New Fallout:NV character suggestions?

[SeeIn2D]

Alrighty, so yesterday after watching some videos of xcalizorz play Fallout: New Vegas in a Let's Play, I decided to give it another chance after buying it and initially being disgusted with it. Now I will not go into the details on why I was disgusted with it since I'd rather not side track my own thread, but right now I can't stop playing it (I was the same way with Fallout 3 when I first got it.)

So I have my first character who I kind of blindly went into the game with who is now about level 15, and fairly well progressed into the main story line. However I have been getting bored with this one character just because I've played with her so much in the past day. So I am starting a new game with a completely different character. My first character is how I usually play, good sneak, good guns, and good lockpicking with high levels in the essential skills being medicine, speech, etc.

I was thinking I would do one of twocharacters:
1. Evil, kills everything, has high points in explosives, guns, melee, and has all the perks that involve killing and such.
2. Passive, very good speech, very good sneak, high charisma and intelligence. I will do my best to avoid guns and fights with this character.

If anyone has any types of characters they found really fun to play then feel free to suggest!

 

[HassEsser]

Neither, do a neutral character who kills those with items he desires, while doing what is right for the Mojave; tags in speech, sneak and lockpick, focus on melee and guns, and no traits.

 

[The Pinray]

My character was like your second choice. Walked around The Strip with my bodyguards (Boone and Rex) and never had to lift a finger. I would wear that checkered suit and keep a pistol as my only weapon. Boone would wear a business suit and fedora and shades. It was too awesome, I felt like a badass, haha. May wanna try that?

 

[SeeIn2D]

My character was like your second choice. Walked around The Strip with my bodyguards (Boone and Rex) and never had to lift a finger. I would wear that checkered suit and keep a pistol as my only weapon. Boone would wear a business suit and fedora and shades. It was too awesome, I felt like a badass, haha. May wanna try that?

I probably will unless someone comes along with a very good character archetype. I've been a good character on my first one karma wise, but I've killed all of my enemies mercilessly. Just so happens my enemies are the bad guys on that character I might do the passive thing with evil karma just because. Assassinations and stuff of that nature but no huge fire fights.

 

[zefiewings]

I have had many Fallout characters. I will simply name the a few of the ones in new Vegas for a shorter post.

1)A Dr. Basically your second idea, very high medicine, science. Low speech, because he was shy, but I don't recommend that. You are going to need a high speech to get out of fighting situations. This is a very difficult character to play, but the challenge makes it fun.
2) Evil. My one evil character was similar to your first character, sneaky. Mainly used a sniper rifle. He used a sledge hammer as back up, because he loved the satisfying crunch it made against people's faces.
3) Evil 2. My loud evil character. Wasn't sneaky at all, had the go in and blast people into the walls approach.
4) Knives. This character uses only knives and small blades. This is making the surviving the early levels until I can find a good knife very difficult but I think I can do it.

I find the best way to pick a character is to pick a Weapon,Storyline (house,yesMan, Ceasar, or NCR), perk, or SPECIAL to focus on, its easy that way. Watch I'll make a character up for each of those right now.
Weapon: tire-iron. Ex-mechanic. No people skills.
Storyline: House. The anti-authority character. Hates NCR, Caesar, and Brotherhood.
Perk: A cowboy. Lots of perks pertaining to that. Talks the cowboy talk, wears cowboy clothes, and uses cowboy weapons.
SPECIAL: (this is easiest because each one can be used.) Perception. An explorer. He is in this for the adventure of it.

Hope that helped. I also play a Fallout roleplay campaign so I make lots of characters for it.

 

[YonderTunic]

My character was like your second choice. Walked around The Strip with my bodyguards (Boone and Rex) and never had to lift a finger. I would wear that checkered suit and keep a pistol as my only weapon. Boone would wear a business suit and fedora and shades. It was too awesome, I felt like a badass, haha. May wanna try that?

You sir, come up with the greatest ideas. I've done something similar to this but, I may just try it again like this. I basically just did a normal play through where I devoted no skill points to anything combat related, and it was NOT fun at all.

Anyways, I've not done anything too crazy, but I felt like my heavily armored melee character who uses Brute force to solve all the problems was interesting, although kinda overpowered. Especially considering the very first thing I did was get the Oh, Baby and had managed to kill a Deathclaw with it at level four. Boone kindly tanked the guy while I murdered it. Just note that spamming attack being your only way to hurt things does get boring quick, I usually play this one in short bursts.

 

[cheese_wizington]

Alrighty, so yesterday after watching some videos of xcalizorz play Fallout: New Vegas in a Let's Play, I decided to give it another chance after buying it and initially being disgusted with it. Now I will not go into the details on why I was disgusted with it since I'd rather not side track my own thread, but right now I can't stop playing it (I was the same way with Fallout 3 when I first got it.)

So I have my first character who I kind of blindly went into the game with who is now about level 15, and fairly well progressed into the main story line. However I have been getting bored with this one character just because I've played with her so much in the past day. So I am starting a new game with a completely different character. My first character is how I usually play, good sneak, good guns, and good lockpicking with high levels in the essential skills being medicine, speech, etc.

