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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't
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Jerk 2.0 said:
I know and that's awesome. I haven't done Come Fly With Me, I haven't been in The Black Mountain and haven't explored Deathclaw regions near Sloan and everything north of that.
But I was overwhelmed with awesomness, so I decided to end this. It felt like an adventure with the beginning and the end packed in a classic 3 act story arc.
bonesmccoy
Banned
SRG01 said:
I don't recall if there was anything in the vanilla version of F2, however the overhaul that was released - the one that adds a lot of the cut out content - hints that the BoS is starting to chafe against the NCR. Van Buren's plot was going to really flesh this out in greater detail.
SRG01 said:
How dare you utter that name around here!
I like how the BoS in FNV makes you reconsider the BoS and Outcasts in F3. The Outcasts do seem a lot more like the 'real' BoS.
SuperSonic1305
Member
One thing i'm enjoying about New Vegas is that it doesn't take as long to get to the good interesting quests/locations. I remember playing F3 for about 40 hours before I stopped and it was nothing but boring ass walks through dozens of subway tunnels.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
bonesmccoy said:
Fallout 3 BoS were archetypical white knight pussies. Tactics with it's eastern Brotherhood commiting crucifixions was more bad ass than lyons and his bimbo daughter.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Tactics is fine. BoS is not though :lolbonesmccoy said:
Arcade Gannon's
The NCR and BoS would really hunt him down for being the child of an Enclave member? From his dialogues, it sounded like he would have not even been a teenager when the Enclave fell in the west. Really makes them sound like assholes.
Jerk 2.0 said:
Doubt it. One of the reasons why they put in
the point of no return end game was because there was way more information to keep track of than Fallout 3 (Factions, characters, etc). I doubt they'll try to do anything like Broken Steel. The DLC for sure be pre-end game content.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
As a tactical game its fine. i enjoyed it a lot more than i thought i would. Had a lot of fun messing things up with my vehicle and squad of misfits :lolWallach said:
Parts said:
Experiences seem to vary a lot based on the responses in this thread. I didn't keep count, but I would estimate that the game crashed on me about 15-20 times during my 80 hour playthrough. The game autosaves pretty frequently, though, so it's not a dealbreaker or anything. Certainly much better than the original release of The Witcher.
I had to use the dev console a few times to respawn companions who vanished on their way back to the Lucky 38 and ran into scripting bugs in several quests that prevented me from finishing them. I also noticed that the game "misremembered" some of my decisions by the time it got to the end of the game. Still worth it, but I will probably put off a 2nd playthrough until a few more rounds of patches have come out.
disappeared
Banned
SuperSonic1305 said:
Indeed. Vegas' map is obviously smaller, but it makes up for it with a denser world. There are just enough long-highway-walk sections to keep things balanced.
DarthWoo said:
Your first meeting with the BoS involves them stripping you naked and attaching an explosive bomb collar to your neck, and the NCR generally gives no shit about the people of New Vegas and you gain Infamy when you tell Moore you secured an alliance with the Brotherhood. They are tremendous assholes. Hell, the Brotherhood in Fallout 1 sends you to the Glow, a festering pit of radiation half a month away where no man has returned from, as a prank because you were bugging their doorman
EricHasNoPull
Banned
tokkun said:
Yeah I am having a decent (almost crash free experience on the PC too) I've put in like 140 hours now and I had about 8 crashes all together and 5 out of that 8 crashes started to happen ironically after the patches :lol recently I also crammed the game with buncha mods, so...that could be it too.
Constantly hearing people's frustrations and complaints about this game on their consoles, I must say I hardly share their pain.
which kind of makes me think that the PC version is significantly superior in performance... granted you have a PC that's not older than 5 years with a decent Graphic card(mine's a 3.5 year old PC, quad core, 4 gigs RAM, nvidia Gforce 9600 GT ) Guess it's not half bad.
I had to use the .dll fix to get a decent framerate out of the game but other than a handful of crashes (which caused barely any damage considering I quicksave every 5 minutes) I didn't have any trouble with the PC version. I did almost get completely fucked over when an entire family of blind deathclaw suddenly spawned after I quickloaded. Luckily I had an autosave at the nearby building so I parked both companions inside, and soloed the lot of them with a sniper rifle.
Gully State
Member
So far, I've got the fellout mod installed (it's a subtle different but it does make the game look better. Any other visual mods I should look into?
bonesmccoy
Banned
disappeared said:
I thought this in my first playthrough, but my second has been full of 'oh, there's actually nothing here' moments. I'm sure the incoming DLC will open up large sections of the map... like that one part near Goodsprings filled with the anti-courier 6 graffiti.
One thing that annoys me about the game is that the karma system seems somewhat capricious.
For example, Mr. House is a very pragmatic guy. However, if I go against him for pragmatic reasons, such as siding with the NCR, I get negative karma regardless of how I choose to take him out of the picture.
And you gain karma for killing feral ghouls but not for killing deathclaws? I also gain karma for sneaking up on Legionaries and killing them in their sleep, but lose karma if I then rob their footlocker.
I know that karma doesn't play that big a role in the game, but I always feel like I'm being judged when the "You Lost Karma" noise plays.
For example, Mr. House is a very pragmatic guy. However, if I go against him for pragmatic reasons, such as siding with the NCR, I get negative karma regardless of how I choose to take him out of the picture.
And you gain karma for killing feral ghouls but not for killing deathclaws? I also gain karma for sneaking up on Legionaries and killing them in their sleep, but lose karma if I then rob their footlocker.
