Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

If you play Bethesda's Fallout first,then do not play New Vegas.You'll find how awful Bethesda's writing and plot is.

Fallout New Vegas is a good game. It is not a great game like Fallout 3 IMHO, but it's good. The story is a little superficial and the setting can get tiresome and repetitive. On the plus side there are some enemies that will put on a challenge and reduce you to save scumming. It is of course still one of the better FPS / RPG ever made. I play without mods and the game still runs perfect.

Own this on Steam, played a lot of it. This is how RPGs should be made. Its simply awesome. If you like tales of people and their journeys, you owe it to yourself to try this. Only reason Im not giving it 4 stars is that they never bothered to fix the bugs in the steam version (there are qutie a few quest breaking bugs as well even in the ultiamte edition) and Im not sure how it here.

Take the time to not only play this title, but also understand the history of its creation and all the hoops that Obsidian had to jump through in order to not only create the VERY best fallout title, but also ensure that we as gamers got to experience it. Not only did Obsidian deliver this title way earlier then expected... they only had a year i believe, they also did it on a shoe string budget. From what i understand in the end after all the issues Obsidian was said to have commented they just were happy to work on the game and would love to again in the future be a part of more projects... but like "oldmanpaco" said... its just to good for Todd... :) have fun and stay in it to win it!

I really liked Fallout 3 for the amazing post-apocalyptic atmosphere. But Fallout NV stands above it thanks to a fun and twisted main quest that surprises you. The freedom to choose is immense - seems unlimited - and the characters and dialogues are extremely well-written and engaging. The minutiae and details in some of the dialogues is astounding (did not know game developers had culture ;-). Some of the side quests are quite interesting too, and their are future developments to choices you make that you may or may not discover afterward. I just discovered a heart-breaking consequence of one of my "helpful" actions yesterday; because war, war never changes... Had I not passed by that specific location again, I would never had learned what happened. Yes, it is an old game, but you forget about that pretty quickly because the game mechanics are sound and the game really engaging. I modded the game thanks to EssArrBee's page which is an A to Z manual: http://wiki.step-project.com/User:EssArrBee/FalloutNewVegas. Worked flawlessly and the game runs smoothly. In terms of writing and plot, this has set the bar for what I wish Skyrim - which I love - could have been.