Fallout: New Vegas

before i played this game i was lazy, suicidal, sad, and didnt do much aside from gooning. nothing has changed but game is good.

Great game with mods, Obsidian understood Fallout way better than Bethesda.

Picture this, big wasp comes up to you. It stings you. You die 54 secs later. Beautiful game.

if i could bottle the feeling of walking out of doc mitchell's house for the first time and seeing the sun rise over goodsprings, i'd never feel hollow again. fallout: new vegas isn’t just a game—it’s a world, a philosophy lesson, a grim joke, and a personal pilgrimage all in one. when people ask me what makes a game truly great, i point them straight to the mojave. let’s start with the world. the mojave wasteland isn’t the biggest open world out there, nor the prettiest in a conventional sense, but it is, without a doubt, one of the most alive. every location tells a story, not through exposition dumps or flashing arrows on a map, but through design, placement, and mood. you can stumble across a burned out caravan with corpses arranged in a desperate circle, or find a skeleton lying in bed next to a bottle of pills. nothing shouts, “look at me!”—it just waits to be discovered. the storytelling in fallout: new vegas is something else entirely. it respects the player’s intelligence. it gives you choices that matter—not just in how the story ends, but in how you experience it moment to moment. siding with the ncr might bring stability, but at what cost? throwing in with caesar’s legion might mean order, but can you stomach their brutality? or maybe you want to carve your own path, go independent, and become the wildcard. every faction is flawed. every ideology is tested. and you’re never told which is right. that’s the magic. and then there’s the writing. oh man, the writing. it’s sharp, witty, dark, and human. characters like ulysses, veronica, arcade, and boone feel like real people with convictions and baggage. even the minor npcs have something memorable to say, a little piece of themselves etched into the world. whether you’re chatting with the king about the spirit of elvis or confronting benny in the tops casino, the dialogue always feels grounded and meaningful. gameplay-wise, yeah, it has its jank. the combat isn’t exactly buttery smooth, and the engine is creaky even by 2010 standards. but once you get past the occasional bug or awkward animation, you start to appreciate how much the mechanics serve the roleplaying. want to be a silver-tongued pacifist who never fires a shot? you can. want to be a ruthless explosives expert who solves every problem with a stick of dynamite? totally viable. the game doesn’t punish you for being weird or niche—it celebrates it. the dlc content deserves its own love letter. dead money is a haunting, suffocating story of greed and obsession, with a tone so different from the base game that it feels like a playable nightmare. honest hearts explores faith, trauma, and cultural identity in a surprisingly touching way. old world blues is pure sci-fi absurdity, a campy romp full of brilliant writing and self-aware humor. and lonesome road is the game’s introspective finale, a philosophical debate with the ghost of who you could’ve been. each dlc is a unique experience, and together they deepen the game’s themes and scope immeasurably. the music… my goodness, the music. both the ambient score and the radio tracks are pitch perfect. wandering the desert as johnny guitar plays softly in the background isn’t just atmospheric—it’s emotional. it makes you feel like the last living soul in a forgotten america. mark morgan’s tracks still send chills down my spine, and the radio hosts (especially mister new vegas) bring a comforting, melancholic voice to the chaos. but maybe the most important thing about fallout: new vegas is how it stays with you. it’s not just about quests or leveling up. it’s about the feeling of making choices and living with them. it’s about the little stories that only you experience because of the way you played. it’s about becoming someone in a world that’s been broken and reforged a hundred times. and in a strange way, it makes you reflect on your own world, your own choices, and what it means to try to do good in a place that often feels like it’s gone too far wrong. there’s no game like it. no other title has captured the same blend of freedom, depth, wit, and soul. it’s imperfect, sure, but so are the best things in life. and maybe that’s why i love it so much. because beneath the dust and decay of the mojave lies something incredibly rare—a game that trusts you to find your own meaning. so yes. ten out of ten. always has been. always will be. look, say what you want about the other factions, but following mr. house in fallout: new vegas is absolutely justified—and honestly, he might be the closest thing the mojave has to a real good guy. yeah, he's a cold, calculating technocrat, but in a world ravaged by nukes, raiders, and two-bit dictators playing war, isn’t that exactly what you want? the man had the foresight to protect vegas from complete destruction during the great war centuries ago, and he’s the only one with a real, long-term vision for rebuilding civilization without descending into fascism or chaos. the ncr is bloated, corrupt, and can’t manage its own supply lines. caesar's legion is a straight-up slaver cult. going independent sounds fun until you realize it just leads to more instability and warlords fighting over scraps. mr. house wants order, progress, and a future run by intellect and efficiency—not superstition or bureaucracy. plus, he doesn’t pretend to be your friend—he’s honest about what he wants, and he rewards competence. in a world full of liars and killers, that kind of clarity is rare. so yeah, i backed house, and i’d do it again. mr. house is just like mr. hicks. mr. hicks is, without question, the coolest history teacher i’ve ever had—possibly the coolest person to ever set foot in a school, period. this man has over 600 hours logged in fallout 4, and he brings that exact kind of post-apocalyptic passion into the classroom like he’s teaching from a bunker in the glowing sea. he doesn’t just talk about historical wars—he lives it, connecting everything from the roman empire to cold war politics with the factions in the fallout universe. one day, i drew him a picture of an ncr ranger from fallout: new vegas—full gear, the big iron, the cool helmet, the whole thing—and he was so stoked about it, he actually put it up on his classroom wall. for a while, it just hung there like a silent guardian of the wasteland, watching over desks and textbooks. it made me feel like i’d added something real to that room. but then—tragedy. someone took it down. no warning, no explanation, just gone. like it never existed. probably some admin who thought it wasn’t “school appropriate” or whatever, as if a drawing of a ranger is somehow more threatening than literally everything that happens in the school bathrooms. still, mr. hicks was cool about it. he said he’d pay me to make another fallout picture that was school friendly. the man’s a legend. if there’s ever a fallout-themed high school, he better be principal.

