Fallout: New Vegas - A Critique - Luke Stephens
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When I first played Fallout New Vegas I hated it. I was over at my uncleâs house and my older brother queued the game up on his 360. We only had a PS2 and so the opportunity to play on a 360 was always quickly seized. My brother had been watching CZcams videos of the game and knew every part of the game inside and out. His enthusiasm was infectious, and so when I was handed the controller I was intrigued. I went through the clunky character creator segment and was, to be completely honest, immensely intimidated by the stat allocation. My brother tried to explain it to me, but I just found it confusing. Regardless, I opened the door to the Mojave and was, once again, overwhelmed. My brother explained the sheer scope of the game and showed the size of the map to me.
Now, prior to this, my only exposure to large open-world games had been a brief stint with Skyrim wherein I played the game for a couple dozen hours and was promptly distracted by⊠girls. But it wasnât just the size of the map, but it was the scope of the game that was intimidating. And by scope I mean everything that the game tried to do: the branching narrative, the multiple endings, the plethora of play styles supported, and of course, the romancing options, all piled up into an overwhelming behemoth that I couldnât handle.
I tried running to Novac, but was incredibly annoyed by how slow the character moved and fact that I couldnât just sprint there. I came across some bandits and couldnât get VATS to work in my favor. And then I decided to travel to Nipton where I found a group of strangely dressed nerds who did not like it when I tried to fight them unprovoked. At this point, justifiably or not, I was done. I simply didnât see the fun to be had in the game. It seemed to me overly complicated, clunky and lacking the 'Arcady' elements of fun that I had previously found in games like Just Cause 2 and Stronghold Crusader.
Now, looking back, I can see that I was not ready for the experience within New Vegas. Freshman in High School Luke was impulsive, impatient and unwilling to play the game the way it was designed. Now as I play it, I'm faced with a game that is truly phenomenal, and I can't recommend it enough.
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"A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever." - Shiggy
New Vegas is the exception to the rule.
idklol although it could have been 10 times better if they could have given it more time.
idklol honestly, fallout nv isn't that good.
@Hadi The Pikachu Mods will never make NV anywhere near as good as Obsidian could have.
+Quest for greatness - Incorrect assessment.
Fuzzy Dunlop prove me wrong without using feelings.
If any game deserves to be remastered this is it!
I present to you: Fallout 4: New Vegas
Someone is modding it into fallout 4s engine
Bobby Brown it still exists, the issue was importing the audio from the original game. They're just doing all new voice acting now.
Also fallout 1 and 2
NCR 78 yeah sadly they are only announcing fallout 3 anniversery at e3 not nv
There is no sense of urgency in NV. The NCR and Legion are at an impasse.
The NCR is too wide-spread to effectively tackle any of the problems they're having. Caesar is biding his time, recovering strength, making alliances by trying to further isolate and destabilize NCR's hold over the Mojave, waiting for the opportune moment to strike again. It's a waiting game.
It's the player's actions that speed up that conflict, by deciding who to support and give the upper hand to. A rather brilliant way by Obsidian to deal with the narrative challenges in an open world game, like the pacing, by leaving that sense of urgency up to the player.
Whether the player wants to just do the main quest, or just exploring, the narrative (both in terms of lore and quests) supports it.
Then you have fallout 4, where your primary objective can be delayed because... Fuck it, I guess I don't wanna find my son and the one who murdered my wife. (All of this problem is narratively forced onto you, because the roleplay element is extremely shallow, since they settled with having atlest a few rpg elements so that the masses wouldn't riot).
Guess a man's gotta hoard his aluminum cans before he is psychologically ready to seek for his only family left, in a world completely alien to him.
@@rodrigoa.m3566 There's always that one guy who bashes a game when he doesn't need to...
@@mcsticka Hey, I played that god forsaken game for 2 years straight, as literally one of three things I ever did as a hobbie. I have the right to be mad at the internet smh.
@@mcsticka bashing? Pretty basic critique.
@@rodrigoa.m3566 very unimaginative way you play.
False: there are 4 endings.
Mr. House
NCR
Legion
Yes Man
And if your doing the Yes Man ending you can throw general oliver off the Hoover Dam.
Best bit lol, dunno why he didn't cover the ending, he did sleep with Benny and let him live. He even found Yes Man in the video
Aaron Kempster a brotherhood of steel ending would have been nice
Matrix Lancaster bos were way too weak to be anything here
I mean, can't a yes-man ending basically be that?
I'm 99% sure obsidian didn't patch the ending so you could continue. Ive played the game multiple times on 360, dlc's included. And never could continue. They always said it was because what would happen to the world after you finished would be a whole other game in itself, and they didn't have that kind of development time. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure they never patched that like Bethesda. Also there's four endings, including Yes Man.
You are correct. Also Fallout 1 and 2 had definitive endings and they were upholding that tradition.
Mickey Lee Bukowski Okay good. I was a bit thrown off by it. I was like wait a minute, no? yes? And kept guessing myself lol still was a great video. Just maybe double, double check things before adding them to the script.
Thereâs a lot more than 4 endings. You could work with the NCR to take the dam and have the BoS get crushed afterwards, or help NCR with BoSâ help and they forge an alliance. You could help Caesar and have the Enclave help them, or you could do Yes Man ending and have the Followers of the Apocalypse disintegrated. You see what I mean? Thereâs tons of smaller, more specific endings in addition to the big picture ending.
I can't remember for Fallout 1 but Fallout 2 did allow you to play after the "ending" Fallout 4's ending is closer to how it use to be.
You can mod it with a mod called CAGE
New Vegas, in my opinion, is the best Fallout game of all time.
It's definitely the best of the latter day FO games but I still give the edge to the originals. Don't get me wrong I love NV and loathe FO4 but the RP and writing in the first two were outstanding.
NV have amazing depth and RP elements too, and i just happen to like the 3d format more.
Indeed it does and I'm not taking anything away from NV, it's just that the originals had a little bit extra in writing and RP in my opinion. Also I'm an old RPG player including D&D so the older format of 1 & 2 doesn't bother me in the slightest. As I said before, of the 3D later gen FO games NV is by leaps and bounds the greatest IMO.
Martin Anderson
Fallout 2 is better, but New Vegas is the best 3D fallout.
I still rank Fallout 2 as the best entry in the series, but New Vegas is a close second.
"Fallout 3's ending was patched by Bethesda so you could keep playing" Lol no they made you buy a DLC to keep playing
You know you canât play after the ending of new Vegas period right?
Righteous, Broken Steel was the first dlc I ever bought.
