Kristin's Thoughts on Fallout New Vegas

I'd like to think of myself as more of a casual gamer. I like being able to pick up a controller and just play without much of a learning curve. With that being said, I couldn't really get into Fallout New Vegas, but that doesn't mean I think it's a bad game. Because of this however, I can only truly comment on a few elements of the game.

To begin with, this game is buggy. Right from the beginning I got stuck in a part of Doc Mitchell's house. I attempted to jump out of this spot and my character got stuck higher and higher in the air. Because this happened right after the character creation, I had to restart my game.

Skip to the tutorial mission. As someone who had never played any of the other Fallout games, I had no idea what I was doing so I of course opted for the tutorial missions. All is going well until I am asked to kill some Geckos. After killing a few, I was kind of checking out the area taking my time to progress to the next few Geckos. When I finally found them, Sunny Smiles and her dog Cheyenne were both laying on the ground, dead. I didn't take this as a big deal until I got into town and was asked to get Sunny to help me which is kind of impossible as she is lying motionless on the grounds of the Wasteland. And of course, I opted to restart my game yet again.

So onto character creation round number three. By this point I was starting to get fed up with the game. Did I mention that the character creation process takes forever? Because it does. And when you have to do it three times you begin to not care what your character is like. After creating my character again, I managed to complete the tutorial missions successfully - without killing Sunny OR Cheyenne this time - and was finally able to continue on. So on to Primm I went, slowly. VERY slowly. The characters move very slow in this game which I found to be quite frustrating. Also, as I am not very good with these types of games, upon entering Primm I had no idea what I was doing and managed to die every time. At this point, I became frustrated and have barely touched the game since.

Although this may be a very negative experience of Fallout New Vegas, I still think it's a good game, just not the game for me. I've heard many positive reviews of the game but as a very casual gamer it just did not keep my attention.