I really hate that you can't Fast Travel between locations in the Strip and Freeside. Almost all of the Freeside quests involve you running back and forth between the two halves repeatedly to talk to the same person after every update, and it's quite annoying.
I finally got up to about level 13, but I'm having difficulty trying to kill Benny. I'm going for the GRA challenge achievements, and killing Benny with his own gun is substantially less complicated and grind-quest-y than most of the other challenges, but I can never successfully pickpocket it off of him. I tried seducing him with the Black Widow perk, too, but that just got him to call me a freak and barricade himself inside of his room. I think I'm gonna have to try popping some party time Mentats and take another run at outsmarting him.
"If Rebekah could keep doing this, she could gain favor and become a ruthless dictator."
Starting this! I haven't played the series except for a few hours dicking around on Fallout 3 once
The default face looks like a young Tim Robbins. I dunno if it's different each time tho, but mine does
Usually I tend to be pretty kind when I play these games. I care a lot about my relationships and try to stay in everyone's good graces. NOT THIS TIME! I've decided to play like a maniac. Gonna try not to cave and instead be uncompromising. I'm gonna run around and betray/kill people whenever given the option
I've named my character 'The Butcher' to reflect this. It probably won't work at all when it auto-fills into conversations. "Greetings, The Butcher." Oh well
o lawd. The game gets really hard if you betray every faction because everyone will want their revenge. It's fun though. There's a lot of creative ways you can dick people over
The Butcher meets Sunny Smiles and her dog, Cheyenne.
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I was sent to her by her old friend, the Doctor, who I just murdered. She gave me a gun to help train me, and I immediately used it to gun down her dog right in front of her. Then her and I spoke like nothing happened. Then I killed her
New Vegas was on sale for like $4 on the XBL Marketplace a few weeks ago so I picked it up.
I only got to Dad's storyline in FO3 and never continued on from there, but eh. The games don't seem to intertwine at all so whatever.
I'm actually having a lot more fun in this one. I agree that the choices are a lot more dynamic and tougher. For instance...
Early game shit
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The Powder Gang may have well been wearing top hat and monocles for being the obvious bad guys at the start but then it throws you into a situation where they get terribly massacred by the legion and brought in as slaves and you have the option to save them, which I did. I even still visit that dude who is hurt in the General Market to give him Med X. I have no idea if it'll ever help him, but I still do it.
Then you got the fine line with the NCR who are obviously trying to do good, but are also bullies. Makes you think. Especially when you learn they wiped the Power Plant out. So nobody is really full on "good". Each faction has their own agenda with both pros and cons to them which is really awesome.
I originally intended on being an asshole, even giving my character that stupid punk'd haircut with a douchy beard. But I get really attached to characters so once the Powder Gang was threatening to kill everyone in Goodsprings, I just played the nice guy. Trying to stay in everyone's good graces for the most part, which has rendered me neutral to most of the gangs. I assume I'm missing out on perks for not sticking to one's agenda but hey.
I'm closing in on New Vegas right now with that hooded chick companion, doing the farming quests to keep myself from just rushing in. I feel like I'm blasting through this game, but I really hope there is a lot more left.
Tom Brady @ 11/3/2014 19:53
I loved how the game offered you a direct route to Vegas which would take you there in no time, bypassing all that early main quest stuff, on the condition that could manage to sneak by a bunch of pissed off deathclaws, fiends and giant killer mosquitoes.
Speaking of which, those giant mosquitoes were horrible. You could be happily strolling along the wasteland when suddenly 10 of them were on you.
I was pretty much convinced that you had to go to New Vegas first to find the Checkered Suit Man so I started trekking the desert as soon as I got my gun. Several horrible demises later, I finally decided to go somewhere else... which happened to be Sloan with it's Deathclaw infestation. Which I also decided to try and do. Rough first travels.
New Vegas was on sale for like $4 on the XBL Marketplace a few weeks ago so I picked it up.
I only got to Dad's storyline in FO3 and never continued on from there, but eh. The games don't seem to intertwine at all so whatever.
I'm actually having a lot more fun in this one. I agree that the choices are a lot more dynamic and tougher. For instance...
Early game shit
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The Powder Gang may have well been wearing top hat and monocles for being the obvious bad guys at the start but then it throws you into a situation where they get terribly massacred by the legion and brought in as slaves and you have the option to save them, which I did. I even still visit that dude who is hurt in the General Market to give him Med X. I have no idea if it'll ever help him, but I still do it.
Then you got the fine line with the NCR who are obviously trying to do good, but are also bullies. Makes you think. Especially when you learn they wiped the Power Plant out. So nobody is really full on "good". Each faction has their own agenda with both pros and cons to them which is really awesome.
I originally intended on being an asshole, even giving my character that stupid punk'd haircut with a douchy beard. But I get really attached to characters so once the Powder Gang was threatening to kill everyone in Goodsprings, I just played the nice guy. Trying to stay in everyone's good graces for the most part, which has rendered me neutral to most of the gangs. I assume I'm missing out on perks for not sticking to one's agenda but hey.
I'm closing in on New Vegas right now with that hooded chick companion, doing the farming quests to keep myself from just rushing in. I feel like I'm blasting through this game, but I really hope there is a lot more left.
Tom Brady @ 11/3/2014 19:53
I loved how the game offered you a direct route to Vegas which would take you there in no time, bypassing all that early main quest stuff, on the condition that could manage to sneak by a bunch of pissed off deathclaws, fiends and giant killer mosquitoes.
Speaking of which, those giant mosquitoes were horrible. You could be happily strolling along the wasteland when suddenly 10 of them were on you.
I was pretty much convinced that you had to go to New Vegas first to find the Checkered Suit Man so I started trekking the desert as soon as I got my gun. Several horrible demises later, I finally decided to go somewhere else... which happened to be Sloan with it's Deathclaw infestation. Which I also decided to try and do. Rough first travels.
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To be fair, Caesar's Legion ARE pretty much full-on villains (: But yeah there's definitely no straight-up good guys. Not gonna spoil anything but I ended up doing some favors for the Legion just because it seemed like EVERY faction were being assholes for different reasons
iirc arriving at New Vegas is only about the halfway point, so you've got plenty more to go. Even more than that if you want to 100% it. I think I spent like 130 hours on this game all said and done and I probably only completed 60-70%
