Fallout: New Vegas

[Warlokk]

Absolutely, buy it now... they've patched up most of the bugs, there are a TON of mods available for it (and yes they work fine on Steam), and it's just a really great game. I've played all the way through twice.

 

[OriginZero]

Well, I beat both Fallout 1 and 2 (blah tactics), but never beat 3 yet. However, I saw it for 15 bucks and was just like...ok. Bought it. I mean, it's 15 bucks! I'll play it one day!

 

[pspman45]

ew no
get 3 instead
if you have 3, replicate new vegas by changing all the colors to brown, and mod the game to make it boring

 

[Ghengis John]

ew no
get 3 instead
if you have 3, replicate new vegas by changing all the colors to brown, and mod the game to make it boring

Or if you have new vegas you can replicate fallout 3 by turning everything green then hitting yourself in the head with a hammer repeatedly until everyone in the game speaks jabbering nonsense, though by the time you're done doing that you'd probably wind up enjoying fallout 3 more right out of the box anyway.

It's only 15$ on steam should i get it?

Yes. It's the perfect compromise between fallout 1 and 2 and fallout 3 in my opinion. Just be sure to patch it (I think patches are mandatory on steam anyhow).

P.S. Legal Disclaimer- I advise no one to actually hit themselves in the head with a hammer, no matter how much it might increase their enjoyment of fallout 3, fireworks or shiny things. Your brain is important. Yes, even yours. It's always there to lend you a hand, by helping you to learn and to think so you can understand.

 

[Bassik]

Yes, get it, it is a great game! Hours upon hours of fun, like you haven't seen before the past couple of weeks!
Only downside is that the music in the game is massiveley inferiour to that of fallout 3, but no fear, you can mod it.
Go to the folder with all the mp3's and put them somewhere else, then replace them with mp3's from the Electric Light Orchestra, and suddenly the game becomes perfect.

 

[pspman45]

Or if you have new vegas you can replicate fallout 3 by turning everything green then hitting yourself in the head with a hammer repeatedly until everyone in the game speaks jabbering nonsense, though by the time you're done doing that you'd probably wind up enjoying fallout 3 more right out of the box anyway.

NV was too much bleh for me.
Too structured, too many rules, too much civilization. There was no "warzone" area plump full of loot, there was no memorable radio announcer with a cool voice, plus the story felt pretty stupid. I know 3 had BS in the story, but NV has so much of it that it was leaking from it's pores (plus there were no Road Warrior refernces D: )

 

[Seives-Sliver]

Get Vegas, get the DLC, just don't pay over 50 dollars like i did -.-

 

[Ghengis John]

NV was too much bleh for me.
Too structured, too many rules, too much civilization. There was no "warzone" area plump full of loot, there was no memorable radio announcer with a cool voice, plus the story felt pretty stupid. I know 3 had BS in the story, but NV has so much of it that it was leaking from it's pores (plus there were no Road Warrior refernces D: )

There was a war zone full of fiends with shiny energy weapons outside of camp McCarren. Cool voice? Mr. New Vegas is none other than Wayne Newton, and he loves you, baby. I loved the story but to each their own. I have to give you the last one though. But Mel in fallout 3 was such a loser I saw that reference as a negative :/.

As for too civilized? The way I saw things the wasteland in fallout 3 was pretty unbelievable. It's 200 years after the bomb but everything is still massively irradiated? There are hardly any people. Everyone is still eating canned food? Nobody is farming? There is a town that's all kids? Why is Virgina a desert? Mad max is set in a desert because Australia is a desert. Fallout was set in a desert because southern California and Nevada are covered in desert. Where did these super mutants, with the brains of a jello pudding cup come up with the idea that they were the genetically superior master race and future of humanity? Those kind of ideas seem over their heads. Why are they so organized? Where did they get all these weapons? Then you find out where they're coming from, you can't say anything about it until after the broken steel expansion comes out and when you tell Lyons he's just like "oh. Okay." Ugh just so much of that game did not make sense.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Afer 89 hours of playing it I'd buy it for $15, if only because fot $15 bucks you could get close to 90 hours of contenct, so thats a buck for 6 hours of play, not bad.

 

[Dr_Horrible]

buy it buy it buy it buy it buy it!

so... yeah, I highly recommend it.

Also: $15? It's still marked as $37 here...

 

[AlternatePFG]

buy it buy it buy it buy it buy it!

so... yeah, I highly recommend it.

Also: $15? It's still marked as $37 here...

It was on sale yesterday at noon until noon today. The price is still off, but not as much.

 

[HHammond]

Yeah, go ahead. Might take you a while to get into it, it took me ages to really start enjoying it. If I'm honest, the main quest kinda sucks. If you find yourself getting bored with the main quest just ignore it. I have yet to complete it but I've played quite a lot of it.

 

[Hamhandderhard]

If you like Fallout 3, then you will like New Vegas

Honestly, I felt it was pretty much the same as 3 gameplay wise except that armor actually means something, the ironsights and better companions. Yes the world makes sense, with farming and governments and it's connected to the old Fallouts but I haven't played any of the old Fallouts (Don't kill me for it) so I really don't know the history of this world. And as for the making sense part, you can make a great game that doesn't make sense, completely illogical and impossible and it could still be a great game.

But yeah it's a fun game

 

[pspman45]

Thats becuase its 200 fucking years after the war. Fallout 3 was fucing stupud, the watershould be clean, why arent people growing food ? Why are they tramatise and livin g a life they never lived.

So much fail, and im not even one of those lore people wh will obsess over every detail (but the supermutants n 3 were terrible).

