First playthorugh- modded or unmodded game??

[DarkHighlord69]

This was a question I have heard but not seen yet on the forums. I just finally wore out my ability to play FO3 after over 500 hours. Now I am FINALLY getting on to New Vegas and was thinking of doing it without any mods or with very little except the body mods and some perk mods.

 

Anyone have any thoughs on this??

 

My idea was to see the game for what is is without changing anything, so as to get a clear idead of what I am modding and covering over or changing.

Not sure if the game is so big that it would be hard to do, or anything else. I have done my first 20 hours without any mods but Better Blood and DK Bullettime, but I broke donw and added the Monster Mod last night. Going to do the Type 3 and male body mods, but want to just leave it there for a bit to see the raw form of the game without any extras.

 

Input most welcome, as I don't want to miss out on something that a mod might replace or change.

[carlosjuero]

I would say that you should, at the minimum, use a UI mod like DarN or MTUI - NV suffers the same UI issues that FO3 suffered [in that it isn't optimized for higher resolutions/PC graphics]. If you play Hardcore mode then Primary Needs is almost a must have mod [puts your needs on your HUD rather than you having to go into your PIP Boy constantly to keep tabs on it].

 

I use very few mods with NV [compared to FO3 at least]. This is pretty much all I use:

Primary Needs HUD

Project Nevada

DarNifiedUINV

Goodsprings Home revisited

Project Nevada - Cyberware

LFox Bottle That Water

Fellout

EDE-IsEssential [< Custom mod - other companion essential mods tend to forget ED-E]

Extended NV Radio

QuickHacking-NV [< Custom Mod (on Nexus) to reduce irritation at the hacking mini game]

Primm Home-Converted Gas Station [WIP Mod]

[majinshinsa]

i did my first run on the ps3 (didnt have my gaming pc yet) so lucky for me that was an easy answer :)

[DarkHighlord69]

@ Carlos-

Thanks, already got a few of the mods like Fellout, but was going to wait for a bit.

 

That whole Project Nevada is sweet, so I am going to have to use that for all the features that are packed in one mod. Already miss my Greande Hotkey and my zoom, so thanks for that nice little list of stuff to get.