I began the game at "easy" on the xbox 360, did the tutorial quest. I then took the very difficult challenge of leaving Goodsprings and finding safe passage to the Vegas Strip to talk to Mr. house. I did it by lvl. 3. I'm sure there's people who can beat me. Let me know if you think you can or have done it. Also, you'll want to save before you do it if you don't want to miss out on probably 80% of the game. :tops:
you wouldn't want to bet that i couldn't do it, if its possible i could do it, as it is, getting to vegas safely is pretty easy right from goodsprings, once you get to sloan, you go straight to neils shack or whatver, then stay on that side, you can even kill the supermutants for hunting rifle early on there, but anyway its easy to go that way and totally avoid the deathclaws, i could get to vegas super early thats not the hard part, the hard part would be making the 2000 caps without gaining experience points, but i'm sure it can be done, thats the only problem i see, making the caps without leveling up but as far as getting to vegas, that part is easy.