Fallout: New Vegas

[ShitFace]

Well I'm surprised no one has made this yet, so I will

Who else has been playing this non stop since it came out? I had it preloaded so on the hour it came out I was straight on it.
And I couldn't get off it, this game is fucking awesome!
I love the quests in this game, and the gambling is great. I won 32k on the slot machines!
Its also huuuge, I thought I was near the end of the game but turns out I'm not really and there are still loads of quests and shit to do.

What do you guys think?

[Atomic]

My mom is buying it for my son for Christmas. I can't wait. I know we will both like it. Both like Fallout 3.

[ShitFace]

I'd say its better than fallout 3. Its definately bigger, more perks, more lvls.

[sycld]

I finished my first play-through of the game as a mostly positive karmic character

Faction chosen

and I crowned myself head of New Vegas thanks to the help of the Yes Man.

I felt the ending was anti-climactic to a degree, though not to the same degree as in Fallout 3. As much as I was glued to this game, I think I'll put it down for a short while until I go through my negative karmic play-through, that is if I can overcome my ineluctable impulse to always be the good guy in every RPG I play.

[thank mr skeltal]

I always end up being super evil because I steal everything that isn't bolted to the ground

[ShitFace]

I'm mostly good at the moment, a bit mixed here and there...I'm a cannibal lol.

[sycld]

ok i've started my hardcore playthrough
this isn't nearly as mindless, and survival definitely comes far more in handy...
also apparently sodas and alcohol actually make you more dehydrated, but cans of pork 'n beans hydrate you.

also, i primarily fight unarmed, and i'll keep a couple energy weapons for ranged attacks. the guns and ammo i'll mostly sell, given that in hardcore mode the ammo has weight.

[Atmosfear]

Two freeze crashes in the first 3 hours.

AWESOME JOB BETHESDA

[ShitFace]

yeah it crashes now and then get over it

[sycld]

bethesda is a pretty nice town. it has good restaurants.

[Atmosfear]

Another freeze crash.

[Atmosfear]

This really is intolerable. Two weeks after release on an ancient engine and they can't fix their game crashing problems? I've also had NPC character models start noclipping other objects, killcams going awry (waaaay worse than Fallout 3s occasional goofiness), and animations that repeat a couple jittery frames over and over through the conversation.

I was skeptical that this was going to be Babby's First Fallout v3.1 and so far I'm ok with the story elements and setting, but all of these little issues are adding up to feeling like I played 60 bucks for a fucking beta. The game has already been patched, so the fact that the game won't fucking run reliably on a console is just unacceptable.

If they wanted to make advances, they'd have cut the load times when entering buildings/changing environments, not made them a liability.

[sycld]

i must say... i'm not experiencing any of the issues you are. the only thing is that the load times are a little annoying, but they aren't really so long as to be very irritating. otherwise, the game plays well with only 1 crash out of a tremendous number of hours of play time.

[thank mr skeltal]

Atmoscheer, did you patch? It supposedly fixed most of those problems.

edit: PC version has a patch, I dunno about consoles

[Nermy2k]

Save early, save often.

[ShitFace]

I get the occasional crash but thats it, and its not really happened more than 5 times in about 60 hours of play.

[Atomic]

F5 shoot kill F5 enter F5 shoot kill loot F5...

[ShitFace]

someone has rpg syndrome

[Mad Pino Rage]

Absolutely engrossed in this game. I hate the crashes and the bugs and I think the recent patch only fixed most of the exploits and corpses(except for the ash piles! so becareful energy weapon users) rather than the bugs. Also, I just spent a ridiculous amount of time on my first playthrough to have Boone and ED-E fucking disappear after I left Lucky 38 casino. After a little tooling around on the internet, this is a common problem and sometimes going to Vault 22 and using the elevator will magically respawn them back at your side. So now I have to go to Vault 22 to continue my game! ARGH!

[ShitFace]

Yeah there are a few bugs.
I can't get the ion cannon gun to fire either and I have done the quest for it.

Its still a fantastic game though and I'm loving it.

[Atmosfear]

Atmoscheer, did you patch? It supposedly fixed most of those problems.

edit: PC version has a patch, I dunno about consoles

I've only played with the patch for PS3.

[sycld]

God this game is sooo good.

Playing through me second play through.


Soooo goood, Atmoscheer, sooooo goooood

[Mad Pino Rage]

Playing the game on hardcore very hard difficulty with the GAMEBREAKING goodsprings level up and get more than 15 perks glitch. I'm going to be god in New Vegas. The people will quiver before me!

[Nermy2k]

doesn't cheating defeat the purpose of playing the highest difficulty setting

[ShitFace]

doesn't cheating defeat the purpose of playing the highest difficulty setting

lol yeah i was thinking that
why not just play on easy and cheat like that, then you will be even more godlike than before

[ShitFace]

I'm loving the monty python refrerences in this game.

[Mad Pino Rage]

doesn't cheating defeat the purpose of playing the highest difficulty setting

Yes. I'm on a powertrip in New Vegas, and it is really fun to see and do everything that I couldn't in previous playthroughs.

[ShitFace]

Yes. I'm on a powertrip in New Vegas, and it is really fun to see and do everything that I couldn't in previous playthroughs.

Again I don't really understand why you're playing it on hardcore mode if you're doing that, why not just play on easy.

[Mad Pino Rage]

Again I don't really understand why you're playing it on hardcore mode if you're doing that, why not just play on easy.

My preference?

[ShitFace]

lolok

[Atmosfear]

Yeah MPR that's pretty stupid.

[Nermy2k]

also i'll probably get this and play it once it's $5.99

(just kidding i'm going to download it for free during winter break)

[Mad Pino Rage]

Yeah MPR that's pretty stupid.

That's your opinion.

[Atmosfear]

Might as well be fact

[sycld]

hardcore mode is so incredibly easy as it is. i get so much food from the environment, and there's always toilet conveniently located to drink out of. i hardly used rad-x, rad-away, and stimpaks in the normal mode, and in hardcore mode i use the two former a little more frequently and stimpaks hardly at all since they heal so little compared to food.

well, at least a high survival skill makes it easy, but i think it'd be easy anyway.

[Nick2.1]

Two freeze crashes in the first 3 hours.

AWESOME JOB BETHESDA

I heard the console version has a few bugs. I fucking love this game though, about 80 hours in and its still kicking.

Also, bethesda didn't develop the game, they just published it. If you want to blame someone, blame Obsidian Entertainment.

[ShitFace]

Yeah I agree.
It does crash now and then, but its so fantastic, I'm more than willing to overlook the odd crash.

[Mad Pino Rage]

Playing a melee/unarmed build and oh god how much fun it is to uppercut a nightkin master's head, and with Rex knocking them down I feel way too powerful.

[Atmosfear]

If you consider combat a viable option in this game, it is too easy. If you max your speech skill, it is too easy. If you max your lockpick skill, it is pretty easy. Hardcore mode is melee broken, normal mode is melee and guns broken. Difficulty still doesn't scale.

I stand by my original opinion... it's a half-finished game that's entertaining enough but lacks any substance. The only way to find a challenge in the game is to never steal (since even for good characters, karma isn't a deterrent), never put points into any combat skill, never use companions, and never use sneak attacks. Even then, you face only a minor inconvenience.

Like honestly, if you aren't unkillable around level 10, you've never played Fallout before or you breathe exclusively through your mouth.

Babby's first fallout v1.5

[ShitFace]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're the only one with that opinion Atmoscheer.