Fallout: New Vegas

Gregster6 said:
I'd be very grateful if people with Fallout New Vegas experience would let me know if it's any good or not.

I loved FO3 and spent a good bit of time on it...as such I have looked forward to this game for a while.

Two things in particular concern me about New Vegas:
(1) It's made by the company who made a total mess of the sequel to one of my favourite games, Knights of the Old Republic
(2) There seems to be a fair bit of griping about the game in this thread.

I'm not really bothered about bugs (as long as they get fixed!) as I won't be in a position to start playing for 2-3 weeks. I'm more interested in knowing if:
- the plot is gripping and feels like its worth following
- main characters are interesting and well scripted and acted
- the territory is interesting to explore
- guns / loot / perks feel like they're worth finding / earning
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I have had one CTD and seen two instances where NPCs have fallen into the floor, but otherwise my experience has been flawless. Excellent performance, good story, enjoying the weapons, characters and interaction too. I think it's a worthy follow-up to FO3 - but to be honest, I never had any issues with FO3 apart from very similar ones to those I have experienced with New Vegas.

I haven't seen the save game or crashing issues that others have - I think the voice-acting is good (and unlike FO3 there isn't loads of people using obviously the same voice actor). The new weapons are a welcome addition and I think there are plenty of interesting quests to do.

Thumbs up from me - but as ever, your mileage may vary :D
 
I'm at what I think is almost the end of the main questline and I got so much ammo and caps that I don't know what to do with them! Playing normal/hardmode :)

Have to start another game though. Chose a wrong speech and ended up fighting for the bad side. All the different factions are confusing me:(
 
just wondering how should this run on my pc at 1920x1080, i used to run fallout 3 fine at lower res but now have a new monitor.

Specs are 9800gtx 512mb, 4gb ram, e6400 dual core @ 2.8ghz

Im hoping maybe high with no AA, or medium with 2aa?
 
High with no AA should be alright. It's using about 600 MB of memory for me at the same res with 4x on a 285.
 
So I'm just starting out on my quest through New Vegas.

Any special tips or thing sI should look out for right from the start? I'm tempted to play NV to 100% evil as I was too good in FO3.
 
Getting into this more now, almost have too many quests to do because one of the main ones requires me to meet several groups, each of whom have a heap of quests. Spent 4 hours playing today, found a very tasty sniper rifle as well :)
 
anticonscience said:
So I'm just starting out on my quest through New Vegas.

Any special tips or thing sI should look out for right from the start? I'm tempted to play NV to 100% evil as I was too good in FO3.
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Too easy to play as evil in FNV, stealing/killing/robbing=easy time. I am a saint atm i think :D, no bad karma at all so far.
 
Enjoying this so far.

Not even touched New Vegas yet, busy on wasteland missions. Glad I have a house (motel room) and a few companians. Ive found deathclaws much harder this time around.

No disappointment from me, just more of the same, which is good.
 
I'm quite enjoying the game, it runs well on my old PC, E6700 with 1950XTX.

I've had a couple of crashes, the first was the GFX card overheating, I've upped the fan speed on the card and hasn't happened since.

Like FO3 I shall not follow the main quest until I've exhausted all the minor quests of which there appear to be plenty.

A bit miffed about the temporary boost from reading skill books but it will prevent characters from getting maxed out so early on.
 
THis game runs fine on my rig at above 50FPS on ultra settings, however I just noticed it only uses 1 core?!

I haven't seen any settings to enable/disable multi core.
 
WoZZeR said:
Like FO3 I shall not follow the main quest until I've exhausted all the minor quests of which there appear to be plenty.

A bit miffed about the temporary boost from reading skill books but it will prevent characters from getting maxed out so early on.
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Agreed on the quests, same here.

As for the books, i was a bit miffed as I thought they replaced normal books, but you still get them too.
 
Has anyone else tried to have a go at the Deathclaw area? I wandered in once, realised I didn't have a save more recent than an hour ago and had to resort to consoling a few to death.

Deathclaws in NV are bloody 'orrible.
 
liking it so far, performace is acceptable, except when i got into the big gun fight in the first town helping them out, it dropped to below 10fps, will that dll file help? Ive installed the latest drivers and running at high with no AA on a 9800gtx 512mb, e6400 @ 2.8ghz and 4gb of ram @ 1920x1080.
 
Fenris said:
Has anyone else tried to have a go at the Deathclaw area? I wandered in once, realised I didn't have a save more recent than an hour ago and had to resort to consoling a few to death.

Deathclaws in NV are bloody 'orrible.
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Finally killed one with a combination of frag mines and running away firing at it.

Got through a lot of ammo, quite like the challenge of them tbh as most human opponents are pretty easy to kill.
 
I have played around 20.7 hours of it over the weekend (I got it on Thursday, but Steam wouldn't let me activate it until Friday).

All in all, I'm really liking it so far. I have got to the strip (probably missed a load of side quests in the process, always seems to happen when I'm playing RPG games) but before I complete the main quest line, I'm going to take a back step and just explore everything and do more side quests - because I reckon the game will just end (as did Fallout 3 before the expansions).

Only issue is, as soon as I get to The Strip; or I'm in a big fight - my performance goes down significantly - FRAPS reports a framerate of 14-21fps! That's in high-quality mode, in Ultra-quality, I get something like 7-11fps!

I'll try the new NVIDIA drivers - I'm running a 640mb 8800 GTS, Phenom II 945x4, 8gb 1066mhz DDR2. I play at my native res of 1600x900, without any AA or AF.
 
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