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No. Even if you get past the glitches, it's a very unpolished, ugly game. Not to mention that the gunplay is terrible. Now I know that most people reading that last sentence are prepared to mash their keyboard to tell me that "it's an RPG," but what kind of excuse is that? Raising your guns skill doesn't do much to make the gameplay smoother, it only has a moderate effect on how much your scope sways when sniping and how much damage you do.
If New Vegas took a few notes from S.T.A.L.K.E.R, then I would be pleased. There is no reason given for why the Courier is such a badass. He/she can kill thousands of people, and all without suffering any mental trauma. And if you play a pacifist character, there's still no explanation given to why you have such immense ability in multiple fields that would normally take any person their whole life to master.
EDIT: There's also the issue of Vegas. That city is supposed to be the main attraction of the entire mojave, but once you get there, you find that there aren't actually many buildings (around ten, at most), and it feels almost like a ghost town. What few NPC's there are act completely static.
I very much enjoyed the game, but best game ever? Please.
It was baby Vegas. Las Vegas wasn't that big in the 1950s.
The nuclear apocalypse happened over one hundred years after the 50s. While in the fallout universe, 50s culture remained dominant for that 127 years, the state of the cities did not remain the same.
However, for the sake of argument, let's assume that Las Vegas did stay small for some reason. While that is a reason for the problem that appears in the game, that doesn't solve the problem, and therefore I still will point to it as a major flaw.
Fallout varies between 1950 cities and futuristic cities. On the west coast, cities are not that big unless they are in California. In fact, if you saw America at night from a space station, most of the west coast would be dark. You also need to remember pre war times sucked. If the world goes nuclear, then that world has gone seriously wrong. This isn't some small depression or recession, but full stagnation we are talking about. If you also notice, huge chunks of Vegas were demolished. Only the strip and some of the outer sectors survived.
If you want a major flaw, ask why DC is such an outdated city lacking most conventional things commonplace to the Fallout world and why there are such large quantities of Chinese and Russian weaponry.
None of this information solves the problem of a disappointing main attraction. The game's freaking namesake not only has a feeling of being tiny, but also being empty. Nothing truly important to the plot happens there unless you
Fallout 3 is irrelevant to this conversation.
You expected a huge city on the west coast in the middle of a desert while under an economic collapse 100x worse than ours? Then nuked? then you get disappointed? Its basic geography, not a fault with the game itself. Do you honestly expect low density buildings to stand up to a barrage of nuclear weapons? House only managed to save the strip, not anything else.
I was disappointed because Vegas was
advertised as the main attraction, and it turned out to be nothing. Not to mention the fact that the city could have easily been rebuilt in the time following the apocalypse, or at least reinhabited. You would expect more people to flock to the city that can be seen from practically anywhere in the mojave than the number that actually did.
1. Where will you find Gypsum board? Where will you find clear glass? Where will you find electrical components? Who is qualified to build all of this? Normal wasters cannot do any of this without help from either Mr. House or the NCR. Keep in mind the only people living in New Vegas at that time were tribals that were quickly educated enough to deal with people.
2. It was inhabited, but it wasn't until recently did Mr House rebuild the strip. He has been in a coma for 200 years. he even stated "we did the best we could before the NCR was due to arrive.
3. Only the NCR truly have the ability rebuild anything. However, they rely on sandstone and concrete for their buildings. Can you fix gypsum board with sandstone blocks? no.
4. Repairing those buildings require supplies only a replicator could supply. Replicators are extremely rare, and the NCR probably wouldn't risk such a benefit in a locale that is still hotly contested. In order to rebuild Vegas, you need to tear down every building then rebuild it in sandstone. That would take years of construction, and resources that the NCR cannot spare. Why make everything pretty when all you need those shanties to be are on-the-fly fortified bunkers?
5. Its the Mojave
Desert. Even the NCR didn't know about New Vegas until recently. It was preoccupied in California. If the NCR didn't know about New Vegas, how would a normal waster know?
