Playing Fallout: New Vegas in hardcoe mode is a revelation. It feels how its already worthy predecessor was meant to. The vast amount of clutter you can sweep into your inventory starts to make sense, as much of it can be sold. Medicine and the new Survival skill suddenly become central, and the blinking lights of a Nuka-Cola machine can signal your salvation.

For existing Fallout players, it’s refreshing just to be forced into a character reboot – after 80-plus hours in Fallout 3, you could critically damage a Deathclaw with a raised eyebrow. But on top of this, the limits imposed by hardcoe mode enforce a fresh appreciation for the nutritional potential of your inventory, your health, your addictions, your tactics and your relationships with the inventories of the NPCs around you. It makes you far less blasé about the game’s systems, and makes tactical combat (and, at some points, its avoidance) a necessity rather than an occasional dalliance. The fact that your ammo now has weight means that you might become more appreciative of melee weapons, too.

Thats a good one the only thing that made me pause was it said there were not multiple ways to solve the quests that makes me a sad vault boy always loved how there were at least 2 ways to do a quest in the originals

I have a question before reading this article. Is the boone spoiler something you find out during his quest or is it the main result? I want my fix but I don't want to OD.

I have a question before reading this article. Is the boone spoiler something you find out during his quest or is it the main result? I want my fix but I don't want to OD.

TBH, I dont really care to read the PC Gamers people post, the author seems to stuck on the old Fallouts, in a bad way, like one of those guys who goes 'augh, the OLD Fallouts would have NEVER done this and this/' :rolleyes:

They got a couple things wrong. The quest line they spoke of was said to have many different potential outcomes in another preview.

I'd take what this writer says with a grain of salt.