... I have no gosh dang idea what the bloody heck you are talking about ...
I refuse to answer this answer on the basis that I don't think he understood what I said >_>

Trinitite, to be precise. After underground tests it looks http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Nevada_Test_Site_craters.jpg. As if a thousand antlions (okay, just 921) buried in it. Might figure, the green/turquoise stuff is glass.
And the glass would stay for a few hundred years. It's one of the most resistant materials we have. At least to time. Direct force isn't really what it's built to resist. ^_^

Ok your obviously not native to the english language. But what i was saying is that saying fallout new vegas will be bad ONLY because rubble wont be as plenty. That is like saying that war games svck because there tanks look bad.

Coooooool.

I didn't say Dessert. Look at my comment, stop changing things i say.

OP has obviously seen every corner of the game.

:facepalm:

Toss it all in the nearest hole... For all we know, the Grande Canyon has been used as a landfill site... It was full of dangerous radiation, so if you were cleaning up the area AND you wanted to keep people outta the dangerous uranium mines, it'd be a great dumping site.

Fallout 3 had too much junk and rubble laying around, it looked like it was 20 years after the war, as apposed to the 200 years it was set after said war.

I have a speech impediment thank you very much (which has nothing to do with this since i'm typing)
either way I said that the buildings should be rugged and be slightly crumbling because of time and fights with super mutants, raiders, NCR, and CL... I said nothing about not getting the game and I said nothing about being displeased with lack of clutter (which I don't even mind that much) also you totally said dessert P=

Yes, that was the general problem F3 had. Using more of the spirit of the original game, but about 100 years too late. "But the radiation" does not cut it.

It was a joke chill out. Also, yes, I agree that the OP would be stupid to not get this awsome game because it dosen't have enough ruble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVgRH7yePpk

As others have pointed out the Vegas area was not hit. After 200 years people would have recycled everything they could. Also the west has a much higher population then the East. NCR had a population of 700,000 of the time of Fallout 2. Fallout 2 also did not have alot of junk just lying around. If anything FO3 had way to much junk compaired to the originals. Again this could be because DC's population was small seeing as how hard it is to live there. So less people around to clean and recycle the junk.

Mmmmmm....butter scotch pudding..............

I think the wasteland will be very desolate enough but I think will see plenty of pockets of life and a war torn city resurrected to a transcendent ghost of its former self.

Just check out that Dev diary 4 the many camps of various factions look like they have plenty of life.

I don't think OP knows what a wasteland is.

waste·land (wstlnd)
n.
1. Land that is desolate, barren, or ravaged.

￡25?! I've been shafted! Where have you seen it for ￡25?

http://www.gamestation.co.uk/Games/PC-Games/Role-Playing/Fallout-New-Vegas-with-Preorder-Bonus-in-game-Mercenary-Pack/~r419489/?s=fallout%3A+new+vegas

I think it is a tenner more for consoles.

Considering the region around Las Vegas was never directly hit by the nuclear blombs, the only real destruction is the deterioration of buildings due to the collapse of any real structured society. So it isnt like D.C. which was blown from here to kingdom come. New Vegas is essentially a shining and functioning remnant of the Old World.

Ah, that explains it. Thankyou Sir! Also, for ￡25, I reckon it's worth the gamble

I got a totally different image in my head than what this actually means :rofl:

Well, the slob of a nuke dumps its crap all over the place, obviously. Haven't you ever heard of a "dirty bomb?"

Someone mentioned "what would it look like after 200 years of sand blowing" well, what does saudi arabia look like after CENTURIES of sand blowing? Saudi arabia. So Vegas is still vegas with sand blowing.
When people live in buildings, they repair and maintain them, sand blows around all the time now, but Vegas doesn't need people to go out and "clean up" the sand.
My only thought was.. Why wasn't Vegas hit? I would have went straight for every major city, Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, D.C, Miami, if i was in control would all be nuked into oblivion.
But truly without the other cities and without society as a hole Vegas would have seemingly little importance, so those seeking to save money on nukes probably wouldnt hit vegas.


But as i said.. i would probably even nuke useless places in the middle of nowhere just for the fact that they had a lot of people and if you even leave a settlement of 100 000 completely untouched, 10 years later it's the biggest city in all of america.

look at battle sites during the civil war..you can't see an evidence there was ever a battle. its been 200 YEARS! plants grow back by then and people start to build

That's actually a pretty bad example. Civil war =/= widespread chaos and anarchy coupled with the effects of nuclear fallout and nuclear winter. Plus it was easy to access the technology required to do the clean up and make everything pretty and nice again.

Agreed. 200 years is MORE than enough time for people to fix and mend things. Whatever Vegas looked like immediatly after the nukes, the people obviously built. (but the Civil War thing is somewhat of a bad comparison tbh...)

Vegas wasn't nuked, that's why it doesn't look as bad as DC did. Any wear and tear seen is due to time.

I don't mind how it looks.

As to why Vegas wasn't nuked? Who knows, maybe it didn't occur to anyone to nuke Vegas in the two hours every country was destroying each other.