Fallout: New Vegas

[el badman]

Do you prefer to play in first person el badman?

Absolutely, I've never been too fond of 3rd person view. Especially since the character movements are absolutely horrible with this engine...

[Lean]

On my first playthrough, I did things in third person. But if combat requires me to go Rambo, I switch to first person.

And from what I've read, quite a few people are experiencing those white "flashes" when outdoors, it seems to be an issue due to the use of AA and HDR combined. Hopefully, they can fix it with that upcoming patch.

Ah yes, the glory of Gamebryo.

[Lamrock]

phpBB [video]

Where did you find this guy?

[benji]

You don't check YouTube every hour for "shirtless bears unboxing"? To each his own I guess.

Besides, who else knew Pogs were back?

[Andrew]

Do you prefer to play in first person el badman?

Absolutely, I've never been too fond of 3rd person view. Especially since the character movements are absolutely horrible with this engine...

Fair enough. I actually like third person but there are times when I'll go into first person for more precision in picking up scattered items or combat outside of VATS.

[Lamrock]

Got it today and have been playing it for a couple hours. Messed around and haven't gone that far, but first impression is meh. I tend to hate the early missions in some sandbox games and this is no exception.

Gameplay's solid, I like the Fallout 2 references and I'm excited for a lot of quests in the game. Graphics are pretty mediocre, which is fine, but there have been some glitches. Have already chased a cow into a wall, and gotten suck on the side of a cliff. Also, I get lost in a lot of the buildings as its hard to distinguishing the doors.

Finally making some progress though. Was keyed when I started.

[Lamrock]

nvm This game is good.

It does not make a good first impression. It's graphically mediocre, glitchy and doesn't seem to deviate from Fallout 3 at all. However, after the slow start, its revealed that this is actually an RPG. It follows the superior story of the first two games, and improves the role playing aspects greatly.

Perks are attained every 2 levels now, and the conversation trees are far bigger. The game is political and decisions actually matter. They added many of the features from 2 that were watered down or removed from 3. I think most will see this game as a disappointment, but I see it as the best of both worlds.

[el badman]

It does not make a good first impression. It's graphically mediocre, glitchy and doesn't seem to deviate from Fallout 3 at all. However, after the slow start, its revealed that this is actually an RPG. It follows the superior story of the first two games, and improves the role playing aspects greatly.

Exactly my thought. Past the initial disappointment, it quickly becomes as addictive as F3. Especially on PC with all the cool mods that are already pouring out.

[Andrew]

Fallout: New Vegas Gets 360 Patch, New PC Patch

Bethesda Softworks pushed out a patch for the Xbox 360 version of Fallout: New Vegas last night, which, like the PC patch released earlier this week, should address some of the quest and scripting issues that players have reported seeing. The PlayStation 3 version is in the final testing stages, so expect it shortly. The PC version also received an updated patch yesterday meant to fix issues related to autosaves and quicksaves.

“That particular issue was never seen prior to release,” explained New Vegas senior producer Jason Bergman on the game’s official forum, “and it was extremely difficult to reproduce reliably, even after the game had launched. In order to fix this problem we have had to disable Steam Cloud functionality. It has been turned off, and we won’t turn it back on until we’re absolutely sure it will not cause any more problems. Please restart your Steam client to make sure you get the update.”

Bethesda has contacted hardware manufacturers to help solve performance issues relating to specific video card drivers. They are also currently looking for a solution to a problem encountered by some 360 players that was causing a DLC warning to pop up and preventing players from access saved games.

Bergman goes on to explain the popular “Doc Mitchell glitch” that a lot of you are probably familiar with by now. He said that this wasn’t actually a bug, but rather the result of Steam, on launch day, sending out corrupt or incorrect files. The issue was resolved almost instantly, so “at most, a handful of people” saw it. Quite a bit more have seen it thanks to that YouTube clip, however, but that’s to be expected.

