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Fallout: New Vegas Was Released 9 Years ago Today

CaptainKashup

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Van Bur3n said:
We can't all have good taste. And I'm referring to you, before you try something clever.
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Eh, I understand why people like it but..
I don't think the writing is that clever. In fact, I find it to pretty dull, but FO3 and FO4 have dull writing too.
But at least, FO3 and FO4 have interesting worlds and cool atmosphere, two things New Vegas totally lacks. It doesn't feel post-apocalyptic or like a western, it's just.. so bland to me ?
I would love to love it, Westerns and Post-apocalyptic stuff are my favorite things, but for some reason, New Vegas just don't click with me in any way.
 
jonjonaug

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Ushay said:
The best Fallout game made, despite all the issues. To think they did this with only 18 months Dev time.

Now imagine what they can achieve with a bigger budget, time and creative freedom. To say I'm excited doesn't cut it.
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The best writers on NV (Avellone, Gonzalez, and Fenstermaker) have all left Obsidian since then though.
 

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Obsidian did something Beth never could with Fallout : understanding the license

F3, 4 and 76 are so laughably bad like I don't even know they sold to begin with. I mean nevermind, oblivion did sell very well too.

New Vegas is a special game
 
Van Bur3n

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CaptainKashup said:
Eh, I understand why people like it but..
I don't think the writing is that clever. In fact, I find it to pretty dull, but FO3 and FO4 have dull writing too.
But at least, FO3 and FO4 have interesting worlds and cool atmosphere, two things New Vegas totally lacks. It doesn't feel post-apocalyptic or like a western, it's just.. so bland to me ?
I would love to love it, Westerns and Post-apocalyptic stuff are my favorite things, but for some reason, New Vegas just don't click with me in any way.
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Well that wasn't a very good explanation. We'll have to try this later.
 
Alastor3

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Proven said:
I would pay a lot of money for a 1:1 New Vegas remake off of that terrible engine they were forced to use.

Give me New Vegas in Unreal
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There already a mod in progress that take F4 engine for NV

Also you said "
In my opinion, it's by far the best Fallout game ever released and one of the best RPGs ever made. The amount of choice you had to make the story yours was incredible and has yet to be matched.

Obsidian were the original developers of Fallout"

First of all, let be honest here, Fallout 2 was the best fallout game hands down, but New Vegas was a close second.

And to be fair, saying Obisidian are the original devs is almost like saying the Bioware studio right now is the same studio that made Baldur's Gate, Jade empire, Kotor
 

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Alastor3 said:
There already a mod in progress that take F4 engine for NV

Also you said "
In my opinion, it's by far the best Fallout game ever released and one of the best RPGs ever made. The amount of choice you had to make the story yours was incredible and has yet to be matched.

Obsidian were the original developers of Fallout"

First of all, let be honest here, Fallout 2 was the best fallout game hands down, but New Vegas was a close second.

And to be fair, saying Obisidian are the original devs is almost like saying the Bioware studio right now is the same studio that made Baldur's Gate, Jade empire, Kotor
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Obsidian still is great tho. Not a single bad game since the more than divisive Alpha Protocol so idk what you're on about
 
skeezx

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i remember first playing it in 2012 having no idea what Fallout was, i just liked Skyrim and knew it was tangentially connected. picked up the 360 version for like $10 and was completely blown away... game was obviously held together with duct tape and tin foil even by 2010 standards but dear lord was it amazing. i'd no idea rpgs could be like that
 
mrpookles

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Oct 29, 2017
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Played the shit out of it on 360. I would pay a lot of money for a Switch version.

I still think I prefer 3 to NV, though. Maybe purely for nostalgia.
 
Ryuhza

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Oct 25, 2017
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Got it back on release, but never played it as much as 3. Even with all the additions and unique weapon loot, I didn't find the world as compelling to explore. The writing was smarter of course, but I think something about its style grated on me. I wasn't in love with 3 for its writing though.

I'd like to check it out again, ideally with better/smoother performance, but Bethesda doesn't seem keen on remastering/porting anything not called Skyrim.
 
Ostron

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A tremendous achievement by Obsidian. Managed to shake off the crummy parts of Fallout 3, keep the good, and make it be Fallout again. While not exactly up to snuff compared to 1 and 2, it was step in the right direction. People give the engine crap but at least it allowed them to crank it out fairly quickly.

And to think at the time Obsidian was denied their bonus when the game scored an 84 average on Metacritic rather than the needed 85 (or whatever it was).

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"[Fallout: New Vegas] was a straight payment, no royalties, only a bonus if we got an 85+ on Metacritic, which we didn't,"
 
Van Bur3n

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Dead Money is still my favorite experience of any video game ever.

Understandably controversial, but to me, was just perfect in its new take on gameplay potential that can exist in the Fallout setting.
 
Cecil

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I really hope being owned by Microsoft helps Obsidian make a game like this again.

It's not important that it's a Fallout game. Just something similiar.
 
