It wasn't initially, though. It's gotten much deserved praise within the past several years but a lot of people didn't like it when it first came out and reviews were relatively luke-warm.
@@axemansjazz6670That’s because it was an absolute bug-fest when it first released. All Bethesda games are pretty buggy but this was one of the worst ones when it first released.
@@MassiveSnitch Oh yeah, it was a wreck. I remember when it came out and people were pissed. Some of those bugs, like the ones where if you complete a certain quest, it'll bug another from being able to complete, are still present. But, what's astonishing is even with issues such as that, it managed to be one of the best video games of all time.
12:20 My personal favorite part about FNV's Hardcore mode, is that it is a mode, not a difficulty. You can do a playthrough on the easier difficulties while still enjoying survival game elements. Survival modes don't have to mean "everything is a bullet sponge".
I've always felt survival modes should be the opposite of what they often are. If you're going to attach them to a particular upper difficulty, at least make everybody the fragile fleshbags they're supposed to be. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly handles this really well imo. Pop someone in the head, they're done. His buddy pops you in the leg with a single bullet, you're going to have to figure out where he's shooting from all while moving like a snail, get him before he gets you again, and then use some vodka and bandages, maybe even have to find some antibiotics if it gets infected. Way more immersive than survival just being food + enemies with 6 inches of kevlar embedded under all their skin.
Bethesda added hardcore mode in fallout 4 and ruined it they put it in the hardest difficulty which translates to more enemies and bullet sponges. They removed fast travel to waste time. Hopefully they add hardcore to starfiled but do like pathfinder were you can toggle on/off features like eat & drink, sleep, fast travel companion permadeath
@@jeb791 didn't play f4 yet but if they dropped fast travel, is time adjusted to be a bit slower? I am using slowed down time in almost every Bethesda "RPG-like FPS games", because even if geography is a bit "condensed", manipulating things and thinking is still as slow as in reality.
@@christiansantamaria7233 It needs to be remade. The graphics are really bad in some spots, the animations are generally terrible, the combat is super clunky and the DLC could be massively improved upon (yet it's still one of the best games ever). If they remade it all and included the DLC as a base game it would sell millions easily.
New Vegas was my first experience with any Fallout game, and I was blown away at the sheer mass of it. I am actually currently playing through Fallout 3 and am having just as much fun.
I started with Fallout 3 on Xbox 360. I finished the main quest, but not all the DLC yet. I own Fallout New Vegas for PC, and can't wait to finish 3 and move on
New Vegas is one of the best RPG's ever made. Builds felt different and exciting. Quests had multiple ways of completion. Companions were more than meat sacks. Weapons? Holy crap the game is a love letter to John Moses Browning. Hardcore mode is a gem, DLC fit in perfectly. I can never say enough good things about this game. It's biggest feature that bethesda doesn't have is that it trusts you as a player to motivate yourself and make your own decisions. Bethesda decides your motivation, back story and reactions. New Vegas lets you shoot all quest givers in the face if you feel like it. It's your toy and you can break it if you want.
I do love how I can murder pretty much everyone and you just gotta manage how to avoid the assassins that get sent after u, but even then that was the best way to get money, the legion assassins I murdered provided like 90% of my income to my current character and gave me good weapons I hoarded to repair
Im happy to see this game get more praise, but I never actually knew it was underrated. Come on it has more praise videos than the NCR has troops and occasionally the player count exceeds fallout 4.
I liked this game before it was cool. Before Fallout 4 came out, it was considered "the worst thing to happen to Fallout". Post-FO4, the game has done a whole 180. The fanwank this game gets these days puts me off of it.
Just give us the remaster already! When we were waiting on the next big announcement and they gave us 76 instead of the FO3 and NV remasters we all wanted? Just... *SCREAMS INTO THE VOID*
@@andycraig6905 yeah pretty much. I'll go a bit more in depth because both F3 and NV shooting mechanics are different and have their own benefits and I hate it when one is cast to the side without any thought: With ironsight aiming in NV, there IS weapon sway, but wherever the ironsight is, the bullet will go. So that means accuracy does not actually have an effect in NV, it depends on how well you can control your mouse in relation to the target on screen which will always depend on your skill as a player. With F3, there is weapon sway and an accuracy penalty that worsens or betters depending on you character's stats. With no ironsights means no indication of where the bullet will go so no matter how skilled you are as a player, bullets will miss if your character can't shoot (exception to the rule is snipers). So to heighten your accuracy you have to close the gap, like you would in previous Fallouts. It's basically real-time VATS. So yeah, both have their perks. I won't knock NV because tbh it's more fun/actiony. But I prefer the character skill because to me it's more enjoyable seeing my character progress.
@@G-DORA that's an interesting way to look at it I've never thought of that but also in NV your character skill and your strength determine how steady your weapon will be in order to shoot through the iron sights,so it's not only dependent on the player's skill Also no iron sights doesn't mean there is no indication the bullet will go,you aim with these Little spots in the middle of the screen,the bullet might won't go straight in the middle as you said the skill determines the accuracy but it's not 100% skill based
New Vegas is considered a masterpiece these days. I do remember it being really rough upon release with the bugs, but once it got going I did notice how well designed the Quests were, opening up the world and aiding exploration rather than hindering it.
NV really shines in the DLC. They're all very different, but all really well written and paced. Reading the last entry of the Survivalist's diary in Honest Hearts is the only time I've welled up playing a video game.
@@bongman7420 I mean if you give a different studio a year to make a game with your same broken engine reusing assets, of course they're gonna have bugs. Bethesda set them up for failure and yet they defied the odds making a classic game
The first two were very good CRPGs. New Vegas is a legend. 3 deserves some love for the shift in gameplay that made the franchise the behemoth it is today. And 4, for being the most accessible graphics and gameplay-wise for newcomers.
Agree. I know it's popular to shit on Fallout 4, and I can see that the story wasn't super great, especially following New Vegas, but I felt like the gameplay itself was amazing in Fallout 4. It felt more like a shooter to play and in general was very smooth overall. I do credit Fallout 4 with making the Brotherhood of Steel a more balanced mix of the goody-goody ones from Fallout 3 and the original incarnation of the Brotherhood of Steel. Plus, the Prydwyn was pretty awesome. New Vegas was just on another level, so it seemingly lowered the one before and after because of how high it hit.
Fallout 3 is the best imo maybe from nostalgia but new Vegas is a god tier game can never get bored of playing either going to be a fallout fan til the day I die lol
i agree with giving credit where credit is due to 3, but i don't think 4 "being accessible" is worthy of praise in this day and age, especially coming from a company as rich as bethesda. You don't get a medal just for showing up with your pants on.
@@lizardface110 bad comparison. I'd actually praise it for trying new things. Like giving unique abilities instead of just percentage increases for level-ups, which many pretend rpgs do today. The change in mechanics and upgrade to the shooter experience was badly needed and well done. It's visual accomplishments as well are incredible. The base building is actually a first in the series as well and has a lot of potential. They did far from the bare minimum.
Gotta make a quick note, the character creator is kinda the same but New Vegas reintroduced traits which were absent in F3 for some reason. The perks are way more creative in New Vegas as well.
Fallout 3's "perks" were literally +5 to certain skills and that is the only perk i can remember. Sure there were some cool perks but it doesn't stick like New Vegas' perks.
Most of the perks or traits FNV brought in were existing in the original Black Isle games. They were creative... in the late 90s. Still, FNV is the greatest 3D Fallout game, arguably.
Exactly! Heck, that was the whole point when it comes to the original intent of making Fallout to begin with! The first two games made by Interplay also have traits and perks that drastically alter how you character is built!
Don't forget companion quests, and how you solved them determining their perks AND the rest of their lives as seen in the epilogue! It made them more three dimensional and easier to become attached to.
They seem to remake everything these days so why is no one attempting to remake this? It's literally one of the most beloved RPG games ever made, it would literally print money for whoever remakes it. All they have to do is revamp the graphics and sound, eliminate the bugs and glitches and keep everything else the same, it's a no brainer. Oh and make it available for ALL consoles, not just the X-box. I had so much fun with this game, I spent hours an hours just hunting down Sarsperella bottle tops to use in the factory machine, a simple little mundane task that gave me hours of fun lol I never got to complete all the DLC's because they were riddled with bugs and when i installed them after completing the main game, they slowed the game down so much that it became almost unplayable, it would be nice to finally get to play these.
Fallout 3 was my first fallout game and I was madly addicted to it. New Vegas was also great, but I expected the actual city of Vegas to be much larger. That was my only issue with it.
It was supposed to be, and the map was supposed to have more, and more quests for the legion, and an awful lot more like post-ending gameplay where you can see your actions consequences. Bethesda forced obsidian to release the game after only 18 months lol. You can thank Bethesda.
@@NotoriousMinion its actually obsidians fault, they accepted the timeframe and didnt make the game efficiently. this is a problem with their other games as well like kotor 2 and alpha protocol
I played 3 first and 3s always been my favorite lol I don't know if witch fallout game you play first means it'll be your favorite but I think it might have something to do with it, probably nostalgia.
I love NV it was the first fallout i completed with 3 different endings,then i played 4 and it felt like a game made for mentally challenged people compared to NV,then i played 3 and really liked it aswell,4 is a dumbsterfire tho,sadly its most up to date in terms of graphics and gameplay,if 3 and New Vegas had those graphics,nobody would ever bother playing 4
@@casualcookin3893 interesting thanks. I had new vegas for years on my ps3 but i never picked it up. Was considering fallout 4. Maybe i wont waste my time. Rpgs take up too much time....
@@iskdude9922 Its true RPGs with good worldbuilding consume lots of time,however both Fallout 3 Main story and New Vegas can be completed in under 10 hours if thats the only thing youd want to do
Among the many other features of the game, I always appreciated the ability to break down and build ammo. It added additional benefits to picking up ammunition even if it was a type you didn't need. You could always break it down and use it to make something useful.
I know people who loved 3 and never gave NV a real chance and i feel so sorry for them. I love hardcore mode on NV only game where I have to plan a destination, route, and literally pack my guns, ammo water, food, heals, and meds as well as get a good nights sleep and head out early in the morning for maximum rest energy. It like going out on a adventure. leveling up and accumulating a stockpile of supplies and gear feels so rewarding when it was all slowly hauled back from some adventure far away.
