Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition

First off, thank you GOG for putting this amazing game on the best DRM-free platform. I've been waiting for this. I'm not very good at writing reviews but here you go: This game is absoloutly amazing, everyone should play it. You don't want to miss out on this massive role-playing experience with a heavy focus on player freedom. With many and diverse quest, great characters and interesting storyline. Plus all the different factions you can help or fight. Oh yea, it's freaking VEGAS! With Casinos, gambling and corruption (just to name a few). Lots and lots of different weapons and armour/clothing to suit your playstyle. A must play for any role-playing or just open world fan out there. And what's more, it's drm-free (which these single-play only games shoud be)

However, if you don't mod the game and want to prevent the possibility of not being able to load a save game at some point well into your gameplay, consider the following: After a while, the game will fail to "Continue" from your last save whether the save is one you explicitly created or an auto-save. The workaround is to create an explicit save sometime very early in your gameplay -- immediately after character creation is a good option for several reasons. Then, sometime into your gameplay (perhaps after a forced restart because of an attempt to "Continue" which never completes or exits), get in the habit of loading your early save each time you start the game. As soon as the game starts from the save, you can then hit the escape key, load your most recent save, and continue on. This workaround has yet to fail for me after hundreds of hours of gameplay. No guarantee you might not have other problems at some point, but this workaround will "solve" one of the bigger problems with playing this game past the early stages. While the preceding will help and creating the early explicit save as recommended is always a good idea, following the Viva New Vegas (https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html) modding guide to install the New Vegas Script Extender (NVSE) as well as the first two recommended "bug fix" mods will go a long way towards providing a more stable and enjoyable experience. While even minimal modding may be a pain, the benefit of nearly 14 years of "bug fixes" is well worth the effort. And then, it becomes easy to improve upon and extend the base game and DLCs in ways which add tremendous value to a game which is now available for a very modest initial investment...

The GOG team has put some work into this version of the game it's more stable and performs better than it's steam counterpart

Don't think twice; buy it.

New Vegas is a breath of fresh air in a room full of toxic gas. It's really the only modern game that could be called 'Fallout' at all. Having said that, its not perfect. Pros: - Excellent story. - Interesting world. - A wonderful cast of characters. - Quests have so many different choices and outcomes. You can't do everything in one play through because of all the options. - There are 3 different factions you can choose to fight for or you can choose to fight for yourself. - Tons of different ways to use your character's skills. - Tons of interesting weapons and armor. - A huge selection of great mods to use. Cons: - Combat can be really bad at times. Sometimes you'll try to shoot through a hole or around an object only to discover there is a really large collision geometry in the way. - One of the factions are really lacking in content compared to the others. - The economy is really unbalanced.