I am the type of gamer who enjoys really good game. Not that put a really good RPG. That’s why when I first started playing Fallout: New Vegas I was really looking forward to the experience. The game promised to offer so much and improve upon the previous game in the series, Fallout 3. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when NV failed to live up to either its hype, or relation to Fallout 3.
Let’s start off at the most logical place to begin the discussion, the beginning of the game. The game begins with you awakening in a doctor’s office after he used to fine skills in medicine to save you after you get shot in the head. Now I’m no medical expert but I’m pretty sure that getting shot in the head has a very low survival rate under the most ideal circumstances (not that there are ideal circumstances to for getting shot in the head), let alone getting shot in the middle of a post apocalyptic wasteland where the nearest doctor is some weird old dude living in a shack. Anyways back to the review. The game starts out with you waking up in a doctor’s office, and then being put through the most pointless tests ever to determine your psych profile. These tests are pointless however because you can end up changing the results to whatever you want anyways.
Now let’s move on to the point where you take control of your character and start out free to roam the wasteland. Now this is the point where you can choose whether you want to do the tutorial and learn how to play game, or just go off on your own. Let’s say we go off on our own this time. Now when I first played NV I had one goal in mind: get to New Vegas. It is the title of the game anyways. Now as nice as it would have been to start out in New Vegas, I don’t mind that you have to get there first, it helps add to the satisfaction of the game when you finally reach it. And it really would have been satisfying if I didn’t have to take the scenic route to get there. I don’t know if the developers forgot what game they were making or if they just don’t care but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Fallout: New Vegas. More like Fallout: Scenic Mojave Safari or some other bulls***. I mean they tease you with the sight of New Vegas from the very beginning of the game. You can see it right there in front of you, the only problem is that between you and the city is a whole canyon full of Deathclaws. And for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, a deathclaw is a dinosaur, that’s the easiest way to put it. So pretty much if you want to get to New Vegas you have to take a long journey, weaving through a bunch of ramshackle towns, until, after many hours later, you reach the gates of New Vegas itself.
So you have reached the gates of New Vegas, congratulations. I bet you’d like to celebrate by going in and having fun in the casinos. Well guess what, you can’t. You see this game likes to taunt you with the big shiny neon lights. Every time you think you have reached them you are wrong and have to try again. Anyways it turns out that to get into the Strip you have to have one of two things, a passcard, or two-thousand bottlecaps. TWO THOUSAND! Where do they expect you to get that money from? Whenever I played I also had to use what precious few caps I had to keep from DYING! Luckily the game offers several ways to obtain a passcard to get into the city. I decided to help out this one guy who leads a gang of Elvis impersonators. And all I had to do was help his robot dog get a new brain. Luckily this was easy because the brain doctor lived right across the street. WRONG! Turns out he lives across the desert in a town on top of a f***ing mountain! So anyways long story short, two hours later the dog has a new brain, I get into the Strip and the game crashes. F*** it! I’m going to go play Fallout 3.
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