New Vegas review from NMA, too good to be true???

[Havoc]

You are not even forced to do that quest it can be bypassed in multiple ways

Are you kidding? After pages and pages of build-up? not a chance.

FO2 can be finished in under 2 hours, bypassing almost all quests and almost all theme-park areas, so why so much hate?

Speedrun
Fallout 1 - single run 9min - http://speeddemosarchive.com/Fallout.html
Fallout 2 - single run 18min - http://speeddemosarchive.com/Fallout2.html

 

[chzr]

actually fallout 1 has new record, 6:54


not a single segment, though.

 

[Mangoose]

For fuck's sake, this game is beyond retarded.
...
Obsidian fanboys are not learning animals.

it's somewhere between average and good, and nowadays that's something extremely rare.

FLIP-FLOP!!!!

It's still retarded because it's still Fallout 3, and that's the reason why it's not beyond average or good in my eyes.

It would go to very good if it actually had any hint of the atmosphere it's trying to convey. I'm not such a fanboy so as to LARP good art direction when there isn't any.

As I said, Obsidian urgently needs to recycle its art department.

So retarded = average to good? :derp:

 

[commie]

In the area theres boone sidequest wich is really really well done .

Christ that made me laugh, getting some random clown to get 'justice' then nonchalantly explaining to Boone that they deserved it just for the lulz and watching the butthurt

 

[1eyedking]

So retarded = average to good? :derp:

L4D2 is retarded yet it's average to good, too.
L4D1 isn't retarded and thus it's in the very good category

 

[Secretninja]

Pretty well sums up everything you have written in this thread.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

 

[Mortmal]

In the area theres boone sidequest wich is really really well done .

Christ that made me laugh, getting some random clown to get 'justice' then nonchalantly explaining to Boone that they deserved it just for the lulz and watching the butthurt

oh yes and him: Just get out of the fucking way now!
Theres a few other situations like this. After finishing it i stand on my opinion its an excellent game undoubtly worthy to be mentioned in the top 20 rpgs asidethe legends.

 

[Crooked Bee]

What the FUCK is this abomination? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY ULTIMA

Oooo, a shiny Ultima for kiddies. Nice.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Judging by the furry up there, that's Ultima III, right?

fake edit: yup

I don't care about your childhood, that looks like ass

ASS

 

[Sceptic]

I don't care about your childhood, that looks like ass

I actually play it with the graphic+music update now

Uses the same graphic tiles as Ultima 4 (and the remake of 1), with the original 3's music for the Mockingboard. Comes with a bonus frame limiter too.

 

[Elwro]

I bought NV today (boxed). Steam installed a 250+ MB patch. I thought "cool, I hope the most glaring bugs are fixed". I went outside Doc Mitchell's house, the game froze after 2 seconds, after a minute let me walk for another 2 seconds, and then left me staring at a blank screen with the computer totally unresponsive.

Fantastic. How the fuck did they manage to screw up a working (if not exactly pretty) engine so badly? I have Fallout 3 installed too and it works fine. (Risen also does, as do all other games - only NV has any problems with my rig.)

And I even installed the new Nvidia drivers which supposedly improved support for NV!

 

[Shannow]

Tried the dll-fix?
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/ ... p?id=34778

 

[Elwro]

Thanks. It didn't work. It let me walk around Goodsprings, but the second I initated dialogue with Old Pete, the video hung up (the audio was going on) and reboot was the only option.

I'd appreciate any pointers!

 

[Havoc]

Use crack.

It always helps... always.

 

[Elwro]

OK, what worked in my case was the following: open FalloutPrefs.ini (NOT Fallout.ini!) in My Documents \ My Games \ FalloutNV and change

iFPSClamp=0

to

iFPSClamp=60

Works nicely now.

 

[hiver]

Use crack.

It always helps... always.

oo, haha - ha ha.
aahh...

iouuzt

 

[Elwro]

Fuck, this didn't work after all. The game crashes after a few minutes of playing every time I run it.

So now I have no idea what else I can do apart from saving every minute and restarting after each crash. Boy, the joys of being an Obsidian customer!

 

[janjetina]

Havoc has already told you. Use the SKIDROW version, it's stable.

 

[CrimHead]

 

[Jaime Lannister]

guys don't play fallout new vegas play intelligent games like left4dead lol

 

[DalekFlay]

Havoc has already told you. Use the SKIDROW version, it's stable.

Steam version has been working perfectly for me for 40+ hours (with the dx9.dll fix).

 

[Xor]

I haven't had so much as a framerate hiccup so far, but I'm using the crack. That's actually kind of sad when I think about it.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

Havoc has already told you. Use the SKIDROW version, it's stable.

Holly shit, is that what it is. I've been using the skidrow version since day one (+ the 2 updates) and haven't had a single crash or glitch worth mentioning.

I'm even running quite a few mods, including the big assed texture replacement from FO3 (which works with NV btw) and it's running as smooth as butter on my rig.

Well I'll be fucked. Poor bastards that bought the game are the ones having all the problems.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

That's bollocks btw.

 

[DalekFlay]

Havoc has already told you. Use the SKIDROW version, it's stable.

Holly shit, is that what it is. I've been using the skidrow version since day one (+ the 2 updates) and haven't had a single crash or glitch worth mentioning.

I'm even running quite a few mods, including the big assed texture replacement from FO3 (which works with NV btw) and it's running as smooth as butter on my rig.

Well I'll be fucked. Poor bastards that bought the game are the ones having all the problems.

I really doubt that has anything to do with it. Again, Steam version since day one and no problems. A few people with a few examples hardly proves any kind of causation, or even correlation. I crack games to get around DRM all the time, I don't have an issue with that, just saying I don't think that is a proven issue in this case.

And as an aside, I hope everyone who acknowledges this game's vast improvements over Fallout 3 are supporting it by purchasing a copy.