Fallout: New Vegas Gets the Ultimate Treatment

[Andy Chalk]

Fallout: New Vegas Gets the Ultimate Treatment

The Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition is coming in early 2012.

We can't exactly say we didn't see this coming, can we? The Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition hits retail shelves around the world in February 2012, joining Obsidian's fantastic 2010 RPG with all the DLC that followed: Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier's Stash and Gun Runners' Arsenal. Players will be able to explore an expanded world that includes the Sierra Madre Casino, Zion National park, the Big MT researcher crater and the Divide, with characters that can climb all the way up to level 50.

The new Fallout 3 [http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-New-Vegas-Xbox-360/dp/B0028IBTL6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320353726&sr=8-1], which included $50 of DLC in a $50 game.

The Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition lands in North America on February 7 and Europe on February 10 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.


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[PixelKing]

At least its DLC for the non Live/PSN users.

 

[Irridium]

Eh, I already got all the DLC save Lonesome Road and the weapon packs, so I'll pass. And with Lonesome Road I'll just pick it up during Steam's Christmas sale for, like, $1.

As for the weapon packs, well I'm on PC and have mods. So yeah.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

But does it fix all the issues? That is the real question...

 

[SonicKoala]

I managed to buy New Vegas for only 18 dollars at EB games a couple of months ago - a new copy, mind you. Could I have waited for this? Sure I could of - I knew it was coming, but then I would have missed out on 82 (and counting) of the most enjoyable hours of game I've ever experienced.

 

[Varrdy]

The same thing happened with the Game of the Year Edition of Fallout 3 [http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-3-Game-Year-Xbox-360/dp/B001REZLY8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320353837&sr=8-1], which included $50 of DLC in a $50 game.

Didn't Fallout 3: GOTY also ship with more bugs than a entomology-samples truck crashing into an ant-farm?

Of course New Vegas Ultimate edition wont ship with any more bugs...I dunno if it's possible for New Vegas to be any more buggy.

Wardy
PS Although I have still devoted over 300 hours of my life to New Vegas...I'm just going to go away and be quiet now...sorry.

PPS Playing through Fallout 3 again for the nostalgia value...despite not playing it for over a year, I remember way too much!

 

[Misterian]

But does it fix all the issues? That is the real question...

yeah, I heard Xbox Live has free patches for those glitches, so it might be a smart thing to do if Ultimate Edition also has those patches as well.

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Fantastic. I've put off New Vegas for my PS3 too long, and now I have a great reason to pick up a copy. I believe having so many DLCs can hinder a game - you can pick your favorite DLCs, but for players who want their money's worth they feel a little gipped, like they've bought an incomplete game and even if there's a DLC they don't care for they want to have it simply because it completes the experience. I've always been glad Bethesda acknowledges this with its total package editions.

 

[luckycharms8282]

I was feeling a stirring in my pants up until I saw it wont be out till February. I guess that will give me time to fully enjoy skyrim before hopping back into the fallout universe.

 

[imnot]

My birthday is in feburary!
DO WANT!

 

[Wintermoot]

sooo it,s just FONV GOTY? isn't this something Bethesda does with all it,s games?
maybe I,ll pick it up just to get the DLC,s on the cheap.

 

[Blind Sight]

I already have New Vegas...but I'll buy it again for the DLC. Cause I liked it just that much.

 

[Rhys95]

My patience has been justified

 

[Sonicron]

Aha. And does this new edition come with embedded patches that ensure the damn thing won't freeze up every half hour? Seriously, I liked NV (the part I played so far, anyway), but the frequent crashes unfailingly yanked me out of the experience like an impish bungee cord.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Yeah.... fix the bazillion bugs, and maybe I'll be interested... :\

 

[Palademon]

Yep, this is why I hadn't bought it. I guess no publication was optimistic enough to make it game of the year. But you kn ow, anything can happen. Two Worlds 2 got a game of the year edition.

 

[XT inc]

The really should Have Gone the L.A Noire route and just called it the Complete Edition, But at least I can finally pick up the game and experience it fresh the way it was meant to be played.

Complete with all the content packed in.

Shudders at the thought of Devs adding dlc to finished games like this just for extra hosing on everyone.

 

[thehorror2]

The really should Have Gone the L.A Noire route and just called it the Complete Edition, But at least I can finally pick up the game and experience it fresh the way it was meant to be played.

Complete with all the content packed in.

Shudders at the thought of Devs adding dlc to finished games like this just for extra hosing on everyone.

See, NV did this right, I think. There are a few plot hooks that are referenced lightly, but never directly unless you have their corresponding DLC. (For instance, Veronica refers to one of her elders going off alone after the battle at the Helios 1 power station, but that's all that comes of it unless you buy Dead Money.)

With the exception of the many, many patches, (which they put out for free) when you bought New Vegas new or used you got a complete, huge game. (As opposed to Dragon Age, which would give you these nagging, dangling plot threads and then IN GAME tell you that you'd need to buy DLC to proceed further.)

tl;dr: Games that offer dlc based off of stuff they didn't have time to implement in the base game or -even better- new stuff that they came up with after the game was complete don't deserve to be lumped in with games that lock some of the base game (Again, like Dragon Age) behind "day-one DLC" or the like. (BATMAN!!!)

 

[Sixties Spidey]

So by ultimate, do they mean "Playable"? Because last time I checked, this is Bethesda and Obsidian we're talking here.

 

[Broady Brio]

Good thing I didn't do what I did with Fallout 3. Buy all of it's DLC.

I think I'll pick this up. When I have money. When I get a job. When I get a computer to run it. When I remember.