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Fallout: New Vegas
KvP:
The first review is out and, just as I predicted, it gets an equivalent of a 5.0 because Fallout 3 was better and the graphix are the same. Fallout 3 was awesome but NV "feels like Oblivion with guns". Funny, that.
Couple of things though: The embargo goes until either tomorrow or launch day (it's unclear but most recent mentions point to the latter) and the reviewer references "other people on the forum" who have played NV, so it's pretty obviously a Fallout 3 fan who pirated the game. So take this as your harbinger of the Bethtard reaction to NV.
Andrew Reiner from Game Informer said (through his twitter) that he's had his review copy of F:NV for a month. When he writes his review he will be on his third playthrough. Jim Sterling of Destructoid finessed around the embargo to say all this:
--- Quote ---- First Jimpressions of New Vegas: As far as I am concerned, Alpha Protocol never happened now. Slate's clean.
- Played New Vegas for two days and have only officially completed two quests. [censored] hell!
- I in no way mean to imply that that's a BAD thing, either.
- @snoopypup248 If it is, it's an expansion that's worth $60
- New Vegas has officially overwhelmed me. I have so many quests going on and don't know where to start. This is terrifying and awesome.
--- End quote ---
Also according to some gossip blog, the F:NV launch party happened last night and Vampire Weekend performed for some reason. Various television actors were in attendance.
Couple of little things that are apparently confirmed by streams and the like: There will be different fighting styles that will augment unarmed combat (no idea if this changes animations or the like) and when you reload a game, gambling is disabled for 60 seconds. Powergamers are gonna have to work for their bread.
Tom:
With all the things on offer, graphix seems like a childish thing to bitch about. Hopefully there aren't going to be other games using the gamebryo engine from here on out because this would be a fitting swan-song for it.
KvP:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 17 Oct 2010, 08:51 ---According to the wiki, the Alien Blaster is only available with Wild Wasteland, there are no references to aliens without the trait selected.
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The wiki also mentions that the YCS/186 Gauss Rifle will only appear if Wild Wasteland is off, which they indicate as a sort of trade-off. As it stands, the Gauss Rifle and Zybourne Clock balls / body are probably separate references - apparently the YCS/186 guy had met Josh at least once in person.
Storm Rider:
For the record, Jim Sterling: giving New Vegas a positive review does not wipe your slate clean. You're still a giant tool and your review of Alpha Protocol was still a shitty gimmick to get pageviews.
Also, that first review John linked is a perfect example as to why Metacritic is useless. Some self-important jackass with a blog is given equal weight as any other website because he sticks an iconoclastic number on it to get attention.
KvP:
There are approximately 25 core storyline quests and 70 sidequests in F:NV, + however many untagged tasks you can do.
Fallout 3 had, at least according to the strategy guide, 11 core storyline quests and 17 sidequests.
It's Fallout 1 -> Fallout 2 all over again.
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