All my Courier Six's have one thing in common. At level 1 they all need to go under a right of passage of sorts that involves them running through several cazador nests and reaching New Vegas alive (usually after many reloads). On the way they somehow manage to scrape up enough loot to sell for a couple thousand caps, which then they invest into a nice intelligence implant. Sometimes they get a helping hand from a friendly local casino in order to raise the necessary amount.

Similarly, my Lone Wanderers have a tendency to run from the entrance of Vault 101 straight down to Rivet City in order to grab a certain bobblehead there before reaching level 3.

In short, I'm a minmaxing maniac.

I don't use gameguides for loot EVER, so those kinds of strategies are of no use to me. I did run straight from Goodsprings to Vegas though, and made it alive! It was one of the funnest parts of the game for me. I also loved the early Freeside stuff with the Atomic Wrangler, Silver Rush, and Mick and Ralph.

Me neither, I just usually sell whatever I find on the way (NCR-raider turf wars are quite profitable in particular), and then if I don't have enough yet I play a few rounds of blackjack at the Atomic Wrangler and play the reload game whenever I lose.

I know, you need to get to Vegas as low level as possible to truly appreciate everything Freeside has to offer. I love those quests too. :)

Kaukasian male, in his fifties, a biker dude, that is ruthless to his enemies, but who loves his friends more than anything.

Something like chaotic good, I'd say.

My favorite New Vegas character was a melee lady with a fancy for chainsaws. She was also really, really mean, and went on a crazy killing spree after joining the Legion and finding out that they have stupid, sexist gender restrictions. I think she had a high intelligence and strength and other stats were kind of low. Frankly, I just wanted to make a masked chainsaw character in a suit, but all the suits turned into dresses* when I took them from the corpses of slain suit guys... oh the cruel fate... why won't they let me have my lady in a suit..

I tried a wide variety of different character builds, but that one was definitely my favorite.

/edit:* or maybe shirts with skirts would be more accurate. gimme my pants or let me run buttnaked, dammit

Regardless with what intentions I start, all my characters (invariably female) eventually turn into a smart, smooth talker who prefers sniping her enemies from afar rather than getting her hands dirty. Good at heart and helpful, but not when she feels her goodness is being exploited. And something of a closet anarchist, too, so obviously going for the Wild Card.

I´m actually playing New Vegas and I´m really enjoying it so much. I don´t use to buy ganes on Steam, but my brother gifted it to me, so. It is much better game than Fallout 3, the story and all the secondary plots are far more interesting.

Now I realize how unfair this was

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/15/obsidian-missed-fallout-new-vegas-metacritic-bonus-by-one-point/

I try a few characters in these kinds of games, but I usually start out as an assassin/bounty hunter/merc for hire character build but my honor cannot be bought. Basically a Mandalorian or Ivan from JA. Fast, agile, and dangerous.

"Gun, all gun, like finger on hand."

edit: I'm considering replicating Buzzsaw from The Running Man next.

I always thought dirty harry could work too.

Yeah Dirty Harry sounds fun, like SV mentioned too.

That reminds me though. Maybe my usual character would be better described as a different Clint Eastwood character instead of a Mandalorian. The "Man with No Name" from the Dollars trilogy. My character might be for hire and most of the time has a "I don't give a shit about your problems" attitude, but s/he still has principles and acts on them when s/he feels strongly enough about them, like saving Marisol. If I really don't like someone, I still might take what they're offering and then really screw them over later, like in High Plains Drifter.

So, I don't play an Angel Eyes character is what I'm trying to say but my first post might have been interpreted that way.

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/40238/

Cool! This is why I'd like to play games like this on a PC (and why I'd like modding to have more freedom). Unfortunately, I'm playing it on an Xbox 360 :( I don't want to derail the thread with my reasons why though.