Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

I sunk 282 hours into this game after probably spending 150 hours modding it. And imo it truly needed it. I is a massively different game from the original vision, while I stuck to a fairly vanilla experience gameplay wise. The MVP of the whole show is definitely the writing and Obsidians committment to branching choices and how they effect the outcome of everything. Its such a shame that it needed the Fallout TV show for me to play this, because I already loved 1&2 so much and with some gripes like FO 3 very much. For everyone who likes a game that takes you and your decisions serious, just get this game. Its on sale so often and get the Ultimate Edition! They tie into the game quite nicely. Just don´t get it if you are not willing to mod the game. I recommend either the Modpack Viva New Vegas or Tale of Two Wastelands if you want to tie FO 3 and NV together. And for an additional overhaul get Salvo. The former two ensure the best stability and I think both even provide Wabbajack packs, which makes it way faster than what I did modding wise. Just don´t miss out on this masterpiece. And it could all be relevant to season 2 for those who watch the TV series.

I never thought, that Fallout: New Vegas will ever appear on GOG DRM-free. This game is one of the best RPGs ever, with many possibilities of character and story progression. Great job GOG & Bethesda! Thanks!

The best Fallout made to date, I will never forget my first time playing this game, I liked Fallout 3, but after New Vegas, I learned just how good RPG's could become, this game gives you the true RPG experience, and not the linear, you-only-choose-what-to-say-"RPG's" If you haven't picked this up yet because Fallout 3 disappointing you, I hear you, this is nothing like Fallout 3, and actually respects the source material(Super Mutants aren't just angry orcs, for instance), I'm definitely buying it on GOG, not only to support this masterpiece, but also get access to the DLC's.

I've spent too much time playing and modding this game. I really liked Fallout 1+2 as a kid but I've played this one to death. Alas, this is probably the last Fallout game I'll play as I generally don't like the direction the "new" stewards of the franchise are taking it. I really hope that my fears about the recently showcased 76 go unfounded. Ahem. Anyways FONV is great. I had more fun with just exploration, mods, and the dlc over the main story line. The later isn't bad, but I feel like obsidian could have done better with making some of the branching story more intuitive to navigate (as in the choices).

You are a courier in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, betrayed and left for dead in a backwater town in the Mojave Desert, and where you go -or who you befriend or antagonize along the way- is entirely up to you. You may have encountered similarly framed —but frustratingly unsatisfying— open-world RPG games from Bethesda (Fallout 3, 4, Skyrim), but Obsidian’s “Fallout: New Vegas” offers a wasteland that is not only wide, but deep and rich. Your choices & character actually mean something in the world you’re diving into. You are not out to make every single person like you, or to fetch 10 grumpkin teeth and return them to Uncle Mawkspook. You can’t be the president of everything. There isn’t a nice tidy solution to everything you encounter - maybe that chem-pushing idiot you just vaporised was important to somebody. Maybe turning this other hothead in for his manslaughter would take a suburb of people with him. If you’re looking for a bunch of ‘put the round peg in the round hole’ type kindergarten coddling, this is not the game for you. What this refusal to offer obvious victories leads to is a more living, breathing world where you’re no longer navigating just the radioactive wasteland, but the values and societies that have sprung up in it, and all of their conflicts and grievances. This is as ambitious as all hell and even 8 years later I’m astounded they pulled it off. The superb writing (and the way that each story thread you choose tug on leads to dozens of others) means that you will discover these different communities organically in a way that is totally unique to you. Companies trying to immerse people with VR should take note of kind of environmental richness we see in New Vegas, which actually responds like a dimensional world, instead of reacting like endless mediocre games that serve up goddamned connect-the-dots busywork. New Vegas is a triumph of gaming as an art form; it expanded the boundaries of what the medium can do. 10/10