Fallout: New VegasFollow

You'll have to let me know how it is.

Personally, I'll be buying DJ Hero 2 tomorrow. It was one or the other and I'm fine with waiting for Steam to put Fallout on sale.

I just can't see how it can be fun. I honestly thought it was a joke the first time I heard about it.

I'm getting it tomorrow for sure but won't be able to play till Wednesday... I have the day off though so I'm planning a Fall out marathon.

Already paid for the collector's edition. I'm not going to the midnight release tonight though. I have to be at work at 8:30 in the morning and I only got about three hours sleep last night. Gaming all night just isn't in the books. I also already bought Fable 3 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. I have no idea how I'm gong to find the time to play them all.

Can't argue with that. The game will always be waiting for you, but you might not be so lucky (or maybe you will be, hah) with a friend in a public gym shower.

I'll be waiting to hear some reviews on NV, or for a big sale, before I even consider buying it. I loved Fallout 3, but it just seems like NV is the exact same game. I don't think I'd feel right paying for something that just appears to be a Fallout 3 expansion pack.

I'm approaching NV skeptically and hoping to be pleasantly surprised. I sure wish that the graphics had been improved, or that the experience was changed a bit more than it appears, so that I didn't have any reservations about the game.

Didn't help to see Rage get demo'd recently, either. That game looks like the game that Fallout ought to be by now.

Grrr, I could have sworn I read an extended preview of the game in my GI issue this month, but now I can't find the issue or find it on their site. At any rate, I remember reading that it is indeed a very good game and while the setting is similar to Fallout 3, it is very distinct as well. Sorry I can't give you more than that, but at least it may keep your hopes up :).

Nice.

In my PS3 loading now. See you in a few weeks.

OH lawd, this disc update is slow.

Edited, Oct 19th 2010 6:02pm by Paskil

Just had my first freeze up surprise, surprise. I have a feeling the content will far outweigh the headache of the technical issues. So far I've been killing a lot of people and stealing lots of stuff.

Thus far, it's pretty much Fallout 3-2 with slightly smoother graphics (It's still using the Unreal engine) & new toys. Books now give you a temporary boost to stats (there may be others that give permanent boosts, but I haven't found them) & most consumables (except for stimpacks) heal over time. My repair skill isn't high enough to break down bullets and mod weapons, but it seems as if your repair skill doesn't have a bearing on how you can repair a weapon too so much as how much you repair the weapon when combining it with the same one (So, you can repair any weapon to 100%, provided you have enough of the weapons to do so).

I all ready have quite a few weapons only 4 hours in or so & am a bit surprised that despite having 50 skill in guns, my plasma gun seems to be my best ranged weapon and my spiked knuckles (at only 13 skill) kill radscorpians better than any of my guns. Might have to put more into unarmed & punch some more stuffs.

The shotgun you get from preorder is pretty inaccurate, but when it hits it seems to do very good damage. I have yet to replace the armor received from the preorder. Haven't found a better helmut than the goggled one that give you DR 3, so I'm sticking with a cowboy hat most of the time atm.

Magazines give the temp +10 to skill. The books I have found so far give +3 to skills. I haven't had on the books wear off like the magazine did.

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Playing on whacky I found a bunch of red spheres next to a dead guy in a chair. I am not sure where it comes from though. I did get a kick out of Indiana Jones being a dead radiated guy in a fridge. I do like my new fedora.

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I found upgrades for everything in the pre-order in the 2nd town's hotel. It was still nice for that initial optional battle in the first town though. I didn't realize magazines wore off after X time, so I used the speech/barter ones too early and didn't have explosives up high enough to get any optional help in that fight.

So far liking it much better than Fallout 3, possibly because I actually figured out where I'm "supposed" to be going this time rather than wandering into to the final areas right away (taking out super mutants along the way with the starter rifle, gogo pathetic AI!).