I saw where they were going with that original ending, but I wasn't having it!
@@MysticalBacon23 What are you on about?
@SAKONE 4215 There are mods for that you know.
@Balton Plays Minecraft Another reason as to why PC > Console. ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
That's where Fallout 4 dropped the ball. Very little real choice. The game forces you to play the good-natured soldier, running around shooting everything. If you don't want to do this, there's no game.
H-how? You can choose from four factions, each of which can be seen (by some people) as evil or wrong. You don't play as the good-natured soldier (unless you're playing as the Minuteman, I'm which case you made the wrong choice). You can play as the an uncaring scientist who just wants to further human development at any cost, the violent revolutionary who wants to free an "oppressed" race by any means, or an authoritarian soldier who wants to wipe all non humans off the face of the Earth. Or, you could play them in any way you want. You're never forced to he the good guy. You can be an asshole if you want even.
You're options in fallout 4
"Another settlement needs your help"
A-yes
B-yes
C-sarcastic yes
D-no but give me the quest any sooooo basically yes
@@newnamesameperson397 And then you just don't do it, and the quest eventually fails. So, you say yes, and then ignore their problem and go on your merry way.
@@newnamesameperson397 Also, I'm not trying to say they made a total sandbox where anything is possible, but saying you can only be the "good guy" is wrong. The factions are specifically created to not allign with each other (thus meaning any faction you agree with had an opposite side) so you could play as the bad guy, and that bad guy changes based on your opinion. Contrast that with NV where there was a clear bad guy, a clear good guy, and the third option (house) who had no way of actually taking over the Mojave without the courier. Oh, and there's Yes Man, who's basically just the last resort faction, unless you want to run the Mojave I suppose.
@@zachantes1161 NCR is the "clear good guy" if you are a complete idiot and pay no attention to the lore.
I think one of the reasons I love New Vegas so much is that it can definitely be viewed as a Western game. I love the western genre and this game as well as Red Dead Redemption as the best western games ever made
The Messenger Do you mean Wild West? And yeah it's kind of Wild West because it's in a chaotic Nevada (There are also a lot of revolvers in NV)
"western" as a genre refers to the wild west
big iron on his hip.. BIG IROOON BIG IROOON...
E Messinger- I never viewed this game as a "western' game but this and RDR are 2 of my favorite games.
I consider new vegas a western/fallout game.
Bethesda needs to let Obsidian make another game.
I've never heard that one before
CrispyChickenChips Then you haven't looked around the CZcams community enough.
Haha sarcasm my guy
Yeah, I wish people would stop with this same comment already. Obsidian is making a new RPG they're very excited about( The Outer Worlds ) and if you think rationally.. that's the way to go. Why waiting on fallout if you can create something similar but new and fresh. I'm very excited for TOW and I kinda expected this from Obsidian with all that teasing (avellone uploaded a FO picture with a message:" I missed you! :) " n stuff).
Stealth- Boy 3000 Sure I already was planning to get the game and I respect that they don't use the fallout name constantly. But if a company which doesn't own the game makes better games than the owners thats just humiliating. Even more humiliating considering Bethesda bashed their game development plans and lore.
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Also, CORRECTION: The ending was never patched officially by Obsidian. Instead, Mods are required to continue post-credits. Thank you to everyone who pointed this out!
It wasn't patched out in fallout 3 either, though, it was part of the broken steel expansion.
At least they did add a warning before the end quest telling people to save and that there was no turning back once they accepted it
Not really. It's an open world game, so you should have the option to do it. That's what Obsidian wanted to do, there are several voice lines after the game was ended, but they didn't have time to take all the endings in account because of time constraints.
Emphasise EVERYONE
Bethesda Soft Works wouldnt allow obsidian to patch this feature in because skyrim was releasing the next year so they had to kill off the game
The real star for me in this game is the DLC, it is simply amazing. And what do you mean there is no emotional quests?..maybe you didn't fully explore the game and all its unmarked quests.
Ikr? we are faced with many dilemas that makes you really think. Siding with house meant ignoring all the suffering people out in the world, using them like pawns to secure a future for the greater good. That alone is a tough call when simply trying to do what is right. Then don't get me started on Boones sidequest, his story hit me hard and had me desperately trying to make things better for him, even when I knew it was impossible no matter how many legion soldiers we massacred. Same with Raul's story. A girl abandons her family because she didn't understand how much they loved her and we have to bring her back when nobody even knows if she is still alive. One NCR platoon got screwed up by the fiends and a girl got raped. There are quite a few deep emotional moments in this world, too many to name atm, AND that is all before the dlc. I loved the critique, but I also have the feeling he didn't experience everything quite yet.
Not just the quests.. the world building. You'd walk into a bedroom theres a couple of skeletons cuddled up on the bed... Pretty sure theres an adult holding a child skel somewhere like they died trying the shield their kid, theres a skel in a tub with a switchblade on the floor and a truckload of drugs like they ended themselves.... if you pay attention to the scenery and objects carefully laid out around you theres actually some pretty emotive stuff just in that. Then you have quests that focus on rape, child molestation, abuse.... sweet jesus some of that shit gets dark... SPOILER: --- boons personal back story is fucking heartbreaking. His pregnant wife sold into slavery by that bitch hotel woman and him having no real choice than to kill her to save her the horror she would face at the hands of the legion... how that destroyed his friendship with his old army buddy and left him with such a passionate hatred of the legion. And the the whole bitter springs incident and how that affected different people, not just boon but bitter root at mccarren who implied heavily that he either offed his own family or at least other people he had scores to settle with during the chaos..... the writing was fantastic.
matador ush OMG dude the Ulyssys quest was incredible, and Joshua Graham was one of the intriguing characters in the series.
Derek Jones saint James and dermot selling children to the fiends
J o l l y G r a p e f r u i t The Survivalist and The Burned Man were hard on the heart. The harsh life of both of those old men was absurd with how well they played out.
One of the best games ever made. I wish I could experience this game for first time again
You have good taste in games.
William Gregg yeah he does unlike those cod kids
Bob the school shooter - cod kids. lmao. We used to get great games. Games made for gamers. Now everything is casualized like rpg's getting turned into shooters.
William Gregg new Vegas is in between rpg and shooter
Carrotyfungus definitely disagree that it's one of the best games ever made
"You can either side with Mr. House, Caesar's Legion, or the NCR." You've omitted the Independent Vegas ending, which I'm not sure is a case of willful blindness or you're simply unaware. I consider it the best of the bunch - you and Yes Man decide for yourselves which tribes belong in your future Vegas, sabotaging/killing Mr. House and ousting both Legion and NCR at the Battle of Hoover Dam. Just another option an expansive narrative, which I was surprised to see neglected in your narrative critique.