5:55 "... New Vegas... and that's where the real story begins." I don't know how many times I got to Novac, got that first home, and spent untold hours sticking around the area, adventuring out and about in the wasteland COMPLETELY having forgotten about the chip and tracking down the guy who shot me in the head. As if my custom, generally after playing for a lengthy period I either dropping the game for a while then returning to it and deciding to start a new character, or while playing I find myself wanting to take all that I had learned in my latest play-through and start a new playthrough to see how I fair. I honestly don't know how many playthroughs I had to go through before I FINALLY got to New Vegas, and I'm pretty sure back when I played on my XBOX 360 I found the location of New Vegas itself confusing and complicated. If anything, discovering the Gun Runners was easily the most useful part of discovering New Vegas. I guess back then I just wanted to go around discovering different places and characters while engaging in combat when attacked and basically have some mindless fun. Wasn't until my 20s, years after the release (possibly even around a decade after release) that I sat myself down and decided, okay, I'm gonna play this game properly with story in mind and I'm not gonna waste my time with too many side-missions even though I fucking LOOOOVE side-missions! In the end, I think I went with an NCR ending first because I like how they're fairly orderly even though they're spread thin. Second time around, I took the Yes Man ending in which I'm in charge. Honestly, if House wasn't such a condescending prick, I'd probably have been his loyal minion and did what I could to help him because he CLEARLY has done a lot of good for the Strip. I mean, if not for him, it woulda been nuked. He PERSONALLY over 200 years ago had the funds and technology to help prevent a nuke from landing on the Strip! Then, over 200 years later, it's actually a functioning location giving various people a livelihood, entertainment, etc. Granted there seems to be a bit of cannibalism at play which is very unfortunate, but hey, it's the post-apocalypse. You expect proper fine-dining when all cows have two heads? I was dumb back in the day, didn't appreciate good story. As I got older (and developed a part-time self-employed job as a writer which a few months ago I managed to make my full-time job), became more mindful and thoughtful, I was able to actually focus on the main plot. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy my mindless fun. Finding/customizing firearms, collecting firearms/ammunition as well as ammo components for crafting, learning the different ammo types, encountering new random locations/NPCs/events, OH and stories that you need to deduce based on terminals/evidence that you can find around the area? I love it, absolutely love it, and all that I had learned helped me big-time when I FINALLY started to appreciate storytelling/roleplaying and so went about learning all I could about the different factions and the decisions I had to make, etc. But yeah, it's funny to me that it IS true that the story doesn't truly begin until you get to the Lucky 38, yet I spent so many beloved hours playing JUST for fun, completely ignoring the main quest, just exploring the world and seeking better weapons and armour and what not. Even though to this day I may very well have still not yet gotten power armor training in New Vegas, may have never once dawned an actual proper suit of power armor lol The armor from the DLC Dead Money, the security armor, is probably the best I was able to ever find. God that was difficult DLC to get through... but I digress. Yeah. In all my time playing New Vegas on the 360, I might not have once actually gone and visited all of the different casinos and what not. I really don't think I had interest in delving that deeply into the story, I just wanted to go out and find stuff and shoot shit! But damn... Vault 22. THAT is something I discovered on the 360 as I recall, and I found it HORRIFYING! Most memorable vault to date, easily. I mean I love Vault 88 in FO4 that you can build yourself, SUPER cool, but Vault 22... those spore creatures... and that was back when I was still deeply obsessed with zombie stuff. I mean I can still appreciate zombie stuff, don't get me wrong, love the genre even though I haven't touched Walking Dead in YEARS, but yeah, I was TERRIFIED that if they got me infected, or if even the air itself got me infected, then I might turn into one of those horrific creatures. Good times... bloody good times...
Who hates the Legion? I actually felt bad for Caesar and due to my character have a high skill in Medicine, I'm actually able to point out that he had a tumor and I did surgery to remove it after getting a new Auto-Doc in one of the vaults with some surgical equipment!
I have nearly 1200 hours into new Vegas, and I still haven't made every choice, talked to every npc, or passed every speech check. The talent Obsidian had with new Vegas was, is, and most likely will continue to be unparalleled by any other game.
And yet I turned off the Outer Worlds when the game had me do a side quest to help my lesbian crew mate get a date after I found out I, the player, had ZERO romance options. Flabbergasted.
Played through NV over 5 times and it never got old thanks to just the large amount of choices that are so affecting to the story of your character, especially the dlc endings. With mods, it feels like a completely different game.
If you like fantasy RPGs like skyrim then keep an eye out for Avowed its obsidian's elder scroll 6 in a nutshell its built upon an already made universe of their game pillars of eternity if I remember correctly so expect the lore stuff to be even better
@@muzzamilshehzad1133 obsidian only made new Vegas which is why its not garbage like all the rest of the bethesda games like fallout 3 and skyrim. fuck bethesda.
I remember completing a side quest that involved the Vegas mafia, love triangle, and betrayal. I celebrated by drinking like 40 bottles of whiskey at the casino bar and then dying to alcohol poisoning but the worst/best part was that I didn’t save and had to do the quests all over again LMAO
The story, the choices, the factions, the world itself, the weapons, the combat, the mechanics and the side stuff all make New Vegas one of the best RPGs I ever played.
Great to see New Vegas getting it's much deserved credit. This was my first fallout game. I bought a used copy on my xbox 360 purely out of boredom to help pass time as I was away from home during a christmas break my freshmen year of college. To my surprise this game was so much fun. I thought I'd play it a few hours a day and play something else...NOPE this game with it's bugs (I mean this literally and mechanically lol) and everything kept me playing sun up - sun down. I remember being just immersed with the freedom of exploration and stumbling upon vaults and new enemies/factions. I played 1 and 2 after I beat New Vegas and loved those as well. Then When Fallout 4 released I bought it and played the it and the Fallout 3 copy that came with it. I still hold New Vegas as my favorite of the bunch.
I see fnv appreciation vids almost every other week, it took awhile but it's been getting its due for a few years now, partially thanks to the flop and disappointments that were F76 and F4
@@tango6130 thats just like your opinion man lol, we could have the F4 vs F 1 - NV debate all day long but it comes down to personal preference. Personally, I like my fallout games to have strong choices/consequences and great reactivity, two facets Fallout 4 lacked in. The series was created to be an in depth *RP* game, meaning the game was much more about actually being able to define your character through your choices and actions. Fallout 4 is a game where you are a pre determined mother/father character with very little to actually define your character, its also virtually impossible to play an evil selfish character in the vannila game and it exists in a very contrived way in the Nuka world dlc. Fallout 4 was much bigger into having craftable settlements and having a more cinematic experience that the RP elements got dumbed down in favor of more streamlined mechanics. F4 doesnt even have a reputation or skill checks for fucks sake. F4 is not a bad game but it is a very watered down *Role Playing* game
@@notimportant8643 In terms of graphics and combat? Fallout 4 Fallout new vegas wins in everything else, from the story, characters,endings,world,maps,DLCS (Lonesome road is the best dlc ever)
Okay I need to make a few things clear here about this game. It is an absolutely great game and I play it all the time and it deserves all the praise it gets for its quest design, writing, and improvements on the combat and leveling system. But people keep praising how amazing it was that it only had like 18 months in development while Fallout 3 had 4 years and yet has so much more to it. Well, that was because Fallout 3 did over half of the heavy lifting. The game engine, UI, the VATS system, half the game assets, half the weapons, most of the monster AI's, all of it was already made for them. They didn't change the combat system, they just tweaked it towards their designs (admittedly to VERY good effect). On TOP of all of that, there were a lot of ideas that came from the scrapped Fallout 3: Van Buren project that were rehashed into the new system, including Caesar's Legion and the Hoover Dam. I'm not trying to knock Obsidian's work, it ended up an excellent game with amazing DLC, but you have to realize that they were able to focus on so much content because that was basically all they had to make. In effect, Fallout New Vegas was 95% Fallout 3 DLC. But that also meant working with a game engine they weren't familiar with and likely didn't have the ability to fully crack. As such they were sort of hamstrung in their ability to fix it to their own ends and I can guarantee that the whole game is a spaghetti code nightmare on top of what is probably a spaghetti code nightmare (That being Bethesda's infamously buggy code). People think it was unfairly criticized when they play it today and it seems buggy but worth it, but you have to realize that is after TONS and TONS of patches. The game at release had basically a 1 in 6 chance of a complete progression block bug that caused the game to crash when you entered the Strip, and could only be circumvented by wearing an "Old Cowboy Hat" when you entered the Strip. I am not making that up. I hate to say it, but those bugs detracted from the experience enough to justify that rating. That said I think that Bethesda should have shouldered more of the blame since it was their messy code they were working with. I would give Fallout New Vegas NOW a 9 out of 10, because it still has a LOAD of jank. But back then, a 7 or 8.
One really sad fact is that it was that the Metacritic score was ONE point under the necessary score for Obsidian to have received a MUCH DESERVED AND EARNED bonus for all their hard work and extreme hours they put in to get the game out by deadline. Arguably, it’s not impossible to say that not receiving that bonus lead to Obsidian losing the vast majority of their most talented developers, many from Black Isle..
i had a co-worker that believed the critics and thought new vegas was crap and only played the main four. i told him that i had a copy he could borrow and if he liked it to keep it. the following week he told me his wife was pissed because she wanted to go out now that the lock down was lifting but he was glued to it. i will defend FONV tooth and nail.
@@justchill5628 whats it to you, it was a work of art made in under 2 years while 3 took almost 6 years. did it work right out the gate, no but name one Bethesda title that does
That thought that anyone would see New Vegas as anything but the best entry in the franchise is absolutely mind blowing to me, though I only played it for the first time in like 2016/17 so I got it post patches. Fallout New Vegas is my favorite game of all time
Fallout 76 is the most underrated for sure. It’s the best fallout game in my opinion. It got bad press because of the bad release but it is so much better and more fun today. They have consistent updates and the multiplayer element makes it my favorite fallout game.
I felt like one of the major reasons why the Fallout Newvegas story was so diverse in such a short time because they take heavily from the van buren project. While not everything survived like choosing your race from humans ghouls or super mutant, plenty of the story was in general laid out and the main story and dlc basically came from it, though touched up a bit and changing some events like when you meet Joshua Graham. Still my favorite fallout game and one of those games I always keep installed, like Vampire the Masquerade. I can always have a good time picking it up and just playing it.
I'm a gamer who doesn't really care about the writing or story. I love open world rpg's where i can just walk around and explore and do my own thing. It's funny to me when people talk about how FNV is great because of the story and writing because I agree it's great and one of the best rpg's ever made but I think it's because of the role playing. And i like your taste in rpg games. As good as FNV and VTMB are imagine if they each had another 6 months to a year of development time,
@@halo3soap114 - You hould try out VTMB if you like rpg games. It is a older game and you should get the community patch for it. But it's a great rpg. I can't wait for part 2 but I think it's delayed.
@@halo3soap114 Its a great game, its alot different from FNV but has a similar sense of choice and consequence as FNV, also has the most entertaining dialouge of any game I've ever played imo, definently recommend picking it up on a steam sale, only caveat is you have to mod the game in order for it to work because the steam version is broken out of the box, fortunately applying the mod is super easy. It can also be got on GOG with the game fixing patch already included in the installation
How about the introduction of iron sights, completely changed the combat style of Fallout. The DLC, some of the most emotional gameplay I ever experienced was the ending to some of these DLC. Even some of the funnier less-serious DLC had amazing stories and wer thoroughly written. Multiple home bases hidden locations and tons of Pop Culture references Fallout New Vegas is the only Fallout that deserves a remaster. One more thing the DLC actually added new endings to the game that were connected to the main game rather than Standalone endings. Outstanding
There's so many things that make FNV great. I love it because of the gameplay. Others say it's great because the story and writing. Still others say the dlc is what makes it great.
