I assume both of these packs are aimed at console gamers.
Want to take bets on how many PC players buy them?
Oh god, that Cannibalism animation. They even add blood to your hands. Plus if you drag a corpse in front of an NPC and do it they go hostile!
If I recall there’s an achievement for eating all of the most important NPC’s in the game, too.
Considering nobody ever publishes numbers other than in vague generalaties, I don’t see what the point would be.
If you kill and eat the entire NCR correctional facility you’ll go from very evil overall karma to…good. Wasteland ethics!
Finished NV this evening. It was a solid 132 hours, with the three DLC included, and was well worth the money I paid since I got the game and the first two DLC during a Steam sale. Overall, it was a great time playing a stealthy, gun-toting explorer who liked to talk up the peeps. I was very disappointed with the ending sequence, though.
big ole end spoilers
I sided with the NCR in the end. Leaving aside all the side deals I made to get support for the NCR and/or get folks out of the way, I found the battle for Hoover Dam to be one of the worst designed section of the entire game, starting with the prep for the President’s speech and culminating with me convincing the Legate to go home. It was a lot of looking around, to a lot of waiting, then to a lot of waves of Legion troops getting in my way as I tried to figure out where the hell I was supposed to be going for the optional “stop the Legion troops from invading” quest. By the time I did a few sweeps of the entire dam, I finally figured it all out and could move on to the primary end sequence. Very dull. All I had to do was move along the dam and take out a few more mini-waves of Legion troops, snipe some standing around later on, then confront the Legate in his camp. Sent him packing with my mighty speech skill, then had a bit of an epilogue to wrap up some happenings and give a little future text on some of the major characters (while leaving out others). That whole bit was a major letdown compared to the rest of the game.
Gah, I just hate it when a great game is brought down because the climax is lackluster. You’d think it would be the most important part of the game, but it’s frequently one of the poorest in terms of implementation, interest, and excitement.
Ah well. It’s over and done and I can move on to other games (and finishing up some of the ones I’ve let go in favour of NV). I don’t think the final DLC will get me to return, either, as I’m kinda NVed-out now, especially since I maxed my level a while back.
[Edit] Oh yeah, what’s with the 30-40 minutes of credits? That’s just insane. Dial it back people.
Endings tend to get short shrift because a lot of people don’t get that far. Or so I recall reading. Certainly I’ve played hundreds more games than I’ve actually finished myself.
Looks kind of bland, actually, but I’ll probably still pick it up in a steam sale.
Squee
4491
Going to buy it immediately since FNV has been my favorite modern RPG in many years. Probably since Bloodlines. Kinda hope if/when Bethesda does Fallout 4 they do it on the east coast again so I can ignore it, then hire Obsidian to do another west canon game.
Can’t wait to hear the story on Ulysses too.
Yea, that was strangely uninspiring. I am still really not clear why the Courier should go there…I was expecting a far stronger hook. (Admittedly, the problem of having the player able to support a multitude of factions is there, but you can always have a “cannon” for that…or simply avoid it…talk not about a specific flag but about the “Two flags meeting under one sky” again.)
Bah, I’ve gone all game designer and am thinking about it in storyboards again ><
Dogar
4493
For real? I think it’s the best trailer they’ve released. Can’t wait.
Does anyone else have frequent crashes when going through doors on the PC version? I’m trying to narrow it down to either the stock engine or all the mods I’m using.
Squee
4495
Wasn’t the case for me. I might’ve had one crash in my 120-odd hours of FNV. Except for the launcher, strangely enough the launcher is crash-happy.
Sarkus
4496
Very few crashes for me, though they did seem to increase a bit with the most recent DLC, Old World Blues, and they were usually at doors. I’m not sure if that was due to the DLC or the patch around that time. But I haven’t had issues anywhere else outside of the OWB area.
TurinTur
4497
When going through doors?
Isn’t that like… every few minutes?!!
No, i had a few crashes in my 70 hour game, around four or so. But no more.
Telefrog
4498
I have a fairly easy to reproduce crash at McCarran (right in front of the entrance doors) but nothing else.
The crash has been documented in the wiki, so at least I know I’m not alone.
Interesting, thanks. I get a crash maybe every 30 minutes or so, but there’s certain doors like McCarran that do it about 50% of the time.
From the bugs entry:
Crashing or freezing when entering or exiting areas is somewhat common.
Razgon
4500
No crashing here, thats door related. I did have a few crashes every other hour or so when the game first released, but it been surprisingly stable since then.
