motherfuckers have gleaned things from websites, and things i found of note were the following:
a hardcore mode that recognizes ammo weight, has you eatin' and drinkin water
you can swing your golfclub into a dude's balls and that move is called "FORE"
you ain't a vault dweller
you are some motherfucker
skills actually matter in conversations. for example, if i know a thing or two at explosives, there are applicable things i can bring to the table. or if you a good violencin' guy you can use your skills for ambushes but sometimes them conversations can fuck up
I haven't read anything this detailed on any game news site and it sounds kinda like some awesome shit some dudes made up. Got any sources?
EDIT: Oh wait it's apparently from scans of PC Gamer UK.
Okay so my subscriber copy of PC Gamer UK arrived, and they have an eight-page article on New Vegas. Salient points:
- First-person action RPG with the same engine as Fallout 3 (sorry, Van Buren fans).
- Set in the Mojave wastelands. Vegas didn't get many nukes. More intact buildings, as well as desert vegetation. Vegas itself is mostly intact.
- You don't play a Vault Dweller (or descendant of one) but a courier, left for dead and saved by a friendly robot.
- The overarching story is a struggle between the locals, Caesar's Legion (a faction of slavers from the east) and the New Californian Republic.
- Both karma and reputation are tracked. If I'm reading it right there's separate reputations for each of the settlements, as in 1 and 2.
- All dialogue options are shown to all players, regardless of whether you have the stats to succeed or not, though there's no punishment for failure.
- Bartering is not just lower prices but negotiating for better rewards.
- VATS returns, and melee weapons have special moves in it. The golf club has "Fore!", which is a shot to the golf balls (so to speak) that knocks the opponent down. Weapons also now have knock-back upon death, with shotguns sending mans flying.
- Super Mutants return, but in two varieties - the smarter ones from Fallout 1, and the idiot ones from Fallout 2. On at least one occasion you can convince them to fight amongst themselves.
- New weapons include what appears to be an M4 and a grenade machinegun.
- Followers can be managed through a context-sensitive menu, with orders like "follow", "stay" or "attack".
- Hardcore Mode! In this mode, Stimpacks heal over time (as opposed to instantly), combat is tougher, ammo has weight and you can suffer dehydration, so keep some water on you!
One of the screenshots has a Super Mutant with a blonde wig and pink heart-shaped glasses.
I hope they get rid of the random skill checks, I want to either get it 100 percent of the time right or 0 percent of the time right. Not anything in between.
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Dammit. Hardcore mode is exactly the sort of thing I'm going to love, I can already tell.
Time was, if I felt the urge to destroy myself for hours at a time I'd just play Spider Solitaire. Good thing Oblivion-style games came along so I could refuse to use fast travel and trainers.
I hope they get rid of the random skill checks, I want to either get it 100 percent of the time right or 0 percent of the time right. Not anything in between.
Yeah, it seems sort of goofy that everything is open to you and there are no penalties for failure.
I hope they get rid of the random skill checks, I want to either get it 100 percent of the time right or 0 percent of the time right. Not anything in between.
Yeah, it seems sort of goofy that everything is open to you and there are no penalties for failure.
Sawyer said that you "won't be in a worse position than when you started." So if a dude wants to blow your head off and then you fail the check then he still wants to blow your head off. Which I guess is ok?
I hope they get rid of the random skill checks, I want to either get it 100 percent of the time right or 0 percent of the time right. Not anything in between.
Yeah, it seems sort of goofy that everything is open to you and there are no penalties for failure.
eh not really, it's just the modern gaming version of talking the sheriff into a gunfight and getting the whole town hostile at you. People really don't seem to like being able to do that these days.
I do not find myself totally excited for New Vegas...
And I loved three so hard.
I think a big part of it was the setting though, the idea of exploring this awesome bombed out Washington was just so awesome.
I don't really care about Vegas. Especially since it's apparently still operating?
But I dunno, maybe when I learn more I'll get pumped-er
Hoping that the new follower stuff doesn't mean I'll every be required to have one.
Otherwise, yeah, that sounds pretty great. The melee VATS stuff is just so much hilarity potential. I really can't wait to see how tongue in cheek Oblivion can get with this game.
if he were copy/pasting NMA posts the last thing he'd be doing is talking down on the 2D fallout games which were superior and though while his home is in nippon, his heart is with the glorious design of this western rpg
Except some of those NMA people actually shit on Fallout 2 a lot. There was essentially no way some of those people were going to be satisfied with Fallout 3 unless you just found a bunch of old boxes of the original game and wrote a 3 in marker on them.
As much as I want New Vegas to clean up the little problems that Fallout 3 had, even if it's just more of the same, I'll still probably pick up a copy.
What I'm saying is that I hope they make the violent deaths better and that I can shoot people in the eyes again.
Fallout 3 would have been 10 to 15% percent better if only I could blind people with bullets.
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I haven't read anything this detailed on any game news site and it sounds kinda like some awesome shit some dudes made up. Got any sources?
EDIT: Oh wait it's apparently from scans of PC Gamer UK.
That all sounds pretty fucking awesome.
Also, it's nice that they added special moves to melee weapons.
Time was, if I felt the urge to destroy myself for hours at a time I'd just play Spider Solitaire. Good thing Oblivion-style games came along so I could refuse to use fast travel and trainers.
Yeah, it seems sort of goofy that everything is open to you and there are no penalties for failure.
I'm just a tad worried about still getting that weird stuttering error, though
I'll probably get it on Steam when I do, though, since I finally got that crap back (can't play multiplayer, though!)
Sawyer said that you "won't be in a worse position than when you started." So if a dude wants to blow your head off and then you fail the check then he still wants to blow your head off. Which I guess is ok?
eh not really, it's just the modern gaming version of talking the sheriff into a gunfight and getting the whole town hostile at you. People really don't seem to like being able to do that these days.
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And I loved three so hard.
I think a big part of it was the setting though, the idea of exploring this awesome bombed out Washington was just so awesome.
I don't really care about Vegas. Especially since it's apparently still operating?
But I dunno, maybe when I learn more I'll get pumped-er
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Otherwise, yeah, that sounds pretty great. The melee VATS stuff is just so much hilarity potential. I really can't wait to see how tongue in cheek Oblivion can get with this game.
Goddamn ghoul reavers
Except some of those NMA people actually shit on Fallout 2 a lot. There was essentially no way some of those people were going to be satisfied with Fallout 3 unless you just found a bunch of old boxes of the original game and wrote a 3 in marker on them.
best armor possible for you to start with, right there.
having played it before and realizing, "Man, I should have come here first."
Fuck the haters.
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But we just got a ps3 and I'm wondering whether purchasing the game of the year edition would be worth it...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiKziKrorU&feature=related
Its great isn't it.
its made by the same dudes who made shadow of chernobyl i believe
I hope it's not too buggy
also damn I really wanna get Fallout 3 for PC again
but I have too many other games to play and things to do before that
Apparently it's some of the guys that worked on SoC's engine early on. I'm not sure that's really an endorsement for this game.
I did not know that, its just what I heard
I love it when people realize that Miga's face is there
where the fuck is this from?
the link august posted
and thanks Kosh
Having now checked the thread...
Yup, pure NMA. Two replies before the bitching begins.
oh man I wanna see what the deal is with the solar tower
executin' dudes by exploding their heads in the heat
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What I'm saying is that I hope they make the violent deaths better and that I can shoot people in the eyes again.
Fallout 3 would have been 10 to 15% percent better if only I could blind people with bullets.
that's all i want
Well, Bethesda didn't develop this one. Main story line is just one of those things they've never been good at.