I was thinking I would do one of twocharacters:
1. Evil, kills everything, has high points in explosives, guns, melee, and has all the perks that involve killing and such.
2. Passive, very good speech, very good sneak, high charisma and intelligence. I will do my best to avoid guns and fights with this character.

If anyone has any types of characters they found really fun to play then feel free to suggest!

Only reason I quoted you, make sure you max out your repair skill. This allows you to pick the basic MUST have perk called Jury Rigging. Here http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Jury_Rigging

And for a character suggestion? Do a complete badass military type. High guns, medicine, repair and sneak. Doesn't fuck around. That'd be pretty fun.

 

[octafish]

Because they fixed the dialogue options for New Vegas after the disappointingly scarce options in Fallout 3 I'd say it's always worth playing through as a character with extremely low Intelligence (keep it under 3). Throw tags on melee or unarmed, sneak and explosives. Good, evil or neutral, a low intelligence character should lean towards close combat for variety and ease of play.

I IS SCIENTISTIC!

 

[Twilight_guy]

I'd say pick someone with the opposite gender, and with the opposite play style. i.e. if you used guns switch to melee and if you used melee switch to guns, or maybe go for explosives. Then build everything around that.

 

[DustyDrB]

Killing everything will be boring. You'll miss out on a lot, trust me. However, going with a character who focuses on social/non-combat skills is surprisingly rewarding. You may want to turn down the difficulty, though, because some fights are unavoidable. I did a character like this and it was my favorite so far. I did give him some points with Guns, but focused on Medicine, Speech, and Science. After I filled those out, I moved on to Barter, Repair, then Survival.

 

[major28]

Be an evil character with high melee (because if you max your melee and get the power glove with a shotgun on it that magicly has infinite bullets you can one hit kill every human in the game)high lock pick and if you want to get alot of money high barter. After that just go kill everyone who doesn't serve a purpose to you. Doing this is gives you a 100% chance of being rich!!

 

[FernandoV]

It's usually a bad idea to RP based on which moral spectrum you're going to side with right off the bat. Choose what kind of character you want, choose if he/she's a *****, rational, irrational, violent, manipulative, etc and keep all those in mind as you are asked to make decisions.

 

[FernandoV]

Be an evil character with high melee (because if you max your melee and get the power glove with a shotgun on it that magicly has infinite bullets you can one hit kill every human in the game)high lock pick and if you want to get alot of money high barter. After that just go kill everyone who doesn't serve a purpose to you. Doing this is gives you a 100% chance of being rich!!

You mean unarmed.

 

[Redem]

I kinda want to start a new character and I'd like some tips or guideline I tend to have a skilled warrior.Tend to use a lot Melee weapon (guns as secondary weapon) and use Speech, science, lockpick, repair

 

[Comando96]

My first game was simple. Get a rifle, get a scope, kill shit from far away, but only kill when there is no other option. High barter, and high speech allowed me to walk through a lot of area's and sort shit out that otherwise... would have been problematic.

This is an easy play style and... gets a tad boring.

My other play through had the same start but... it was a legion play through (yeah, evils). I had high barter and high speech but I went in close and fast to get my kills, bashing shit out of the way with my various fists and sledgehammers! Very fun once I had power armour to allow me to get close with little or no damage xD

Normally I rely on intelligence and being relatively social to survive as opposed to going it alone in the waste surviving off of things you pick and kill with your bare hands... but that would be one option you could try

 

[Leppy]

Play a cowboy, skills in guns, explosives (tnt), survival and any other relevant skills. Roam around the country-side pillaging with a cowboy repeater over your shoulder and a stick of dynamite in your pocket. Remember to scalp your kills as a warning to anyone who wishes to mess with you.

 

[The Pinray]

You sir, come up with the greatest ideas. I've done something similar to this but, I may just try it again like this. I basically just did a normal play through where I devoted no skill points to anything combat related, and it was NOT fun at all.

Thanks! Ha ha, I never poured a single point into combat, either. And I tell you if anyone caught me without my bodyguards I'd be a cream cracker. But hey, that's why I hired Boone and Rex. Being able to invade any place unseen, hack any computer, pick any lock, and persuade any person has many many benefits! That's why I left the dirty work to my boys. As a great man once said: "Speak softly, but keep an ex-military sniper and robotic attack dog with you just in case."

I was basically a traveling salesman, ha ha. When it was time to get down and dirty I would grab ED-E and Boone, we'd sneak into an area, Boone would clean house, then I'd pick everyone dry, filling my inventory and ED-E's and sometimes Boone's. I'd never leave a person I killed with their clothes on. Then head back to town, empty my team out. Sell, sell, sell. When the vendors ran out of caps, I'd move on.

Needless to say by the end of the game I was one rich bastard. I tried to keep my Karma neutral, since I really didn't give a damn about anyone but myself. But keeping neutral in those games is such a chore.