Preview Fallout: New Vegas - Bugs, Gambling, & Random Murder

[Vibalist]

Good to hear that the shooting mechanics might be improved. This is actually good news.

As for all that other shit, well, what the fuck did people expect?

 

[Jim Cojones]

thanks to our character's above-average intelligence score, were able to point out that he gunned down four thugs with only three shots.

*sigh*

Two people with one bullet

More like blind-ammo and fake bandits.

 

[Phelot]

Most of this stuff appears to be little shit that used to just be something you could do in a game and hardly worth hyping.

And am I the only one that's tired of these previews literally going over the entire story line and every fucking quest spoiling the entire game?

 

[Azrael the cat]

Most of this stuff appears to be little shit that used to just be something you could do in a game and hardly worth hyping.

And am I the only one that's tired of these previews literally going over the entire story line and every fucking quest spoiling the entire game?

Hell yeah. I actually think it's affecting my enjoyment of games. I enjoyed some comparably minor/cosmetic C+C in titles like Deus Ex because I went in having absolutely no idea that I was going to be able to disobey orders or have any more freedom than, say, a Doom clone. Part of the reason I was taken by the villains and stories in SS and SS2 was because they were unexpected (e.g. the Many starting out as cliche zombie hivemind, and slowly becoming a respectably complex antagonist), whereas I knew the main characters in Bioshock as well from the previews as I did in the game. I've started to work around this by avoiding previews, but I don't remember having to do that before (and I was reading game mags on a regular basis even as a kid).

 

[Phelot]

Yeah it's bullshit. Even FO3, everyone knew about Megaton and the bomb and the big choice of what to do. It's funny because that allowed most people to forget how retarded it is that the PC immediately knows about the bomb when they enter Megaton before anyone can even tell him about it.

 

[MetalCraze]

We then spoke with him and, thanks to our character's above-average intelligence score, were able to point out that he gunned down four thugs with only three shots.

Looks like Obsidian's retarded writing is totally better than Bethesda's retarded writing

The best way to describe it is that it seems like the weapons have more weight, which made the whole experience feel much more like an honest first-person shooter.

Another best RPG ever this year from Obsidian!

Boxing gloves were my personal favorite tool of slaughter, backed in a close second by the machete. Running around in a pinstripe suit with a cowboy hat and boxing gloves is just plain funny.

Looks like awesome humour of Failout 3 is back in. 10/10 Awsum gaem trv3 Fallout

 

[Jaesun]

In before... oh never mind.

 

[denizsi]

Every Obsidian apologist declared AP's shitty writing to be good so when NV comes out with Bethesda level retarded writing and the same idiots will think NV is also good, I won't be surprised. Just the new face of "TEH ELITIST ANGERU!!!!" Codex.

 

[AnalogKid]

which made the whole experience feel much more like an honest first-person shooter.

Just what I want from my RPGs. "honest" FPS-ness. Wooot!

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Does someone know if Pete can smile without looking like his mom was hit by a truck in the 9th month?

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

http://kotaku.com/5610615/my-first-30-m ... -new-vegas

Apparently the game can be populated with the old-school easter eggs and pop-culture references some of you love to hate so much, but only if you take the 'Wierder Wasteland' Trait. They're totally avoidable.

Edit: Of course, we all know you'll take the trait just so you can bitch.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

huh. that's...interesting.

 

[MikeJahn]

What I find interesting about the Gamebryo engine and all the games on it is that the only big fun I get out of them is doing what isn't intended. Literally the most fun I get from these games is fucking around - in oblivion the funnest thing to do was lock dead bodies into weapon cases (the physics would go nuts) and overdose on drugs and then propel yourself off of high places just when the high ends (which would make you fly like a bird for a moment and then you'd tumble down like a rag doll ). Also putting poison apples in everyone's pockets was pretty lulzy too. The actual games aren't ever actually that fun to follow.

 

[deuxhero]

Kotaku has a preview

http://kotaku.com/5610615/my-first-30-m ... -new-vegas

All but one can be killed? 1:that excluding children (I heard they kept that , was this fixed?)? 2:Better be a good reason ("this guy is only seen by hologram" at the minimum)

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Kotaku has a preview

Welcome to thirty five minutes before, and several posts up.

 

[bhlaab]

thanks to our character's above-average intelligence score, were able to point out that he gunned down four thugs with only three shots.

