Topic: Fallout: New Vegas

[kraken613]

Anyone gotten around to picking this up yet?

I am playing it on PC currently just played about 40 minutes seemed like Fallout. Which I am very happy with it being more Fallout.

More impressions to come as I play more.

[broodwars]

Fallout 3 on my PS3 was borderline unplayable due to all the crash bugs, but I still managed to complete it.  I'm really not in the mood to go through that again with New Vegas, so I'm waiting on Bethesda/Obsidian to actually do the QA testing they somehow didn't do while the game was in development and issue the necessary patches.  From what I've heard, New Vegas is just as buggy as Fallout 3 was and I have no problem waiting for the game I'm supposed to be purchasing to actually be on store shelves.  I'm not paying Obsidian to actually have their QA testers/engineers do their job.
 
And, yes, I know the Obsidian engine is garbage to begin with, but that doesn't excuse the severe technical issues on the Fallout games.

[alegoicoe]

Fallout 3 on my PS3 was borderline unplayable due to all the crash bugs, but I still managed to complete it.  I'm really not in the mood to go through that again with New Vegas, so I'm waiting on Bethesda/Obsidian to actually do the QA testing they somehow didn't do while the game was in development and issue the necessary patches.  From what I've heard, New Vegas is just as buggy as Fallout 3 was and I have no problem waiting for the game I'm supposed to be purchasing to actually be on store shelves.  I'm not paying Obsidian to actually have their QA testers/engineers do their job.
 
And, yes, I know the Obsidian engine is garbage to begin with, but that doesn't excuse the severe technical issues on the Fallout games.

same happen to me when i first got fallout 3, the glitches were awfull, and from what i have read in various web sites, this game is super glitchy, even the developers are announcing a patch soon to be released to correct them. am gonna wait on this one for a couple of months until i know for sure that the game is fully playable without any error, the same thing wont happen like with fallout 3.

[Caliban]

Skipping this one because after watching the video review, and reading the review on IGN, it's just more of the same without any fixes, or improvements.

[Shaymin]

Between the developer and publisher, I gave my best friend odds that putting the disc in would brick his 360.

[Morari]

The only issues I ever had with Fallout 3 were from incompatible mods. I never found the game to be buggy in the least bit.

New Vegas is pretty fun thus far. The little improvements are welcome, but don't really change things up too much. The setting is different enough to at least feel new.

[greybrick]

My official stance on Fallout 3 is that I didn't enjoy it.

The fact that I played 60 hours of it is either a contradiction or an affirmation of my dedication to justifying my opinions... I'm not sure which.

[Morari]

If you only played 60 hours, then I believe that means that you didn't like it. I have over 300 hours on my main savegame. It still doesn't rank up there with Morrowind in terms of sunk time however.

[alegoicoe]

i beat the main game and all of the side quest in under 60 hours so the game dosent take too much time really to complete it, plus after like 25 hous or so you level cap its max out and lots of quest to be completed without any real sense of satisfaction unless you spend 10 more dollars which i think its ridiculous, but well thats DLC

[Halbred]

My official stance on Fallout 3 is that I didn't enjoy it.

The fact that I played 60 hours of it is either a contradiction or an affirmation of my dedication to justifying my opinions... I'm not sure which.

Or you are, in actuality, James Jones.

[broodwars]

i beat the main game and all of the side quest in under 60 hours so the game dosent take too much time really to complete it, plus after like 25 hous or so you level cap its max out and lots of quest to be completed without any real sense of satisfaction unless you spend 10 more dollars which i think its ridiculous, but well thats DLC

Yeah, if you have a rough idea where you're going you could probably complete Fallout 3's Critical Path in about 20 hours or so.  It appears we have the same problem with the Quests in Fallout 3, though: once your character maxes out their level and you have decent equipment, there's really no reason to do any of the sidequests that aren't linked to achievements/trophies because you can just annihilate anything in your path and it gets old quickly.  The Broken Steel DLC helps somewhat by tossing in higher level enemies, even better equipment, and and 10 more Experience levels that are harder to reach, but it's not enough.  I never did bother with any of the 4 other DLC packs once I maxed-out on Broken Steel.
 
And I'm sorry, Morari, but somehow I doubt you had an un-glitched, non-crashing version of Fallout 3 when pretty much everyone else had a bug-infested mess.  Mind you, I enjoyed Fallout 3, but that engine is a disaster and should have been condemned and buried with those copies of ET years ago.

[kraken613]

Fallout 3 on PC has issues but nowhere close to the amount on consoles. The same goes for New Vegas, I am 5 hours in and no game breaking bugs for me.

[broodwars]

Fallout 3 on PC has issues but nowhere close to the amount on consoles. The same goes for New Vegas, I am 5 hours in and no game breaking bugs for me.

That's interesting, especially since most of the (more hilarious) bugs I've heard reported and seen documented have been from the PC version (such as this and this).  It just hasn't crashed, then?

