Fallout: New Vegas is the next Resties game and it's on sale
Added 2024-04-15 02:07:27 +0000 UTC
Next Tuesday (April 23) Frushtick and Plante will be revisiting Fallout: New Vegas! We wanted to let you know because...
1. You can play alongside us.
2. The game is EXTREMELY cheap on Steam right now. The base version is $2.49 and the ultimate version is $4.99.
In the comments, we'd love to hear some of your favorite Fallout memories, along with any questions about the series' past, present, and future.
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Also, I wrote something earlier, but One of my proudest memories is I created my blog that I would for a few years review video games and do video game journalism on because of fallout 4 I beat fallout 4 played the hell out of it, and my first blog post ever was DLC speculation for fallout 4, I got somethings right I got most of it wrong, but it's what started my love for video game journalism and let me to finding people like you! PS I theory crafted that we were going to have a memory sequence similar to the fallout 3 war flashback simulation thing, I said that we would have an automaton DLC which we did I didn't suggest that we would be making them I said there would be another space DLC of some sort teasing a space game that at the time was only rumored and is now the mess that is starfield, and I said we'd have a DLC where we went to like Pittsburgh which we had done in previous games but there was like leaks at the time and I talked about how it might be interesting to explore that
Ethan Holland
2024-04-23 08:41:08 +0000 UTCSorry for my fallout dissertation this series is maybe the closest thing to my heart I have in video gaming, other than the dark souls series Don't get me started on that please for the love of God please
Ethan Holland
2024-04-23 08:38:44 +0000 UTCOne of the first games I ever remember astounding me, and this is going to age me a bit, was fallout 3. Now my dad had played Skyrim and Oblivion and I'd seen him play the Fable games to some extent, and I had played some Halo and call of duty up to this point. But one day I went to one of my friend's house and he was playing this game fallout 3 and I immediately fell in love I played so much of it but really only up to the point where you meet Snoop Dogg, because my brain was so small and I was so young even though I probably wasn't that young, and then I remembered discovering fallout New Vegas I've never beat that game once but I've probably sunk 400 hours into it just restarting it every time I pick it up I pick it up for days at a time never beat the game and just explore the world and always find something new and just have a good time going to New Vegas and like gambling at gamorrah or the tops I like finding all the different ways like that you can get at Benny You can help him you can kill him You can fight ninjas that he sends after you You can have the legion kill him like it's really cool! sadly I never knew who played Benny even until after Matthew Perry had passed, Plus the politics of that game is so rad Like you can be gay You can be straight you can be bisexual, or you can be a racist? Like you can just have the racist perk where you can like kill raiders and people from a specific area and it gives you way more damage for some reason? Like the game really lets you be whoever you want to be whether that's like a racist fiend or like a lesbian who is really good at killing women or even men! I also love how late game and the DLC experiment with your stats, like when you meet your own brain in Old World blues if you have a really low intelligence it'll just like grunt at you But if you have a really high intelligence it'll like belittle you and like the sort of stuff that the game does with that is really deeply interesting to its own sort of mechanics. I also played the hell out of fallout 4, all of these games I think supplement different things like fallout 3 is amazing because it exists and how it adapted the material it came from, fallout New Vegas is like the ultimate expansive lived in world and it's a marvel that it even exists, and fallout 4 exists for me to beat it story every time I pick up fallout 4 I beat it at one point I held the speed running record on Xbox for beating it in like 4 hours or something like that, I knew that game like the back of my hand and I thought the story was fun and easy to beat, and fallout 76 exists for sad people, and the people who actually really enjoy it and apparently it's good now or something I don't know
Ethan Holland
2024-04-23 08:38:21 +0000 UTCHey Chris and Russ, I have been playing a little bit of NV this past year and decided to hop back on seeing that you're going to do an episode on it! Thing is, I never know how to enter Fallout games; in particular, I always get choice anxiety when it comes to what stats to level up (SPECIAL, perks, etc.). Do you usually go into a playthrough with a certain build/morality in mind or go along as you please and level up based on how you think the story is going in the moment? Personally, I used to get worried about min/max if I was choosing optimized stats but I found it kept me from immersing myself and being more present with the game. I'm currently trying to find a good balance between the two sides of the spectrum. Interested to hear what others think, too!