I'm sure somebody else has said it. Fallout 3 did cover the differences. The fallout 3 BOS was a rogue faction. The outcasts were the closest thing to the original.
Recently had the chance of playing New Vegas again. I played it once when I was younger not knowing I discovered a gem. The game is just good. If you want an even more in-depth look at this game, watch the Act Man review it. The number of endings, is just wow to me. How could a game in 2010 have so many endings, so many crucial details and choices could have been made.
The modding community made this game legendary. The vanilla package has quite a lot of features and content, and it was rushed out for delivery because of Bethesda being annoying, but all the extra stuff that's come out over the years made this game into my favorite RPG ever. Plus OWB and DM were especially strong DLCs.
Almost the same thing that got STALKER on the road. The mod comunity is the reason many games become relevant beyond the initial release... the diference is NV got some mods from devs (like jsawyer mod) and stalker devs were even more ambitious
@@filypefx haven't gotten into STALKER but it seems fun. I tried Metro and it just left me wanting more variety but I liked the atmosphere so I think I'll sink myself into the STALKER series.
@@Blubbstock imagine villainizing Bethesda and making such a hilariously bad claim. Why would they want the game they are publishing and just bought the IP of to fail? Then you claim obsidian "have brains unlike bethesda" yet look at their latest game. It vanished off the face of earth in less than 1 week. Stop being so exaggerative. It isn't that serious.
It's insane how Microsoft owns all the original guys behind the Fallout series. They own Bethesda and Obsidian like mentioned in the video but they also own inxile who make the wasteland CRPG games, and Brian fargo who found inxile was also the founder of interplay (who were the owners of black isle who eventually became Obsidian). Fargo was the executive producer of those interplay/Black isle Fallout games. So basically the entire history of the Fallout franchise is under one banner now which is crazy 🥸
Unfortunately Todd Howard alluded to fallout continuing to be restricted to Bethesda in an interview, I would (not a joke) give my left foot for another fallout made by Tim Cain, Leonard B. and Brian fargo
Caesars Legion actually doesnt mispronounce his name. I took 2 years of latin in high school and brought this to my teacher. "Ave, true to Caesar." The v is pronounced like our w and ae make an i sound. And their c's arent soft, its a hard c. I find it weird, moreso, that they mixed latin with english instead of just speaking latin but I guess its so players understand them
Seriously, what the fuck is this video? I'm a fan of the original games, and NV is the only 3D Fallout I've ever played. I've got about 1300hrs logged, and it's one of my favorite video games ever. Having said that, if anything it's overrated, because people just can't shut up about how great it is, and sometimes have trouble admitting it's flaws. A fantastic game can still be slightly overrated, and I'd say that's closer to reality than underrated. The only people who might be underrating New Vegas are the folks who've only played Fallout 4, that's all I can figure.
New Vegas is one of my top ten games. I played it for hours, and I'd never played a Fallout game before, so my very first instinct was to go straight to New Vegas off across the barren wasteland. I was torn apart in minutes. It was hilarious. I played New Vegas to death, and like many others, we still haven't uncovered everything in the game. The better I got at the game, the more fun I had. There was still so much to explore. One of my favourite memories was when I was at NCR camp, trying to talk to an NPC and I accidentally stole a spoon. and I thought, hopefully no one saw that, I'm just going to leave quietly. Cue fifty NCR soldiers chasing me down across the wasteland, at first threatening me, and then just a conga line of NPC dialogue, and then my game crashed. There was something about the bugginess of Fallout that never got to me, everything always ended up hilarious. Also, the amount of times you could accidentally cheese a complicated quest was a huge bonus. I loved the characters, the environment, the weapons, the sheer amount of dialogue, it's absolutely mad. Also, the only reason why I bought the game was because I saw the sniper with NCR regalia on the cover. I thought this game has to be awesome. One of the few times I judged a book by it's cover, and it absolutely paid off.
Exactly I mean just last night I was playing it and I discovered the hunters farmhouse near vault 19 for the first time and that was like my 10 or 11th play through
@@shogun8816 have you found the hidden pack deathclaws near the dam just chilling near the water that you have to jump off the cliff or swim to get to yet or chances map?
CriticalState - I bought Fallout 3 GOTY because of the box cover art look awesome. Did you get torn apart in minutes by the 3 Deathclaws before Quarry junction
I've played Fallout 3, New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 and I personally prefer FO4, but if they did some kind of next gen upgrade for New Vegas that would be amazing.
I played like 2000 hours of the game when I was younger. I’m kinda killing time till I go back to it. I’m really just kinda hoping it gets a remaster or even better. A “reimagining” that bring in some cut quests/ features, maybe new one all together. The game is the reason I get bored of so many RPG’s and is kinda where I set the bar for story content as a whole.
The thing i loved about the Bethesda open world games compared to newer open world games is back then you generally wanted to go out and explore every corner of the map and were usually rewarded for doing so
Bethesda and Borderlands both have that. Encouraging exploring their worlds by hiding things in every nook and cranny. I wish more open world games had the level of detail Bethesda puts into their games. Everything in the game is handcrafted, there are skeletons arranged in certain positions, it just makes me enjoy playing it so much more. But I know handcrafting an entire world takes forever, which is why their games are in development for so long :(
New Vegas was made by Obsidian aka Black Isle studios which was the old Dragonplay a division of Interplay. Bethesda does some things right but also makes some dumb decisions and is incredibly lazy AF.
First time I played New Vegas I killed Mr House super quickly without realizing he was a major faction/quest line 😂 just went back through the entire game again thanks to the Fallout Show
Fallout 3 and New Vegas are two of the greatest games of all time. Even though New Vegas is the better rpg and game i’ll never forget the impact fallout 3 had on me. I had never played a game like that before and i’ll never get that feeling back of when I played it for the first time by any game
I remember entering to Tranquility Lane for the first time...that was one of the most amazing and fun experiences i had in a video game. Like, Entering a game within a game
@@cruzofficial1 The moment I always remember was walking out the vault for the first time and you get blinded and then the wasteland reveals itself spine tingling
I was replaying it again during quarantine, and fell in love with it even more (also isn't it weird how people started talking about the game nowadays?), also back when I played first I could barely run the thing lol, and now it has mods that let you run it at 120hz and stuff it's amazing. Also another thing I noticed is how the most fun (imho) way to play the game is right there on the cover or in your face - gambling (rush to vegas at the start with some luck, using the 1 or 2 stealthboys you get at the start, gamble away and get the implants), revolvers (lucky is the best overall gun in the game imo and just fun to use with all the crits, while sequoia is for when you need heavy fire power), and light armor (gecko backed hardened leather armor with the light touch perk works great), while before I was messing with power armor and energy weapons, avoided gambling completely, and didn't try hardcore mode, and it just wasn't a very fun way to play the game lol
I run a little different than you. Which is why I love this game. It's such a sand box. I stack ally points in luck and intelligence at the beginning then get skilled perk and wild wasteland or skilled and 4eyes so I can get double perception and knowing that I can take 2 less special in perception and add them wherever else. I go heavy in barter and science and you stack caps. I usually have 15000 caps just following the long road to Vegas and I will have way more if I take my time lol.
@@jordanford9320 exactly, I remember doing many many little campaigns, where I did the main quest while following a specific character story. It's really fun to experience this games writing and world, especially upgraded with mods!
Truly the best story and some of the best gameplay mechanics. Started playing again for the first time in a long time recently, and I was shocked by some of the dialog. I forgot how raw the concepts and story was. It's truly bad ass.
I just remember how immediately interested I was in fallout 3 while looking through a game informer magazine . Was instantly in love when I got it . Shocked when I heard new Vegas was out too. Took me a bit to get it but it quickly became my favorite. Truly the golden era of gaming in my mind . Now playing Vegas on pc with a bunch of mods and having a blast !
Love when Falcon talks about a specific game. That's where the passion really blooms, because he really gets into it. It's just cool, you know? Like listening to a fellow gamer go on and on and you're just glad someone shares that interest. It doesn't matter what game he's talking about either. His Dynasty Warriors 9 rants still make me laugh. 😂
Fallout 4 was very underrated as well, people called it a looter shooter without exploring the dialog options and RPG systems in the game, or getting involved in the base and settlement system.
Even now this game is still a masterpiece. The modding community are very active and they have fixed the game and improved it in almost every way. Well worth playing with mods.
Fallout: New Vegas is what kick started my love for the RPG genre of gaming. Everything from the amazing actors who gave their voices to the dialogue, right down to all of the awesome content and unique weapons, and locations, is what made it so iconic and memorable for me and many other players alike.
I absolutely agree with you on that one! On top of that, it feels like a true sequel to the first two Fallout games in terms of the original continuity that Interplay made when they were developing them! :D
Easily the best role-playing game released to this date. At least for me, it is. No other game gave me the idea of freedom as well as this one, and I always come back to it after a few years.
@@mkt_shv best rpg is highly subjective there's really no objective answer especially for a genre that's so broad, but out of curiosity what makes disco elysium your favorite?
As complicated as it is to grasp for beginners, Caravan is such an awesome card game. I loved playing it so much that I actually played it for real with friends just using a standard deck each.
I remember getting NV the day it released and then bringing it back the next day because it was so broken lol years later i picked it up at Walmart it was a GOTY edition and I absolutely fell in love with it. It became my favorite FO game ever. I still play it on Gamepass as recently as a few months ago. Such a gem of a game.
Just to let people know, ‘C’ in Latin is a hard ‘C’ and is instead pronounced like a ‘K’. Which is why in Caesar’s legion legionaries, and Caesar himself, pronounce Caesar as “Kaesar”. Obsidian done their research 😉. My mum studied Latin and told me that when I first played the game 💪
Ok but the way New Vegas created dialogue choices based on your skills and traits even ones that you wouldn’t necessarily think would effect dialogue is the single most revolutionary thing this game did and made the immersive role playing mind boggling. And is something that no other game released since New Vegas has really replicated.
My favorite was when you didn't have a good enough medical skill to diagnose Caesar and you made up a really stupid sounding disease. I can't remember what it's called at the moment but it was hilarious. Especially with how annoyed Caesar gets with you afterwards
Plus the unique options if you have low Intelligence, or the ability to BS your way through something with very high Luck, actually made the dialog really fun.
It shouldn't cost game devs so much more to invest in high quality scriptwriters rather than the college-grade uninspired dross that passes for most game dialogue. FNV's characters have depth and clear individuality, without being too contrived, trite or overly quirky. There are people who know what they're doing, and there are a bunch of weak chancers who probably got the job because daddy pulled some strings. The second type need weeding out and game companies need more creative discretion, like Obsidian's work on FNV proves.
@@tomread8748 100%. I feel like games as a narrative experience have really diminished since the 2000s. Instead AAA games are much more focused on big buzz words like graphics, and combat so writing and dialogue has really fallen by the wayside.
Fallout basically got The Last of Us 2 treatment, but in reverse. The fans all really loved the game, but the Media/reviewers didn’t. Just like how they think TLOU2 is a masterpiece of storytelling, while most people thought it was absolutely mediocre.
