Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

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 love this game. I bought it twice and I have no regrets. I love almost everything about it. Let's start with the visuals. It looks similar, if not, near identical to Fallout 3 which isn't a bad thing. Fallout 3 looked pretty good for a 2008 game with some ocasional low res texture here and there. Sound design, is what you expect from a Fallout game at this point with the good ol' radio stations with plenty of songs from the 30's, 40's, 50's, among others, that still hold up even today. Weapon sounds are slightly changed to feel more like guns instead of slightly sounding like toys, from Fallout 3. Story, is nothing too great, but it's compelling enough to make you think about it. Who's in the right? Who's in the wrong? Did you make the right decision? While were at it, yes, you have important choices, not only with side-quests but also the main storyline that affects the ending outcome and it's all shown to you at the end for you to see it's fate. Gameplay, it's identical do Fallout 3 only this time you got actual iron sights aim (You can also change it back to F3 in the options if you so desire). You still have VATS for that Turn-based feel. You get more weapons to choose from and most of them feel great. Characters, are very memorable. They all have personalities, several of them even have great backstories. I really like the characters. Exploration, unfortunately, is the weakest part of the game. In Fallout 3, it was fun to explore and wander off to wherever you pleased, because you were sure to find some great loot and tough enemies to fight. There's none of that here. It was disapointing then, it was disapointing now. New Vegas, the place named after the game, also isn't anything to write home about. It's feels unfinished. With all that said, I really enjoyed this game and played dozens of times with different builds and branching choices.

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