What is Fallout? Think Mad Max, post apocalypse mixed with science-fiction nuclear devastations.
Fallout: New Vegas is the second release by Bethesda Softworks and the first by the former developers of the previous Fallout series before the fall of Interplay Entertainment; Black Isle Studios who got shit-canned from and formed Obsidian Entertainment. Bethesda bought the rights to the Fallout series and their first outing was Fallout 3 released in 2008 and New Vegas, 2010.
I had no real urge to go out and buy Fallout 3, but Ranvier blew his nut over the game and said I had to buy it. I bought it, and was hooked like a junkie being honest to the store clerk, asking where the Brillo pads were so I could use them to fill my crack pipe. My interaction to Fallout 3 was at first difficult to dealing with so much information and the total expanse the game offered. Fallout 3 had an intriguing storyline bout a son/daughter looking his/her daddy and an overarching battle over water. Various side quests interjected the story as well, but were few. Ranvier is still disappointed in the ending but oh well…Bethesda made it chaa-ching off the bad ending. They followed up the game with five DLCs at ten bucks a piece, like Pokémon I collected them all! Some worth it, some not, but all added to the universe.
Fallout: New Vegas, where to begin, the game is harder, the enemies bigger and the environment inhospitable. The story goes…somebody shot you, you wanna find out who, get revenge; part 1. Part 2, fight for the Hoover Dam. I can’t say much about it I have only played the 3 of 4 missions in part 1. I know who shot me but not the revenge. I have been playing the wilderness explorer and walking the wastes and doing about ¾ of the side quests so far. Some places you can’t go near at lower levels and you will get your ass smeared on the desert wasteland by some mutated bug. Cazadors. These mean cock sucking mother truckers are mean, they attack in packs and you die. Simple as that, oh and you can’t run from them, for the first fifteen levels I walked the long way around them. Back from the original series are the mutants from the Master’s army, I won’t nerd out on you but, they’re from Fallout 1&2, mole rats, ghouls, geckos (my personal favorite), and radscorpions. I will tell you the side missions are great as they add to the overall story, the struggle of the main quest and people and places of New Vegas.
Comparing the old with the new. Fallout 3 was awe-inspiring, the experience of walking the Washington D.C. wasteland could not be beat, seeing the ruined National Mall and fighting for your life on the streets. I haven’t seen the Vegas strip but from the lights that shine to almost anywhere on the map, I can only assume it rocks. They’ve doubled the weapons, added the option to mod them and let the player reload their own shells. Throughout the game are crafting benches to build weapons and kits, campfires to make woodsman products; like tanning hides and making vittles. These greatly add to the experience of the living in the wastes, like Bear Grylls…he’s the douche that gets dropped in some off the road place and “survives.” They’ve added more companions to help you destroy those that oppose your journey. The story is no longer just a two sided affair and the story branches are many. Obsidian reeled back the amount of perks you could have; which makes it very difficult to make the super uber powerful I kill anything that moves and the peasants run before me. That was my Fallout 3 character, 100 of 100 skill points maxed; sadly I won’t have that with this New Vegas character. And then there is Hardcore Mode...when you're thirsty, you must drink, when you're tired, you must sleep, everything thing has weight and you and your companions die easier. I am going to wait on this for awhile...it sounds a little too ahem...Hardcore.
I give Fallout 3 solid 4 INUS.
Glitchy as shit, solid game play, grey and brown color palette, kind of shitty story, cool DLC, epic moments for what they’re worth and a huge map.
I give Fallout: New Vegas a looking forward review of 4.25 INUS
Really glitchy as shit, solid game play, all the colors of the rainbow, better story and twice the side quests, DLC is yet to be seen, some serious cool moments so far, huge map but everything feels closer together and just enough new stuff to make it cooler than the first.
Well I won’t say run out and buy it but, if you love to grind for exp, blow out thine enemies brain amongst the wall and find little piddly “unique items” then, yeah have fun. I will be probably playing this 'til the next one comes out, can’t get enough.
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