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

Beth really stiffed them. This makes me sad in more ways than one.

whoa that is next gen stupid. this is why metacritic should be burned to the ground imo.

i actually saw that and went out to gamestop to buy a copy for my ps3

then i realized, fuck, they're not gonna see any of this

hard to get great reviews without any playtesting

man that's crazy

what was the cancelled next-gen?

should note i never actually bought a copy for ps3

should note and then ask: does anyone have this for ps3? are there patches? i imagine there's a slowdown glitch a la skyrim, no?

Nobody seems to know much about the cancelled project; it was called "North Carolina", that's about it.

finally finishing this, in the end game at the moment. in true fashion its been buggy as hell right here at the end - freezes, vanishing companions, quests not triggering when they should, etc

i think w/ a lot of these games even if bug fixes have come down the pipe, some errors stay resident in your save games.

certainly true of older skyrim stuff i've pulled up recently. sucks!

There's an island of disk space somewhere with all my useless Fallout 2 saved games

Ok so I will officially say that the ncr ending is pretty much super boring

I loved this game, but I will say that I was puzzled over the rasta-dude's motivations in the last DLC. Having your sidekick droid develop a personality was pretty cool, tho.

Steam tells me I played this for 170+ hours.

Is any of the DLC apart from Old World Blues worth the points?

the 2nd one. the one set in Zion Natl Park. Beautiful scenery and you meet interesting characters.

Thanks!

Altho, the first one has a frustrating opening, it is kinda interesting and you get my favorite blaster rifle from the game, one that fires holo-cubes

I saw this for under 20 dollars new at Gamestop last week and almost picked it up. Still haven't come close to finishing FO3, though. Something about FO3 really frustrated me. I think it was just the constant wandering around without really knowing what to do. Also, I kept walking into areas too advanced for me to deal with at that moment. I need a structured experience apparently.

got this for xmas. already snared deep into it. god i love these games.

Be sure to load up on mods & corrections. Helps the game out, I found.

Also playlists/music packs

i got it for xbox360, so am hoping all corrections are in place - have not had a freeze or crash or anything so far (knocks on wood). already 15 hours in, just cleared out the rocket factory.

can i say again, GOD i love these games.

shocked it hasn't hit the Steam sale yet, i'm probably gonna pull this trigger this time

ick, vault 34.

Been off work sick for the last four days so, with nothing better to do, I broke the seal on the copy I've had for a few weeks and I've ploughed 25 hours into it already.

I really liked Fallout 3, but I'm enjoying this more. I prefer the slightly lighter tone, but what's impressed me most is the sense that my actions are having an effect on the world. Can't wait to get back to it and get Rex a new brain...

that's what happens when people with a past in the franchise get involved, I think

I think I'll be playing with this character for a long while yet but at this stage I can definitely see myself going back to see how siding with different factions affects the way things play out. I'm almost glad for a chest infection - it's been a long time since I've had the opportunity to sink satisfying chunks of time into an RPG.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/01/10/sounds-legit-three-dog-teases-fallout-4/

ick, vault 34.

hardest part of the game, probably.

the best vault is 11, though. omg. i was kinda stunned by the generosity and confidence of design in vault 11's being unnecessary and unsignposted.

the one with the plants can go fuck itself though.

am barely reading this thread cos i don't wanna spoiler myself, but am glad to see vault 34 is as tough as it gets. found myself regularly getting entirely lost and not knowing what to do next, and those ghouls were tough to kill (but not if you have boone and the eye robot with you). that said, i need to buy some rad-x and rad-away now.

just bade boone farewell and signed cass up to my team, to keep things interesting. gonna travel with veronica for a while too, to experience all of the characters - is that the right way to do it? or should i save these different companions for different runs through the game? might well attempt it one more time as a Bad Dude, as I always play as a white knight-ish through the first time.

Vault 34 is a massive pain in the ass, but the reward at the end is stellar.

what was the reward, cankles? i fear i may have missed it...

uhhh I think you get the All-American in the armory at the end. which is a decent semi-auto scoped unique rifle but probably not 'stellar' as i said at the time. maybe theres some other stuff i forgot about

Aha - I think I may have sold that? Or not found it. I just wanted to get out by the end!

it's easy to miss the armory in there, actually, but without it the whole quest is outrageously unremunerative. (aside of course from its best reward, which is never having to go in there again.)

no problem with getting all the companions on a single playthrough; i think you get an "achievement" for it, actually. all the companions have associated quests, tho, and some (cass, rex) are more obvious than others (boone, arcade), and several of them are triggered by having specific experiences with the companion present, so it's possible to lock yourself out of them without knowing it (by having the triggering experiences while they're not there), so the most relaxing attitude to have is probably a noncompletist one. f:nv's much less of a do-everything-with-one-character game than f3 (where basically the only serious mutually exclusive choices are the megaton thing at the beginning and "push this button or that button" at the end); i had a lot of fun imagining personalities for different characters and taking them on different paths depending. (my favorite character might actually have been my legion one, who for the first half of the game was also my ncr one -- did all the ncr-soldier quests i'd skipped in previous playthroughs and then after much inner agony betrayed them.) i replayed this game like five times, i think. i never replayed f3 once.

sorry, so the point was, def hang out with all the characters, but don't expect to exhaust them on one playthrough, unless you look them up in the wiki and do it really clinically.

it is possible to do p much everything (except the obvious mutually exclusive stuff) but you have to look everything up and plan things out in advance. i usually do this on a second playthrough. and given how buggy these games are, a lot of a first, tbph

iirc boone, the nerdy underground woman and arcade have a half-dozen potential plot trigger moments but you only need to hit a couple of them.

er i guess dlh said just that

Did anyone else kill everyone in Caesar's camp or whatever?

yes, near the end i went there and wiped it out. those smug bastards had it coming!

I wasn't able to really get very close to Caesar. I started a mission where I was supposed to infiltrate the camp, but somehow simultaneously picked up such a negative reputation that any Legion dudes shoot at me on sight. I subsequently had no choice but to kill the quest giver, breaking the quest.

On a different playthrough I got into the camp, but at some point everyone starts attacking me for no reason, even though I had been walking around and talking to people just fine...

am now at the strip, wondering how to string out my new vegas experience - what's the path to the final mission? is it finding the guy who tried to shotted me, or is it going to meet Mr House? Avoiding both right now, and considering going in search of the super-mutants at black mountain to kill some time and see my new companion veronica in action...

I found the approach to Black Mountain very enjoyable. It's a winding mountain road with lots of hairpin turns and debris that act as natural hiding spots (for mutants) or cover (for you and yours). There are a fair amount of Super Mutants to keep you busy, and because of the way the level is designed, you can play it almost any way you like (sniping, explosives, melee, whatever you like). I felt this section of the game was nicely designed.

Awesome! That's my next location then...

Woah, vault 11. Amazing.

Finally finished this. What DLC should I try first?

i haven't played them all but the one that got the most love was old world blues. i've only played honest hearts because i picked based on which dangling plot thread (the burned man / brother elijah / courier five) i was the most intrigued by. it was okay. very pretty.

i guess courier five is more intriguing than the burned man since courier five is prob the most mysterious thing in the original game. did you ever find the mountain pass out west, a little south of goodsprings, with GO HOME COURIER and stuff graffitied on it? i assume that's what opens up in lonesome road. it's creepy but in kind of a lesser way than the burned man is creepy; it's much more of a video game hook than a lore detail. i like lore details :/

oh man, I never played all the expansions!

also! how'd you finish?