Elklodge
2024-04-22 13:23:39 +0000 UTCThe Resties bump in action... Fallout New Vegas breaks previous peak player count https://old.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/1c8w9iz/fallout_new_vegas_surpassed_their_peak_count_on/?ref=share&ref_source=link
16-Xray
2024-04-21 04:58:22 +0000 UTCOkay, concrete questions if you haven’t already recorded: 1. Y’all playing with mods? 2. How do you play? Are you being moral paladins or disgusting human beings? 3. Having played it before, would you go straight for dlc or something other than the main story when you start, or do you genuinely follow the main path when you start out? 4. Do you have any strong opinions on any companions or characters? (Eg. Boy do I hate Victor) 5. Are there any standout lines of dialogue for you? (In Novac with the merchant: “I killed Fanny-Mae. Do I still get my discount?)
EtherEli
2024-04-20 00:19:12 +0000 UTCI just played it for the first time this past month and I loved it a lot fwiw.
Liisa Murray
2024-04-18 21:42:59 +0000 UTCI just started playing Fallout: New Vegas for the VERY FIRST TIME this week (yes, I know, I know) so this announcement is very very exciting to me.
Liisa Murray
2024-04-18 21:39:45 +0000 UTCIt just works
Jenna Stoddard
2024-04-17 11:21:08 +0000 UTCThank you, I was really wanting to do another run but the performance..... This'll help!
Jenna Stoddard
2024-04-17 11:20:42 +0000 UTCGot this to play along, it wouldn’t initially even run. Might be worth mentioning to people to google Viva New Vegas, basically a walkthrough on installing a bunch of mods and significantly improving graphics, bugs, and load times (and, in my case, getting it to even run). Excited to hear the episode!
Foote909
2024-04-17 00:14:41 +0000 UTCThe Big MT dlc will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s such a fun and silly contrast to the other grittier dlcs.
Madison Dahl
2024-04-16 15:40:45 +0000 UTCI mentioned this way back on Twitter when you mentioned New Vegas prior, but I have to retell it. After launch, New Vegas was notoriously buggy, but I was lucky. I had savored every piece of the 50+ hours I’d played. I hadn’t even been to the strip yet, and I hadn’t encountered a single bug. Until. I finally made my way to the Strip, and upon entering the main gate, the game crashed. Reloaded and tried again, crash. Tried the NCR entrance, crash. Tried every listed way into the strip, crash, crash, and crash. Flash forward two weeks, I’ve posted in every forum I could find, and had been working with a very helpful Bethesda support person who was doing their best, but ultimately we could not figure it out. It looked like I was set to lose all that progress. Until. They suggested one last attempt. Travel to a remote vendor, that in all my travels I’d somehow missed before, and purchase from them, the “Old Cowboy Hat”. Then, wear said “Old Cowboy Hat” while crossing the threshold of the Strip. I was confident that I had broken this poor Bethesda support agent after two weeks of back and forth, but lo and behold. It worked like a charm. The Old Cowboy Hat become my permanent debug totem after that, and I’d toss it on whenever gameplay got a little choppy or after a crash, and never had another issue after.
Cameron Gilbreath
2024-04-16 11:50:19 +0000 UTCI played Fallout 3 during a charmed period when I didn’t have the money to buy and play a lot of games, I just knew it was by the people who made Ovlivion, so that’s all I had to compare it to, and I loved it. I wouldn’t say FO3 is *as good* as NV but it’s close, and I would rank it above FO4 just going off of my own enjoyment of the titles.
EtherEli
2024-04-16 01:48:55 +0000 UTCThe conventional wisdom is that Bethesda titles are more sandbox-y than most other open world RPGs and are bound to be buggy. Starfield, fwiw, was recognized as one of Bethesda’s most stable launches, so they did actually improve on that part of their reputation. But I would say that the appeal of their games is not their stability, but their width which is understood to come with contradictions.
EtherEli
2024-04-16 01:37:45 +0000 UTCFallout 3 is also on sale, should I get it? I've heard mixed things from people who like New Vegas
Ian Hickey
2024-04-16 01:25:55 +0000 UTCRemembering that time Chris got stuck in an existential elevator. Thoughts and prayers. https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/9/9696186/fallout-4-bugs
Grayson Morley
2024-04-15 19:02:50 +0000 UTCHey Plante and Russ, I was wondering if either of you know why Bethesda is able to consistently put out broken games without the backlash other game companies might get?
Patrick Hynes
2024-04-15 16:39:42 +0000 UTCAnyone else notice, in the Challenges, the A Slave Obeys to kill Mr House with a 9 iron? Funny little Easter egg all the more relevant after the twists Besties Bracket episode. Also I haven’t played this game in years and boy have I gotten used to sprinting in newer games lol
EtherEli
2024-04-15 16:34:47 +0000 UTCAll time great RPG. My favorite play through of New Vegas was one in which I went true pacifist. I killed no one. Not a single person, mutant, robot etc.. The game allows you to do this with many speech options so I pumped 100 speech and a bunch of luck. Also Wild Wasteland trait had a bunch of weird and hilarious encounters like getting robbed by a gang of old women in Freeside.