The Last Great RPG. That's bias and nostalgia speaking, but this marks the final Fallout story with weight, something to say, lessons that can be carried forward and thought about for years afterwards. Are later Fallout games more fun to play? Sure. But a shiny child's toy can't hold the same merit as a well-worn tome of an incredible story that can never be surpassed. Hope you like this game, if you decide to pick it up. Either way, enjoy your stay.

A masterpiece and one if not the greatest Fallout game in the franchise so far.

My favorite Fallout game and one that I have nearly 1000 hours of gameplay on during my console days. A game with limitless possibilities and incredible experiences.

★★★★★ 5/5 Fallout: New Vegas earns its reputation as the gold standard of the Fallout franchise. The Mojave Wasteland is packed with charismatic factions, unforgettable characters, awesome music and a story that doesn’t just wait to be told—it waits for you to shape it. Every choice matters, and every path leads somewhere meaningful. A must-play for any RPG fan.

For as much as this is supposed to be one of the best games ever made: IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK! Constant crashes and bugs means i literally cannot play the game. I don't know what more to say. It's an absolute joke. The fact that I am required to slog my way through mod managers just to make the game playable is unbelievable. How is this game allowed to be on sale.

Great game, but bad engine. It often crash, the best way for you is just crack this game if you really want to play this game.

Fallout New Vegas is the game most fallout fans say is the best and that's for a good reason its an excellently made game with a Interesting story and intriguing characters. MR House da goat fr fr

I love this game, I spent a lot of time playing it originally on the xbox. Its super fun and I love the dialog choices and how you can get around certain things with high speech. I just hate how the game constantly crashes. If the developers can update and fix it so its not crashing every thirty minutes that would be great because this is one of my favorite games of all the time. But the crashing makes the game miserable and almost unplayable at times. I know its not my pc either because I can run most games at ultra settings. If anyone has a solution to this please let me know cause I wanna continue my journey to New Vegas.

