Fallout: New Vegas

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  1. Manucci555
    Aug 18, 2023
    2
    The writing in essence is a metaphor for the post American world, but that's about all that's good about the game. It plays identically to Fallout 3 with strange npc's spread out throughout the wasteland to interact with. Even though people will say the writing is "brilliant" someone wisely pointed out to me once that the entire story comes off as a bit odd.

    There are guys running    The writing in essence is a metaphor for the post American world, but that's about all that's good about the game. It plays identically to Fallout 3 with strange npc's spread out throughout the wasteland to interact with. Even though people will say the writing is "brilliant" someone wisely pointed out to me once that the entire story comes off as a bit odd.

    There are guys running around dressing up as ancient Roman's wielding assault carbines and a group of Elvis impersonators in the year 2281 who rule the outskirts of Las Vegas. I was a monkey once who couldn't see the humor in this, but someone pointed out to me how funny and ridiculous the writing of New Vegas can get.    … Expand
  2. Poodlefish
    Aug 17, 2023
    0
    Worst fallout game I have played. Its over rated, writing and world building is terrible it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be.
  3. Squaredash
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Everyone told me this game was excellent and I have to wonder if we even played the same video game. It’s a crash-ridden walking simulator that actively avoids feeling rewarding. It’s a shooter that disincentivizes shooting, a roleplaying game with hardly any moments to roleplay, an open-world game that punishes you for exploring in directions the game didn’t want you to, and I don’t thinkEveryone told me this game was excellent and I have to wonder if we even played the same video game. It’s a crash-ridden walking simulator that actively avoids feeling rewarding. It’s a shooter that disincentivizes shooting, a roleplaying game with hardly any moments to roleplay, an open-world game that punishes you for exploring in directions the game didn’t want you to, and I don’t think I ever had fun in the ~10 hours my friends made me play it for… Expand
  4. Vash4562
    Jul 14, 2023
    3
    O jogo dispoem de mecanicas e universo muito bem feitos, com uma gameplay simples mas divertida, bem como uma serie de side-quest legais e profundas que contribuem com a imersão e desenvolvimento do universo.....porem os bugs acabam com tudo, bugs visuais, bugs de save, crashs, bugs, bugs e mais bugs! Simplesmente você poder perder seu save de 50 horas por que as quest ou mecanicasO jogo dispoem de mecanicas e universo muito bem feitos, com uma gameplay simples mas divertida, bem como uma serie de side-quest legais e profundas que contribuem com a imersão e desenvolvimento do universo.....porem os bugs acabam com tudo, bugs visuais, bugs de save, crashs, bugs, bugs e mais bugs! Simplesmente você poder perder seu save de 50 horas por que as quest ou mecanicas bugam... e não há mod que possa consertar tantos bugs, pois parece que eles são criados exclusivamentes para você e ninguem mais teve o mesmo bug.… Expand
  5. GhostlyMenace
    Apr 21, 2023
    0
    Fallout: New Vegas is a Fallout 3 expansion, it in fact plays identically to its predecessor with the same graphics and engine, and dull gunplay, as Fallout 3. This mess of a video game, if it even deserves to be called a video game, is full of banally crafted and totally unoriginal or ridiculous factions. The game completely lacks a coherent plot, and as another user put it the introFallout: New Vegas is a Fallout 3 expansion, it in fact plays identically to its predecessor with the same graphics and engine, and dull gunplay, as Fallout 3. This mess of a video game, if it even deserves to be called a video game, is full of banally crafted and totally unoriginal or ridiculous factions. The game completely lacks a coherent plot, and as another user put it the intro sequence (“the game was rigged from the start”) is a completely infuriating way to start a game.

