Not to mention two very disappointing performances from Zachary Levi and Matthew Perry.Įverything about it is sloppy and all over the place. But on the other hand you have the presumable non-actors of characters like Sunny Smiles.
The voice acting is half good – Ron Perlman nails it, Felicia Day is great once you stop picturing Cyd Sherman, etc. The ambient music is better than it was in Fallout 3 (the game even includes a tune from Fallout 2), but the licensed songs are seared into your brain by the looping radios everywhere.
Most of the writing is solid or even good, but some of it worse than Bethesda’s standards. Try finding Cerulean Robotics in Freeside. Areas are poorly designed and are needlessly labyrinthine or waste too much space. It’s already infamously glitchy – the un-patched PC version would delete saves! The shooting mechanics have improved, but are still just not good. Well, Fallout: New Vegas is a mess of a game.
Then, given the reputation of Obsidian for developing badly designed, downright broken games ( Alpha Protocol, etc.) and only having a few good story ideas to their name…Combing this with Fallout 3 could only end badly, right? It certainly didn’t help that Obsidian were responsible for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords – one of the worst games I have ever played. My interest was sustained entirely by the connections (Marcus the super mutant is in it!) to Fallout 2. Then Obsidian comes along to make Fallout: New Vegas. Personally, I didn’t play the original Fallout games until after Fallout 3, and I still enjoyed them more their younger brother from another mother. Even a good chunk of the die-hard original Fallout fans (who decried how the Bethesda-made Fallout 3 wasn’t like the old games and didn’t mesh story-wise) praised the game as a standalone gaming experience. The weird part is that I seem to be the only one. Bethesda had even removed everything that made Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion enjoyable. A game that consisted of tiny bits of bad dialogue and genuine questing, wedged between bland hours of killing raiders or mutants in sewers and subways and other boring copy/paste dungeons. I found it to be an incredibly dull game that was even boring to look at. Let me begin by saying: I hate Fallout 3.
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