Monte Carlo

It's not like the vanilla game isn't big enough.

It's a post-apoc game. With romances. Lots of romances. There is one critical path that adds to immersion. Your character, Wolfherd, is a super-pre-defined but completely customizable dude which adds to immersion, choice and (yes) romance. Your actions have repercussions that supercede anything that has happened in any game ever, even everer than the last one we did. This is told in a series of online achievement icons. It's called Nuke-Effect-Age 1: Origins of Shadows of Awesomeness. It will be available as an i-phone app, too.

This is the stuff of CRPG awesomeness, Bioware please take note.

I'm not even looking at the local map anymore, I am doing Dice Man style Zen navigation which is adding considerably to my playing time.

It's pretty simple for me: NV feels more like it was written by people who play games and are simpatico the way I like to play them. I'm pretty indifferent to Fallout as a franchise in general and as a gaming totem in particular but I'm loving NV. I liked FO3 too, just not as much. I'm not saying that this makes Obz geniuses, or that I'm a fanboy, just that their style is more in sync with what I like than any other developer out there at the moment.

The pip-boy map is a triumph of gritty low-fi aesthetics over any practical use for the player whatsoever. It is a bloody horrible bit of GUI, a clean map mod would be very handy.

It's a bit confusing, I've done that bit, Chris the scientist has gone to Novac and now I'm meant to launch the rockets for them but how? It isn't clear at all.

Many thanks to you all.

I'm doing the Ghoul Quest near Novac, I've killed the dudes in the basement and been asked to find some maguffins to blast the Ghouls into outer space. Obviously, I want to see them win a Darwin Award, so where are these items perchance?

It's interesting that after NV there's a sort of FO3 rennaissance going on, wonder what the sales figures look like?

Heed these words, for they speaketh much truth.

Obviously the issue for Krezack is that our seasons are reversed. Personally, because our climate is so wet, I'd plan on late May into early June or late August into early September. You might incur high shoulder fares late summer though because of the school holidays. London needs a week at least. Plan carefully and you might even get half decent accommodation. The majority of the important galleries and museums are free. As for useful int, well London is full of Antipodeans with their own extremely complex and extensive survival network. If you come to London I will buy you a beer. I am biased, but you would be a fool to miss out on Italy. Paris? Meh. Florence, Sienna, Rome? Yes. A September trip would of course allow you to travel to Italy via Munich for that feral Aussie rite of passage, the Oktoberfest. I am going next year, I might see you there.

Given that about 40% of marriages end in divorce nowadays, I'd play the long game.

Alternatively, they just really dig leather skirts.

You're missing the point, The Legion is either (a) a hardcore LARPing / re-enactor cult gone badly wrong, or (b) a bunch of guys who like dressing in leather skirts, because that's how they roll or © the survivors of a vault where the only entertainment was a stack of holodiscs of old sword and sandals epics.

I've sold 3 laser pistols, 2 plasma rifles, a laser rifle and two flamethrowers. I have more energy cells / fusion batteries than you can shake a stick at. I also have a LUCk score of 9, but yes it is working in reverse although every other round I shoot is a slo-mo insta-death critical.

Not too many tunnels I'm afraid, but I tend to let my sawn-off 12 gauge do the talking.

OK, I'm playing slowly. I'm level 5 and thinking of travelling to NV after doing the Mojave Outpost / Primm quests. However, the best weapon I've found is a freaking Cowboy Repeater rifle (I've tagged guns, sneak and repair) and these strange winged insects, giant radscorpions and other critters keep slaying me when I try to move north of the Goodsprings graveyard. Should I be cutting about in the south a bit more to level up and where on earth can I find a decent rifle? Rather annoyingly there is no shortage of energy weapons, but I'm not very good with them.

:: yawns ::

Not that it was exactly a crowded field of talent, but you chose the most utterly unsuitable President for the crisis you find yourselves in. "How's that touchy-hopey thing working out for ya?"

Volo, if you really didn't like FO3 to that extent then I think it's fair to say that NV ain't gonna float your boat.

Fine, but it should be an optinal tick-box thing. I like XP for killing critters, it's another one of those rpg lines in the sand.

Red Ball Express has three in a straight line slap bang in the middle, North, Central and South. I redeemed myself though, last night I whupped my first level 50 opponent on the same map.

I suppose you forgot the little fact he was mainly a 'bad man' because he was going to blow up the world with all his WMD... Nope, he got me at the bit where he dropped poison gas on the Marsh Arabs and fed dissidents into industrial shredding machines. I do find it amusing how, in their unseemly haste to smear the Bush Whitehouse, the anti-war brigade seek to airbrush Saddam into some hapless Middle Eastern dictator-lite.

:: blushes :: aw shucks.