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Fallout New Vegas...7 days...

I'm now on my 3rd character (I intend to actually finish the game with this one, the previous characters were just trial runs, I have a problem that RPGers refer to as "chronic restart disorder"), I have clocked up 114 hours so far with this character and have barely touched the main quest yet and still have side quests on my Pipboy in need of completion and there are still undiscovered POIs showing up on my compass, I'm nowhere near finished.

I loved FO3 but this is so much better. Challenging Morrowind for top place on my list, and that is saying a lot.

And I have a list of mods to download for my next playthrough!
 
I've just completed a 2nd character (energy weapons, hardcore mode, first being a gun and run type). Yes, it's a superb crpg, but I fear a 3rd walkthrough will cause my wife to leave me.... I found so much new stuff on the 2nd walk through...

not tried any mods.... although the inventory sorter looks good... although I only realised today that you can sort your inventory from 'show all' to show weapons, armour etc simply by clicking

what's been your favourite quests/things in the game?

only recently found love and hate, which is an awesome knuckle duster which allowed me to plough through whole NCR camps with only an unarmed skill of 38! Although I was wearing combat armour mk II and was level 29, which might have helped

I also got into the cooking thing, liking that the survival skill is actually worth something in this game, bighorn stew and a bottle of wine gives you a nice +4 to strength, very handy
 
i didn't bother with food or drink in new vegas, just stimpaks, meds and sleep. didn't bother with it in fallout 3 either. seemed a lot of faff for nowt.
 
i didn't bother with food or drink in new vegas, just stimpaks, meds and sleep. didn't bother with it in fallout 3 either. seemed a lot of faff for nowt.

essential for hardcore mode though... and not only can you get lots of non-addictive bonuses from foods, but some of the more complex dishes will give you a fair chunk of healthy.

which faction did you align with for the climactic end missions?
 
I've just completed a 2nd character (energy weapons, hardcore mode, first being a gun and run type). Yes, it's a superb crpg, but I fear a 3rd walkthrough will cause my wife to leave me.... I found so much new stuff on the 2nd walk through...

My OH has taken to muttering things through clenched teeth while I'm playing :oops:

not tried any mods.... although the inventory sorter looks good... although I only realised today that you can sort your inventory from 'show all' to show weapons, armour etc simply by clicking

The inventory sorter mod is great, it prefixes useful items with a category (food, part, card, book, mag, food, chem etc) so that the useful items group together in whichever inventory tab you are looking at and also the prefix displays when you hover over an item in the world - especially handy if you do a lot of crafting and don't know whether that misc item is just junk or if you could make something with it so it might be worth picking up or hanging on to.

what's been your favourite quests/things in the game?

Come Fly With Me - fantastic quest
Vault 11 - super creepy
Gecko Kebabs - nom nom nom
 
ahh, wild card! Did the NCR and the Legion endings....

and ammo.... not really, but recycling ammo for energy weapons was a must, especially in the early games

@Epona

that mod does sound useful, when i meant sort the inventory, I meant during shopping and taking and putting of objects into boxes, sages etc obviously

I enjoyed CFWM as well

including the ride of the valyries music but the launch glitched for me and I couldn't see it the first time I did it, worked fine when I did it 'evil' though.

bighorner steaks were the best food for me.... lots of health, lots of reduced hunger, and a strength bonus which stacks nicely with the booze strength bonus for those shop runs, and you don't need any other ingredients, unlike the brahmin steak which needs a bottle of wine. Oh and two bighorner bulls spawn regularly near the silver mine so easy to get hold of the raw materials

was a bit 'oh you bastard!' when I found the note about the unborn child in Boone's side quest, but she got what was coming to her, and that cap that Boone gives you was on my head for the rest of the game, both play-throughs, mmm +5 criticals

and liked the setting up of the boomer with the caravan girl one, even if they seemed to go on honeymoon near the wigged supermutant's radio station which made getting the quest complete difficult, but eventually found them half way up a mountain gazing at each other.

also liked Jamestown, because it was nice to see a old fallout 2 character, suspect harold would have been there too if Fallout 3 hadn't fucked him up, and the deathclaw omlette quest

and my favourite weapon was 'this machine'... not least because it's a nice Woody Guthrie reference.... oh and the toy gun which targets the Archimedies orbital weapon, made the assassination of the president quest much easier
 
I recently got a PS3 with Fallout. Haven't had a much of a chace to play it yet but as I am a Fallout virgin, any tips, recommendations?
 
I recently got a PS3 with Fallout. Haven't had a much of a chace to play it yet but as I am a Fallout virgin, any tips, recommendations?

fallout 3, or new vegas? if the latter choose a weapon type (guns, energy weapons, melee, unarmed) and stick to it... oh and start out with an Endurance of 6 or better
because you can buy implants to improve stats and damage resistance etc but the number of implants you can buy is linked to the endurance stat you start out with

oh and have an understanding partner... that's fairly important...
 
