04:10 Nov 01 2010
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Time for my slightly delayed Fallout New Vegas review!
First, the things I don't like.
-So many glitches!!! There's actually too many glitches to mention, that's how many there are! Only a few of them directly effect game play though, the rest are just annoying and kill the mood. The major glitches are
*If you play the game for around 2 hours in one sitting the load times between cells go from 10 seconds or less to 60-120 seconds. This is really bad when there are loading doors one after the other.
*If you reload the game too often the game becomes a little unstable. By unstable I mean, dialogue cuts out, guns refuse to shoot, frame rate goes to all hell. It's really, really frustrating.
But thankfully Bethesda is working on patches to fix these, and have already set out one for a bunch of the minor stuff. Just waiting on the rest.
-The storyline doesn't have enough dull points. This would usually be a good thing but since this is a game that is made for exploration, it would be nice to have some time to do more of the exploring.
There's nothing mechanically stopping you from dropping everything you're doing on the main quest and go exploring, but in terms of continuity, it's really unrealistic.
It's like "I'm in possession of the one object that will determine the fate of the world. But instead of making use of it, i'm gonna go wonder for a few years. Good luck everybody!"
It wouldn't matter all that much if you got to continue playing after you beat the main quest, but since the game ends once you beat the main quest, you're forced to balance the two, which sucks.
Thankfully What I do like about the game makes all of the above not matter!
-To start off, I love hardcore mode!!! That's the mode that requires you to eat, drink and sleep, as well as making ammunition have weight.
The nutrition part of the mode is really simple. There's food and drink all over, the only way this would hamper your game play is if you either
A - sell all of the good/drink.
B - sit there for hours on end doing nothing but eating.
The need to constantly eat/drink actually makes a lot of other wise useless items very valuable. Like meat from animals which you can cook and use other things to make better. Like if you combine Pork n' beans, instamash, cram, radaway and a lunchbox, you make a Caravan lunch which heals a lot of food, drink, health and radiation.
And as far as bullets having weight goes, the weight from nearly all ammunition is so minor it doesn't effect looting at all. Most ammo weighs anywhere from 0.01lbs to 1.1lbs per shell. The heavier shells being very high caliber bullets. Energy cells, missiles and flamer tanks weigh more but not by too much.
And if the weight bothers you, find a companion, and have him/her/it store your excess equipment!
-The weapon mods are awesome!
You can combine up to 3 mods to any one gun, and they can either be found in the wasteland or bought. These are things like silencers, lighter frames, extended barrels, scopes. All sorts of stuff to customize your gear.
As for me, I'm using a .357 magnum revolver with an extended barrel for extra damage and an HD cylinder that increases its durability by 50% and it is awesome!
-Gambling! What would Vegas be without gambling right? You have your pick of blackjack, roulette or the slots. There's also a game called Caravan but its not played in any of the casinos.
You can earn a lot of money in the casinos but there's a limit to how much you can win before you're forcibly removed from the premises.
Atomic Wrangler - $5,000
Gamora - $7,000
Tops - $9,000
Ultra Lux - $15,000
As you can probably tell, I'm not allowed to gamble no more but damn was it worth it!
-And of course there is the amount of player control. The control varies on how well you build your character. Everyone is going to have their own strengths and weaknesses but literally all of the storyline can be effected by what the player is skilled and not skilled with, as well as how the player uses their own knowledge and opinions on things.
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