Fallout: New Vegas

TheWombat · 2010-11-08T18:05:40.000Z

ZekeDMS:

I really have to admit I’m impressed by how much the dam feels like the real thing. I’ve only been on the dam tour once, but…it just seemed right when I explored it in NV. Then again, the whole mojave just feels right, so that’s not really a surprise.

Except there’s no snakes. Needs snakes.

malkav11 · 2010-11-08T18:10:44.000Z

TheWombat:

Except there’s no snakes. Needs snakes.

There are snakedogs.

ShivaX · 2010-11-08T18:46:42.000Z

Jazar:

Let the oversaturation of a beloved franchise begin!

As long as they’re like New Vegas I don’t care and I’d play them forever.

I mean it took 15 years or so, but they got the original team back together and made a great game. Too bad Bioware seems to be heading in the opposite direction on that kind of thinking.

roguefrog · 2010-11-08T19:07:06.000Z

They will need better writers. And a better design/main quest structure. Door that open and close based on your choices. Real consequences. The linear highly directed with complete lack of meaningful choice quest-chain model they’ve been using for at least three games now totally sucks. Also take a cue on how Obsidian dumps a metric fuckton of skill checks everywhere.

XPav · 2010-11-08T19:29:22.000Z

Yeah, it sucks all the way to the bank.

pilonv1 · 2010-11-08T21:46:06.000Z

Charlatan:

I talked to a named dude in one of the power generator areas (wearing a red jumpsuit) who seemed to indicated there could be a quest to fix generators and/or clean out tubes (yeah, I’m busy saving the world, let me clear those leaves for you), but since I was in the ‘endgame’ part of the game he said something like “come back later and maybe I’ll have some work for you.”

Maybe it’s like the Burned Man and an unsolved mystery*?

*Mystery resolved in DLC

mixuk · 2010-11-09T00:56:13.000Z

I won the jackpot in Atomic Wrangler and it seems like i’m not allowed to gamble there anymore, at all. Is this the case or is there a waiting period?

TurinTur · 2010-11-09T01:37:02.000Z

mixuk:

I won the jackpot in Atomic Wrangler and it seems like i’m not allowed to gamble there anymore, at all. Is this the case or is there a waiting period?

Permanent ban. But don’t worry, it’s not like you need so much money in the game. I finished it with a surplus of 50.000$ and i didn’t played in the Casinos.

ZekeDMS · 2010-11-09T01:44:24.000Z

As in reality, you’re <del>banned</del> gently touched from the casino’s gambling establishment. Permanently.

TheWombat · 2010-11-09T04:46:00.000Z

malkav11:

There are snakedogs.

And indeed the Nightstalkers are a cross between rattlesnakes and some canine thing. Coyotes, maybe? But they’re not real honest-to-God-snakes. Dang it.

Grifman · 2010-11-09T04:49:01.000Z

maxle:

Wonder how many of those five million actually made it to customers.

A lot as they’ve also announced significant reorders from retailers.

Teiman · 2010-11-09T05:02:44.000Z

Charlatan:

…who seemed to indicated there could be a quest to fix generators and/or clean out tubes (yeah, I’m busy saving the world, let me clear those leaves for you),

Commenting this could be spoilery, but et aqua silente cave tibi

Black_Isis · 2010-11-09T08:01:00.000Z

How do those 5M sales compare to Fallout 3?

Douglas · 2010-11-09T08:44:26.000Z

Black Isis:

How do those 5M sales compare to Fallout 3?

Roughly equal according to pc.ign.com/articles/927/927608p1.html

Alistair · 2010-11-09T09:00:24.000Z

That’s a stunning achievement.

Murbella · 2010-11-09T09:19:08.000Z

It really is, especially considering the NMA style hate people have for obsidian.

Kalle · 2010-11-09T09:23:45.000Z

I thought NMA hated Bethesda.

TurinTur · 2010-11-09T09:25:37.000Z

Murbella:

It really is, especially considering the NMA style hate people have for obsidian.

In the end, ‘normal’ people don’t know or care for who did their games. Nor the game dev. company, nor the names inside that company, nor the publisher.

Activision? EA?
Bethesda? Obisdian?
Josh Sawyer? Todd Howard?

Whatever.

Murbella · 2010-11-09T09:28:24.000Z

Reviewers care and a lot of the people posting on boards like these surely take notice.

TurinTur · 2010-11-09T09:46:02.000Z

People posting on boards are hardcore gamers who know who is who in the game industry. The point was, “people posting on boards” are 1% of the people who buys videogames, that’s why i was saying that, in general, people doesn’t notice the creators of a game.