Fallout 3 was truly special, growing up in the vault having a life backstory player experienced, coming out to see the world for the first time. New vegas is like dlc to 3 but improved all the gameplay, and fallout 4? Truly spectacular a great successor to 3
did you watch the video? they said it's the lowest rated main entry in the series and at the time of release many considered a step back after fallout3. so it was kina underrated and now most people think it is the best in the franchise.
The most underrated is probably Fallout 1 and 2 in the sense that they're not as popular as the first person games(and they're better) but if you wanna go deeper then Fallout Tactics is pretty underrated. It's not an RPG and it's far from being amazing but I played through it a couple times years ago and enjoyed it. Worth playing if you're obsessed with Fallout and don't mind a jank version of xcom squad style combat.
I remember beating the story on hardcore for the first time is was a fun more challenging experience along the lines of dark souls. I was a little disappointed tho that your reward was only the achievement and not any special gear or perks for your character, but that said it has got to b my favorite fallout game I have played and always worth another playthrough every once in a while.
It was rated lower back when it came out because it was glitchy and said to be unfinished. Many were also coming off the Fallout 3 bandwagon which was broken as hell. You can be evil in Fallout 3, and then give a wastelander purified water and become a saint lol. New Vagas is really the true Fallout 3, and was code named Van Buren Project during the days of Black Isle Studios. New Vagas was also not as rushed as some may think. The game only took 18 months to make because they were able to reuse many of the already existing assets. However, people are also not considering the DLC expansions that made up part of the game. New Vagas came out October 19, 2010, but DLC dropped on February 22, 2011, May 17, 2011, July 19, 2011, and September 20, 2011. In reality you're adding almost another year, so the game was being worked on a few months shy of 3 years, not short at all for a PS3/360 game, not including the massive patch that fixed tons of issues. While it may not be the best-looking game around, playing on now on my Series X at 60fps and 2 second load times is a drastic improvement. The graphics are also noticeably sharper, better lighting, shadows and textures, practically what the PC got of higher settings back in the day.
My first playthrough, I was determined to join the Brotherhood of Steel. I had no idea if this was even possible in the game, I just wanted to do it. And they are off the beaten path, so it took me quite a long time to even find them. Then having a series of quests to prove yourself before you can join them was awesome, it was exactly what I was hoping I could do. When the NCR then ordered me to destroy the BoS, I was not going to do it. If that's what was required to finish the game, I'd just refuse. And imagine my surprise (and joy) to find that you could come to a compromise between the NCR and BoS, and allow them to co-exist. It was awesome. A truly amazing RPG experience. That said, the game launched in an absolutely HORRIBLE state. It was flat-out broken. For awhile, people had to grab a d3d.dll file from a completely different game and copy it over the top of FalloutNV's dll just to get playable frame rates. That other dll essentially disabled all post-processing effects, so it looked like garbage, but at least it was playable. Before that, most people got
I wouldn’t call New Vegas underrated, maybe undercooked. I don’t mean this in a negative way as this is definitely my most loved game of the series besides Fallout 4. Many fans of this series always put this as their number 1 and those who are new to the series know if this game, whether from word of mouth or the memes. It is clear however, that the game needed more time in the oven to further flesh out it’s story. It was evident when the DLC came out that these developers could do God’s work with a little more time. It was clear that the major sufferer of this short development cycle was the Legion as much of their story was significantly cut in comparison to what a player receives when doing an NCR run. Hell, besides a Yes Man run I’d say most speed-runners would choose a Legion run just based on the lack of content alone. So overall, it’s not underrated, just slightly undercooked. However, that’s okay because this game is one of my all time favorites!
@@ciciciaphascain4143 There's a ton of cut content that has been cancelled because of time constraints. Obsidian had to add some ideas into DLC later when they had more time. The game by itself is amazing, but if they had 6 months more for more content, it would be godlike, on the level of Ocarina of Time. The bugs got ironed out in later patches mostly.
Yes, because Bethesda did fail so hard with the last Fallout games. Making FNV looking good again. Fallout 3 was pretty okay-ish, 4 was lackluster and 76 was and is a messy cash grab.
When I was getting hardcore into gaming again I bought fallout NV from a local game store and my coworker told me “NV sucks, fallout 3 is the game you should have got instead” I didn’t know much about rpgs so I trusted him on that. I thought NV was a “bad” game as late as 2016 just because ppl said it was. Now it’s one of my favorite games of all time
This is my favorite game of all time, I still play it on the old gens to this day. It honestly never gets old for me personally, it would be awesome if they slightly remastered it.
The best part of New Vegas was the leveling and class build plus weapon building ! And the Exploration maybe just the WHOLE DAMN GAME WAS GREAT! WE NEED A NEW VEGAS PART 2
It is without a doubt, one of the best RPGs I've ever had the pleasure of playing. Now that Microsoft holds this IP, there is nothing I would love more, than for them to open the gates for bringing the game in to a modern remake, utilizing modern engines. With modding in that framework, it would live so very very long. The old engine is clunky, and I always mod it to replay it now - but the replay-ability of New Vegas is high tier.
I loved New Vegas when it came out. That was one of the few games that I bought at the midnight release. My cousins and I all went after work one night. We all reserved it months prior.
New vegas was the last fallout game that made me feel like what speech options I chose, the actions I commited against a faction mattered. There's nothing like pissing off the NCR early game and just grenade launcher all their booties just to gain further disfavor for that faction. It really felt like a weird rpg (in a good way:)). Fallout 4 is just an interactive movie. Vegas really made you feel the consequences of your actions.
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I’m pretty sure no one’s ever said this game was underrated
Gotta farm New Vegas fanboy clicks
This game receives a never-ending amount of praise, possibly even to an unhealthy level.
Dude so true. This title is bullshit.
Exactly what I was thinking; I’ve never experienced that reality.
Underrated? I’ve enjoyed all fallout games I’ve played ( never played tactics)
The game is literally one of the most praised RPGS of all time, I’d say it’s perfectly rated.
It wasn't initially, though. It's gotten much deserved praise within the past several years but a lot of people didn't like it when it first came out and reviews were relatively luke-warm.
@@axemansjazz6670That’s because it was an absolute bug-fest when it first released. All Bethesda games are pretty buggy but this was one of the worst ones when it first released.
lol did you skip the intro of the video or something?
@@MassiveSnitch Oh yeah, it was a wreck. I remember when it came out and people were pissed. Some of those bugs, like the ones where if you complete a certain quest, it'll bug another from being able to complete, are still present. But, what's astonishing is even with issues such as that, it managed to be one of the best video games of all time.
@@axemansjazz6670 once they patched everything up, it became my favorite fallout game by a mile.
12:20 My personal favorite part about FNV's Hardcore mode, is that it is a mode, not a difficulty. You can do a playthrough on the easier difficulties while still enjoying survival game elements. Survival modes don't have to mean "everything is a bullet sponge".
I've always felt survival modes should be the opposite of what they often are. If you're going to attach them to a particular upper difficulty, at least make everybody the fragile fleshbags they're supposed to be.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly handles this really well imo. Pop someone in the head, they're done. His buddy pops you in the leg with a single bullet, you're going to have to figure out where he's shooting from all while moving like a snail, get him before he gets you again, and then use some vodka and bandages, maybe even have to find some antibiotics if it gets infected. Way more immersive than survival just being food + enemies with 6 inches of kevlar embedded under all their skin.
Bethesda added hardcore mode in fallout 4 and ruined it they put it in the hardest difficulty which translates to more enemies and bullet sponges. They removed fast travel to waste time. Hopefully they add hardcore to starfiled but do like pathfinder were you can toggle on/off features like eat & drink, sleep, fast travel companion permadeath
@@jeb791 didn't play f4 yet but if they dropped fast travel, is time adjusted to be a bit slower?
I am using slowed down time in almost every Bethesda "RPG-like FPS games", because even if geography is a bit "condensed", manipulating things and thinking is still as slow as in reality.
@@tulenik71pretty sure time is the same
@@ledumpsterfire6474yeah that’s when you play stalker not fallout
I wish they would do a total remake of this game I absolutely loved it!
No, a sequel.
@@yittmashups No a remake/remaster.
Mods have already been done that and more impressive than any offical remake ever will
@@christiansantamaria7233 mods are cool, but nothing like the original games.
@@christiansantamaria7233 It needs to be remade. The graphics are really bad in some spots, the animations are generally terrible, the combat is super clunky and the DLC could be massively improved upon (yet it's still one of the best games ever). If they remade it all and included the DLC as a base game it would sell millions easily.
Fallout New Vegas is the best Fallout game acclaimed by literally everyone, but thank you for this video, we needed it
Yes it’s literally the best fallout game
Yes
Did you watch the intro to the video? He talks about that lmao
@@Badbhoys big fax
Its the best fallout game if you haven't play anyother fallout game for me i played all of them And Fallout 4 is the best fallout for me
The amount of weapons, quests, realistic factions, choices.
Ya the factions blew my mind....theres factions in the other games but in vegas your actions really do affect the outcome......
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Yeah. Essentially everything you do has some kind of impact on the factions
The hardcore mode with the non instant heal, it was just great
*WE JUST WANT A REMASTER TAKE MY FUKN MONEY DAMNIT*
Yep. The amount of ammo types and weapons and weapons vendors.
New Vegas was my first experience with any Fallout game, and I was blown away at the sheer mass of it. I am actually currently playing through Fallout 3 and am having just as much fun.
I started with Fallout 3 on Xbox 360.
I finished the main quest, but not all the DLC yet. I own Fallout New Vegas for PC, and can't wait to finish 3 and move on
Gameranx: “Most underrated”
Everyone else: “best fallout game ever”
He makes a good point about the brotherhood tho- 3 is the only time they’re cookie cutter white hat good guys.
New Vegas is one of the best RPG's ever made. Builds felt different and exciting. Quests had multiple ways of completion. Companions were more than meat sacks. Weapons? Holy crap the game is a love letter to John Moses Browning. Hardcore mode is a gem, DLC fit in perfectly.
I can never say enough good things about this game. It's biggest feature that bethesda doesn't have is that it trusts you as a player to motivate yourself and make your own decisions. Bethesda decides your motivation, back story and reactions. New Vegas lets you shoot all quest givers in the face if you feel like it. It's your toy and you can break it if you want.
I do love how I can murder pretty much everyone and you just gotta manage how to avoid the assassins that get sent after u, but even then that was the best way to get money, the legion assassins I murdered provided like 90% of my income to my current character and gave me good weapons I hoarded to repair
@@Die-Angst 😂😂😂 i thought this was a joke until i saw your recent comments, you sound unbearable lol
@@kdburner7356 right? Sounds like a super fun date 🙄
@@Die-Angst nah, he called it 👍
@@Die-Angst do you type this way to your friends when you make plans and stuff?
Im happy to see this game get more praise, but I never actually knew it was underrated. Come on it has more praise videos than the NCR has troops and occasionally the player count exceeds fallout 4.
They even lost out on their bonus because it was underrated.
