Heard the latest podcast.  I don't know 
why bashing Fallout: New Vegas gave 
any justification for Vinnie cheating at the
game. I played the game for 15 hours so
far & I haven't had it crash once!  The only 
problem I did encounter was where the 
character gets stuck in an inclined plane 
(such as a bus on a 45-degree angle) & then
can't move from the spot. Sol'n is to reload
a previous save.  I had this same issue with
Fallout 3.

Vinnie, here is a tip on making the
game a bit easier. When you level up,
put your whole 12-15 points into one
skill that seemed most recently important
& don't dabble it around to the others.
I've found that to work better. I did
notice that some dialog options offered
2 different ways to achieve the same system. 
However, if something required a high 
Science or Lockpick, then write it down on
a notepad & come back to it later when 
you've skilled-up.

That thing that Jeff said about Factions
& how "early on he had to pick a side".
Well I think that is TOTALLY WRONG.

Here is a hint on how to get around that.
Let's say you go up & attack a faction,
now you are hated & have picked sides.
However, if one of your NPC lackeys
hates that faction & attacks first, it
doesn't count against YOUR VIEW OF THE
FACTION!  I found this out by testing
the mission where you need to save a
couple of captured prisoners. The lackey
attacked first & I wasn't given a faction
penalty.

So no, Jeff, you do not have to pick
a side early on. The game is clearly
intelligent enough to make that distinction, 
though it isn't explained in the rules.
Thought I'd pass that observation on.

Overall, I'm amazed at how much more
improved the game is. There were other
little cheats I found that don't work
in the game. For instance, you can't just
suck on stimpaks constantly. The game
will give you an ability penalty (stim
sickness). And that isn't in hardcore
mode. Combat is harder & requires more
maintenance/repairs, but there isn't a
shortage of repair locations. Radiation can be
a pain but at the start of the game you
get a doctor's location. I've used the chems
& have not got an addiction, perhaps they
moved that to hardcore.

One time, I wandered the wasteland & watched
two sides duke it out with neither attacking
me. Later on, I stopped at a location & spoke
to someone about one of the sides. They said
their team was "out on patrol". I laughed
out loud realizing the guy doesn't even know
they're all dead yet, though I didn't get a
chance to tell him as there wasn't a
dialogue for it.

I also noticed that those missions where you
have to ask around to figure out a mystery
was more stable than in previous RPGs I've
played where mysteries are usually glitchy 
or a chore.

It's an excellent game. Fallout: New Vegas,
is what I'd call Advanced Fallout 3. They
just fleshed it out, giving more options to
craft stuff, added more penalties to produce
better challenges, more detailed quests
& seems stable enough after the patch update
(released about a week after the game came
out).

I'm sure there must be something I haven't
encountered yet since I see other threads
making statements about game breaks, but
I don't want to read spoilers just yet either.
Anyway, the above is just reflections based
on my experience with game.  No need to get
all flamey about it.

I just read that like a poem.
 
EDIT: Also, no.

What's up with your formatting?

Oh fuck you, Vinny can play the game however he wants and Jeff can say whatever he wants  It's not hurting you, so quit fucking complaining.

What is wrong with people why do you care how does he plays the game he bought, it is not affecting anyone else ffs.

" I just read that like a poem. "

" What's up with your formatting? "

@ christ0phe I could not agree more with you on this. 
 
If you spent the time it took you to write all of that playing New Vegas, you might be as having as much fun as Vinnie :D

Please get out of here, sir. We don't need you or this discussion here. Thank you.

Let Vinny play it any way he likes. He enjoys playing it by cheating, and that's fine. You would rather not cheat, and that's fine too. Play it how you want and let other people play it how they want.
 
Also, Jeff didn't say that you have to pick sides early on, but earlier than he would have liked. There is a point in the game where you do have to pick one side, and that cancels all of the missions on the other factions, and that came sooner than Jeff would have liked.

Also, I was fully expecting that halfway through his post, he was going to break out into the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.

 
 
Look at all that hate. Man!
 
I don't care if Vinnie cheats. But Jeff brought up
game-breaking as the excuse for him to do it in the
podcast. I gotta call nonsense on that.
 
I wasn't like trying to bash Vinnie by saying something
like:  
 
"I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating." 
 
LOL.

It delights me that the guy saying Vinny is using the game's systems wrong pretty obviously doesn't know how to use the commenting system to format readable text.

" Oh fuck you, Vinny can play the game however he wants and Jeff can say whatever he wants  It's not hurting you, so quit fucking complaining. "

" What's up with your formatting? "

cool poem bro

"   Look at all that hate. Man!  I don't care if Vinnie cheats. But Jeff brought up game-breaking as the excuse for him to do it in the podcast. I gotta call nonsense on that.  I wasn't like trying to bash Vinnie by saying something like:    "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating."   LOL. "

It's a single player game. Vinny isn't reviewing it. There is literally no reason why he shouldn't play however he wants.

OH NO JEFF DOESN'T LIKE THIS PART OF THE GAME! THIS MAKES ME ENJOY IT LESS! 
   
ALSO VINNY YOU'RE A CHEATER!

Please for gods
sake learn to not
use the enter 
button so much.

The game is broken. People should be complaining about that rather than about how someone decides to play the game. Now I don't play PC games so I don't know anything about console commands but isn't it possible to lock people out of doing stuff like this?

" Also, I was fully expecting that halfway through his post, he was going to break out into the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. "

No offense, but you type like a retard.

So... this thread boils down to...
 
FUCK PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS THAN ME! I'M ALWAYS RIGHT!
 
Go figure.

They can do what they want, get the fuck out of here.

