1. JonesR

   9

   If you haven't been diagnosed with ADD prior to playing Fallout New Vegas, you definitely will be after playing it. There are so many places to explore, people to talk to, and things to do that it's difficult not to get distracted. But the game remains fun even when you happen to run off on some wild goose chase because the story flows so seamlessly. It never feels like you are on some irrelevant side mission. I love the stress-free freedom to do what you want, when you want to do it.
   
   The game left me in awe as to how intricate virtual worlds like this can be experienced in such stunning detail--definitely worth spending my time and energy. Its biggest disappointment is the inability to continue character development and exploration once the main quest is finished. You are forced to load an old save...… Expand

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2. DrCola

   8

   First off, most people giving this bad business blame it on the bugs, and also sway towards fallout 3. Fallout 3 is a very different game from new vegas, except for the lovley pip boy and the VATS targeting system. In fallout 3, it is a broken ruin of a once superpower. Brought down by greed. Edging for survival. In new vegas, its far more oriented towards the rebirth of society. 2 hundred years after the bombs fell. People emerging, forming new empires. And they clash and cause chaos. I will admit that the bugs are a miserable thing to live with. (On the first few days of release) after the patches, its fine. Ive got a 9800 Nvidia GT. graphics card, and an amd anthlon 64 3500+ processor, with 3.5 gigabytes of DDR ONE ram, with 200 mghz speed. Windows 7, I get 45 FPS. (Horrible spec's, but if I can get that, you can too!) Anyway, the game is lovingly funny, just a drab landscape. Gameplay is relatively fun. The kiting just got on my nerves. Dozens of hours worth of playtime, I played fallout 3 for 300 hours, with all DLC. very fun. New vegas however, being a little smaller but with better gameplay mechanics balances out everything that fallout3 had flaws with. Except perhaps the drab environment. (What more can you expect? ITS A NUCLEAR WASTELAND) if you are one for RPG with a bit of time on your hands, I would reccomend this over fallout 3. Dont get me wrong, fallout 3 is also an amazing game, they are both very worth the money. The only thing that pisses me off is the invisible game walls!!!!!!! THEY BLOCK OFF HALF THE MAP. Oh well.… Expand

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3. chronoT

   7

   I absolutely loved Fallout 3, but Fallout New Vegas didn't have the same feel for me. Don't get me wrong, it was still an ok game, just not on Fallout 3's level, and I will tell you why. A lot of people who started New Vegas felt lost at first. I understand it is an open world game and you can choose your own path, but they were almost too lenient with the path in this game. It has the same great mechanics as Fallout 3, killing and collecting, but at times you don't really know what to do next. Once I got to downtown Vegas I think the story actually further suffered and got more confusing. I felt at times that this game should have been an expansion to 3, it just didn't feel like a whole new game. I also have to mention that the one DLC I tried sent me into some weird world where my choices were limited and I was walking around killing ghosts, it was actually terrible and made me stop playing the game. I know this game is not terrible and would like to give it another shot someday, but probably won't have time with so many good titles out.… Expand

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4. balti

   4

   In this harsh economic climate there are much better things to do with your inevitably severly limited disposable income than spend it on fallout new vegas. tonight i could have bought some hard drugs and be out raving, having the time of my life, instead i'm sitting here on a saturday night writing this review 'cause i spent my spare cash on a broken game.
   Fallout new vegas is a **** terrible game for so many reasons it beggars belief that bethesda even allowed to be released in it's current state. everyone knows that betheda's previous efforts are ropey as **** but thats part of their charm, despite all thier technical deficencies, atleast obvlivion and fallout 3 felt like they had been designed by people who had actually played a video game. new vegas on the other hand is an incoherent mess of a virtual world that seems intent on reminding you that you are playing a video game due to is staggering volume of atmosphere shattering bugs; the script lacks any semblance of character and frequently slips itself into giving the player incomprihensable choices, based on the assumption that you have a prior knowledge to it's ill conciveved mess of a plot. one of the things that fallout 3 did well was quest /level design. new vegas on the otherhand has regressed to a sega master system level of competency in this respect; the entire game basicaly consists of fetch quests which send you into corridor based dungeons with Doom esque levels of sosphistication (this is actually an insult to Doom, as in 1994 Doom was pretty sophistocated, but alas it's now 2010, and keycards and shooting **** in the face just don't cut it aymore) the much vaunted reputation system whereby you essentialy give to paul and take away from peter is just a black and white as you expect it to be; no matter what choices you make in the game you are inevitably going to be shot to **** by a group of **** while wondering the generic wasteland, which brings us to the combat system. Basically it's exactly the same as in fallout 3, except now the AI level of whatever is trying to kill you havs been brought down from borderline mental disorder to severly retarded; basicaly what obsidian has done is progam anything that wants to kill you (ie most things in the game) to chase you, without stopping until you have been shot to death. enemies have literally no sense of self preservation, and will literaly chase you across the entire game map attacking you untill you or they are dead. even thouugh they are carrying a puny 9mm pistol whilst you wield a **** flame thrower, and even after you spunk fire all over them and they ignite into a firery mess, you will still be chased, and keep having to go into the unwieldy menu system to use hard to come by heaaling items, as you are relentlesly shot in the head without reason there is lots mor wrong with this **** game but i'm sick of talking about it, and i hope you have been convinced that your hard earned cash would be better spent on a gram of cocaine or an akward 10 minutes with a prostitute.… Expand

   • Helpful? 8 of 25 users said Yes.

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