Let's go gambling in New Vegas!

[chzr]

Wait, is it just your screen shots, or does the game seriously forget what the front half of the iron sights are for (unless that changes when your character has some minimum in guns skill, which would be pretty cool and Gothic esque)?

Yeah, it looks like it depends on skill. Watch this after 2:20 for a reference.

tried ig and no difference between guns 5 and guns 100 on sights... looks more like the screenshot was taken just after shot

 

[Overweight Manatee]

I understand that it's a console game but the devs shouldn't treat players as complete morons, offering lame exposition. Surely, 99% of gamers would realise they've been tricked if the guy started shooting at you after geckos had been killed.

No, 99% of people and 100% of reviewers would think that there was an NPC bug that Obsidian created that made them turn on you randomly.

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but the graphics are beyond shitty. How the hell does a NEXTGENDERP game manage to look like operation flashpoint? Imma gonna go play my popamole Just Cause 2 so I can wash this shit out of my eyes.

Yeah, and screenshot format makes it so much worse. Half of the screenshots look like some brown turd with lots of bloom polish and shine applied.

 

[Luzur]

I love Fallout 3, so this game still has to earn its place next to that masterpiece, but it's looking promising so far.

 

[roll-a-die]

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but the graphics are beyond shitty. How the hell does a NEXTGENDERP game manage to look like operation flashpoint? Imma gonna go play my popamole Just Cause 2 so I can wash this shit out of my eyes.

He looks like he's running on mid settings, which makes even good next gen derp games look like shit, consoles run about mid-high, and PCs will generally be able to run it on high, if you've bought one within the last 4 years.

 

[FaChoi]

Elzair, when you get chance/are tough enough go here;

Check in the hut for a dead codexer who is trying to change his body.

 

[Elzair]

Part 4: A Fistful of Bottle Caps

Fallout: New Vegas

Part 4: A Fistful of Bottle Caps

Alright, now that I have cleaned up Goodsprings, I fast travel to Primm to see if I can glean some more information out of Johnson Nash, the operator of the Mojave Express about what the package I got bushwacked over.

It looks like one of the other couriers was not so fortunate. Well, better him than me!

This smells like a sidequest!

If I find more than one of these, I can use them to send stuff.

I don my 10ga hat and clean up this town.

It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

I am richly rewarded for clearing the bandits around town.

I find Mr. Nash in the Vincent & Vance casino. I ask him about the package I was supposed to deliver.

I wonder what cowboy robot he is talking about? He then tells me that Deputy Beagle had more information about the men who tried to murder me, but he was being held by the Powder Gangers in the hotel across the way.

Since I don't want to waste my ammo, I use one of my Stealth Boys.

I have to stop crouching to untie Deputy Beagle, and both of us hightail it out of here as fast as we can.

We sure taught them how fast a lawman and a courier can run alright!

It looks like the Mystery Man went that-a-way! I report back to Lieutenant Hayes to see if I can get some law in this town.

I then head to a nearby NCR outpost to see if I can get some more rangers for Hayes.

I think this is it. I wonder what that statue is about?

Oh! I talk to the front desk about getting some help for Lt. Hayes.

Fuck! Well, maybe I can earn some caps around here.

It looks like I need to go kill some ants.

Suck on this!

You don't look so giant now!

Sweet!

Sweeter!

Sweetest! Now that I have helped out, I can get a squad of men sent up to Primm. I head back and tell Lt. Hayes the good news.

I then try to find a place in Primm to sleep. While I am doing that, the game pops-up a message that informs me that Sgt. McGee has been killed.

The idiot ran into one of his own landmines. Maybe they should have called him Seargeant Magoo, instead.

I head back to the NCR outpost to see if I can find some more quests.

Ghost, the sniper on the rooftop, tells me to check out the town hall of Nipton to see if anything is wrong. I go there.

What lottery are you talking about, and what is with the fires in the background?!

Huh?! It looks like Caesar' Legion has hit the town and "made an example of it."

While I love abolition quests, I will pass for now.

This is where they keep the extras for Jesus Christ Superstar.

Uh . . . thanks?

This legionnaire then informs me that the Legion made an example of this town because it was filled with whores and muggers, and judging by the townsfolk I met, the description was rather accurate.

I can't say I wholly disagree with the legion in this case (plus I'm not stupid enough to accost a man when I am outnumbered 20:1). I then enter the town hall.

It looks like New Vegas features dead children after all!

I take this key while being careful not to set off the proximity mine under it.

I then half to deal with a whole pack of these mutts. They pack a really severe bite!

I make my way to the mayor's office on the third floor and snoop in his computer. Like all politicians, he's too stupid to try to protect his computer.

You stupid mother-fucker! I then head back to Ranger Ghost and get my reward.

