New Vegas Mangages To Lose the Shine and Polish.
I'm a huge fan of Fallout 3. I'm a huge fan of Bethesda in general. "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" is tied with Ocarina of Time as my favorite game of all time. So of course, like most gamers, I was eagerly awaiting the release of New Vegas. A chance for more Fallout seemed great. What kills me is that Obsidian entertainment is made up of a lot of ex-interplay vets who created Fallout 1 and 2, so why does New Vegas have more glitches and more freezing then any other Fallout games?
It's not that New Vegas starts off bad, but it doesn't start off nearly as memorable as Fallout 3. In fact, that's what you will say for about every major moment in New Vegas: Fallout 3 did it better. New Vegas has to put me down even more by adding a crazy invisible wall to almost any area that should be claimable. I mean seriously, I loved the fact that I could climb my way over everything in Oblivion and Fallout 3, but here it's become a nuisance to scale even the most tiny of hills. The addition of iron sights for guns is a cool concept, but honestly who is playing this game the same way they play Call of Duty? That's not how Fallout was designed...and you should be using V.A.T.S. Mode. Mix in a crazy ridiculous amount of sub stories, and everything becomes drenched in a sea of confusion for the player. Then we have dlc, which was the biggest saving point of Fallout 3. Sure, I wasn't one of those people who were instantly impressed with Fallout 3; it took some damn time to get into that game. However, the great amount of downloadable content made Fallout 3 a fantastic game. Unfortunately, New Vegas' first dlc pack: “Dead Money” was a huge disappointment for me. Removing the game's regular currency, and replacing it with an area only currency, and also stripping you of all your weapons is a flat out stupid idea to start with. Then, as everyone knows, Fallout's companion system has never been the brightest shining star, but having to control three different people is just an asinine task of stupidity here.
It's not all bad though. New Vegas has the downfall of simply feeling like nothing more then an expansion to Fallout 3. I mean hell, that's what this game started out as. I really wish they would have left it at that.
But alas, New Vegas is probably going to go down as the most glitchy game of this generation. I have never played a game that is just full of little bugs and errors. Even after four patches, we've still barely made a dent in the problems of this game. I purposely waited to review it, and I just have given up hope in Obsidian.