It’s not really underrated tbh. I’m sure the good majority of fallout fans would put new Vegas as their favorite
@@pHixiq the first 2 minutes why they are calling it underrated.
I liked this game before it was cool. Before Fallout 4 came out, it was considered "the worst thing to happen to Fallout". Post-FO4, the game has done a whole 180. The fanwank this game gets these days puts me off of it.
Tell me you commented before watching the video without telling me you commented before watching the video. Lmfao
I'm playing it as we speak, and I would love to see a remaster of this amazing game. I would happily play it through again.
Many good mods still on nexus mods for it. The dimonized body, world of pain, new vegas bounties...
Just give us the remaster already! When we were waiting on the next big announcement and they gave us 76 instead of the FO3 and NV remasters we all wanted? Just... *SCREAMS INTO THE VOID*
I also liked the fact that you can aim down sights on non-scoped guns. It felt really different when I came back to FO3 after playing NV.
One of the main reasons I couldn't go back to fo3
Ya that change alone completely changed the feel of the gun play in first person and made it alot more fun overall
It's also nice to hit an enemy target with a scoped gun fifty meters/yards away.
Imagine being a game developer and not understanding how a gun works.
FO3 sucks
Also the iron sights was a big addition compared to the fallout 3 just zooming closer to the weapon's barrel
I get things like people soaking up headshots for gameplay but not having sights in a first person view is kinda trash.
I preferred F3's aiming because it depended on your characters skill, not your own. Which is more faithful to tabletops, tabs, and classic RPG's.
@@G-DORA huh, I didn't think of that. Kinda like rolling a d20
@@andycraig6905 yeah pretty much. I'll go a bit more in depth because both F3 and NV shooting mechanics are different and have their own benefits and I hate it when one is cast to the side without any thought:
With ironsight aiming in NV, there IS weapon sway, but wherever the ironsight is, the bullet will go. So that means accuracy does not actually have an effect in NV, it depends on how well you can control your mouse in relation to the target on screen which will always depend on your skill as a player.
With F3, there is weapon sway and an accuracy penalty that worsens or betters depending on you character's stats. With no ironsights means no indication of where the bullet will go so no matter how skilled you are as a player, bullets will miss if your character can't shoot (exception to the rule is snipers). So to heighten your accuracy you have to close the gap, like you would in previous Fallouts. It's basically real-time VATS.
So yeah, both have their perks. I won't knock NV because tbh it's more fun/actiony. But I prefer the character skill because to me it's more enjoyable seeing my character progress.
@@G-DORA that's an interesting way to look at it I've never thought of that but also in NV your character skill and your strength determine how steady your weapon will be in order to shoot through the iron sights,so it's not only dependent on the player's skill
Also no iron sights doesn't mean there is no indication the bullet will go,you aim with these Little spots in the middle of the screen,the bullet might won't go straight in the middle as you said the skill determines the accuracy but it's not 100% skill based
New Vegas is considered a masterpiece these days. I do remember it being really rough upon release with the bugs, but once it got going I did notice how well designed the Quests were, opening up the world and aiding exploration rather than hindering it.
NV really shines in the DLC. They're all very different, but all really well written and paced. Reading the last entry of the Survivalist's diary in Honest Hearts is the only time I've welled up playing a video game.
Crazy to think such an iconic game didn’t always have the respect it holds now
People love to hate on buggy games the bugs at launch from what I remember honestly weren’t that bad people just lack patience lol.
@@bongman7420 I mean if you give a different studio a year to make a game with your same broken engine reusing assets, of course they're gonna have bugs. Bethesda set them up for failure and yet they defied the odds making a classic game
It only started getting the respect it deserves after 2015 or so, it turned into a cult classic.
@@bongman7420 On PS3 it was pretty terrible but they got it sorted out pretty quickly.
@@icblundell60 word, I played on 360 on release.
The first two were very good CRPGs. New Vegas is a legend. 3 deserves some love for the shift in gameplay that made the franchise the behemoth it is today. And 4, for being the most accessible graphics and gameplay-wise for newcomers.
Agree. I know it's popular to shit on Fallout 4, and I can see that the story wasn't super great, especially following New Vegas, but I felt like the gameplay itself was amazing in Fallout 4. It felt more like a shooter to play and in general was very smooth overall. I do credit Fallout 4 with making the Brotherhood of Steel a more balanced mix of the goody-goody ones from Fallout 3 and the original incarnation of the Brotherhood of Steel. Plus, the Prydwyn was pretty awesome.
New Vegas was just on another level, so it seemingly lowered the one before and after because of how high it hit.
Fallout 3 is the best imo maybe from nostalgia but new Vegas is a god tier game can never get bored of playing either going to be a fallout fan til the day I die lol
Perfect way of explaining it
i agree with giving credit where credit is due to 3, but i don't think 4 "being accessible" is worthy of praise in this day and age, especially coming from a company as rich as bethesda.
You don't get a medal just for showing up with your pants on.
@@lizardface110 bad comparison. I'd actually praise it for trying new things. Like giving unique abilities instead of just percentage increases for level-ups, which many pretend rpgs do today. The change in mechanics and upgrade to the shooter experience was badly needed and well done. It's visual accomplishments as well are incredible. The base building is actually a first in the series as well and has a lot of potential.
They did far from the bare minimum.
Fallout is such an underrated franchise, I wish more people would realize what huge potential this series has!
No. Its not underrated. Its a famous franchise 😀
One of the best games of all time IMO. My intro to the Fallout universe, and such a perfect story, and perfectly balanced playthrough.
Gotta make a quick note, the character creator is kinda the same but New Vegas reintroduced traits which were absent in F3 for some reason. The perks are way more creative in New Vegas as well.
Fallout 3's "perks" were literally +5 to certain skills and that is the only perk i can remember. Sure there were some cool perks but it doesn't stick like New Vegas' perks.
Most of the perks or traits FNV brought in were existing in the original Black Isle games. They were creative... in the late 90s.
Still, FNV is the greatest 3D Fallout game, arguably.
Exactly! Heck, that was the whole point when it comes to the original intent of making Fallout to begin with! The first two games made by Interplay also have traits and perks that drastically alter how you character is built!
@@TheSoleDweller I mean look at it’s competition, as much as I love New Vegas the other Fallout games are so bad it’s not hard to beat
@@spiderofthehood6127 I get you're only talking about Fo3 and Fo4 as "other Fallout games". Both Fo1 and Fo2 were (and remain) great.
Don't forget companion quests, and how you solved them determining their perks AND the rest of their lives as seen in the epilogue! It made them more three dimensional and easier to become attached to.
I Just Played Finishing Fallout 3.
I Started With FallOut 4 And Then Played 3, Will Now Start New Vegas.
@@M.Abbas7944 Going from the weakest to the best I see, good.... very good! :D
@Yosmart Hariandja That's insane to me. Obsidian are amazing.
They seem to remake everything these days so why is no one attempting to remake this? It's literally one of the most beloved RPG games ever made, it would literally print money for whoever remakes it. All they have to do is revamp the graphics and sound, eliminate the bugs and glitches and keep everything else the same, it's a no brainer. Oh and make it available for ALL consoles, not just the X-box.
I had so much fun with this game, I spent hours an hours just hunting down Sarsperella bottle tops to use in the factory machine, a simple little mundane task that gave me hours of fun lol
I never got to complete all the DLC's because they were riddled with bugs and when i installed them after completing the main game, they slowed the game down so much that it became almost unplayable, it would be nice to finally get to play these.
Fallout 3 was my first fallout game and I was madly addicted to it. New Vegas was also great, but I expected the actual city of Vegas to be much larger. That was my only issue with it.
It was supposed to be, and the map was supposed to have more, and more quests for the legion, and an awful lot more like post-ending gameplay where you can see your actions consequences. Bethesda forced obsidian to release the game after only 18 months lol. You can thank Bethesda.
@@NotoriousMinion its actually obsidians fault, they accepted the timeframe and didnt make the game efficiently. this is a problem with their other games as well like kotor 2 and alpha protocol
@@timsaikia7859nah lol
@@da420wizard6 yah lol
@@timsaikia7859Why bethesda give 18 months
New Vegas was my first Fallout and first in depth RPG. Since playing it first, I was never able to really get into 3 or 4 as much afterwards.
I have both 3 and 4 but I always return to Fallout New Vegas.
I played 3 first and 3s always been my favorite lol I don't know if witch fallout game you play first means it'll be your favorite but I think it might have something to do with it, probably nostalgia.
I love NV it was the first fallout i completed with 3 different endings,then i played 4 and it felt like a game made for mentally challenged people compared to NV,then i played 3 and really liked it aswell,4 is a dumbsterfire tho,sadly its most up to date in terms of graphics and gameplay,if 3 and New Vegas had those graphics,nobody would ever bother playing 4
@@casualcookin3893 interesting thanks. I had new vegas for years on my ps3 but i never picked it up. Was considering fallout 4. Maybe i wont waste my time. Rpgs take up too much time....
@@iskdude9922 Its true RPGs with good worldbuilding consume lots of time,however both Fallout 3 Main story and New Vegas can be completed in under 10 hours if thats the only thing youd want to do
Among the many other features of the game, I always appreciated the ability to break down and build ammo. It added additional benefits to picking up ammunition even if it was a type you didn't need. You could always break it down and use it to make something useful.
the pitt in f3 added that system originally
I know people who loved 3 and never gave NV a real chance and i feel so sorry for them. I love hardcore mode on NV only game where I have to plan a destination, route, and literally pack my guns, ammo water, food, heals, and meds as well as get a good nights sleep and head out early in the morning for maximum rest energy. It like going out on a adventure. leveling up and accumulating a stockpile of supplies and gear feels so rewarding when it was all slowly hauled back from some adventure far away.
nv blows 3 out of the water lmao its not even close
@stmsin eh debatable I'd say NV has better story and role play but world goes to 3
@@johnyakuza777 hard disagree
5:55
"... New Vegas... and that's where the real story begins."
I don't know how many times I got to Novac, got that first home, and spent untold hours sticking around the area, adventuring out and about in the wasteland COMPLETELY having forgotten about the chip and tracking down the guy who shot me in the head. As if my custom, generally after playing for a lengthy period I either dropping the game for a while then returning to it and deciding to start a new character, or while playing I find myself wanting to take all that I had learned in my latest play-through and start a new playthrough to see how I fair.
I honestly don't know how many playthroughs I had to go through before I FINALLY got to New Vegas, and I'm pretty sure back when I played on my XBOX 360 I found the location of New Vegas itself confusing and complicated. If anything, discovering the Gun Runners was easily the most useful part of discovering New Vegas. I guess back then I just wanted to go around discovering different places and characters while engaging in combat when attacked and basically have some mindless fun.
