Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

New Vegas is a well written game with lots of interesting sidequests, factions, groups, twists, etc - but most importantly it has plenty of room for fascinating and meaningful roleplaying. On one hand it suffers from technical issues (the bugs and crashes everyone talks about), but my personal problem is the boring, sometimes even horrible level design I've seen in other Obsidian games too (especially in KOTOR2). Don't get me wrong, the different locations they came up with are awesome, but the actual layout of the maps are sometimes insultingly nonsensical and occasionally even weirdly empty. Pointless rooms after pointless rooms combined with unreasonably huge spaces. But I get if this sounds nitpicky for some players, and understand this should in theory add to the apocalyptic scenery. For me it often doesn't. Other than that, I'd say NV is an intriguing gem, you should check out if you have a soft spot for RPGs with well written stories.

This game is very buggy and you should be aware of that. There is a mod available that prevents the save files corruption, which is only one of the many issues of F:NV. However, this game deserves the legendary status it got. The unique blend of post-apocalyptic and western atmosphere, interesting and flashed out characters, numerous side quests and mysteries that paint the picture of the world... Getting into this game is not difficult. The hard part is to let go.

I've only played only one game from Obsidian (Outerworlds) and i was blown away by the depthness of its universe. Spending countless hours in character progression while taking into account my moral compass. I started to fall in love with this type of RPG and i started to dive into the Fallout series. I only tried 3 and 4 and i dunno, there is something about Obsidian's writting style which makes New Vegas a true gem. It's not the greatest plot i've seen but it delivers exactly what it needs to deliver. New Vegas feels more alive than the other Fallout titles. It is dark, gloomy, funny, cynical. The world is dangerous not because some big ants poison you or some other critters are chasing you. The world of New Vegas is weak from the poison the old world left on it and it gave birth to predators that you have to handle with everything you've got. The rest you know, same mechanics with a few bonus things added. Great atmosphere with great songs. Excelent pacing while exploring or doing quests. Multiple ways to finish. Obsidian took the base formula and it lit it up.

This is perhaps the only example of a game I can think of where it strikes iron on both action and roleplaying. When Fallout 3 released it was alright for its time mechanically. However on the technical level the rust of Bethesda's Gamebryo fork was beginning to show. Uncertain instability was a consistent concern, even on hardware it was built to run on. Somehow in a 10 month development cycle the people at Obsidian managed to produce a stellar role-playing game with a great world, collection of characters and an amazing ambiance and addressed / fixed many of the crippling game engine bugs that were present in 3. While New Vegas is still limited by the confines of the underlying software Obsidian managed to run miles with what they were given and improved on everything from 3 - from gunplay to conversations, everything felt like there was more to it. Like I said, however, the engine is very limited. You'd be lucky to get it to run natively on Windows 10 now after the anniversary update. For Windows 8 users this is much less of an issue, for 7 users this is further the case. Regardless it's far from impossible to get New Vegas to run on newer systems. You'll simply need a couple of tools; namely the latest version of the 4GB Enabler Patcher, NVSE, NV Anti-Crash, Purge Cell Buffers as the headlining items that first come to mind. I can only hope one day there is some form a remastered edition. A pipe dream I'm sure, but this is a fantastic game. All in all, another stellar Obsidian game.

Fantastic all around. Worth playing for choices and consequences, and lots of ways to play your own. If you played Fallout 3, well, you'll never look at it the same after playing FO:NV.