    They may have added a few more guns, but that doesn’t make up for it being merely a Fallout 3 expansion. Beware of the leagues of total idiots who will try to tell you this disaster is a half decent game.    … Expand
  6. 111thwanderer
    Feb 21, 2023
    0
    After playing fallout 4 everyone told me to play new vegas, saying it was better. Boy could that be any further from the truth. The game which is supposed to be free roam has you follow a narrow path and throws quests at you as you traverse, some are interesting but many are not, in many instances the give you a choice, and then deduct karma as a way to tell you whether it was the rightAfter playing fallout 4 everyone told me to play new vegas, saying it was better. Boy could that be any further from the truth. The game which is supposed to be free roam has you follow a narrow path and throws quests at you as you traverse, some are interesting but many are not, in many instances the give you a choice, and then deduct karma as a way to tell you whether it was the right choice or not, what rpg tell you if you made the right choice or not, that for you to decide. furthermore, the towns feel empty as they are all made up of multiple different interior cells with almost no npc's outside, so it feels like everyone is just chilling inside doing nothing, in many instance the game bugged such as when the plane flies over hoover damn, for me there was no plane. Think of my confusion. in many cases when you attack a hostile evil faction, such as the powder gangers or the legion, the game will deduct karma when you take stuff from their camp. this game uses hype to its advantage, things are talked up way higher than they pan out to be. The best example is New vegas, it's in the title, but when you get there its simply two cells and a couple of mindless NPCs walking around, they at least try to make excuses for their laziness though, like the vault in New vegas which has been cemented over cause I guess the devs got lazy or something. All the weapons are just real-world weapons or stuff left over from fallout 3, It's supposed to top be a wasteland but it is so built up that it doesn't feel that way. The muddy colours really make you dread playing. The game does have many choices, but they don't normally play out, instead the characters stand around until you finish the game where the announcer tells you what happened, what happened to show not tell. Lastly, many of the items and themes feel to modern, many of the guns fit the fallout universe but an equal amount don't, the m16 teeters on the line of what fits and what doesn't but many other weapons simply break pre-established canon by being present. All-in-all I would have given this game a little bit of a better rating if it was not over-hyped to me. For the fallout franchise's sake, I hope Bethesda steers clear of Obsidian entertainment in the future.… Expand
  7. faret
    Jan 11, 2023
    0
    Великолепная игра, одна из лучших рпг на пк, великая, шедевральная и неподражаемая игра.
  8. AgentLvi
    Dec 27, 2022
    4
    Bad game. Thestory is really decent, visual is decent, and the voice is also decent
  9. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  10. Jackson889
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    A sad excuse for a video game, I crushed up the disk and put the dust into the toilet because its complete crapola.
  11. Miyazaki_miyaza
    Jun 14, 2022
    0
    El mejor fallout, mejor que el 3 y aprovecha todas las habilidades, que se jodan los que dicen que el 3 es mejor, es mejor este y punto
  12. NCRtrooper
    Apr 19, 2022
    0
    why are you here reading these bad reviews go play the game ITS THE BEST DAMN GAME IN EXISTENCE
  13. Simonyan4ik
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Ooo, I really regret buying this and playing it. I'd rather not do this. I need a refund. I hope you go bankrupt and never make another game in your life
  14. Moskonavt
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    In Russian region a can`t buy this game, besides all Bethesda games blocked in Russia. It`s so stupid. Non-politics games.
  15. squidyy666
    Dec 11, 2021
    0
    sadly we wont be getting another game like this :'(

    Bethesda has proven that they know who they're games are made (fallout franchise) and that is of the simple minded fanboy, they don't care about good intelligent story telling they just want easy to digest content in the form of caps, nuckacola, rad roatches and the brotherhood of steel so they can play and feel invested in a franchise    sadly we wont be getting another game like this :'(

