Fallout: New Vegas, Is It Worth It?

[AnarchistFish]

A few questions about this.
I keep hearing different stories about the bugs. Some say that the bugs completely ruin the game but others say that they are only a minor hindrance. I've heard some people say that they never got any, and some saying that most of the major bugs are patched by now.
If I were to buy the game now, what would be its status and would it be worth it?

 

[Project_Xii]

Probably the best anyone could say is "Buy and play it at your own risk". There's no predicting what bugs you get, how well it'll run, or how much enjoyment you'll get out of it. Will really depend on how much to enjoyed Fallout 3 (since they're practically identical in many ways).

When in doubt, wait for the GOTY version to come out. At least then the DLC packs SHOULD be working...

 

[ChupathingyX]

Probably the best anyone could say is "Buy and play it at your own risk". There's no predicting what bugs you get, how well it'll run, or how much enjoyment you'll get out of it. Will really depend on how much to enjoyed Fallout 3 (since they're practically identical in many ways).

The only similarity is the engine it uses, and that F3 takes place in the Fallout universe (although I really doubt this).

Personally I haven't gotten that many bugs, but if you're playing on PC there are mods which will fix most bugs and there have been a lot of official patches witch fix a lot of issues.

 

[Simple Bluff]

I've played it through since the last patch - there are still bugs, but very minor ones (NPCs are misalligned when they sit down or talk to you sometimes, BGM ending abruptly, etc.). I didn't encounter one crash, but that was probobly luck. It's unrealistic to assume a game of that scale will ALWAYS work perfectly.
As far as I can see, most, if not all, of the companion glitches are fixed too. I don't know about the DLCs though.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'll tell you my experience with F:NV. I got the game on release day and was over 18 hours into my first character before I ran into my first glitch. As I write this I have 7 characters with a combined total of 350+ hours and I can hand-on-heart say I have encountered no more than 10 glitches that were game-breaking and required reloading a save to fix. There have been regular patches brought out along with each DLC (Dead Money, Honest Hearts and Old World Blues) to fix the glitches and bugs in the game, but I hardly noticed them before the patches anyway.

So yes, I'd get it.

EDIT - I run the 360 version, btw. I couldn't speak for the experiences of PC & PS3 users.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I'd play get it on 360 if at all

GOTY seems like a good idea

 

[johnnnny guitar]

The bugs are pretty much gone now only a dozen or so but it's nowhere near the train wreck it was when it first released
but now with the last DLC pack just around the corner I would hold out till the GOTY edition or whatever

 

[merck88]

Did New Vegas win game of the year?

But yeah, it improved lots of small game play things from Fallout 3, such as iron sights and factions. As far as bug, it hasn't been Andy worse than Fallout 3 for me. Though, I am playing it on PC which supposedly has the least bugs.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

It only has minor bugs; sometimes it crashes, and sometimes loading the file from the main menu doesn't work (in my experience). They are far from game breaking, so I'd say, get it.

 

[AlternatePFG]

It was my personal favorite game that was released last year. The bugs aren't as prevalent as they were, and I suggest getting it on the PC if you can, unoffical bug patches help. It's a great game though, the writing is much better than 3 and there is much more choice in the questlines than in 3. The levels aren't quite designed as well as Fallout 3 but if you enjoy 3, you will at the very least like New Vegas.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

New Vegas won the wikia GOTY. New vegas is a great game and really worth buying but at this point wait and get the edition with all 4 add ons.

 

[johnnnny guitar]

Did New Vegas win game of the year?
.

well yeah thats what im thinking what are thy gonna call it although that didn't stop
two worlds2 from releasing a GOTY edition when it never won a game of the year Im pretty sure

 

[Zeema]

get it im still playing the game i beat it 6 times

im still finding new stuff and having a blast

 

[Rack]

Yeah it's buggy, probably still more so than Fallout 3. But it's totally worth it, one of my favourite games of the generation and completely blows Fallout 3 out of the water.

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

Definitely get it, it's one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. It's refreshing to actually be given some choice in how you play the game compared to the railroading in Fallout 3.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Definitely get it, it's one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. It's refreshing to actually be given some choice in how you play the game compared to the railroading in Fallout 3.

In before someone says that New Vegas does just as much railroading as 3, when it comes to the deathclaws at the beginning of the game. Most people don't know what kind of railroading you are referring to.

 

[Hikikomori Ookami]

I just started playing New Vegas a few days ago and the only "bugs" I've encountered are occasionally not being able to loot a corpse. No issues otherwise, so I assume that they are fixed. I haven't tried any of the DLC yet though, and that seems like where most of the bugs came from when I was playing 3.

 

[h@wke]

Definitely get it, it's one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. It's refreshing to actually be given some choice in how you play the game compared to the railroading in Fallout 3.

In before someone says that New Vegas does just as much railroading as 3, when it comes to the deathclaws at the beginning of the game. Most people don't know what kind of railroading you are referring to.

I just snuck by them over the mountains and went straight to the strip


so it's not a concrete railroad

edit: But 1 thing that almost totally ruined the game for me . . . those goddamn invisible walls on any kind of sloping surface

amirite?