so yea. new vegas for christmas is AWESOME. I have been playing the living shit out of it. I've only got one reoccurring problem, THE FUCKING GAME LOCKING UP ON ME. its installed on to the hard drive and it has happened probably upwards of 5 or 6 times on my now within the span of 4 days. If anyone could offer some insight i would be EXTREMELY thankful and happy holidays to everyone.

Damn, another reason not to get this.

I would take it back and get a replacement disc, even for NV, that sounds like over kill.

I'm waiting for the GOTY edition next summer or whenever it comes out to jump in.

" so yea. new vegas for christmas is AWESOME. I have been playing the living shit out of it. I've only got one reoccurring problem, THE FUCKING GAME LOCKING UP ON ME. its installed on to the hard drive and it has happened probably upwards of 5 or 6 times on my now within the span of 4 days. If anyone could offer some insight i would be EXTREMELY thankful and happy holidays to everyone. "

that game's crazy janky.  i was absolutely in love with fallout 3, but put NV back on the shelf right after finishing the main story quests because i just couldn't handle the extreme jank. 

" that game's crazy janky.  i was absolutely in love with fallout 3, but put NV back on the shelf right after finishing the main story quests because i just couldn't handle the extreme jank.  "

dont get me wrong, the game is great. its just that one thing is holding me back from enjoying it even more.

" Damn, another reason not to get this on console. "

Yup, I'll wait at least another year. It will still have many bugs by then but at least I will probably be able to finish it.
 
What's beyond me is the critical acclaim the game got despite that it is totally messed up technically. At least I heard no one considering it in various goty talks (or quickly dismissing it because of it's jankyness).

Just to add another side to this debate, I've put over 80 hours into it so far and the worst bug I've seen was a giant ant stuck in a rock.  

I've been playing it on the PC and I have had no problems for nearly 10 hours now.  You console guys got fucked.  The load times are also pretty fast to and I'm running on a 6 year old machine. we'll see later though. Its on the oblivion engine so you know its gonna fuck up some time. 

Common problem with the Gamebryo Engine, but worse with Fallout New Vegas. I fixed it by deleting the system cache. Then re-downloaded the latest patch and then i havent had a crash in 10 hours or more. You should try. Remember that deleting the cache will delete all patches for all games, though you can still patch them up again of course, so no worries.

" I've been playing it on the PC and I have had no problems for nearly 10 hours now.  You console guys got fucked.  The load times are also pretty fast to and I'm running on a 6 year old machine. we'll see later though. Its on the oblivion engine so you know its gonna fuck up some time.  "

dude the game is horribly broken and yet everyone defends it. check out my thread on what happened to me and see there responses? they tell me its basically my fault!
 
 http://www.giantbomb.com/fallout-new-vegas/61-25933/your-game-file-is-corrupt-and-can-not-be-loaded/35-472704/

"dude the game is horribly broken and yet everyone defends it. check out my thread on what happened to me and see there responses? they tell me its basically my fault!
 
 http://www.giantbomb.com/fallout-new-vegas/61-25933/your-game-file-is-corrupt-and-can-not-be-loaded/35-472704/

                   

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I too got the game for Christmas, on 360. I'm 12 hours in and haven't had a single lock up. I'm running it from the hard drive and have downloaded the update, and the only glitch I've had thus far is a Lakelurk that didn't seem to want to die after I had drained its health in VATS. The framerate stuttered in spots but thus far it's been a pretty awesome experience. I've gotten to the end of the story missions (I plowed through the Caesar missions) and am now doing the fuckload of side quests that I've racked up so far in my playthrough. I don't know if taking the disc back to the store would be effective since it's running from your HDD and still locking up on you.

" so yea. new vegas for christmas is AWESOME. I have been playing the living shit out of it. I've only got one reoccurring problem, THE FUCKING GAME LOCKING UP ON ME. its installed on to the hard drive and it has happened probably upwards of 5 or 6 times on my now within the span of 4 days. If anyone could offer some insight i would be EXTREMELY thankful and happy holidays to everyone. "

" @DanHammett: It(the 1.2 big one)came out before that so you're good.  But like I said, delete the cache from your HDD often.  Yes you have to redownload the patch, but it only takes a minute, and the game runs sooo much better.  70+hrs for me and 1 freeze, and no corruptions.  Plenty of goofy bugs though, and the occasional companion sticky. "

@DanHammett:
My Xbox>system settings>memory>HDD>press Y for device options>clear system cache, press A

Here's my insight: The game is fucking broken. Unfortunately this isn't news. Fallout 3 was pretty buggy itself. Combine that with a developer that ships broken games chronically and you get New Vegas.

i returned the game to gamestop. they gave me all 60 bucks back. even they knew it was broken. its more broken than fallout 3 ever was.

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i returned the game to gamestop. they gave me all 60 bucks back. even they knew it was broken. its more broken than fallout 3 ever was.

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Only 5 or 6 times in 4 days? They have been patching alot of things. My play-through took 45 hours and I encountered 16 PS3 freezing lock ups I had to actually get up and turn the PS3 off, and that sucks because i'm lazy. Still... Great game.

" so yea. new vegas for christmas is AWESOME. I have been playing the living shit out of it. I've only got one reoccurring problem, THE FUCKING GAME LOCKING UP ON ME. its installed on to the hard drive and it has happened probably upwards of 5 or 6 times on my now within the span of 4 days. If anyone could offer some insight i would be EXTREMELY thankful and happy holidays to everyone. "