    Bethesda has proven that they know who they're games are made (fallout franchise) and that is of the simple minded fanboy, they don't care about good intelligent story telling they just want easy to digest content in the form of caps, nuckacola, rad roatches and the brotherhood of steel so they can play and feel invested in a franchise that is getting torn limb from limb.    … Expand
  16. dioxide
    Jun 30, 2021
    0
    Horrible the story was complex the combat was cringe and the RPG mechanics were lacking overall don't buy!
  17. D4vid
    May 28, 2021
    0
    This is simply an unfinished game.
    Graphically and aesthetics in general are poor at best. Storyline and choices system is lacking. Gameplay is meh.
  18. Marshwhitt25
    Mar 30, 2021
    0
    FNV is fairly old now but it does not feel old, the game is rich of exploring the Mojave wasteland. Sometimes the game is peaceful as you are wandering a deserted town, other times it is intense and scary as you are being chased by one of those damn cazadors on a mountain. Fnv is a true rpg full of life and those creepy deserted vaults. Fallout is one of my favorite series and fnv is theFNV is fairly old now but it does not feel old, the game is rich of exploring the Mojave wasteland. Sometimes the game is peaceful as you are wandering a deserted town, other times it is intense and scary as you are being chased by one of those damn cazadors on a mountain. Fnv is a true rpg full of life and those creepy deserted vaults. Fallout is one of my favorite series and fnv is the most different game in the whole series (in a good way).… Expand
  19. MNCC0210
    Jan 3, 2021
    0
    I played this game in 2020. I am a longtime fallout fan and i can say the game is great! It has a very solid story, certainly more compelling and detailed than even fallout 4. Gameplay is great, shoutout to the sound design and the choice of weapons (so glad they included the M1 Garand).

    There are a ton of choices to make that certainly feel difficult and have an impact later in the    I played this game in 2020. I am a longtime fallout fan and i can say the game is great! It has a very solid story, certainly more compelling and detailed than even fallout 4. Gameplay is great, shoutout to the sound design and the choice of weapons (so glad they included the M1 Garand).

    There are a ton of choices to make that certainly feel difficult and have an impact later in the game. In general the flow of the game felt great.

    The downside is that the game is riddled with glitches. Expect to load autosaves often as some quests will break and you will suddenly be stuck in between pixels or in a wall. It was especially annoying to see the last quest of the game glitch, when the tension was high and I was expecting a climax.

    Graphics dont hold out fort this generation but that is to be expected. Even though the mojave desert is immersive, it lacks cool, outstanding places to visit.

    Had a great time playing it!    … Expand
  20. Athaz13
    Dec 3, 2020
    0
    obsidians magnum opus, an exquisite work of art, deserves everything it has and more.
  21. pizzalover2788
    Nov 2, 2020
    4
    Tremendamente aburrido, un mundo vacío, hasta feo, sin gracia, no me ha interesado nada. He jugado al Fallout 3 previamente. Lo dejé la primera vez a la mitad y la segunda vez, cuando decidí darle una oportunidad después de un tiempo, lo he dejado a las puertas de acabarlo, sin haber encontrado lo que le da tan buenas críticas. No es para mí.
  22. desertrunning
    Oct 29, 2020
    0
    I Finally Played This Game After 10 Years Since It's Release!


    And The Game really Sucks. The map Is empty and boring. The Gameplay Just Same as Fo3 but with iron Sights. Story is terrible and characters was Forgettable. At Least I Played it for free! he he he he.
  23. hououink
    Oct 21, 2020
    1
    Шлак для не очень умных людей. Стадо схавало кала и попросило добавки. Не забудьте закусить дотой и скайримом
  24. Sizzler1987
    Sep 16, 2020
    1
    A truly disappointing game. As hyped up as many people made it seem it certainly did not live up to its “legacy”. You start off in a bland and boring world, with a color pallet reminded me of post-hangover piss. The entire game is like this unfortunately.

    Not a single character has more than 1 character trait. One dimensional and flat every character could be summed up with a single    A truly disappointing game. As hyped up as many people made it seem it certainly did not live up to its “legacy”. You start off in a bland and boring world, with a color pallet reminded me of post-hangover piss. The entire game is like this unfortunately.

    Not a single character has more than 1 character trait. One dimensional and flat every character could be summed up with a single sentence. Their motivations are straightforward at best, cliche at worst. The story is boring and fails to get your attention. It is a story you can easily tell was made by people who did not care about what they were making akin to the Minions movie or the Emoji movie. People who needed a story and undoubtedly wrote it in an afternoon. The studio needed a story rather than someone having a story to tell.

    So if not for the story, what reason is there to play? That’s a question I sought to answer and failed. The fighting is bland and unserviceable. The enemies rarely respond to their environment instead opting to either stand as idle sims with their rifles or run to you shooting you until either you or them run out of health.

