[Official] Fallout New Vegas

[solardog]

after more than a month with this game i have to say it's really disappointing. not only is it unnecessarily hard on all difficulty levels, with enemies that seem to never run out of ammo and are over powered if wild animals, but it also has the most annoying quest structure. everyone you talk to dumps like three quests in your lap so you spend your entire time in a perpetual state of fetch quest anxiety. then, the signposting system is a mess - a good third of the quests i've been handed so far i gave up on cause they were just annoying to navigate. Fallout 3 was so much better. Honestly Alpha Protocol was more enjoyable than this!

great term and totally true. Not sure how much I like this game yet. At east this its the last one on this engine.

[neoadorable]

glad to see you're like minded solardog and see things the same way...you're also right that among all major game engines Gamebryo is by far the most dated-looking and playing. it's time to retire it or at least rebuild it from the ground up. i'm all for making the most of available tech but compared to other games out there FONV just looks bad. it may be nostalgia but i thought the artwork on FO3 was more impressive...as was the music! Everything about FONV is just so half-hearted.

[Teebor]

Loving the game, I can't stop playing.

The increased difficulty from FO3 is most welcome, I got bored of one shotting everything in that game from start to finish. Now I actually get shredded by deathclaws (until I found the light machine gun) and now its a fair fight, Cazador's are a collosal PITA but keep me on my toes. Nightkin are the only thing I have to worry about, and only because I don't see them coming ;)

I just got the power armour skill now though so going to be enjoying the extra protection, even though armour seems a bit limited at the moment. :woot:

And ED-E's weapon upgrade is great!! :D

I did get a bit annoyed at one stage where I seemed to have no quests going on and I just had to wander until I got back on track, however I love being lost and roaming the game world finding random stuff and not having everything pointed out for me

[solardog]

Loving the game, I can't stop playing.

The increased difficulty from FO3 is most welcome, I got bored of one shotting everything in that game from start to finish. Now I actually get shredded by deathclaws (until I found the light machine gun) and now its a fair fight, Cazador's are a collosal PITA but keep me on my toes. Nightkin are the only thing I have to worry about, and only because I don't see them coming ;)

I just got the power armour skill now though so going to be enjoying the extra protection, even though armour seems a bit limited at the moment. :woot:

And ED-E's weapon upgrade is great!! :D

I did get a bit annoyed at one stage where I seemed to have no quests going on and I just had to wander until I got back on track, however I love being lost and roaming the game world finding random stuff and not having everything pointed out for me

Ive got about 20 quests going on, so Im annoyed for the opposite reason. I always have to talk to everyone I see and take every conversation to its end so I end up with too many quests. Its stressing me out. :pinch:

[YounGMessiah]

Ive got about 20 quests going on, so Im annoyed for the opposite reason. I always have to talk to everyone I see and take every conversation to its end so I end up with too many quests. Its stressing me out. :pinch:

So just deal with one at a time, problem solved young whipper snapper.

[neoadorable]

too bad half the quests are semi-broken or mired in miserable map design. or necessitate navigating hordes of monsters that kill you on sight.

[Neo003]

Got one st**id question, is there a way to redistribute skill points after level 30. I need speech at 90 and can only go upto 80 with sexy nightware.

[Nagisan]

Got one st**id question, is there a way to redistribute skill points after level 30. I need speech at 90 and can only go upto 80 with sexy nightware.

You can through the console......it's technically cheating, but you can make it more fair by lowering an attribute by 10 points before raising speech by 10. You can find the console commands all around, just do a google search for fallout nv console commands....I believe it's just player.modav <skill> <value>, that will add or subtract from whatever skill you type in (no spaces in the skill names), just make sure you use a negative value to subtract points.

That is, if you're willing to "cheat" to redistribute points (the way I look at it, as long as you keep points even, it's fair, but you could technically just keep changing points to do what you need when you need them if that was the case, so it could still be considered cheating).

[Neo003]

On 360 not pc.

[Nagisan]

On 360 not pc.

No keyboard support (or just no console access?)? My bad, didn't think consoles would be locked down that much. :p

Without console commands or mods, I do not think there is any way built into the game to reset or redo skills.

[soniqstylz]

Got one st**id question, is there a way to redistribute skill points after level 30. I need speech at 90 and can only go upto 80 with sexy nightware.