Wasn't until my 20s, years after the release (possibly even around a decade after release) that I sat myself down and decided, okay, I'm gonna play this game properly with story in mind and I'm not gonna waste my time with too many side-missions even though I fucking LOOOOVE side-missions! In the end, I think I went with an NCR ending first because I like how they're fairly orderly even though they're spread thin. Second time around, I took the Yes Man ending in which I'm in charge. Honestly, if House wasn't such a condescending prick, I'd probably have been his loyal minion and did what I could to help him because he CLEARLY has done a lot of good for the Strip. I mean, if not for him, it woulda been nuked. He PERSONALLY over 200 years ago had the funds and technology to help prevent a nuke from landing on the Strip! Then, over 200 years later, it's actually a functioning location giving various people a livelihood, entertainment, etc. Granted there seems to be a bit of cannibalism at play which is very unfortunate, but hey, it's the post-apocalypse. You expect proper fine-dining when all cows have two heads?
I was dumb back in the day, didn't appreciate good story. As I got older (and developed a part-time self-employed job as a writer which a few months ago I managed to make my full-time job), became more mindful and thoughtful, I was able to actually focus on the main plot. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy my mindless fun. Finding/customizing firearms, collecting firearms/ammunition as well as ammo components for crafting, learning the different ammo types, encountering new random locations/NPCs/events, OH and stories that you need to deduce based on terminals/evidence that you can find around the area? I love it, absolutely love it, and all that I had learned helped me big-time when I FINALLY started to appreciate storytelling/roleplaying and so went about learning all I could about the different factions and the decisions I had to make, etc.
But yeah, it's funny to me that it IS true that the story doesn't truly begin until you get to the Lucky 38, yet I spent so many beloved hours playing JUST for fun, completely ignoring the main quest, just exploring the world and seeking better weapons and armour and what not. Even though to this day I may very well have still not yet gotten power armor training in New Vegas, may have never once dawned an actual proper suit of power armor lol The armor from the DLC Dead Money, the security armor, is probably the best I was able to ever find. God that was difficult DLC to get through... but I digress. Yeah. In all my time playing New Vegas on the 360, I might not have once actually gone and visited all of the different casinos and what not. I really don't think I had interest in delving that deeply into the story, I just wanted to go out and find stuff and shoot shit!
But damn... Vault 22. THAT is something I discovered on the 360 as I recall, and I found it HORRIFYING! Most memorable vault to date, easily. I mean I love Vault 88 in FO4 that you can build yourself, SUPER cool, but Vault 22... those spore creatures... and that was back when I was still deeply obsessed with zombie stuff. I mean I can still appreciate zombie stuff, don't get me wrong, love the genre even though I haven't touched Walking Dead in YEARS, but yeah, I was TERRIFIED that if they got me infected, or if even the air itself got me infected, then I might turn into one of those horrific creatures.
Good times... bloody good times...
Who hates the Legion? I actually felt bad for Caesar and due to my character have a high skill in Medicine, I'm actually able to point out that he had a tumor and I did surgery to remove it after getting a new Auto-Doc in one of the vaults with some surgical equipment!
I have nearly 1200 hours into new Vegas, and I still haven't made every choice, talked to every npc, or passed every speech check. The talent Obsidian had with new Vegas was, is, and most likely will continue to be unparalleled by any other game.
Man I agree I got like 5000 or more lol
And yet I turned off the Outer Worlds when the game had me do a side quest to help my lesbian crew mate get a date after I found out I, the player, had ZERO romance options. Flabbergasted.
@@Zathren the Outer Worlds is pretty good, and I think that the reason there isn't romance is because Chris thought it was cringe.
@@Zathren snowflake
I will never know how much time I have truly put into FNV because most of it was on the 360
Played through NV over 5 times and it never got old thanks to just the large amount of choices that are so affecting to the story of your character, especially the dlc endings. With mods, it feels like a completely different game.
If you like fantasy RPGs like skyrim then keep an eye out for Avowed its obsidian's elder scroll 6 in a nutshell its built upon an already made universe of their game pillars of eternity if I remember correctly so expect the lore stuff to be even better
I like those sex mods where you can get std’s. Lol. Immersive af
@@muzzamilshehzad1133 obsidian only made new Vegas which is why its not garbage like all the rest of the bethesda games like fallout 3 and skyrim. fuck bethesda.
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Bethesda can’t write a story that’s not linear to save their lives
I remember completing a side quest that involved the Vegas mafia, love triangle, and betrayal. I celebrated by drinking like 40 bottles of whiskey at the casino bar and then dying to alcohol poisoning but the worst/best part was that I didn’t save and had to do the quests all over again LMAO
If you guys want to talk for hours about how awesome this game is feel free. I'd listen to it.
The story, the choices, the factions, the world itself, the weapons, the combat, the mechanics and the side stuff all make New Vegas one of the best RPGs I ever played.
Tbh is the best I've ever played. Its simplicity made it a game anyone could pick up.
Honestly for me NV Is the one of the worst game ive ever played It's just terrible All the design dialogs and atmosphere.
Its one of the greatest games of all time imo.
@@Matheo355 cool now get out
@@bsherman8236 Nah, im gonna stay here
Great to see New Vegas getting it's much deserved credit. This was my first fallout game. I bought a used copy on my xbox 360 purely out of boredom to help pass time as I was away from home during a christmas break my freshmen year of college. To my surprise this game was so much fun. I thought I'd play it a few hours a day and play something else...NOPE this game with it's bugs (I mean this literally and mechanically lol) and everything kept me playing sun up - sun down. I remember being just immersed with the freedom of exploration and stumbling upon vaults and new enemies/factions. I played 1 and 2 after I beat New Vegas and loved those as well. Then When Fallout 4 released I bought it and played the it and the Fallout 3 copy that came with it. I still hold New Vegas as my favorite of the bunch.
I see fnv appreciation vids almost every other week, it took awhile but it's been getting its due for a few years now, partially thanks to the flop and disappointments that were F76 and F4
@@notimportant8643 Fallout 4 was my favourite fallout, unlike new vegas its actually underratrd
@@tango6130 thats just like your opinion man lol, we could have the F4 vs F 1 - NV debate all day long but it comes down to personal preference. Personally, I like my fallout games to have strong choices/consequences and great reactivity, two facets Fallout 4 lacked in. The series was created to be an in depth *RP* game, meaning the game was much more about actually being able to define your character through your choices and actions. Fallout 4 is a game where you are a pre determined mother/father character with very little to actually define your character, its also virtually impossible to play an evil selfish character in the vannila game and it exists in a very contrived way in the Nuka world dlc. Fallout 4 was much bigger into having craftable settlements and having a more cinematic experience that the RP elements got dumbed down in favor of more streamlined mechanics. F4 doesnt even have a reputation or skill checks for fucks sake. F4 is not a bad game but it is a very watered down *Role Playing* game
@@notimportant8643 In terms of graphics and combat? Fallout 4
Fallout new vegas wins in everything else, from the story, characters,endings,world,maps,DLCS (Lonesome road is the best dlc ever)
@@tango6130 Fallout 4 needed some modding but with Fallout 2, it's my favourite in the series.
Okay I need to make a few things clear here about this game. It is an absolutely great game and I play it all the time and it deserves all the praise it gets for its quest design, writing, and improvements on the combat and leveling system.
But people keep praising how amazing it was that it only had like 18 months in development while Fallout 3 had 4 years and yet has so much more to it. Well, that was because Fallout 3 did over half of the heavy lifting.
The game engine, UI, the VATS system, half the game assets, half the weapons, most of the monster AI's, all of it was already made for them. They didn't change the combat system, they just tweaked it towards their designs (admittedly to VERY good effect). On TOP of all of that, there were a lot of ideas that came from the scrapped Fallout 3: Van Buren project that were rehashed into the new system, including Caesar's Legion and the Hoover Dam.
I'm not trying to knock Obsidian's work, it ended up an excellent game with amazing DLC, but you have to realize that they were able to focus on so much content because that was basically all they had to make. In effect, Fallout New Vegas was 95% Fallout 3 DLC.
But that also meant working with a game engine they weren't familiar with and likely didn't have the ability to fully crack. As such they were sort of hamstrung in their ability to fix it to their own ends and I can guarantee that the whole game is a spaghetti code nightmare on top of what is probably a spaghetti code nightmare (That being Bethesda's infamously buggy code).
People think it was unfairly criticized when they play it today and it seems buggy but worth it, but you have to realize that is after TONS and TONS of patches. The game at release had basically a 1 in 6 chance of a complete progression block bug that caused the game to crash when you entered the Strip, and could only be circumvented by wearing an "Old Cowboy Hat" when you entered the Strip. I am not making that up.
I hate to say it, but those bugs detracted from the experience enough to justify that rating. That said I think that Bethesda should have shouldered more of the blame since it was their messy code they were working with.
I would give Fallout New Vegas NOW a 9 out of 10, because it still has a LOAD of jank. But back then, a 7 or 8.
Fallout New Vegas is widely understood as one of the best RPGs, I wouldn't call it underrated. It's a very good game
One really sad fact is that it was that the Metacritic score was ONE point under the necessary score for Obsidian to have received a MUCH DESERVED AND EARNED bonus for all their hard work and extreme hours they put in to get the game out by deadline. Arguably, it’s not impossible to say that not receiving that bonus lead to Obsidian losing the vast majority of their most talented developers, many from Black Isle..
New Vegas is an absolute masterpiece. I never had it growing up so I'd only player 2, 3, and 4. Finally tried out NV and fell in love with it.
The DLC also good
Especially lonesome road
i had a co-worker that believed the critics and thought new vegas was crap and only played the main four. i told him that i had a copy he could borrow and if he liked it to keep it. the following week he told me his wife was pissed because she wanted to go out now that the lock down was lifting but he was glued to it. i will defend FONV tooth and nail.
@@justchill5628 whats it to you, it was a work of art made in under 2 years while 3 took almost 6 years. did it work right out the gate, no but name one Bethesda title that does
That thought that anyone would see New Vegas as anything but the best entry in the franchise is absolutely mind blowing to me, though I only played it for the first time in like 2016/17 so I got it post patches. Fallout New Vegas is my favorite game of all time
Fallout 76 is the most underrated for sure. It’s the best fallout game in my opinion. It got bad press because of the bad release but it is so much better and more fun today. They have consistent updates and the multiplayer element makes it my favorite fallout game.
I felt like one of the major reasons why the Fallout Newvegas story was so diverse in such a short time because they take heavily from the van buren project. While not everything survived like choosing your race from humans ghouls or super mutant, plenty of the story was in general laid out and the main story and dlc basically came from it, though touched up a bit and changing some events like when you meet Joshua Graham.
Still my favorite fallout game and one of those games I always keep installed, like Vampire the Masquerade. I can always have a good time picking it up and just playing it.
I'm a gamer who doesn't really care about the writing or story. I love open world rpg's where i can just walk around and explore and do my own thing. It's funny to me when people talk about how FNV is great because of the story and writing because I agree it's great and one of the best rpg's ever made but I think it's because of the role playing. And i like your taste in rpg games. As good as FNV and VTMB are imagine if they each had another 6 months to a year of development time,
You sir have exquisite tastes, vtmb is my 2nd favorite first person rpg behind this
Never played VTMB but I'm an avid fan of FNV and excited to play the new VTMB.