Next time I will track my erstwhile-killers through the town of Novac.

 

[spekkio]

It may be your rig, BRO (what about some engine scaling then), but this game surely looks like shit.

I don't want to sound like a graphicswhore, but... FFS!

And putting in all possible witty pop-culture references and EXTREME items and accessories was funny in 1998 (Fallout 2). Except that it wasn't. Plus that was 12 years ago - create some new AND original content you lazy Obsidian fucks!

Anyway: your sacrifice will not be forgotten, Brother Elzair!

 

[anus_pounder]

Doesn't seem all that bad though the NMA review still seems to exaggerate. Will watch topic for replies.

 

[Elzair]

Part 5: Rocket Ghoul

Fallout: New Vegas

Part 5: Rocket Ghoul

Alright, now that I have cleaned up two towns (and witnessed the destruction of a third) let's head for Novac, but first let's see why I can't get to New Vegas by following the highway north of Goodsprings. Some people have said the road is inhabited by terrible creatures. I wonder what they could be?

What is a dead cowboy doing in a refrigerator? I guess this is part of the Weird Wasteland trait I got.

What is a Bright Follower? I get the feeling I will find out soon enough and will then not want to know.

Wow! Who woulda thought?!

Yeah, I'm heading south now.

This is the prison the Powder Gangers overran. Since I am shunned by them, I don't show my face there.

On my way I see an NCR squad attacking a Legion squad. Unfortunately, the NCR tries to shoot me on sight, so I hightail it outta there.

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllles. Oh yeah!

LAWL! I love Fallout!

It looks like someone is using his cattle for target practice. He does not seem very concerned about it, so I make a note to come back later.

Sometimes, the little things in this game piss me off! The almost-nonexistent roads I can accept. The shoddy buildings I can accept. The decaying fences, come on! That is not post-apocalyptic; that just means everyone 200 years from now is a lazy fuck!

Now this is goofy humor done right!

This loony tells me that the men I'm looking for talked to the sniper in the dinosaur.

Shit! The robot is following me!

Manny Vargas promises to tell me where Benny, the man I'm following, went (as if I couldn't guess) if I clear some ghouls out of the old REPCONN facility west of town.

I can quench my thirst here, but this water is slightly radioactive.

It looks like New Vegas, like Fallout 3, treats most ghouls as pseudo-zombies. I run past a lot of them to get them bunched together and throw a frag grenade into the pack.

I then introduce the glowing one to my boomstick.

I'm moving on up!

I just run past these zombies and head for the lobby entrance.

Yes, Mr. Ghoul, sir!

Kewl!

This is Chris, a scientist who thinks he is a ghoul. He tells me to find Jason, the leader of the cult.

So that's what that corpse I found a while back represented: a Heaven't Gate
Cult for Ghouls!

He tells me that the feral ghous I found outside have been overcome with a 'sickness.' (Is this shit Bethesda introduced?) This ghoul cult came here to find a way to blast off into the Far Beyond, which I guess is either outer space or another continent reserved for ghouls or what the fuck ever! Unfortunately, the cult has been driven out of the basement by 'demons.'

These 'demons' sound like Nightkin. It looks like, to get the ghouls to leave the facility, I have to get the Nightkin to leave as well. This is turning into a mess.

I take Jason's key and head for the basement.

These guys are some tough mother-fuckers. Fortunately, most of them deactivate their stealth mode while in combat.

Booyah!

Here I get roasted by a (permanently invisible) Nightkin jailer with a flamethrower.

Shit! I wonder if I could have handled this situation less violently? I reload and find out.

Yep.

The Nightkin leader tells me his boys are also suffering from a 'sickness' that turns them into Doom demons. He says he came here to find a shipment of hundreds of Stealth Boys, but there is a ghoul in the one room he has not searched that keeps killing his men. He tells me he will leave if I can get the ghoul to leave as well.

Fortunately, it looks like this ghoul is reasonable. He is one of Bright's followers who got separated when the Nightkin attacked.

He says he will leave if I can find out what happened to his ghoul girlfriend. This quest is getting really annoying.

I use my last Stealth Boy to sneak to the prison and ambush the jailer. There is one door that requires his key, and there's no way to get it except killing him.

It looks like she bit the dust . . . again.

He clears out, but he leaves his traps behind to make me reload several times. I soon find a terminal.

It looks like the Nightkin came here for nothing. I can't find the missing Stealth Boys either. Any leads?

I hope he doesn't mind that I killed his jailer.

Whew!

I head back and tell Jason the good news. He and his flock then head for the basement.

I go back to Davison's room and flip the switch on the far wall to lower the stairs down to the basement.

Since I got all this way, I may as well do the two remaining fetch
quests.

