second playthrough.
i use my first playthroughs on ALL games to just skip sidequests, and just stick to the story,
in my SECOND playthrough, i make everything harder for myself.
hardcoe mode, sidequests, etc etc.

I don't think I'll be using it. I like the other changes, but I've always found hunger and thirst in other games tedious and annoying, and I can't see this being any different.

... somehow I hate normal hardcoe playing levels ... why should my bullet do 1 Damage and that from my enemy (same weapon) does 10 Damage ...

but as that hardcoe Level, seems more like "HOW IT SHOULD BE" in a Fallout Universe, it will be the first time I will use it !

AND until now I never played any RPG/ACTION game a second time, but if I played one, I always have done everything, what I have found ... (eg. Oblivion one playthrough around 200h, Fallout 3 also once, but 270h ... Baldurs Gate 2 - 300h, Dragon Age + AddOns 210h ...)

SO YES hardcoe for me, as it is, how the game should be (I hope the damage done and received is as it should be, NO AI cheating, like unlimited ammo, fourtimes hit points, fourtimes damage and so on) Hope it feels better, than Fallout 3 ... MODS are always too late for me, as I said, I play games only once ! (too many games there, to play them twice or more, apart that they are boring, the second time, as you know already everything ! I need that unknow, surprising situations) Looking forward to play my first hardcoe game

hardcoe, first playthrough. Gotta remember, I'm one of the "Played Fallout before it mutated into Fallout 3" folks. (Not saying I disliked 3 by any stretch- but compared to the originals, it was laughably easy by comparison. 10 minutes to get used to the new playstyle, and then romp over everything in my path.)

What I'm getting at is, I don't see "hardcoe mode vs Casual mode" but "Fallout Game mode vs Casual game set in Fallout Universe mode."

good way of looking at it.

Im not sure yet, since im going to play as myself the first time i want to make realistic choises (what would i do when i was the courier), but im not sure if also want to be the gameplay as realistic as possible, im afraid that ill get dissapointed and i hate switching difficulty when ive already discovered half the map.

I'll leave hardcoe mode for my second playthrough, when I want all the trophies etc

It took me a month to get used to the play-style of Fallout 3. I was so confused I stopped playing and wanted to return it. Anyway, I'll start on the regular game mode first just to get into things. I already have an idea of how I'm going to prepare in hardcoe mode.

hardcoe on the first and every play through.

I think that the hardcoe mode is going to make the Fallout Universe much more realistic than is Fallout 3. This in my opinion will make it more exhilarating. Maybe I'll get bored of dying from dehydration that I'll put it on normal. LoL.

Yes

well I'm sure you'll be satisfied then because hardcoe has no effect on the damage ratio of you or your enemies :tops:

as for me
1st-normal setting, no hardcoe
2nd-hard setting, no hardcoe
3rd-hard setting, with harcore

I gotta ease into the game
I know starting with hardcoe on is more of a challenge and could be more fun
but its iffy for me, when a game is too much of a challenge it just pisses me off
I don't want to start out pissed off at Fallout :fallout:

I'll probably go for it on my first playthrough, i'm up for the challenge.

Not enough time would pass for that to happen. If you are to die in 3 game hours if you don't eat or drink hardcoe mode would be fail. The only drawback to fast travel is that the time passed will count against the meter. You will only die if you are near starvation/dehydration and then initiate fast travel.

I want to be able to play this with my girlfriend without spoiling the entire plot for her, so I'll most definitely be playing on hardcoe to slow me down to where we're about equally as far into the main quest at any given time.

I will start in hardcoe mode,i like a challenge,if i die.. i die. I cant see myself playing casual ever again to be honest,if hardcoe is done right.
FO3,even though it was great,was way too easy & to easy to become a god or super jack of all trades,i dont want that in NV.

I think I will start on Hard Core.

I'm just that hard core.

Yes.

Indeed I Will and I won't turn it off either.....

hardcoe Mode straight out of the box. I'm already used to limited inventory from Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, so I love to play that way.

I play RPGs for the journey so I most likely will only use hardcoe once after playing for a long time normally and then just to check it out. hardcoe I'm afraid will chill my thrills.

At this point I don't see any real benefit to playing casual mode, so I imagine I will only be playing on hardcoe mode. It sounds more like the original games in terms of difficulty and I've beaten those countless times, so unless HC mode is significantly harder than I'm thinking (in a world where game developers have to hold players hands, I highly doubt it) I will be using it exclusively.

:lol: You make it sound like it's a test of abilities when really most people can play in hardcoe mode if they want and many don't need their hands held, as you put it. It's just a preference in game play not a test of abilities. We're not choosing between climbing Denali using ropes or and elevator. :unsure:

I don't think they'd name it hardcoe and give the player the largest achievement by a wide margin for committing to little more than an alternate play style.

No.. that's not really what I mean... Game developers have been making games "easier' for years... In game tutorials are perfect evidence of that.... So I don't expect hardcoe mode to be as difficult as the name implies and the previewers and developers are saying... Since there isn't an in game benefit to casual mode ( where HC has additional game features:eating/sleep requirments/ ammo weight/ etc, casual mode does not boast any additional features) I don't see myself playing casual mode at all. If hardcoe mode were so hard (ikaruga or ninjagaiden hard) then I could see myself getting bored of it and going to casual mode... but as I said, I don't expect HC to actually be that much more challenging.
Are you saying that HC mode isn't supposed to represent an increase in difficulty? Even if it didn't it has features that casual mode doesn't, and I'd like to enjoy to "full" game as the developers intended.