Fallout: New Vegas

[goh]

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Amazon (both Canada and US) has the CE up again but "are limiting the total number of units that can be purchased."

[Flawless]

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[Kearnzo]

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I was checking out the Fallout wiki, and came across a list of weapons confirmed for the game so far. Most of them have pictures as well. Potential spoilers, but I don't mind knowing what weapons to look forward to.

I want the Ranger Sequoia!

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_weapons

[Burns11]

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Oooh, I think I'm definitely doing a playthrough as Roland Deschain with that gun.

[goh]

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Reminds me of the Colt from Supernatural. Wonder if it's a 1 shot kill on Ghouls?

Can totally go Preadtor on someone too:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Bladed_gauntlet

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Throwing_spear

[Flawless]

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Playing Fallout: New Vegas in hardcore mode is a revelation. It feels how its already worthy predecessor was meant to. The vast amount of clutter you can sweep into your inventory starts to make sense, as much of it can be sold. Medicine and the new Survival skill suddenly become central, and the blinking lights of a Nuka-Cola machine can signal your salvation.

For existing Fallout players, it’s refreshing just to be forced into a character reboot – after 80-plus hours in Fallout 3, you could critically damage a Deathclaw with a raised eyebrow. But on top of this, the limits imposed by hardcore mode enforce a fresh appreciation for the nutritional potential of your inventory, your health, your addictions, your tactics and your relationships with the inventories of the NPCs around you. It makes you far less blasé about the game’s systems, and makes tactical combat (and, at some points, its avoidance) a necessity rather than an occasional dalliance. The fact that your ammo now has weight means that you might become more appreciative of melee weapons, too.

Above all, you’ll get to know doctor NPCs a mite better. Sleeping on the stray mattresses you come across, though now a necessity to avoid sleep deprivation, is no longer an instant cure-all, and stimpacks only heal over time. More urgently, only a doctor’s bag or a trained physician can heal criticals and broken limbs. A shame, then, that my early reaction to the insufferable dullness of the saintly Doc Mitchell was to go about his face with a nine-iron. He died a hilarious death, if a somewhat unwisely inflicted one in terms of my continued survival.

As with life in the real world, in hardcore mode you need regular access to water. You’ll stash and guzzle everything and anything to stave off thirst: beer, wine, spirits, Nuka-Cola and even dirty toilet water. In Fallout 3, your first encounter with a lavatory was to experimentally use it – expecting a standard FPS flush noise – only to be somewhat startled when you heard your character lapping water from the bowl. Back then, you made a mental note never to do that again. Not ever. Yet play New Vegas in hardcore mode and you’ll find yourself actively seeking out postapocalyptic restrooms, and positively sighing with relief as you greedily guzzle at the U-bend.

Whether or not you leave Doc Mitchell’s house in hardcore mode or as a GP-slayer, there are things you’ll notice as you first trot through the Mojave Wasteland, particularly if you’ve played Fallout 3. For a start, there’s the feeling that you’re on a new frontier, an active participant in a strange futuro-Western.

On top of this, if you thought that bongo, bongo, bongo, you didn’t want to leave the Congo and that Fallout 3 radio playlists were a delight, just wait until you hear New Vegas’s country and western station, Mojave Music Radio. The satisfaction of scuttling after a Powder Ganger hoodlum who’s criticalled both of your legs with dynamite, and managing to hack off his arm with a machete, increases inordinately when it’s done to a plaintive southern belle singing, “I’ll be your cowgirl, if you’ll be my cowboy”.

Something else you’ll notice early on (though perhaps not in the opening town of Goodsprings, which is a tad dull) is an overall improvement in characterisation and dialogue. Here, it honestly does feel as though some tenets of the Black Isle legacy are dripping through into the Obsidian melting pot. Sure, dialogue trees remain limited and conversation brief – but through vastly improved voice acting and some genuinely interesting characters, the condensed dialogue feels streets ahead of the often insipid lines Bethesda offered up back in Washington DC.
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As noted, a lot of the chat feels shortened (and there aren’t multiple ways to bring the quest’s ending in) but there’s greater subtext and texture. In itself, a quest might be simple, but Obsidian never stop surprising you with their ability to create new situations and funny characters within the familiar Fallout world.

An early play of New Vegas suggests, then, that it’s darker, funnier and more engaging than its Bethesdan forerunner. If you’re a wasteland devotee, you’re certainly right to be excited. There’s little doubt that it captures the underlying spirit of the first Fallout far better than Fallout 3 did – the dark comedy is more cutting and the people you come across are often deeper and more interesting to toy with. It’s an altogether fiercer game.

Even if Fallout’s visuals are getting rough around the edges, the VATS system can still be relied on, after so many hours of play, to provide the goods in terms of belly laughs at the sheer outrageousness of its representation of slo-mo body-rips and flailing mid-air carcasses.

For me, however, it’s hardcore mode that remains the stand-out champion of Fallout: New Vegas, engendering a fresh appreciation of roleplaying systems and combat that I would previously only sleepwalk through. That said, there is another achievement that shouldn’t go untrumpeted: the way that New Vegas somehow hoodwinks the gamer into really, really liking country music. I’ll be Obsidian’s cowgirl, if they’ll be my cowboy. So will you when New Vegas releases towards the end of October.

[Flawless]

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[bvb24]

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cannot wait for this game.

[lilloreo]

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Oh nooooooooooo!

I wasn't really paying attention to this game for the longest time, but after reading about the hardcore mode I think I'm sucked right back in!!!

[Kearnzo]

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Can't wait. I've got two vacation days that week on Thursday and Friday, and since I work overnights, my Wednesday shift actually gets out Wednesday morning at 7, so i'll have 3 straight days to myself with this bad boy.

[Jonesy]

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I've got my pre-order all paid up. I got some "mercenary pack" for pre-ordering it as well (some special outfit + grenade launcher weapon or something).

Between this for my RPG fix, nba 2k11 for my sports fix and the new COD for my FPS fix i won't need any more games for a LONG time i don't think.

[sox73b3]

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I pre-ordered from Best Buy but I haven't heard about a pre-order Bonus.

Does anyone know if Best Buy is offering anything for pre-orders?

[Burns11]

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Mercenary pack

[King10Sooted]

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Oh nooooooooooo!

I wasn't really paying attention to this game for the longest time, but after reading about the hardcore mode I think I'm sucked right back in!!!

That is exactly how I feel too.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Well, after being on the fence for a while I finally settled on picking it up. Granted, I'll play on Normal or Easy just to beat it...but I admit being intrigued by Hardcore. It's just that with a wife and son I KNOW I can't dedicate the time to finish it that way. Cool options, and maybe I'll try it, but only if you can change up mid-way through.