Giantbomb.com Fallout New Vegas Review - 4/5 Stars

[Krakn3Dfx]

"Fallout: New Vegas somehow manages to have even more technical problems than Fallout 3 did, but its great characters and setting still shine through."

http://www.giantbomb.com/fallout-new-vegas/61-25933/reviews/

 

[v0id]

Ars Technica review here:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/10/fallout-new-vegas-review.ars

Rating: Buy. Seems to talk about a lot of the same technical issues, but the reviewer still liked it.

 

[spaceman]

i wonder if this will alt tab crash like the 1st one always seem to do
ill be hammer quick save ..again
lame

 

[zerocool84]

This makes me even more glad I'm waiting for a while to buy it. Tons of bugs shows how much they really worked on it just like Fallout 3 and it's DLC when they came out. The screens show they didn't change much at all. Looks like Fallout 3 with a skin slopped on. Really sad to see they're just cashing in on the Fallout franchise now.

 

[Bateluer]

Buggy? Jeebus . . .

 

[Lonyo]

It was always going to be horribly buggy.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=30099884&highlight=obsidian#post30099884

They wanted to try and produce the buggiest game ever.
They realised that even with their Gamebryo skills, they couldn't manage it, so they quickly had a meeting to think of a company famous for producing sequels which aren't bad, but end up being horribly buggy, then they hit upon Obsidian.
They decided that if they combined Obsidian with a fairly open world game on a buggy engine, either it would become a black hole of bugs, or it would be the most amazing thing ever. The outcome would be insanely epic either way, so they decided to run with the idea, and now we're here.

So, if the world ends soon, you know who is to blame.

 

[AlgaeEater]

Already bought it, going to play the hell out of it, and I'm going to gripe and bitch about the bugs just like everyone else is.

It's Fallout 3 all over again. It's Oblivion all over again.

Bugs... Bugs never changes.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Already bought it, going to play the hell out of it, and I'm going to gripe and bitch about the bugs just like everyone else is.

It's Fallout 3 all over again. It's Oblivion all over again.

Bugs... Bugs never changes.

Global warming will end if Bethesda manages to release a game without any major bugs.

 

[zerocool84]

Global warming will end if Bethesda manages to release a game without any major bugs.

Or with a new engine

 

[Qbah]

Gamebryo + Obsidian + Steam Cloud... I don't think even a divine intervention could prevent this from being the bug-fest it is right now.

 

[shortylickens]

EVEN MORE BUGS?!?!?

Fuck that. I was gonna buy it. Now I think I'll wait for a year of patches and price drops.
Shit, how long before games get so massive and complicated they need service packs?

 

[Tristicus]

This makes me even more glad I'm waiting for a while to buy it. Tons of bugs shows how much they really worked on it just like Fallout 3 and it's DLC when they came out. The screens show they didn't change much at all. Looks like Fallout 3 with a skin slopped on. Really sad to see they're just cashing in on the Fallout franchise now.

Just like CoD. Sheeple will always immediately flock to buy these games...and I have no idea why.

 

[pontifex]

This makes me even more glad I'm waiting for a while to buy it. Tons of bugs shows how much they really worked on it just like Fallout 3 and it's DLC when they came out. The screens show they didn't change much at all. Looks like Fallout 3 with a skin slopped on. Really sad to see they're just cashing in on the Fallout franchise now.

what do you mean "now"? fallout 3 itself is just Oblivion with guns and was just cashing in on the fallout name.

 

[Rhezuss]

Tried it this morning. Never had any bugs/issues/technical difficulties/problems/troubles/crashes with Fallout 3 so I hope that it's gonna be the same smooth ride with Nwe Vegas.

I just played through the process of character creation this morning plus going out and see the world. It's really beautifully rendered and maybe it's me but I think they tweaked the textures a bit...everything looks sharper and better that in Fallout 3 and it's for the best imo.

With my modest rig I have everything settings at max, resolution at 1920 x 1080, 8xAA/8xAF (could put it at 16xAF, i'll give it a try), Vsync on, HDR on and everything runs smoothly indoor and outdoor...at least over 30FPS easy. Sure it's GameBryo from the early 2000s but still, the game look sharp IMO.

The character creation process is short and sweet, took about 15 minutes to do it and it was fun and interactive. At the end the game offers you to go in Hardcore mode or no which you will be tempted to try with what they offer you...

Good news: They 90% fixes the strafing weirdness in 3rd person view! Now your toon don't look retard when strafing...good job on that.

Can't wait for tonight...damn it's only 9:19am now...think i'm feeling sick...

