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Fallout: New Vegas
Storm Rider:
Hm, I could see it going either way, to be honest. Fallout 3, for all its faults, brought back the series in a very big way. 95% of the audience will have no idea that New Vegas is made from different people than 3 was, and for the majority of people who care, Obsidian is a step up. If Bethesda markets it as heavily as they did for F3 (or maybe more, they've been flush with cash lately and it makes a lot more sense to put a big push behind New Vegas than it did for, say, WET), then I would not be surprised at all if it sold as well or better. The thing that works against it, and it certainly is significant, is that the tech behind New Vegas will be 2 years old when it comes out and it shows. I could see some of the more fickle consumers being put off by the lack of shiny, but who knows how many of the people who bought Fallout 3 think like that?
If nothing else, New Vegas will almost certainly be a commercial hit much larger than anything Obsidian's ever made before and should secure their short-term financial future even if Alpha Protocol bombs, and that's enough for me to be happy. I'd be more than satisfied if Bethesda licensed Obsidian to make the West Coast Fallouts in perpetuity, and then they could safely put out their more high-concept RPGs on the side.
KvP:
Game Informer is running a preview with a lot of new info.
- One of the new followers is an ex-NCR soldier named Craig Boone whose wife has been kidnapped. All followers will have sidequests, take a guess as to Boone's.
- New weapons are shown: a machete, a pair of boxing gloves, razors, a SMG-looking gun, C4 with an included detonator.
- The Mad Max-looking leather jacket of Fallout 1/2 apparently makes a return, with a host of other outfits that the poster of Beth's forum didn't describe.
- Some new animations, like a new reload animation that show the bullets you're putting into the gun have been included.
- Combat is apparently much more enjoyable now outside VATS and the previewer found himself purposely not using it. Enemies will react to hits, etc.
- First look at the Strip. Apparently it looks a lot like 50's Vegas, with neon-lit Casinos and everything.
- The Casinos will have their very own gambling mini-games. Luck (the SPECIAL stat) will of course play a big role in them. Blackjack, Poker, Roulette and Slot Machine are some of the games you can play.
- The city of New Vegas was not hit by nukes in the war, and is being run by a figure calling himself "Howard Hughes". It's strongly implied that he is not human - no one has ever gone into the building in which he resides, The Lucky 38, and it's apparent that he's responsible in some way for the lack of destruction during the war. He's probably either a ghoul or a supercomputer. I'm going to guess he's a ghoul, since there was a very similar character in Van Buren.
- Hughes takes care of business in the city via his police robots (similar to the sort in the teaser, I'm guessing, but with a policeman face on the monitor instead of a cowboy). Thus, no mob families in Vegas. It will disappoint some and make a lot of hardcore fans who complained about New Reno happy.
- New Vegas will have 4 types of currency : Caps, paper NCR money, casino chips and Caesar's Legion money (apparently mentioned as 'coins' in some parts of the preview). There will be an exchange rate between currencies and using the right currency with the right vendor will bring price benefits.
- There is one confirmed Vault in the game, Vault 21, whose Vault-Tec sanctioned experiment had something to do with gambling. It has been refitted to be an underground casino in the game.
More if / when I get it.
Storm Rider:
That all sounds very promising, although I have to admit managing 4 types of currency sounds like it could get annoying. It seems like making Howard Hughes into a computer would be a bad idea since it would be very similar to the twist in Fallout 3. It might fit with their story idea but it would undoubtedly lead to accusations of being unoriginal.
KvP:
Remastered Mark Morgan soundtrack to Fallouts 1/2 for download. Very highly recommended for fans of ambient musics.
That's another perk of owning a PC version of the game - you can replace Inon Zur's soundtrack with Mark Morgan's.
Storm Rider:
What happened to Mark Morgan anyway? Does he even do game soundtracks anymore?
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