I would've used perception but whatever

 

[Drakron]

1:that excluding children (I heard they kept that , was this fixed?)?

Stop being a dumbfuck, killing children means you cannot even sell the game.

Fallout 2 had them IN THE NA RELEASE, they are not going to make 2 versions were the fucking difference is a fucking variant in some NPCs and I DOUBT you could get away with that in NA, Silent Hill had the shadow children censored.

 

[Elzair]

When is this game coming out anyway?

 

[deuxhero]

1:that excluding children (I heard they kept that , was this fixed?)?

Stop being a dumbfuck, killing children means you cannot even sell the game.

Fallout 2 had them IN THE NA RELEASE, they are not going to make 2 versions were the fucking difference is a fucking variant in some NPCs and I DOUBT you could get away with that in NA, Silent Hill had the shadow children censored.

If release!=US, set invincible 1 on children. Given that the non-NA releases need a disc that doesn't have the ESRB rating on it, needing to print additional discs wouldn't be a valid reason.

Still don't get what the butthurts on killing kids is. They are people (well virtual representations of people) just as much as the ones you kill in every videogame (when you aren't fighting aliens/zombies/demons/turtles/ect).

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

This retarded shit is still going on? *sigh*
Damn, I have to stop reading about these new shitty games, because all the is so fucking depressing :/ .

 

[Drakron]

If release!=US, set invincible 1 on children. Given that the non-NA releases need a disc that doesn't have the ESRB rating on it, needing to print additional discs wouldn't be a valid reason.

... I am confused, what part of "Fallout 2 only had children in the NA release" failed to register?

European removed children, that broken quests and then come the patch that broken even more things with "ghost" children as it was build for the NA release.

So if you agree that NA cannot have children being killed then neither European or North American releases can have them, the 2 largest markets.

That leads to part 2, Ratings.

You are simply fucked in the USA if you dont get a ESRB certificate (major retail will simply NOT stock the game) you are also fucked outside it, Europe have PEGI that even if not mandatory per say it is as many countries require rating (and even PEGI have different rating labels to comfort with those countries laws) and Japan have CERO (that is required).

Also its not as easy as you think, Fallout 3 sidestep the issue by making all children flagged as "essential" making so at best you could simply knock them out but you cannot make that as a global variant that looks at the game version, also its something if someone screws up would AT LEAST mean a fine (from the rating boards) and I dont think Bethsoft is going to risk another Oblivion rating problem.

And for what? being able to kill children ... no wonder GTA does not even put them on.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Deus Ex and its sequel let you smoke anyone in your path, no matter the age.
I didn't see anyone losing their shit there, and trying to ban the games. Or if there were some people, it obviously didn't get a strong enough movement for anyone to notice or care.

 

[deuxhero]

If release!=US, set invincible 1 on children. Given that the non-NA releases need a disc that doesn't have the ESRB rating on it, needing to print additional discs wouldn't be a valid reason.

... I am confused, what part of "Fallout 2 only had children in the NA release" failed to register?

European removed children, that broken quests and then come the patch that broken even more things with "ghost" children as it was build for the NA release..

Unless there is some strange sidequest requiring you to kill a child (I doubt it), flagging children as "essential" outside of the US isn't going to break any quests.

The ESRB didn't care about Fallout, Fallout 2, Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2, Black and White and Jagged Alliance 2 allowing you to do it. I see no reason why they would choose now to give a fuck.

 

[Dagorath]

If release!=US, set invincible 1 on children. Given that the non-NA releases need a disc that doesn't have the ESRB rating on it, needing to print additional discs wouldn't be a valid reason.

... I am confused, what part of "Fallout 2 only had children in the NA release" failed to register?

European removed children, that broken quests and then come the patch that broken even more things with "ghost" children as it was build for the NA release..

Unless there is some strange sidequest requiring you to kill a child (I doubt it), flagging children as "essential" outside of the US isn't going to break any quests.

The ESRB didn't care about Fallout, Fallout 2, Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2, Black and White and Jagged Alliance 2 allowing you to do it. I see no reason why they would choose now to give a fuck.

Ah, yes, but Fox now know that the internet and games exist.

"VIDEO GAME TRAINS TALIBAN TO KILL KIDS AFTER NUCLEAR ATTACK", anyone?

 

[Radisshu]

Huh, this actually sort of looks like a Super Mutant more than an Orc, although the skin colour is too saturated and dark.