Fallout: New Vegas - Fall 2010

Luggage wrote:

Being as honest as possible, a game like Dragon Age, Fallout 3 or Stalker (which I already have somewhere in the pile) would put the final nail in the coffin for my diploma thesis. Currently I am hesitant to start anything that may have any immersion whatsoever. When my girlfriend gave me ME2 for Easter I was torn between joy and yelling at her for sabotaging me.

The best thing that could happen would be a few weeks of unemployment after I graduate, so I could shut myself in to power through Dragon Age, Fallout and Stalker within a month.

Well, heck, if that's the case you shouldn't be touching ANYTHING with Fallout in the title. Once you do have your free time back, though, Fallout 3 is still a great choice. And the longer you wait, the cheaper it'll be. (-:

BlackSabre wrote:

The achievement whore in me is cringing knowing that there will be an achievement tied to completing the game on Hardcore mode.

Lol, that is my reaction as well:)

Luggage wrote:
hbi2k wrote:

If you're interested in New Vegas, why WOULDN'T you want to play through Fallout 3 first? It's cheaper for one thing ($16 on Amazon for the console version, thirty on Steam for the PC version, less if you wait for sales), and you can play it right now instead of waiting for this fall or God knows when New Vegas will hit.

Being as honest as possible, a game like Dragon Age, Fallout 3 or Stalker (which I already have somewhere in the pile) would put the final nail in the coffin for my diploma thesis. Currently I am hesitant to start anything that may have any immersion whatsoever. When my girlfriend gave me ME2 for Easter I was torn between joy and yelling at her for sabotaging me.

The best thing that could happen would be a few weeks of unemployment after I graduate, so I could shut myself in to power through Dragon Age, Fallout and Stalker within a month.

If it would help, I'll hold on to ME2 until you're done with your thesis.

Puce Moose wrote:

PandaEskimo:

If you hold down the 'F' key while in 3rd person view you can spin the camera around your character with the mouse.

Yes, you PC players get it all. I don't think there is any such option for the Xbox version.

PandaEskimo wrote:
Puce Moose wrote:

PandaEskimo:

If you hold down the 'F' key while in 3rd person view you can spin the camera around your character with the mouse.

Yes, you PC players get it all. I don't think there is any such option for the Xbox version.

There is actually, but damned if I can remember what the button presses are for it since I haven't played Fallout in a while. I'll pop it in tonight and see if I can refresh my memory.

dhaelis wrote:
PandaEskimo wrote:
Puce Moose wrote:

PandaEskimo:

If you hold down the 'F' key while in 3rd person view you can spin the camera around your character with the mouse.

Yes, you PC players get it all. I don't think there is any such option for the Xbox version.

There is actually, but damned if I can remember what the button presses are for it since I haven't played Fallout in a while. I'll pop it in tonight and see if I can refresh my memory.

I believe it is the Left Bumper with the RS changing the view angle. I usually played in FPS view but would often traverse the waste in 3rd Person while rotating the camera because I often found interesting side areas to stop at/enemies that I would have missed in FPS view.

Edit:
http://www.gamefly.com/MediaTitle/Pr...

Maybe you have to hold the Left bumper (toggle First / Third person view) to get it to work? Thanks for the link. May try it tomorrow. I think I'm done with this game and will just wait for FO: New Vegas to come out to play more Fallout. The non-GOTY edition is only $15 on some download service this weekend though, which is tempting. I could play all those mods.

Ok, I tried this out and you can in fact move the camera around the person like I wanted. It isn't perfect since you can't lift the camera up and down, but you while holding left bumper, you can move the camera around the player in third person and zoom in and out. The zoom stays when you let go of the person, so you can play with a really far zoom out or with something similar to gears of war. You can also zoom way in so you can only really see the players face and shoulder. Its not really that playable that way, but it is interesting to get a better look at these outfits outside of the slow motion VATS hits. I still kind of wish they just had a way to see it like Dragon Age or any similar RPG, although I can see how that sort of breaks you out of the game since most of the interface is done within game using the PipBoy.

The funny thing about this all is that I remembered doing this at some point while trying it yesterday, but I had forgotten you even could do it before that. I spent so much time sitting in chairs and waiting for the camera to pan around.

Inspired by the disappointing endings thread, I would be kind of disappointed with Fallout New Vegas if the player character didn't die in the end. I feel like that is the most fitting scenario for the type of story they've shown so far. Something as silly as getting killed by a mutant scorpion, gecko, or something more action packed like a shoot out. Do you think people would be as upset with New Vegas if it ended that way as they were with Fallout 3?

If done as stupidly as Fallout 3, yes.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

To me, the Childkiller "perk" was there for when you were careless with your miniguns and shredded a bunch of innocent bystanders. :)

I "earned" that title in Fallout 1 or 2(can't remember which) with a careless burst from one of my automatics. In one fell swoop I basically undid all of my good deeds and had a hell of a time rebuilding my reputation. I thought it was a really cool. I certainly didn't expect it and probably assumed that kids were invulnerable. I was certainly more careful with my weapons after that.

Still I can't see something like this making its way into a modern, mainstream title.

Again the collector's edition looks neat.

They released this today:

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It looks cool, but I don't think I'll be getting it. I'll stick with the steam version.

