How does New Vegas "Railroad" You?
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Not that hard. You just need to tell the traitor that you are investigating his plot and he'll act accordingly.burningdragoon said:
See, I kind of liked that. While Fallout is open world I feel it's appropriate that some areas are for higher levels because, well, that happened in the first two. You have the option of going through the high level areas early or progressing the story up to the point where you can take them on with less of a challenge. But with that option still available you still give the player choice to go any which way. Go this way for story and XP and anywhere else for whatever reason you feel like.
I don't like that all but one of the DLC adventures lock the door behind you when you enter, forcing you to finish things if you ever decide you'd like to go back to the wasteland, (except for Dead Money, which seemed appropriate, as it was apparently all about traps) but the deathclaws and cazadores didn't bother me that much, it is the deadly, dangerous, post-apocalyptic wasteland, afterall. Besides, as I think someone said, you can get around them walking towards black mountain from the start, shaves some time off the story's sight-seeing jog (if you ignore everything) and got me to Vegas with maybe two or three encounters.
I actually went through the north west passageway through the killer bees and all from the starting location, without ever visiting the southern part of the map before a playtime of 25 hours or so. 'Twas still difficult though.
That being said, the game is still railroading you pretty heavily.
That being said, the game is still railroading you pretty heavily.
Does it involve following the train track near Primm, hiking a left near Nipton and then just following that path to New Vegas?Tallim said:
Because that's what I did. I might aggro a few enemies, but nothing I can't outrun.
Didn't have to fire a single shot.
Pretty much yes if I recall (been a while). Although I may have taken a slight detour to flag an important location for fast travel purposes in the speed run. I could have done it much faster I think but I was messing about for an hour doing something which turned out to be unnecessary in the long run.Daystar Clarion said:
Anyone who's played the game long enough can make it, that path is just there for new players to be introduced to the game and its concepts.
Its different to FO3s "welcome to the wasteland, here's megaton, have fun." approach but there's nothing wrong with it, its sure as hell more open than other games I've played.
Its different to FO3s "welcome to the wasteland, here's megaton, have fun." approach but there's nothing wrong with it, its sure as hell more open than other games I've played.
I did it once. I found a random bright follower under a bridge, stole his plasma grenade, blew up an entire squad of BoS in hidden valley, took their weapons, then took the road as far away from the quarry junction as possible. I was attacked by a straggling deathclaw, but apparently my character was a wizard who could summon invisible force-fields. So I only survived by a glitch... Does that still count?
Mine involved running over big mountain, then just a long straight (dodging some fiends) you're at the front gates.Daystar Clarion said:
Doesn't Fallout 3 do the same thing with Liam Nesson (take that fanboys) first its go to Megaton then go to GNR then to Rivet City then to Vault 112 then to the next thing and the next thing. Why is this relevant you may ask? Well the people who say that tend to be Fallout 3 fans and sometimes fanboys need to be reminded x game isn't perfect. So what if New Vegas does the same thing you could just stop doing the main story and explore the world and even then after the half way mark in New Vegas the rest of the map is now "open"