Review: Fallout: New Vegas

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awesome, but OH NO BUGS
oh god i hope the game won't just die after a while like fallout 3.

sure the ps3 version was the buggiest and froze a lot, but now i can't play a straight 15 minutes without some sort of freezing going on. god i hope that doesn't happen again.

 

[MarsProbe]

Sounds good to me. A bit more keen to p;ick this up now. Plus, seeing that everyone is making a comment on the Indiana Jones reference, I may as well through my tuppence in. That's a neat little reference. I shall forgive it the fact that it gives people another chance to say they didn't like the film, or bizarrely call it a "rip-off", a statement which seemingly has no basis in logic or even the slightest bit of commen sense whatsoever.

Yes, I actually enjoyed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and thought it was a good film, if you're wondering.

Anyway, New Vegas.....

 

[JayDub147]

Well, I recently picked up Thw Witcher, so I won't have time for it just yet.

The upside is that way they'll hopefully have a patch out by the time I am ready. I've been jonesing for a true follow-up to the original.

 

[Necrofudge]

Hardcore mode sounds a whole lot like what I've been doing for years playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. Interesting...
It looks awesome though. I'll get it for PC if I can run it, which probably won't happen.

EDIT: I just checked system requirements and hot damn off to the stores!

 

[Neumanoid]

The movie you are thinking of is 'Crystal Skull.' Indie hides in a fridge to survive a nuclear bomb test. Because it's made of lead. At the explosion site... I facepalmed when watching it, but i can't wait to gets me that hat!

 

[Stevepinto3]

I can remember some of those bugs in Fallout 3. There was one instance before I even met Reiley's Rangers that I found one of them in the north-east corner of the map being attacked by super mutants. Of course by the time I was in range they had already blown the guys head off. So later when I actually did the Reily's Rangers quest he wasn't there.

On the plus side, it got me the ranger armor (what I consider the best armor in the game) that much earlier.

 

[explanoit]

The rules for this engine is to wait a few months before you buy the game. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout.
The sometimes game save breaking bugs will be fixed and youlll have a soothed experience.

 

[Yureina]

I've been playing New Vegas all day today (re-installing because of some funk with my save games. :/), but from what i've seen I agree with what you have said here. Its Fallout 3 with a lighter tone and some cool locations while still afflicted by a few little issues that were in that previous game.

 

[Yureina]

The rules for this engine is to wait a few months before you buy the game. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout.
The sometimes game save breaking bugs will be fixed and youlll have a soothed experience.

Wait... you know about bugs involving save games? What do you mean exactly?

 

[Dommyboy]

Unfortunately, the game play in the review doesn't do the game too much justice. I like the look of it though, especially with Hardcore mode which the originals never had anyway.

Shame they still use/forced to use the Oblivion engine, which really does not work too well.

 

[Acting like a FOOL]

Some folks just need to understand that when you sleep outside in the wide open world of fallout...you'll wake up with bugs in your undies...

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

Not yet. I'm 25+ hours in and still haven't finished the main story.

Music to my ears, that is.

 

[zombiesinc]

I'm really hesitant to play with hardcore enabled. I don't know why, I just... think it'll ruin the experience for me.

I should get my game on Friday *fingers crossed*

 

[Booze Zombie]

I do find it funny how almost every reviewer gave Bethesda room to have a glitch-filled game, but if Obsidian does it...

 

[carpathic]

Sounds pretty awesome!!!

 

[Zanaxal]

What? Dark humour? I can't wait to throw some dynomite down a outhouse.

I'm just liking it if it doesn't force me to start in some boring vault with choices with very little impact whatsoever and the endless metro tunnels of crap, 9000 supermutants to kill and only raiders are the other 1000 enemies. Oh and a story not revolving around being daddies little confused retard kid.

Also more weapons and hopefully a better damage system, i wish they would have mentioned something about the new damage system that was implemented.

 

[Chasmodius]

And just like the last one, I'll be waiting impatiently for the two years it will take for all of the patches and DLC to be combined in an edition that finally goes on sale for about $20. Sometimes being a cheapskate and devoted non-first-adopter has its drawbacks.

And I've been looking forward to Hardcore mode since I first tried the last one. What's the point of food in the game if you never have to eat? Or sleep? It wasn't as bad as Oblivion, but it was still a little immersion-breaking.

 

[Kris015]

Can't wait to get my hands on this one

 

[Necromancer1991]

I don't see why people were expecting this to suck (I personally liked KOTORII), the fact of the matter is that the people who worked on this worked on the original Fallouts, I highly doubt they'd f*@k up a game they made successfully TWICE. When I get the cash I'm definitely going to go pick it up, I can't wait for all the hype-zombie (One who foolishly buys into the hype disregarding all other evidence) rage over Fable III though. As far as buggy saves go, I never had issue in Fallout 3 OR Oblivion.

 

[Tonimata]

Soooooo...

Fallout gone Borderlands?