* “Lucky 7” poker chips. Each of the seven poker chips was designed to represent chips from the major casinos found on the New Vegas strip and throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
* A fully customised Fallout: New Vegas deck of cards. Each card in the pack has been uniquely illustrated to depict characters and factions found within the game. Use the cards to play poker, blackjack or Caravan, an original card game that was created by Obsidian especially for Fallout: New Vegas!
* A recreation of the game’s highly coveted “Lucky 38” platinum chip.
* A hardcover graphic novel “All Roads”, that tells the story of some of the characters and events that lead up to Fallout: New Vegas. “All Roads” was written by Chris Avellone, the game’s creative director, and created in conjunction with Dark Horse Comics.
* ‘The Making of Fallout: New Vegas’ DVD. This documentary DVD will contain exclusive video content, including interviews with the developers in which they take you from concept to creation and discuss topics such as story, setting, legacy of the Fallout franchise and more.

I'm convinced that certain developers collude before releasing their collector's editions. "How can we make ruhk's games shelf even MORE precariously overburdened? BWA HA HA!"

The cards look cool and the comic book might be cool. Funny that it shows the European version when Obsidian are in California. Probably that Bethesda are in charge of the advertising, etc. Also the first Fallout game (not including FO: Brotherhood of Steel) to not feature power armor on the cover. Instead just the main character.

Hmm, true, never spotted that. Considering even Fallout Tactics had a guy in power armour.

I have to admit that I'm really looking forward to this coming out this year. I didn't think there was going to be any more games to buy this year, but this one will definitely be on the list.

PandaEskimo wrote:

Funny that it shows the European version when Obsidian are in California. Probably that Bethesda are in charge of the advertising, etc.

erm... why? Bethesda is also a US company.

Damn. I'm not much for collector's editions, but that looks pretty sexy.

ruhk wrote:
PandaEskimo wrote:

Funny that it shows the European version when Obsidian are in California. Probably that Bethesda are in charge of the advertising, etc.

erm... why? Bethesda is also a US company.

True, Maryland. For some reason I thought they were UK. I think they had a press event there that people talked about and for some reason I figured if they had an event there, that's where the studio is.

I really want that deck of cards for some reason. I don't even play cards very often.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I really want that deck of cards for some reason. I don't even play cards very often.

I want to play poker with those cards, using those chips. A pity there's not enough chips in there for them to be actually useful.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

I really want that deck of cards for some reason. I don't even play cards very often.

I want to play poker with those cards, using those chips. A pity there's not enough chips in there for them to be actually useful.

Buy more collector's sets.

I was just thinking the other day how it'd be nice if they made a Fallout game that wasn't about a Vault Dweller (or descendant thereof). I'm not crazy about using Vegas as a setting in general - it seems a little lazy and "gamey" since your character just moves from one themed area to another - but this sounds like it's a bit more RPG-heavy than Fallout 3. I'm in.

For those of you who are all that concerned about murdering children... you are monsters and I would thank you to stay away from me. Also, just get the PC version. There are mods that let you slaughter the residents of Little Lamplight in spectacular fashion.

AnimeJ wrote:

At this point, all I really want to know at this point is if they've added groin shots back to VATS. :P

I read somewhere that each weapon will have its own little special attack. There is one with a groin shot. I think it's the golf club.

I'm a little sad I can't relive my Fallout 2 experience by kicking someone in the crotch so hard that their entire body explodes, but golf club is better than nothing.

Lobster, I'm betting that the player in Fallout New Vegas is a descendant of the Fallout 2 characters with the possible off-spring in that game. I think it was the wife of one of the crime families. I seem to remember the ending for New Reno changing if you did have a kid, but perhaps one of those descendants doesn't know that connection and winds up in New Vegas.

They mentioned that The Courier is not related to the Vault Dweller, Chosen One, or the Lone Wanderer. I'm hoping they stick with this and don't do a silly thing like have you find out you are related. That would be a plot twist. Whether another character is related...now that could be interesting.

LobsterMobster wrote:

I was just thinking the other day how it'd be nice if they made a Fallout game that wasn't about a Vault Dweller (or descendant thereof).

The first 2 games gave the impression that every survivor on the surface was at some point a vault dweller or a descendant of one. A few notable exceptions are the Chinese sub descendants in SanFran, the BoS who came from a military base and not a true Vault, and possibly some ghouls.

If this is scheduled for an Oct-Nov release, that's like 3-4 months away from release... oooooooh, now I'm giddy with excitement!

I wonder if we will see BoS. And yes, the offspring is from the daughter of John Bishop; Angela Bishop.

From the wikia:

If the Chosen One sleeps with her without carrying a condom (Jimmy Hats), the ending for New Reno in which she is the mother of the Chosen One's child triggers, regardless of your further actions in the town (obviously, she needs to survive until the endgame)

Wonder if I can get some plated boxing gloves again and act in a porn movie?

I always sided with the booze runners. Seemed like good people. Usually became close to a made man in every other syndicate before I offed them.

Edit: I always had Jimmy Hats as well as Cool Shades in my inventory. There were a few other random weightless things I carried around.

Well, in Fallout 2, you could sleep with either Leslie Anne Bishop (the wife) or Angela Bishop (the daughter). In either of those cases, your offspring could take over the town but never know who their father was. With Leslie Anne Bishop, you have the chance to ask her to leave New Reno and then your offspring will lead a group of tribals to overtake the New Reno.

I could definitely see this offspring showing up in the game as an old man. Alternatively, I could see their children or grand children in the new game. If so, I think it is unlikely that these characters will know of their Chosen One connection since the endings to Fallout 2 suggest these descendants never knew about it and I don't know how they would have found out.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Leslie_Anne_Bishop
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Angela_Bishop

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I really want that deck of cards for some reason. I don't even play cards very often.

Me too!