Fallout New Vegas Has Landed...

Sulphur on 21/10/2010 at 17:06

Quote Posted by Vivian

RPS says (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10/21/wot-i-think-fallout-new-vegas/#more-42293) bland, lazy, empty and basically unfinished and unloved. I'm therefore waiting for a sale and a spare week, by which time a better game might have come out.

It's also in complete contrast to just about every other review so far. The way that review's written, it makes it sound like the entire game's full of messed-up scriptwriter/level designer miscommunication, boring conversations, and lazy design in general, but everybody else has been praising things like the side quests and the dialogue. Perplexing disparity in opinion on RPS's part, but hell, people have a right to feel the way they want to. Quinns' write-up, however, just seems to be one-sided.

I'm a bit wary, but willing to give NV a shot purely on the basis of Obsidian getting back to the Fallout universe.

gunsmoke on 21/10/2010 at 17:17

This game is AWESOME. More impressive than the opening 4 hours of Fallout3. This could be my GotY.

Vivian on 21/10/2010 at 17:55

Hmm. I dunno. I'll keep an eye on trusted sources and we'll see, but that RPS review certainly took the edge off my enthusiasm.

Zygoptera on 21/10/2010 at 21:13

Quintin Smith is the new Jim Sterling. Sadly I'm not sure I'm even half joking.

Oh yeah, I've heard turning off Steamcloud saves [and or going offline] stops the save overwriting problem. Needless to say a Steamworks feature fucking up amuses me greatly, almost as much as people citing bugs which have been present since Oblivion in 2006 and were never fixed in Fallout 3 as compelling evidence that Obsidian cannot into bug fixing.

Nameless Voice on 21/10/2010 at 22:17

Oh, even retail boxed versions use Steam and Steamworks? Cool, that means I'd still get achievements if I don't buy it on Steam. I'm sure we'll have some people complaining about that one soon enough, though.

Still, it highlights even further the price disparity I was complaining about between Steam and retail.

PeeperStorm on 22/10/2010 at 00:51

Overall it sounds like they've fixed some of Fallout 3's fail and given it better writing, but with a larger than usual set of initial release bugs. I'll wait until they've patched the hell out of it before buying.

Reminds me of the good old days when everyone was screaming about Fallout 2's buggy car...

BTW the reviewer complaining about the pronunciation of "Caesar" is clearly not clever enough to make the Caesar->Latin connection.

Jason Moyer on 22/10/2010 at 03:14

They released a day 1 250 meg patch to fix a pile of scripting issues, and earlier today they issued a small patch that fixed the quick/autosave bug. The only "bugs" I've seen aside from the overwritten-saves one is the standard radiant AI getting on stuck on things feature, which isn't remotely game breaking (and it fixes itself anytime you sleep/wait anyway).

Koki on 22/10/2010 at 06:22

Is it true the game is not balanced for crouch?

Vernon on 22/10/2010 at 12:05

heh

ZylonBane on 22/10/2010 at 15:48

Quote Posted by Vivian

RPS says (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10/21/wot-i-think-fallout-new-vegas/#more-42293) bland, lazy, empty and basically unfinished and unloved.

Did that idiot seriously praise FO3's universally-loathed subway slogs?