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Fallout New Vegas |OT| Obsidian does what Bethesdon't
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WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
The guy is clearly lying. I don't even care about reviews one way or the other, but reading the comments, it's clear he's lying. He had to backpedal from several statements about how he got the game early.
They wanted traffic and exposure. They got it.
But fucking hell. How hard is it to actually play a video game and write 1000 words about it? It's child's play, and yet people like this dumbass fail at it. It's embarrassing.
They wanted traffic and exposure. They got it.
But fucking hell. How hard is it to actually play a video game and write 1000 words about it? It's child's play, and yet people like this dumbass fail at it. It's embarrassing.
water_wendi said:Here is what was said before it was taken down (opened new tab in Firefox to check it out :lol)
That means nothing. I just made this to show how easy it is to fake. This site is garbage.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Read the review. It says nothing specific. i could rattle off some specific things both good and bad that i picked up just from watching streams.tokkun said:
Good
The "cinematic" kill camera that comes up even when not using VATS at first just seems like eye-candy but you soon realize it only occurs in real0time mode when the final enemy of an area is dead. What was once a "hey thats cool" event turns into a subtle signal for all-clear.
Bad
Though New Vegas boasts more songs than Fallout 3 the problem is that they are spread out over multiple stations. Be prepared to jingle, jangle, jingle the nights away if you want to hear what Mr. New Vegas has to say (and trust me you do. Some of the stuff they got Wayne Newton to say is hilarious).
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Sn4ke_911 said:
TheExecutive
Member
DR2K said:
Well, the review is just an opinion: an uneducated one. Validity arguments are nonsensical when speaking of opinions.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
miladesn said:
I seem to remember something like that too. Maybe that's their MO. Make stuff up to drive traffic. Sadly, it wouldn't even be the worst business practice in the games "journalism" industry.
water_wendi said:
If you can get those details without playing the game, then that really proves nothing right? And why would someone even bother to include comments about the kill cam in a review of that length. If it had come out after release, no one would give a second thought about whether he had played the game based on the content of the review.
Either way, does it really matter? The guy's main complaints are that the game experience hasn't changed much from Fallout 3 and that the graphics look very similar. Now are either of those points really worth arguing? From watching a few hours of the streams myself, those opinions are obviously justified.
If you disagree with the reviewer's complaints, it is not about their factual accuracy, but rather about how important they are. I personally have no problem that the game is more of the same, and consider the graphics to only be a minor detraction. I can understand getting annoyed over factual errors or unfounded opinions in a review, but if it is simply a case of disagreeing over how important graphics and novelty are, then I can't see a good reason to care about it.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Factual accuracy? i didnt say anything about him saying the game is like Fallout 3. i said that there is nothing in that review that couldnt have been taken from previews.tokkun said:
And this is exactly why i think they havent played the game, either by picking it up or by pirating it. They spend entire paragraphs going on about things that you could pick up from previews.. such things as Pipboy making for a clean inventory or describing Hardcore mode as it was described before release. They could have described how
items have a food and water rating in hardcore mode and how that subtracts or adds to your meter or how recipes are tied to your skills so if you have high Explosives you can make rockets or how you loot cases of ammunition to pack your own ammo.
All these specific things ive said about the game in both this post and the one above have not been in generic previews of this game. That site should have hired me to do a fake review.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
I'm gonna make a site and give New Vegas a 2/10 so I benefit from all the NeoGAF traffic.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
So from the streams it looks like on Hardcore mode you have a meter that tracks your hunger, H20, etc. levels, which go from 0-1000. Does that mean that, say for hunger, you could just eat a massive amount of food to max out your hunger meter and then not have to worry about it again for hours? Seems like kind of a weird implementation.
Rad- said:
:lol
It would actually be quite awesome if they'd have your character get fat if he eats too much junk like in Fable. It could slow down your speed as well as making your need for food increase. I'm OCD about item management so I'll probably have my backpack packed full of nothing but food and drinks for my travels.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
A third playthrough? Must be a horrible game that he needs to be double sure that something so shit was released. /anti-Obsidian takebutsomuch said:
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Snuggler said:
Fat CJ was the best way to play GTA:SA.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
butsomuch said:
Why would someone play through a game three times that feels, smells and plays like an old shoe? Old shoe review invalidated.
TheExecutive
Member
water_wendi said:
Right?
Well, they have had the game for a month and a third playthrough for the reviewer doesnt sound all that bad to me.
TheExecutive
Member
Labombadog said:May you be blessed sir.
And on to the dude that got his xbox stolen.....join the pc master race.
You will NOT regret it.
I am effing doing this for my christmas present. I just have to figure out how to convince the wife that a $1000 dollar gaming rig is "needed". Until then I will stick with the vanilla New Vegas on consoles but when a GOTY addition or whatever comes out I will doubledip with my new awesome PC.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
TheExecutive said:I am effing doing this for my christmas present. I just have to figure out how to convince the wife that a $1000 dollar gaming rig is "needed". Until then I will stick with the vanilla New Vegas on consoles but when a GOTY addition or whatever comes out I will doubledip with my new awesome PC.
Graphic design. Web design. Video editing. Picture processing.
Umm. Programming? Is that a thing?
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
neoism said:
I hope its not, or if it is that its had some major tweaking. Obviously it was meant to reward players who chose higher difficulties, but it made you level up so fast you were maxed out long before you ever finished the game.
I know, I know!!! Loved the atmosphere of the last one and this one will definitely deliver also. I mostly explored in the last one looking at all the locations an finding all the rare gear. I still haven't even did all of that in 3 and I have around 80+ hours logged in.SalsaShark said:
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
cant get my copy until monday
fuuuu
review embargo is tuesday?
fuuuu
review embargo is tuesday?
Valkyr Junkie
Member
Damn, CEs sold out on Amazon?
Rollo Lawson
Banned
god i hate reviews
Rollo Lawson
Banned
:lolGravijah said:
i hate them less when they agree with me...
nah i hate them all. the best "reviews" are these discussions
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
yeah.. we probably were at the same place. i passed on vanquish. no fallout anywhere til monday it seems.Median said:
review? that's not a review, it's a troll post on a website.Rollo Larson said:
water_wendi said:Here is what was said before it was taken down (opened new tab in Firefox to check it out :lol)
It's obvious they didn't get a review copy. If they had, I highly doubt they'd break the embargo. So it's possible that they found an early copy of the game at retail, or they're just fabricating a review in order to drive traffic to their site. The review reads like it's written by someone who hasn't played the game.
lawblob said:
I doubt anyone gets paid to write for that site.
Does the old gamebryo shop-money-glitch still work? If it does it would make the hardcore mode manageable.
The Praiseworthy
Member
I can't believe I still have to wait 2 more days to get my hands on this
CecilRousso
Member
It really doesn´t matter if the reviewer actually has the game (which I don´t think he has). Because he writes nothing in the "review" that is of any use to us. He says the story sucks, without mentioning anything that any of us didn´t already know. He describes the changes from Fallout 3 Obsidian has talked about, without giving any specific details about them we didn´t already know, etc.
If he posts an unboxing video with himself in it, then I will believe that he has played the game. But not before that, because not a single word in the "review" says that he has.
If he posts an unboxing video with himself in it, then I will believe that he has played the game. But not before that, because not a single word in the "review" says that he has.
