Fallout: New Vegas

Delta · 2010-10-28T14:24:47.000Z

Heartaches by the Number is worst. He already seems like he’s been singing for years when he comes in with ‘Heartache number one…’

Oh, God. We go.

maxle · 2010-10-28T15:57:04.000Z

Royal Fool:

I’ll have to look into some additional music mods, because hearing stuff like “Heartaches by the Number” and “Big Iron” for the umpteenth time is really starting to grate on the ears.

Turn off the radio. The remastered ambient stuff from FO1/2 is fine.

ETA: Oh, wait. You can’t get away from it? I stopped noticing it after I turned it off. YMMV, I suppose.

malkav11 · 2010-10-28T16:23:09.000Z

I like “Big Iron” just fine but it seems like it plays roughly once per three songs.

Killzig · 2010-10-28T16:39:21.000Z

Sepiche:

The interface isn’t great, but here’s a partial database of items in NV:
http://www.gamebanshee.com/falloutnewvegas/equipment.php

I know there new skin is not to everyone’s liking but the wiki has a pretty complete list.

Fallout Wiki

Fallout: New Vegas items

Item overview pages Ammunition, Armor and clothing, Caravan cards, Consumables, Crafting, Holodisks and notes, Keys, Skill books, Skill magazines, Snow globes, Weapons, Weapon mods, Other items

ElGuapo · 2010-10-28T16:40:53.000Z

Serious spoilers, I assume, in that list. I don’t want to know about some cool gun mod or quest item that I don’t know about.

Killzig · 2010-10-28T16:58:45.000Z

ElGuapo:

Serious spoilers, I assume, in that list. I don’t want to know about some cool gun mod or quest item that I don’t know about.

As far as what quests some of the items are related to I think most of that is on the entries for the items themselves rather than on the tables. Some of the armor names could be spoilers for you so if you’re sensitive to that stuff best to avoid the wiki.

ShivaX · 2010-10-28T18:02:07.000Z

Murbella:

Question: Is there any way to stop my melee companion from running off to engage people far away? I like her a lot and so far she seems to be able to handle herself well (being a melee expert with metal armor and some super fist weapon that looks like a power fist does that), but i’d prefer she stuck near me and picked off the nasty monsters that try to bash my head while i’m sniping people.

I had pretty good luck setting her on passive, melee and then crouching. She tended not to run off very much. Hell at times she’d sit right next to me when I wanted her to go kill stuff. Other times shes just going to take off after things, but I suspect that happens more when shes taking hits.

Sarkus · 2010-10-28T18:30:38.000Z

There are some nice little touches in this game that make it seem very real. There is one companion who you meet out and about that is a member of a faction. When you take that companion to the faction base, there are actual little greetings and banter between the companion and other faction members there, exactly like what you would expect. Something that is absent in many RPGs.

Alan_Friesen · 2010-10-28T18:38:10.000Z

If you turn off the radio, the game’ll play Fallout music from the first two games. It’s pretty cool to get to Helios and have the theme for Fallout 13 from FO1 start, complete with keyboard clacking in the background.

Passed it today. The final climactic battle against the spoiler was pretty pitiful, but the rest of the game, aside from those ten minutes, was fantastic. Can’t wait to replay it in a year when it’s nicely patched up.

ImpAtom · 2010-10-28T19:58:22.000Z

Sarkus:

There are some nice little touches in this game that make it seem very real. There is one companion who you meet out and about that is a member of a faction. When you take that companion to the faction base, there are actual little greetings and banter between the companion and other faction members there, exactly like what you would expect. Something that is absent in many RPGs.

I absolutely loved this. It really added something to the game to be wandering along and hear someone go “What’s that robot? Never seen anything like that” or for a character on the street to comment on one of my companions that he recognized. It’s such a minor thing but it really made my companions feel connected to what I was doing.

Murbella · 2010-10-28T20:08:27.000Z

Damn deathclaws. Apparently a hunting rifle with armor piercing ammo is not a big enough gun to safely hunt even solo deathclaws, much less packs of three.

PapaSmurf · 2010-10-28T20:18:48.000Z

Yeah… I haven’t been able to find a “guns” based weapon that can take them, even That Gun.

I think I should have put a few points into Energy Weapons somewhere along the way =/

Sarkus · 2010-10-28T20:21:18.000Z

PapaSmurf:

Yeah… I haven’t been able to find a “guns” based weapon that can take them, even That Gun.

I think I should have put a few points into Energy Weapons somewhere along the way =/

Deathclaws are much harder in this game then they were in Fallout 3. Which is as it should be. And there are guns that are effective against them, but you don’t get access to them early on by design.

Lizard_King · 2010-10-28T20:25:00.000Z

PapaSmurf:

Yeah… I haven’t been able to find a “guns” based weapon that can take them, even That Gun.

There are plenty of upper tier guns that handle Deathclaws. I one shot them in stealth kills regularly, and in prolonged engagements it’s usually the combination of a bullet from Boone and one of mine that kills them.

Erik_J · 2010-10-28T20:28:16.000Z

On that note, the gun play is a heck of a lot more fun than it was in FO3. I know people have mentioned it, but just playing it for the first time tonight… world of difference.

RedHerb · 2010-10-28T20:29:04.000Z

ImpAtom:

I absolutely loved this. It really added something to the game to be wandering along and hear someone go “What’s that robot? Never seen anything like that” or for a character on the street to comment on one of my companions that he recognized. It’s such a minor thing but it really made my companions feel connected to what I was doing.

Absolutely! Having ED-E when in vault 3 gets some pretty funny remarks.

It makes them feel more then just third wheels. Unlike in ME2 in which Shepard and the rest of the world seemed to shun your companions. And the specific places of interest that pop up, where the character seems to have something “interesting” to say, are meet with awkward silences.

MrCoffee · 2010-10-28T20:37:38.000Z

Hah all that reminds me when you have a Powered Armor in Fallout 2 and everyone in New Reno asks how do you pee in that.

Grifman · 2010-10-28T20:44:22.000Z

I love the callbacks from the prior games . . .

SPOILERS (minor)

Like the old woman who used to be a vertibird pilot and crashed outside of Klamath . . .

Or the singer who banged a Mr. Bishop’s daughter in New Reno . . .

Lots of stuff like this if you pay attention closely.

Tom_McNamara · 2010-10-28T21:04:57.000Z

Rapper and thespian Ice-T weighs in on Fallout: New Vegas.

Murbella · 2010-10-28T21:08:53.000Z

Tom McNamara:

Rapper and thespian Ice-T weighs in on Fallout: New Vegas.

That twitter background is a crime against humanity.