I was wondering if people (who play on console) will just reload their save from before the final quest and continue their character's life or if everyone just ends it and starts a new game or something.

I start a new game after the previous ends,well as soon as I get a character "story" made up anyway.

I reload my previous save. But I don't choose to do the final battle until I am done with my character. (all DLCs, all quests and exploration and role playing needs) And once I'm done with my character I start a new one.

I like to abandon my character after completing the final quest; it's just too weird going back in time to the Mojave knowing the outcome of all of the decisions I made during that play-through. So for me, when I choose to go to the battle at Hoover Dam, I'm also choosing to end that play-through.

Every once and a while I load up my Courier Six file just to look at the stats, but no I don't really do anything; never leaves the Lucky 38. Literally just check the stats.
Generally that happens after an attempt at another Dead-is-dead character fails, and I wonder "wtf is it about the Courier that helped him survive that scenario wtf..."

I reloaded just before the final battle didn't finish the final battle until I had one of everything in the game (personal goal), happily own one of everything in the game now completed all DLC and finished that save just sitting in the followers safe house now.

interesting, i always think of interesting ways that my courier will develop in the years after hoover dam but never actually do them, it's just something that seems a little to hard to roleplay since, for example, if i did legion ncr troops would still be all around the mojave and same for every faction.

After I did everything possible, I just stuck to avoiding that final battle. Though time to time, I'll go back just to rain hell down on any side with may it be explosives, bullets, or good old steel blades.

Always consider it the ending for a DiD RP charter though.

I always have that one character that I do everything on and continue to play, usually just to walk around and shoot whatever's foolish enough to fire at me. Everything else ends after the final quest.

I never really get that far but if I did, I probably would do it after I finished everything.

Well last character (and the only) i finished the whole game with i forgot to save b4 the battle, cause i thought i would be able to continue (did not learn from fallout 3) and i saved b4 killing Lanius. This time almost done AND GOD HELPS ME if i will overwrite my save again. DAMN U BETHESDA/OBSIDIAN WHY U NO LEARN FROM OBLIVION.

I make a separate save before the final battle, then afterward I delete all other saves for that character and 'retire' him or her. Then, I start working up a concept for the next one. Since said battle is the end of the road for a character, I make sure I did everything that character had intended to according to his or her role before starting it. That way, it's literally the end of that character's career, since there's nothing else left for him or her to do.

I play using the PC, but after the final battlle I make a new character. I have no interest in playing after the end.

Well, being a Fallout noob, I just finished my first New Vegas play through. There were things I messed up, wish I could do differently etc. So, I just went with House, gritted my teeth and did what needed to be done, finished the game and deleted all the save files. Now, I'm on my 2nd character Cat McClaw hahahaha Oh and I'm building her more as a Melee type character, but with a bit of Gun skill thrown in. It's tough being pure melee in a gun world, I think. It's different in Skyrim, most enemies also use melee (besides archers) LOL

But yea, since Fallout New Vegas has a definite ending and things are changed through your actions, it would be weird to go back. I made sure I finished everything. I rushed a bit through one of the DLCs, which my current character will remedy.

The only thing i will do is hang out at the base of whatever faction i chose, or go back to some dlc locations, stuff like that but usually i think of a new character towards the end of my game and rush through the end.

I used to just start new characters after beating the game.

For a long while now though, I have not cared about reaching the end. I don't even bother trying to get there. I get through the main quest up to a certain point (meeting Caesar) and then I stop advancing it and do other stuff until I get bored, abandon that character, and do it all over again with yet another new character.

Just bought this game yesterday and I was wondering have they patched it so the game doesn't end once you beat the main story?

I don't keep playing a character after the I completed the main quest. To me that character's story is over, and after that character is done, I create a new character and delete the old.

I'm on PC, but no...no I don't. My method is to do everything I want to do before I even get close to the end-game quest. I don't like "going back," I'd rather finish everything first. And then I make a new character.

I did the same thing, except I'd stop advancing before meeting Caesar. Sometimes I wouldn't even go find Benny for a long long time.

Use the search Luke....
On a serious note.. No it hasn't been patched to continue after beating the main stories..
Why ...?
Well unlike FO3 there are to many variables.. (wont spoil) to represent in the wasteland. However after the final patch there is an automated save which is right at the point where you make the decission to start the final mission.

Btw.. I don't get this obsession of critics and some gamers with the whole "we want to continue after the main quest" thing. It imho is a TES thing which was (in a very forced manner) ported to FO3 with Broken Steel..
If you follow the story... the story is over...
Even though I enjoy the MQ in FO3- Broken Steel.. It makes zero sense whatsoever story wise..

I don't get it either, since FO-series games have always ended when the MQ does, save for post-Broken Steel FO3. True, you can opt to continue after the MQ in FO2, however it explicitly warns you that the game will not take the fact the MQ is done into account; upon doing so, it quickly becomes apparent that you'd be better off starting a new character because nothing makes sense anymore.

I have a feeling that a goodly percentage of it is folks who wanted to see the results of their choices in person rather than as a series of vignettes, but can't understand why that's simply not possible to implement in anything approaching a reasonable time-frame and pan the game as a result. Somewhat ironically, some of these same folks bemoan the lack of impact your decisions have in open-ended games, even though it's set up that way precisely because they're open-ended.

I think the real problem is that if they were to put in the feature people would complain because it's impossible to do it correctly. Even if they were able to it would take them forever and i'd rather them spend time adding more stuff into the game because the truth, if you could continue after the end and everything was perfect and we could see the exact repercussions of our choices, there really wouldn't be much to do, maybe we'd spend a few hours doing some new quests but then i guarantee, most of us would get bored and start a new game.

Nope, if i would actually rule Vegas after spending 50+ hours in trying to take it over and gather support then i would love to just be in New Vegas, rule it, buy ammo and weapons, wipe out ALL the Legion and NCR EVERYWHERE and declare it all FREEDOM