Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

There's a lot of love for FNV on these reviews, but coming to it after FO3 I was disappointed. The release was rushed out too soon after FO3 - and it shows, horribly at times. I was expecting a fuller experience but FNV's wasteland is relatively underpopulated in sites & lore. Caves and buildings fewer and relatively uncomplicated (often cut-&-pasted from FO3, such as FO3's Regulators' HQ showing up in FNV several times). Furthermore these locations & rooms are relatively uncluttered and untreasured, and the Strip is ridiculously split up (with no fast-travel!) - all due to the game being designed with gaming consoles in mind rather than PCs). There's also a clumsy abruptness with no play after the main ending, yet 3 of the 4 DLCs require a late-game high level player! Some of the issues are fixed/lessened by mods (my first was to undo the timed-health nonsense for food and get it back to how FO3 does it) but I'm not here to review mods. You're halfway through the game before you can get a nice FNV home, only to never bother using it because you can't fast travel to anywhere near it and even then have to go through hoops to reach it each time. The ammo-making bench thing is a complicated mess, and the much touted companion-wheel annoys me as it's fiddly - I'd rather just have menu lists. Then there's the annoying micro-stutter present at times in FNV, no matter what you do, but nicely absent in FO3. The ONE thing this game DEFINITELY improved over FO3 was the ability to look down the sights of all guns rather than just sniper ones. Otherwise the FNV makers put most efforts into faction storylines - again much touted but often shallow and sometimes silly (Elvis impersonators?!), though this mess is somewhat saved by a few semi-insteresting "moral dilemmas" and different endings. None of this is to say FNV is bad. I don't think I wasted money buying it, but after one playthru will rather go back to playing FO3 (for a 3rd time!) until I've a PC that can play FO4.

Title speaks for itself. This game is a buggy nightmare. certain saves become forever corrupted and never load. theres a chance the game will crash when you start a dialogue with an NPC or enter a building. This would be a really fun game if it werent taped together like a kindergartener's art project.

I put 20 hours into this then fell into the "infinite savegame loading screen" bug. All I could do is restart my whole system. Only way around is to make a new game and load from there - aside from being a PITA, it started happening again loading from within a game. So I gave up and came here to tell you to save your $.

probbly the best fallout game ever but it just crashes now when you try to play it just like fallout 3 so dont buy. If it worked would be 4 out of 5 stars

I have no idea, no idea why people are raving about this game. It's definitely NOT the best game in Fallout franchise by a long shot. It's on the level with FO3 albeit with a few minor improvements. It's boring in terms of locations, story is pretty straightforward and doesn't stand out from any other games of the series. The game asa whole feels utterly detached from the main story of the Fallout franchise, a lot of going back and forth during quests "go there, bring this, then go elsewhere and bring smth elese" which is boring, all factions are equally horrible so no matter what you choose, future is as dark and train tunnel. Also, NO EXPLORATION after main campaign is over, game forces you to roll back a save. Are you serious? I don't get to explore the world my actions have created? What's the bloody point then? Also, one has to roll back a save to do DLCs or do them during the main story, because that totally makes sense... NOT! All in all, reality of this game vs the hype fanboys are trying to build is underwhelming. Good deal for ult edition but then you are pretty overpowered with all the gear you get right off the bet. Not impressed, and I have expected more from the experience