Fallout New Vegas #1: Let the hype begin!

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Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 01:06 schreef SoldMayor het volgende:
Ik heb een xbox en ps3 alleen met de ps3 doe ik niks en dus ook niet die exclusief

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Op donderdag 4 februari 2010 18:35 schreef Necrodeath het volgende:
Hij staat voorlopig geplanned op Fall 2010

Mischien gewoon ontslag nemen ofzo.

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Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 12:11 schreef SevD het volgende:
Wordt gewoon weer keihard GOTY hoor Herfst is nog zo ver weg, ik wil 'em nu!

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Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 13:17 schreef Semisane het volgende:

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Ik weet niet of de game nu wel zo lekker speelt, zal nog wel vol met bugjes etc zitten, maar ja als je het echt zo graag wilt moet je Bethesda er maar even om vragen.

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Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 20:21 schreef DeeCruise het volgende:
Ben benieuwd. Fallout 3 heeft me genoeg uurtjes zoet gehouden..

Wel graag in een keer goed indien mogelijk, niet dat een dlc de verziekte main quest moet opkrikken...

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# There is an optional hardcore mode, the character needs to drink water, ammo has weight, healing isn't instant etc.
# Normal mode is more similar to Fallout 3 gameplay.
# The storyline is focused on the New California Republic vs. Caesar's Legion (slavers from the east) vs. New Vegas residents.
# You are not a vault dweller but are given a Pip-Boy by someone who is one.
# There is a screenshot of a vault suit as well.
# There is an assault rifle looking like the M4, as well as a new big gun with a backpack, held like a minigun.
# There are special moves for melee weapons in VATS - specifically a move for a golf club called "Fore" which seems to be a groin shot.
# The Hoover Dam is in the game and is supplying electricity to the city.
# There is a quest to rescue a ghoul from some super mutants. The ghoul can then become your companion
# The Geckos are back.
# There are both dumb and intelligent super mutants, including the elite Nightkin. On at least one occasion you can convince them to fight amongst themselves.
# Some super mutants look similar to the ones in Fallout 3, while others are new. There is e.g. a female super mutant with a 1950s hairstyle who apparently is one of their leaders.
# Screenshots include a guy with a beard and straw hat, a ghoul and an NCR Ranger.
# The only picture of New Vegas itself is concept art and not a screenshot.
# Some location screenshots include a huge model dinosaur advertising a hotel, some satellite dishes, an array of solar panels
# A character generation shot showing a "vigour machine" instead of the skill book
# NCR base is the McCarran Airport, Caesar's Legion is based in the Vegas Strip, while super mutants are based in a place called Black Mountain.
# There is also a town called Fremont and another called Primm. A topless reuve is mentioned as being in the latter. Area 51 also appears.
# NCR Ranger armor is similar to a brown combat armor with sleeves, there are concept arts of a Ranger.
# Skils have a bigger effect on conversation choices. E.g. someone with a high Explosives skill may be able to have a coversation about explosives where appropriate.
# There is a Reputation system in addition to Karma.
# First-person action RPG with the same engine as Fallout 3.
# Set in the Mojave wastelands. Vegas didn't get many nukes. More intact buildings, as well as desert vegetation. Vegas itself is mostly intact.
# Vegas itself is mostly intact
# Both karma and reputation are tracked. If I'm reading it right there's separate reputations for each of the settlements, as in 1 and 2.
# All dialogue options are shown to all players, regardless of whether you have the stats to succeed or not, though there's no punishment for failure.
# Bartering is not just lower prices but negotiating for better rewards.
# Weapons also now have knock-back upon death, with shotguns sending people flying.
# Followers can be managed through a context-sensitive menu, with orders like "follow", "stay" or "attack".
# You're a courier, wounded and left for dead in a shallow grave. A friendly robot, Victor, digs you out, and his doctor owner Mitchell patches you up. You take a "vigour test", which is some sort of electric parlour game. This decides who you are and sets up SPECIAL. You can also take some Rorschach tests, but the mag says this is for fun. The Doc then gives you a Pipboy as he was once a Vault dweller.
# "Hoover Dam", and "Helios" (a solar plant, confirmed by the mag to have been built by Poseidon) are fought into and then you can direct the power to wherever you choose. In the case of Helios you can also keep the plant for your self, use the energy to call down a powerful laser, or even try to distribute to all equally, however there is a risk of overloading the reactors.
# There is a "reputation system", in which all three factions (NCR, Ceasar's Legion and the locals) will either see you as good or bad toward them individually.
# There is a screenshot of three Capital Wasteland mutants running toward the player, who is wielding what *looks* to be a heavy incinerator, but has a TV screen and no flamer fuel tanks. He's also wearing NCR combat armour, which is in gold/mustard colours.
# There are two separate screens of supermutants that look to be more local, grey skin, and the two are wearing very different clothes. One is Tabitha, who is hearing a blonde wig and love heart glasses. The mag implies she's "not all there".
# On that quest, you rescue Raul, a ghoul who Tabitha kept alive to fix her favourite robot. He appears to be a follower, as the mag says you can give him items, and also commands, such as "stay, follow or attack", and also tell him to switch to melee, in which case he'll mutter "sure, I'll put away my rather effective gun, and switch to this piece of um, metal tubing here".
# From what I read, the "all dialog" thing seems to imply there will be failures for skill checks as well as speech checks, though, as the mag states, there is no penalty for failing a skill check. In fact, the mag gives an example: A woman who the player tried a Sneak skill attempt on in conversation failed when convincing her an ambush would help the town be rid of a gang of raiders. She simply says "Good luck with your, uh, ambush"
# Regardin dialog (J.E.Sawyer): This is how it works. Each skill-based dialogue option has two different texts: one for high skill (which will result in success) and one for low skill (which will result in failure). If you do not meet the required threshold, you see the latter.