@@halo3soap114 - You hould try out VTMB if you like rpg games. It is a older game and you should get the community patch for it. But it's a great rpg. I can't wait for part 2 but I think it's delayed.
@@halo3soap114 Its a great game, its alot different from FNV but has a similar sense of choice and consequence as FNV, also has the most entertaining dialouge of any game I've ever played imo, definently recommend picking it up on a steam sale, only caveat is you have to mod the game in order for it to work because the steam version is broken out of the box, fortunately applying the mod is super easy. It can also be got on GOG with the game fixing patch already included in the installation
How about the introduction of iron sights, completely changed the combat style of Fallout. The DLC, some of the most emotional gameplay I ever experienced was the ending to some of these DLC. Even some of the funnier less-serious DLC had amazing stories and wer thoroughly written. Multiple home bases hidden locations and tons of Pop Culture references Fallout New Vegas is the only Fallout that deserves a remaster. One more thing the DLC actually added new endings to the game that were connected to the main game rather than Standalone endings. Outstanding
There's so many things that make FNV great. I love it because of the gameplay. Others say it's great because the story and writing. Still others say the dlc is what makes it great.
@@williamgregg6339 the sum of a legendary game. Nothing can be too perfect
OWB is my favorite dlc to any game I have ever played
@@samjohnson1992 minE as well man just the right kind wacky humor mixed with real-world computer science with a dab of great story
You really want a game on 3 generation of consoles like elder scrolls?
I'm sure somebody else has said it. Fallout 3 did cover the differences. The fallout 3 BOS was a rogue faction. The outcasts were the closest thing to the original.
Recently had the chance of playing New Vegas again. I played it once when I was younger not knowing I discovered a gem. The game is just good. If you want an even more in-depth look at this game, watch the Act Man review it. The number of endings, is just wow to me. How could a game in 2010 have so many endings, so many crucial details and choices could have been made.
The modding community made this game legendary. The vanilla package has quite a lot of features and content, and it was rushed out for delivery because of Bethesda being annoying, but all the extra stuff that's come out over the years made this game into my favorite RPG ever. Plus OWB and DM were especially strong DLCs.
Almost the same thing that got STALKER on the road. The mod comunity is the reason many games become relevant beyond the initial release... the diference is NV got some mods from devs (like jsawyer mod) and stalker devs were even more ambitious
@@filypefx haven't gotten into STALKER but it seems fun. I tried Metro and it just left me wanting more variety but I liked the atmosphere so I think I'll sink myself into the STALKER series.
@@Blubbstock imagine villainizing Bethesda and making such a hilariously bad claim. Why would they want the game they are publishing and just bought the IP of to fail? Then you claim obsidian "have brains unlike bethesda" yet look at their latest game. It vanished off the face of earth in less than 1 week. Stop being so exaggerative. It isn't that serious.
This is bullshit. Every Obsidian game was buggy and unfinished at release.
If the "rushed" game can have so much content .. I wonder what would we have in a proper launch lol
It's insane how Microsoft owns all the original guys behind the Fallout series. They own Bethesda and Obsidian like mentioned in the video but they also own inxile who make the wasteland CRPG games, and Brian fargo who found inxile was also the founder of interplay (who were the owners of black isle who eventually became Obsidian). Fargo was the executive producer of those interplay/Black isle Fallout games.
So basically the entire history of the Fallout franchise is under one banner now which is crazy 🥸
Can’t wait for FNV 2
I would love to see them all work on a New Fallout title (instead of Bethesda).
@@Gatorade69 Especially because if somebody else doesn't make a new Fallout then we'll be waiting on Bethesda for a long time.
Unfortunately Todd Howard alluded to fallout continuing to be restricted to Bethesda in an interview, I would (not a joke) give my left foot for another fallout made by Tim Cain, Leonard B. and Brian fargo
makes me sad as ps5 owner that I might not be able to play the new fallouts
Hardcore isn't a challenge, it's how it was meant to be played
Caesars Legion actually doesnt mispronounce his name. I took 2 years of latin in high school and brought this to my teacher. "Ave, true to Caesar." The v is pronounced like our w and ae make an i sound. And their c's arent soft, its a hard c. I find it weird, moreso, that they mixed latin with english instead of just speaking latin but I guess its so players understand them
There's no way in hell this game is underrated. Everyone constantly praises it
Seriously, what the fuck is this video?
I'm a fan of the original games, and NV is the only 3D Fallout I've ever played. I've got about 1300hrs logged, and it's one of my favorite video games ever. Having said that, if anything it's overrated, because people just can't shut up about how great it is, and sometimes have trouble admitting it's flaws. A fantastic game can still be slightly overrated, and I'd say that's closer to reality than underrated.
The only people who might be underrating New Vegas are the folks who've only played Fallout 4, that's all I can figure.
Not back then he means, back then nobody cares about good story but more quality
@@King_Dan_Man People have cared about stories in gaming for decades. NV is not suddenly being rediscovered.
Lol that's what I've been saying ever since the mid 2010s the game has been getting constant praise
New Vegas is one of my top ten games. I played it for hours, and I'd never played a Fallout game before, so my very first instinct was to go straight to New Vegas off across the barren wasteland. I was torn apart in minutes. It was hilarious. I played New Vegas to death, and like many others, we still haven't uncovered everything in the game.
The better I got at the game, the more fun I had. There was still so much to explore. One of my favourite memories was when I was at NCR camp, trying to talk to an NPC and I accidentally stole a spoon. and I thought, hopefully no one saw that, I'm just going to leave quietly. Cue fifty NCR soldiers chasing me down across the wasteland, at first threatening me, and then just a conga line of NPC dialogue, and then my game crashed. There was something about the bugginess of Fallout that never got to me, everything always ended up hilarious. Also, the amount of times you could accidentally cheese a complicated quest was a huge bonus.
I loved the characters, the environment, the weapons, the sheer amount of dialogue, it's absolutely mad. Also, the only reason why I bought the game was because I saw the sniper with NCR regalia on the cover. I thought this game has to be awesome. One of the few times I judged a book by it's cover, and it absolutely paid off.
I am 1 million % sure I've uncovered everything this game has to offer
Exactly I mean just last night I was playing it and I discovered the hunters farmhouse near vault 19 for the first time and that was like my 10 or 11th play through
@@shogun8816 have you found the hidden pack deathclaws near the dam just chilling near the water that you have to jump off the cliff or swim to get to yet or chances map?
CriticalState - I bought Fallout 3 GOTY because of the box cover art look awesome. Did you get torn apart in minutes by the 3 Deathclaws before Quarry junction
@@mrwhocares3931 How many hours do you have in game
My favorite part about fallout new Vegas is that when your save gets too big the game will just crash every five minutes. It’s the fucking BEST
I've played Fallout 3, New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 and I personally prefer FO4, but if they did some kind of next gen upgrade for New Vegas that would be amazing.
I played like 2000 hours of the game when I was younger. I’m kinda killing time till I go back to it. I’m really just kinda hoping it gets a remaster or even better. A “reimagining” that bring in some cut quests/ features, maybe new one all together. The game is the reason I get bored of so many RPG’s and is kinda where I set the bar for story content as a whole.
The thing i loved about the Bethesda open world games compared to newer open world games is back then you generally wanted to go out and explore every corner of the map and were usually rewarded for doing so
And the side quest they gives you allies
Valheim. Explore away.
Bethesda and Borderlands both have that. Encouraging exploring their worlds by hiding things in every nook and cranny. I wish more open world games had the level of detail Bethesda puts into their games. Everything in the game is handcrafted, there are skeletons arranged in certain positions, it just makes me enjoy playing it so much more. But I know handcrafting an entire world takes forever, which is why their games are in development for so long :(
Rdr2 does that for me, but NV was the golden era
New Vegas was made by Obsidian aka Black Isle studios which was the old Dragonplay a division of Interplay.
Bethesda does some things right but also makes some dumb decisions and is incredibly lazy AF.
First time I played New Vegas I killed Mr House super quickly without realizing he was a major faction/quest line 😂 just went back through the entire game again thanks to the Fallout Show
The fact that people can’t see it’s underrated actually underrates it more
Fallout 3 and New Vegas are two of the greatest games of all time. Even though New Vegas is the better rpg and game i’ll never forget the impact fallout 3 had on me. I had never played a game like that before and i’ll never get that feeling back of when I played it for the first time by any game
Same, F3 was my first Fallout game and my first big modern RPG, on PS3. It sucked me in and made me a die-hard fan. But yes NV is better.
I remember entering to Tranquility Lane for the first time...that was one of the most amazing and fun experiences i had in a video game. Like, Entering a game within a game
@@cruzofficial1 The moment I always remember was walking out the vault for the first time and you get blinded and then the wasteland reveals itself spine tingling
You guys really need to run it on a PC with mods
@@apreviousseagle836 im waiting on that Capital Wasteland project with the FO4 engine...im hoping
I was replaying it again during quarantine, and fell in love with it even more (also isn't it weird how people started talking about the game nowadays?), also back when I played first I could barely run the thing lol, and now it has mods that let you run it at 120hz and stuff it's amazing. Also another thing I noticed is how the most fun (imho) way to play the game is right there on the cover or in your face - gambling (rush to vegas at the start with some luck, using the 1 or 2 stealthboys you get at the start, gamble away and get the implants), revolvers (lucky is the best overall gun in the game imo and just fun to use with all the crits, while sequoia is for when you need heavy fire power), and light armor (gecko backed hardened leather armor with the light touch perk works great), while before I was messing with power armor and energy weapons, avoided gambling completely, and didn't try hardcore mode, and it just wasn't a very fun way to play the game lol
Which mods let you run at 120hz?
@@philfooshay new vegas tick fix has it
I run a little different than you. Which is why I love this game. It's such a sand box. I stack ally points in luck and intelligence at the beginning then get skilled perk and wild wasteland or skilled and 4eyes so I can get double perception and knowing that I can take 2 less special in perception and add them wherever else. I go heavy in barter and science and you stack caps. I usually have 15000 caps just following the long road to Vegas and I will have way more if I take my time lol.
@@jordanford9320 exactly, I remember doing many many little campaigns, where I did the main quest while following a specific character story.
It's really fun to experience this games writing and world, especially upgraded with mods!
Kinda bc people started making videos like “can you beat fnv while ______” and those saw a ton of success.
patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Truly the best story and some of the best gameplay mechanics. Started playing again for the first time in a long time recently, and I was shocked by some of the dialog. I forgot how raw the concepts and story was. It's truly bad ass.
I just remember how immediately interested I was in fallout 3 while looking through a game informer magazine . Was instantly in love when I got it . Shocked when I heard new Vegas was out too. Took me a bit to get it but it quickly became my favorite. Truly the golden era of gaming in my mind . Now playing Vegas on pc with a bunch of mods and having a blast !
Love when Falcon talks about a specific game. That's where the passion really blooms, because he really gets into it. It's just cool, you know? Like listening to a fellow gamer go on and on and you're just glad someone shares that interest. It doesn't matter what game he's talking about either. His Dynasty Warriors 9 rants still make me laugh. 😂
Right? Nothing more satisfying than someone whose judgment you trust agreeing wholeheartedly that your favorite game is in fact a gem
Fallout 4 was very underrated as well, people called it a looter shooter without exploring the dialog options and RPG systems in the game, or getting involved in the base and settlement system.
