Fallout: New Vegas

sierra117x · 12-05-2011 01:18PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Dead Money was atrocious. Easily on par with Zeta for sheer banality. Really have high hopes for Honest Hearts - must admit I do love New Vegas, it's fantastic, though as someone else pointed out, it doesn't quite capture the feel of a post apocalyptc wasteland quite the way FO3 does....roll on the 17th.

thats because its not a post apocolyptic wasteland . it was never properly nuked like DC .

at one stage while talking to house he tells you his back story and explains why vegas and the surrounding areas are mostly untouched . he had set up a defence network that mostly destroyed the incoming nukes. most of the damage caused was by the left over tribes in the area. he would have dealt with them but he was in a coma because he was only using mark 1 os software and it was glitchy

quarryman · 16-05-2011 09:29AM

Jumped back into this to pick up where i left off about 6 months ago.

One thing that struck me (and probably contributed to me walking away from it for a while) is the number of f**kin load screens. Ridiculous.
For a game that relies on a certain level immersion to be conveyed on the player the amount of times you end of looking at a load screen really detaches you. I actually avoid Vegas where possible since it seems to take about 3 loading windows before you get to your destination.

The game shines when you just enjoy wandering around the wasteland, urban areas though are just a pain.

A solution to this would be allowing the player to fast travel out of a building etc.

Takes from what is otherwise a decent game.

Adyx · 16-05-2011 02:10PM

quarryman wrote: »

Jumped back into this to pick up where i left off about 6 months ago.

One thing that struck me (and probably contributed to me walking away from it for a while) is the number of f**kin load screens. Ridiculous.
For a game that relies on a certain level immersion to be conveyed on the player the amount of times you end of looking at a load screen really detaches you. I actually avoid Vegas where possible since it seems to take about 3 loading windows before you get to your destination.

The game shines when you just enjoy wandering around the wasteland, urban areas though are just a pain.

A solution to this would be allowing the player to fast travel out of a building etc.

Takes from what is otherwise a decent game.

I agree very, very annoying. If you're playing on the PC though there's a mod which gets rid of the gates in Vegas - although obviously it might put a bit more strain on your computer.

Even better is a mod which adds extra fast travel locations such as one right at the doors to the McCarran airport building.

TerrorFirmer · 17-05-2011 07:13PM

Honest Hearts is totally medicore. Got it earlier, and finished it in about 2 and a half hours. It's ridiculously easy - one of the companions you get for the final quest is actually irritatingly helpful, so much so that he continuously kills everyone before you can even get a shot off! Another disappointment, really, it's better than Dead Money, yet ludicriously shorter....

Local-womanizer · 17-05-2011 10:44PM

I started this yesterday, didn't enjoy it at first but started it again and I am loving the game.

The same happened with Fallout 3 with me, took me awhile to get into it but once I did I couldn't put it down.

One thing I will say is that the story is not as good in this as Fallout 3.

calex71 · 17-05-2011 11:26PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Honest Hearts is totally medicore. Got it earlier, and finished it in about 2 and a half hours. It's ridiculously easy - one of the companions you get for the final quest is actually irritatingly helpful, so much so that he continuously kills everyone before you can even get a shot off! Another disappointment, really, it's better than Dead Money, yet ludicriously shorter....

Is there a level restriction for starting it / where do you start it from, and is there a level cap increase / new perks ??????

TerrorFirmer · 18-05-2011 09:39AM

Not sure, don't think so - it's so ridiculously easy anyway, I'd say anyone past level 10 could do it effortlessly. I play on hardcode mode and it literally did not present me with even the remotest threat of dying at any stage, most of the enemies are poorly equipped with melee weapons, and the best gun anyone has outside of those is the 12.7mm machine gun - only found about 2 enemies with the anti material rifle. Few new weapons, level cap increased by 5 I believe - but everything is so stupidly easy, and the game flings XP at you for very little - by the end, I'd gone up about 5 levels!

I did a lot of side quests and optional parts of the main quests too, so I dread to think about how short it is if you literally just follow the main quest line - I'd say about about 90-100 minutes! Only 140 achievement points, too, though it will not let me get the last 30, there's two endings and I did both but the second one just won't unlock, annoying.

