Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Review: Fallout: New Vegas


Welcome back to the wasteland. As the game starts out, you are brutally "murdered" by a cheeky fellow in a checkered suit with a pretty pearl .45. You wake up in a rundown town called Goodspring in their doctors house. (Yeah you weren't "murdered" but you were shot in the face). There are many mysteries and side quests that the player may complete as their leisure. They can run through the campaign or take their time doing every stinking side quest. You can literally spend DAYS playing this game, I know I have already clocked in over a week or two of play time. The game is about the same if you have played the first Fallout. You also don't need to have played the first Fallout to understand the story of this Fallout game, all though I think you should play it in my opinion. The story in that one is a wee bit better in my eyes.

Playability, the one world that should be present in any game ever created. You know why all those other crappy games went down onto the this game sucks big mansticks is because of playability. Call of Duty is such a good game because people can keep replaying it. The exact same thing with this game, you can first play as a good character, then replay as a bad character or a neutral character. Wipe out one faction save the other.
  • Protip: Get a companion as fast as you can and carry anything of value, i.e. guns, armor, meds/drugs, or any other miscellaneous items you may find on your travels. You can really use those caps fast when you *SPOILER* buy lots of body implants that can greatly increase your stats. Each costs about 4K caps and the better ones can cost up to 8Kcaps! A good place to sell your crap is at the Gun Runners west of New Vegas, later on in the game they hold a fluffy 8K caps for you to sell stuff to.
 Hardmode: A motherless baby in need of a boob to suckle on, my god! Only play on hardmode if you have played the entire game, know what you are doing, and are brave enough to take on the mundane annoying ass tasks that hardmode requires. Constantly tired come on you wimp! Keep walking and shooting! Thirsty? Suck it up bitch, you think the military was thirsty at the Palau islands? Shit yeah they were, but we still kicked ass!

Summary of my rant, the game is definitely a buy. The game has good mechanics, re-playability, thrill, story, and deep characterization. I only wish that in Hardmode, it wasn't so annoying with the amount of crap you are always having to deal with. 

14 comments:

  1. It's important to point out the subtle differences between being murdered and being shot in the face. Although I'm not sure what I'd prefer.

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  2. Haha yeah I don't think I would be happy with either of those choices.

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  3. Very thorough 'review'. Have to say, much better than Fallout 3 or any of its predecessors.

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  4. Yea this game is the shit! I still think 3 is better though in my honest opinion.

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  5. How like this is it to the original Fallout 3? I only got that to be honest and I liked that. Did they improve or did it get... you know. Worse?

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  6. Agreed with you guys above, I think Fallout 3 was better in gameplay and in story but I do like the little small changes that they did with New Vegas. Is it too much to ask for them to better merge them together?

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  7. This game is pretty good, my only problem with it is the fact that it feels too much like Fallout 3. Solid overall, though

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  8. On this topic, excited for Skyrim?!?

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  9. Been thinking of grabbing this game for a while now, you might have just convivnced me.

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  10. I'd still rather play Fallout 2 over 3 and NV. Im more of an old school gamer.

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  11. Oh how long to play Fallout again. In all honesty it has to be one of the most challenging games I've ever played.

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  12. nice game, but the same as any expansion

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