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Friday, August 9, 2013
Why I continue to dislike Fallout New Vegas
In a previous post I compared Fallout 3 with Fallout New Vegas. In that post I only highlighted the big details which makes the games stand out. Well now I'm going to rant about why I continue to dislike New Vegas.
Fallout 3 vs. Fallout New Vegas
Whilst playing Fallout New Vegas, the successor to the award-winning game Fallout 3, the question of which game is better kept running through my head. After giving the question some thought I've decided to put said thoughts into organization.
Fallout 3 opens up the main character being born in vault 101 then proceeds to flash forward through significant checkpoints of his life up to the point of him breaking out of the vault to find his father. The 'boy meets world' theme has been set. A boy who has been sheltered in an underground vault has been opened up to a brand new-...irradiated, destroyed, post-apocalyptic world. There's nothing I love more in an RPG than discovery, and boy does this setting scream it. Without surprise the game delivers a wasteland full of mysteries, enemies, and stories to be uncovered. From battling 20-foot tall mutants with a cannon that shoots eight mini-nuclear bombs to assisting a society consisting of only children, roaming these wastes will keep you distracted from the reason of why the hell you left the vault in the first place. Oh right...upon finding your father and watching him die you're continuing his work on purifying the wasteland's water with an FEV virus called G.E.C.K, AKA Project purity. Along the way you get in a conflict with the Enclave, an army decked out in power armor, who wants to use the FEV virus to continue a pre-war super soldier project. Although another army, the Brotherhood of Steel, who is also decked out in power armor comes to your aid due to your similar conflict with the Enclave. By end-game the main character has two choices of whether to blow up the Brotherhood of Steel HQ, or the Enclave HQ.
Fallout New vegas pans West from Washington DC to Nevada and centers in on a courier staring death in the face. A man in a checkered suit stands before the courier holding a platinum poker chip in one hand and a gun pointed directly at the courier's head in the other. Bam. The courier is shot. But the courier survives the shot to the head and is stitched up by a local doctor. Now the Courier will travel across the desert to get some answers on why his/her delivery was hijacked and why the man attempted to murder the courier. Along the way the courier learns of a war over the Hoover Dam power supply between the New California Republic, an army trying to restore democracy in the Mojave with diminishing resources, and Caesar's Legion, a tribal army who believes that democracy is a failure. Behind the scenes is Robert House, owner of Robco Industries and New Vegas, who wants the damn's power supply to power New Vegas so he can rake in more profits. While the Desert isn't much to explore, and much smaller, the courier has more options on deciding the fate of the Mojave. The courier can join with the NCR, Mr. House, Caesar's Legion, or choose to be neutral between each faction. Whichever faction the courier chooses drastically changes the outcome of the mojave making the storyline significantly less linear than Fallout 3.
So when deciding which game is better the decision boils down to the player's opinion of gameplay. If the player favors more cinematic situations, sci-fi, and exploration then the player might prefer Fallout 3. If the player favors having more options on how to progress through the story-line then the player might prefer Fallout New Vegas. Both games are great and I highly suggest playing both.
Fallout 3 opens up the main character being born in vault 101 then proceeds to flash forward through significant checkpoints of his life up to the point of him breaking out of the vault to find his father. The 'boy meets world' theme has been set. A boy who has been sheltered in an underground vault has been opened up to a brand new-...irradiated, destroyed, post-apocalyptic world. There's nothing I love more in an RPG than discovery, and boy does this setting scream it. Without surprise the game delivers a wasteland full of mysteries, enemies, and stories to be uncovered. From battling 20-foot tall mutants with a cannon that shoots eight mini-nuclear bombs to assisting a society consisting of only children, roaming these wastes will keep you distracted from the reason of why the hell you left the vault in the first place. Oh right...upon finding your father and watching him die you're continuing his work on purifying the wasteland's water with an FEV virus called G.E.C.K, AKA Project purity. Along the way you get in a conflict with the Enclave, an army decked out in power armor, who wants to use the FEV virus to continue a pre-war super soldier project. Although another army, the Brotherhood of Steel, who is also decked out in power armor comes to your aid due to your similar conflict with the Enclave. By end-game the main character has two choices of whether to blow up the Brotherhood of Steel HQ, or the Enclave HQ.
Fallout New vegas pans West from Washington DC to Nevada and centers in on a courier staring death in the face. A man in a checkered suit stands before the courier holding a platinum poker chip in one hand and a gun pointed directly at the courier's head in the other. Bam. The courier is shot. But the courier survives the shot to the head and is stitched up by a local doctor. Now the Courier will travel across the desert to get some answers on why his/her delivery was hijacked and why the man attempted to murder the courier. Along the way the courier learns of a war over the Hoover Dam power supply between the New California Republic, an army trying to restore democracy in the Mojave with diminishing resources, and Caesar's Legion, a tribal army who believes that democracy is a failure. Behind the scenes is Robert House, owner of Robco Industries and New Vegas, who wants the damn's power supply to power New Vegas so he can rake in more profits. While the Desert isn't much to explore, and much smaller, the courier has more options on deciding the fate of the Mojave. The courier can join with the NCR, Mr. House, Caesar's Legion, or choose to be neutral between each faction. Whichever faction the courier chooses drastically changes the outcome of the mojave making the storyline significantly less linear than Fallout 3.
So when deciding which game is better the decision boils down to the player's opinion of gameplay. If the player favors more cinematic situations, sci-fi, and exploration then the player might prefer Fallout 3. If the player favors having more options on how to progress through the story-line then the player might prefer Fallout New Vegas. Both games are great and I highly suggest playing both.
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