Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

New Vegas is the story of a postman who gets shot in the head and must find his parcel to finish the delivery (as well as get some sweet vengeance). On the way to this goal you will encounter things such as angry convicts with dynamite, casinos, drugs, the guy who won the lottery, Rome 2 Electric Boogaloo, wishing for a nuclear winter, cheerful robots that just want to help, 1000 year old capitalists, invisible giants, WAR, a shitty final boss, exploding necklaces, religious tribals, GIANT ROBO SCORPIANS and sadness. It's a weird game.

I played a massive amount of Fallout New Vegas on Steam, and it was the game that brought me back to try Fallout a second time after the awful Fallout 3 turned me away from it for 3 years (haha, funny). This game is still the best 3D Fallout ever made, even in spite of how little time Obsidian was given. With a more sensibly written main narrative, the return of the tone and humor of the OG games, and far more content and features that make this the best Fallout RPG you'll find. Also make sure to get this version, as it feels far better than the Steam version. Just throwing it out there.

However, if you don't mod the game and want to prevent the possibility of not being able to load a save game at some point well into your gameplay, consider the following: After a while, the game will fail to "Continue" from your last save whether the save is one you explicitly created or an auto-save. The workaround is to create an explicit save sometime very early in your gameplay -- immediately after character creation is a good option for several reasons. Then, sometime into your gameplay (perhaps after a forced restart because of an attempt to "Continue" which never completes or exits), get in the habit of loading your early save each time you start the game. As soon as the game starts from the save, you can then hit the escape key, load your most recent save, and continue on. This workaround has yet to fail for me after hundreds of hours of gameplay. No guarantee you might not have other problems at some point, but this workaround will "solve" one of the bigger problems with playing this game past the early stages. While the preceding will help and creating the early explicit save as recommended is always a good idea, following the Viva New Vegas (https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html) modding guide to install the New Vegas Script Extender (NVSE) as well as the first two recommended "bug fix" mods will go a long way towards providing a more stable and enjoyable experience. While even minimal modding may be a pain, the benefit of nearly 14 years of "bug fixes" is well worth the effort. And then, it becomes easy to improve upon and extend the base game and DLCs in ways which add tremendous value to a game which is now available for a very modest initial investment...

As it turns out, the apocalypse did little to change the day-to-day on the Vegas Strip - and that's just fine by me. Obsidian brought an interesting and welcome change of scenery with NV. Sure we have more of the sandy wastes and ruined cityscapes of old, but the warm glow of the strip just makes things feel so...right. The game itself seems to have aged like a fine (and strange) wine. I often heard complaints about rampant glitches and performance issues when it was first launched, or that the game was simply a cash-grab on Bethesda's part by letting "lowly" Obsidian take the reigns, or that it simply paled in comparison to FO3. The game isn't perfect, true. I do wish the strip itself was larger - the game can leave you feeling rather lonely out in the desert (not that there's ever a shortage of quests). My biggest gripe personally with this game is a rather weak main quest-line/story. There definitely are some interesting characters (Benny, Mr. House, Caesar), but the ultimate goal remains stale: investigate [faction], join [faction], sabotage everyone else until [faction] wins. We have been there. We have done that. HOWEVER, New Vegas completely shines with some of the best DLC content I've ever played. Dead Money, with its brushes with horror and stealth, the undeniably charming Twilight Zone-esque Old World Blues, and the "what should have been the main story" Lonesome Road combine to form a golden trifecta of post-launch goodness. (Honest Hearts is decent as well, but not quite as shiny). As it stood on launch day in October, 2010, New Vegas was an interesting, "good enough" Fallout entry. Today, patched and bundled with all content, New Vegas beats 3 and blows 4 away. I think we all know it, too - it just took a while.

A flawed masterpiece that had alot going against it but rose through the muck to be one fantastic game. Its certainly not perfect and frankly is relatively incomplete due to the short development but by god does it try and have alot of love in it which is something you cant say about many AAA titles out there recently. The people who made this were responsible for Fallout 2 and after having the franchise taken from them by Bethesda couldn't finish their own version of Fallout 3. So once given a chance to make another Fallout they utilized what time they were given to finish what they could and say goodbye to their franchise and they went out with the bang that was Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda in all their infinite wisdom chose rather than work with Obsidian on a franchise they essentially made that they would shove it over to Todd Howard and his team who could not give less of a crap about what the original Fallouts were about making some incredibly superficial games with little to no substance that has split the fanbase. Essentially this is probably the last Fallout that will be headed by the people who knew and loved what the franchise was, despite all the crap Bethesda gave them when it came to development time, budget, and bonuses along with glitches and various other issues this game had on release it persevered. Resonating with fans enough to fix issues they couldn't Obsidian couldn't fix on their time and create one of the most vast modding communities I've ever seen. If you haven't played it you definitely should.