Boredom

Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:44 am

In all the vastness of Fallout New Vegas, the Mojave is truly a sight to behold. It held my attention for a solid two months. I have multiple characters, all with 80 hours plus, each siding with a different faction, each with it's own combat skill (guns, melee, etc), and a few that have their levels topped out just before the "point of no return" just so I can get on and dike around (shoot a few deathclaws and townsfolk in the face for [censored] n' giggles).

The thing is, I'm bored. I've played the game so much, I grew bored of it. I'm not normally an achievement hunter, but when it comes to the fallout games, I get em all. Within the first week of release, I had them all. I'm missing all of the Sierra Madre achievements because it doesn't look that appealing to me. Sure I could go get it, waste two hours playing it, then another hour backtracking and getting the rest of the achievements, but it doesn't seem worth it.

My question is, is what's left to do? I've gone through as a character that was a chem dealer, finding resources, and crafting drugs. I bought and sold chems as a way to sustain my own life in the desert. My outfit was the merchant top and hat. I had more fun doing the role play thing than anything else. I don't really want to play the game through again, but I'm looking for something new, like, "protect this town from an incoming invasion of ghouls." But is there really anything left to do? I have a few stones unturned, like skill books here and there, but I just feel I can't be bothered to put the game in and go for it.

Anyone have any suggestions?
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Amber Hubbard
 
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Post » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:24 pm

Kill everything and everyone? Kill every damn soul you see in every town, base, and village?

Have you gotten to kill every Legendary enemy yet? Have you done all the companion quests? Have you gone to the dreaded Deathclaw Promontory?
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Georgia Fullalove
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:07 am

Be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

May I make a suggestion? Run.

Two of my favorite roleplays was pretending to be the Sniper and pretending to be the Spy, classes from TF2.
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Claire Mclaughlin
 
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Post » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:53 pm

I request Fallout 4 has a Butterfly Knife as a weapon!
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Theodore Walling
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:40 am

If you're feeling bored i'd recommend a break, play another game for a while then come back to NV when you feel the urge :)

Or if you're on PC there might be some mods that interest you.
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Louise
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:27 am

Also if your on the PC mods.
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Jade
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:33 am

Any kind of troop calldown mod (NCR Commander, Enclave Commander) combined with the Zombie Apocalypse mod will provide hours and hours of entertainment as you battle for control of the Wasteland.

Hell, the Zombie Apocalypse mod by itself is pretty great for really changing up the game.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:56 am

ACTUALLY, I HAVE AN IDEA! Do please read this! This is quite the challenge, but it should be fun. I'll save you the wall of text. Make a house. MAKE a house.

Go to an area with lots of grab-able objects (like car doors/hoods, barrels, or shopping carts) and piece them together to make a fort. Gather some Nuka-Cola trucks and Garden Gnomes, maybe some dinosaur toys. Personalize your space. :)

If that is too much, just totally pimp the piss out of some old shack you find. Toys, display guns, gnomes, pylons, whatever. Do a renovation.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:56 am

I have played multiple games since then. I was recently looking through my game library and found F:NV and wondered if there was anything left to do.

I'd love to do another roleplay character, but I feel I'd get way too bored playing through the game again. I have about 8 characters, 6 of them have all quests complete. Killing every person doesn't appeal to me. Being completely alone in the waste land gets boring. I like to have a security blanket in a way, like "oh, there's people there. There's a town ahead that I can sleep for the night and sell my inventory to."
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:11 pm

I request Fallout 4 has a Butterfly Knife as a weapon!

The Negotiator
Unique Switchblade.
It is a balisong and the opening animation is the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2hCDmZeREM&feature=related. It is the lowest DAM weapon in the game, 2 DAM. It has no random critical chance, its critical damage multiplier is x100, but also has very poor reach, so you have to sneak extremely close in. (Yes, ridiculous, Better Criticals makes it capable of insta-killing a Deatclaw, if you can sneak up to one). Found on the corpse of a dead ghoul Chinese Commando, in hidden valley, in one of the collapsed bunkers behind a very hard door.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:58 am

ACTUALLY, I HAVE AN IDEA! Do please read this! This is quite the challenge, but it should be fun. I'll save you the wall of text. Make a house. MAKE a house.

Go to an area with lots of grab-able objects (like car doors/hoods, barrels, or shopping carts) and piece them together to make a fort. Gather some Nuka-Cola trucks and Garden Gnomes, maybe some dinosaur toys. Personalize your space. :)

If that is too much, just totally pimp the piss out of some old shack you find. Toys, display guns, gnomes, pylons, whatever. Do a renovation.


I might try this lol. I've turned Novac, Lucky 38, and a few other shacks into refuges. Novac is decked out though. I have weapons displayed, a chessboard with bottle caps on it (which was a PAIN IN THE ASS to do and get it to look right, especially on the console) and a methlab style brewing operation set up in my bathroom.

