Pretty much this. I've been having a ton of fun with this game, although I'm not entirely sure if I prefer it to Fallout 3.MiracleOfSound said:
Rei plays Fallout: New Vegas
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Over all an excellent review. Perhaps a tad long in places, but never terribly so.
Minor nitpick: It seems like you did a lot of comparisons to Fallout 3, which gave me the impression that you hold Fallout 3 as the standard and were comparing New Vegas to that standard, not on it's own merits.
Mayhap it just seems like you did a lot of comparing because the comparisons were spread out across the review. In that case, it might be better if you condensed all the comparisons into one or two paragraphs, and then went on and reviewed the game as a standalone, as though it had no relation to Fallout 3.
Minor nitpick: It seems like you did a lot of comparisons to Fallout 3, which gave me the impression that you hold Fallout 3 as the standard and were comparing New Vegas to that standard, not on it's own merits.
Mayhap it just seems like you did a lot of comparing because the comparisons were spread out across the review. In that case, it might be better if you condensed all the comparisons into one or two paragraphs, and then went on and reviewed the game as a standalone, as though it had no relation to Fallout 3.
Similar though they may be, New Vegas is a game in its own right and the only real correlation between New Vegas and Fallout 3 is that they take place in the same world.Yureina said:Talking about Fallout 3 in this case I thought was necessary because of how similar the two games are.
I have no objection to doing comparisons, what I object to is that the way that you did them, it seemed like that's all the review was. Just perhaps do them more structured, or condensed the next time a compare-contrast review comes up.
A very well written review, and a metric ton better than I would be able to string together.
The only thing I can add, which is major knit-picking, and in the great scheme of things completely irrelevant, is something I have been rather annoyed over for quite a while; nearly all improvements over Fallout 3 is more or less copy-pasted from the mod community, without crediting the mod makers.
Although, now when I think about it it's mainly ranting in any case.
The only thing I can add, which is major knit-picking, and in the great scheme of things completely irrelevant, is something I have been rather annoyed over for quite a while; nearly all improvements over Fallout 3 is more or less copy-pasted from the mod community, without crediting the mod makers.
Although, now when I think about it it's mainly ranting in any case.
Great review. I am currently enjoying this game and couldn't agree with your remarks anymore. I lot of people have complained about this game, but I like it so far. I do hope that another patch comes out soon though. Keep up the good work, Rei.
A really well written review and I have to agree with everything you have said already stated. I don't know about you but I also found that choices that you can make in quests are quite a bit more varied now (Or at least I think they are, I'm not sure). In FO3 there was the usual good/neutral/bad choices that there were in quests and although maybe they still fall into those catagories there a lot more ways to going about them.
For example, in Jacobstown (I think) with the quest to help
A better example would probably be with the White glove society in the Ultra lux. There were so many endings you could have chosen to end in that quest (I think at least 5-6, possibly 7) that I actually had to sit there for a good 10 minutes to think which would be the best for me, which effect the people and in which way?
I know it's not like that for every quest but I find it better than FO3's standerd pick either of these 3 options: Good, bad or neutral.
For example, in Jacobstown (I think) with the quest to help
find and help the doc to research a cure for the Nightkin there were a few things you could have done. When asked to decide wheter the cure should still be researched even at the cost of the Nightkin's (Lily's?) life you have to think, she will be hurt but a cure myay be found or she can be better off and a cure may never surface. Which is the lesser of the two evils?
And also when confronted with the Nightkin leader you could have given him the incomplete stealthboy, which he would have used at the cost of his and his people's health the steal more stealth boys. Kill him and his people which would mean the town would be safe but it's leader would have lost its people's trust. Again which is the better out of them?
And also when confronted with the Nightkin leader you could have given him the incomplete stealthboy, which he would have used at the cost of his and his people's health the steal more stealth boys. Kill him and his people which would mean the town would be safe but it's leader would have lost its people's trust. Again which is the better out of them?
A better example would probably be with the White glove society in the Ultra lux. There were so many endings you could have chosen to end in that quest (I think at least 5-6, possibly 7) that I actually had to sit there for a good 10 minutes to think which would be the best for me, which effect the people and in which way?
I know it's not like that for every quest but I find it better than FO3's standerd pick either of these 3 options: Good, bad or neutral.
My god.....I bet you would be pissed off if you won a new BMW, just because it wasn't a Ferrari. His review is spot on and exactly what to expect. Something tells me you are a touch of "the glass is half empty" type. If you don't like the review, or how it was done. Go read a different one. Ra'tard.Savant Crime said:Similar though they may be, New Vegas is a game in its own right and the only real correlation between New Vegas and Fallout 3 is that they take place in the same world.Yureina said:Talking about Fallout 3 in this case I thought was necessary because of how similar the two games are.
I have no objection to doing comparisons, what I object to is that the way that you did them, it seemed like that's all the review was. Just perhaps do them more structured, or condensed the next time a compare-contrast review comes up.
I had considered Knights of the Old Republic actually because I played it through for the first time recently. Unfortunately something about that game hates me attempting to take in-game screenshots, so I would not be able to post any of my own pictures to go with a review. I'd have to use someone else's and... I don't want to do that. >_>stukov961 said:
What kind of problem do you get? Crashes to desktop, corrupt image files or something else?Yureina said:
I could look into it if I had some details, KotOR is one of my all-time favorite games
Print-screen does not work. All I get is a black image whenever I try to screenshot something from that game.stukov961 said:What kind of problem do you get? Crashes to desktop, corrupt image files or something else?Yureina said:
I could look into it if I had some details, KotOR is one of my all-time favorite games
Of the top of my head, make sure [EnableScreenShot=1] is set to 1 in the .ini file, run it in XP compability mode and check for patches. What OS are you trying to run it on?Yureina said:
In the case of Vista and Win7 running it as administrator might help
If none of these is the cause of the problem I'll just have to dig up my copy of it and take a closer look.
Yeah, microsoft didn't make it easy for us to play old games =/. If that doesn't work, you could try Fraps [http://www.fraps.com/], I'm fairly sure it can be used to capture still images as well.Yureina said:I had to do alot of those things to get the game to run at all. But... I'll try the screenshot thing.
EDIT: Sorry that I'm cluttering up your review thread with this, feel free to send a pm if I can be of further assitance. Either way I hope it works out.