I have Fallout NV. I believe I started out with an endurance of 6 or more but will check. Very early on in the game so could always start over.
 
i was 15 hours in, my hd has died, ive lost everything, inc all my games , music etc , but i think im going to start again and try a few other options.

Never could be bothered to do that with FO3..
 
I finished the main quest last night. Absolutely brilliant game and much more a sequel to 1 and 2 than 3 ever was. However...

I was a bit disappointed with the end. I was playing a nasty, self-centred little bastard of a character and I killed Benny to get the chip, killed House, hooked up Yes Man and even got Chief Hanlon to make sure the NCR removed themselves from the Hoover Dam after the battle. The plan was that I would use the upgraded Protectrons to wipe out the Legion after they had attacked the Dam and Hanlon had rigged the battle. Then I could sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air with all factions taken care of. I was expecting a big, epic battle with hundreds of legion, hundreds of protectrons and everything carefully rigged so I would win.

Instead I got another linear dungeon where I had to kill everybody myself. The legate's camp had about 6 guards. I had 1 protectron helping me and then the NCR turn up with 5 people! Why had I bothered getting Hanlon to do my dirty work? It was all a bit disappointing.

I liked the epilogue bit, telling you what happens to everybody. It missed off Boone though.

I'm going to restart as a kind of crazy asian gunslinger with energy pistols. Like a cross of Grasshopper from "Kung Fu" with Clint in "A Fistful of Dollars."

Oh, and
A fucking ACHIEVEMENT!!!!!! So much for the "special reward"!
 
yeah the reward for Hardcore is a bit lame
I was sort of hoping it would unlock the boomer's vr machines or something

and I didn't realise that Matthew Perry voiced Benny

I'm fighting the temptation to do a third playthough, with an unarmed or melee character. I think I'll wait until the dlcs get released for the pc.
 
the voices are pretty wasted on me... I have to have the sound down. But yeah, Chandler shot me in the head.

And Kris Kristofferson is Chief Hanlon! I might go and see him just to hear it.

I'm also tempted with the unarmed but it would be really, really difficult wouldn't it?
 
Sorry, I'm not understanding the choice to be armed/unarmed etc. I started the game, went to see the women, shot some sasparillo bottles, and then I had a rifle. What choices did/do I have?
 
Sorry, I'm not understanding the choice to be armed/unarmed etc. I started the game, went to see the women, shot some sasparillo bottles, and then I had a rifle. What choices did/do I have?

Put the rifle away and use your fists, like a real Wastelander, or don't.
 
Sorry, I'm not understanding the choice to be armed/unarmed etc. I started the game, went to see the women, shot some sasparillo bottles, and then I had a rifle. What choices did/do I have?

We're talking about which category to put your skill points into when you go up a level. You have categories for guns, energy weapons, unarmed and melee - which all cover different weapons. It pays to pick a category, the more skill points you have the more damage you do with those weapons.

So at the start you could choose to be somebody who uses guns - and concentrate on those. Or go for somebody who just uses melee or whatever. You can spread things about but then you're just mediocre with everything.
 
the voices are pretty wasted on me... I have to have the sound down. But yeah, Chandler shot me in the head.

And Kris Kristofferson is Chief Hanlon! I might go and see him just to hear it.

I'm also tempted with the unarmed but it would be really, really difficult wouldn't it?

I'm not so sure, as there are various weapons that use the unarmed skills, spiked/brass knuckles for example, you'll get a huge number of attacks in vats, and never have to worry about ammo.... plus you can get a perk, and an implant to improve your damage resistance, and there are unarmed combat techniques
like the ranger take down
that you can learn
 
Oh, and just watching The Six Stringed Samuri. It's like a kitch rockabilly version of Mad Max, set around Vegas, revolving around a competition on a radio station...
 
Just started second playthrough. Very hard and hardcore mode. Science/Med and speech build. Gonna make those companions, earn their keep.
(Cos they persist on raiding my fridge and purloining my miscs as they wander around my gaff...nice touch, Obsidian)
 
Speech and Science (and maybe lockpicks to a lesser extent) seem to be essential skills in this game. The rest you can kind of pick and choose but if you don't have those two then the you see a lot less of the game (and it's harder too...)
 
Just started second playthrough. Very hard and hardcore mode. Science/Med and speech build. Gonna make those companions, earn their keep.
(Cos they persist on raiding my fridge and purloining my miscs as they wander around my gaff...nice touch, Obsidian)

not to mention piss ammo away like it's raining bullets... grrrrr...

and never ever give them a missle launcher, ever...
 
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