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Preview Fallout: New Vegas Preview

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<p>You have an XBox360 ? <a href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/preview/xbox360/fallout-new-vegas" target="_blank">Then this preview is for YOU!</a></p>
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<p>Fans of the most recent <strong>Fallout 3</strong> and its ration of subsequent DLC content expansions will feel right at home. It's a skill-and-stat-intensive RPG-game <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/preview/xbox360/fallout-new-vegas#" target="undefined"></a>bolted onto a first-person exploration engine, suitable for FPS-style play... but modded with the brilliant VATS combat scheme, which allows the otherwise real-time gameplay to be paused at critical junctures to examine enemies for potential weak spots, target specific body parts and&mdash;action points permitting&mdash;even queue up several targeted attacks in a row for a devastating, gangbusters-style breach-and-clear on a room full of mutated baddies (or everyday, unpleasant fellow humans). At its most elegant, it's a best-of-both-worlds kind of scheme, allowing for both the urgency of point-of-view immersion and the deliberate application of bullet-time, tactical finesse.</p>
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<p>Bullet-time, tactical finesse.</p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/97825-fallout-new-vegas-preview.html">GB</a></p>
 

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Tactical finesse = "push button to win" mode for your FPS
 
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It's wasn't until I installed a mod that alters it to be real time, and lowers the damage boost a bit, that I realized just how overpowered vanilla VATS actually was. It's absolutely broken.

It's not 'bullet time', it's 'you gave a Chrono-Mage an AK-47 and a near infinite pool of mana'.
 
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There's a mod that turns it into actual bullet time. Rather fun, since it apparently doesn't change your defense

In vanilla, I didn't use it unless it was a lulsy enemy I was going to kill easily anyway

Amid all the superficial, mechanical familiarity, however, there are a host of subtle improvements. One of the biggies is the new so-called 'companion wheel', a pop-up interface that provides a very streamlined method for managing any non-player-character companions that might join you throughout the game. The single interface allows players to oversee, at a glance, each NPC's health, inventory, and stim-pack usage situation, and is also used for base AI behavior and/or issuing specific commands.

grrr...
 

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Fallout 4-5 will prob be made totally in flash and hosted at newsgrounds for the final streamlining.
 

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It's amusing that when Obsidian is making a game that is developed by Bethesda, suddenly there is a lot less criticism from professional gaming journalists.
 

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I'm looking forward to AP, but I'm not even giving New Vegas a chance. Fuck the oblivion engine and anything made for it.
 

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Jaesun said:
It's amusing that when Obsidian is making a game that is developed by Bethesda, suddenly there is a lot less criticism from professional gaming journalists.

huh? am i crazy in that i remember 99% of "professional" gaming journalists sucking FO3's cock?
 

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TwinkieGorilla said:
Jaesun said:
It's amusing that when Obsidian is making a game that is developed by Bethesda, suddenly there is a lot less criticism from professional gaming journalists.

huh? am i crazy in that i remember 99% of "professional" gaming journalists sucking FO3's cock?

Yep, I fully expect New Vegas to get the 99% blowjob treatment from Professional Gaming Journalists. This is actually good for Obsidian, however.

SUCK IT SKYWAY! ;)
 

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The magazine scans are full of spoilers which sound only half-silly :evil: I can already extrapolate from the article and feel like I've played 3 times through the game with different choices.
 

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TwinkieGorilla said:
jaesun i don't get it what.

My point is basically that because Bethesda is the Producer of this game, Obsidian will receive no bad criticism for this game, from say the unholy trinity IGN etc... it will get 9/10! 10/10!! GEAM OF YEAR!!!11

I'll keep following more reviews, and see if my theory is correct.
 

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Fans of the most recent <strong>Fallout 3</strong>
As opposed to the other four Fallout 3s, of course.

Seriously, who wrote this shit?
 

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Fez said:
Tactical finesse = "push button to win" mode for your FPS
Why did you return anyway? You won't like what's going on now with Fallout being inaccessible, Dragon Age being the best RPG since Arcanum and other stuff.
 

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