Fallout New Vegas

I can't wait!!!!!!!!

It seems the last three Fallouts have coincided with me getting a new laptop.

But just like the last version, i'm considering getting on PS3.

 

5 more days!!

 

This game looks good. I have never played fallout, so I hope I will like it.

 

Best. Game. Ever.

 

Fallout: New Vegas won't be any more resource hungry than Fallout 3 was due to running on the same engine. I'll be getting the PC version for the truckload of mods that are sure to follow.

 

It's always been good. Been playing it since I was like....14.

 

Your kidding right?

While FO3 was a step forward , graphically for the eye-candy, bling-bling crowd, it was 2 steps backwards , story, consequences and quest-wise !

Hopefully , some of that will be fixed in FO:NV, since some of the original FO1 and FO2 members worked on it..................or least a step forward from the previous installment !

 

I'm hoping this will be good, since it'll have the open ended world of Bethesda and the story and immersion of Obsidian.

 

having never played 1 or 2, 3 just seemed outright amazing. i loved it.

 

1 & 2 were, and still are pretty damn good games.

I have them both on my EEEEEEs

I do wish they would implement some type of turn-based combat though.

 

Obsidian... I think I'll wait until they patch the bugs.

 

Going to great. I'm counting down the days.

 

probably. I remember some issues like that in FO3 as well.

not the crashing while selling stuff but...meh. I had saved like 2 minutes beforehand so wasn't a big deal.

 

Ah, I know I'm getting old.

Fallout One was a game I loved at the end of middle school. best game that came around that WASN'T LucasArts (Monkey Island series, The Dig, Full Throttle, Sam and Max, TIE Fighter, etc.) or Wing Commander.

Fallout Two I loved in High School. Still love it, and play it for nostalgia purposes.

Fallout Three was fun in it's unique way. VATS was the single-saving grace of that entire game, the only thing that really took me back to those marvelous days of my care-free youth of juggling being a nerd and a jock that stuffed myself in lockers.

You can't really compare FO3 to the other two - Turn-based RPGs have, sadly, gone the way of The Space Sim (God I loved Wing Commander/Privateer/FreeLaner/Descent Freespace 2) and while I remember them fondly before my alzheimer sets in, they are just that, a memory.

I'm just pleased that they're bringing FO:NV back to the west coast. With Geckos, Golden Geckos, Nightkin, and the New California Republic. Not to mention many "easter eggs" (Wild Wasteland perk) for us older people that remember the fun of being a "prizefighter" or " star" hanging out in New Reno.

Alas, just like any other FPS and pseudo-FPS game - it will again be an Xbox purchase for me. (I know, I'm terrible. Assume I cut my FPS teeth on GoldenEye and PerfectDark on the N64. So I'm used to awkward-thumb-based controls for shooting things )

 

I just bought it on Steam and installed the game on my laptop, but apparently I won't be able to run it until the release date.

Does anyone know when it should become unlocked? Will I need to download some kind of patch?

 

it'll unlock automatically tuesday, 1pm est

 

Let's not discuss torrenting or anything related to piracy here please . . . it is not allowed. I deleted a bunch of posts.

 

The graphics look about the same yet the system requirements look so much higher. Yep, looks like Obsidian calibre optimization here.

 

I'll admit that i was never a fan of RPGs really until I played Fallout 3. Don't know exactly why but it kept me wanting to play and see what was down the next ruined DC street or in vault__. Yes there were some issues and the graphics, 360 version, were sorta dated, but as a game I could not fault it. Some of the most iconic games over the past recent years, like GTA4 for example, have been dated looking, but still been pretty solid. I'll be getting mine on 360 again so i guess I will have a easier time getting back into it again. Can't wait!

 

well. they made it actually support multicore correctly.


so...*shrugs* it won't crash for i5s or quad cores anymore like fallout 3 does.

well I mean it won't crash right away without changing something in the config.ini file like you have to do with the current patch on fallout 3 if you have an i5, i7, or older quad core

 

3 was fantastic, got me through the last 8 months of Iraq when I wasnt on patrol.

 

The graphics are going to be pretty equal since both games run on the same engine. But the system requirements are also pretty much the same. The only real difference is that a dual-core processor is a minimum requirement now instead of a recommended requirement like it was in FO3. The GPU and memory requirements are the same.

 

the dlc is 360 exclusive for awhile.

oh well. that always happens.

http://kotaku.com/5666721/fallout-new-vegas-first-dlc-will-be-xbox+exclusive

 

I just really hope they have choosen some good music. I have some very fond memories in FO3, singing along with the music while killin baddies. What can I say, it's the music that really does is for me, graphics come second.

