fallout new vegas thread

Well, I've only played Fallout 3. It was very good game, open world and with lots of humour, but also serious parts and interesting characters. I did like the guns, but there were a few too many "futuristic" ones for my taste. The slow-motion shooting mechanic also took away a little of the challenge, but it did make the game interesting and a little more cinematic. Yep, that's about it.

 

Definitely. I enjoyed it very much. Problem is, I'm a bit of a packrat, so every single can, every single toaster, and every single little bit of useless rubbish found it's way into my bag: many trips to the store to sell it for one or two bottlecaps! I'm stingy!

 

For Myra (the girl who's writing a book on survival), there was that mission where you have to get advanced radiation poisoning. I went out, and sitting next to the unexploded atom bomb, I started guzzling down gallons of radiated water. Yep, so intelligent!

 

I haven't played that game and the YouTube videos are ""stupEd"".So you guys tell me some things to make me download it or buy it.

 

The main appeal of Fallout is the scavenging off the land. The story is pretty plain, and the futuristic guns take out most of the seriousness, but wandering over a blasted wasteland, fighting bandits and mutants is fun. Of course, I haven't played Stalker, so I wouldn't know how it compares to that.

But Metro was far better than Fallout, in my opinion. It just had (has!) such a great story, interesting characters, and brilliant atmosphere and shooting mechanics. Fallout is quite entertaining, though, and definitely worth a play.

 

Hmm, just spent a week playing New Vegas (on Hardcore). While I enjoyed Fallout 3, I think this game has some problems (and no, I don't mean glitches, I didn't actually encounter too many of those).

First off, the story seemed a little strange, what with the factions all warring and all with pretty bad goals, yet you have to decide from these. Of course, in the end I worked for no-one, yet I didn't really care about the strip, the dam, or anything. Perhaps if the ideals and goals of each faction was made clear and easy to access it might have rolled off more smoothly. But nice job with the factions, it was interesting politics, kinda like the factions from Stalker.

Graphics, man! Some of those textures and animations were terrible. I'm no graphics fanatic, good gameplay is far more important, but seriously, they really could have been better, even with the open world. And the animations... well, Bethesda has always had pretty crummy animations (Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas). They should really work on that aspect. I know they can do good animation (like in the game "Wet")

Few radio stations, even fewer songs. It got very boring very quickly. Fallout 3 had a much longer playlist.

And of course, I can't take the game seriously with laser pistols, plasma guns, and everyone's head getting cut clean off with every single headshot. But that's just me.

 

They were fighting over a large source of energy, which supplied the entire mojave wasteland, and therefore New Vegas. It was pretty clear what they were fighting for. The ideals were unclear on purpose. The idea was that there was no good guy, and that you had to choose the one you agreed with the most. Overall, I think it was a lot better than Fallout 3's story, which was rather simple and railroaded, seeing as you spent most of the game helping the BoS. On another point, FNV was closer to the original games, which I liked. Hopefully they'll let Obisidian (Who made Fallout: New Vegas and some of the original Black isles members) make Fallout 4.

The ambient music is a lot better. They reuse the tracks from the old Fallout games, and it sounds just great. I find listening to that is a lot better than the radio, which I agree was very short.

 

^ Yes, that's true. It did have a pretty good story. But, of course, I'm not a fan of open-world games, so that's just me. I know others love this game, so good!

 

Both Fallout 3 and New Vegas are easily amongst my favourite games, ever. I like 3 better though, to me it felt more apocalyptic, and I absolutely love the music they used in it. New Vegas didn't recreate the feeling I got while going through the ruins of DC and hearing music from GNR on a radio. I got the feeling that the world had truly ended, and it was so sad. In New Vegas to me it felt like the world had hit a bump in the road, but not come to an 'end'. New Vegas wasn't as depressing as Fallout 3, and for a post-apocalyptic game I want to feel the world is ruined and depressed.

I don't play them any more, but they are both such great games that they'll always have a place on my top shelf, just for the memories.

 

Its been 200 years in the fallout universe since the great war, of course its not going to be depressing and ruined. That was one of the many things Fallout 3 did wrong, making a world that somehow, after 2 centuries, had made no attempt at rebuilding itself and looked like it was only 20 years after the war. In the first game, the only ruined place was the boneyard (perfect example of how a nuked city should look in fiction) and even then they had started to rebuild. They also put too much 50's stuff into it. Fallout's America was never a carbon copy of the 50's with some sci-fi tech thrown in, the whole idea is that it was like the way people thought a postapoclyptic world would look like, with mutants and laser guns. As an open world post-apocalyptic game on its own its ok and enjoyable, but as a Fallout game it fails big time.