JwalkDG2 Well, the questline for the Independent Vegas ending was extremely similar to Mr Houses, just with a lot more ways to approach the differing factions
Absolute freedom to approach the differing factions. It's an important distinction, but I see your point.
Tbh the independant ending is way too chaotic to work longterm. Funny enough, the best longterm ending is the optimal legion one.
I agree, I was going to write that there were four endings as well, until I saw you wrote it. The "Wild Card" Ending has it's own title, so I believe it counts,especially since that's what tons of players end up doing.
Thumbs up. I would say that it is pretty important ending which not much games usually offer to players - player-oriented power struggle. And living with the consequence of your choice shown in credits is even more amazing from moral point of view. Other endings were pretty much generic and expected considering great amount of lore you're given during the game.
1:30 why does Benny's motions sync up so perfectly with the 4 categories' introductions
Patrick R. Holy shit. That has to be intentional
Damn, nice catch!
a moon shaped pool
To the reader of this comment wondering if you should get the game, get the Ultimate Edition which has ALL the DLCs, usually goes on sale every now and then on Steam.
Speaking of DLC, I would like to point out one piece of detail regarding Honest Hearts, the 2nd DLC released, the story of Randall Dean Clark is littered about in terminal entries and is one of THE most emotional pieces of storytelling within the game.
Awesome take on the game btw, you got yourself a subscriber.
The Survivalist story is truly great writing and one of the best parts of Honest Hearts IMO.
Ya, that whole set up was great. I didn't pay too much attention to it at first, but after the 3rd or 4th terminal it clicked. What a great background story. Most of the DLC's had interesting stories. Dead Money was probably my favorite.
inkblotCrisis
Calling those stories emotional is a over exaggeration lol
New Vegas being a classic....damn Iâm getting old. I bought NV after acing my spring midterms in college jr year, I played the hell out of it Friday-Sunday only taking breaks to eat and hit the bars. Fantastic game.
Hey, millennial here to tell you that: i wUZ BoRn iN tHe wROnG GeNErAtIoN?
I am doing the same right now man.
Um this is a fallout video not a twomad video
Ancient Hoplite
Hey, genZ here to tell you, âwHy i Am So AnNoYiNg.â
boomer
My recommendation for anyone who wants to play this game: If it's your first time playing it, play it with absolutely no mods, with ALL DLCs, and get as much out of the game as you possibly can, because there is more than enough for you to get from it.
After that, mod the game until it collapses.
Playing NV with no mods is useless. The game needs the mods to live, to fix what is broken.
Facts. I do want them to mod in stabilizers tho.
Mods are for the weak (bug fixes and the Jsawyer mod excluded)
@@RaizanMedia l only had two bugs in my two whole playthroughs of the game.
@@RaizanMedia lol, no
For me New Vegas holds my favourite gaming moment in it, I remember after finally getting out of Boulder City and heading to new Vegas and seeing the lights get closer and closer and then seeing roaming traders heading into and out of Vegas it was honestly magical
Being from the southwest, the way south and around the map was very accurate to real life highway to Vegas. Primm, the solar plant, the prison.
New Vegas, the city itself was a pretty massive dissapointment tbh.
@@manz7860 console limitations my friend
@@Chuked imperial city from oblivion nailed it perfectly. And that game is older.
More like poor implementation.
@@manz7860 are you crazy hahaha? Your comparing a real life city to the imperial city?? New Vegas was great for what it was. 18 months of development and the world was already destroyed. Donât know what you were expecting. Also, have you been to the imperial city?đđ
This is perfect timing Iâm literally replaying new Vegas right now
so hyped for New California and Frontier, and yet, i cant stop to replay the original. masterpiece
Imagine not playing NV on repeat
I played and beat this game about 8 times so far and everytime I'd either ultimately choose Yes Man, NCR or Mr. House, never could stomach the Legion...until one day, one bad and stressful day I had at school. Just came home pissed off, and I decided I wanted to be bad, blow off some steam and it pushed me to do a Legion Playthrough for the first time. I always talked to NPCs like an asshole, or did things that was messed up to them, which i loved how the game gave me a choice to do so. I was brash and Aggresive and pushed alot of NPCs to violence and wanting to fight/ kill me by what I did and or said. Looking back at this playthrough, I realize just how it was so awesome the game allowed me to truly play how I wanted to and felt.
Iâve actually done what I called a Joker playthrough once. Made my character look like him and spread chaos and destruction through the Wasteland. Ultimately I had to go independent because my antics caused every faction to hate me and wanna shoot on sight. It was intense and fun as all hell.
fucking good taste in games and fucking god greek physic, literally the average fallout new vegas enjoyer
â@@silentspartan46 you can literally get CHAOS child reputation, you have to get idolized by both ncr and legion(not that hard actually) and then nuke them both in the Divide and you get chaos child rep
"Since my charisma is so high"
Uses the black widow perk
Sadly he thought that Charisma was useful for flirting when it just doesn't work that way in game and charism is dump stat đą
What are you talking about? Thereâs no way to continue the game after the battle at Hoover Damn. Even after all the patches and DLC. And that isnât a mistake, proper stories need endings.
Old World Blues and Dead Money give you endings of things that haven't happened yet, wether it be with other DLCs in the case of Dead Money, or events directly affecting the Mojave in OWB. The affects of your actions don't have to be immediately apparent, you can still continue the game and have it make sense.
I will never understand why people want Fallout games to never end. Whatâs the point.
deeta000 what's the point? What do you think genius? They're clearly in love with the franchise , can you blame them?
Yeah, you can especially see that in his more recent videos he doesn't even put in a commodatum of research, or care to check if what he's saying is even true.
A story can end and still allow you to play the game. There is zero reason to not allow players to continue
Didn't encounter a single bug. I had a couple crashes but only after installing a bunch of mods. then i installed a 4gb patch and the crashes stopped.
i call bullshit, even with all the stutter remover and anti crash mods i still get random CTD's
the game has proven to be highly unstable even with said fixes
i could play vanilla for 10 minutes and start walking through walls and phase out of existence
I played it for 10 minutes and it started to turn into a diashow haha
Alec Rozsa Lucky you. I still loved every moment of the game, but I still have nightmares from all of my sudden crashes and corrupted saves.
It's easy to say how amazing this game is when you didn't have to go through several years of shitty bugs and patches.