@TheTuninator

My thoughts exactly. Something like that would be AMAZING! Only downside, is I'm on the xbox :(
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Anthony Diaz
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:59 am

Console versions really do get the shaft end of this game. I don't like weapon mods, because they make the game way to easy to play. But most mods I've seen, like the increased difficulty hardcoe more appeal to me. I want some sort of experimentation mod for a console version. I have a great job in real life, but for some reason I can't be bothered to pick up a gaming rig. I think it would be a wise investment at this point. Being able to screw around with this game, Gmod, and other things of the ilk.
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Milad Hajipour
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:11 pm

Either kill everyone, or play a different game is what i suggest
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Nikki Hype
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:52 am

Sounds like you got your money's worth. Maybe you're just done?
I know how you feel -- I tried to play Oblivion a few weeks ago and everything was so familiar I actually fell asleep. So, I guess Oblivion's on my retired shelf. F3 isn't there yet, but I think it's close.
Still some life left for me in NV, but I suspect I'm going to be taking a long break soon.
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Chavala
 
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:42 am

Play something else, no wonder you are bored after spending probably more than 200-300 hours on the game!

If you are lucky motivation will come back eventually, if not then you have svcked it dry i guess.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:39 pm

There's nothing wrong with playing something else until you don't feel this way. I'm not bored but I mix it up. I have my second Fallout3 game going and it's been a while since the first so it almost feels new. I have a new character named Pipi going in my 6th game of FNV that only has INT1 so I can see the different dialogue and it's good for some really funny lines. At Boulder City: "The Great Khans were nice, you have to be nice too." Too funny. I have a Morrowind going so I can learn more of the lore before Skyrim comes out. Just mix it up...you loved it enough to play the blank out of it. :)
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:46 pm

Try and play all of the side quests, all the companion quests. Another good challenge is go "into the wild." Right after you leave the Doc's house at the beginning of the game and prepare to go straight into the wild. Before doing the tutorial with Sunny Smiles go to the local store and buy any supplies necessary for your adventure, but don't pick anything up beforehand. Then venture off into the wastes on Very Hard Difficulty and try to survive on hardcoe Mode for as long as you can.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:14 pm

Be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

May I make a suggestion? Run.

Two of my favorite roleplays was pretending to be the Sniper and pretending to be the Spy, classes from TF2.


Spy FTW. Man you got me pumped up about the Orange Box again. :D
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:47 am

Discover all locations, kill lots of people, get all achievements, get all uniques, and wait for more DLC. That's about all.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:21 am

So you've played at least 640 hours?

Yeah dude, I's suggest a break.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:38 pm

The good thing about being a vidya gaemer, is that you can play more than 1 vidya gaem. Crazy, right?
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:13 pm

to the op, i know how you feel, i got bored with new vegas after 2 months, it just doesn't have nearly enough going on, it has plenty of quests but the map world is static, its the same 2 bark scorpions every time you go by hidden valley, etc, no random encounters/events and the factions hardly ever bump into each other, also there aren't any big buildings or complex dungeons to explore, the world of new vegas is mostly desert and its just not very dynamic...also obsidian was too worried about making it "believable" so that takes out 90% of the fun right there. no alien blaster, no firelance encounter, no gnr superbehemoth battle, no liberty prime or suspense filled quests like waters of life or finding the geck, no funny robots talking smack to you like in the national guard armory, no mechanist or antagonizer to to trip on, etc, pretty much new vegas is boring the only real excitement is at the end of the game fighting ceasers legion at the dam. thats it.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:48 am

to the op, i know how you feel, i got bored with new vegas after 2 months, it just doesn't have nearly enough going on, it has plenty of quests but the map world is static, its the same 2 bark scorpions every time you go by hidden valley, etc, no random encounters/events and the factions hardly ever bump into each other, also there aren't any big buildings or complex dungeons to explore, the world of new vegas is mostly desert and its just not very dynamic...also obsidian was too worried about making it "believable" so that takes out 90% of the fun right there. no alien blaster, no firelance encounter, no gnr superbehemoth battle, no liberty prime or suspense filled quests like waters of life or finding the geck, no funny robots talking smack to you like in the national guard armory, no mechanist or antagonizer to to trip on, etc, pretty much new vegas is boring the only real excitement is at the end of the game fighting ceasers legion at the dam. thats it.

There is an alien blaster.
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:20 pm

snipity snip snip

You played over 640 hours as well?
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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:47 am

In all the vastness of Fallout New Vegas, the Mojave is truly a sight to behold. It held my attention for a solid two months. I have multiple characters, all with 80 hours plus, each siding with a different faction, each with it's own combat skill (guns, melee, etc), and a few that have their levels topped out just before the "point of no return" just so I can get on and dike around (shoot a few deathclaws and townsfolk in the face for [censored] n' giggles).

The thing is, I'm bored. I've played the game so much, I grew bored of it. I'm not normally an achievement hunter, but when it comes to the fallout games, I get em all. Within the first week of release, I had them all. I'm missing all of the Sierra Madre achievements because it doesn't look that appealing to me. Sure I could go get it, waste two hours playing it, then another hour backtracking and getting the rest of the achievements, but it doesn't seem worth it.

My question is, is what's left to do? I've gone through as a character that was a chem dealer, finding resources, and crafting drugs. I bought and sold chems as a way to sustain my own life in the desert. My outfit was the merchant top and hat. I had more fun doing the role play thing than anything else. I don't really want to play the game through again, but I'm looking for something new, like, "protect this town from an incoming invasion of ghouls." But is there really anything left to do? I have a few stones unturned, like skill books here and there, but I just feel I can't be bothered to put the game in and go for it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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