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Skyrim One Year On: Why Fallout New Vegas Is Better

Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas are two of the best sandbox RPGs of the current generation; the former widely hailed as the best of its kind. Joe at Cinelinx takes a controversial look at why New Vegas is in fact better than the Nordic classic.

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Psychotica4151d ago

Not sure what it was about Fallout New Vegas but I couldn't get into it at all. Loved Fallout 3 though.

Kran4150d ago

I think it was the Clans :/

EVILDEAD3604150d ago

LMAO...New Vegas was fun, but was NEVER on the level of Skyrim in ANYWAY.

Again loved the game, but Vegas wasnt even on Fallout 3 level.

Evil

SnakeCQC4150d ago

maybe because it was fallout 3 without the bugs

Ezz20134150d ago

true and that's because Obsidian Entertainment are the one who made it
and Bugthesda Softworks only publish it

that only show that betheseda can't program any thing right

Ashunderfire864150d ago

It had a lot of bugs too lol!!! you guys forgot. Heck Obsidian Entertainment made Knights of the Old Republic 2 buggy!!! And didn't patch it back in 2005.

vallencer4150d ago

It had more bugs than fallout 3. Unless we weren't playing the same new Vegas.

SnakeCQC4150d ago

fallout 3 felt like an unplayable £40 beta and new vegas was alot more playable(both were played on the ps3)

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Summons754151d ago (Edited 4151d ago )

Not made by obsidian is one key reason. The other is despite the bugs in Skyrim, Skyrim is at least playable unlike new Vegas which to this day me and a lot of people I know can not still even start the game because the tutorial area is so broken. Skyrim may have it's problems but at least Bethesda came out and said they screwed up and still work on fixing things while creating new content. Obsidian just blames the world for their problems and never blames themselves. They have always done this since the killed kotr by making kotr2. They blame beig rushed when in reality they are lazy and can't meet a deadline. Prime example of this was Alpha Protocol. Now everyone is feeding them money for a game they refuse to talk about which when it releases will be broken and all together terrible. Then they will say they were rushed and the kind people who fell for their con didn't give them enough money.

Edit: I read the title backwards but my comment is a disagreement to the article. Sorry for the error.

Irishguy954150d ago (Edited 4150d ago )

I had no problems playing Fallout New vegas. Fallout new vegas is the only Bethesda game I have liked for the last 5 years until Dishonored came out. Yes that's right...the ones Bethesda did not develop.

New vegas has many many idea's that bethesda should have copied for Skyrim but didn't.

New Vegas major ups -

No level scaling - ie Character progression
Some actual choices and cause and affect - ie RPG
No loot scaling - ie The loot is worth looking for.

For some silly reason bethesda did not put in the good companion model Fallout new vegas had into Skyrim. Every companion had a story, they were interesting and useful. I didn't get it anyway. Fallout New vegas even had a better animal system which Bethesda were hyping up for Skyrim. It's a bit rediculous.

Of course, some people like being able to explore everywhere, I like the fact that deathclaws exist and should avoid them in the beginning.

I also found the quests to be WAY better than Skyrim. Every quest of Skyrim, even the Major side quests was "Go to this dungeon, fight your way through, get the leveled loot at the end".

New vegas had entire area's dedicated and designed around a side quest(The hill at the start with the radio tower on it, the deathclaw valley, Cities, the camp in the mountain, the Brotherhood of steel etc). Bethesda simply didn't do that.

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Oh and the fact is Summons, they don't meet deadlines because the deadlines are too small.

Fallout 3 = 3-4 years dev time
New vegas = 1 and a half

Kotor 1 - 3 years dev time
Kotor 2 - 1 year.

It's rediculous how anyone could expect them to make long Rpg's in that amount of time. And even then Kotor 1 and New Vegas were still amazing.

Well, lets see how Southpark turns out. Since they aren't being held to an unreasonable deadline for it

"Traveling is a joy - not a chore."

To the writer of this article. Spot on. Exploring is simply more exciting in New Vegas. It's like when people complain about Dark souls having a penaly for death. The prospect of Danger makes the games more exciting. Skyrim has no dangers, even dragons just become an annoying repetition that follows you around chipping away at health until you button mash it to death

Mutant-Spud4150d ago

ROFL..Always with the "Rayciss" Stormcloaks, politically correct gaming bloggers always have to mention that,for the record Che Guevara despised Africans and homosexuals, he was also a torturer ,a child killer and a coward who died with a full clip in his gun, Ulfric is squeaky clean in comparison.
Then again since the popular stories of Ulfric Stormcloak and Che Guevara are both fiction I don't suppose it matters much.

Lordchunk4150d ago

Replace New Vegas with fallout 3 and you would of nailed this but oh well.

MonopolyRSV4150d ago

New Vegas plays smooth as butter compared to 3. New Vegas also has better music and a better overall environment. Much rather be roaming the open desert instead of lost in some underground subway with a compass constantly pointing in the wrong direction.

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Games That Were Bad on Release, But Are Now Great

BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.

Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."

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Terry_B10d ago

Good list..hoped to see Street Fighter 5 there..and it is.

Vits10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.

darthv7210d ago

Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.

I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.

Kaii10d ago

They consider FO 76 & ME Andromeda to be great now 🤭

anast10d ago

Every game in the last 2 decades...

INMATEofARKHAM10d ago

It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.

gunnerforlife9d ago

Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.

S2Killinit9d ago

That game was just plain good game. It didnt improve, it was just good.

gunnerforlife9d ago

I don't know, I got it abit late, and struggled for a few days, and then all of a sudden it just got good!!

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Fallout Anthology Edition Looks Pretty S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

The Fallout Anthology Edition is coming to PC very soon, and is packaged with some very S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bonuses.

-Foxtrot31d ago

It’s an awful downgrade to the last one they did

They included physical disc back then

ocelot0730d ago

Forgot I ordered this until I got the dispatch email.

FPS_D3TH30d ago

I want the first two games to come to iPhone/android

Friendlygamer30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

I would love the classic fallout games on console. Closest I could find was atom rpg, I liked that one a lot

saint_seya29d ago

I though it was a new Killzone when i saw the image, looks like a hellghast..