I did the NCR and the YES MAN ending, and i absolutely loved this game, i think that ill'try lonesome road. I think it's the best fallout because it has the most variety of factions, i recommand ( sorry for my english) this to everyone who like post-apocalypse games. Oh, and fuck the "I win the lottery" guy, Can i use his lottery ticket?

i literally bought this game after watching the Hbomberguy video about why Fallout New Vegas is awesome & i was sold on it. bought it after the video, played it like 40 hours in two weeks. incredible game, so much to explore, so many paths to take, so stimulating and it's so easy to have fun. if you like games like Oblivion, this is like Oblivion on radioactive crack and taking place in the future instead of the past. very different but very similar in a way. highly recommend if you like RPG's, story driven games, shooting games, etc. 10/10

This game was my very first take on the Fallout Games, as I had seen it long ago before I could even get money to play the games I wanted to play via Youtube, and became innately curious of it. As I got older, in my late teen years, I managed to scrounge up allowance money to purchase it for myself, and came to really enjoy it for the story that it offered, and how everything in the game that happened actually made sense, and had a certain degree of 'Epic' to it, in the sense of individuals, mere mortals that did not have magic, or supernatural abilities, having lived a full lifetime, in half the years, who had gone through many trials and tribulations, and came out as changed people, capable of changing nations, changing histories, by the skills, connections, and experiences they had, and the freedom that the player has in determining what their story is, and how they choose to affect the various factions around them, the other 'Legends' that they meet along the way, and even the lives of individual people, that may seem unimportant. Your actions, will shape everyone, Kings, Royalty, Commoners, Servants, both flesh and metal, bone and circuits. Very few instances of 'Essential' NPCs exist, which means that you can kill pretty much anyone, and the game had been made to account for any possible choice that someone might make between the bounds of Good and Evil, aside from weird exploits and certain paths that are unusual, but also normally possible to make. And the experience can also be improved, or degraded, with the use of mods, and it depends on how good you are with understanding what you might want, as well as how patient you are to determine what mods will work, what mods are too old to, and which mods may conflict with eachother and cause gamebreaking problems. This is the other Bethesda-Involved game (Bethesda was only the Publisher Here) that helped me develop my mod-installing and troubleshooting skills, though I'm not a programmer, modeller, or Mod Dev myself, and it has helped me work my way into figuring out how to research, and find fixes to certain mod combinations that I encounter. With everything I've experienced, it is a great game, and I eagerly await the passionate creations that the modding community comes up with Regularly.

Love the part when Benny the main antagonist of hit game known as Fallout New Vegas developed by Obsidian Entertainment and Published by Bethesda Softworks said this in the game "Hope this interaction does not lead to any fallout between us, fallout new vegas"

I played this game to completion several times over the course of roughly 15 years, all on the PS3. I have only recently made the switch to PC. F:NV is rather notorious for tending to crash and freeze, having massive frame-rate drops, etc..., and such problems were all the more noticeable on consoles. Yet for a game that's filled with problems as F:NV is, it's also my favourite game of all time. There is a reason I kept coming back to it time and time again. When you get over the superficial flaws (which contemporary AAA games have to a far greater and more obnoxious degree.), and get right down to it's core, it's not just an amazing game. It's not just a classic that will stand the test of time. It is in fact a masterpiece, for too many reasons too nuanced to explain briefly. All of it made in roughly a year, under budget constraints, and with little to show for it as thanks during it's launch days. They built it "in a cave, with a box of scraps!", as they say. So do I recommend it? Well that depends entirely on what type of person you are. If you aren't an enjoyer of slower, open world first person shooter/looter RPG's, this is probably not for you. If you can't handle a few bugs and glitches and a crash here and there: stay away. (Most of those can be solved with good mods, however. I recommend checking out "Viva New Vegas" for all your modding needs, especially if you are an amateur like me.) If, however, you are somebody that is willing and patient enough to sink their teeth into an exceptionally rich, rewarding and meaningful experience that will capture your heart and mind for the next decade or so and make you go on lore-deep-dive-rabbit-holes that may or may not rebirth your love for gaming as a hobby, maybe this is for you. IF you believe this is something for you, listen to one piece of advice: buy all of the dlc. They are well worth it. Getting the complete edition is blatantly a must-have. As of writing this, the game is dirt-cheap anyway. Final score? I would be dishonest if I gave this game a perfect 10/10. Subjectively, it absolutely is, but objectively, it has a few too many issues to justify that. But does it matter? What game is truly worth that score anyway? I have never trusted perfect scores, by anybody. What DOES matter, however, is that this game is a masterclass that will have you asking for more long after the 350 hours of game-play for a single play-through have passed (what can I say, I am a hoarder and don't use fast travel.), It's a display of some of the most creative minds of the industry at the time of release. That's not something that can be boiled down into a meagre score. Fallout: New Vegas deserves more than that. It deserves your full attention. It deserves your respect, if not your heart. It deserves it's place in the hall of fame of greatest video-games of all time.

