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.
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.
