This has been the most horrible experence i have ever had in a game. I do not see the enjoyment in running in circles for hours on end, talking and loading and dying, countless dozens of times. Pac man is more enjoyable than this garbage. I do not see the enjoyment in this whatsoever. dont bother to reply, nobody cares but i had to rant hoping it may dissuade others from buying this garbage. i tried to be civil about it but.....well.....

For the record, i understand this is a rpg. Thats why i bought Skyrim, it was a fail, i was recommended this, what a mistake
No, I'm not a 10 yo fps player. But i have just become a 50 yo fps player after this garbage.
I was going to try FO3 but i won't now, nor willi ever buy another Bethesda game again.

WoW held my intrest for 7 years. This garbage lasted 3 weeks.

Bethesda got my $80.00 for Skyrim and FONV. What a rip off.

And so long to you too "stranger101".

Just because you're bad at playing it doesn't mean it svcks. You obviously don't understand the game mechanics. But people hate what they don't understand. You probably run around with a 9mm pistol and a varmint rifle trying to kill enemies with a high DT.

Your post topic from a few days ago shows that you don't understand this game, you're totally oblivious to how it works.

Well this certainly deserved a thread.

Edit: This thread seems very similar to the last one you made. I doubt you'll post again on this thread, but why did you make this?

Bethesda didn't make New Vegas, and don't blame them because you don't know how to play an RPG.

And no one cares how long you've been playing video games.

I do understand how it works. But it has been a disaster from day one.
First i loaded a mod to turn off the garbage auto aim, shooting a gecko 50 times in the face with a 9mm, using all my ammo while the other 3 killed me in 4 or 5 hits was enough of that.
So there i am, no ammo and no money ( spent it all on ammo) with a pos 9 mm at about 20% CND. Sure, i can cheat, but cheating is not in my nature.

Powder gangers come after town, wipe us all out several times, not just me but the whole town! I think sunny surived in one attempt, norm diff) used all my stimpacks and any other healing items i had.

Fine, let the powder gangers have the stupid place. Reloaded and never went back.
so what next....hang around and RP forever in goodsprings. how exciting!

Figured i would try to head to primm......stick to the road, but viper gangers had something to say about that. Back to Goodsprings i end up. no ammo, no money and a broken 9mm pistol and a barely usuable 9mm SMG from doc Mithcell's (still with no ammo)

Gun skill at around 40ish don't seem to help whatsoever.



10 or more attempts to get past the viper gang on the road to primm, took a long way around only to be slaughtered by coyotes several times before i finally got to primm.

Another disaster there, dozens of reloads trying to get to Beagle.

I should have called it quits than.
But no..... i cheat, i load up on caps to buy ammo. (when anyone even has any 9mm ammo)

Maybe i am missing something, idk, but after cheating i got a bit further, but it's the same garbage, go here talk and load, talk and load......shoot things 50 times while they only need to hit me 4-5 times and i'm dead. it's just not enjoyable.

Is there some secret to keeping companions from getting killed by the 1st mob we run across?

Maybe it's just me, is that the object? dying hundreds of times in the 1st 20 hr's? If so, i stand by my decision to throw it in the garbage.

I am sorry if i seem to be ranting/trolling or whatever, I really would like to play this. I find the motiff/genre inspiring. a refreshing change from mmo's.

It seems quite linear, i HAVE to go to Mr House, i HAVE to kill benny, cottonwood cove, etc,etc. i thought this was an open world, open ended game, it would seem it's not.

I wont bother ya'll anymore, It's uninstalled now as well as Skyrim.
Maybe the younger generation has more tolerance with this than i do. I want to play to get away from the stress of rl once in a while, but this has been nothing BUT stressfull and nearly cost me a monitor thrown out the window.

(grumpy 50 year old man) <---Thats the problem :/

I'm sorry but I couldn't resist, you're second post was less aggressive but I just HAD to do this.

And to be fair you are exaggerating, 60 9mm bullets to kill a single gecko? It only takes me 40 to kill a deathclaw on hard difficulty.
And you don't have to kill benny and you don't have to talk to house. Just because someone tells you to do something doesn't mean you have to do it.

Clearly something is wrong because I've played nearly 500 hours and multiple playthroughs of this game, many other people have done more then that. There is even a http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1248083-the-dead-is-dead-thread-9/, meaning that when your Courier dies you start again. Go to that thread and look at the people who have finished all of the DLC, on Very Hard and hardcoe without dying once.

I won't lecture you on how to play this game because you've made it quite clear that you have uninstalled it and have no interest in learning. This forum is full of Fallout fans, this section is dedicated to fans of Fallout: New Vegas of which there are clearly quite a few. Please don't post threads solely to bash this game, you have uninstalled it so you have no need to.

