Fallout New Vegas

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:21 am

Not sure why there is no thread about it, but it seems new Fallout is almost here. Release is on October 19th.

I think coolest thing so far for me is hardcore mode will use food and water. At least that's what i heard a year or so ago when the news about the game broke out.
It seems they are being very secretive about the game, and so far very few details are know, especially considering the size of the release.

Sarkus · Post by **Sarkus** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:29 am

Actually, there is a thread about it . . . .

But yeah, I'm excited about it as well. Less then two weeks!

Stuie · Post by **Stuie** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:43 am

Matrix wrote: I think coolest thing so far for me is hardcore mode will use food and water. At least that's what i heard a year or so ago when the news about the game broke out.

It will be great having this as an in-game mechanic rather than something a mod tries to paste on. I hope combat is a little less forgiving as well; that's another area that needed modding in Fallout 3.

Really looking forward to this; too bad the release is the day after my wife's birthday, and I've pretty much blown my gaming budget for the next few months. This one might have to go under the xmas tree.

Arcanis · Post by **Arcanis** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:50 am

It is released the day after my B-Day so this is my gift. I actually preordered it yesterday to get one of thepre-order bonus packs. I'm getting it for my PS3 because my rig is getting old and I can't replace it for a while, so I got my pre-order from walmart so I could get a shotgun that looks like it doesn't degrade with use.

Mandeville · Post by **Mandeville** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:02 am

This comes out a day after my Wife's birthday as well and the cash would be better spent on her that week.

"Happy birthday Dear, here is a bag of Swiss Fudge Cookies."
"Cookies?"
Yeah...By the way, I'm busy tomorrow playing my new sixty dollar game I preordered."

And our wedding anniversary is three days later. I know I can make this work somehow...somehow...

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:21 am

Wifey: What's that you're playing honey?

You: Oh, just a new mod I downloaded for Fallout 3.

And... scene.

KingB · Post by **KingB** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:33 am

Sepiche wrote:Wifey: What's that you're playing honey?

You: Oh, just a new mod I downloaded for Fallout 3.

And... scene.

Winner!

Mandeville · Post by **Mandeville** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:42 am

Sepiche wrote:Wifey: What's that you're playing honey?

You: Oh, just a new mod I downloaded for Fallout 3.

And... scene.

Thank you.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:56 am

That stuff doesn't work on my wife. This is how it would go:

Wifey: "What's that you're playing honey?"

YK: "Oh, just a new mod I downloaded for Fallout 3."

Wifey: "That's funny because Fallout New Vegas just came out and that looks a lot like the previews I've seen of that game. I'm not aware of any new mods for Fallout 3. Are you sure you didn't buy a $60 game without telling me?"

YK: "Uhhh-but---ummmmmmm"

I honestly don't know how she does it. She seemingly shows no interest in video games. I never see her looking them up or reading about them. Yet I can't sneak anything past her.

Arcanis · Post by **Arcanis** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:01 am

you probably talk in your sleep so you ratted yourself out in the nights before.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:15 am

For some reason I'm just not that excited about it. Probably because I have more than enough on my gaming plate at the moment (despite what I posted about getting burnt out on Civ V yesterday, I started a new game this morning

).

I'll probably get it if it's on sale on Steam for the holidays, or even next year, but I'm in no big rush.

miltonite · Post by **miltonite** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:20 am

I am almost tempted to wait a while and get a game of the year edition when it comes out. (if they get game of the year that is) Or whatever they end up calling the bundle with the expansions. I might not get the extra armor or guns but I think it might be better to wait a bit. I can always play vicariously through Arcanis.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:30 am

miltonite wrote:I am almost tempted to wait a while and get a game of the year edition when it comes out. (if they get game of the year that is) Or whatever they end up calling the bundle with the expansions. I might not get the extra armor or guns but I think it might be better to wait a bit. I can always play vicariously through Arcanis.

Since this is a stand-alone game and not an expansion, I doubt it will ever be bundled with F3 in some kind of "gold" or "GOTY" package.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:31 am

I've got tons of stuff to play at the moment (and a distinct lack of time to play it in), but I had so much fun with Fallout 3 I can't help but pick this up at release.

I'm probably destined to be disappointed to some extent, but I really hope Obsidian can take the great parts of Fallout 3 and add a better written, more dynamic story. If they could even put in a 1/4 of the awesome contained in Alpha Protocol's story I might never stop playing New Vegas.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:53 am

I lost my momentum in Fallout 3 around char-level 14 or so due to the repetitive and boring VATS combat and tedious landscape. I think I put around 50 hours into it.

Vegas should offer a more colorful atmosphere and, I hope, improved combat. Instead of forcing myself to finish FO3, I may just grab Vegas once it goes on sale and maybe has a patch or two.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:56 am

Grand_Director wrote: Yeah...By the way, I'm busy tomorrow playing my new sixty dollar game I preordered."