There was one part of New Vegas I found that really made me emotionally attached (granted it was DLC and I can't remember its name) where you travel to this lost casino and have to round up other people who were kidnapped like you but I ended up being very engaged with the mute character even though she couldn't speak she felt kinda real and I was genuinely sad I couldn't bring her back to the wasteland after the DLC. Am I the only one who feels this way about the character?
Robust Rouge youâre on about Christine from dead money. And yes I agree, her character was tragic (you learn more about her in old world blues) and despite the fact she can betray you depending on your choices I donât blame her, sheâs been through some shit.
Christine would have actually made a really good follower slash love interest for a character, especially going through what you go through in Dead Money. It would have been amazing to explore Big MT with her.
Robust Rouge that whole dlc was a emotional roller coaster
Yeah, christine is my favourite character in new vegas for sure.
Lol i liked dean domino the best when i first played through it
The ONLY credit Bethesda should get for this game is the shitty engine that held it back.
Everything else Obsidian rightly deserves
Keith Williams2 has to be one of the worst looking 2010 games ever
silly goose Msinly because it was running on the exact same engine as the last Fallout title and the engine already sucks.
@@Doom_Hawk the engine is from morrowind. They are still using that outdated shit till this day. Sure the renamed and reasembled it in to "Creation Engine" or whatever but its still same, old Gamebryo crap.
Yeah. Obsidian should remaster it with the fallout 4 engine, or obsidian should make fallout 5 with the fallout 4 engine, just as they made new vegas with the fallout 3 engine, proving it works to use previous engines for newer games.
@@-BWS- they made outer worlds
I had almost the exact same experience, except I was 19. My now fiancĂ© showed me Skyrim first, and I had some fun with it but it always just felt okay. Then I tried New Vegas, got killed a bunch, and felt disoriented within the map. I had these problems in Skyrim too, as they were both my first time playing an open world/sandbox game. I hated it. I stopped. About eight months later between Christmas and New Yearâs when I was 20 I spent the whole week sick, eating cookie butter, and playing New Vegas the whole time. New Vegas now is associated with the holidays for me. I feel a real sense of Christmas nostalgia when I hear âIâve got spurs that jingle jingle jangle,â and the thought of patrolling the Mojave makes me wish for a nuclear winter. I love it.
You forgot the *4th ending,* where you can decide to kill ALL major factions and just rule Vegas yourself.
Also, it's is *not* necessary to play this with Mods on PC. The only time I play this game is when I plug in my PS3 and play the Game of the Year Edition(all dlc included). And there are bugs, certainly. But it runs just fine for me, even with heavy exploitation.
Are the loading times as horrendous as Fallout 3's?
@@seanathonhooper nope. Played it on Xbox and pc
@@TheNamesDitto Xbox 360's load times were garbage for Fallout 3 too lol
@@seanathonhooper I was talking about FNV being a bit more bareable. Fallout 3 was barely playable so much so that my cousin just straight up told me to play New Vegas when I came over.
Iâm sad my ps3 starts having a heart attack when I play more than 5 or so hours itâs been so long since Iâve played nv I really want a remake or remaster or sequel or a million dollars any of those probably all just as likely
why do people get so angry over people liking fallout 3 over nv ive seen so many comments calling people bugthestard and honestly its really depressing
It's all the more depressing once you realise it's just one guy with multiple accounts.
@@shimm0w0 in three dogs words " I couldnt make that shit up even if I tryed"
I love fallout 4 because it has a voiced character, which gives more emotion from the player, and the voice acting was great, the characters you meet are great and each have their own views and opinions, and the vats were improved in my opinion, and I love all the tiny details Bethesda put into it.
@@nofreezepeach3959 Ironically it's 3 and 4 that has the mainstream appeal while most of the praises come to NV comes from dialog, writing, minor additions to gameplay that don't make it better or worse and stuff so you can roleplay better in it than the actual gameplay where it's literally the same walk/fast travel to quest mark to quest mark to do the objective (what is 90% of the time either dialog trees or shooting anything with a red health bar) and then walk/fast travel back when the objective is done and repeat.
Well you see fallout three was pretty shit imo and I personally believe that NV is one of the best games ever. Remember this is just my opinion.
He didnât even know about the yes man ending aka the either side with yourself or yes man endingđ
Obsidian only had a year tho, and the crap engine didnât help, and a lot of things were cut. This is by far the best Fallout!!!
I went in blind on the entire series through a steam sale and fell in love. I've wanted more of it ever since.
Been waiting for this one, New Vegas is most definitely the best Fallout game :)
Best 3D Fallout for sure, whether it's better than F1/2 is debatable at least.
Jan Sobus In Fallout 2 you can be a porn actor.... but in New Vegas you can have sex with a robot named Fisto
Still, in F2 you can get married (same sex if you prefer), cheat on your spouse and eventually sell him/her to slavers.
Jan Sobus wait you can sell your spouse to slavers? Looks like I need to play it then.
Yeah Fallout 2 was great
Last time I played Fallout 4 I circumvented the main quest for a long time by roleplaying my character as having blocked out her memories of the vault as a response to trauma, and spent her time freelancing until she happened across the railroad, joined them, met amari, and unintentionally relived her trauma in the memory den, prompting her to seek out her son again.
I had had to make up my own headcanon too for that mess of a story they expected me to be a part of.
Derek Jones yea instead of finding my son in my play through I found my dad
CPTNSHINYSIGHTS For me, the intro never happened, continuation of my fo3 characters adventures, prequel to new vegas. "father" was my clone that I had taken under my wing through previous quests/antics. The institute learned about my character and his infamous past and took my infant clone for research. Upon reuniting with him, I learned he was imperfect and aged extremely fast and developed cancer, so the whole adventure was a bust.
I genuinely don't why people actually "role-play" in these games. It's weird.
Yeah, roleplaying in fallout or skyrim, roleplaying games.. very weird.
The followers of the apocalypse are another faction that is actually wholely good without a catch.
Derek Jones except their pretentiousness led to the creation of Caesar.
They're also anarchists so if you don't agree with anarchism you'll be reluctant to help them. They also have little power of their own.
He helped benny make yes man
What you mean Caeser's Legion is the nicest faction :) Ave true to caeser
Agreed. Only faction who help everyone out for the sake of helping. I always found it interesting that the only secular humanist/anarchist faction had no machinations for greater power or destabilizing the greater world.
Hereâs hoping fallout five takes the building / gunplay / mechanics from 4. And takes the great from NV. Choice matters above all else. The story telling and characters were too good. The story with Ulysses is one of the greatest arcing stories Iâve ever personally followed. Each dlc was special with its own life lesson that literally made me question my own existence
HorizonofOsiris too bad itâs 76
Killer Green Bean you do understand fallout 76 isnât fallout 5 right?