finally finishing new vegas only leaves me realising the hard part wasnt finishing the game, it was letting go

boy i sure love these neato mods! they done make the game more interesting to play with!

Best in the series. Love the weapons, gameplay, and even the DLCs are terrific. Can't give it a bad score when you can gamble in Vegas. 9.7/10

Love this game! Too bad it crashes constantly and will never play for some reason.

This is definitive fallout. This is the game everyone points to when we think about Fallout deep mix moral choices where all choices are flawed but valid to a certain degree deep role playing game mechanics combat is functional but not the main focus. Many situations can be dealt with violence but many more can be solved in other ways like charisma for instance. If you can only play 1 game to understand the love for the franchise pick this one to give you the best understanding of the series.

fantastic game would buy again, perfect game for first fallout expirence

Recommended ✅ Hours Played: 200+ Posted: Just got back to the Mojave after years Returning to Fallout: New Vegas after all this time feels like reuniting with an old, slightly irradiated friend. The writing? Still some of the best in RPG history. The factions? Messy, morally grey, and endlessly fascinating. The mods? Oh, they're better than ever now. And yes; Yes Man is still a chaotic little robot I’d follow into nuclear war. It may not be the prettiest game by today’s standards, but the depth of choice, world-building, and sheer replayability hold up better than most modern RPGs. I came back for nostalgia ; I stayed because the Mojave still has stories I haven’t seen and choices I still second-guess. If you played it years ago and wondered if it still holds up: it does. Maybe even better than you remember.

Fun game, crashes a lot (without any mods or anything) but if we're being honest with ourselves, that's New Vegas in a nutshell.

One of the best shooters i've ever played in my life but needs mods to not crash every 5 minutes. If this or Fallout 3 where ever remastered I would buy that so fast it's not even funny.

Best RPG Game I've played to date. If your name is Anthony and you are reading this you better play the game. Same goes for everyone else.

This game is a masterpiece, BUT, if you are playing on a decent gaming PC & do not know how to use mods, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ON STEAM! It is not optimized and plays very poorly. Play it on XBOX.

Good game good time kinda buggy and crashes lots but its old so what do you expect

This game has "okay" gameplay but an AMAZING story but the truth is... the game was rigged from the start...

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Greatest game in the series next to fallout 2. Nothing will match the legacy and feeling this game captures.

Like all Bethesda games, it is one of the greatest gaming experiences out there.....when it isn't crashing.