I can find both of these items near Novac. How convenient! Of course, fast-travelling to and from this underground labyrinth surrounded by feral ghouls is a PITA.

That is a strange looking scavenger!

I find a can of Isotope-239 (and a radiation suit) on his corpse. I hope he didn't die of radiation exposure.

This old bat has the thrust control modules, but she wants 500 caps for them.

The things I do for LPs . . .

Oh thank God!

I return with the parts and watch Jason Bright give a long-ass speech thanking Chris and I and saying he's sorry for leaving Chris behind.

I try to cheer him up even though this whole quest is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen in a game.

Okay, second stupidest!

He doesn't actually join my party; he just sits in Novac. Anyway, I head to the top of the building and activate the rocket.

Let's do this!

Sweet! I bet they crash into the Pacific Ocean!

 

[lightbane]

That was stupid but still less stupid compared with Oblivion with guns. I wonder, was all of this mess some sort of meta joke to Oblivion's bloom covered "seekers of light" (you know, the ones from the 2nd expansion)??

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Skeleton in a fridge is Indy from Indiana Jomes 4.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I just learned Confirmed Bachelor gives you gay dialogue options. Why don't you have it yet for this LP?

 

[Cenobyte]

And putting in all possible witty pop-culture references and EXTREME items and accessories was funny in 1998 (Fallout 2). Except that it wasn't. Plus that was 12 years ago - create some new AND original content you lazy Obsidian fucks!

Better than this serious-business-grimdark bullshit that's so popular these days, imho.

I'm so far quite pleased with the game, it's by no means as buggy as some dudes like to claim, the shooter action is better than in Fallout 3 and the world design more consistent and believable.

 

[deuxhero]

I just learned Confirmed Bachelor gives you gay dialogue options. Why don't you have it yet for this LP?

Is there such an option for female characters?

 

[DefJam101]

Why is it 95% for every body part?

edit: nvm, just your level

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I just learned Confirmed Bachelor gives you gay dialogue options. Why don't you have it yet for this LP?

Is there such an option for female characters?

Yea, the female version. The opposite gender versions are essentially Sex Appeal from Fallout 2 it seems.

 

[Felix]

Mid or low settings with AA turn off ?

 

[Elzair]

You know, after an extensive playthrough of many of the quests around the city of New Vegas, I am willing to christen this game as the Fallout 3 that should have been. Fuck the bugs; fuck Shamus Young, and fuck all the haters on the 'Dex. This is a game that equals Fallout 1&2 in many areas and even surpasses them in a few. IMO the holy trinity is now complete.

 

[spekkio]

In before

 

[Drakron]

Is there such an option for female characters?

Yes, Chercher la femme.

Also you can take Chercher la femme/Confirmed Bachelor and still being able to pick Black Widow/Lady Killer.

 

[anus_pounder]

You know, after an extensive playthrough of many of the quests around the city of New Vegas, I am willing to christen this game as the Fallout 3 that should have been. Fuck the bugs; fuck Shamus Young, and fuck all the haters on the 'Dex. This is a game that equals Fallout 1&2 in many areas and even surpasses them in a few. IMO the holy trinity is now complete.

 

[Crooked Bee]

You know, after an extensive playthrough of many of the quests around the city of New Vegas, I am willing to christen this game as the Fallout 3 that should have been. Fuck the bugs; fuck Shamus Young, and fuck all the haters on the 'Dex. This is a game that equals Fallout 1&2 in many areas and even surpasses them in a few. IMO the holy trinity is now complete.

 

[Luzur]

well, i have to admit its actually more playable then Fallout 3 was, too bad they reused the same engine though.

 

[Serious_Business]

This engine doesn't work any worst than what you got in Bloodlines. I'm not sure if NV is the best thing ever but if you liked that game, then it's a worthy successor ; it's almost like Gothic 2 and Bloodlines combined, in fact. If you didn't like it, then meh. Also, re-using engines and assets is the smartest thing to do with rpgs. I'm not saying it couldn't have been better, but Obsidian making their own first person engine would have been horrible, to say the least.

 

[ironyuri]

Elzair then:

Your crappy motion picture wannabe is about to begin.

Wow! It was done by Obsidian (i.e. the remnants of Black Isle)! If Meester Chris Avellone is at the helm, this HAS to be good!
Wait a minute . . . if Obsidian is the remnants of Black Isle, then that means . . .

Elzair now:

You know, after an extensive playthrough of many of the quests around the city of New Vegas, I am willing to christen this game as the Fallout 3 that should have been. Fuck the bugs; fuck Shamus Young, and fuck all the haters on the 'Dex. This is a game that equals Fallout 1&2 in many areas and even surpasses them in a few. IMO the holy trinity is now complete.

Elzair, truly, you have seen the light.