    So if not for the gunplay or the story what’s the reason to play? Well considering those are the only things in the game that were given any attention, there’s really nothing to do. This game is easily the greatest disappointment in gaming. I genuinely had a better time with fallout 76 and Tactics. Do yourself a favor and just read the story summary on Wikipedia. I’ll genuinely say that would at least be more enjoyable as you wouldn’t have had to waste time on this godforsaken game.    … Expand
  25. Pixeldeath
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. наконец-то bethesda ,а точнее obsidian entertaiment дали нам фоллаут,в 3д, с блэкджеком и шлю#ами, так ещё и с разнообразными квестами,

    ты например можешь переспасть с тем кто тебя убил и во сне его-же убить. или ты можешь в самом первом квесте не защитить Гудспрингс ,а наоборот подорвать его.

    в общем Игра отличная, хотя есть немного багов, например гекон который застрял в КАМНЕ (его так даже убить нельзя)    … Expand
  26. Dersoli
    Aug 6, 2020
    0
    game with save problem that game cannot load it. People have already written about this problem in 2012 or earlier. I will never buy
  27. SleazyPete
    Aug 2, 2020
    3
    An incredibly overrated game which should've done much better considering it is built off of the already existing assets of the game: Fallout 3. For a sandbox game, it is boring to explore and there are a small amount of unmemorable scripted encounters. NPCS are touted as having so much better dialogue and writing than other entries. However, many repeat the same information as the lastAn incredibly overrated game which should've done much better considering it is built off of the already existing assets of the game: Fallout 3. For a sandbox game, it is boring to explore and there are a small amount of unmemorable scripted encounters. NPCS are touted as having so much better dialogue and writing than other entries. However, many repeat the same information as the last person you spoke to and it feels like you're getting constant exposition dumps thrown at you. If you don't like the humor then you're going to have a bad time. As per usual, there are the familiar charming little bugs that come with the games in this engine.

    Being newer than Fallout 3, there are some small improvements such as crafting, hardcore mode and the companion wheel. My favourite thing about this game is how the companions have personal quests and a variety of ending slides. You cannot however play past these slides. The reputation system is also a nice touch and ensures that some of the towns will remember your actions: good or bad.

    There are many factions to enhance the worldspace and the ability to disguise as a member of them is a really fun mechanic. Unfortunately, they are not all fully fleshed out and it can feel limiting to play siding with them. The DLC also adds backstory to your character in the middle of the game! I do not feel that this makes it a good roleplaying experience as you may have to rewrite everything to fit these events. You are also still limited to being a courier, which I do not mind. It is not the entirely open character for you to create though. Oh and J.Sawyer says you're not allowed to have amnesia so don't go roleplaying like that as you may have wanted to. Your courier has the option to ask things that they should definitely know given the events of Lonesome Road. I prefer the other protagonists where you get at least a little snippet of their life to build upon in unique ways.

    The introduction is very weak. It needed more than just a cutscene and does not establish the setting well to players new to the series. Whilst Goodsprings does introduce you to elements of the game such as combat and choices, it feels disconnected to the main plot. Many of the main quests feel like side quests and are poorly designed. Come Fly With Me is one of the worst offenders with so much backtracking! It is the only time i have ever felt the need to enter "movetoqt" into the console.

    Ultimately, I do not feel like this game works well with the sandbox that it was put in. Despite having a short development time and unfamiliar tools, it doesn't really justify the quality of the game as it was hardly made from scratch with existing assets and story from the cancelled Fallout: Van Buren. For example, Dragon Age 2 had miles better writing in it's short development time.