"9 mm at about 20% CND"
This is what I seen, this is all I need to know that you don't know what yo're doing.
Try keeping your weapons above 50% CND, and always carry a good melee weapon with you at the start, a simple Lead Pipe I find is the most effective at the start to middle of the game.
You disabled auto-aim, I don't know what auto-aim unless you mean V.A.T.S - which, if you are having difficulty killing grown geckos, should use because it is there to help you.

If you decide to not lower the difficulty, not repair your 9mm pistol to 100% (Which is done by pressing R in the Weapons tab in the Inventory), and not use the Varmint Rifle, dynamites or other items and instead just run around on a difficulty mode you're not fit for playing with one of the worst weapons in the game that isn't even fully repaired then it's all on you.

The game isn't crap.
You simply aren't good at it.


So do this:
1. Repair your [censored] 9mm and Varmint Rifle.
2. Go explore around Goodsprings and kill Powder Gangers for dynamite to sell.
3. If it proves too difficult for you then lower the setting to Very Easy. If you still die, then what the hell are you doing man? You can't possibly fail on Very easy.
4. After you've killed NCRCF you oughta have a lot of ammo and dynamite (that is if you saved some dynamite) so move on from there and take care of Primm and so on.


And Goodsprings Firefight or whatever that quest is is something "you" have to activate, Goodsprings doesn't just get randomly killed by Powder Gangers.
You can side with 5 sides for the main quest, House, NCR, Yes Man, Lanius and Caesar.
You don't have to kill legionnaires, you can join them, and there is a good reason, morally, to do so.


More suggestions:

* Turn off hardcoe Mode, you're clearly not ready for it yet.

* Use food with HCM turned off, it heals you.

* Pick up Xander Root and Broc Flower whenever you find it and craft Healing Powder. Alternatively save them for Syringes and craft your own Stimpaks.

* If things get too intense in combat and moves too fast for you (Which is easy to happen for all of us due to the clumsy controls and Gamebryo AI.) then use VATS to get in clear headshots. (VATS also increases the critical hit change by 5% IIRC.

* Read the compass for enemy bleeps and be catious when engaging the enemies, if they are too challenging then try to sneak attack them. (Sneak attacks does instant criticals if you are [hidden])

* Kill off the Powder Gangers and loot their stuff, that will keep you supplied for a while.

* Don't rely on just one weapon if you have a hard time maintaining ammo supply.

* Lower the difficulty setting.

* Use drugs. Psycho gives you +30% damage, Med-X gives you +25% damage resistance, Buffout gives you +60HP and more strength.

* Use a melee weapon for the lesser enemies (Melee Powder Gangers and smaller Gecko's.

* Learn how to fight in Melee with movement, attacks and blocks. (Practice makes perfect)

* Look at what the Value of items are, Sensor Modules sell for quite a lot, pick 'em up.

* With a good Repair skill: craft your own ammo at Reloading Benches.

* If you still have a problem maintaining an ammo supply then buy Surplus Ammo Boxes, they can be found in the Misc section of General stores like Chet's or Nash.

* Buy the Recharger Rifle, it has unlimited ammo.

* Either sell the dynamite for other stuff or save it, Dynamite are great for group encounters.

* Use Iron Sights despite them feeling weird most of the time.

* Get a better armor. Armors in this game uses a mechanic called Damage Threshold, this means that if you have 10 in DT and an enemies attack is 20 then that attack only does 10 in damage. DT directly negates it's value by it's own number. Same thing applies to enemies though, so Radscorpions and Deathclaws have a lot of DT.

* Use Sneak.

* Explore and loot a ton of stuff to sell.

* Don't [censored] start the quest Ghost Town Firefight if you aren't ready for it.

* Mines down at Primm as well as Powder Charges around NCRCF can be picked up by running up to it and using the Activation Key, which on computers is E.

Wait did this guy just say- he shot a gecko in the face 50 times?
Whilst the others ripped him up?

Dude did you keep shooting the dead body or something?

N' how can any of those things be that hard?
Have you installed a mod to make things like 100x harder by mistake?

He missed a lot.

I guess he must have.
But just last night I joined that who could last in the courier shoes thread. Very Hard difficulty, the gecko's were still put down with my broad machete rather easily.....

It sounds like the OP is a rookie with the type of gameplay that New Vegas offers, I was in that same shoes a couple of years ago when I got Fallout 3. I think what the OP needs to do is play this on easy or very easy until you get a hang of the RPG aspect of the game, where you have to heal every so often, keep your weapons in good condition, find better weapons/armor, etc.