JonB · 18-05-2011 11:16PM

This game was fustrating due to the design of the strip. I found myself half the time in loading screens.
Go to strip and get quest - 4 loadscreens(inc entering leaving casino)
Quest involves going to other casino - 2 more load screens
At least another two in the casino - 2
then returning the ques 4 more fecking load screens.

calex71 · 19-05-2011 05:58PM

Couldn't resist the dlc

Enjoying it , but more for the fact and playing Fallout and not because the dlc is anything special, one thing that did surprise me though was ....... rain!! DOn't remember it ever raining in the main game

calex71 · 20-05-2011 12:40AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Not sure, don't think so - it's so ridiculously easy anyway, I'd say anyone past level 10 could do it effortlessly. I play on hardcode mode and it literally did not present me with even the remotest threat of dying at any stage, most of the enemies are poorly equipped with melee weapons, and the best gun anyone has outside of those is the 12.7mm machine gun - only found about 2 enemies with the anti material rifle. Few new weapons, level cap increased by 5 I believe - but everything is so stupidly easy, and the game flings XP at you for very little - by the end, I'd gone up about 5 levels!

I did a lot of side quests and optional parts of the main quests too, so I dread to think about how short it is if you literally just follow the main quest line - I'd say about about 90-100 minutes! Only 140 achievement points, too, though it will not let me get the last 30, there's two endings and I did both but the second one just won't unlock, annoying.

You're spot on on , once the novelty of finding a new area wears off and you realise that there is nothing of worth in any of the new spots on the map you get on with it. The last missions on the main story are a right pain in the hole in that you can't fast travel :mad: Worse if you chose to fight. It;s a long walk .

You get a perk to reduce the spread of .45 cal guns in one arc

wtf ? Was there even a .45 in the dlc?

What pissed me off was that at the start you see that

crashed plane off in the distance, and think to yourself, wow I bet there is some cool **** there !!!!!

but I could not fro the life of me find a way up to it :mad:

Edit: I had no issue with the achievements , mind you I was pretty impartial when the dude with the bandages approached me later in it.

Thats another thing that irked me , for all the talk in the legion camp of the burned man in the main game I was expecting something well ............... more. Like he was to get back at Caesar or something, but turns out he has forgotten all about being tossed off a cliff while on fire

ShadowHearth · 21-05-2011 05:24PM

calex71 wrote: »

You're spot on on , once the novelty of finding a new area wears off and you realise that there is nothing of worth in any of the new spots on the map you get on with it. The last missions on the main story are a right pain in the hole in that you can't fast travel :mad: Worse if you chose to fight. It;s a long walk .

You get a perk to reduce the spread of .45 cal guns in one arc wtf ? Was there even a .45 in the dlc?

What pissed me off was that at the start you see that
crashed plane off in the distance, and think to yourself, wow I bet there is some cool **** there !!!!!
but I could not fro the life of me find a way up to it :mad:

Edit: I had no issue with the achievements , mind you I was pretty impartial when the dude with the bandages approached me later in it.
Thats another thing that irked me , for all the talk in the legion camp of the burned man in the main game I was expecting something well ............... more. Like he was to get back at Caesar or something, but turns out he has forgotten all about being tossed off a cliff while on fire

i have to say, i was not impressed bt trailers, not even remotly impressed aftert review in gt trailers...

so far 2 dlc and by the looks of it, not the best quality. good enought for goty in bargain bin for 15 quid later this year?

calex71 · 21-05-2011 06:39PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

i have to say, i was not impressed bt trailers, not even remotly impressed aftert review in gt trailers...

so far 2 dlc and by the looks of it, not the best quality. good enought for goty in bargain bin for 15 quid later this year?

Absolutely, Most of the dlc for these kind of games are wasted on you if you have already finished the games and are just playing them on their own so too speak.

A new playthrough or 1st playthrough with all the DLC wouldl be the best way to make the most of all the extra loot.

Honest Hearts should played after you have visited the Legion camp in the main game imo or so I thought once I played it, all that burned man stuff was irrelevant

When I started the new one my last save was at the end of dead money where I was over encumbered by all the

gold bars

I had. No way I was dropping anything so I started to walk to the nearest place I could stash my booty.......... then I stopped and realised that no shop/trader was going to have 10k bottle caps each one was worth :mad:

TerrorFirmer · 03-06-2011 09:24PM

Has anyone gotten both ending achievements? I've tried twice now to get the one where you wipe out the white-whatevers - white legs? - and I've killed everyone and leave, but I just can't get the damn achiveve to pop up and it's driving me nuts!

calex71 · 03-06-2011 09:44PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Has anyone gotten both ending achievements? I've tried twice now to get the one where you wipe out the white-whatevers - white legs? - and I've killed everyone and leave, but I just can't get the damn achiveve to pop up and it's driving me nuts!

