» Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:46 am
I have to be honest. I love this game...when it works. It is perhaps my most favourite game that I have ever played on the PC...when it works. The outstanding features of the game are even more apparent when you factor in the amazing mod community. I thought the vanilla game was fun, but now that I run a fairly heavily modded version, it has become almost infinitely replayable...WHEN IT WORKS. The Fallout series (3 & NV anyway) are superb in idea, and less so in execution. I find FNV to be completely compelling, and then it breaks. Again.
I dream of the day when a later iteration of the series is given ample development time and is released in a stable form, because the idea is fantastic. I know that this is a tall order (and I truly mean this without sarcasm) for a sandbox game (how exactly are you going to code a game that lets players do whatever they feel like doing in whatever order they feel like doing it?), but I am an optimist.
For those of you that can't get the game to work after the 1.4 patch, uninstall all mods (not just deactivate, but actually uninstall), and then reinstall them. No idea why this worked, but it got my game back up an running again. ( I sure hope I don't have to do that again with 1.41 though.)