What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog?

[Darth Caesar]

Playing Fallout: New Vegas for the first time.

 

[Zack]

Playing Fallout: New Vegas for the first time.

You're in for a real treat. Probably my favorite game.

 

[Darth Caesar]

You're in for a real treat. Probably my favorite game.

Yeah it's really awesome so far, even better than Skyrim.

 

[Takhisis]

You should play all Fallout games by order of release, in order to get the full experience.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Even the console-only one?

 

[Takhisis]

What? Only PC gamers are true gamers.

 

[bhsup]

Hey, just FYI. GOG is giving away some game called "Dungeon Keeper" for free for the next 34 hours. This is how Tak got addicted to Fallout, ladies and gentlemen, so get it while the getting is good.

What? Only PC gamers are true gamers.

God bless you, my son, you have learned well.

Spoiler :

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

You should play all Fallout games by order of release, in order to get the full experience.

New Vegas was the first one I played, and when I went back and played the original two games, it gave me a greater appreciation for a lot the references and characters in the newer ones. Definitely something I would recommend anyone who is just starting out with the Fallout games.

Just remember to save a lot in 1 and 2.

 

[Zack]

I'd imagine that it would be hard to play 3 once you've already played New Vegas, though. They're too similar, yet 3 is inferior in every way.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Fallout 1 is starting to annoy me. Companions are so bloody hard to manage. Then there's the clunkiness of the interface, to the point where FO3 and FNV on the console are even better. And the isometric view likes to pester with not being to make walls invisible when needed.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I'd imagine that it would be hard to play 3 once you've already played New Vegas, though. They're too similar, yet 3 is inferior in every way.

I found it like that. The story wasn`t good and there were barely any quests. You would show up in a town, find one quest, finish it, and then that was it.

Also Black Mountain Radio>Galaxy News Radio

 

[Synobun]

Both games had their pros and cons. Personally I felt more immersed in Fallout 3 and the lack of quest intertwining was nice since New Vegas failed miserably at that at the end. Nothing quite feels as nice as thinking, "I'll do this and then help the NCR!" only to realize that you are forced to then kill the NCR, thereby ruining your NCR #1 playthrough.

The radios in New Vegas were awful, too. Enclave Radio and Galaxy News Radio had personality and sounded great.

New Vegas has Johnny Guitar.

 

[Formaldehyde]

World of Tanks is amazing, especially since it is free. The only hassle so far is that there is quite a grind at level 4/5 where your tanks are typically not that competitive with the others you have to play.


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I've also been playing Clash of Clans on my PC after seeing the ads on TV.

 

[Zack]

Personally I felt more immersed in Fallout 3

I don't get this. Fallout 3 felt so fake. It's hundreds of years after the war, and people are still living like it happened last week.

Spoiler minor spoilers for Megaton in Fallout 3 :

They built a city around a freaking nuclear bomb - and your first big moral choice in the game was: a) defuse the bomb they stupidly built the city around, or b) BLOW THE CITY UP. Are you kidding me? That was so unbelievably dumb. What a slap in the face to the player. That's the first important moral decision? Some guy in a bar says, "psst... you're not from here... can you detonate the nuclear weapon and destroy the city for no freaking reason?" Come on, how stupid can you get?

Not to mention, Fallout 3's map is like Bethesda made a bunch of locations, put a blindfold on, spat the locations out on the map, and connected them all with those awful metro stations. On the other hand, the Mojave felt real. When I was walking down a road in the middle of a desert, I felt like I was really there. That's immersion.

I know, different strokes for different folks, but it just boggles my mind how some people prefer 3 to New Vegas. The ONLY thing 3 does better is having no invisible walls. Everything else about 3 is inferior to New Vegas, imo. And 3 crashed all the damn time, buggy as hell.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I'd imagine that it would be hard to play 3 once you've already played New Vegas, though. They're too similar, yet 3 is inferior in every way.

I found it like that. The story wasn`t good and there were barely any quests. You would show up in a town, find one quest, finish it, and then that was it.

Also Black Mountain Radio>Galaxy News Radio

That's my experience as well. I played NV first, and then 3, and although 3 was good, it felt so much more barren and lifeless compared to NV. There just wasn't anything to do, and I blew through the main quest so fast I had to stop myself from finishing it after like 8 hours of gameplay. NV was far better in terms of number of quests, things to do, and well, main quest pacing. Since the main quest took you through like half the map, you always ran into side quests to do.

World of Tanks is amazing, especially since it is free. The only hassle so far is that there is quite a grind at level 4/5 where your tanks are typically not that competitive with the others you have to play.


Link to video.

I've also been playing Clash of Clans on my PC after seeing the ads on TV.

I haven't played WoT in forever! If you like it, I highly recommend War Thunder. Right now its only aircraft, but the ground forces (i.e. tanks) just went in closed beta testing, and once that's done, they plan on having both tanks and airplanes fighting on the same battlefield.

And once that's done, they'll finish it off with a playable navy as well, so you'd have all three fighting on the same map. It's going to be wonderful!

 

[cybrxkhan]

Concerning Fallout I played 3 first and then started NV and got bored of it part way. However I was bored more so because the atmosphere and setting bored me - I still saw that NV was the superior game, in my opinion, for the most part. My regret is that I played 3 first and not NV.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I haven't played WoT in forever! If you like it, I highly recommend War Thunder. Right now its only aircraft, but the ground forces (i.e. tanks) just went in closed beta testing, and once that's done, they plan on having both tanks and airplanes fighting on the same battlefield.

And once that's done, they'll finish it off with a playable navy as well, so you'd have all three fighting on the same map. It's going to be wonderful!

I've tried War Thunder and for whatever reason I just can't get into it. Probably mostly because I am just terrible at air combat games.

Though I will definitely try out the naval battles once they are added.

 

[Darth Caesar]

I also got the first Fallout on my PC. I'm definitely interested in 2 and 3. I absolutely adore the setting as it is a combination of some of my favorite things (alternate timelines, post-apocalypse, sci-fi, the fifties) into a stew that's so delicious to explore.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I also got the first Fallout on my PC. I'm definitely interested in 2 and 3. I absolutely adore the setting as it is a combination of some of my favorite things (alternate timelines, post-apocalypse, sci-fi, the fifties) into a stew that's so delicious to explore.

That is like what happened to me. I first played New Vegas about a year after it came out and wasn`t really familiar with the Fallout series. But I loved it so much that I went back and played the others, and now I absolutely love everything Fallout (except 3)

 

[Darth Caesar]

New Vegas also has the Wild West vibe going for it. You can show up in town, find problems requiring someone handy with a revolver, fix them, and then walk off into the sunset.