Fallout 4 had horrible combat mechanics. Not because it was clunky but because it wasn't like an RPG. You shouldn't be able to hit what you are aiming at just because you are aiming at it with 10 small gun skill.
@@jasonhymes3382 what are you talking about?
You shouldn't be able to hit what you're aiming at even if you have good gun skills?
@@jasonhymes3382 Erm, how is this in any way different than NV and Fallout 3? I get the point, but singling out Fallout 4 for a feature that was firmly established beforehand is kinda absurd.
I'd take the garbage shooting mechanics any day simply by nature of New Vegas still be the "Post-Nuclear Role Playing Game" that the franchise has been advertised as such since FO1. I still have more time in NV over 4 simply because 4 is like an RPG Lite without the character development or builds. Besides I can't see even a new comer to the series playing 4 first then switching to 3 or NV and then returning to 4 unless they actually enjoy the base building that barely works as it was probably intended to or they are delusional and think 4's shooting is anything more than subpar compared to whatelse is on the market like the CoDs and BFs. Great vid as always and hopefully we will get an Obsidian follow up to this and not Bethesda's half hearted one that would squander the series even further from its role playing roots with a great, interesting world to explore.
Ryan Smolk - Fallout 4 is the only Fallout rpg game I don't like or replay. How can you make a Fallout rpg game with almost no rp?
4 was my intro and I went and am playing thru both nv and 3 for the first time (3 is my fav), I donât think new vegas is a true post apocalypse game. Itâs a post post apocalypse game, society has rebuilt to a degree.
Don't forget that Fallout 3 was shit, too. At least FO4 put some effort into the characters.
I played 4 then 3 then NV, (only 25ish hours in to NV tho) and so far NV is my fav by a longshot. 3 and 4 are good games imo, but I agree 4 doesnt feel like a fallout game :/
You can base build on FNV from a mod. Fallout 4 just copied that mod anyway
Seducing Benny is NOT a charisma check it's a perk check if you're female and have black widow and you can take that perk at any level of charisma.
Diego Francisco thatâs what you took from this video?
New vegas was made in just 18 months in a shit game engine, not that the creation engine is that mutch better but still. Bethesda had over 4 years to make fallout 4 and look how it turned out, let that sink in.
It turned out good.
chewchewtrain "WRONG"
angel lara You can say you disagree but opinions cannot be wrong.
Fallout 4 made a good Action/Adventure, but a piss poor roleplay.
It turned out to be a god damn masterpiece
I think that being unable to continue playing after the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam was perfect. Everything, and I mean everything in that game is building to that point. It makes no sense to have the massive ending slides that Obsidian made and still be able to play after that. I think itâs one of those things where less is more. Iâm not sure if even given the time Obsidian wouldâve been able to transform the world to properly show you how your actions at the dam changed the mojave, and itâs better left to your imagination.
Have you thought about a skyrim critique?
Luke does not wish to invoke the wrath of Todd Emporer
Josh Sansom do not bring the wrath of godd Howard
idk, have you!?
Skyrim is a shallow game, unworthy of analysis.
I think NV is a better game, but to say Skyrim is 'shallow' and 'unworthy of analysis' is pure fabrication. Several hours could be spent on merely the details taken from Norse mythology, like the draugr or the obvious allegories to Norse mythology and the World Serpent. There's also the fact it does open world exploration better than any game published by Bethesda (including NV).
I feel that Veronica's and the survivalists stories tugged at your heartstrings
Caleb Buckley what about Eddie the eyebot, fly far fly fast
It still kills me that you can't get Christine to come back from the Sierra Madre.
I WANTED A REUNION DAMMIT!
S4ns Tru
michael rose yeah my favorite is if you have subtitles and ede says sneaky beeping or something funny
The survivalist story was AMAZING and it was all reading terminals and getting a note.
I could hear that Vivaldi Concerto No. 10 around the 7 minute mark from a mile away. Great choice!
Video was great as well!
The first few minutes sounds like the second movememt of the double violin concerto d minor by J.s Bach
Bethesda will never let Obsidian get another chance to make this game. Not sure I would want them to actually because at the time a lot of employees for Obsidian were creators for the original isometric Fallout games. Hence why the game was actually heavily entrenched in accurate lore of the Fallout world. That is what made the game so great for me. Pretty much all of those creators has since left Obsidian and I'm not sure that a new Fallout game from them would be made in such a way that states it as a craft of love. The developers respected the fallout world with New Vegas and reaped the benefits from it. Bethesda has made 2 games now that had little to no respect for the Fallout world and I hope they give up on the franchise. They are not equipped to handle it and they don't belong with it. Even if the original Fallout creators were with Obsidian still (a lot of them anyways) Bethesda can't afford the damage control that would be needed if a developer with not even a fraction of the resources they have managed to beat the shit out of them again in terms of quality. I also laugh at the 1.5 years of development and the game is no more buggy than Fallout 3 or 4. That is pathetic Bethesda.
We need obsidian to make fallout 5.
Justariot 662 As much as we want it, if obsidian where aloud to make another fallout, it most likely would be a spinoff like new Vegas. Which is a shame because obsidian made One fallout game and it turned out to be most peopleâs favourite fallout.
Justariot 662
The team that made New Vegas isn't the same anymore, and the main writer left Obsidian so it would most likely not be as good.
Voodoo 141 I donât think itâs really fair to say it wouldnât be as good because itâs a different team. For all we know a different team could do it better
Justariot 662 sadly they have been bought by Microsoft so no more fallout-obsidian games.
Or you can just buy the fucking games Obsidian makes?
Couple things:
1) Great job on the video. It was well constructed and, in my opinion, accurate.
2) I would disagree with you on the part that you NEED mods to play the game. I purchased the game on steam as well and was able to play the game vanilla. Of course though the game was buggy and often crashed lol.
3) Its a great game at its core with tons of replay value. The mods just make it sooooo much better. In fact i like this game so much i purchased it 4 different times. Not even joking.
"Being nice to people while committing their transgressions to your eternal memory." is a great way of summing up a Jesus playthrough.
Got this game yesterday. Finally.
Its now 6am. Eyes heavy. Mom's spaghetti. Its a damn good game. Goodnight.
Good for you hope you had a fun time on an awesome game!
Obsidian>Bethesda
@Christopher Estabrooks, Great Graphics but Horrible Story. I got bored playing the game because how stupid it was .
