If you were wondering what I have been up to I kinda sorta played through Fallout: New Vegas and I am currently working my way through Fallout 3.
Fallout: New Vegas has been out for a whole year already! That’s right folks. A whole freaking year old and they have five… count them five! DLC add-ons (Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier’s Stash, and Gun Runner’s Arsenal but I count the last two as one really) and one of them just came out last week to prove the company is still raking in the bucks off this game with the total price tag for a “complete game” including all the extra content coming to $110.
So after playing both versions of Fallout you know what I think about Fallout: New Vegas my friends? I think for $110 you should be getting a game that that is solid and not BROKEN and has few if any real issues when you play it.
After a whole year and five DLC add-ons but no real critical patches to Fallout: New Vegas that seek to fix some of the worst flaws. I have a funny feeling that is so not going to happen.
I think $110 for a BROKEN game is just crappy fan boy idiocy at it’s finest. Not to mention things like Fallout: New Vegas has the exact same graphics and even the same quest items found in Fallout 3. They really did not make that many changes to the game play between Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas and not that many functionality changes in all. Sure the story line for Fallout: New Vegas “flows better” but that is just because they had a pre-existing world to use.
I have to admit I preferred some of the updated game functionality that is found in Fallout: New Vegas. They fixed some of the more glaring “companion functionality” problems and made several aspects more enjoyable and more logical from the rough draft you first ran into in Fallout 3.
Unfortunately Fallout: New Vegas is BROKEN and it is BROKEN badly so that leaves me the last person to tell you to even consider buying it or go much farther in reviewing it. Not for $110.
If you are interested in a post apocalyptic Mad Max style OCD inducing “collect these books and do all these tasks to get to the next chapter in our story” etc etc. I mean HUGE… freaking huge… we are talking BIG HUGE… sandbox game that does not freeze up when loading one of it’s many many load screens or when the action starts to crank up in the game play or when the save file gets corrupted because the stupid game froze YET AGAIN! Bitter? You want to talk about bitter? I got your bitter right here Bethesda Softworks.
They did not just outsource the programming in Fallout: New Vegas these assholes must have hired a crazy deaf dumb and blind management team to oversee the craptastic bugs they so lovingly left in this game.
In the end though if you are interested just stick with the good old Fallout 3 and specifically the Fallout 3: Game of The Year Edition.
Fallout 3: The Game of The Year Edition came with all the DLC add-ons included for one low price and was patched up and it was fully working and it was a whole $30.00. I am still trying to get through the damn thing.
It is sad that Fallout 3 only gets my recommendation because it works but this is exactly what the video game industry has come down to. A litany of empty promises to fix half assed broken games they want way too much money for.
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Fallout 3: Game Of The Year Edition | The Naughty Bits wrote,
[...] the original version of the game and well it has a real dragged out boring situation. After playing Fallout: New Vegas and realizing how utterly buggy it was I had to go back and revisit this game because I figured if [...]
Link | October 24th, 2011 at 6:03 am