[alegoicoe]

^i did it mostly because of trophies and what bothers me is that the development team had to know that people were going to max out the level cap before beating the whole game it was probably a strategy to force people into buying the dlc. oh and i just read that the pc patch for new vegas was released.

[greybrick]

My official stance on Fallout 3 is that I didn't enjoy it.

The fact that I played 60 hours of it is either a contradiction or an affirmation of my dedication to justifying my opinions... I'm not sure which.

Or you are, in actuality, James Jones.

*Looks in the mirror, sees no reflection*

NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[ymeegod]

I'm waiting for it to be fixed.  Think I'll grab Fallout 3 GOTY edition since the price will be dropping down to $29 or so.

Yeah, I had to gripe about the level cap in Fallout 3 as well, I placed alot of my points into gaining more exp quicker which is utterwaste in that game because you'll have to trouble hitting the cap.  Hell I hit it within 10 hours.  Took nearly 80 hours for me to finish it the first time, so a big bulk of the game I didn't level up at all :0.  That's like having a FPS with a limit of 3 weapons.

[alegoicoe]

I'm waiting for it to be fixed.  Think I'll grab Fallout 3 GOTY edition since the price will be dropping down to $29 or so.

Yeah, I had to gripe about the level cap in Fallout 3 as well, I placed alot of my points into gaining more exp quicker which is utterwaste in that game because you'll have to trouble hitting the cap.  Hell I hit it within 10 hours.  Took nearly 80 hours for me to finish it the first time, so a big bulk of the game I didn't level up at all :0.  That's like having a FPS with a limit of 3 weapons.

That suks bro, same thing happened to me on my second play through, but i stopped there, i did not finish it.

[greybrick]

If you only played 60 hours, then I believe that means that you didn't like it.

If I only played 60 hours it means that I had to move on with my life, but I get what you mean; I played more than triple that amount of Oblivion.

[NWR_Neal]

I enjoyed the crap out of Oblivion, putting something like 80 hours into it I think, and then put 5-10 hours into Fallout 3. It was cool, but I just wasn't interested in getting invested in another game of that length.

[Morari]

If you only played 60 hours, then I believe that means that you didn't like it.

If I only played 60 hours it means that I had to move on with my life, but I get what you mean; I played more than triple that amount of Oblivion.

There are so few games worth playing nowadays, it makes it hard to move on with your free time. Heh.

I thought that Oblivion was pretty boring, actually. Sadly, the setting was no where as interesting as that of Morrowind. Even still, it was fun enough to play through once I had loaded up the proper mods. You have to get rid of the console-ized interface if nothing else.

That's one of the biggest reasons I've played Fallout 3 (and had played Morrowind) so much: the mods. Leveling up and becoming invincible isn't much of a problem with the right add-ons applied.

[noname2200]

Fallout 3 on PC has issues but nowhere close to the amount on consoles. The same goes for New Vegas, I am 5 hours in and no game breaking bugs for me.

Question for you:  what are your computer specs?  I really, really want to play this game, but the reports of bugs are scaring me off.

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

I enjoyed the crap out of Oblivion, putting something like 80 hours into it I think, and then put 5-10 hours into Fallout 3. It was cool, but I just wasn't interested in getting invested in another game of that length.

Almost exactly the same for me, except I probably went well in excess of 100 hours on Oblivion, including its expansions, and didn't go much further past Megaton City on Fallout 3. The ugliness and long stretches of nothing in Fallout's overworld was just too difficult to abide by for me.

[greybrick]

Fallout 3 on PC has issues but nowhere close to the amount on consoles. The same goes for New Vegas, I am 5 hours in and no game breaking bugs for me.

Question for you:  what are your computer specs?  I really, really want to play this game, but the reports of bugs are scaring me off.

I am running it on "Very High Quality" with an Nvidia 8800 gts and a 3.2 ghz dual core processor. Also, I have a crappy hard drive. The game runs just fine- not sure how you computer specs would affect bugs though.

[noname2200]

Fallout 3 on PC has issues but nowhere close to the amount on consoles. The same goes for New Vegas, I am 5 hours in and no game breaking bugs for me.

Question for you:  what are your computer specs?  I really, really want to play this game, but the reports of bugs are scaring me off.

I am running it on "Very High Quality" with an Nvidia 8800 gts and a 3.2 ghz dual core processor. Also, I have a crappy hard drive. The game runs just fine- not sure how you computer specs would affect bugs though.

Excellent: those are basically my specs as well.  The plunge will be taken!

[Dirk Temporo]

Fallout 3 on PC has issues but nowhere close to the amount on consoles.

Yeah no. PC version was far, FAR worse. Last I checked neither of the consoles had a freezing bug where after dealing with it freezing every couple hours or so, it gradually increased to every five steps you took.