andrewajc

Paid for it for nearly an hour ago, Steam is now on the 3rd update. Makes no sense to me. 17mb update to New Vegas followed by 100mb install of Dead Money. It lets me start the game, but NVSE needed updating so I quit the game and went and updated that. Then Steam won't let me play New Vegas, saying it has to do a 7.3gb update. After closing Steam and opening it again it says it's already downloaded 7.0gb (in 2 minutes apparently) and now I'm waiting for it to download the remaining "300mb". =/

I have a strong dislike for Spotify, I've heard too many things about it screwing over bands and artists (since it was designed purely by record labels). I usually stick to itunes or 7digital, it might cost more but at least the money's going to the people who make the music ;) Last.fm thread anywhere?

Well when you get to The Strip for the main quest, you'll be able to use the Lucky 38 presidential suite as a home. There are a couple of safehouses for different groups in the game (Brotherhood of Steel, The Followers of the Apocalypse, etc) so doing quests for them would eventually allow you to use the safehouses as a home. If you need somewhere quickly though, it might be just as easy to find one of the game's companions and get them to carry stuff for you. I've seen a mod that adds a shack to Goodsprings that you could use as a home, if you're playing on the PC.

I have a PSP which doesn't see any action, I think I only have 3 games for it. I have a PS3 (originally 40gb, upgraded the hard drive to 250gb myself) which would be my first choice, or until recently. I recently started playing Fallout 3 on my PC, and the graphics are superior to the PS3 and load screens are much faster. I'm not a huge gamer, but I'd probably think about getting a game for the PC ahead of the PS3 now, provided my graphics card can handle it and provided it's playable without a controller. My PS3 will probably see some more action though when Gran Turismo 5 finally comes out.

To expand on my post from yesterday. There's quite a few things I don't like about New Vegas. Number one has to be the game crashes and screen freezes. Considering the screen freezes were in Fallout 3, the fact that they weren't ironed out in New Vegas I thought was unbelievable since Fallout 3 is two years old, but when there were more game crashes and freezes, well that was just taking the piss imo. I'm talking about the PlayStation 3 here by the way. Other major complaint was that I thought it was missing "feeling". In Fallout 3 it came across as if people genuinely needed you to help them. In New Vegas, there isn't that feeling. I don't really like the main quest either, I might be being picky here, but the whole point of the game is finding Benny and getting revenge so I was pretty disappointed when I found him so quickly. To me, once I got revenge on Benny that was that. Everyone else seems fine, there's no "feeling" of being needed by people in the game. NCR and The Legion are fighting over the dam, House/NCR/Legion want to take control over Vegas. In terms of the actual player character, he/she isn't from Vegas (just delivering the platinum chip if I followed things correctly) so why would they care who controls Vegas? I found myself putting more energy into doing the Brotherhood of Steel questline and doing the stuff for Veronica. Seemed more interesting than the A, B, C, or D ending of the main questline - all pointed out clearly for you to see what would happen. In the game I got as far as killing Benny in Ceasar's tent and upgrading Mr House's robots. I could clearly see how it would end, I choose A, B, C or D and something happens that stops me from playing the game after I make my choice. I also thought the Strip was too small. After seeing so much of it before the game came out and hearing how the designers were saying how amazing it was, I was expecting it to be a lot bigger than it was. I was also expecting less ruined towns and boarded up buildings since "Vegas was never hit by a bomb like DC was". Had I not paid £70 for the Special Edition box-set of New Vegas I would have returned the game.

I prefer Fallout 3. As a whole it felt better put together. Although considering I gave up on New Vegas I probably shouldn't give an opinion here until I finish the game.

Provided that you find enough or you can afford it. Doctors charge about 100 caps for curing radiation. And even if you can afford it, Radaway cures radiation sickness, but I saw no evidence that it also cures cancer and other genetic defects that results from prolonged exposure. You get a mutation when you complete the optional 600+ rad objective for Moira Brown and she cures you. But is Radaway really an answer? If you suggest Radaway as the thing that ensures survival, you just replace 'clean water' with another 'magical stuff'. If you do so, others may ask 'where does Radaway come from in such quantities that there is still a lot, neatly packaged into a plastic sacks? I was actually implying that Radaway was the "answer" before Project Purity (though not a very good one as you pointed out). So I was really agreeing with everything you'd said before :) And reinforcing the opinion that Project Purity wasn't a stupid idea.

Well I can already see the improvement in graphics and load times. It feels like a completely new game. The only thing I'm having to get used to is keyboard and mouse rather than a Playstation controller - I'm tempted to get an Xbox one. And you're not wrong about the "stick the CD in and play" bit. 20 minute install for disc one, and then disc two wouldn't install! Luckily I found a post on here about installing the second disc in Safe Mode and it worked.

What I would say in response to the point made of people living long lives before project purity, would be that it'd probably be down to doses of Radaway. I mean in terms of playing the game itself, if you get Radiation Sickness what do you do? Take a radaway.

Figured I'd make a newbie thread. And a little back story. I played Fallout 3 on the PS3 and loved it, it was a bit glitchy with some game crashes but was still a great game (even if the DLC was unplayable at times) I bought Fallout New Vegas for the PS3 too and it is because of this I'm probably going to switch over to PC gaming specifically for the Fallout games. New Vegas is too glitchy for me, more game crashes than Fallout 3 and it nearly killed my PS3 yesterday so with the incentive of hopefully a less glitchy game on the PC, mods and future DLC way before it comes out on PS3 (and DLC that will hopefully be stable) I shall be playing on the PC instead. My plan is to get Fallout 3 GOTY first (only costs £12.99 at Game) then when DLC comes out for New Vegas I'll get it for PC. So hello, I'm a slightly unhappy Fallout fan who usually plays on the PS3 :P Who may well ask stupid noobish questions about playing Fallout 3 on the PC :P