I know that karma doesn't play that big a role in the game, but I always feel like I'm being judged when the "You Lost Karma" noise plays.
MrBelmontvedere
Member
Gully State said:
WOW! it really did make things look better.
besides that I've got "centered 3rd person camera" installed, nothing else to recommend I'm afraid :/
EricHasNoPull
Banned
Gully State said:
Thing about the fellout Mod, not sure about you guys but I really don't like the pitch dark nights it offers.. I like to see where I'm going in the dark, (Black Mountain for example, that place gets hella creepy at night, especially with this Mod) I like the day time sky and lighting in the fellout mod, but nights are unplayable for me.
What you guy's think?
bonesmccoy
Banned
I did a full run with Fellout in F3... without a NV mod installed. The pitch black effects are a little excessive - especially considering we're playing a game that's set largely in the post-apoc wilderness of the Mojave. Nights are just not that dark.
I have a face/hair mod installed that *fixes* the character models so that each person doesn't have that awful Oblivion zombie look anymore.
I have a face/hair mod installed that *fixes* the character models so that each person doesn't have that awful Oblivion zombie look anymore.
Gully State
Member
Does NVskies mod play nice with fellout?
EricHasNoPull
Banned
Gully State said:
I am 98% certain it does NOT, but I'm not 100% on it. Don't take my word for it but I would NOT recommend having both running.
I don't mean to derail this thread guys, (little off topic) but after every session of play of this game: being such a movie buff, all I could think of is how amazing will a Fallout movie be if Hollywood ever decided to go all out (It has to be very expensive prodcution) and make a 2.5 hour long epic feature?? huh?
Just think about the Fallout Universe? it's as ideal for a film as it is for a game, never mind the interesting characters and the cool looking mutated creatures: You have such amazing sets, great 50's American theme, you have the post apocalyptic deserts, art deco, blah blah,
Maybe I've been playing this game too much lately, because all I do right after turning the game off is imagine (make my own) Fallout the Movie Teaser Trailer in my head
I pretend it's the first ever debut of the movie trailer at Comicon and all the gamers, nerds and fallout fans alike are going crazy seeing the very first frame of the trailer in a dark press conference hall at Comicon. I don't have the entire plot of the movie down just yet I would imagine it would take from some of the best plot lines of the last two games :lol But I can visualize the entire trailer which is mostly a montage of cool scenes form the last two games ( I've only played those two) done in live action!!
EDIT: And Oh yeah the Cast should not be crammed with known Hollywood stars, just new but good unfamiliar actors, maybe thrown in John Hamm, John Slattery and even Steve Busemi in the mix as side characters but the main cast should be less familiar actors.
The story should be written by Cormac McCarthy, the screenplay should be adapted by Alex Garland and the movie should be directed by the Cohen Bros... just sayin! my suggestions if you have better people to work on it, feel free...
Anyway I think I need sleep! I seriously did derail this thread, this could be a great topic for a new thread though.
"Fallout The Movie!" Make it happen Gaf!!
Jerk 2.0 said:
Yep. Cass will leave you if your karma is too bad.
In the quest you get from the NCR Ranger near Nelson, if your karma is too high, you will have to pass a speech check to get the quest
(This is the quest where you are asked to kill the crucified NCR captives)
There are probably a few other examples.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Question about Yes Man and Mr. House as the main quest branches out:
I'm through with Yes Man's original layout. Won over the Boomers, persuaded the Khan's to take a hike, Finished the Brotherhood of Steel questline(even though that didn't win them over, I only had the option to ignore) and took care of both of the casinos on the strip. Finally, I got into the bunker under the fort and activated the bot army. My problem is that the next step seems to be to kill Mr. House. That kind of sucks because I don't know his plans, I go into his casino and the first thing he says is to give up the chip... which I don't want to do. Is agreeing to give up the chip and then reloading the only way to really get a grasp of the way that's gonna turn out?
Blue Ninja
Member
Indeed. I loved being a part of the Capital Wasteland BoS, but the ones in New Vegas are, save for a few members, a lot more conservative.bonesmccoy said:
I didn't enjoy blowing them up, but ultimately I didn't regret it either.
I wouldn't mind seeing the effect the Capital Wasteland section has on the overall Brotherhood organisation in the long run. I suspect conflict. Now that'd be something cool for a next Fallout game.
Even if you do that,TTG said:
you'll get the chip back, and you're not locked in to House's path
the things you'll be doing for House with the chip are the exact same things Yes Man will make you do (ie: Upgrading the Securitrons, activating the Securitron army at Fortification Hill, etc), at least for a while,
supermackem
Banned
Wow about 20 mins in already had one lock up on ps3.:lol
Blue Ninja
Member
As far as I know, no. I've had Veronica with me for about half the game in Brotherhood T-51b Power Armor, and the NCR didn't care.BeeDog said:
The moment I put it on, however, they unleashed hell on me. Good thing I found that non-Brotherhood set.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Kurtofan said:
Yeah, no other way to solve that if you want to side with House.
mjemirzian
Banned
Kurtofan said:
The only way to avoid destroying the brotherhood is siding with the NCR and forging an alliance with McNamara. If you ousted McNamara for Hardin you'll have to destroy them as well as Hardin will refuse an alliance. Or you can just do Yes Man's route, but that's more of an anarchy ending.
Simon Belmont
Banned
Is there anywhere to get energy weapon ammo other than the Silver Rush?
disappeared
Banned
Wouldn't it be cool if a DLC pack took place in California?
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