Play.tm Preview... : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:11 am

Play.tm got to play New Vegas for an hour, and while most of it isn't really new stuff (though reiterating for those who don't know is never a bad thing), they do talk a little bit about Goodsprings, which they mistakenly call Hopesprings at first, and dealing with Joe Cobb and the Powder Gangers.

They also mention that weapons degrade faster in hardcoe mode, but I'm fairly certain that was debunked by J. Sawyer or one of the developers in another article or here on the forums. I think.

Otherwise, it's an interesting read, even if it's nothing new for most people. http://play.tm/preview/31810/fallout-new-vegas/

And of course, no wild-west town is complete without a viscous posse holding the town to ransom, which Goodsprings provides in the form of Joe Cobb and the Powder Gang. Your first proper mission sees you employed by a desperate Mayor to release the town from their nefarious clutches.

Incidentally, it's worth noting that the Powder Gang were set to appear in the original, abandoned Fallout 3 (codenamed Van Buren) from Black Isle, the creators of the first two games in the series. With many in that team moving to Obsidian in 2003, it's only fitting that the Powder Gang should make their return here.

Now, as this is a Fallout game your choices in how to deal with Cobb are as open as the wilderness that surrounds you. In this particular case, for example, you can pal up with him, use the gift of the gab to find some alternative solution, or just shoot him and his friends in the face. We chose the latter, resulting in the increased affections of the Goodsprings townsfolk. We were 'accepted.'

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:38 am

all i could do was facepalm reading this article...its like he read some other journalists' previews, watch people play the game, then wrote his own. smh. also misleading the reader on the part of weapons degrading in hardcoe mode...just dumb. get the facts right next time

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:02 am

Hopesprings? :shakehead:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:17 am

Hopesprings? :shakehead:

my thoughts exactly. how can you screw that up?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:17 am

...did they actually get a hour with it? It doesn't seem like they did this is just a re-write and mash up of everything else we already know... with several errors.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:55 pm

"poorly animated" my ass.

Every modern RPG I've played in the last year has been just as supposedly "wooden" as Fallout 3 was, or was smoothly animated on account of being a JRPG and was therefore basically a 20-hour movie.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:45 am

Isn't there a location with hope in the name? I know its goodsprings and not hopesprings but I thought I saw a location in the all roads preview with a pic of some of the map with the word hope.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:00 pm

Isn't there a location with hope in the name? I know its goodsprings and not hopesprings but I thought I saw a location in the all roads preview with a pic of some of the map with the word hope.

you're thinking of Forlorn Hope, which i saw on there too.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100903184724/fallout/images/d/d5/MojaveMap.png

^^east side, below the Hoover Dam and right of Nelson and Boulder City

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:16 pm

Isn't there a location with hope in the name? I know its goodsprings and not hopesprings but I thought I saw a location in the all roads preview with a pic of some of the map with the word hope.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Camp_Forlorn_Hope

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:05 am

"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viscous posse?" Hmm...might want to get that looked-at. :laugh:

That preview was totally phoned-in.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:01 am

"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viscous posse?" Hmm...might want to get that looked-at. :yuck:

That preview was totally phoned-in.

Seems pretty standard for a game journalist, actually.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:17 am

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Camp_Forlorn_Hope

Yes that's it thanks.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:29 pm

Seems pretty standard for a game journalist, actually.

It's "journalist."

The quotes are actually part of the correct spelling.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:28 am

It's "journalist."

The quotes are actually part of the correct spelling.

How do I keep forgetting that!?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:50 am

"poorly animated" my ass.

Every modern RPG I've played in the last year has been just as supposedly "wooden" as Fallout 3 was, or was smoothly animated on account of being a JRPG and was therefore basically a 20-hour movie.

You're high.

Nuff said.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:08 am

You're high.

Nuff said.

if he's high, im low. just saying.

on the subject of "journalists", since were in agreement thats the correct spelling, it's hard to tell when to even consider a game when the scores are so widely varied (Mafia II comes to mind)