I played Fallout 3 when it came out, and just got bored with it fairly quickly. It’s got that Bethesda vibe where everything is great at first, but then you start to get further into the game and everything starts to seem copy+pasted to make the game artificially larger and longer. Is it like that at all? I see it mentioned as a great game all the time, but I also saw that about 3 when it came out.
Mechanically, its almost the same game. Maybe a few UI and movement tweaks. Lots of re-used assets, although there was a bit more attention to detail when putting everything together.
Where it shines is the writing & vibe of the game. It’s got a lot of charm in the world that fallout 3 petered out on. The story (esp the DLC quests) is very hit-or-miss depending on your tastes, but generally held to be at least decent.
It is, by far, the best game in the entire series.
Yeah and what’s funny is the next game by Obsidian Entertainment, called The Outer Worlds, is such a carbon copy of New Vegas, it’s hilarious. Highly recommend the Outer Worlds for sure, takes place if we had a Space Age still with our capitalist system.
I’ve said it before but that game was weird as fuck, in that I had tons of fun playing it but it was also probably the most forgettable video game I’ve ever played.
It is weird how ever critic I followed couldn’t shut up about how cool they thought it was and then literally nobody talked about it ever again.
The first World and a half make a strong impression. It is when you get to the third world that it starts really falling apart.
And it falls apart bad. One of those games I had to force myself to finish.
