Poll: Is New Vegas a rip off?

[Atmos Duality]

Fallout New Vegas is a ripoff of Fallout 3?

Kinda like Bad Company 2 being a ripoff of Bad Comapny 1?

Dysphemisms are amazing things.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Honestly, while the mechanical conventions of the game are generally the same (The way armor is handled is changed, which does actually have a significant impact. No more using a pea shooter to plink away at something wearing a tank for armor. Beyond that however it is more or less mechanically the same), the tone, environmental design, faction arrangement, and even the options available for solving a particular problem are closer to Fallout 2 than I would have dared hope. Yes, you can still solve most problems by kicking down doors and shooting people in the face, but you can also solve those same problems by not kicking any doors or doing violence to any faces. Yep, there is actually a reason to have a high speech or barter skill these days!

 

[Yostbeef]

I don't think it's a rip off because it's more of the same.I think it's a rip off because it is bugged to hell and runs like shit on my PC (Which should have no difficulty running a game like Fallout)The other day I jokingly said I'm gonna get this for xbox I don't trust Obsidian or Bethesda.Guess I was wrong for wanting to play this with my new vid card and now I'm stuck with a digital version that runs as well or possibly worse that it's console version...God Dammit!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

New Vegas is just basically Fallout 3

Overall the same, but with small differences? So, the whole Halo series is a ripoff, too... Can't argue with that.

 

[Chainsaws_of_War_2]

Is herp a rip off of derp?

OT: Sequels will always carry a sense of repetition, some just may be more then others.
It's certainly not as big of a rip off as Halo 3: ODST was.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Not a ripoff mate... it's a sequel.

 

[Numachuka]

Spoiler: To OP..

OT: It's a diffrent game. Looking the same doesn't make it the same. Are all the games that run on the Doom 3 engine just ripping off Doom then?

 

[The Bum]

Uh, it's a seaqul it's SUPPOSED to be like the first other one.

So the maps smaller, i found it a huge pain in the ass to trek all the way across miles and miles of wastes just to get to a nowhere town to sell some soda.

This is bethesda and obsinan were talking about here patron saints of buggy games and it just came out yestrday mods take months to make.

Now all you haters stop trying to kill my exitment, my copy arrives in two days =P

In other news:Half-life 2 a Half-life rip off?

 

[Substance-E]

So people are complaining that a sequel is more or less the same as it's predecessor, a game that a whole lot of people enjoyed, except for it's new setting? Fascinating....

Honestly I wish they had made it completely different. We'd still get people bitching but at least they'd have a leg to stand on...

 

[sephiroth1991]

I was under the impression the world was bigger, i havn't played it yet, but how can you rip off a game that is your predecessor, Dosn't that mean any sequal is a rip-off.

he meant rip off as in not worth the price. Not rip-off as in stolen material.
OT: i don't really know, never played either game, but i tend to agree with you from what I've heard.

In that case it can be considered by those who want a big innovation over the last one to be a rip-off, just like how Left 4 Dead 2 can be considered since it is just basically a expansion of the last and adds little to the series.

In my opinion i think it's not a rip-off.

 

[Kukakkau]

Am I the only one getting that by rip off the OP means money-wise? Not "OMG they copied themselves!"

I haven't played fallout myself but Vegas does look like just a big DLC on a disc

 

[Brazilianpeanutwar]

Yay! so new vegas is worth getting yeah?
For a moment you almost made me worried (I'm very susceptible)

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

And now, another friendly visit from the Escapist Anti-Derp Society:

 

[Dark Prophet]

I didn't buy it. And I don't plan on buying it either. I couldn't even play Fallout 3. No matter what I did, patch, reinstallation of OS, installation of Windows 7, known fixes etc. nothing worked. The game kept freezing in interiors.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.209130-Fallout-3-crash-related-question#7238081
Take a look at the 10th post that was the thing that got me out of the constant indoors crashes

 

[DarkRyter]

I like to think of it as a spinoff.

Like "Joey" for "Friends".

 

[kickyourass]

It's a sequel, if you were honestly taken by surprise that it's got alot of similarities to Fallout 3 then you need to see a doctor because you seem to have major brain damage.

 

[Les Awesome]

c'mere till i hit ye
but honestly i can sorta see what you're gettin at but i'd have disagree
because of all the love and affection the designers but into the game

 

[Canid117]

How can a sequel be a ripoff?

That said supposedly the map is actually larger but it is mostly by being expanded in the north which probably makes it seem much narrower to you.