Fallout: New Vegas

[Forward Observer]

Man, everyone in here is too critical. Fallout 3 was a good game, was it everything that Fallout fans wanted? Only a fool would think that, especially on Beth's first crack at the thing, but it is enjoyable in the extreme and does follow the lore accurately which is why it was one of the best games of the year. New Vegas will be more in line with the lore due to Black Isle workers on it and it will probably be better.

I think if you will re-read most of the posts you find that most people really enjoyed or are praising the game and are looking forward to the next release. I know that statement fits my situation. I found the story both inventive and plausible at the same time although like most I objected to my character being put in a no win situation at the end. Of course Bethesda listened to the complaints and rectified this with one of the expansions.

Besides one does not expect Shakespeare when playing a PC game. Personally, if pressed to do so, I would list Fallout 3 as one of my top ten games of all times and did just that last week at another forum.

My only complaint, as were several others, was not about the game, but was about the hassles encountered with the Games for Windows Live implementations---both in their overly complex payment point structure, and various technical issues that many encountered.

They may have changed this by now, but at first even if one did not own an XBox, one first had to join X-box live to set up an account to get a user name, so they can purchase DLC points to spend at Windows Live. It took me forever to find support for the DLC since the only support phone numbers given were at XBox live not Windows Live. It turned out that they all worked out of one base phone number. Also from that point on I started to get useless bi-monthly update and promo emails from Xbox Live, which I finally got stopped. I have a PS 3, and one console is more than enough for me.

Windows Live is stupendously clunky in it methods and operations when compared to something like Steam, but that's
the only real complaint I ever had relating to Fallout 3.

Playing through it twice in the last 10 months or so has probably provided me with well over 250 hours of both entertaining and challenging game play. I can't think of many games other than the TotalWar series that have given me that kind of gaming value for my money.

Cheers