I'm so glad you finally covered this masterpiece of a game. just started a new play through myself. Great video!
only thing I would add is that the whole point of the ending is that it is indeed THE END. Its meant to be a definitive collection of all your choices and seeing them unfold upon you.
this was not a mistake but an amazing design choice by Obsidian.
This is such a great video. Really, great job. The breakdown, the time stamps. It has detail but isn't bogged down. I've watched SO many CZcams videos, and this really stands out. Thank you.
Sense of urgency what are you talking about ? The game encourages you to take your time and explore. Even if you missed something you could always discover it in multiple play throughs of the game. There are plenty of things to get emotional about itâs just that itâs up to the player whether they want to invest themselves emotionally in one of the quest lines revolving a character. Why did you not include yes man when talking about the endings ? Also as far as Iâm aware New Vegas never had a free roam after you completed the game in any of the versions they released. Did we play the same game or is your memory not up to snuff ?
I never felt New Vegas encouraged me to explore. The game always promotes you to follow the roads as the main quest missions and side-quest usually can be found by following them, with characters like Sunny even telling you to stay on the roads. Nothing in-game ever gave me any incentive to explore, with only myself to decide and go out and explore. This isn't a bad thing though, just a difference in design choice; I think Fallout 3 handled the game fantastically in that regard.
@@flynn659 She only says that because shes a tutorial character and its a good idea for new players.
I had very much the same experience in Morrowind when I was a kid, I never made it out of the Seyda Neen because I didn't yet have to patience to follow simple directions or avoid fights. I must have played the start of the game a dozen times before I gave up and forgot about it for 8 years. Upon returning I played it properly and I discovered it was one of my favourite games.
So yeah there are certainly wrong ways to play games. Playing an RPG like we did as kids is like playing a shooter without aiming, we're missing out a key part of the game and therefore handicapping our ability to actually enjoy the game.
Damn I wish you could've tackled the DLC's! They're my favorite part of this game because I feel like each one is outstanding and I also love how they're all slightly connected
What I like to say is that Fallout 3 had a more emotionally appealing core story, and its DLCs were more like leaving Fallout 3 and going to a somewhat new game. All the expansions were pretty cool and quite unique. Fallout New Vegas has a much more complicated and ambitious story, and all of its DLCs manage to ADD SIGNIFICANTLY to the main game story, enriching the entire story experience you have. So whereas Old World Blues is hilarious and fun and the alien spaceship is frustrating creepy and scary, each DLC is almost like you leave the Wasteland and go into something that feels wildly different. That is not bad, that's just the way it is.
By comparison, the DLC Honest Hearts adds amazing emotional and spiritual depth that, if you take the story seriously and learn the characters, changes how you see the main game. The story of the Sierra Madre is damn near a masterpiece of a game all by itself, yet it too adds significantly to how you see the main game after you leave it. And so on with all of them. They blend in MAGNIFICENTLY.
I have recently started playing a Tale of Two Wastelands. A mod that starts in Fallout 3 and upon finding a train station, your travel to New Vegas and wake up in Goodsprings with all the gear and stats you earnt in Fallout 3 and you may travel back and forth seamlessly between the two wastelands bringing your equipment, level and companions with you.
For anyone on PC getting back into Fallout 3/NV. I cannot recommend TTW enough. I am 40 hours in and have barely touched the main story in either wasteland.
I play on 360, so I have to keep everything without mods. Everything is still exceptional, but one issue is the random crashes.
You literally perfectly described me when you talked about how you hated the game at first when you were young then picked it up again.
wait, you said something about a 'lack of emotional quests' ?
have you played ANY of the campanion quests ? like, any at all ? they're all HEAVILY emotional. Boone's quest is my personal favorite.
There honestly boring .I dont care about Boone he is a cookie cutter war vet . Oh look i am big bone war vet i did bad thing and feel bad about it . So many games have done this and it's an excuse for a backstory . Btw i didnt try to offend u
This game was and is still so good.
I was the same way. I was 13 when I first played Fallout New Vegas. I gave it a month or to, and just gave up. Then about 4 or so months later, I thought to myself âhavenât played this game in a whileâ, and from there on out, I became an avid Fallout fan.
New Vegas is still my favorite game ever. I just played it again a few months ago and was still finding totally new areas that I'd never been to. It's truly stunning what Obsidian accomplished in just 18ish months.
You can download mods that donât affect gameplay but do increase stability. New Vegas Anti Crash, 4Gb New Vegas, and Unofficial Patch all reduce crashes without altering gameplay.
New Vegas is by far the best example of what fallout/elder scrolls can be. I was bored with FO4 in 6 months and went back to FONV and was very impressed. I remember when this game came out and i was pleased to see the direction Fallout was going. To bad Bethesda took over and we got a milk/toast version with fortress building aspect, and I dont even want to mention the disaster 76 is. I think im done with modern bethesda and am going to opt with "The Outer Worlds" in hope its even half as good as new vegas, none of the other bethesda games are.
Nathan Manning Now thatâs not to knock FO3, that game and itâs DLC, in my opinion, have aged well, unlike FNVâs facial models lol
I think my main critique of NV in terms of flaws is that it often was't able to really follow up on showing short-term consequences or impacts in the game itself. It had to just describe the long term result of your actions in the ending slides.
I want to bring up Fallout 3's broken steel here because if you do decide to blow up the Citadel at the end, you can travel back to its ruins and the remaining Brotherhood of Steel npcs will be hostile to you. Whereas if you decide to kill Caesar in-game at any point... the Legion doesn't really change its actions or do anything except become hostile to you because of the reputation change. A stat change and some ambient dialogue are the only things that reflect the leader of the Legion dying during the game.
Haha that's the first negative thing anyone has said about new Vegas on CZcams lol
FlipDarkFuture
Are you on crack?
For starters, Bugthesda literally needed to make another whole overpriced DLC(to suck your money dry) just to provide that completely nonsensical choice and to fix their shitty ending by swapping it with a non-conclusive ending.
Also remember, you couldn't join the Enclave in this game, and you helped the BoS regardless during the main story, and the choice of bombing the BoS at that point in time made absolutely no sense, besides it just being there for no good reason besides *Destroy The Citadel OR NOT.*
This comment is so ridiculous, that I'm not surprised that so many Bugthestards up-voted this.
AnotheR Settlement NEeds YouR HELP: New Vegas sucks compared to Fallout 3. FACT.
