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oldsoldier 
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 Topic: Fallout New VegasPosted: 20 October 2010 at 9:32pm |
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Been playing it now for a few hours, a lot of improvements in movement and positions, weapons are more varied. Hardcore mode means you have to eat and drink as well as sleep. Supplies of clean water are scarce, and don't eat prepared or found food, RADS, kill living animals while in bush, better off towns have clean water and food, but are far between.
The factions are varied, and you can get in trouble quickly in towns, carry varied clothing and dress appropiately for the town. Pretty fun and engrossing, time flies when I am in game. Overall a 9 Edited by oldsoldier - 21 October 2010 at 7:54pm |
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jerseypaint
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Posted: 20 October 2010 at 9:40pm |
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I can't wait to get it. My friend had it since it released and I haven't heard from him since.
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ParielIsBack
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Posted: 20 October 2010 at 9:47pm |
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Really want to get it.
Do not want to spend $50. Glad to hear you're enjoying it though. |
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BU Engineering 2012
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stick_boy_2002
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Posted: 20 October 2010 at 10:04pm |
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been playing it since monday. 2 guys 2 work are also playing it. so i kida just nerd out about it all day.
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kickinwing2010
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Posted: 20 October 2010 at 10:41pm |
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Want it really bad, but the money just isn't there for it.
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Gatyr
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Posted: 21 October 2010 at 1:10am |
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Money and time aren't there for me. I could get the money if I really had the desire to, but it would end up hurting my grades more than I could accept.
That's actually the reason I try not to get into anything other than games like COD; time's a huge concern. |
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Kayback
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Posted: 21 October 2010 at 2:03am |
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Fallout 3 got me through 9 months of living alone in the Middle East.
I now have my family back, oh dear, where will I find the time to seem them around my game playaing :P KBK |
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Posted: 21 October 2010 at 3:03am |
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I have entirely too little funding ATM. I was going to pick it up launch day, but I ended up blowing my check on guitar stuff :\
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Mack
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Posted: 21 October 2010 at 11:42am |
You just have to prioritize. They'll understand. |
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oldsoldier
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Posted: 21 October 2010 at 7:56pm |
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Been at it all day, finally died doing something stupid. Took on the Legion by myself got most of them before they got me. Taking a break, I actiually killed a mature deathclaw with the varmit rifle, up on rock ridges it could not get to me, took 34hits to kill it.
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Brian Fellows
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Posted: 22 October 2010 at 2:22am |
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Do want.
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oldsoldier
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Posted: 22 October 2010 at 11:18am |
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Now I got 'Legion' hit squads looking for me all over. They are too well armed and armored for me to take them on. At almost every location I need to avoid a 'hit squad', and I travel at night, hold up during day, and enter locations near dusk. My base of operations is a cave I found in the western mountians, fresh clean water, game for food, easily defended (so far no need to)and so far my stored items have remained untouched
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Kayback
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Posted: 22 October 2010 at 11:39pm |
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Only played for a little bit, already made enemies of the Powder Gang. They threatened to burn down the village, so I eradicated them. Hope that wasn't bad :)
Got fully repaired 9, a fully repaired varmit rifle with scope, a bunch of spares, a plasma pistol a laser pistol a 10mm pistol and a supresed .22 in various stages of repair. Thanks Powder Gang. My well maintained single barrel shotgun has been replaced with a double :) I can see I'm going to enjoy this game. I have a 9mm SMG but my guy seems deadlier with the pistol and replacement parts are easier to get :) Having single handedly wiped out the Powder Gang base I get back to the village and they want a gunfight with them. Uuuh..... Oh well lets see where this leads :) |
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stratoaxe
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Posted: 24 October 2010 at 11:26pm |
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Finally gave in and bought it, just decided to stay broke all week
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.
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Kayback
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 12:38am |
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I feel the same way. I'll happily admit I had a lucky break early in Fallout 3 which got me decent weapons early and basic armour too, but I'm struggling in New Vegas.
I have come across a bug in New Vegas that worked against me, I'd picked up a handful of Varmit rifles to keep my scope equipped one running. I had forgotten about them, but my weight was maxed out so I was struggling to scavenge things. I found something I NEEDED to carry so dropped everything else. Turns out the game had collapsed the column of Varmit rifles behind the scope equipped one. I had 50lbs of hidden weight, and I was unable to maintain my scoped rifle. I'm also struggling with armour. I'm level 12 and have DT of only 2. A large part of this was those missing 50lbs of gear I couldn't carry but I also haven't found anything worth wearing. I'm wearing a Brotherhood of Light robe cos it's very aesthetically pleasing but not stat boosting nor protective. (my pre order DLC isn't working). I have 51.b Power Armour, but lack armour training. Finally found a companion, not only is Raoul a crack shot, he is a good pack mule :) |
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stratoaxe
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 1:11am |
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I've got the alcoholic gearl form Camp Mojave as my companion right now, up north doing the caravan quests.
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.
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 4:16am |
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 11:05am |
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So it sounds like New Vegas is similar to a MMORPG? Obviously it isnt online, but most sandbox games still say "Go here, save here, go here if you want to play the storyline, or have fun killing hookers". From the sounds of it, most of you are just doing whatever and pissing off random factions.
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 11:19am |
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I rented Bioshock.
Sigh. Yeah, I'm really behind the video game times. |
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Kayback
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 12:03pm |
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I have to get better at killing Deathclaws before I can follow story line more.
And a word of advice, Get ED-E on your side asap. He is in Pimms. He allows you to detect cloaked enemies. I just finished two missions against Nightkin and he'd have been bloody helpful. I'm busy snipeing Deathclaws with my 5.56 varmit rifle and surplus ammo. It is hard on the rifle but eventually they fall over :) |
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