Olengie

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Oct 25, 2017
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Truly one of my favorite games of all time. After getting the NCR Ranger combat armor and its various variants, I never changed my appearance cuz it felt the most badass out of all of the armors.
 

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It was one of the first games I've worked on, good times.
Had a playable build available 6 months before it released.
 
MotiD

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Man, I really do need to go back to it one of these days.
I put in 74 hours according to Steam, and I didn't even finish it. I was in the middle of the DLC where you get dragged and dropped off at that location.. you know what I'm talking about

Some of the funniest characters were in that DLC and for some reason I had dropped it off then and never went back to it.
 
hobblygobbly

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still the best RPG in the last 10 years. also my most replayed game due to the high quality of its RPG design that lends to that replayability, you can play such a wide spectrum of imaginable characters, because its RPG mechanics and world interaction design that interfaces with that, whether quests, environments, chararacters, etc is so well done.
 
Grain Silo

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A real achievement in writing and world design. It did such a good job with painting in shades of gray that the karma system felt woefully out of place. One of my favorite WRPG's.
 
Alastor3

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Stabbie said:
Obsidian still is great tho. Not a single bad game since the more than divisive Alpha Protocol so idk what you're on about
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Pillars of eternity and tirany isn't their best game, and that was when they had only total freedom for their creation
 
ThreepQuest64

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Oct 29, 2017
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If the gunplay weren't so fucking outdated I'd play this over and over. Unfortunately, and as a long time Fallout fan it breaks my heart to admit it, I can't play it anymore after so many great shooters this generation. I just can't. Let alone all the walking (without a sprint button/feature I had to add via mod) that gets boring more often. But I still have so many great memories when I played it back then when it was released. If it were just smaller and the content more tightly packed, everything a bit smaller in physical scale, and the gunplay only on par with Fallout 4... that would be enough to get me interested again.

But thanks to Obsidian there's something coming. Really excited for TOW.
 
Cecil

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ThreepQuest64 said:
If the gunplay weren't so fucking outdated I'd play this over and over. Unfortunately, and as a long time Fallout fan it breaks my heart to admit it, I can't play it anymore after so many great shooters this generation. I just can't.
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But.....what....it's not a shooter? You use VATS for the combat encounters.
 
Ostron

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Alastor3 said:
Pillars of eternity and tirany isn't their best game, and that was when they had only total freedom for their creation
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PoE and PoE2 is arguably their best work. Tyranny is a solid 80+ RPG with a smaller scope than some of their other work, still among the best RPGs when compared to the competition.

Now if you had mentioned Dungeon Siege III you could have had a point.
 
AnansiThePersona

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I've put a crazy amount of hours into this game. One of the greatest RPGs ever made. I hope Outer Worlds is aiming for the king.
 
Alastor3

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Ostron said:
PoE and PoE2 is arguably their best work. Tyranny is a solid 80+ RPG with a smaller scope than some of their other work, still among the best RPGs when compared to the competition.

Now if you had mentioned Dungeon Siege III you could have had a point.
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Maybe it's me but i just couldn't get into pillars main story. The characters were nice but that "reading mind" gameplay i couldn't care less, sad because i would had love to love it
 
RecRoulette

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Played it way too close to Fallout 3, so I really wasn't feeling another game like it. Too bad because everything around it was amazing, I just didn't like playing it.
 

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It is the game that I both:

a) think is the greatest game of all time.
b) think is the game that made me decide that performance in a game is like punctuation in a composition; not nearly the most important thing in the finished product except for in the cases where it is so bad that it renders the whole product unplayable/incomprehensible.
 

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I liked the game but I didn't think it was as great as most people say, the Vegas strip for example is incrediably lacking. Be it people or attractions, it felt like a small place instead of this grand one. That said I did appreciate that the game gave you lots of options for an ending compared to Fallout 3. I went with the no masters anarchy one.
 
HylianSeven

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I'd love to see this on Switch. Would like nice next to Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale, both Baldurs Gates, and the eventual Switch version of the Outer Worlds.

Xanfrabot said:
Best Fallout game.

And oh, the memories...

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I'll never forget the first time I started the game and was like "Hey there's Vegas over there, i'll go straight there. Oh, Cazadors? Oh these things can't possibly be that bad OH JESUS"
 

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CaptainKashup said:
Eh, I understand why people like it but..
I don't think the writing is that clever. In fact, I find it to pretty dull, but FO3 and FO4 have dull writing too.
But at least, FO3 and FO4 have interesting worlds and cool atmosphere, two things New Vegas totally lacks. It doesn't feel post-apocalyptic or like a western, it's just.. so bland to me ?
I would love to love it, Westerns and Post-apocalyptic stuff are my favorite things, but for some reason, New Vegas just don't click with me in any way.
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The world in F4 is nice visually, but it's bad in just about every other way. Nothing but monster dungeons and a few disappointing settlements.
 
KomandaHeck

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One of the best games of all time, I haven't even properly played it since release but it's remained an easy top 10 game since then for me. it's pretty much going to feel like a fresh experience when I eventually go back to it and I can't wait.
 
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