It's fine in single player
If that's what he wants
He does not have to play
By the developer's rules
Especially when the game
Includes a console that allows it

I seriously Dont get this WoW "elitist"  syndrome why does someone else actions effect YOUR enjoyment of the game. 
I find it really Gay its like carrying about what another person does in his free time with his dick. Worry about your dick 

It's not cheating. It's a dev console that you enter commands into. He bought the game and it is single-player so why do you care? Maybe if they didn't ship a janky, broken game Vinnie wouldn't feel compelled to use the developer console to make the game actually, you know, playable?

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

"   Look at all that hate. Man!  I don't care if Vinnie cheats. But Jeff brought up game-breaking as the excuse for him to do it in the podcast. I gotta call nonsense on that.  I wasn't like trying to bash Vinnie by saying something like:    "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating."   LOL. "

its not a multi player game, so cheating doesn't really effect anyone, and isn't really classified as "cheating". It is a system the developers put in there for the gamer to use. It's not even like he is using a glitch either. He isn't breaking the game in any way.   You can look at it as an "easy mode". There is hardcore mode right? The devs put that in for anyone to use. Well they also put in an easy mode for those who want it. "

I made a thread about this (that got locked for some damn reason) but it was pretty much the opposite of this.
Who cares how vinny plays it?? Its not a mp game and its not tied into a network. Let the man do what he wants.
As for the jeff thing I haven't played the game so no comment.

"Honestly, to me
cheating is boring & robs yourself of the experience. I'm not
really doing a lot of Vinnie-bashing here, but why even bother
to play it?  "
 
Here is where you went wrong. You are not everyone in the world. : D

Actually I do believe there is even a Very Easy setting. I mean, wow. Why do you need a cheat code when you can mow it all down?  Another option, you could just read the spoilers in advance & just copy that & use Very Easy.  Honestly, to me cheating is boring & robs yourself of the experience. I'm not really doing a lot of Vinnie-bashing here, but why even bother to play it?  What is up with all the comments about my columnar format? It should be easier to read as you're limiting your eye movement to a small section of space. :-P  I'm doing it to help you guys, dangit. "

" It's not cheating. It's a dev console that you enter commands into. He bought the game and it is single-player so why do you care? Maybe if they didn't ship a janky, broken game Vinnie wouldn't feel compelled to use the developer console to make the game actually, you know, playable? "

What is up with all the comments about my columnar format? It should be easier to read as you're limiting your eye movement to a small section of space. :-P  I'm doing it to help you guys, dangit. "

" OH NO JEFF DOESN'T LIKE THIS PART OF THE GAME! THIS MAKES ME ENJOY IT LESS! 
  

What are you on about, saving him $50? He ENJOYED the game.

What is up with all the comments about my columnar format? It should be easier to read as you're limiting your eye movement to a small section of space. :-P  I'm doing it to help you guys, dangit. "

LET'S QUOTE EACH OTHER, POST IMAGE MACROS AND BUMB WHAT IS OTHERWISE A POINTLESS TOPIC!!!

" What is up with all the comments about my columnar format? It should be easier to read as you're limiting your eye movement to a small section of space. :-P  I'm doing it to help you guys, dangit. "

" I made a thread about this (that got locked for some damn reason) but it was pretty much the opposite of this. Who cares how vinny plays it?? Its not a mp game and its not tied into a network. Let the man do what he wants. As for the jeff thing I haven't played the game so no comment. "

" "Honestly, to me cheating is boring & robs yourself of the experience. I'm not really doing a lot of Vinnie-bashing here, but why even bother to play it?  "  Here is where you went wrong. You are not everyone in the world. : D "

" @Lind_L_Taylor:  I agree with Jeff and Ryan... "Fuck you." "

" @Lind_L_Taylor said: 

Actually I do believe there is even a Very Easy setting. I mean, wow. Why do you need a cheat code when you can mow it all down?  Another option, you could just read the spoilers in advance & just copy that & use Very Easy.  Honestly, to me cheating is boring & robs yourself of the experience. I'm not really doing a lot of Vinnie-bashing here, but why even bother to play it?  What is up with all the comments about my columnar format? It should be easier to read as you're limiting your eye movement to a small section of space. :-P  I'm doing it to help you guys, dangit. "

 I think you're forgetting something: even in easy mode, a mile is still a mile and that mountain still requires a long ass trek around it.  Sometimes I wish the 360 version had some kind of cheats window so I could just get to where I wanted to go.  Roaming around in the desert is cool, and yeah, I really enjoyed that in fallout 3 as well, but sometimes, especially when I'm on a mission, I just want to get from point A, to B, and back to A again as fast as possible. "

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

What is up with all the comments about my columnar format? It should be easier to read as you're limiting your eye movement to a small section of space. :-P  I'm doing it to help you guys, dangit. "

It makes your posts sound like poems, it adds unnecessary stops mid-sentence. "

...so says Mr. Stewart.

" I just read that like a poem.  EDIT: Also, no. "

I'm having a blast using the console to unlock doors and eliminate weight. Yay for PC!

Well I just recently used the faction system to sneak into vault 3 with a great khan outfit to kill motor runner so it's not that bad.Hell you don't even need to pick sides, what about the yes man ending? Regarding vinny cheating well you can make a build or just cheat through the game if you want, who cares really if you're having fun.

Vinny.

This has been said before, but I will say it again: Vinnie bought the game with his money, therefore you have no right to tell him how to play it.  And Jeff is a professional reviewer, he states his opinions for money.  It doesn't mean that you have to agree with him, or that he's always right.
 
So,
 
COOL STORY, BROSKI