Even now this game is still a masterpiece. The modding community are very active and they have fixed the game and improved it in almost every way. Well worth playing with mods.
Fallout: New Vegas is what kick started my love for the RPG genre of gaming.
Everything from the amazing actors who gave their voices to the dialogue, right down to all of the awesome content and unique weapons, and locations, is what made it so iconic and memorable for me and many other players alike.
I absolutely agree with you on that one! On top of that, it feels like a true sequel to the first two Fallout games in terms of the original continuity that Interplay made when they were developing them! :D
Easily the best role-playing game released to this date. At least for me, it is.
No other game gave me the idea of freedom as well as this one, and I always come back to it after a few years.
Wouldn’t call it the best RPG ever, I guess that honor goes to Disco Elysium, but it’s legendary still.
@@Miguel-yx9zg yes yes he's speaking facts. Actually, he's ***typing*** facts Miguel listen boy if you don't have a gc stop commenting
@@ramrodbldm9876 seethe
@@mkt_shv - Disaco Elisium or Planescape Torment is as good if not better than FNV.
@@mkt_shv best rpg is highly subjective there's really no objective answer especially for a genre that's so broad, but out of curiosity what makes disco elysium your favorite?
As complicated as it is to grasp for beginners, Caravan is such an awesome card game. I loved playing it so much that I actually played it for real with friends just using a standard deck each.
Just downloading the game for free right now, thank you Epic Games for that temporaly offer. Never played Fallout before but now it´s time.
I love y'alls videos. Glad you're covering New Vegas and Fallout in general again.
Glad you enjoy it!
I remember getting NV the day it released and then bringing it back the next day because it was so broken lol years later i picked it up at Walmart it was a GOTY edition and I absolutely fell in love with it. It became my favorite FO game ever. I still play it on Gamepass as recently as a few months ago. Such a gem of a game.
Just to let people know, ‘C’ in Latin is a hard ‘C’ and is instead pronounced like a ‘K’. Which is why in Caesar’s legion legionaries, and Caesar himself, pronounce Caesar as “Kaesar”. Obsidian done their research 😉. My mum studied Latin and told me that when I first played the game 💪
They should remake this gem of a game
Ok but the way New Vegas created dialogue choices based on your skills and traits even ones that you wouldn’t necessarily think would effect dialogue is the single most revolutionary thing this game did and made the immersive role playing mind boggling. And is something that no other game released since New Vegas has really replicated.
My favorite was when you didn't have a good enough medical skill to diagnose Caesar and you made up a really stupid sounding disease. I can't remember what it's called at the moment but it was hilarious. Especially with how annoyed Caesar gets with you afterwards
Plus the unique options if you have low Intelligence, or the ability to BS your way through something with very high Luck, actually made the dialog really fun.
It shouldn't cost game devs so much more to invest in high quality scriptwriters rather than the college-grade uninspired dross that passes for most game dialogue. FNV's characters have depth and clear individuality, without being too contrived, trite or overly quirky. There are people who know what they're doing, and there are a bunch of weak chancers who probably got the job because daddy pulled some strings. The second type need weeding out and game companies need more creative discretion, like Obsidian's work on FNV proves.
@@tomread8748 100%. I feel like games as a narrative experience have really diminished since the 2000s. Instead AAA games are much more focused on big buzz words like graphics, and combat so writing and dialogue has really fallen by the wayside.
Fallout basically got The Last of Us 2 treatment, but in reverse. The fans all really loved the game, but the Media/reviewers didn’t. Just like how they think TLOU2 is a masterpiece of storytelling, while most people thought it was absolutely mediocre.
Fallout 3 was truly special, growing up in the vault having a life backstory player experienced, coming out to see the world for the first time. New vegas is like dlc to 3 but improved all the gameplay, and fallout 4? Truly spectacular a great successor to 3
Literally the entire community’s favorite game - wtf do you mean under rated
I loved all of the fallout games i thought it was the perfect idea for a post-apocalyptic Role Playing Game
I don’t think anyone says it’s underrated. So many people love this game and for good reason. It’s one of if not the best ever.
did you watch the video? they said it's the lowest rated main entry in the series and at the time of release many considered a step back after fallout3. so it was kina underrated and now most people think it is the best in the franchise.
@@gamedone735 It was underrated
@@gamedone735 the title has to be kinda click baity so its understandable
Witcher 3 was buggy as hell when it came but it did not seem to stop the critics.
first 2 minutes of the video proves you just read the title and then posted a comment.
The most underrated is probably Fallout 1 and 2 in the sense that they're not as popular as the first person games(and they're better) but if you wanna go deeper then Fallout Tactics is pretty underrated. It's not an RPG and it's far from being amazing but I played through it a couple times years ago and enjoyed it. Worth playing if you're obsessed with Fallout and don't mind a jank version of xcom squad style combat.
I loved Tactics.
This game is out for so long and I still remember it so damn well, that's how great its storytelling was.
I remember beating the story on hardcore for the first time is was a fun more challenging experience along the lines of dark souls. I was a little disappointed tho that your reward was only the achievement and not any special gear or perks for your character, but that said it has got to b my favorite fallout game I have played and always worth another playthrough every once in a while.
I hear fallout, I watch
Lmao same
Fallout is the best game. 76 ain’t it tho should’ve kept it a single player game.
It was rated lower back when it came out because it was glitchy and said to be unfinished. Many were also coming off the Fallout 3 bandwagon which was broken as hell. You can be evil in Fallout 3, and then give a wastelander purified water and become a saint lol. New Vagas is really the true Fallout 3, and was code named Van Buren Project during the days of Black Isle Studios. New Vagas was also not as rushed as some may think. The game only took 18 months to make because they were able to reuse many of the already existing assets. However, people are also not considering the DLC expansions that made up part of the game.
New Vagas came out October 19, 2010, but DLC dropped on February 22, 2011, May 17, 2011, July 19, 2011, and September 20, 2011. In reality you're adding almost another year, so the game was being worked on a few months shy of 3 years, not short at all for a PS3/360 game, not including the massive patch that fixed tons of issues. While it may not be the best-looking game around, playing on now on my Series X at 60fps and 2 second load times is a drastic improvement. The graphics are also noticeably sharper, better lighting, shadows and textures, practically what the PC got of higher settings back in the day.
this game has a special place in my heart, my grandmom got me this game for Christmas before she passed in 2011..
My first playthrough, I was determined to join the Brotherhood of Steel. I had no idea if this was even possible in the game, I just wanted to do it. And they are off the beaten path, so it took me quite a long time to even find them. Then having a series of quests to prove yourself before you can join them was awesome, it was exactly what I was hoping I could do.
When the NCR then ordered me to destroy the BoS, I was not going to do it. If that's what was required to finish the game, I'd just refuse. And imagine my surprise (and joy) to find that you could come to a compromise between the NCR and BoS, and allow them to co-exist. It was awesome. A truly amazing RPG experience.
That said, the game launched in an absolutely HORRIBLE state. It was flat-out broken. For awhile, people had to grab a d3d.dll file from a completely different game and copy it over the top of FalloutNV's dll just to get playable frame rates. That other dll essentially disabled all post-processing effects, so it looked like garbage, but at least it was playable. Before that, most people got
I wouldn’t call New Vegas underrated, maybe undercooked. I don’t mean this in a negative way as this is definitely my most loved game of the series besides Fallout 4. Many fans of this series always put this as their number 1 and those who are new to the series know if this game, whether from word of mouth or the memes. It is clear however, that the game needed more time in the oven to further flesh out it’s story. It was evident when the DLC came out that these developers could do God’s work with a little more time. It was clear that the major sufferer of this short development cycle was the Legion as much of their story was significantly cut in comparison to what a player receives when doing an NCR run. Hell, besides a Yes Man run I’d say most speed-runners would choose a Legion run just based on the lack of content alone. So overall, it’s not underrated, just slightly undercooked. However, that’s okay because this game is one of my all time favorites!
This game is great but I wish Obsidian was given another 6 months to a year.
@@williamgregg6339 i dont think the game will be better it still gonna be buggy because there a lot more work to do.
@@ciciciaphascain4143 There's a ton of cut content that has been cancelled because of time constraints. Obsidian had to add some ideas into DLC later when they had more time. The game by itself is amazing, but if they had 6 months more for more content, it would be godlike, on the level of Ocarina of Time.
The bugs got ironed out in later patches mostly.
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Imagine Fallout New Vegas Story telling with Fallout 4 mechanics.
that would rock! :)
Not started in Black Isle studio, but Interplay, Black Isle studio was formed later, but same people do it just reorganization.
I remember back in the day people HATED Fallout NV, expecially the factions and bugs, but it definitely aged the best
Yes, because Bethesda did fail so hard with the last Fallout games. Making FNV looking good again. Fallout 3 was pretty okay-ish, 4 was lackluster and 76 was and is a messy cash grab.
When I was getting hardcore into gaming again I bought fallout NV from a local game store and my coworker told me “NV sucks, fallout 3 is the game you should have got instead” I didn’t know much about rpgs so I trusted him on that. I thought NV was a “bad” game as late as 2016 just because ppl said it was. Now it’s one of my favorite games of all time
The wiser of us still hate it.
Beginner tip: after creating your own character, head straight east to the quarry junction, you'll thank me later 👍
This is my favorite game of all time, I still play it on the old gens to this day. It honestly never gets old for me personally, it would be awesome if they slightly remastered it.
The best part of New Vegas was the leveling and class build plus weapon building ! And the Exploration maybe just the WHOLE DAMN GAME WAS GREAT! WE NEED A NEW VEGAS PART 2
I dream for a HD remaster for New Vegas
New Vegas is probably my favorite game of all time. I still replay it once or twice a year.
Best way I've heard NV described is that it is a POST-post-apocalypse game, where Fallout 3 was a post apocalypse game.
Fallout 3: Where is my father?
Fallout 4: Where is my son?
Fallout 76: Where is my refund?
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for a Nuclear Winter
It is without a doubt, one of the best RPGs I've ever had the pleasure of playing. Now that Microsoft holds this IP, there is nothing I would love more, than for them to open the gates for bringing the game in to a modern remake, utilizing modern engines. With modding in that framework, it would live so very very long. The old engine is clunky, and I always mod it to replay it now - but the replay-ability of New Vegas is high tier.
There is no way a modern AAA dev could do NV justice. NV is great because it is the antithesis of AAA devs.
I loved New Vegas when it came out. That was one of the few games that I bought at the midnight release. My cousins and I all went after work one night. We all reserved it months prior.
New vegas was the last fallout game that made me feel like what speech options I chose, the actions I commited against a faction mattered. There's nothing like pissing off the NCR early game and just grenade launcher all their booties just to gain further disfavor for that faction. It really felt like a weird rpg (in a good way:)). Fallout 4 is just an interactive movie. Vegas really made you feel the consequences of your actions.