Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

Fallout: New Vegas continues Bethesda's reputation of making highly immersive game worlds. However, where Fallout 3 faltered - gunplay and weapon customization - Fallout: New Vegas delivers. PROS: + Bigger, yet tighter, world than Fallout 3 + Diverse factions, each with their own motives and roles in the main story. + Side missions, a highlight of Bethesda games, are plentiful and none feel like 'filler'. + Ranged combat is fast, tactical, and satisfying. + Many weapons can be customized. + Moral ambiguity keeps the main story and side missions more interesting. + GOG release includes a swath of bonus content. + Despite the sheer volume of content, Fallout: New Vegas has modest* hardware requirements. + A steal at $20 and can be found on sale for even less. CONS: - Same glitchy performance as Fallout 3 and Oblivion. - Windows XP users appear to be out in the cold. *I've played the GOG release of Fallout: New Vegas on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 laptop, with Nvidia NVS 3100M (256MB) graphics. Plays pretty good on 'Medium' settings.

This is how Fallout 3 should have been like. You can skip F3 and go directly to this one.

I want to like it so so bad. The story can be really smart at times but at other times feels clunky and immature. Some of the environments and areas are put together excellently, but most of the time its just boring and greyish yellow. Combat feels terrible and having high speech is attaching a "I win" button to every objective given to you. You can choose between using fast travel and making the vast wasteland feel like a childs sandbox, or abstain from using it and get the courier experience, which turns out to be boring as hell. Overall its an aged experience which im not totally convinced was much better on release. Also lots of bugs, save a lot.

Just get it already, it's so good.

WHY WON'T YOU MAKE ANOTHER ONE? WHY?