Is it the "O Daughter of Babylon" one ????

have a read here http://www.trueachievements.com/a150963/o-daughter-of-babylon-achievement.htm

I had no issue it, was fairly straight forward and it popped right after the fight.

Painful replaying that section I bet.

swiftblade · 07-06-2011 12:36PM

I got banned from playing games at Gomorrah for winning 10,000 caps at blackjack

Anyway around it? I love that place

Does the same happen in the other casinos?

calex71 · 12-07-2011 07:51PM

New DLC is out next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-hnFjTMUqg

Nut sure what to make of it, hopefully it's better than the last two :mad:

omerin · 12-07-2011 08:01PM

Doesn't look great. Oh no I bought the 2 DLC last week, hope they're ok, it was during the sale so not all bad :rolleyes:

ShadowHearth · 12-07-2011 08:34PM

Does look like ****, but atleast better then homeless people in tents...

I did not even bothered with dlcs when they were on sale for 2 quid...

I am just very disappointed with game after I finished it.

Potential-Monke · 12-07-2011 10:10PM

Lets call a spade a spade here, that looks sheite.

noodler · 12-07-2011 10:12PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Lets call a spade a spade here, that looks sheite.

Have to agree, I see dead money is 10e.

There is NO WAY I am EVER buying the Fallout DLC (whatever number eventually come, 2, 3 4 whatever) for 10e a pop when I can just wait for the GOTY edition and get them that way.

The DLC will always be more expensive than the GOTY (once it reduced to 17.99 sterling online) and will never justify such cost.

EDIT: LMAO, even the Fallout 3 stuff is still 10e a piece. 50 for the add-ons? Are these people for real?

swiftblade · 12-07-2011 10:26PM

Dead money was the only one i found remotely interesting.

That looks terrible. Looks along the lines of Mother ship Zeta

calex71 · 12-07-2011 10:53PM

swiftblade wrote: »

Dead money was the only one i found remotely interesting.

That looks terrible. Looks along the lines of Mother ship Zeta

I thought that too, why can't they just give us a substantial add on with 10 hours worth of game play that would be worth the asking price. FFS I mean the mod community have produced better stuff.

God I miss the old days when DLC was called an expansion pack and did what it said on the tin :mad:

quarryman · 20-07-2011 12:16PM

Well, seems like people were a bit hasty to judge this one.

Review on EG.

Burgo · 20-07-2011 12:40PM

quarryman wrote: »

Well, seems like people were a bit hasty to judge this one.

Review on EG.

Yeah i heard its the best dlc so far, take that however you want :pac:

ShadowHearth · 20-07-2011 12:47PM

Well I wouldn't trust eurogamer review even to wipe my arse.

From trailers it looks like ****, but that mini review looked okay'ish.

I still wont bother until it's going to be on sale for pennies or goty.

quarryman · 20-07-2011 01:38PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Well I wouldn't trust eurogamer review even to wipe my arse.
.

another review, just for you.

calex71 · 21-07-2011 06:03PM

Just stared it there earlier, seems ok so far.

But I am also playing the GOTY edition of Borderlands, the fallout team could have learned something from that in how to do DLC!!!!!!!!

Edit: After a couple of hours at it this evening (I'm taking my time with it .... OK fallout makes me OCD and I have to look in every corner

) I'm really enjoying it, feels more like Fallout 3 / NV than any of the other DLC so far, and there is some quality loot to be had not just weapons but you can actually learn to fashion

Skill Books

at a workbench making this the go to dlc if you are on a fresh playthrough. Also unlike other DLC it states quite clearly that you can return to it once you have finished it, though I haven't worked out what all of the advantages of it would be just yet.

Some nice perks are given at the start too, but I am unsure if these can be kept until I finish it. Can't speculate as to why I think there is a chance of losing them without giving the early plot away.

I kind of wish they had striped me of my gear though , as even though the new weapons are good I have some ridiculously over powered stuff on me from the other DLC even playing on hardcore , though food is getting to be an issue at the moment.

Over all I'd say this is worth the asking price, especially for anyone only starting out in the game.

gummed · 01-08-2011 03:45PM

any word on Fallout 4?

tok9 · 03-08-2011 05:33PM

Is this game still very buggy? Got it a few weeks back and just getting the updates on it now for PS3.

I'm just a little bit afraid the game will crash my PS3.

Potential-Monke · 03-08-2011 10:05PM

tok9 wrote: »

Is this game still very buggy? Got it a few weeks back and just getting the updates on it now for PS3.

I'm just a little bit afraid the game will crash my PS3.

It froze plenty of times for me. But it's random, doesn't appear to be when i do anything particular.

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