» Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:11 pm
Games of this sort, I generally only play through the one time, anyway. For myself, there's only ever so much that's going to be any different on a second run; and taking into account just how long a game like this lasts, I don't usually even start another run, and if I do I find that I generally don't finish it. Also, some of my all-time favorite RPGs I've ever played through the one time, because I felt like the specific choices I made, and the way things played out were so... "special," to my mind, that going through and choosing things another way would only dilute that sense.
So I'll be starting my first playthrough of New Vegas with hardcoe mode turned on. There's a lot of added features there that I'm curious to see how it all pans out. I can't guarantee that I'm going to like it, but if I don't do it on my first run through the game, it's likely that I won't ever end up checking it out otherwise.