Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

Fallout 3 was a great fantasy-SF-apocalyptic RPG game, with excellent stories and great gameplay. New Vegas is rather a military FPS which relates very little to the original Fallout atmosphere, lore and identity. New Vegas is also ugly, almost amateurish, and feels like a fan MOD. Why so much praise for it?! I guess it comes from gamers who don't really know/understand what the Fallout franchise is actually about.

I appreciate Bethesda bringing games here, but should be able to use GOG connect.

Old looking game . It s not worth it .

Yet another buggy mess with cool ideas but ultimately unfinished and unbalanced. If you like your fallout with corridors (army of deathclaws west, army of mutants right), then you'll love this! If you like your fallout like 1, 2 or 3, then you won't. It sucks.

Considering the glowing and effluent reviews you would have never guessed that this game was the butt of jokes for years after its release because of its instability, game-breaking bugs and overall poor presentation. But then Skyrim happened became a multi-million dollar global bestseller. That's when the internet trolls, neckbeards and other degenerate internet denizens (from sites like NMA and 4chan) declared war on everything Bethesda. Fallout: New Vegas status as a "classic" is the invented product of an orchestrated campaign and historical revisionism by these sad little trolls. New Vegas on its own terms would be a passable game, fun but not remarkable. For everything it does well it does something else poorly. The main storyline is dull and uninspired: two factions, one a nascent state bureaucracy the other a cartoonishly grimdark gang of Roman cosplayers, fighting over control of the Hoover Dam. There's a parallel story about who gets to control the Vegas Strip. By the end you get to decide which of several factions get to run things -- if you decide at all. However the game gives you absolutely no reason to side with one faction or the other or to take matters into your own hands. Most NPCs seem detached from the conflict that will decide their fate. NV has a few standout characters but most of them are pretty flat. Voicework is hit-and-miss starting with Matt "I drink way too much" Perry whose voicework for Benny was obviously phoned in between benders. Moreover, NV is also a very dull place to explore. Neverending landscapes of brown and orange are dotted with a few ruins but it lacks the exploration and mystery of the urban environments in Fallout 3/4. In truth NV isn't a bad game, it will be entertaining, but it is hardly the paragon of excellence that the internet mob of muelling man-children, envious of Bethesda's success, have made it out to be. note: this review is for the base game and not the DLC which I have not played