Vegas baby! Vegas

[rattran]

And otherwise, Caesar
So yeah, it's not that your princess is in another castle.

[Sir Fodder]

[Tannhauser]

Is anyone playing hardcore?  I'm a casual gamer, but the urge to play hardcore is really strong.  Is it cool or is managing all those health levels a hassle?

[Tebonas]

Food is abundant enough to not be a hassle and for me the trips back to stash my loot in Goodsprings coincided with me having to drink some water (and I had to sleep every few trips to the shack).

So I would say no, its not a hassle, but its not particularly challenging either. You either do it for the Achievement or because you want the game to be more realistic (as was my intention), not because it makes the game harder.

[rattran]

Survival is still pretty useless even in hardcore. Should have been called  'slightly annoying' mode.

[Muffled]

The only meaningful change in hard core for me was that stimpacks heal over time (instead of instantly), and limb breakage requires a doctor bag or hydra (or a trip to a doctor).  Makes brute forcing through fights a bit more difficult, encourages sniping or setting mines a bit more.

Ammo having weight is a nuisance as well, but easy to work around.

[Tannhauser]

Finished the game.  Love it!  It's in my top 3 of 2010 (ME2, RDR, FLV).  Already playing again, this time on hardcore, which is just kind of annoying.


Kudos to Obsidian for making a great rpg, even with the bugs and random crashes.  I like Vegas better than Fallout 3. 

[Khaldun]

[Jeff Kelly]

[Muffled]

[Tannhauser]

[Muffled]

It's a good ending, there are a few different ones that could plausibly be the most desirable depending on your point of view.

Edit: we wouldn't want to offend Shiznitz, would we?

[shiznitz]

For the record, that was all opinion and no spoiler.

[Sir Fodder]

Combat seemed too easy on hard so I'm using house rules of no bullet/energy usage, only explosives and melee, mostly just explosives. Still pretty easy for the most part (cazadors - wtf?) but the explosions are fun especially indoors with lots of mobs in tight spaces. Was going without a sidekick too but started getting bored with menial stuff, especially of making trips to sell junk, now trying to power through content with Cass but damn there is lots to do in this game, spent a lot of time re-running quests trying to blow stuff up in new ways.

random screenshots:

[Ingmar]

Arise! The Dead Money DLC is finally available for the Steam version.

[Tannhauser]

HELLS YEAH

[Sky]

I like the game, but it's getting annoying in small steps. Not sure if we still need to spoiler, but eh:


Anyway, lots of little things like that add up over time. Really enjoying the game overall, though.

[Ragnoros]

[Tannhauser]

If you are talking about vanilla FNV, yes there are skill checks involving him.  He has a great gun that I used the whole game.

[Sky]

[Ard]

[Sky]

[Rendakor]

[Sky]

I'm a wimpy scientist. If I can't make the escape work, I'll just shoot him in the head.

[Rendakor]

I'm not even sure that works; IIRC I tried to just pop him and it aggro'd the whole Legion. My only options were Crucifixion or Arena.

[Tebonas]

Caesar told me I can shoot him right there, there might have been a speech check involved, though. I did it and THEN wiped the Legion out. I was Good-aligned, but getting shot and ditched in a shallow grave really pissed my otherwise goody-two-shoes off. I wanted him dead execution-style. Eye for an Eye and all that.

[Furiously]

Anyone try the new DLC? I hear mixed reviews.

Mostly complaints that it's grizzly bear traps wall to wall.

[Lantyssa]

"I found a trap!"

[Rendakor]

At least now I know where the non-panda avatar comes from.

[Sky]

Had to go to the console to find ED-E who had disappeared at some point. The console..it's a bit obtuse.

[Tebonas]

Yeah, ED-E does that to you. I tried to teleport to him when it happened to me and was stuck in a small room with no exit. Then I had to teleport him to me and resurrect him instead. I guess its the floating around that gets him stuck that easily. Sometimes Bloat Flies and Cazadors attack me from nowhere as well.

EDIT: Dead Money

I was moderately entertained by it, but it was neither as suspenseful nor as survival horror as they claimed. Might be the fact that I am a hoarder and my character had both the regeneration mod and Rad Absorption Perk, but ammo was at no time low and I walked out of there a rich man loaded down with (Super)Stimpacks, Weapon Repair Kits and Caravan Lunches.

The "different combat tactics" spiel was also wrong, it still is critical headshot all the way.

After sleeping on it for a few days the similarities to Bioshock must be planned. It feels like a Bioshock mod for Fallout. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

It seems like another piece leading up to a final confrontation to an equal opposite of yourself (another courier that is hinted at in the main game is talked about extensively here), and that makes me excited about the rest of the journey.

[Jimbo]

I had done all the extra quests on Fallout 3, and was in the Jefferson Memorial and my character bugged!  GRRRRR! So I may start playing this, should I play regular or go ahead and get the down load extra content and do both?

[Ingmar]

They're not really connected story-wise so there's not a lot of reason for you to feel you need to finish FO3 before playing New Vegas.

[LK]

However, there is some love for FO2 players.

[Sky]

Trying to make a push to finish off the game, I forgot how long these things get (usually a good thing, but I wanted to play a couple more this gaming season!). Crashing a lot more now, really killing the momentum.

Decided that I'm with Boone, the hell with those Legion bastards, so I went all sniper on them with him and ED-E. Cakewalk through the Fort until Caesar's tent, wiped three times before I decided to give it up for now.