Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

I've only played only one game from Obsidian (Outerworlds) and i was blown away by the depthness of its universe. Spending countless hours in character progression while taking into account my moral compass. I started to fall in love with this type of RPG and i started to dive into the Fallout series. I only tried 3 and 4 and i dunno, there is something about Obsidian's writting style which makes New Vegas a true gem. It's not the greatest plot i've seen but it delivers exactly what it needs to deliver. New Vegas feels more alive than the other Fallout titles. It is dark, gloomy, funny, cynical. The world is dangerous not because some big ants poison you or some other critters are chasing you. The world of New Vegas is weak from the poison the old world left on it and it gave birth to predators that you have to handle with everything you've got. The rest you know, same mechanics with a few bonus things added. Great atmosphere with great songs. Excelent pacing while exploring or doing quests. Multiple ways to finish. Obsidian took the base formula and it lit it up.

This is perhaps the only example of a game I can think of where it strikes iron on both action and roleplaying. When Fallout 3 released it was alright for its time mechanically. However on the technical level the rust of Bethesda's Gamebryo fork was beginning to show. Uncertain instability was a consistent concern, even on hardware it was built to run on. Somehow in a 10 month development cycle the people at Obsidian managed to produce a stellar role-playing game with a great world, collection of characters and an amazing ambiance and addressed / fixed many of the crippling game engine bugs that were present in 3. While New Vegas is still limited by the confines of the underlying software Obsidian managed to run miles with what they were given and improved on everything from 3 - from gunplay to conversations, everything felt like there was more to it. Like I said, however, the engine is very limited. You'd be lucky to get it to run natively on Windows 10 now after the anniversary update. For Windows 8 users this is much less of an issue, for 7 users this is further the case. Regardless it's far from impossible to get New Vegas to run on newer systems. You'll simply need a couple of tools; namely the latest version of the 4GB Enabler Patcher, NVSE, NV Anti-Crash, Purge Cell Buffers as the headlining items that first come to mind. I can only hope one day there is some form a remastered edition. A pipe dream I'm sure, but this is a fantastic game. All in all, another stellar Obsidian game.

Fantastic all around. Worth playing for choices and consequences, and lots of ways to play your own. If you played Fallout 3, well, you'll never look at it the same after playing FO:NV.

This was a nice breath of fresh air, after FO 1 and 2, this feels to be the true sequel to the greatest franchise that is fallout. I wont mention the other 3 fallouts as i feel they do not deserve the attention, nothing but watered down shells.

That's the TLDR of pretty much every review of this game and with good reason. The storytelling here -IS- amazing, but the engine, the same that powered TES4 Oblivion and Fallout 3, was already well known for being buggy. I also remember that Obsidian didn't get any bonuses or royalties because the game didn't get a 85 metacritic score shortly after release. Yet here we are, over 10 years after release and people still look fondly at this game (minus the Old World Blues DLC, fck those bullet sponge enemies). Even unmodded, the game is good, but not without faults and facepalm worthy decisions, such as the numerous invisible walls you bump into when fooling around with the hills. Unlike Fallout 3, you can kill everyone you encounter. Important questgivers aren't safe, you can transform everyone into gory, bloody sausages, but even as a genocidal maniac, you can still complete the game and the DLCs. Killing everyone is always an option here, which is great for when you just want to cause trouble, then reload an earlier game and continue as if nothing happened.