Truthfully I didn't understand all the love/hype people had for them before I played this game, but after playing I understand perfectly. New Vegas is without a doubt my favorite game of alltime already, and when the mods really start rollin out. Its hard to imagine a game that good. One thing people have over looked is the devs also left a treasure trove of modding potential everywhere. They left most of FO3's assets intact while making all new assets. They didn't over populate the map so you have plenty of land to work with for modding in all kinds of stuff. The crafting system will make it even easier for modders to add things to the game. Simply put this game has far more potential then FO3, and FO3 had a gazzilion mods lol :celebration: .

I love this game no matter how much bugs it will have, but i must say that this game feels half-assed. it seems like they released it in the middle of development. areas seem to be lowly populated, which kind of spoils the fact that this game is named after a place that is really not that great and is even less populated than great.
My only complaint is that new vegas is not populated enough for me to have a nice, bloody super-sledge massacre. this game is the only game that gets THIS close to postal but yet you still get a chance of redemption even after doing unimaginable things to a corpse.

the story is cool, i like the variety in guns and ammo

the only reason people complain for FONV is it's a OPEN WORLD game its wouldn't make since if in halo reach you could keep going because what would be the point?

I struggle to comprehend how New Vegas can be called a bad game. It has amazing depth... so much so it's difficult to actually highlight exacty why it is so special. I can go ahead and recite a small list of gripes I have precisely because that list is so small, but trying to describe why F:NV is good in a single post, without using a list with bullet points and descriptions after every bulleted game feature is just not doable. Every time I start to flag a little I encounter another small story involving one small character in this huge landscape and I'm right back with it. Or another destination teeming with character, half of the towns are characters themselves.

I've just finished a pretty much non-stop twelve hour stint (bringing my total to 36 hours), stopping only for food, drink and toilet breaks. It's also hard to point out what you like because you know almost everyone is having a different experience, walking the Mojave with a different character of a different gender or in different clothes with a different skill set, playing in a different view, choosing different weapons and different weapon mods making different choices in conversations and approaching combat differently, tackling quests differently... you have to write a short story in order to properly explain the experience you had, or other players will just paste their own view of their playing experience onto your opinion (good or bad) when they read anything you write about it. lol :laugh:

Edit - lol In other words I rate the collaborative effort of Obsidian/Bethesda very highly indeed. Ultimately I've enjoyed previous Obsidian games, but for me, New Vegas is a real achievement. A few weeks of tweaking and patching those little things, and a few community patches and mods polishing what they miss in the months to follow - will make F:NV one to beat for anyone looking to make a action RPG in future.

** I'm still not finished with my first play-through.

This.

/bump

Obsidian games always have bugs, but they also make great games like NWN2 and this.

Still too many bugs , but somehow game is quite satisfying. Alpha protocol was quite bugged, but its still enjoyable, same expectation with FONV I suppose.

I'm disappointing that they apparently put a corpse in charge of testing the damn game. It svcks cause I love the game just like i loved FO3.

Overall, I think its well done, there are bugs, yes, but thats what patches are for. While there are some things I don't like( curse you invisible walls!), I my mind the good outweighs the bad.

They are as GODS to me.

I think they did a fantastic job in a very short period of time and produced an Awesome video game that I will now enjoy for thousands of hours (between GECK and game). I got 3 copies, 1 CE edition and two copies of the strategy guide (one for friend), so I'm invested about $200 at this point.

Lets see - 200 bucks for 2000 hours of entertainment... Yep thats a good deal.

I feel bad for all the hits they take over issues that often times are not their fault, and I'm patient while they fix the bugs.

So far so good on this release.

Well lets see,

Not enough options to vote on because:

Obsidian failed at using game testers to see if Fallout: New Vegas is playable for console owners (according to credits Obsidian only has 3 testers)

Obsidian did not even put the game thru a Quality Assurance team with the game testers to see if it will work (It is obvious because no one in their right minds would not release a game if it is not working right for all gaming systems, hence the game was rushed without proper quality)

Obsidian released a patch 1.01 but the patch is said to have fixed 200 things wrong with the game but seems it did not fix the screen lag-freeze skip of every 20 to 40 steps when running in the game and game still locked up and even frozed on me in a V.A.T.S. battle. (But I applaud Obsidian for trying to fix the game but the most frustrating glitches and bugs in the game are still not fixed yet.)

I would vote something like

"Obsidian was alright but after Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic II and Fallout: New Vegas I am disappointed in them and doubt I will ever get a game from Obsidian again"

I agree, it seems so simple - when i heard about the def ending I just kinda lowered my expectations.