Cameron Elston
2024-04-15 09:29:12 +0000 UTCNew Vegas remains one of my favorite games, so I'm very excited to hear your thoughts! In terms of questions, I have a few: 1) Based on the current trajectory, do you think we will ever see a Fallout game this good again? 2) Public opinion of this game seems to have shifted. It had positive reviews at launch, and folks seemed to like it (bugs aside), but it was sort of dismissed as "more Fallout 3". At some point in the last 14 years, it went from being just another Fallout game to being one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Do you have any theories on what occurred between now and then that resulted in this critical reappraisal, and can you think of any other games that have had a similar reception? 3) Favorite DLC?
I am a robot who turns into a car and I find no humor in this
2024-04-15 09:18:53 +0000 UTCMy favorite part of the game is any scene involving Benny. RIP to Matthew Perry, he did any amazing job voicing that character…especially when you spend the night with him. I don’t want to spoil any new players but you have some fun options in seducing him.
Cassie McAllister
2024-04-15 09:03:45 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite progression loop / skill system in any rpg. For players who love this, could you please recommend some games that scratch this same mechanical itch?
Louis Lavoie
2024-04-15 07:59:54 +0000 UTCThe Dead Money DLC's theme of "letting go" is perfectly incapsulated in the final moments of the arc, where you have to navigate your way out of the hotel vault while racing a timer counting down to a nuclear detonation. You literally have to let go of the dozens of gold bars in the vault in order to escape the bomb in time. I can't think of any other time in games where carry weight limits have had a meaningful impact on the story.
Jon Marcopoulos
2024-04-15 07:38:11 +0000 UTCIt's also on Game Pass for those who subscribe.
Nicky Bodsworth
2024-04-15 05:22:53 +0000 UTCAs for questions; what are your thoughts on the Fallout series moving away from its RPG roots more and more each release? Do you think a return to the branching dialogue options and skill check dialogue from New Vegas would be good for the franchise? Or even a return to the turn based gameplay of Fallout 1 and 2?
ThanaThots
2024-04-15 04:32:14 +0000 UTCNew Vegas is a top 10 game of all time for me for sure! I hope one of you did a low INT run. The fact that the game has unique interactions and dialogue options if you play as a 1 INT caveman is amazing!
ThanaThots
2024-04-15 04:25:24 +0000 UTCThe show is so good I went and bought NV and get to play it for the first time!
Daveyzones
2024-04-15 03:39:13 +0000 UTCfoolish of you to assume I dont already own it
Majima Cookie
2024-04-15 03:06:37 +0000 UTCA lot of people, myself included, feel that Bethesda has been making progressively worse games since they released Skyrim in 2011. What are the chances that they can reverse this trajectory?
Brad Durbin
2024-04-15 03:06:14 +0000 UTCDid you besties ever go dark urge on a fallout game? Does Obsidian / NV do it well?
Luke
2024-04-15 03:01:27 +0000 UTCDunno if it's my favourite memory, but this series (Fallout 2, I think?) taught me what a "fluffer" is, so there's that I guess.
Gem Newman
2024-04-15 03:00:17 +0000 UTCWhat do you think would need to be done for Bethesda to let another studio work on a Fallout game, like they did with Obsidian for New Vegas? I ask because they seem pretty stalwart on not letting Obsidian do a New Vegas 2.
Brad Durbin
2024-04-15 02:56:49 +0000 UTCworth all 499 pennies
bushwackdill
2024-04-15 02:55:19 +0000 UTCSaints alive, how many hours I've sunk into NV... I used to go to my friend Kevin's house and we'd all trade the controller around. Our thing was coming up with characters, spending hours in the character builder (big MF energy) to make them look right, and then go deep deep into the game trying to find the right items for them... legendary axe when we played Abraham Lincoln, switchblade and dynamite build when we played the Joker, legendary rolling pin and chef hat when we played Chef Boyardee...
bushwackdill
2024-04-15 02:55:03 +0000 UTCDiscuss: VATS should be in every video game regardless of if it makes sense.
Patrick Keppel
2024-04-15 02:38:55 +0000 UTCOh that's good to hear! I was just thinking about trying to mod it on the deck
Red Murdzek
2024-04-15 02:36:30 +0000 UTCI tried it many a year ago, but it was a little busted then. I hope it's better now!
