to me it doesn't feel very post apocalyptic, just my opinion.

Yes, it does. But it's been 200 years since the Great War of 2077, and thanks to Mr. House, Vegas was spared the atrocity of the war. So I feel it is post apocalyptic, but in the sense very few games dare to explore, the decline of a structured and orderly society. Now it is back with Mr. House and NCR attempting to establish law in the region, and Mr. House using his knowledge to rebuild Vegas. I feel people remember the war, and have the initiative to put the past behind them and continue building progress to a safer tomorrow, and I strongly hope Fallout as a series continues on with this as a central theme.

Yes, people are bound to rebuild after 200 years. It just doesn't have Fallout 3's post-apocalyptic feel, which I am assuming you are comparing it to.

You wouldn't by any change happen to compare this to Fallout 3 would you?

Another one of these.

Yes it feels post-apocalyptic

New Vegas has signs of progress. Fallout is about progress. Factions in FO1 started rebuilding, forming settlements, farming, trading (Caravans) and started an economy based on caps. FO2 larger governments form with an economy based on gold. Much larger farms and alot more trading. By the Time of New Vegas, NCR has become the main power in the west and the Mojave is the frontier. NCR was trying to rebuild the railways and bring their economy. War.War never changes and NCR is having trouble in the Mojave. There is still farming and progress.

FO1, FO2 and New Vegas and even Tactics have trees and plants.

New Vegas has the right atmosphere for a Fallout Game.

For a place that wasn't directly hit 200 years earlier, only moderately irradiated, still has a massive clean water source, and two sources of electrical power; I think it's as post apocalyptic as it's going to get.

It would be unrealistic to expect it all to look like http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/. And that's only +20 years after being irradiated w/ no major human interaction or reconstruction.

I find it interesting how some people seem to have relatively narrow (probably Hollywood) concepts of what/how post-apocalyptic "should" feel like. As the others have mentioned, in terms of post-nuclear, it depends a lot on how close to impact points you were, how many years (or how few years) have passed, and all kinds of other possible things. So to answer the poll/question...yes, I think NV does.

What happened to this thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1160201-fnv-post-nuclear-america-or-broken-3rd-world-country/
Shouldn't we finish it first?

No, on a narrative point of view, it's certainly not post-apocalyptic at all.

Because the bomb is a plot device to invent a setting made of cowboys, robots, fancy monsters and new world orders.

In Fallout 3 instead, the bomb is the focus, the protagonist: it's all about the effects of the nukes and what they made of the world.

In New Vegas, it's just a background element..... much like how the background element of Mass Effect was how human discovered the mass effect theory, but no one would say that Mass Effect's plot is about the mass effect!

So if you say that New Vegas is post-apocalyptic, then Mass Effect is all about the imaginary mass effect.

I'm tired of FO1-FO2 [censored] who shout "yes it's so postapocalyptic" only because they fear that admitting the truth would in some mysterious way lessen the quality of New Vegas. Hey, if you like New Vegas so much, then try to understand what the game is about! it's about societies, and fanta-politics. It's NOT about post-nuclear settings.

Yeah, lets use that thread.