Game News Fallout: New Vegas released on GOG (and Fallout 3 & Oblivion too)

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Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; Fallout 3; Fallout: New Vegas; Obsidian Entertainment

Back in August 2015, Bethesda finally established a relationship with GOG and released their legacy titles there, including all of their RPGs up to Morrowind. Today they've followed that up with the release of three newer ones - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3 and most importantly to us, Obsidian's vastly superior spinoff Fallout: New Vegas. All three games are the GOTY/Ultimate Editions including all DLC, and all three are on sale for $10 until next Tuesday. Bethesda's older games are also on sale with a steeper 75% discount.

Welcome to the age of DRM-free New Vegas! I guess it'll take them a few years more to release Skyrim and Fallout 4 too.

 

[Aenra]

Finally you can torrent F:NV without cracks!

I approve of this, thanks Pete!

 

[Feyd Rautha]

Thank you God Howard!

 

[Barghest]

Try this as a guide for modding F:NV - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475068117 Mileage may vary.

 

[twincast]

Welcome to the age of DRM-free New Vegas! I guess it'll take them a few years more to release Skyrim and Fallout 4 too.

Bethesda manages to surprise positively... Huh. Never expected that.

 

[jaydee2k]

All hail to the King!! New Vegas on GOG FUCK YES !!!!! Eat shit Todd !!

 

[Metro]

Remember when Steam haters would say 'WUT U GUNNA DEW WHEN STEAM SHUTS DOWN NO MOAR GAEM' -- well looks like everything will be free thanks to GOG. The eventual dumping ground of legacy backup files.

 

[Tigranes]

All hail to the King!! New Vegas on GOG FUCK YES !!!!! Eat shit Todd !!

Say you as you give money to Todd..?

 

[buru5]

I never got into F3 so I never gave NV a try, but after reading all the positive shit about it on the web I think I might give it a shot, will probably download it tonight.

Any essential mods I should download with it for a first time playthrough?

 

[Pirata Alma Negra]

Any essential mods I should download with it for a first time playthrough?

Sawyer's mod is :balanced:.

 

[Chris Avelltwo]

Finally you can torrent F:NV without cracks!

I approve of this, thanks Pete!

Just because a game is on GOG and DRM-free doesn't give you carte blanche to pirate it. You're still supposed to pay for those games.

 

[Archibald]

Remember when Steam haters would say 'WUT U GUNNA DEW WHEN STEAM SHUTS DOWN NO MOAR GAEM' -- well looks like everything will be free thanks to GOG. The eventual dumping ground of legacy backup files.

Well nobody expected, I think, for GOG to gain as much traction as it did.

 

[Black]

You're still supposed to pay for those games.

You mean give bethesda money?
Do you have scripture to support your claims?

 

[Aenra]

Just because a game is on GOG and DRM-free doesn't give you carte blanche to pirate it. You're still supposed to pay for those games

Wow! Really!?!?!? Goddamm, who'd have thought... thanks man, i am like, enlightened.
Are you always this smart?

 

[GuiltyofBeingTrite]

I think 50% of my gog library is games I pirated from them initially

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

Fallout 3 & Oblivion

Ah, those good old games.

Don't worry, the day will yet come when Oblivion is featured on GOG.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

The eventual dumping ground of legacy backup files.

In case you're not just shit posting but sincerely care about preserving old games. There's a project by the name of ReDump which goal is to build a database of checksums for byte perfect rips of CD images for various systems. They've already dumped many thousands of disks all over the world. You can find p much any pre 2010 game on there.

Of course, the actual CD images are not public, because piracy. But if you ask around and look at some forums, you can get a link to a system specific torrent that contains many terabytes worth of pure gold (and also pure shit) old school games. Each and every CD image is a byte perfect unaltered rip, how cool is that.

I mean, think about it. What would the publishers do without pirates. Most old games that are released on Steam/GOG just use a no CD crack made by some nerd back in the day. I've checked it, and it makes sense, nobody's going to look for the original source code and also pay somebody money to remove the original DRM. Some companies even admitted to just torrenting a game and then uploading the whole thing to their Steam channel.

Yeah, the publishers and pirates are almost like Batman and Joker, both need each other to survive.

 

[commie]

Any essential mods I should download with it for a first time playthrough?

Sawyer's mod is :balanced:.

That's all you need really. Get the unofficial patch as well. Fuck anything else; graphics, quest mods, other changes etc...Unlike Bethesda made games, this doesn't need wholesale changes to be playable. Went through it with only a handful of crashes and game was neatly balanced so that I hit the lowered level 30 cap for Sawyer mod only about 5 hours before the end of the game(the original 50 level cap would have been ridiculously OP).

 

[commie]

The eventual dumping ground of legacy backup files.

In case you're not just shit posting but sincerely care about preserving old games. There's a project by the name of ReDump which goal is to build a database of checksums for byte perfect rips of CD images for various systems. They've already dumped many thousands of disks all over the world. You can find p much any pre 2010 game on there.

Of course, the actual CD images are not public, because piracy. But if you ask around and look at some forums, you can get a link to a system specific torrent that contains many terabytes worth of pure gold (and also pure shit) old school games. Each and every CD image is a byte perfect unaltered rip, how cool is that.

I mean, think about it. What would the publishers do without pirates. Most old games that are released on Steam/GOG just use a no CD crack made by some nerd back in the day. I've checked it, and it makes sense, nobody's going to look for the original source code and also pay somebody money to remove the original DRM. Some companies even admitted to just torrenting a game and then uploading the whole thing to their Steam channel.

Yeah, the publishers and pirates are almost like Batman and Joker, both need each other to survive.

I remember Underground Gamer had this stuff. Was great. There is a lot of shit indeed, but often there were many great games that have been lost to almost all official and unofficial channels and even those you can find on abandonware are usually rips and not proper images with Red Book audio for the soundtrack etc. Was a great resource. Sad to see it go.

 

[Wayward Son]

Finally, now Clockwork Knight can stop playing these fine games on Xbawks and can play them on PC, because he no longer must deal with GabeN. Come on, Clockwork Knight its your time.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I never got into F3 so I never gave NV a try, but after reading all the positive shit about it on the web I think I might give it a shot, will probably download it tonight.

Any essential mods I should download with it for a first time playthrough?

Arwen's list isn't bad. If you're gonna use Sawyer's mod, there's this touched up version on the Nexus which is made to work with the unofficial patch and other popular mods.

http://arwenevecom.ipage.com/FalloutNV/FNV-Mods.htm

http://nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/61592/?

Finally, now Clockwork Knight can stop playing these fine games on Xbawks and can play them on PC, because he no longer must deal with GabeN. Come on, Clockwork Knight its your time.

 

[Wayward Son]

Finally, now Clockwork Knight can stop playing these fine games on Xbawks and can play them on PC, because he no longer must deal with GabeN. Come on, Clockwork Knight its your time.

Me? I'm just someone who's... Carryin On.

 

[pippin]

Ah, those good old games.

2006 was 30 years ago actually.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Finally, now Clockwork Knight can stop playing these fine games on Xbawks and can play them on PC, because he no longer must deal with GabeN. Come on, Clockwork Knight its your time.

Clocky is a huge Steam whore btw, he has over 1500 games on his account

 

[Wayward Son]

Finally, now Clockwork Knight can stop playing these fine games on Xbawks and can play them on PC, because he no longer must deal with GabeN. Come on, Clockwork Knight its your time.

Clocky is a huge Steam whore btw, he has over 1500 games on his account

Huh. Who the hell was I thinking of that played these games on Xbawks because of a hate boner for GabeN?