 

I may have to disappoint you.

there doesn't seem to be too many songs (though there are 3 radio stations at times).

oh well. some of the music is good. there's one annoying song.

edit: really there's just one song that forces me to change the radio to another station.

..also there's not much like butcher pete. but...well that's butcher pete.

edit the edit: that being said, if it's like fallout 3 I'm sure a mod will come out that lets you expand the radio setlist (there's one for fallout 3)

 

Now the question: should I buy for PC or Xbox?

 

If you have a PC that can run it decently i.e. on medium settings and above, then I'd say go with PC for the modding community that has already started (there's already a branch of the nexus online for NV). Otherwise, either wait until you have a better computer or dive into the console version. Given the choice, I'd wait until I had a better computer as the mods for Fallout 3 are what made the game for me after the first couple weeks.

 

What are the specs? Fallout 3 wasn't too demanding compared to other games.

I getting it for PC just to avoid the ridiculous load times on the 360.

 

pc specs: same minimum as FO3 more or less but a dual core processor is now required.

 

reaallly? omg, ive been trying to troubleshoot FO3 on mine for the longest time.

 

I have heard some conflicting reports that the steam version may be unlocked at 12:01am PST? is this correct, or will it be 1PM?

 

I read the same from the Bethesda blog.

 

edit: or well actually.


1) Find FALLOUT.ini in My Documents\My Games\Fallout 3.
2) Make a backup.
3) Change the following settings as so:
iNumHavokThreads=5
bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen=1
bUseMultiThreadedTrees=1
bMultiThreadAudio=1
bUseThreadedAI=1
bUseThreadedTempEffects=1
bUseThreadedParticleSystem=1
bUseThreadedBlood=1
bUseThreadedMorpher=1

 

It says it will unlock at for me at 3am(Eastern time) So, 12:01PST

 

Picked it up for the X360 a bit ago. The opening made me happy.

Enjoy the game everyone!

 

Running great on my laptop. Runs just as cool as FO3 did and looks a little better too. Looks like it is going to be a great game.

 

is there a retail version totaly free of steam? if yess i'm getting one when i'm out of work

 

no.

all pc versions are integrated into steamworks.

also, there seems to be some major graphics issues with some Nvidia cards (mad stuttering around water and/or npcs and some of their animations)

some nvidia cards include the gtx260

 

to bad then they just lost me ont hat one

 

well. it was either steamworks or gfwl or gfwl and steamworks so *shrugs*

 

gfwl and steamworks

oh god let's hope they never have such an idea

GFWL was adrealy a pain when you updated Fallout 3

and steam is one if it decide to let you own when you'r far from a wireless network

 

hey. I had to deal with both when I bought fallout 3 through steam.

I mean..gfwl got disabled when you used the fallout mod manager thing (so..that was a plus)

 

Sorry when I said "best game ever", I mean the whole Fallout series, not Fallout 3 in particular. I liked all of them a lot. I should remember I need to be more precise when talking about games on a forum such as NBR.

Story and quests blow off pretty much anything that I can remember I played. I am not buying anything through Steam anymore, such a pain in the you-know-what. I like my games in C:\Games that are run by running the appropriate .exe file. Not this whole Steam charade.

On another note, is there any DLC?

 

you mean all steam games are runing from steam.exe? or such a thing? or they just need to be launched from it

cause if it's the case i see a cfx/sli profiles issue

 

You should definitely give 1 and 2 a try. They're great games as are Baldur's gate series.

The graphics are dated of course but the core game play and storyline are still impeccable.

 

gah, i do not want steam on my laptop...

 

man I still don't get why people dislike steam.

it isn't terrible like it was for the first year or so it was out.

steam cloud can be annoying at times but you can always turn that off (along with the steam overlay stuff that pop up in games)

 

if yyou would be moving as often as me you would know

cause let's say you,r on a travel minding your own buisness far from any wireless connection
and all of a suden steam identification service (or one of it's 23 other background services) decide to crash brigning all ther others with him and making the offline mode act as if you didnot bought the game making your 300 GB of games files a useless drive filler until you find wireless conexion to log back in wich will hold until it crashes again

it does not hapens that often just often enough to be anoying

 

ah.

being without internet can make steam be very annoying. alright, I get ya.

 

ha, being without internet can make lots of things annoying =P

hows the game??? anybody have any complaints? i wanna know them so they can be fixed by the time i buy this during the steam christmas sale