OK, so I finally “finished” Skyrim (not really, never fast traveled, my style and kick from these open world games is wandering the world, but probably 500 hours, LOL, I see I posted in this thread back in 2012 that I was about to finish Skyrim and try this one!) and I am now wandering the wasteland of NV. I am level 34, all Guns, I just sell energy weapons and ammo. Even though I’m at 34, I have not yet entered New Vegas. My plan is to leave that for absolute last. Finished the Honest Hearts DLC, thought it was just OK, and thought if I heard my companion say the same thing ONE MORE TIME I was just going to shoot him in the head and throw him in the river. Nice concept, just felt it could have been more developed. Took the choice to not wipe out the “bad guys” but rather leave the area. Probably about half way through Lonesome Road, and other than blowing my legs off a lot from mines I just can’t see (wish I’d taken the perk to not set off mines/traps) I’m actually enjoying the “heavier” feel. Really bummed, though, when U. took ED-E and suddenly I have all of his carrying capacity of stuff he was carrying for me that I have to drop here, cause I can’t carry it! Argh! I assume that is just going to be gone now.
Oh, playing on the 360, got the bundle that has all the DLCs and GRA, etc. Never fast travel, again, I role play the wanderer/explorer. I’m really enjoying it. I have had, in my hours up to level 34, maybe 4 or 5 freezes on the 360, but each of those were OK when I reloaded and started again, so no hangs or bugs so far that impact the game play.
And just finished reading this entire thread! I wanted to reply to a lot of the posts in here, but felt replying to a post from 2011 is probably not productive. ;)