Well, if you order from Amazon, it's only $49 -- and you get a $10 credit that can be applied to future game purchases.

I really don't have time for more games, but I can't help myself. It's Fallout. In Vegas.

Arcanis · Post by **Arcanis** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:57 am

tgb wrote:
miltonite wrote:I am almost tempted to wait a while and get a game of the year edition when it comes out. (if they get game of the year that is) Or whatever they end up calling the bundle with the expansions. I might not get the extra armor or guns but I think it might be better to wait a bit. I can always play vicariously through Arcanis.
Since this is a stand-alone game and not an expansion, I doubt it will ever be bundled with F3 in some kind of "gold" or "GOTY" package.

Well I think he meant like FO3 had GOTY edition that came with all of the DLC at that point for less than if you had gotten it all at release.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:23 pm

Are the system requirements about the same as FO3? The screenshots look about the same quality, just with more color.

My aging 9800GTX+ handled FO3 just fine, so I'm hoping I'll be okay for Vega$.

Dammit, now I'm tempted to preorder. I'm closing in on the finale of Dragon Age, and Civ5 is a bit too buggy and unbalanced at this point to hold my interest very long. I do have a huge backlog of other great games, but . . . shiny.

Arcanis · Post by **Arcanis** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:18 pm

Don't know i got FO3 for ps3 too. my issue was the CPU as it requires a duel core and like 2.2 ghz which is where my system is weak at, I just can't justify replacing the cpu when everything else is maxed out but wouldn't hold up to a new game pushing the limits.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:27 pm

Freezer-TPF- wrote:Are the system requirements about the same as FO3? The screenshots look about the same quality, just with more color. My aging 9800GTX+ handled FO3 just fine, so I'm hoping I'll be okay for Vega$.

I haven't looked, but I am pretty sure they're nearly identical. It uses the same game engine so why should the be different? If anything, it should run more gooder given the time they've had to optimize things.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:00 pm

I've had this pre ordered since March. I'm hoping this is the game that Obsidian actually finishes because they are the ones that basically made Fallout 1 and 2. They've put perks back in and all.

And from Smoove's post..........

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:07 pm

Smoove_B wrote:
Freezer-TPF- wrote:Are the system requirements about the same as FO3? The screenshots look about the same quality, just with more color. My aging 9800GTX+ handled FO3 just fine, so I'm hoping I'll be okay for Vega$.
I haven't looked, but I am pretty sure they're nearly identical. It uses the same game engine so why should the be different? If anything, it should run more gooder given the time they've had to optimize things.

Thanks, Smoove. Glad to see they dumped the GFWL stuff and are just using Steam this time.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:09 pm

It's extra great that if you decide to wait, you can just pick it up on sale and just activate it via STEAM.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:44 pm

tgb wrote:
miltonite wrote:I am almost tempted to wait a while and get a game of the year edition when it comes out. (if they get game of the year that is) Or whatever they end up calling the bundle with the expansions. I might not get the extra armor or guns but I think it might be better to wait a bit. I can always play vicariously through Arcanis.
Since this is a stand-alone game and not an expansion, I doubt it will ever be bundled with F3 in some kind of "gold" or "GOTY" package.

Uh, he didn't say it would be bundled with Fallout 3, I think he's assuming Vegas will get its own expansion packs

miltonite · Post by **miltonite** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:46 pm

Arcanis wrote:
tgb wrote:
miltonite wrote:I am almost tempted to wait a while and get a game of the year edition when it comes out. (if they get game of the year that is) Or whatever they end up calling the bundle with the expansions. I might not get the extra armor or guns but I think it might be better to wait a bit. I can always play vicariously through Arcanis.
Since this is a stand-alone game and not an expansion, I doubt it will ever be bundled with F3 in some kind of "gold" or "GOTY" package.
Well I think he meant like FO3 had GOTY edition that came with all of the DLC at that point for less than if you had gotten it all at release.

Arcanis can read my mind it is convenient sometimes. But yea, he is correct. I meant that I will wait until New Vegas gets it's own expansions and then releases a bundle just like F3 did. With how much F3 moved around with the expansions it wouldn't surprise me if someone did make the mistake of thinking this was just another expansion.

I have F3 as well and am almost done, I am trying to explore the entire map since that was my level 20 "feat".

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:01 pm

Smoove_B wrote:It's extra great that if you decide to wait, you can just pick it up on sale and just activate it via STEAM.

Can it be activated on Steam no matter where you purchase it? I have some credit on D2D but would love to have it in Steam.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:23 pm

As far as I know. Just like Civ 5, because it uses STEAM as the DRM you are able to associate the title with them no matter where you purchased it from.

Sarkus · Post by **Sarkus** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:49 pm

Smoove_B wrote:As far as I know. Just like Civ 5, because it uses STEAM as the DRM you are able to associate the title with them no matter where you purchased it from.

