I've recently decided to get into the fallout series, and i just wanted to know if New Vegas is worth buying. I trust Bethesda to develop great games, but New Vegas was primarily developed by Obsidian. Is it worth getting, or is it just some side-line piece of software i'd be better off skipping?

Yes.

Buy it. Fallout New Vegas is a full canon Fallout game that if rooted in the Original Fallouts.

There are three DLC that are all great and another on the way.

If you are interested in Fallout, New Vegas is the game to get. That or Fallout and Fallout 2 :fallout:

i think you can find it pretty cheap now so if you dont like it no big loss..but yes its a great game..

Yes. The story is x1,000 better than FO3.

I don't know how you would get an answer on the contrary, given that this is a forum composed of Fallout fans.

And almost every mechanic in the game is way more functional then FO3. Love both games. If you haven't played FO3 totally play that to, the setting is amazing even if the story isn't so wired into the Fallout cannon, as New Vegas is.

New Vegas has the same gameplay as Fallout 3 with some improvements like actually being able to look down the sights of the guns rather than doing some weird zoom in with guns like in Fallout 3. It also has a much more dynamic story with four possible endings and numerous sidequests to indulge your inner wasteland in.

As for DLCs, there's three DLCs with vastly different feelings.

Dead Money is a horror DLC that's like Dead Space and kind of scary when you play it at 12:00 midnight. It's also frustrating as all hell at the second main area of the game. A big challenge and for patient people. I for one am not a patient person when it comes to Fallout. Story is gripping and characters are awesome though, which drives you to complete it.

Honest Hearts is like a sort of Call of Duty, Tribal, and adventure DLC. It takes place in a national park and it's a sort of adventure based DLC with lots of combat. It's incredibly fun and the story is very good. Like the main game and Dead Money, there's more than one way to complete it.

Old World Blues, the most awesome of the three in my opinion, is basically Mass Effect with hefty amounts of comedy thrown in. It's a sci-fi comedy and not really meant to be taken seriously. Again, there's more than one way to complete it but in a different way than you may think.

No. Not it the state that it's in now. Look in Fallout New Vegas PC Issues. Crashes, freezes, game won't start, all over the place.

My technical issues made my experience with FNV bitter, and probably caused negative cognitive dissonance toward the game.

Then, are you suggesting according to you own experience?

Yes, I think so.

Although.. I've been giving serious thought to reverting to FO3 for future mod projects.

It depends what you want in a game, if you want a largely dialogue based smaller open world rpg with a bunch of incredible weapons but more weapons than things to kill them with you might like NV.

But if you want a scavenging survival type huge open world rpg where you get incredilby powerful further you get into the game (NV had this on a lesser scale) you might prefer F3.

But overall if you want a post-apocalyptic open world rpg with increidble stories, weapons, characters, and locations then you'd probably like the Fallout Series.

It's very much worth the money so yes I'd suggest buying it. :fallout:

Yes totally worth it, got mine at Best Buy for $10! I believe it is still on sale

Yes. definitely.
If you enjoyed FO3 you'll appreciate the many improvements to the games play style, and epic story with a VERY different (yet familiar) feel to FO3.
Don't expect it to surpass FO3 (IMO it doesn't) but it's worth playing nonetheless.
Be aware however that they made the baffling design choice to END the game (repeating FO3s initial ending mistake), giving you a series of canned audio/text end-credits rather than an opened world to roam around in, which is a huge minus.

Pick it up on PC if you can, it's riddled with bugs and various issues (which are for the most part easily resolved on the PC) it runs like a slow turd on Console anyway.

I would advise against getting the DLCs, compared to the brilliant FO3 DLCs, the FONV DLCs are for the most part a lazy mess of disillusion.

Definitely worth getting imo, esp for the PC. I wouldnt buy it for either console due to the games glitchiness (console commands can really carry you through some bugs) and lack of mods.

A good chunk of the fanbase (me included) find New Vegas to be vastly superior to the original FO3. Others disagree. If you like general open world exploration and random events to keep you entertained, FO3 is definitely the better game. FO3 also has better visual artistic direction, and Washington DC is a more gripping setting next to the New Vegas desert. New Vegas is superior in general game play mechanics, story and character writing, and presenting you with choices that matter (quests open and close off depending on your actions). I certainly cared a lot more about my choices and the people in New Vegas compared to FO3, for what its worth.

The DLCs for New Vegas have been excellent as well imo. They certainly evoke strong opinions on these forums, and Dead Money is particularly polarising to the player base. Personally I love all 3 of the NV DLCs released thus far, which compares really favourably to FO3's DLC where I only enjoyed Point Lookout, and hated O:A, BS and MZ with a burning, raging passion. (Pitt left me rather meh, great premise marred by lackluster execution). If your opinions on FO3 DLC differ greatly to mine, you may want to be wary of my opinion in general :unsure:

TL:DR; I think its still a solid game worth playing, unless youre one of the unlucky few for whom the game simply will not run properly. It's been significantly patched though, and it (mostly) runs better for me than FO3 did, for whatever thats worth.

No, it svcks ass man, stay far the hell away from it

I'd say get it, the most expensive you'll probably find it is 20 bucks so even if you don't like it your not really out that much.

Yes. Buy it.

Yep it's a must buy.

I was pretty much where you are a few months ago, with the whole " I know Bethesda.... but I don know about Obsidian " thing.

I've played The Elder Scrolls... I've played Fallout Three... and I loved em'...but I wasnt sure about a game by another development team.My friends finally talked me into giving it a shot though ( so did the eventual 20$ price tag )

Right off the bat I was impressed with the npc charecterazation.

If you've played Bethesda games before, and enjoyed them...you're half way there as to what to expect... now imagine If Beths games had a better soryline... youre gettin closer.... now throw in deeper, well written charecters.... you've almost got it, you've got that nice cake, now the Icing is better game mechanics than any previous bethesda rpg.

Get FO3 first. Totally worth it if you don't already have it. FONV is worth the money at this point, you might be able to find it at gamestop for less than $20.00

It doesn't have the same story telling as FO3 and it's not nearly as fun to just walk around and find crap, but it's still one of the best games of this year.