Whoah!! You're 50 and nearly threw a monitor out the window? Cause you svck at this?
Do not play Abe's Odyssey.... and if you do, do not try and get 100% all Mudokons saved.
Something tells me, you should'a signed up to Anger Management, a long time ago?

Actually, after reading that, and remembering, I was alittle like this, FO3 first fallout, I never play anything but the hardest, so I whack it to Very Hard, getting through it fine, come to the GNR outpost, my game glitches, my guy keeps punching and turns the BOS against me inside the place.

at this time I was 13 so It was all about auto-save for me, no hardsaves, so I was stuck with the BOS against me, forever dying in GNR, n' it took me so long to get through those Metros. So I attack my game, by throwing the disk at the wall, it snapped, but 3 months later I bought it again, and now FO is my fave series!

Nobody can possibly be that bad at this game. Goodsprings is practically a given fight, where it's more difficult to die than it is to succeed.

If he really is that bad, I'd love to see him do Lonesome Road. Hell, I'll pay to see it.

Abe to Blind slave - "Follow me" "OK" ... "Wait"... "Wait?" ... "WAIT!!?"
It's hilarious telling them to follow you though and have them fall down cliffs, it's more funny when you go to commit suicide down the same drop and as you fall you see they landed safely on a ledge, then your the one that dies. Oh the Irony

Nobody can possibly be that bad at this game. Goodsprings is practically a given fight, where it's more difficult to die than it is to succeed.

If he really is that bad, I'd love to see him do Lonesome Road. Hell, I'll pay to see it.

I don't even participate in that fight I let the town do it themselves and they only usually have 1 casualty or none.
I wouldn't I'd be to traumatised at how I got through there with 0 deaths and some else can't do it at all

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

Don't feel too bad Stranger101. Fallout & Skyrim isn't for everyone. All of us have played great games that we, on a personal level, didn't think were so great. Not everyone can be a hero. I'm going to put this collar....err I mean necklace on you. Head on over to Paradie Falls & you'll meet some people that will take care of you. You won't have to worry about Geckos ever hurting you again, I promise.

That's sad. If I could I would be happy to come over to your place, sit next to you for an hour or so, and watch you play- giving you simple, easy tips on how to survive and shoot and manage your gear and ammo and how to choose your skills and perks, use VATS when appropriate, and this and that and so forth that everybody here picked up on fairly easily... and in no time, the light bulb would come on over your head and you'd say "wow, that's not so hard, I just wasn't doing it right- this really IS fun!"

But, I can't... so the next best thing would be to listen to all the great advice generously given by many of the long-time posters above, and learn from that. If you choose to toss away the $80 instead, your loss.

It definitely isn't World of Warcraft... but you can pause, quicksave, and reload your savegame when things get screwed up too bad. One of the best methods of learning the combat in FO, is to quicksave just before a fight, then do it over and over again until you find the right combination of tactics and weapons and approaches that gets you through it successfully. Try different stuff, use all the weapons you can find, use sneak, use ranged combat, use explosives.... using mostly the 9mm is the crappiest way to fight in most situations, at least until you are an old pro at the game and can play it blindfolded.

The beginning of NV is not 'easy' in the classical sense of shooters you may have played in the past- you don't start out as a demigod, you aren't given a mega-weapon right out of the gate, and you do have to use some smarts and caution when entering combat early on- even just against geckos and powder gangers. You can't just stand up tall in the noonday sun and walk into any situation with your 9mm blazing and expect to have it easy. Not going to happen. But, once you get your head around the idea of an RPG, that's a good thing. It isn't Quake or Call of Duty or WoW... you have to actually think and plan a little bit, and even use caution and common sense. And that can be painful, for those not used to fielding those game skills.

Wow, I guess he is no Gamer.....
If you don’t take the time to understand that in New Vegas. That little red shield that comes up means your bullets are not doing **** to the target and switch to Armor piercing if not then your **** out of luck pal.... Hell I find New Vegas has the best realistic weapons so far. By the way it also helps to uses YOUR IRON SIGHTS or SCOPE. I play only on hardcoe mode for New Vegas for crying out loud. It’s not that hard to figure out. READ THE ****ing Manual.

I love it *fart* hehehe then the guard things are like >.< what where? Then Abe's like yuyuyuyu n' blows em' up it's brilliant!

wonder if since he's using guns, but svcks with em, he made his special, like END 1 and Agility 1 or something?
And his tag skills like Melee, lockpick and science?
Then dumped his level up skills if he leveled at all into those?

It's funny because Bethesda didn't make the game.