what do you guys think about fallout new vegas

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lewis

It Wandered In From the Wastes
well the title is self explanatory, i like to know what do you guys think about fallout new vegas, because im thinking on buying it.

by the way i found the name of the song thats plays during this trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrKjqFLGlH0
its called "Orange Colored Sky" by Nat King Cole
 
Kind of like Fallout 2 if it played like Fallout 3. If you happen to have loved Fallout 3 for the atmosphere, theme, music and exploration you may be disappointed by New Vegas and it's country/twang vibe and what some people would perceive as a lack of "explorable content".

If you loved Fallout 1/2 for Mark Morgan's ambient tracks, pop culture references, writing, numerous quests, consequences and classic/original Fallout humour, NV is probably right up your alley.

If you liked any of the Fallouts at all it's probably worth the $20 it is (now?) selling for.
 
LinkPain said:
I don't know why do you even ask when you're logged on this forum :)

Of course it's a worth buy.
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well i just want to know your opinion guys
 
Okay Lewis, let me make it easy for you and take your worries away.

I hereby order you to get Fallout New Vegas, and if possible Dead Money.

There, that should do it.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Okay Lewis, let me make it easy for you and take your worries away.

I hereby order you to get Fallout New Vegas, and if possible Dead Money.

There, that should do it.
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Get Dead Money for the level cap, but don't play it, as it is awful.
 
I'm inclined to disagree. It can get a bit tedious on marathon playthroughs because of the convoluted maps, but it's incredibly atmospheric, and, refreshingly, can actually be a bit of a challenge.
 
Shadow of the Wastes said:
The Dutch Ghost said:
Okay Lewis, let me make it easy for you and take your worries away.

I hereby order you to get Fallout New Vegas, and if possible Dead Money.

There, that should do it.
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Get Dead Money for the level cap, but don't play it, as it is awful.
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For reasons being... ?
 
Personally I enjoyed Dead Money, and I liked it a lot more than the DLC expansions for Fallout 3.
Most of these were just shoot 'n loot experiences with rather poor story telling and hardly involving characters and quests.

Closest thing to Dead Money imo was The Pitt and that is blown away by the content of DM.

The environment is more interesting, better worked out characters, better survival atmosphere.
 
Good game, and as thegaresexperience said, it's a proper Fallout 3, after what has happened to Van Buren.
Though I have to Yamu, it can get tedious at the times, and has some problems with engine, but you can forgive it on that one.
Great game...gotta buy it !
 
If you happen to have loved Fallout 3 for the atmosphere, theme, music and exploration you may be disappointed by New Vegas and it's country/twang vibe and what some people would perceive as a lack of "explorable content".
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Sounds like my exsperience. What really bothered though was it just did not suck me in psycologically. With fallout 3 I was wondering what was going to happen next from being born in the vault, to fighting in dc, joining the brotherhood, to meating eden, to taking the purifier. I also found the country twaing to be really annoying.
 
Its a far better Fallout 3. Its what Fallout 3 could have been if Bethesda could be arsed to do a proper job. But its not a better Fallout or Fallout2. Storywise its ok, and most characters are well-written too. Factions range from great to somewhat stupid (Legion). I could actually play it without asking myself every 5 minutes why the fuck I was doing it. In fact its everything I thought it would be: FO3 done properly, but still FO3.

Its simply the wrong perspective/engine for this kind of game. Wide open spaces, miles of miles of Mojave desert, harsh environment, desolate places… sounds good. But during my 5 minutes real time stroll from Boulder to New Vegas (30 km?) I stumble upon abandoned shacks, monsters, raiders, mad robots, ncr-troops, highway-markets and other stuff. If they really, really want to keep on using 1st person real time engines, why not let the story play out in a city-scape? That way it could work without ruining immersion by having a look around you. Use the proper tools to tell a story not the other way round!

So, for me it was entertaining, sometimes funny and at no point tedious (unlike FO3) to play FONV. But it felt "wrong" in a way, I was never as immersed into the world as I was with the older titles.
 
Of course Dead Money is awful, don't you see? You have to actualy think and navigate, and you don't get a KEWL energy weapon that one shot kills everything and only spend one unit of the cheapest ammunition in the game, what teh hell is that shit?
 
Dead Money is quite ok, but it's VERY different from the New Vegas. Until you get into the casino itself, it can be easily percieved as a post-apoc horror. And a very good one to be honest. Sierra Madre and its surroundings are very small, but most of the time you don't realise that (too busy being chased by Ghost People while wielding only a Cosmic Knife, heheheh). It's really challenging too.
 
DarthBartus said:
It's really challenging too.
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Only challenge I had was trying not get to get my head blown off. Those beeps tend to get drowned out when you're listening to loud music. :V
Dead Money is pretty good though, just a shame the casino section was a bit short and easy.
 
Dead Money is definitely worth the $10. 3-5 hours of gameplay, good storytelling, great characters, best light armour in the game, best weapon in the game, more money then you could ever use, the list goes on and on. Overall it's far better than any of the Fallout 3 DLC.
 
Walpknut said:
I actualy prefered the Beartrap fist.
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The beartrap fist was especially useful with Bloody Mess. It would dismember the ghost people almost every time.
 
Actually it's great without it. The bear trap fists causes x2 limb damage and a crippled limb equals insta kill on ghosty peoples.
 
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