Yep. The downside is that you can't play on release day until Steam activates their servers for it, and right now the countdown clock points to 10AM PST/1PM EST for that. Which makes the midnight openings that GameStop is doing somewhat of a misleading deal for PC buyers. Unless something changes, PS3 and 360 buyers will get to start playing it earlier.

I posed a question about the Steam unlock on the official boards but a mod kind of blew the question off and nobody official ever responded.

Sarkus · Post by **Sarkus** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:06 pm

Sepiche wrote:I'm probably destined to be disappointed to some extent, but I really hope Obsidian can take the great parts of Fallout 3 and add a better written, more dynamic story. If they could even put in a 1/4 of the awesome contained in Alpha Protocol's story I might never stop playing New Vegas.

There are a couple of recent pieces where they talk about what they are trying to do with the game, neither of which is spoilerish. First, Chris Avellone talks about their general approach here. And then the creative lead talks about how he prepared for the game in this GameSpot article.

Both have me feeling pretty optimistic.

Scuzz · Post by **Scuzz** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:47 pm

Arcanis wrote:It is released the day after my B-Day so this is my gift. I actually preordered it yesterday to get one of thepre-order bonus packs. I'm getting it for my PS3 because my rig is getting old and I can't replace it for a while, so I got my pre-order from walmart so I could get a shotgun that looks like it doesn't degrade with use.

My B-day is the 19th .........

Is this a complete new game or add-on to FallOut 3? Nevermind..I saw my answer a couple posts down....

neofit · Post by **neofit** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:55 am

miltonite wrote:
Arcanis wrote:
tgb wrote:
miltonite wrote:I meant that I will wait until New Vegas gets it's own expansions and then releases a bundle just like F3 did.

Of course this would be the smart thing to do.

Nevertheless... I have a large backlog. On the 12th I am getting Gothic 4. On the 21st it's Two Worlds 2. On the 22nd Fallout NV. Come on, it's Fallout, the rest can wait. (and it's the first time I am hoping for a game to be short - I'd rather finish G4 before Fallout comes out, rather than having to resume playing a few weeks later having forgotten most of what had happened

)

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:54 am

Coincidentally on Release of New Vegas, i will be in Vegas.... i guess i have to buy it now.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:09 pm

With a 10 dollar credit on D2D and the 15 percent off code "rockinaction" I preordered the game for 35 bucks this morning. Now I just have to play the waiting game...

msduncan · Post by **msduncan** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:19 pm

I think I've almost decided to get this on my PC instead of my PS3 or 360.

I have an i7 2.66ghz with 6 GB RAM and 2 GeForce 280 cards running in SLI. Now this doesn't give my any kind of Direct X 11 support, but I'm not sure this game supports it anyway...

Is my computer adequate to make it look at least as good as it would on a game system?

Hamlet3145 · Post by **Hamlet3145** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:15 pm

Is my computer adequate to make it look at least as good as it would on a game system?

Even a semi-dated PC can run games at higher quality than than the current consoles. So, yes, I think you will be fine.

Sarkus · Post by **Sarkus** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:04 am

Since I'm getting pretty excited about this game

, I wandered over to NMA for the first time in awhile and saw a couple of interesting things. The first was that apparently someone posted the first 10 minutes of New Vegas on Youtube last week (it got pulled pretty quick, obviously) but it's interesting that some version of it is already in the wild. The second interesting thing is that they have the CE comic scanned already. It's not spoilerish, but it's also not what I was expecting from a Fallout comic.

JonathanStrange · Post by **JonathanStrange** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:00 pm

I should be more interested considering how much Fallout I've played but maybe that's the reason why: I'm burned out.

I'd still am interesting in any new gameplay aspects once the game is out though.

Cylus Maxii · Post by **Cylus Maxii** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:25 pm

I will definitely buy it if it is certified to run on Windows 7 64-bit. Unfortunately, the DVD FO3 GOTY does not. Neither does my Steam non-GOTY version. Its the original reason that I have an XP/WIN7 dual-boot. FWIW, it worked fine on Vista 64.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:58 pm

Cylus Maxii wrote:I will definitely buy it if it is certified to run on Windows 7 64-bit. Unfortunately, the DVD FO3 GOTY does not. Neither does my Steam non-GOTY version. Its the original reason that I have an XP/WIN7 dual-boot. FWIW, it worked fine on Vista 64.

You running it on a quad core?

I've had no issues with FO3 on my windows 7 ultimate 64 bit after this fix. Runs like a champ.

Doomboy · Post by **Doomboy** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:54 pm

Only about a week to go, and I'm so excited. I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control. I think I like it.

I've had no problems running Fallout 3 on my win7 64 bit system either. I only have the original CD too. Dual core though. Not quad. It runs like a chimp on my system also.