So I've seen alot of screen shots. And almost all of them have buildings in them...

:/

So what's the wasteland like in F:NV? My favorite part of FO3 was roaming the wasteland.

From what I've seen it looks pretty vast and empty.
It's hard to explain, it just looks real damn good, damn damn damn... Good...
It's very orange, more vegetation than FO3, just not a lot of green.
Dunes, small mountains, stuff.
(I are good explanation of english. )

there still some waste, it′s just that they added more colours then brown, brown, brown, another shade of brown....oh and that lovely shade of...eh grey.

Here, have a look at these, pretty much explains what has been released.
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=4329
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=4222
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=4218
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=4207
http://www.falloutnow.de/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1496

Lots of sand. And catuses. Cactii, if you will. And rocks. Don't forget rocks.

It doesn't really look... irraditated though.

Whoa that pic looks weird...

well the area around New Vegas wasen′t hit directly by the nukes and only suffered the effects of indirect exposure to radiation, instead of the full blown effect.

The screenshot might be from a tv or computer where the player upped the saturation.
I'll up it for sure to have it be more colorful.

What's the problem?

@gabriel that pic looks borderline cel shaded...something just seems really weird.

neither did fallout 1 or 2.

the explanation is that Dc was nuked a ton more then most of the west.

the west coast is starting to recover.
The capital of the N.C.R has over 40,000 residents and a sewer system

And lets be fair. In real life, nothing "looks" irradiated. The only visible indicators are destruction caused by the nuclear explosion. Once all that is cleaned up, the area can still be irradiated, but you won't see any sign of that besides sick vegetation and animals - and as the city of Pripyat has showed us, within a decade plantlife will be thriving again, and animals abundant, while the radiation is still deadly enough to kill humans in the same area. Radiation doesn't tint an area green. :rolleyes: You just have to "listen for the tick-tick-tickety of that Geiger counter, kiddies"!

Sidebar: Video games aren't supposed to be 'real'. It's a virtual reality which in some way or another depects a possible reality, part of that is visually showing you an irradiated-looking plant. It's not that a plant / body of water / strip of ground would actually look like that if it had been nuked; it's how it -should- look in a fantasy world.

Well maybe not so much irradiated as... not sure how to put this really. F:NV looks like it's going to be a fun game, but it just doesn't look like it's set after a nuclear apocalypse. We've got electricty, clear skies, a wasteland that looks exactly how it looks in today's real world, gambling (urban life) and what not. F:NV looks like a steam-punk wild west shooter to me; I'm in the market for desperate post-nuked world...

I'm thinking of Enstien's quote: "I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
And they're giving us a satelite weapon like the archemedies?

Frankly, I'm not seeing the novelty with this game. WHich is why I'm still debating if I want to buy it right away - I'm sure i'll buy it but I might wait for this one.

I mean really... What the frakin point of having a fantasy wasteland set in a wasteland?

Besides that, I'm going to miss picking around in the ruins of the capital building... national archives etc.

Are there even going to be ruins/metros to pick around in?
Caves and mines? seriously? why don't I just go pick up Call of Juarez.

Dunno, Hope i'm wrong. I hope F:NV really has that post-nuke feel. Right now I'm not seeing it though.

the above poster is whining.

play fallout 1 and 2.

its not fallout tradition for the world to be destroyed beyond repair like F3

even the wasteland in the 1st 2 had signs of recovery and hope

edit- you think a satellite weapons is pushing it? there was a nuke launcher and a gatling gun that shot lasers in the last game and you werent complaining about fallout 3.

so how is this that much different

you must keep in mind as far as we know New Vegas it self is the only place with electricity and all that, everything else is still the ruined, ghost like towns your used to in Fallout 3. It′s still a world of survival out there.

@Gabriel- Looking at all of those pictures, am I the only one on this forum tempted to pull an Oblivion and climb the peaks of every mountian just to say I did it? :laugh:

There will be desolate areas and ruins. Also, no Metros, but there will be dungeon-esque areas in the form of things like mines, and possibly sewers. Come to think of it, there is supposed to be a heavily irradiated NCR camp with a lot of feral ghouls that used to be part of NCR.

I'm going to explore so much I'm soooo excited!

I had that in mind as soon as I saw them man.
And I'm so gonna try to climb every building in Vegas.