Entered New Vegas for the first time..swear to God XD

I believe you. It was ~30 hrs for me. Would have been longer too, but I went ahead and let my curiosity take over.

I was in the low 60 hours before I went to Vegas for the first time. I was too busy doing loads of exploring and side quests.

haha the strip is the spot bro. :celebration:

I'm with you. I can't believe I'm at 90 hours and just haven't been to New Vegas yet. I've been to the Atomic Wrangler but I think I've been avoiding Mr. House. I want to keep checking things out and talking to people first...and so much to explore and many side quests are not done yet.

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Yeah it was about 42 hours for me, Im about 50 now and I have 23 ACTIVE quests and only 4 of them are part of the main story and thats not including the small missions that arent marked.

didn't take me that long, and it wasn't too exiting when i finally saw it.

big let down in my opinion

dam and here I thot Id be the only one who took forever to check New Vegas out lol. Yeah Ive been taking my time leveling and doing all quests I can do around the Mojave. So far I like it

I think it was maybe 8 hours before i got to The Strip because a bug (which i think was fixed in the patch) caused me to freeze near Novac and i ended up taking the hard way to The Strip, took nearly an hour in itself to sneak past the deathclaws at level 4 with a few to many close calls.

I went to Vegas in the first 15 hours. I was excited about it.

....Ok hear me out.......I was like ~70 hours intro the game...before I set first step inside the Strip.........guess I'm not so special afterall...: D

Me and my rushing, i was there in only ten hours :blush:

I just did fully completed Goodsprings and Primm, said hi in Nipton, fully completed Novac, had some fun at Helios One, and, since I'd accidentally stumbled upon the duplicate-weapon-merchant-glitch from Fallout 3, waltzed right into the strip, maybe at about 18 hours of gameplay. Kind of breezed through that one, wanted to be done with hardcoe mode. Love the idea of dehydration and sleep, as well as continuous stimpack healing, but I don't like having to use 3 of the wasteland's rarest medical supplies after every firefight. I still hear the concussion sound in my sleep. <_<

Starting over again, now that doctor's bags actually do jack [censored] in casual mode, I'm going to try and take things more slowly. I'm actually exploring Freeside (and loving the places, but not the load times) and actually spent a few caps so I'd have to work to get into the strip. Just got in after doing some work for the Silver Rush (and selling 2 of their own plasma grenades back to them) and plan to take things a little more slowly now.

I haven't been yet.

I spent my first while trying to find a character I like. Now that I have, I am in Novack. I don't know when I'll get to the strip.

I have seen it though. My friend has beaten the main quest and I have seen him play a little. It' disapointing and not at the same time. If it were jsut some place, it would be nice. Having played Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and having been to Los Venturas, I am disapointed, but oh well. City is small and sectioned off. The building are small... what ever. I am told the quests and dialog are nice though.

I'm not sure how many hours my main character is but I havent been past Freeside with him and he is level 22. My alts havent been either. My goal on my main is to not go any farther in (to not go past the checkpoint) at all until I'm level 30.

On all 3 characters.

I was a customer at the Gun Runners within the first 5 hours, but I entered Vegas ~20 hours. My plan is to get close to the end of the MQ and then when I am able to slay anything in the Wasteland (for me the definition of that is pretty much 100 Guns and a .50 Cal Rifle, which I'm 350 caps away from xD) I'll start my misadventures.

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haha, the "strip." never been to vegas but i dont think they have doors every 200 feet on the strip. lovin the load screens!!

i didnt enter the strip until 98 hours.

you guys rush things.

Well, once you get into new vegas, you can do even more side quests, and soend another 20 hours or so before you even think about doing the first story mission there.

Novac*

Me too. Took my time. I wanted to build it up! I may have gone too far...but I'd do it all the same if I had to!


Although making a character and rushing them to the Strip at level 1 or so would be fun as well.

I saw another thread titled "40 hours and bored" and for the life of me, I cannot understand how. Here I am at level 20, 35 hours in, and I still have companions to recruit, quests to complete, a map to explore.....not to mention I have not made any official entrance into the New Vegas strip yet.


I also get the feeling that once I enter the strip, the main plot will snowball and I will find myself caught in events that are too urgent to push aside.

I feel like that too - I've got to the Strip and done a few SQs there, but I haven't touched the MQ there for this reason. Just went in, had a gander, lost some caps and got back to wasting the wasteland

Over 100 hours, Level 25 and I haven't been to the Strip.just looking around the Wasteland. All the things you mentioned and the Sunset Sarsparilla Star caps to find, Snow Globes to find, caves and sewers, all the outer edges of the map, etc. There's a lot to do. I may not do it all in this game but will save some for the next one with different companions. I was thinking about those who chose to rush through the Main Quest and I hope they go back and explore all it has to offer. It's huge! And I agree about the snowball on the MQ...have seen that before in other games.

First toon? I dunno 30-35 hours...taking it casually.
Second toon? Took what I knew and rushed to the strip cashed in three easy peasy snowglobes did a little gambleing and bought combat armor mark 2 for Boon and I.
Couple of weapon mods as well.Turned around and left the strip at that point to do other things.