{"id":985,"date":"2010-11-11T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2011-01-12T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:33:55","slug":"fallout-new-vegas-rant-and-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/fallout-new-vegas-rant-and-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout: New Vegas Rant (and Impressions)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m sitting here watching the final credits for Fallout: New Vegas and my save game is sitting at nearly 50 hours.\u00a0 I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time in New Vegas and I look forward to any DLC that Bethesda releases.While I don’t have anywhere near all the achievements and I don’t plan to get them.\u00a0 With RPGs like this I don’t really like to go back and replay just to complete the story line in another way.\u00a0 For Fallout New Vegas I would have to do that 3 more times, plus spend a lot of time grinding, to get all the achievements.\u00a0 As much as I love getting every achievement in the games I play I’m ok with not having them all for RPGs. Going back into a game world like New Vegas’ just doesn’t sit right with me.\u00a0 It would be like watching a movie and the going back later and changing the last act.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I had a blast playing Fallout New Vegas.\u00a0 I think anyone who enjoyed Fallout 3 will like New Vegas.\u00a0 Sure, the graphics are a little dated at this point since both games use the same engine, but for me that did not take away from my game play.\u00a0 There were however quite a few other things I found frustrating while playing New Vegas.\u00a0 None of these things are so bad that I ever thought about not finishing the game but if they were fixed Fallout New Vegas could easily be my game of the year.\u00a0 As it is now that will not happen.<\/p>\n

The main things that bother me are related to the pace of the game.\u00a0 Because Fallout New Vegas has such a large game world it makes for slow game play at times. Yes, once you discover a location you can fast travel to it and that does help somewhat.\u00a0 Even with the fast traveling the pace is slowed because the load times are quite long each time.\u00a0 The load times apply not just to fast traveling but to going through any door to a new building or area.\u00a0 I even have the game installed to the hard drive to help speed things up but the load times are rough.\u00a0 To the point that if I forgot something in a building I regularly just decided not to go back in for it so I would not have to deal with the loading again.\u00a0 Before you have enough locations discovered you’ll spend a lot of time walking through the wasteland.\u00a0 In these times I was really wanting an option to sprint.\u00a0 Sure I can put my gun away and move a little faster but it is still quite slow.\u00a0 It was so bad at one point I stopped playing to go search online to make sure I did not miss a way to sprint.<\/p>\n

The other thing that was really frustrating is that minor side quests do not show up in the quests list.\u00a0 Instead you get a note about them that tells you what someone asked you to do.\u00a0\u00a0 The main quests it tracks what the next steps are including optional ones.\u00a0 For minor side quests there is none of that.\u00a0 Most of them I just skipped doing because it was too much of a hassle to try and remember. For the few that seemed fun I kept a notepad handy to write notes to myself on so I would not forget to do them.\u00a0 I should not have to be doing that for a video game.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of folks have run into major glitches in Fallout New Vegas, but I thankfully did not.\u00a0 I had a few minor ones, but none so bad if totally broke the game for me.\u00a0 In one tunnel I found I would fall through the floor each time I passed a mound in roughly the middle. Fortunately it would just jump me to the other end off the tunnel when that happened.\u00a0 Another time one of my companions got lost. I never did figure out where he went.\u00a0 I even went back and checked the last place I was but he was not there.\u00a0 Luckily after a while the game told me he returned to the Lucky 38 Casino.\u00a0 While he was lost it would not let me replace him because I already had 2 companions with me.\u00a0 At least that did not last too long.<\/p>\n

So, while not perfect Fallout: New Vegas is a great game.\u00a0 If they had just spent some more time with testing out the little things and speeding the game up it could have been even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting here watching the final credits for Fallout: New Vegas and my save game is sitting at nearly 50 hours.\u00a0 I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time in New Vegas and I look forward to any DLC that Bethesda releases.While I don’t have anywhere near all the achievements and I don’t plan to get them.\u00a0 With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[177,7,5],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-fallout-new-vegas","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}