I guess I'm going to be the party pooper, because I feel like its a major step back for the franchise, just from the 15 or 20 hours I've sunk in so far. Maybe it's just because Fallout 3 was so fresh and innovative, but this one seems really stale and technically inferior.

 

It is much harder than the first, at least to me, I've died quite a bit more than I did in Fallout 3. And the I like alot of the improvements they made, the most of which being iron sights. That should be a given in any shooter, IMO.

 

Not a bad game, just not a great game, especially considering the former. Still, if you're a Fallout fan, it'll be worth the money.

 

 

 

It seems like the difficulty of the game is really constrictive when it comes to exploring. Here's a hint-if you walk along the coast up by the dam where Boulder ruins is, and you decide to swim out and find that B-52, go ahead and save yourself the trouble and quick travel back somewhere. Otherwise, you're gonna get swarmed by those horseflies form hell (col-something or the others) if you go through the green house area, you'll get swarmed by lakelurkers or whatever they're called if you go the middle route, and if you go to the right, you're gonna find yourself in a mob of feral ghouls that just keep coming at you.

 

To top it off, stimpacks are a commodity like no other, and though you may have plenty of caps (I'm up close to 2000), you'll find that they're much, much more hard to come by than in 3. Of course, there are some better options for healing this time around (creating your own stimpaks, and water is purified so you can drink away), but early on in the game it can be kind of overwhelming to take everything in it once.

 

One last gripe-did any of you guys have trouble completing Boone's quest? Somebody shot him part way through and it failed me. Not  only that, his sniper rifle is stuck to his corpse and it won't let me take it .

 

I do like the story though, and the western touch is great. I wish they'd have taken it to a heavier degree, but it's a nice change of pace. Maybe with some patches I'll get hooked.

Fix'd

If I start New Vegas, I'd be trapped at my computer for weeks.

 

I've found one great way to get a bunch of good gera, but it involves Jacobstown and screwing with your Karma. Spoilers, so highlight if you want to read it-

 

 

 

 

With that combo of items, I've been plowing my way through the game much faster and more efficiently, as long as I use the metal armor / sniper rifle combo. Plus, .308 ammo is easy to come by.

 

ive actually had to put fallout down for the undead nightmare dlc for red dead...AWESOME 

 

The good news is that the story does pick up tremendously, the bad news is that you'll probably be ten-twelve hours in before you start giving a crap.

 

Unlike Fallout 3, where the main story was the catalyst in some way for the entire game, in New Vegas the main story is more like a side note to the various secondary quests you'll complete. That's fine for people like Tolgak and myself who are OCD about games like this, but if you're counting on the main story picking up, I'm well over 40 hours in and still couldn't care less about my character.

 

On the bright side, this actually makes you want to dig out the side stories, and makes the questing itself feel much more involved than in Fallout 3. While in 3 you couldn't wait to make it until the end to tie up loose strings, this game takes a much more relaxed pace to the story. I'll have spent much more time in this game due to that fact than I did in 3, even though I still feel like 3 was the superior game.

 

I still stand by my complaints when I originally posted this, however. The graphics are terrible, they never get better. The weapon selection never feels right, the weapon models are hideous and make no sense.

 

In fact, I just want to rant about the weapons for a sec. I understand this game takes place in an alternate version of our own reality, but if I remember correctly, the worlds begin to split right after the 1950's, and stay that way up until the 2070's. Now, Fallout being the post 1940's art deco / 50's ish advertising setting that it is, where the hell did the AR-15 / M-4 weapon models come in? Like, not even just a resemblance, the spot on weapon models (except for the whole charging handle boo boo games tend to love about AR style guns). It feels cheap and lazy to me. I never played F1 or F2, so maybe it's a hand me down from there?

 

My other major gripe, and this is really the above all else complaint I have with New Vegas, it can't decide what it wants to be. You spend half the time running around a quasi old west setting (the NCR outfits, the cowboy things every where, the country stations, the cacti...), but then all of the sudden you're at the Vegas Strip, and everyone's in suits and talking like it's 1935.

 

Had the devs taken a direction and ran with it, New Vegas could have been great. But it's like a split personality, and neither of them are fully fleshed out. There aren't much in the line of cowboy suits / weapons (a few here and there, but nothing to the overall theme), so you never fill the role. And the gangster side of things is even weirder, you have this story involving a mafia overlord style character, yet they all run around in the same dirty / grimy pre war business suits?

 

You play Fallout to get into character, and this game has no idea what its main character is. You never feel like you're in the old west, going from brokenm down post apocalyptic town to another, and you never feel like you're on the New Vegas Strip, battling it out with warring mob factions. It just kind of thows you into an all you can eat buffet of randomness, and says have fun.

 

/uber nerd rant

 

 

The Canadian C8 Assault Carbine, basically Canada's answer to the CAR-15, I believe (the forum gun-o-philes would be able to answer that better than myself)

 

1984 according to Wiki? The years aren't my gripe, so much as they just feel weird in the game. Maybe it's just me being nitpicky, I dunno. The wooden stocked Service Rifle / AR-15 seems more normal, but the CAR-15 / M-4 stuff just seems weird.

 

And again, it's the overall atmosphere of "let's throw a bunch of crap together and make the game really long" that New Vegas gives off that bugs me. But it's not a bad game by any stretch, and worth playing for sure if you're a die hard Fallout fan, or just loved 3.

You certainly can't go wrong with Fallout 3 and its expansion packs (or just grab a GOTY edition), and if you haven't played it, Oblivion is worth a certain portion of your life.

 

I pretty much rarely play video games as of late, other than the Fallout releases, and a brief stint with Borderlands. In fact, someone in this thread reminded me, I need to go download the zombie expansion for Red Dead. I ate that game up.

First, I havent been on Minecraft or Mother since christmas. You can guess why.

 I just finished the game. Spoiler on what I did:

 

 

 

Perhaps because its new, this may very well be my favorite Bethesda game. Oblivion was fun, but this just seems to suck you into the storyline.

 

My major gripe with this game is once you beat the storyline, you cant go back and finish side quests. No playing with freshly picked armor either. Oblivion you could still go back and do whatever.

 

In addition to the AR type of weapons, I only have one complaint. There are three variants I found:

Assault Carbine: Full auto, 5mm.

Marksman Carbine: Red dot, semi auto, 5.56mm

Service Rifle: Never used, 5.56.

 

My one complaint is that the Carbine uses 5mm. They should all use 5.56.