post-war vibe to it all. Goodie and Art Deco and Streamline Moderne.

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/09/14/watch-the-lonesome-road-trailer/

looks pretty cool, interested to see what the story turns out to be

finally out

Cute. A streaming web/iphone music site:

http://galaxynewsradio.info

Three Dog clips get dropped in from time. I wonder if we can donate music there to vary up the playlist.

i went back to this and it's the best game bethesda's ever released, which is a mean thing to say i know. (new vegas > morrowind > fallout 3 > daggerfall > oblivion > not gonna bluff i've never played arena). bad facial animation and clunky shooting mechanics and maddening robot conversations between NPCs aside, i love their engine (their one engine, the one they've basically been refining since 1994). they should always get other companies to do their writing.

also muuuuuuuuuuuuuch better-deployed celebrity voice actors. dave foley! lt. rawls!

i love their engine

dont troll me bro!

the worst thing about gamebryo is that bethesda could be using id tech 5, instead of dragging the same horrorshow out of the attic and touching it up for game after game. modified gamebryo should be considered one of the most chilling phrases in gaming

new vegas IS fallout 3 afaic, and "fallout 3" was just some shitty fan mod set on the east coast. enabling obsidian to make the real fallout 3 is the only thing of value bethesda's done since morrowind.

lol, u are the morbz of rpgs. fallout 3 is your obama. which, if we are going to stick with political leaders, probably puts gamebryo somewhere between ceausescu and pol pot, which is fair.

haha, at least i waited until i played the game to write it off! and anyway morbs was right about obama wasnt he??

i was thinking purely of not missing a chance to beat the drum, but you make a good point, morbz at least has the excuse of being right.

oh hey, this is the thread where i welcomed you to ilg

comin up on a year m8 :')

bad facial animation...and maddening robot conversations between NPCs

Want to be excited for Skyrim but as far as I can tell, this is the stuff they still haven't fixed. :/