er...any one else concerned about this particular line:
"Swarms of goons – angry escaped skinheads – now dotted the map. Thankfully, even the most basic pistol makes short work of heads in VATS mode"
he walks out at the start of the game, low level, and with the most basic pistol makes short work of "SWARMS of goons"? seems like NV will be the cakewalk that FO3 was and it'll be up to the modders to make things right again.
Well if you look at it this way
1) Headshots can take down opponents easily if its the right opponent and weapon
2) The convicts (or GOONS as it was strangely stated in that preview) seem just like average joes, around the same standard set by raiders. A good person to ask would be the Garden Knome seeing as he actually played the demo and mentioned fighting the convicts, he could shed some light on that.
3) there's no way to know what difficulty setting for that was, although I highly doubt a demo would be set on Very Hard difficulty.