There are a few reasons for including this:

* In the same way that a locked safe beyond your Lockpicking skill indicates, it lets the player know that there's an option here.
* Some of the NPC responses to low skill checks can be pretty entertaining.

I also do want to clarify what is meant by "no penalty for failure". All it means is that you won't wind up in a worse position than you were before selecting it. If a dude bursts in and is intent on killing you, he's still going to want to kill you if you fail the Speech check to talk him out of it.

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VATS returns, and melee weapons have special moves in it. The golf club has "Fore!", which is a shot to the golf balls (so to speak) that knocks the opponent down. Weapons also now have knock-back upon death, with shotguns sending mans flying.

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Op zaterdag 6 februari 2010 20:42 schreef house_is_a_feeling het volgende:
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Female supermutants... dit wordt fun.

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In an exclusive first look at Fallout New Vegas, CVG sister mag PSM3 reveals that developer Obsidian has taken dialogue and scripting up a notch in the sequel to Fallout 3.

Lead producer of Fallout New Vegas, Larry Liberty said: "We had to modify the dialogue engine from Fallout 3 to include the types of dialogue and options that we wanted.

"We want real, memorable characters. I think it helps you to remember parts of the world you'd otherwise forget."

As part of its world-exclusive cover feature, PSM3 played an extensive demo of New Vegas. The mag reported that it was 'apparent that Obsidian are much more comfortable behind the keyboard than the team that made Fallout 3 and, before that, Oblivion. The scripting is wittier, the characters more distinct.'

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Op vrijdag 12 februari 2010 10:36 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
Kun je een snellere host kiezen, of kleinere plaatjes posten?

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Op maandag 15 februari 2010 10:02 schreef Semisane het volgende:
Ach ja, bron stond al op games.fok.nl, maar ik dump het hier ook maar even.

http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23740

Staan de scans in van het OXM artikel.

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Clearly, you have a responsibility to push the series forward, but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a follow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original. Throw in a new developer - New Vegas is being developed by Obsidian rather than Bethesda's in-house team - and there's no doubt that a fair few Fallout fans will be more than a little concerned that this could be a recipe for nuclear disaster.

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Clearly, you have a responsibility to push the series forward, but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a follow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original. Throw in a new developer - Fallout 3 is being developed by Bethesda, as Black Isle Studios is no more - and there's no doubt that a fair few Fallout fans will be more than a little concerned that this could be a recipe for nuclear disaster.

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[...] As a fanboy bonus, Obsidian was founded by former members of Black Isle Studios, which developed the original Fallout games on the PC - there won't be any explicit connection to those, though.

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Op maandag 15 februari 2010 10:08 schreef delano.888 het volgende:
Shit ik moet nog aan deel 3 verder, heb de goty nog ongeopend liggen