The story was much better, your seeing society still rebuilding, there are large factions, they all wat the same things (vegas and the mojave) they wont compramise. You have the chip, which isimportant for house and Yesman, he lets you into his tower, importnt for ncr and legion who see him as a threat. How was the story BS ?

think about what you just said
A man in a computer wants you to recover a poker chip that is really a key to an army of one-wheeled robots
and some genius had the Idea to set up the roman empire again
the story had so many options for completing it, that all of it was half-baked, you had to do the same quests for each faction.
the faction's motives were a bit generic too, there was a clear good and evil group. there was really no choice involved, if you were good you picked NCR,because they are good. if you're evil you pick Legion because they are evil, if you are neutral you pick Mr. House. If you have half a brain and actually want to control the story you pick Yes Man (who has the best dialoge in the game)

I also liked 3's emphasis on "before the bombs fell" giving players insight on the world they were exploring before all hell broke loose. the atmosphere was absorbing and the game was simple enough to transfer players from FPSs to RPGs.
I hold fallout 3 under one o the best games ever made, and I hold new vegas as one of the biggest dissapointments. was it worth the money? I only paid 20 bucks so I would say definitely, but it didn't have the same feeling as 3, it felt alien like I was playing a totally different game

TDNR: story was shit, factions were generic, Fallout 3's atmosphere was awesome

 

[pspman45]

Fallout 3 had Little Lamplight, the single-worst piece of level design I've ever seen in a game - and I've played E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. I think Fallout: New Vegas wins the battle on that front alone.

Little Lamplight was a Mad Max reference, so I am able to forgive it, although you are right, it was annoying to navigate.
And if you still remember ET, then you have good memory. the only thing i remember about it was that it was just BAD

 

[Rex Fallout]

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This. I am the same, but I was one who played fallout 3 first. However, one too many Fallout wiki freefalls made me realise that Fallout 3 was a major fuckup in the existing Story canon.

I've awaited the return of the intelligent deathclaws controlled by the Enclave, I've awaited some teen genius to invent a new drug out of brahmin shit, I've awaited an intelligent RADSCORPION that beats me at CHESS, with the only possibility of defeating him is by replanting an intelligent talking plant (With a nod to the movie "Little shop of horros") and asking him for a favor in return, in which case he teaches you 'the flying liver' move.
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You don't have intelligent super mutents in Fallout 3. You have no mention of 'dipping' in fallout 3. You may think that they emerged from the radiation but there's a process where you turn humans in super mutants. Some retain their high level of intelligence while other become brutes, but there are intelligent super mutants like you saw in Jacobtown situated in the Mojave wasteland.
Enclave - No mention of Navarro. A ROBOT president. We saw a human one on the oil rig, yet you use a damn Artificial intelligence there. For what? Shock value?
NCR aren't mentioned there at all.
The Brotherhood are giant dicks that take whatever they want to take with their burly power armor. You're LUCKY that the western branch suceeded from the original Brotherhood of steel and began helping the inhabitants. The Outcasts are actually the ones that are RIGHT with what they're supposed to do, which is the recovery of old world tech. There was a civil war between the western branch and the rest of the Brotherhood of steel, mentioned in New vegas by our lovely Veronica.
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I hate it with a burning passion, the way they butchered the story in Fallout 3.

But they really didnt butcher the story.

The Mutants are explained to be genetically different than normal ones from 1 and 2. They are even different colors.

Really? Your upset that there was a robot president after the last died and they had to travel across the US to find sanctuary? You dont think the Enclave wanted some kind of stability in that aspect? And we barely even really talk to the enclave much. You want them to right out a basic history of what they have done?

And Why would the NCR be mentioned? They are on the other side of the country. There are two major mountain ranges, and hundreds of miles worth of plains between the two.

Yes the brotherhood were giant dicks. (still kind of are) but you dont think that it was possible that one group saw how crappy the inhabitants had it, saw that they would die without help and decided to help? Yes they had a small civil war war about it, but I dont see how this upsets you.

I'm just saying, Personally I preferred New Vegas, (Fallout 3 had a waaaaay better radio station though. I miss three dog.) But Fallout 3 didnt butcher the story nearly as bad as you try to make it seem.

 

[Chaucer345]

Honestly, Fallout NV (from what I've played of it, I admit I have not made a full run through yet) is just not as engaging as Fallout 3 was. I don't seem to bump into quests as often and when I do they don't seem as interesting as the ones that appeared in Fallout 3. I spend a lot of time just wandering around confusing environments trying to figure out vague objectives. I also don't feel very tied to my character's motivation. While I'm curious about what Mr. House is up to with that platinum chip of his, I just can't see why I would go through all of this effort to ice Benny because he happened to shoot me. I mean, yeah it wasn't fun being left for dead underground, but come on! Raiders shoot me and try to rob me all the freaking time!

Even my pip boy doesn't feel special. I was just handed the supposedly ridiculously cool thing (with all of its V.A.T.S. glory randomly, not given it on the day I was embraced as part of the tiny society of a vault. What was cool about the interface in Fallout 3 was that it felt like something tying you to home, not just some random gadget.

And I'm sorry, but I just don't find Mr New Vegas anywhere near as interesting a DJ as Three Dog was. One of the cool things about Fallout 3 was that there was always a little ideological war going on in the background that you could tune into at any moment. Maybe if the NCR and Caesar's Legion had their own radio stations I would feel a heck of a lot more interested in their internal squabbles.

Sorry about the rant, but I just don't feel nearly as engaged by New Vegas. It's obviously had a lot of work put into it, but it just doesn't seem to have the same soul.