To be fair the original Fallout 3 had a fair bit of bugs as well, especially on release.
I’ll be playing Christian Wasp, the mad stealth suicide bomber. It’s the only way to play FO3D.
The gunplay is shitty and melee is dull, so both are out. On the other hand, VATS makes you near-invulnerable, Stealth makes you near-invisible, Explosives are just about the most easily available weapon in the game and works wonders with invisible, invulnerable player characters, and VATS has this built-in obnoxious-cam thing that is completely intolerable if allowed to show something other than blood decals.
I hate you, Amazon!
My copy has shipped, but their estimated arrival date is October 25.
Oh, it’s because I’m a moron and didn’t resubmit the order after I picked up Prime, so it’s coming via Free Super Saver Shipping, and not release day shipping. :(
Go buy one from a local store and then return the still packaged amazon copy to the store. Free release day shipping, courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Gamestop.
Yeah, but I ordered the collector’s edition.
I had enough credits banked to bring it down to $20.
My strategy guide is showing Oct 25 as ship date and delivery as Nov 1 to Nov 5. So I just canceled the order
Ahem.
I appreciate the suggestion, though.
Raife
1588
FYI, the “Go Postal!” perk allows you intercept mail while it’s in transit.
I finally broke down and pre-ordered on steam. I just couldn’t take the thought of waiting for this one.
Keep in mind, it lowers your faction with the postmen and Kevin Costner hunts you down.
Costner hasn’t been able to land a hit in years, though.
So this is set to release at midnight and not the noon the count down timer says?
Jafisob
1593
As far as bugs in FO3, I didn’t notice any glaring bugs that significantly impacted my game play.
Regarding balance issues…
To be fair FO3 and Oblivion both had major balance issues. I was a demigod in Fallout 3 before level 10. At 20 I was a god. I wasn’t expecting FNV to be dramatically different.
Try hardcore mode - it sounds extremely interesting, and I fully plan on giving it a shot on my first play through.
As long as there are interesting places to explore and fascinating stories to witness, I don’t really care about balance.
Fallout 3 was all about the exploration for me.
Adree
1596
If it crashes on the 360 I’d be quicker to blame the engine than Obsidian, FO3 was pretty easy to crash and since Tom said clearing his cache helped I’d almost guarantee that was the cause.
Jafisob
1597
Yes! This is the reason Fallout 3 was one of my favorite games. Despite some of the balance problems, the open world exploration was exemplary. This is my expectation of Fallout New Vegas. It may have balance problems and other issues, but I expect to have a heck of a fun time running around and finding things.
I will enjoy reading Tom’s review when it comes out.
Well, there’s two separate things here: the lock-ups and the “memory leak”.
I could be misremebering, but I don’t recall Fallout 3 freezing up on my 360. New Vegas is locking up on me with alarming frequency. Like a hard lock where I can’t even call up the menu by pressing the Xbox button. It’s happened about ten times.
Most of the time it’s no big deal, since the game autosaves so frequently. One time it happened, I had just won about 5000 caps after a string of successful Caravan games (ingame CCG that’s pretty much impossible to lose). Another time, just now in fact, it locked up at the end of a progression of arena style battles. At which point I get to decide whether to replay that arena stuff or just say “fuck it”. I’m leaning towards the latter.
If this was an issue in Fallout 3, it wasn’t nearly as bad. And this is with the retail version. I have no idea if there’s a day-0 patch in the works, but New Vegas needs it.
The memory leak (not sure if that’s what it actually was, but the framerate was excruciatingly slow and the game was pausing every few seconds) was a separate issue. I haven’t seen it since last night, but I’ve been saving and restarting throughout the day. As for clearing the cache, I have no idea whether it actually helped. It’s just one of those things like defragging that I figure I might as well do to cover all my bases.
-Tom
My experience is that hardcore mode doesn’t have any meaningful impact on the power curve. As I said above, it’s more a matter of adding survival flavor than making the game more challenging.
-Tom
More specific than exploration, what I loved about Fallout 3 was the interpretation of a retro-futurist post apocalyptic universe and also discovering many of the small subcultures that have developed over the centuries from it. What great imagination and setting artistry!
Unfortunately, my sensors have not picked this up from New Vegas. Please, somebody show me wrong.
edit: Atompunk it is.
