Forum:I am Enjoying Fallout New Vegas

Fallout New Vegas is fun
Playing Fallout New Vegas is so far for me, a superior experience to playing Fallout 3. The story in New Vegas is more realistic, organic, and varied. The look of the waste has been vastly improved and the hard edges have been shaved off for a much smoother, naturalistic, and all-together more realistic world.

The character of the Mojave desert and the characters that inhabit it also seem more real and living than in the DC Fallout world. In Fallout 3 I got sense that the story was trying too hard. The original guys are at the helm this go round so I think that influence overshadowed the proceedings to be more authentic.

I was wary to make the wrong choice when I was confronted with the decision to play hardcore mode or not and now I know I made the right choice to have a character who must drink water, sleep, and risk starvation. Having to think about the characters bodily needs has made the game's immersion much more intense and fun. The first time I experienced a crippled torso and entire right side and had to rummage through my inventory to repair my limbs, I actually learned why having crippled limbs is something to avoid. Fixing crippled limbs with the same plentiful item that heals your body - In the Fallout 3 style - removed the seriousness crippling injury. In New Vegas I find myself going out of my way to avoid the dynamite of the Powder Gangers - rushing close range pistol attack and shooting at the stick in the hands of any convicts stupid enough to try to toss it at me.

I'm enjoying this game slowly, sipping the side quests and savoring the interlocking and living stories it like I didn't with my rushed through play through of the grey green garish 3.

Does anyone feel the same - just generally enjoying the game or thinking that Fallout New Vegas is a matured Fallout experience with a fuller more living story and characters and much more pleasant waste than fallout 3?
 * Fallout 3? They made a third one? When was this? I was just enjoying my copy of Van Buren: New Vegas... Nitty Tok. 03:42, October 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm still trying to decide about the game. It isn't as interesting as Fallout 3.  The quests seems to be incredibly slow at places.  Apparently, they knew this, and put in almost ridiculously detailed instructions as to "what to do next".  Ratwod


 * I'm definitely enjoying New Vegas a lot more. I rather like the way that the factions and side-quests are introduced to you along the way to New Vegas (unless you are good enough at sneaking to survive the trip north up I-19 right from Goodsprings). It is a bit more linear in that fashion compared to Fallout 3, but at least it feels like you're really one step behind your would-be murderers rather than being sent in random directions to locations out in the middle of nowhere, one after another. I always like that exploring is more encouraged once you get stronger, the Capital Wasteland had so many areas that you had no reason to visit unless you just wanted to wander or happened to already know that there was something worth finding out there.