The Man they call Jayne!
He robbed from the rich…
ah, the memories : )
Fozzle
1862
I have a question… When did game guides jump 80% in price?!? Holy cow. 26 bucks for a game guide…
I have it in my car, work just needs to end.
Gendal
1864
Amazon has the CE version which is a hardcover for $21, mine just showed up. It’s of a pretty high quality and packed with information (hopefully useful). Maybe a bit too much, the text is pretty small despite the 480+ pages.
Is the combat system in NV exactly the same as in Fallout 3? I really liked the tweaks FWE did to the combat in Fallout 3 (from what I’ve played so far), the higher lethality (both against you and your enemies) made the combat more like Stalker, and less about running as close as possible to your enemies and using VATS.
I’ve only played about 2 hours so far. For some reason, the toddler objects to mommy taking time off to shoot bad guys, so I’m only playing when she’s napping. I took the trait that makes weird stuff happen, and I think this was related to that, because the “weird stuff is happening” riff played.
I found a skeleton in a really beat up fridge, and I got a Sturdy Gambler’s Hat from his skeleton. But I am female, so that hat is a cute little round cap with a fabulous spray of feathers.
Guys, Indiana Jones was a transvestite.
Also, I am totally never taking that hat off.
Prima and Bradygames have been selling not so great guides for years at around 18$, which is much worse of a deal than the quality in the F3 and NV guides. I don’t know if Bradygames has upgraded significantly or been absorbed, but what Prima’s been doing on its own label and subsidiaries (like Piggyback, I believe) has been pretty excellent lately. MGs4 and RE5 both had outstanding shorter guides that are practically coffee table books in terms of production values, if not in terms of how much you’d actually want them on your table.
Reports of New Vegas’s bugginess have been greatly exaggerated.
For the PC version, at least.
I’m kind of surprised RPS rushed to print an article about the console version of a game when they’re a PC-only site. That and they apparently can’t get their fact-checking straight in regards to guns being drawn and how innocents react. I really expected better from a site that’s so well-respected and popular amongst the gaming elite.
Cut Quint some slack, he is new there : ).
To be fair the article is about the PC version. Quintin Smith wrote that he played Fallout 3 on his console, but he definitely plays New Vegas on PC.
As for rushing, as a potential customer, I’ would be pretty happy to know that the game is buggy when I can still cancel my preorder or wait till the game is patched (if ever). Of course, most of the time I just don’t buy game when they’re just released, and tend to wait for some feedback and a price-drop or two…
That’s not exactly the kind of pieces that justify my love for RPS, but your criticisms are kinda off base.
I miss Mr. Gillen. The others were always his plucky sidekicks – slightly incompetent (wasn’t there some running joke about being unable to find Iron?), usually funny (because of the former), and occasionally insightful.
Now, they’re the ones running the show. And it… shows.
Anyone played the 360 version that can vouch for it’s loading times and bugginess? I want to buy this, but I’m trying to convince myself not to based on the fact that it won’t be fun to play.
Tom Chick?
My friend has been playing all day and said he hasn’t had any problems with it. Yet.
Delta
1874
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. There’s a perk that makes weird stuff happen?
What’s it called? I’m getting that thing straight away.
Angie, I’d already pre-ordered, but I’m massively more excited now.
(Also, taking time off to shoot bad guys is not motherly behaviour).
(I don’t think).
I stand corrected! I clearly had mis-read the text.
But in regard to my criticisms, I think they’re entirely justified. A bunch of constantly fleeing AI is, to me, a critical, Troika-level bug. But then it appears that it’s not actually a bug after all.
That “bug” is obviously the most pronounced issue he raises. The rest is best summarized in his line, “The Oblivion engine’s back!”
My point is, I know I’m buying a game that uses the Oblivion: Fallout Edition engine. I anticipate that the things that were never fixed in Oblivion and Fallout 3 probably haven’t been fixed here.
Now, if the AI “bug” is really a bug, I wouldn’t want to buy the game. That’s above and beyond the expected bugginess. But it’s not clear whether it was actually a bug or not. No one else has mentioned it, and several players have said weapons need to be holstered. But then, Quintin hasn’t updated his article to say “My weapon was holstered.”
A (poor) analogy would be saying there’s a bug in Starcraft 2 where workers would occasionally refuse to build things, while not realizing they lacked the required resources to do so.
It’s called “Wild Wasteland”
I switched my order from the 360 to the PS3 version upon hearing of all the bugs - haven’t seen a single glitch or had a freeze yet.
There’s already a New Vegas version of FOOK:
Very basic so far, but they’re the first of the big modders to get one in.
Yes, it’s called Wild Wasteland and the perk description says not to use it if you don’t like humor in your post-apocalyptic settings. So of course I took it.
Note: Using VATS to throw multiple sticks of dynamite when your enemies are also going to throw multiple sticks of dynamite at you is a hilarious and stupid way to die.
Joe_M
1880
Yes, we get it. RPS = Jose Liz. Someone besmirched the reputation of your sacred cow and now you’re out for blood.
And Wild Wasteland sounds awesome. Pretty much required, I’d think.
