Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

This game is a broken masterpiece. It's held together with tape and spit and tape but with some mods becomes *just* a masterpiece: (see bottom for necessary mod list) It's simple. Some games try to immerse you with realistic graphics and cool looking worlds but under the surface it's just empty. Other games try to immerse you with a tightly well written drama that you're forced to play out. New Vegas immerses you by throwing you into a sea of political tension. The Mojave is yours to poke and prod at. There's tons of different factions which all play off one another. The choices you make *will* impact the game. The degree to which your actions can create or close different opportunities for you in the future, or have unforeseen effects is incredible, and it makes sense too. The writing is the best writing I've seen when you consider the scope of what Obsidian provided. The game has some modern comforts but other than a quest marker, the game does NOT hold your hand. It merely points you in a direction and suggests that it's probably a good idea to go that way. Before even hitting level 2 it's possible to butcher your relationship so bad with the two major factions that you'll be shot on sight and they'll even send high level death squads after you. Other than one specific instance, you can't revert this either. You can't just go to jail like you can in Elder Scrolls games and be released a free man. No, you are an enemy and you will be treated as one. Of course the greatest accomplishment of the game is providing the player with morally gray situations which really are not simple. This is the only game that's had me pause the game right before a huge decision and debate internally for up to half an hour because two ideologies I hold simultaneously are shown to contradict each other. That's powerful and no other game comes close to doing this to me. Not even Fallout 1 or 2, or Planescape Torment. Play this game. Necessary mods: NVSE NVAC NVTF YUP

Beat the Steam version multiple times and it certainly lives up to the hype, whenever you're able to get it running smoothly that is. I was excited to finally try the GoG version but couldn't make it through another full playthrough because of the constant crashing. This GoG version crashed well over 40 times during 50+ hours of playtime before I had to call it quits. Most common is whenever I enter a new area or building I would get stuck in the loading screen which is extremely frustrating and killed the immersion for me. Other times the game would just shut down or freeze whenever I'm in the middle of a fire fight. I shouldn't have to install mods to fix a product I purchased, especially one that's been on the market since 2010. With that said, the story, characters, DLC & exploration is some of the best you'll find in a game bar none. The branching storyline with choices that actually matter is done beautifully. It's an amazing game but poor optimization poor hurts it.

Bethesda never liked Obsidian, they hated how they made real RPGs for people to enjoy. They made the real Fallout games and the best one at that with FONV. Ever since its release this game has been a thorn in Bethesda's side. Todd Howard hates how people enjoy and prefer it to Fallout 3 and 4 which are some of the worst games of all time. If Obsidian had more time to flesh out the game and fix its issues. This would've truly been even better. But Sweet Little Lies Man doesn't like being outdone. FONV is a game well worth playing. But get the unofficial patch and some mods to fix and enchance the game further. We will NEVER get a game like this one ever again. Truly a one of a kind type of game.

This is easily the best 3D fallout game it has refined all the elements from fallout 3 and added a lot more RPG mechanics to the game for example using skills in dialogue and multiple options in nearly all the side/main quests. The story in this game is very good since you can choose what faction you want to join and none of them are black and white like the factions in fallout 4. All factions have their strengths and weaknesses and depending on the character you can create you can pick either side which best suits your characters goals and ethics/morality. The only real downside to this game is the stabilty but mods can help increase the performance.

This game (before Fallout 4) was one of the best. I loved to (and am getting back into) playing this a lot. You can pick from one of 4 endings (with more then a ton of extra for side quests). You can place bets and lose a lot of money (or win it). You have upto 8 companions (2 non human all the time and 6 Humans one at a time). Plus this is one of the few games that you DON'T start from a valt (so you DO know a little of what is going around). Plus with the EXP packs that add 4 new zones (with new temp companions) and 2 that loads of stuff you will have some time and fun looking around the huge open world. As a side note If you played this on Steam (like I did) you can keep that game going thanks to the Cloud saves