Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

For all of those coming into Fallout New Vegas from the Amazon Prime show, a fond howdy and hello to you all! FOR PC USERS AFTER 03/20/2024 - Direct X 11 & windows 11 do not play nice with Fallout New Vegas. You will hard-crash to desktop after the opening indefinitley unless you change the API New Vegas uses. You will need to have to install a mod to change the API to vulcan to get it to work (This will not disable acheivments, you are safe there,) this will cause some jank (stuttering in the opening cinematic.) The essential mod here is DXVK the on the nexus. Fallout New Vegas has always had some jank to it so this is just the normal kind of kick in the head you get used to with it. As for the game itself, what isn't there to love about a cyborg mutant mailman hot on a case of revenge after getting a free extra pair of holes in their skull? Weird robots - check Fun, sad, and meaningful companions - check A coherent storyline critiquing the sins of imperialisim - triple check DR MOBIOUS! - So many checkmarks that you'll need a checkered suit to get them all in order. There's a ton of stuff out in the Desert, if you bother to look. It might seem barren but looordy is it not. Regarding the DLC's - they all can play wildly differentley than the base game. Dead money in particular. It is not as fast paced and you are very likely to die your first time in there. Remember, the point of that little piece of hell in the Mojave is letting go of the past (and that past includes your bad hoarding tendencies.) Best to go into them with that in mind.

A flawed masterpiece that had alot going against it but rose through the muck to be one fantastic game. Its certainly not perfect and frankly is relatively incomplete due to the short development but by god does it try and have alot of love in it which is something you cant say about many AAA titles out there recently. The people who made this were responsible for Fallout 2 and after having the franchise taken from them by Bethesda couldn't finish their own version of Fallout 3. So once given a chance to make another Fallout they utilized what time they were given to finish what they could and say goodbye to their franchise and they went out with the bang that was Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda in all their infinite wisdom chose rather than work with Obsidian on a franchise they essentially made that they would shove it over to Todd Howard and his team who could not give less of a crap about what the original Fallouts were about making some incredibly superficial games with little to no substance that has split the fanbase. Essentially this is probably the last Fallout that will be headed by the people who knew and loved what the franchise was, despite all the crap Bethesda gave them when it came to development time, budget, and bonuses along with glitches and various other issues this game had on release it persevered. Resonating with fans enough to fix issues they couldn't Obsidian couldn't fix on their time and create one of the most vast modding communities I've ever seen. If you haven't played it you definitely should.

I view Fallout as essentially being two different franchises. On one hand, you have Interplay's vision of Fallout 1, 2, Tactics, and New Vegas, and on the other hand, you have Bethesda's vision of Fallout 3, Shelter, 4, 76. (Then there's the much maligned Brotherhood of Steel, which is kind of it's own weird, crappy thing!) Obsidian took great care of making New Vegas true to the original spirit of the Fallout Bible design document. I really appreciate that, and it's sad that Bethesda moved so far away from that, because I think it's really a great e-book with a lot of cohesive ideas. This is the best you're going to get for the 3D Fallouts. So, in 2019, I set out to beat this game once and for all. My character was a man named Lucky Dan, and I had a Luck/crit build. This created for a lot of randomized fun in the heat of battle. I also went out of my way to get all the implants and body mods. I was more machine than man! I went for the No Gods No Masters ending, diverting to blow up the annoying Brotherhood, and killing Caesar in his tent. (Hint: Use lots n lots of drugs and Damage Threshold is your friend.) One cool thing about this path was that I got to work with Yes Man who is voiced by Dave Foley of Kids in the Hall in a performance of a lifetime. I also completed several of the DLC, my favorite of which is Old World Blues, which might as well be called Fallout: Adult Swim. The story was a wild ride, and has the best opening in any video game ever, imo. Benny is a great antagonist, and hunting him down keeps the main quest right on track, until he is overshadowed by the looming threat of Caesar's Legion. This game also has my favorite minor NPC ever, No Bark Noonan. One thing that really helped me make it to the end was the YUP patch and the CASM save game manager. I can't recommend this game enough. It's fun, it's reactive, it's interesting, it has amazing character building. Great game. 5/5

New Vegas is a broken mess. This is the truth in any frame of reference. NV is a screaming cavalcade of bugs so aggressive that it could pass for a sentient AI that knows only hatred. The sheer brokenness is fundamental to it. Mods can only mitigate it and nostalgia can only cushion you against it. It's a kludge of a video game panicked together in 18 months under the treacherous eye of an openly hostile publisher. Given that's how most AAA video games are developed a decade on, New Vegas was a pioneer. So why am I giving it five stars? Why is it considered a seminal work in its genre? It's because the fire of its design burns brighter than the fire of its bugs. The roleplaying experience herein is so stellar, so deep, so accommodating of the player’s choices that it hasn't been matched to this day. Dialog choices are peppered with skill and stat checks that allow you to solve problems purely by roleplaying. No matter what you choose to be good at, you’ll have dialog options to express yourself. All of the main conflicts have multiple angles of approach with their own benefits, drawbacks, and consequences. The major NPCs, particularly the player’s companions, are all memorable because their stories are emotionally evocative. Characters feel genuine because they have organic motivations, personalities, and principles that the player is free to support or challenge. The main questline is a tension filled web of political intrigue that can unwind in a myriad of unexpected ways with you at the center. The faction-based reputation system lets the player make nuanced ethical choices, cultivate relationships with factions, win allegiances, and sway how factions interact with both the setting and other factions. Even the weapon arsenal is so huge and modular and downright inspired that it gives the game high replay value by itself. I don't have the characters to go on, but I could for thousands of words. In short, New Vegas gets respect because it's the realest.

the gun play is far better than fallout 4. sure gun modding is limited. but the ammo types and being able to make you own ammo is so much more fun to do. plus unlike fallout 4 in new vegas you can run around with a dog or an eye bot and another companion. i love dog meat but let's get real rex is better.