Fallout has been a series I could never get into. Picked up 3 on PS Now forever ago and couldn't make heads or tails of it, nor NV. That was then, so there's no need to keep talking about it. Cut to a few years later and I buy this game on Steam. Was as bad as before, but I had a new willingness to understand it. I fared better, but my first character was screwed and the second I dropped. So what about the third time? That was when everything clicked for me. The build was still bad and I struggled because of it, and the roleplaying potential was mediocre and limiting. But I felt a love inside me, a kindled flame. I loved it as a game, but could never appreciate it as a Fallout game. That's when I took to 1, and when I did, I was peering into the Oghma Infinium all over again. The understanding of this universe flowed into me during those sacred hours. I laid off the games again for a bit after having a crack at 2 and disliking my build, until I decided to get 3 and was...massively disappointed. Yet, it was a very fun build and the character was really fun. This also taught me Raven Rock isn't just a town on Solstheim but an actual place. Craving another good Fallout experience, I went back to two, screwed up ANOTHER character and had another crack. And my god, I wouldn't take a single hour back. I powered through like a steam train overloaded on coal, engine ready to blow at the slightest mishap. Fallout 2 was pure euphoria when I had a character who didn't fall into the trap of sleeping with another woman and being punished by God for homosexuality by having my companions ripped from me. And that's when I returned to New Vegas, and could fully appreciate it for the Fallout game it strived to be. I made an Energy Weapons/Explosives build and obsessively played for hours and hours. Learning the Veronica lore, interacting with more of the game than I could imagine sans DLCS, etc and etc... But that's not where I peaked, because I had the insatiable desire to make ANOTHER character after Hoover Dam, which I decided between millions of others. So then I decided I have to be a mentally unstable, cannibal, chem-addicted, alcoholic asian woman with a sharp tongue, an insatiable bloodlust and headshot-induced schizophrenia. And that's when Post Nuclear America was my oyster... It was an insane, lubricious, downright balls to the wall kind of play-through where instead of a traditional femme fatal kind of character, it was like she stole the reigns after shooting me in the no-no parts and decided she wanted to become an immoral, genetic freak who only sucks up to the NCR for the selfish reason of not wanting to go back to their prison camps for manslaughter, necrophilia and cannibalism. Her enemies were screamed at with threats, shot relentlessly and unable to resist her drunken, drug-induced wrath before she ate them whole or ripped their limbs off for a snack later. She is NOT meant to be a combat build, but she wanted to be, and I couldn't stop her. And that's when I did the DLCs...my god, what a trip. Old World Blues is a comedy gold mine where you get lobotomised and forced to seek the technologies from old defunct research labs while fighting Robo-Scorpions. This was the first time I made this character a straight man to anyone. I was flirting with light switches, making a gender neutral brain in a jar nut and being flirted with by a literal stealth suit. There was so much dialogue, but as a Visual Novel fan, I live and die for walls of text. Dead Money was frustrating, but the story was as golden as the contents in the Sierra Madre's vault. No one was allowed alive and Christine made for a delectable snack. Elijah was too old and wrinkly...and the collar was about to go off. The hardest part was letting go, and it sure was hard letting go of my steady supply of Cloud Residue for Sierra Madre Martinis. Honest Hearts is Honest Hearts. It exists and I'd love to blow my way through it next time with a one man army character so I don't need to spend TOO long in the Zion. Lonesome Road is the cultivation of everything you've worked up to, and everything you forgot along the way. It's the true ending of the game, and the apex of the series' themes. You meet your narrative foil who wants to destroy everything you worked for, just as you did to him. Wanted to talk him out of it, but that's just a choice, not the only option. Because when you've almost destroyed yourself with a massive chem overdose before entering, and you crave the sweet scent of blood gushing out of open wounds, there is always the choice to end things as your instincts see fit, and they scream at you to paint the temple red and take no prisoners. Fallout New Vegas is my post nuclear paradise. I can wake up at Doc Mitchel's house with the wackiest character idea and be sent into a hellish wasteland to take it by the horns and for the wildest ride, violent or otherwise. And along the way, I'll notice details that flew over my head before, make new allegiances, find new ways to tackle problems & attempt things I never dared to before, form new allegiances and reap their benefits. And I can do this every time, whenever I want, however I want. I have never felt so free, not since I picked up Morrowind, which radically changed how I play video games as a whole. War never changes, but people do with the roads they walk And this road's end is still a mirage in the horizon. Who knows where it'll take me, or when I'll reach the end.

