Greetings, my name is Acidstrider, Fallout fan since 1998, when i first played Fallout 1. And I hate this game. I really just utterly hate it. I start the main game and I am instantly thrown into a character, so generic, they don't even attempt of giving you any depth, aside from "You are a courier!". That within itself is a huge back step, compared to the start of fallout 3. But whatever, it is a RPG, I can make up my own background if I want. But then I notice my doctor's eye's, and the fact their floating two feet away from his head, I am already seeing bugs! Still I shall not let this discourage me! I reboot the game and now, my doctor dosen't have a head at all, but is merely a pair of floating eye balls... I then reboot my computer and remake my character two times before I seem to have everything working.
So I then went on to protect the town, which had so selflessly taken care of me, while I suffered from a bullet to the head, which happened to magically not kill me. Now bethesda advertised one of New vegas features, being a heavier focus on melee combat, something which was instantly demonstrated, by the fact that they all charged at me with sticks, while I blew their brains out with my rifle.
I then martched bravely on toward New Vegas, the very place this game has been hyped up about, only to be instant killed by Death claws. Hm, odd... I said to myself, not knowing why they'd put such high leveled enemies, in the path of the very place, the game is named after. But I then crouched down, and snuck by them, after only two reloads I made it to New Vegas.
Immedietly after ran into a group of thugs, whom I killed instantly, one of which who dropped a incinerator. Odd to find such a high ranked weapon this early on I thought, but I soon forgot about it, as I approached the lights of New vegas. Only to discover I had to walk around the whole stupid thing, to make it to the door. I then entered the slums, where I guess I was meant to farm the 2000 caps, needed to enter Nev vegas. But as a former WoW gold farmer and dispite just starting the game, I'd managed to collect a sufficient amount and I entered through the grand gates.
It was then I was approached by a robot, the very same, which supposedly saved me. He goes on about seeing me around a lot, and I've gone far, alluding that We've meet several times lately, and I've been looking for my would be killer, even though I didn't give a monkies about them. It was then I was introduced to Mr House, and even before he started speaking, I had no idea what the hell was going on. House start spouting a name, I assumed was my killer, and something about a platinum chip... by this point I was really lost.
My computer also seemed completely lost, as it crashed only moments after wards. I wanted to like New vegas and lord knows, I really tried to. But the lackluster story did not do anything for me and nor did any of the side quests. Gone are the small interesting spots, with rich colorful characters, and instead we have copy pasted locations from fallout 3. The locations in themselves are dull, and offer nothing new, from what we saw in fallout 3 (not counting the Casino's), which in itself could be tolerated, but as defiante already stated, they rarely offer little more then, to go here, get this, kill that, with little to no choices on your part.
And don't get me started on when I do get choices. I won't go to deep into this, but I found myself almost reloading two days back into the game, due to my decisions (and a fair share of bugs I assume) I was now stuck. It was around here, I threw up my keyboard and removed all expectations I had for Fallout online.