    Whilst a vocal few fans state that this is the best in the series, I'd only rate it above Fallout 76 and BOS as a fan of over 10 years. It is a poor introduction to the series and has put many friends and family off of the series entirely. Which is really a shame! The original Fallout 1 is a much better one to play. If it is too old for your liking, Fallout 3 and 4 are incredibly fun to play and still have excellent moral choices and roleplaying options with strong exploration to weave into your characterisation.    … Expand
  28. nickstormm
    Apr 4, 2020
    4
    The game genuinely looks terrible for the year it was created in. Mods are required to make it an ok experience but otherwise its pretty bad. The story and locations are well written and it adds a lot to the lore, but the gameplay, guns and combat all feels really clunky.
  29. Hodd_Toward
    Nov 18, 2019
    0
    What a game guys, and I can honestly say that in an incredibly negative way. I had a terrible time in this asset flipped screed of a game. For anyone not inclined to read further (and I know that unlike me, Vodd Lowhard, many aren't brave enough to take a view like this), Fallout New Vegas sucks. It takes everything good about Fallout 3 (and I might have said Fallout 4, Fallout 76 andWhat a game guys, and I can honestly say that in an incredibly negative way. I had a terrible time in this asset flipped screed of a game. For anyone not inclined to read further (and I know that unlike me, Vodd Lowhard, many aren't brave enough to take a view like this), Fallout New Vegas sucks. It takes everything good about Fallout 3 (and I might have said Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Skyrim, which is worth buying on the Nintendo 3DS when it comes out in Q3 2020, if Fallout New Vegas hadn't come out before them). Herein outlines why:

    1) The engine is terrible. When Bethesda, run by the genius Todd Howard (who is not me, Rod Saward) came up with the engine for their games in 1467, they had a purpose in mind. A goal. A vision. Something that was achieved, and then iterated upon again and again, to utter perfection. However, we, and by we, I mean us the public, and definitely not Todd Howard and his epic team of great people who are all the best at programming, realised the fact that it wouldn't last, so we updated it. The team that developed Fallout New Vegas and that awful looking new "Spouter Morlds" game (I think it's called that?) apparently didn't get the memo, and didn't update the engine or even bother to write a new engine from scratch. Pathetic. However, there is still value in older games, such as Skyrim, coming to PS Vita Q2 2021.

    2) The story. I'm sorry, but if I was invested in the confusingly boring type of story that Fallout New Vegas has decided to tell, I would go and read an intellectually heavyweight book like Charlie and the chocolate factory. Unfortunately, they've decided to jam something of that length into a game where it really doesn't belong, and you can really feel it with how jarring the number of dialogue options is in the conversations. A good example of dialogue in a game would be Skyrim (which I hear is coming to Stadia Q4 2024) or Fallout 4. A simple 4 options. Easy to understand. Perfect to play, so what if it "lacks complexity" or "is for babies". If I were Todd Howard, (and I am not, for I am Codd Mallard) I would be deeply upset by such a misunderstanding of my games. Good on him for being such a trooper and good developer

    3) The variety of weapons. There was absolutely no need for the 8 million and 4 available weapons in game (I counted them all myself). Why have different things when you could have a great system like in fallout 4, where everything follows a theme and looks lovely and in place. Why couldn't they have done that? Or Skyrim for another example. If Skyrim had had the insane number of weapons as New Vegas- the sheer bonkers number, we would not have been able to fit it into a UMD disc, exclusively for the PSP E1000 street model 2037 Q2.

    In summary. It's just not great. I couldn't give it higher than a 0, not without compromising my integrity as a fan of good, fun, enjoyable games. Play it if you want, but honestly, you'd be better off with Skyrim, which I've heard is coming to Blackberry OS devices Q1 2021, or better yet, Fallout 76.    … Expand
  30. LousyFox
    Oct 26, 2019
    1
    Игра очень утомляет, быстро теряет интерес. Проиграл в эту игру около 60 часов, но надоело уже после 20 часов.
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#17 Best PC Game of 2010
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2010
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#2 Most Shared PC Game of 2010

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. GameStar
    May 27, 2011
    88
    Quotation forthcoming.
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  2. GameZone
    Apr 21, 2011
    65
    Despite Obsidian's fan-service, Fallout: New Vegas is a heaping pile of bugs.
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  3. GamingXP
    Mar 18, 2011
    82
    Fallout: New Vegas looks like an Add On to Fallout 3, but that should not mean, that it's a copy of its forerunner. It scores with an great atmosphere, nice story and all the typical and awesome Fallout features.
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