[Lamrock]

Yeah, I downloaded that when I booted it up. Have still seen a couple glitches, but no Exorcist heads or anything game breaking.

[[Q]]

this game is interesting. i might pick it up when the price goes down to $20. i played like 5 minutes of fallout 3 and i like the rpg elements of the game

[el badman]

I got my first crash today, yay... Not a huge deal though, it happened right after I died when the game tried to automatically load the last quicksave, which used to also be a problem with Oblivion and F3. Other than that, the game is great, it's really hard to stop playing it.

[Lamrock]

Indeed, I got it just yesterday, and am already a dozen hours in. Really enjoying it. Only level 8 though...

[Andrew]

Had a glance at what they were selling it for at my local stores today and I did indeed save about 50% by buying it on eBay. Still waiting for it to arrive since it's coming from the UK but considering three games came out this month and Jam's coming out in November, it's worth the wait to have been frugal.

[[Q]]

wait... you got a game that just got released for 50% off? it had to be an opened/used version right?

i just bought heavy rain on ebay. managed to save like an extra $5 because i picked an auction for the disc only (i played the demo. dont really wanna pay for a case and instructions)
in all i got it for $27 including shipping and new games retail for $60 plus sales tax so about $65

[Andrew]

No, it's brand new/pre-order. Remember that it's 50% off the Australian RRP, which is higher than US RRP even though the Aussie dollar is fairly close to the US dollar these days.

Same reason I decided to pre-order Smackdown vs RAW 2011 through Dungeon Crawl, they were already listing it for less than RRP plus I had a 10% voucher on top of that. Even after postage, it's less than what it'll retail in stores here in Australia so for the sake of a couple of bucks (or in the case of New Vegas, over $40) I'll gladly wait a few extra days before getting my hands on it.

[el badman]

That game is already killing me, I must have spent 5-6 hours on it yesterday...Really good stuff.

[Lean]

I will avenge myself and get my hands on this game. Soon. Real. Soon.

[Lamrock]

Played 23 hours of the game this last weekend. Level 14 I believe, and have about 20 quests completed. Think I'm pretty close to the end of the main story though, so will likely try to beat all the side-missions.

[Andrew]

This item from the FAQ over on The Vault might be of interest to you (if you weren't already aware of it):

Can I continue playing after finishing the main quest?

No, the game will end after you complete the main quest like in Fallout and Fallout 3 without the Broken Steel add-on. There will be a message that appears before you "pass the point of no return", so you can consider going back if you wish to continue playing.

[el badman]

This item from the FAQ over on The Vault might be of interest to you (if you weren't already aware of it):

Can I continue playing after finishing the main quest?

No, the game will end after you complete the main quest like in Fallout and Fallout 3 without the Broken Steel add-on. There will be a message that appears before you "pass the point of no return", so you can consider going back if you wish to continue playing.

Correct, although there is already a PC mod out there to allow you to keep playing after the main quest.

Also, for those playing on PC and wanting to further tweak the visuals/performance, it's no longer the two .ini in "My documents" that need to be customized (like in F3), but the "Fallout_default.ini" file that's in the Program Files. Took me a while to figure it out...You can modify the FOV, all the LOD settings, the level of decals, etc., which is much needed with this old ass engine.

[Andrew]

Cool. Handy that you get a notification, though.

[Lamrock]

Glad that you get a notification. Not sure how close I am. Story-wise, it seems like I'm nearly done, despite only completing ike 4 or 5 direct story quests, but we'll see.

Still loving it. While F3 was definitely funner than the first two games, this is the best of both worlds, as it connects many of the stories, and brings back the excellent role-playing elements. There was also one really neat homage to the first two games in Freeside

[Andrew]

I'm going to show great restraint and not click that spoiler.

[Lamrock]

Wasn't really much of a spoiler. Decided to take the low road and kill Mr. House (simply because I couldn't kill Caesar with Benny's gun). Still want to eventually side with the NCR but we'll see how it pans out...