Game Discussion of the Week: Fallout: New Vegas

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The story of FNV is completely different than F3's story. In F3 you're basically railroaded through the story with little room for making any meaningful choices. In FNV there are 4 major factions to choose from, not just 1 like in F3. Mr. House and Yes Man do feel a little bit similar, but all of them are really cool. This summer I beat the game with all factions, and it was very much worth it and see how New Vegas was affected. What I didn't know the first time is that the ending changes depending on choices you also made in side quests. That makes doing side quests so much more worthwhile. Also, the companions are like a hundred times better in FNV. You can have 2 at a time, and they actually have lengthy companion quests. The only problem with those are that they are way too specific to trigger (you'll have to look them up in how to trigger them in most cases). To be continued...

New Vegas isn't the only Bethesda game which eventually breaks. Ever tried 100%ing Oblivion? Unless you're a speedrunner, good luck, because I don't think it's possible without fan patches since the game's animations become frozen around a couple hundred hours in:



This glitch occurs on every platform. Most of the glitches in Oblivion are funny or exploitable but this one literally ruins the game for me.

The glitches in FNV are a tragedy. There are so many glitches and it runs kind of poorly at times, even on Xbox. I'm sure it runs super smoothly on PC with mods, but it's such a shame Bethesda haven't contracted Obsidian to update it. I'm sure that's the only reason why this game hasn't been updated, Bethesda didn't make this game. One of the most fatal glitches is the one where the game fails to auto-save and it freezes and corrupts the auto-save. If you haven't been good at manually saving often, now all your progress has been been lost since you last auto-saved. This has happened to me more times than I would've liked to, and it has cost me many hours. Other smaller glitches ranges from broken quests and companions. It's annoying, but it hasn't ruined the game for me. When this game works, it's a blast, when it's glitching up it's fucking hell.

I love the historical setting in F3 with all the cool monuments, buildings and museums, however, I didn't like the awful subway system.

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stratogustav could you delete his post please?