Find a "Meeting People" magazine. Couple that with the Comprehension Perk, and you'll get speech at 100.

[mistical]

Got one st**id question, is there a way to redistribute skill points after level 30. I need speech at 90 and can only go upto 80 with sexy nightware.

Find a "Meeting People" magazine. Couple that with the Comprehension Perk, and you'll get speech at 100.

It would be better to find skill books instead of skill magazines. Skill Magazines wear off far too fast, where as skill books are permanent. I have a guide I created here: http://www.videogame...box-360-ps3.htm It's mostly all text with some videos. The speech books don't have a video attached to them at this time, soon possibly though once I'm able to get around to it.

[soniqstylz]

It would be better to find skill books instead of skill magazines. Skill Magazines wear off far too fast, where as skill books are permanent. I have a guide I created here: http://www.videogame...box-360-ps3.htm It's mostly all text with some videos. The speech books don't have a video attached to them at this time, soon possibly though once I'm able to get around to it.

I would assume he only needs the high speech for one (or at most, two) particular conversations. The only one I ever failed with a speech of 80 was at the end of the pro-NCR missions, last boss of the game. One magazine would get him though that.

[Neo003]

Right now I need 90 and with all the books and my sexy outfit only musturd up 89.

[WinterHaze]

well I think it was a lot shorter then f3 but i still really like it. I just wish there were more missions though, cus it didn't take me long to do all of em.

Now i'm just playing with mods.

The one I like the best is RTS because you get to make and design your own town + get your own villagers.

[YounGMessiah]

I am about to start playing this again, I actually learned to appreciate it more since I havent played it (and paid 50 or 60 bucks, I forgot haha) for a while.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Finally picked this up for ?7.99.

Enjoyed Fallout 3 but I got burned out during the expansion packs (completed main game). I know this is more of the same but I hope the change in environment is enough.

Also I played through Fallout 3 with the official game guide, guess that kind of ruins/spoils some of the magic of an open ended RPG world - Now things will actually surprise me :p

[Quick Shot]

reviving this thread for a bit.

Anyone try out honest hearts yet? I just downloaded it, and am looking forward to playing it!

[SYBINX]

I love Fallout New Vegas and I've been playing it like mad lately because I didn't finish it the first time around, other things to do and so forth. Although I just come across something which really made me laugh. The problem is others may take offence, and I am not surprised there hasn't been any complaints to Bethesda about this. Well at the end of the game it's only a fictional game. "Plasma Spaz" it's so politically incorrect, :whistle:

But you have to admit... it's funny. :rofl:

[Teebor]

I can't say this game has ever really cared much about being politically correct. I remember the original games that the characters would shout out "You shoot like old people ****"

However its never been as extreme as say Duke Nukem

[Corris Veteran]

I keep trying to understand the game, vut Caravan is doing my head in, the person i'm playing keeps randomly winning, and I say random because I'm either not paying attention or suddenly the camera moves away and I have no idea how I lost, thoroughly annoying.

I'm still not quite sure how the game works, I get that the cards need to be between 21-26, but even when two of my "caravans" are at 26 and one is at 22 with its opposite being lower I don't win, could anyone explain it to me?

[Nick H. Supervisor]

could anyone explain it to me?

I can't explain it, but I found that the easiest way to deal with Caravan is to not play it.

[_BeanZ_]

I found this video helpful when trying to work it out (if you ignore the random violence at the end...)

[soniqstylz]

I keep trying to understand the game, vut Caravan is doing my head in, the person i'm playing keeps randomly winning, and I say random because I'm either not paying attention or suddenly the camera moves away and I have no idea how I lost, thoroughly annoying.

I'm still not quite sure how the game works, I get that the cards need to be between 21-26, but even when two of my "caravans" are at 26 and one is at 22 with its opposite being lower I don't win, could anyone explain it to me?

Raise your Luck.

[bjoswald]

I love Fallout 3 and New Vegas so much that I find myself just wandering around, exploring and looting. I have already done the main quest, so I like to see what I can find just by roaming around. Turns out, there's a TON of side quests and events I had missed. It loses its appeal after a few hours, but it beats waiting 35-45 minutes for a dungeon in WoW!