Inept Jedi
Aw. Is the little baby virgin Bugthestard gonna cry some more on the fact that Fuckup 3: Rehashed Edition* is objectively inferior compared to New Vegas? Awwwww....đđ
AnotheR Settlement NEeds YouR HELP
Butthurt Bugthestards...butthurt Bugthestards never changes...
The game was buggy but I absolutely love it
Good review my guy! I am replaying now and like to watch some videos 4 it when I'm not playing.
Really a beautiful game, the freedom seems to be endless!!
The wasteland needs insurance and stability - NCR; but the corruption and tax would heavily affect the wastelander
The wasteland needs iron grip to maintain order - Caesar's Legion; but slavery and injustice will be a common staple of the denizens
The wasteland needs a powerful leader that understand the best of humanity - Mr. House; but no one knows what the immortal man will eventualy turn into
The wasteland needs the independence and autocracy - Yes Man; but no one knows whether the courier truly represent the mojave or making it worse
This is why I love Fallout: New Vegas
Still my favorite game. Not the best mind you, but my favorite none the less.
So your favorite game is a game that you don't think is the best? That doesn't make sense.
CurrentLee
You can but having a favourite game means that you have to think that it is the best in the context of how much you like it,
if you donât it wouldnât make sense to have it your favourite game, you would have the the best game, in your opinion, be your favourite game.
14:58 when you said that I blurted out "Ave True to Caesar" uncontrollably and that is an example of the staying power this game world can have in your mind
Not that buggy...just a cliche thing to say. I played this game on the 360 and all of it's add-ons and loved every minute. There are tough moral choices to make in almost every area. This game holds the record for lines of recorded dialogue and has so many ways to way...This is perhaps the greatest rpg ever made. Definitely play it on either console or PC.
I once let a friend of a friend borrow this game. As he started the game up, I watched in horror as he killed the population of Goodsprings. In my head I understood you can technically play the game like that, but I didn't understand why you would want to.
There's a few instances he repeats the same sentence immediately. Did not proofread his script enough perhaps...
Patali He didn't even critique it just praise it
Very irritating indeed...
Or he did multiple takes and missed them in editing. Either way I'm not really feeling this dude. His first experience story had a really sketchy timeline to it. He played Skyrim before this but felt overwhelmed by NV's scale and character stats system? Nothing quite adds up.
Thirty minutes of just word salads. How does it take five minutes to say "mods make the game better"?
I agree. The somewhat arrogant title of his review series doesnÂŽt help his case too much either. Sometimes he goes into too much unnecessary detail, sometimes he glosses over more interesting aspects.
Itâs really hard to critique a game thatâs this amazing and only had a one year limit for development
It was a year and half. People get that confused all of the time
I just started playing New Vegas since December and it's quite the ride. I see now why it is so revered by Fallout fans. If you've never played this, you owe it to yourself to experience it for the sheer amount of effort put into the writing, the characters, and the pure freedom of choice on offer. Do every quest. Speak to everyone. Explore. You'll absolutely love this game if you have the time commitment. A mistake I made was trying to progress too quickly through the main story because I was enticed to force a conclusion due to work obligations. Take it slow. This is a game you'll probably never drop. I'm a lifetime fan, now. There are few games out there like this.
Two things:
1. The release was rushed by Bethesda. Obsidian sued claiming it was done to force them to ship the game buggy, thus lowering the MetaCritic score enough that Bethesda wouldn't have to honour a part of the contract where they pay royalties. Obsidian was one point below the agreed threshold. They settled *cough* Bethesda's guilty *cough* Almost nil chance of Obsidian ever working with Bethesda again after getting stabbed in the back like that. Also supposedly Todd McFarlane took a huge blow to his ego regarding NV's critical success as being considered a better story and sandbox than FO3 so that's another wrench in the equation.
2. One of the reasons that NV is so great is because most of the folks who originally worked on Fallout 1 and 2 were there. They actually used a lot of the original plans for Black Isle's intended Fallout 3, now known as Van Buren. All of those folks have since left Obsidian. Given Pillars of Eternity I have no doubt that Obsidian would be still capable of making a great Fallout game, certainly a better RPG than Bethesda since they sure as hell don't know how to make one, but it would be a lot different from what you're anticipating.
In all my years of playing new Vegas I've never came across a bug I don't understand when you people say it's super buggy and I had it the year it came out on ps3 and I have it on steam
CHAR really cause I have it on Windows 10 and I drop about 80 hours in it and still no bugs
I'm at like 230 hours on Windows 10 (with mods, not performance based, just dumb shit) and the worst I've experienced are a few minor crashes and one unmarked quest not quite working. Tf are you all on?
Fallout NV was the buggiest Game I ever played on launch day on pc. It would crash every hour at least once or twice and I would have to keep restarting the game as well as saving all the time. Obsidian released a patch 3 days later that fixed most of the major bugs and I haven't had a big problem since.
CHAR Iâve only just gotten into fallout 3 and nv and I bought it on pc. Fallout 3 crashes all the time but new vegas is just as stable as fo4
It wasn't your charisma, it was the black widow perk, doesn't make it any less awesome, and I suppose is easier to understand.
Bethesda should just focus on Elder Scrolls and let Obsidian make every Fallout game.
played Fallout 3, made it megaton, and put it down. Played new vegas and instantly put in a 60hr campaign, it was so good it made fallout 3 retroactively good.
mods keep this game alive in the "modern day". Game of the year, every year since its release, fallout new vegas!
Hyperbole
what? More like personal experience. You're on that rhetoric though.
When I played New Vegas when I was 12 I found it boring repetitive and complex now that I am 17 almost 18 I went back to it last month and I love it mods improve the concepts even more and it's a great game
Obsidian never patched out how the game ended after you completed the main quest. What are you talking about?
Fam I restarted the game 10 times to get the pimp boy 3 billion and I have a total of 1,500 hours on fallout new vegas, it is my favorite video game.
some things.
1: There are four endings in F:NV. You missed the Independent ending where you place yourself as leader by removing Mr House, The Legion, and the NCR, using Yesman to control Houses robots as your power holding army.
2: No patch was made by Obsidian to allow play after the end of the main quest. The game simply makes a save before the last mission after the main quest and puts you back there after the end credits, so unlike Fallout 3 where Bethesda added a DLC that continued the story after the primary quest line to keep you playing, Obsidian throws you back to before, so that you can keep playing, but as if you hadn't done the the Second Battle of Hover Dam.
This game just needs FO4's combat and graphics to be perfect.