Red Murdzek
2024-04-15 02:35:37 +0000 UTCIt's for sure my fave in the series. It's more forgiving than for as well, with better writing (more compelling for sure). It's not super linear, as there's a lot of exploration to do, but you can do as much or as little of that as you'd like. Def worth giving a go
Red Murdzek
2024-04-15 02:34:32 +0000 UTCI was really bummed that the strip is segmented into separate areas, really took away from the grandeur that Vegas should have had. Pretty sure there's a few mods to handle this though. Makes me want to dive back in... Hmm...
Johnny McKenna
2024-04-15 02:32:56 +0000 UTCI love the overarching story and vibes of the Fallout universe, but RPGs aren't my first choice for genre. I usually need my games to be a bit more narrative and on rails. A friend told me NV meets that criteria more and would be a good entry point for me, as a fan of very linear games (Firewatch, Portal 2, Bioshock Infinite, Horizon: Zero Dawn, etc). Is my friend right? Do story beats define this game more than the more open-ended entries in the series that I've bounced off of, like Fallout 3?
Leo Herzog
2024-04-15 02:30:02 +0000 UTCI legit just started playing this again yesterday!! I've played it so much I can navigate someone else places lol. It's a comfort game
Red Murdzek
2024-04-15 02:29:20 +0000 UTCGoing to install it tomorrow, maybe try it on the Deck as well.
Tyler89537
2024-04-15 02:27:33 +0000 UTCMy story is that growing up I played so much Fallout New Vegas that I can recite from memory the typos in the Prima Strategy Guide.
cameron Swingle
2024-04-15 02:27:05 +0000 UTCCurious if anyone has tried the new Vegas mod “a tale of two wastelands” that lets you play through all of FO3 and NV in the NV engine
Ian Stokes
2024-04-15 02:21:18 +0000 UTCI just finished another playthrough of New Vegas last year. It's one of my all-time favorites. It a role-playing game that really allows for actual role-playing. Even after 400 hours in game I was still finding places I had never seen before. I was fortunate to get some of my New Vegas fanart signed by the dev team years ago and the game will always hold a special place in my heart.
Jeremy Cuzzort
2024-04-15 02:20:08 +0000 UTCJust finished a replay of this two days ago. So excited for this! I've been playing this game once a year (at least) for over 10 years now. One of those games where I feel completely at home.
Sammy
2024-04-15 02:17:13 +0000 UTCJust got the game today, I’ve never played it before and I’m excited to hear your thoughts about it! Thanks for letting us all know about the sale!
Derrin Holland
2024-04-15 02:16:39 +0000 UTCIndependent of this post I just installed New Vegas on my Deck today lol, funny coincidence. I saw the F4 update and it just made me want to play NV again. Reddit posts recently really sung its praises for performance on SteamOS, and Fallout 3
EtherEli
2024-04-15 02:15:52 +0000 UTCletsgooooooo
Will Metzler
2024-04-15 02:15:46 +0000 UTCTop 5 game of all time for me. Lots of nostalgia for me now
AaronTheBold
2024-04-15 02:13:43 +0000 UTCIf you haven't, grab the Ultimate Edition. Absolutely worth every penny.
Midnight Oil
2024-04-15 02:11:58 +0000 UTCDon't let New Vegas distract you from Hi Fi Russ not being in last year's GOTY
Monty
2024-04-15 02:10:50 +0000 UTCJust picked it up started last night, so excited for this! Question: Is there any possibility that the fallout series eventually "runs out" of new vaults to introduce? With so many different types of media portraying the details of so many vaults, it seems like that the 122 known vaults in existence could be reached (including bits like vault 77 from penny arcade). And if so, what does a speculative future for the franchise entail, if it continues at all? I'm thinking of this more from a "what else could fallout be while still remaining true to it's core identity", which very well might not be possible.
Beebles00
2024-04-15 02:10:44 +0000 UTCFallout: NV is my favorite fallout game! Best memory for me was opening up the gate and seeing the strip for the first time. Absolute magic.
Paul George
2024-04-15 02:10:37 +0000 UTCYes! I had a hard time getting into Fallout 3 and gave up for a while. After feeling like I was missing on something great I tried New Vegas and immediately fell in love. It's become one of my "rainy day" games that y'all talked about recently.
Ultimate Danny 5000
2024-04-15 02:10:15 +0000 UTCYES!!! One of the greatest games of all time! I can’t wait to hear the boys talk about it :)
Big Ian
2024-04-15 02:09:48 +0000 UTC
