Was Fallout New Vegas as good as I remember? -Revisiting the Mojave a decade later
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Length: 55min 3sec (3303 seconds)
Published: Thu Apr 02 2020
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The writing in it is great. I loved the way the sidekicks' backstories would become revealed over time the more you used them. I remember Veronica's backstory (the Brotherhood scribe) being particularly powerful.
Plus it has that theoretical physicist line that everybody loves.
I’m replaying through it right now. It’s as good as I remember, but man I’m having way more crashes than I used to have. I always had crashes, but I’ve been getting them like every 10 minutes. Finally got it stable or so last night.
I replayed it with Lonesome Road last year, waiting for The Outer Worlds. It is still that good, with a few graphics mods.
When The Outer Worlds came, I liked it quite a lot, but it felt like a step down from what F:NV achieved in interconnectedness, world-building, RPG systems, atmosphere, dialogue and story.
I still think it's a lot better than Fallout 4 (or 76), and better-written than 3 or 4 as well. It shipped with a lot of bugs, but at it's present iteration... it's stable in my experience.
I think it holds up well compared to similar (open-world RPG) games of this past generation. Part of that may be the releases we've seen from those two big Bethesda franchises. The prior generation (PS3/360) had Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and New Vegas (with the latter being farmed out). The current gen (PS4/Xbone) had Fallout 4 and 76, and only one of those is really the same kind of game.
Outer Worlds presents something similar, though shorter and with less meat/exploration/story packed into the world.
The map is pretty cool, but suffers from being last gen a lot even with max mods. I remember the coolest mod was the one that made 100s of old songs in public domain the radio.
I remember liking this game but toward the end it got a bit stupid, and the map is poorly done in the mountain areas. It's almost hilarious how it just changes scenery so fast. It shows how far we have come when you compare this to red dead or origins. After playing F3 and this game back to back I was about done with the series honestly. But I do have fond memories of using max mods on PC and playing with my PS3 controller
Fallout: New Vegas is good
I get why people love NV and prefer it over FO3, but I could never get into it like like the other Bethesda style open world sandbox RPGs. In those types of games, the world and setting are HUGE factors for me, and the generic post-apocalyptic desert NV took place in was indistinguishable from the hundreds of other games, movies, television shows, etc. that take place in generic post-apocalyptic deserts. FO3 was certainly not without its faults, but the Capital Wasteland was, and still is, an incredibly interesting setting/environment.
I like it, but always found when I hit the strip to just lose interest in the story and the quest. None of the sides really interested me and the DLC was a big miss for me (never played lonesome road). I found FO3 to be more fun to explore and be in. The Strip felt so weird and limiting.
I say this as someone that loves New Vegas, the game is horribly overrated, at least in the sense that it's "so much better" than 3 & 4. Sure, the writing's a bit sharper (then again, I never saw how the writing of the other games was so "terrible", so that's not a huge draw for me) and the gameplay's a fine evolution, but a lot of the side quests were dull (Bye Bye Love is the worst of the 3D games by virtue of having over 20 loading screens for a standard "back & forth" affair), many locations were utterly useless as anything but padding, half the DLCs are tedious slogs, and it's so unstable that I end up freezing way more often than I do in 3 & 4 (but hey, why use patches to polish it when the developers can go out of their way to nerf the number of Stimpaks you find in first aid kits instead).
Again, I do love the game for being more Fallout, but I don't get why people put it on a pedastal to shit on 3 & 4.