Fallout 4 has some amazing elements and could have been so much better, and far harbour to me was awesome! What they could have done imo
thank you, this game was the only game that truly made me fall in love with gaming, this game is why i love open world games this game is why i love rpgs this game gave me one of the best times of my life, im not even exagarating, every gamer had that one game that made them a gamer, and this is that game for me, hell it even made me love blues and vocal jazz.
not to mention that breathtaking dlcs that are worth their price, unlike most game dlcs today, everytime i think of dlc i immediatly think, lonesome road, doesnt matter which game im discussing, it's true nostolgia plays a core role in my love for new vegas, but i think even if i played this game for the first time today, i would still love it.
today i just sift through games practically forcing myself to play at times, it's truly sad how the gaming industry has spiraled downwards, but there are still few games that come close to filling that craving gap created by new vegas for me, the witcher 3 for example
new vegas was, is and always will be my favorite game of all time
13:14 Actually...
The sad thing is, Charisma doesn't affect anything in NV.
The reason you seduced Benny is solely due to Black Widow perk, you can seduce him with 10 or even 1 Charisma so long as you got that perk
Fallout New Vegas was one of the firsr RPGs I ever played, and it's a experience I will always remember.
Romance options? What romance options?
Thank god I wasn't the only one who noticed that. Maybe he thought renting Fisto counted as a romantic option :^).
Benny
Ultimate Critique of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines?
An excellent choice, love that game.
I played that game and got so bored and lost so quickly.
Just my two cents on the video here and excuse the lack of punctuation but as far as the narrative goes i feel like the DLC for New Vegas goes hand in hand with the story or just another side of the same coin. The subtle hints that there was another courier sprinkled throughout the wasteland was incredible for the fact that obsidian already knew how they wanted their dlc to wrap up. Or the fact that each and every one of the DLC's really shape who your character is as a whole before the fight of the hoover dam. New Vegas is easily one of my favorite games of all time and i really enjoyed what you had to say on it man thanks for letting me rant!
Bethesda should let Obsideon remaster this game. Not just an HD patch like Skyrim, but a complete remaster where they can implement ideas they couldn't due to hardware/engine limitations. For example, they wanted the actual citty of New Vegas to be an actual sprawling city rather than segmented areas of strip and slums.
New Vegas will be installed on my PC until the day i perish.
kizonthekeys lol same
Why canât more games now be more innovative as games like this
COOLEST_101 it was hardly innovative just good
Yeah the word "Innovative" doesn't apply to New Vegas. They didn't innovate. They were slacking behind Fallout 1 and 2 which were made on shoestring budgets in comparison. But the depth of the world is higher than we expect, especially after Fallout 3 and 4, and that's why New Vegas is so great. It's a 3D Fallout that isn't asinine. It's still not original Fallout but it's much, much closer and that's all I can really ask of it.
However, to imply most of those games as being innovative is pretty laughable. They're not innovative, they just take good ideas and execute them decently. For League, they executed the ideas they basically stole from DotA and executed it as well as you could have. For Tekken, I mean there's nothing new or *innovative* there, it's just a solid fighting experience. For Borderlands, they just took Diablo style gameplay and threw it onto a crappy shooter. I mean it's not innovative and it's not executed particularly well with bad gunplay, bad narrative/characters/quests, all people care about is the loot which is decent if a bit shallow. Witcher 3 isn't innovative either it's just another League, took RPG ideas and executed them almost as well as they could have. With better combat it's as good as it can be, but even then there's still room for them to innovate and they didn't. Because true innovation is hard. Dark Souls is the only real innovator in that very few games approached combat, story, and world like Dark Souls has. That's the only one I'd give the innovator button to, and even then someone could argue it's not *that* innovative.
If that's all you got then I'd recommend trying again.
See that's more of a comment.
What new ideas are in Tekken 7's core experience? League?
Mechanics that flesh out nuance do not turn a game that by its very nature is derivative into an innovative experience. You're not wrong, but you're focused on nuance and that doesn't change the game. It simply adds to the game. None of the characters in Tekken or League are in other fighters/mobas respectively, but that doesn't change whether it's innovative or not.
I mean even then some of your examples are very weak, floor breaks are decent but still not really an innovative idea just good execution of what already existed in Mortal Kombat. Adding new characters or move sets or changing anything about them is DEFINITELY not innovative, lol. For League, neutral objectives are, again, decent. Not even really seen in other MOBAs. It's a neat idea but it doesn't change League to be different than DotA 2 or SMITE. Would you use it to argue such? Otherwise it's simply a background detail for already-fans of the game to enjoy. It's not like Counter Strike's gunplay, which changes the way the very core mechanic of player interaction takes hold and thus the entire experience is judged on it.
"If you're trying to say these two great examples aren't innovative cause they haven't redefined a genre instead of help improve it, I really have nothing to say"
I'll end with saying you should google a truly innovative game. Redefining a genre isn't necessary, you can be innovative and still suck (though I couldn't think of an example really). My argument isn't that the games are not good or whatever you seem to think. They're just not innovative games. They're derivative games with very good execution. They further their genres respectively. They're not innovative.
RyanKaufman
He's just a stupid kid probably.
For anyone who is turned off by the clunky gunplay: Try a mod called "Realistic weapon damage" It does exactly what it sounds like. The only issue is that the amount of ammo you find is excessive compared to the damage and, as a result, ammo management becomes almost pointless.
love your work!
Back here again after the Fallout 76 disaster to remind myself why I love this series so much.
My biggest critique of NV is the world. Its not as well made as a BGS Fallouts world. The gameplay elements were there the RPG aspects were there. But the world felt very similar across the whole map. Maybe its just the desert setting, but most locations in NV didnt have anything unique about it. It wasnt like Fallout 3 and all of the DC memorials and museums. It didnt have metros (why would it) and It honestly didnt really feel like a Fallout game. It felt like it was just a western, and every so often you may take radiation dmg and be reminded it was Fallout or see a Deathclaw. There wasn't a single point in Fallout 3 or 4 that I doubted the world ended. The cities were in rubble, you could physically see the fallout. In the Mojave you didnt get that sense and you had to be reminded every so often that it was. Los Vegas is a huge city, where did it all go why did you decide to make most of it destroyed. I find that to be the worst decision NV made. They could have had more unique locations if they kept more of the city.
Angeliceron that's because new vegas is a healing world, the towns are being rebuild, civilization is reborn thanks to some of the big players in the wasteland (ncr, mr house) fo3 is total caos and anarchy, not a world being reborn
You have perfectly hit the nail on the head with your discussion of the four different types of freedom. New Vegas' greatest achievement is its ability to provide all four. Many people do not realise that.
Old video but small correction. *4 Major ending paths