This game is perfect for fans of the fallout universe or rpg fans. I was told that Fallout 4 was awful in comparison and I didn't believe them. If you can make it past the difficult early game it is so worth it. Besides you can get a full refund before the two hour mark so why not try it. Maybe the DLC sucks but I don't have it.

Just recently switched over to PC. Been playing FNV since it first came out on the 360. Finally having access to mods has now become a massive game changer making this game even better than it already is.

another transgender thinks fallout new vegas is pretty good. Gee, get an original personality, lady!

good game. gotta get the mods to help with bugs and performance though. viva new vegas.

The story is what keeps me coming back to this game. Though Dated graphics compared to today's games. It still out does 99% of all new gen games.

New Vegas is a very well written RPG that completes the trilogy of Black Isle Fallout games: Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout New Vegas. Unlike the Bethesda Fallouts, New Vegas tells the story of a wasteland that is recovering and building something new - and all the ways that goes wrong. In New Vegas the aesthetics of post-nuclear hellscapes, raiders, and all that is far less important than the politics (gasp) and world-building. Must play for anyone who loved Fallout 2, Neverwinter Nights, and so on for classic RPGs.

i like the quest where you sell that gay doctor into slavery. the rest of the game wasnt that good but i really like that part

An excellent addition to the Fallout series. Definitely not for the faint of heart, as there are prostitutes, drinking, and even drug use. Has a few solid story lines, and fixes the problems that Fallout 3 had - namely weapon and armor durability, along with removing the constant tunnels that caused a screen reload every 10 feet. Graphics-wise it's getting a little old, but play-wise it's still worth a second or third play through.

Ya know after prolly hundreds of hours counting Xbox. Still haven't beat the game lmao. Its peak tho.

Honestly probably the best Fallout game I've played (I've played two.) The plot is well put together and all the dlc plots tie into one another, which while in all honesty has little impact on gameplay, it's really neat to see that the writers found unique ways to tie everything together. The reputation system is a highlight of this game for me. It makes sense that a faction would grow to hate me seeing as I senselessly gunned down an entire encampment of their soldiers (namely the Legion because they stink morally). In Fallout 4 for example, you can wipe out an entire brotherhood patrol, wait three days, then waltz onto their airship like nothing ever happened, which really breaks the immersion in my opinion. Another thing I particularly enjoy is that all the little side quests actually contribute to the games ending, for example (and spoilers, fyi) if you were to kill Tabitha at Black Mountain, the small community she'd built would crumble, leaving future travelers (particularly super mutants) no other option than to head north to Jacobstown, risking going through deathclaw territory. Yet ANOTHER highlight of this game for me is enemy leveling. If you were to walk into Caesars tent and just.. shoot Caesar in the head, his guards will practically obliterate you within seconds, even if you're pretty high level. Why? Because they're supposed to be Caesars best soldiers, not just some random pushovers the courier can just one tap with a sledgehammer. This game reminds the player that they're not immortal, that they're quite literally just a courier, not some battle hardened asshole that lost their son. Overall, this game is far better than it's successor Fallout 4, which to be honest isn't really saying much considering Fallout 4 in general just isn't that good, but it's at least meaningful to some odd degree, given this game is five years older than Fallout 4. Also this game is even better with mods.

If the game was more polished it would easily be the best of the whole series without a doubt.

Good game, but if you like beating games fast, don't. There's tons of quests to do and areas to explore, and after you beat the game, you can't continue playing on that ending, you either load a save before the final quest, or a new game.

Wonderful storytelling and a living world filled with memorable characters and questlines ..much better than the mainline Fallout games

You should probably get a better UI mod, and maybe cheat in a bigger carrying capacity if you want to spend less time doing inventory management/selling chores. The game and environment is fun to explore, and the dialog is great!

Over 1000 hours across all accounts and versions of this game. Over 70 unmarked quests.

new vegas is, ironically, the worst part of this great game. but god will you get sick of it after a while.