 

[RavenSEAL]

EVEN MORE BUGS?!?!?

Fuck that. I was gonna buy it. Now I think I'll wait for a year of patches and price drops.
Shit, how long before games get so massive and complicated they need service packs?

FFXIV needs like 2 service packs right now...

 

[Rakewell]

Tried it this morning. Never had any bugs/issues/technical difficulties/problems/troubles/crashes with Fallout 3 so I hope that it's gonna be the same smooth ride with Nwe Vegas.

I just played through the process of character creation this morning plus going out and see the world. It's really beautifully rendered and maybe it's me but I think they tweaked the textures a bit...everything looks sharper and better that in Fallout 3 and it's for the best imo.

With my modest rig I have everything settings at max, resolution at 1920 x 1080, 8xAA/8xAF (could put it at 16xAF, i'll give it a try), Vsync on, HDR on and everything runs smoothly indoor and outdoor...at least over 30FPS easy. Sure it's GameBryo from the early 2000s but still, the game look sharp IMO.

The character creation process is short and sweet, took about 15 minutes to do it and it was fun and interactive. At the end the game offers you to go in Hardcore mode or no which you will be tempted to try with what they offer you...

Good news: They 90% fixes the strafing weirdness in 3rd person view! Now your toon don't look retard when strafing...good job on that.

Can't wait for tonight...damn it's only 9:19am now...think i'm feeling sick...

Yeah, I played a bit this AM too. No bugs, and everything works great thusfar.

I like it. It does look better- and while it's more of the same, it's still Fallout, and the universe is random and fantastic.

I could be off here, but it seems like the reviewers who experienced bugs were playing the xbox version. I read a couple of PC reviews where the word 'bug' isn't even mentioned.

 

[ichy]

I didn't have too many bug problems with Fallout 3, although it became much worse after Broken Steel.

 

[paperfist]

I don't get it, how do you give a 4/5 to a game that you describe as this:

"despite experiencing a list of incredibly annoying bugs that only got worse as I continued playing, I still think you should play it. But when I reflect on the experience, I'll probably think about the times the game locked up on me or broke in a dozen other crazy ways first, before thinking about the great world and the objectives that fill it"

"Less than an hour in, I was staring at a guard, pacing back and forth to guard his post... 20 feet off the ground. Enemies clip into the ground with an alarming frequency, often making them impossible to shoot. The game--a retail disc running on a new-model Xbox 360--crashed on me about a dozen times over the 33 hours I spent playing, often taking a significant amount of progress with it. The load times and frame rate seemed to get randomly worse as I continued to play the game, with some simple scene transitions taking 20 seconds or more. The technical hurdles you'll have to make to stay interested in New Vegas are meaner and more frustrating than any Deathclaw or Nightkin you'll face in the game. If you're the type of person who likes to watch for a patch or two before settling into a game, know this now: you probably don't want to play Fallout: New Vegas right away."

It's suppose to be an immersive RPG right? Well not being able to shoot an enemy because they're stuck in the ground or watching a guard pace as he floats 20' high should deserve a slightly less score then it was dealt.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'm pretty excited to get home and play this tonight. I had a lot of fun with Fallout 3 even though I didn't enjoy Oblivion. Must be the difference in settings.

 

[dpodblood]

All the glitches they mention sound exactly the same as the type in Fallout 3. I guess if you could stand it then, you can stand it now. If they drove you nuts than don't bother. If I've learned one thing from FO3:GOTY it's *quick save often*!

 

[Rhezuss]

I'd be curious to know on which platform all those bugs are more numerous...
All platforms (PC, 360, PS3) seem to have bugs but is there one that get most of them?

 

[skace]

If the bugs are the same as the ones in Fallout 3 then all that means is that Obsidian didn't repair Bethesda's engine. Which isn't their task to do anyways and should be no shock to anyone else. If your engine is buggy, it will be buggy in every game it is used in, that's pretty basic.

Also, I don't give 1 flying shit about Xbox 360 bugs.

 

[AdamK47]

I wonder if this one has the SLI HDR bug.

 

[Phobic9]

I'll wait for the GOTY/Super cheap Steam holiday edition.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Beth should open source their engine and let some people who actually know what they're doing take a crack at it.

Oh and I was already planning on waiting at least a year to buy it, now I'm certain I will. This just removes any temptation. No way am I paying full retail for a public beta. Hell it'll be $20 by January (if not even earlier). Unless you're completely addicted to Fallout or just have too much money there's no reason at all to buy it now.