First Look at Fallout: New Vegas

[TOGSolid]

Please don't get vicious with people who have differing views to your own, this is why the gaming community has a bad name.

Ah, and now the passive agressive approach, good job. I only get hostile with people that try to debate without putting any real thought to their posts. "It's bad cause...cause...IT'S BAD!"

What makes me hostile isn't that you don't like New Vegas. Frankly, I don't give a shit about that, it's that if you're going to try and talk about why you're not interested, at least put some god damned thought behind it.

I'm sure Obsidian would kill to do their own Fallout game with all sorts of awesome bells and whistles (hell, they had one under production at one point) but they're taking what they can get and running with it. The people to yell at aren't Obsidian, it's Bethesda. If Obsidian had their druthers, Fallout New Vegas would probably look very, very differently, but they have to base their work off of Fallout 3 which does limit how far they can go. Frankly, I'm surprise that Bethesda is giving Obsidian the leeway they do have.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

If you're gonna try and use history as a debate point, you may want to check your facts. KOTOR 2 suffered from the publisher wanting to rush the game out of the door. It was shipped unfinished and still in need of a lot of love.

Your post is pretty much garbage. Yes the engine/control schemes are mostly the same, but you make it sound like this game is a F3 mod with no new resources. No new models? No new anything? Really? Are you a moron?

If you'd actually bothered to RTFA you'd know that a lot of things from F3 are being fixed up and improved upon. Frankly though, twits like you aren't even worth debating with. I could easily refute your inane blatherings just by copy/pasting entire sections of the article. Troll elsewhere, thanks.

Nah, here's cool.
Yes things have changed but they're all surface things, the core is the same and i'd be much more interested in something that really mixed it up. Maybe a return to isometric, maybe the complete opposite, perhaps a new VATS system. Innovation and stuff.
Please don't get vicious with people who have differing views to your own, this is why the gaming community has a bad name.

Why should they fix the broken skill/prek and vats system and do something about the lacking equipment and weapons..... because they don't care and neither dose today's gamer whos more interested in brands,fads and what they are told to like by the industry....

 

[Tartarga]

I did not think it was possible for me to want this game more than I already did. Obviously I was wrong.

 

[Denamic]

Face hurts...!
Too much... smiling! Can't... stop!

 

[internetzealot1]

Didn't read the whole thing to avoid spoilers, but did you mention that, in hardcore mode, you'll have to eat and drink water regularly to survive? That completely changes the game. Now, not only do you have to worry about your quests. You have worry about your next meal, which gets a big "Fuck Yeah" from me.

 

[nipsen]

Frankly, I'm surprise that Bethesda is giving Obsidian the leeway they do have.

Me too.. I'm sort of used to seeing companies trampling smaller studios that actually know what they're doing, in order to promote their own titles.

..of course.. then you consider the fact that Alpha Protocol will probably be released very close to New Vegas...which will no doubt get about 1000 times as much advertisement.. from the games-media, I mean - and the universe is in order again...

 

[johnman]

It sounds like it will be superior to Fallout 3, especially if they have enhanced the combat, that really put me off the number 3

 

[LogieBear]

This will be awesome!
I cannot wait!
And i'm loving the faction and reputation thing going on =)

 

[mchoueiri]

I loved Fallout 3 and hopefully New vegas will be good I have my hopes up. Also I loved the soundtrack for Fallout 3 hopefully the soundtrack is just as good.

 

[Somthing]

Maybe one of the games could be based outside america in the future. Wold be cool

 

[samsonguy920]

Color me interested. I am piqued at the part where VATS is going to be more real time. Are we hinting at a testbed for Fallout MMO with VATS? Stay tuned!

 

[Postman667]

CAN NOT WAIT!

 

[Malyc]

Why is the game not out yet???

I... MUST... HAVE!!!!

 

[GonzoGamer]

Sounds absolutely awesome. My only problem with it is the faction segment. I dislike the whole faction-style in games, it's one of the reasons I really disliked STALKER: CS. I like F3 because there weren't any real factions you could side with, it was just good / evil.

I hope they make it complex enough that there are way(s) around a bad rep if you're clever.

Like in Fallout 3:
Spoiler for Replicated Man quest:
You had a choice between turning in the android (and getting the perk)or informing him (and getting the gun). But if you were clever, you could inform him, offer to kill the goons looking for him, then going to said goons and informing them just before blasting them for the perk.

Two words: Fucking sweet!

This will be one game I will actually buy at launch. I can't remember the last time I did that. Left 4 Dead 2 was pretty close, but I still got that a week after release.

I hope they keep the in-game radio. That was one of my favorite aspects of Fallout 3.

Yes! Except I hope they have a few more songs. I could play FO3 for a half an hour and hear the same song twice.

I'm sure there will be plenty of Rap Pack music in this: the teaser had "Blue Moon."
I actually hope they give us our own radio station we can play our own mp3s on; there is a mission where you have to clear out Supermutants from a radio station - I think that's what Black Mountain is.

Either way, this is probably the one game I'm really excited to see right now. It's the only one I'm really looking forward to.
Fallout 3 is my favorite of this gen so far and I'm hoping NV is even better.

 

[That One Six]

It may be the several hours of Monty Python I've just watched, but I can't help thinking, "Always looks on the bright side of death!" Even if it is only so you can get resurrected and get some well deserved vengeance...

 

[CloggedDonkey]

One, great report, and two, do you think that, maybe, possibly, you could, if it's okay with you, get some video of the game next time you do a preview? If so, that would make you the bestest peoples evar! If not, I tried.

 

[Nerdfury]

My biggest issue with these games is that developers seem to think that making the game as huge as possible is the key to making the game better. Fallout 3 and Oblivion have both been forgotten by myself and a lot of my friends and associates because you spend so much time trawling through the game, exploring, doing side quests, main quests, collecting and everything else that you eventually run out of steam for playing it. You either just stop wanting to play, or you've reached the highest level, done only a portion of the game and you just don't feel like it any more. And you never feel like playing it again!

In Oblivion, I've done every side quest from the 'good' factions, but as far as the main quest, I've spoken to the prior and have been told to go to another town to collect the prince. That's all. And I haven't felt like playing it again since I got it when it first came out.

Developers need to give us short, concise games with less focus on exploration and a billion side-quests and factions and collectables and secrets and all that jazz, and give us solid RPGs with a reasonable size and number of quests, then if they want to add more, make add-ons.

 

[nipsen]

Developers need to give us short, concise games with less focus on exploration and a billion side-quests and factions and collectables and secrets and all that jazz, and give us solid RPGs with a reasonable size and number of quests, then if they want to add more, make add-ons.

Now, now. That's crazy talk! You need to rush out a bunch of content in the shortest amount of time possible - because every customer who bought fallout3 were hugely impressed with how dynamic and expansive the world was, and how much /content/ was in it. That there was no depth in the game, no soul, and so on, doesn't matter. Heck - if Fallout3 was called "Oblivion - oblivioner once again".. instead of having FALLOUT in the title, it would've sold exactly the same amount of discs.

I've read it on the internet, so it must be true.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

(DROOOOOL)


Ahem.

I loved Fallout 3, and New Vegas looks even better!

Although, if i really want to catch up on Fallout mythos, I need to get 1 and 2.

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