{"id":5034,"date":"2010-10-28T03:25:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/personal\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-10-28T03:25:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:25:55","slug":"fallout-new-vegas-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2010\/10\/28\/fallout-new-vegas-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fall Fury&#8221; \/ Fallout: New Vegas, thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would explain about the super monster cold front that went through Tuesday at noon. Gave us our first HIGH risk of severe weather of the 21st century. But what&#8217;s important is it didn&#8217;t actually do anything but look deadly, and cause the tornado sirens to go off twice.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nPassing that, I&#8217;ve been playing Fallout: New Vegas as I said I would in my previous blog post due to a friend streaming it.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I can see why they made this &#8220;DLC&#8221; a game. It&#8217;s like a full game, but masked as a DLC. The reason why I believe it was never made a DLC is probably because of two reasons;<br \/>\n1. The size and complexity of what you can do. It&#8217;s like playing Fallout 3 but in another location.<br \/>\n2. Bethesda is becoming like EA and charging double for a DLC.<br \/>\nWhatever&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s time to talk about the gameplay. Going by the title it&#8217;s pretty obvious it&#8217;s based in Las Vegas, 200 post-apocalyptic years in the future. According to the Fallout Timeline, the events of New Vegas started approximately three years after the events of Fallout 3 (main questline only), and has nothing to do of what the Lone Wanderer did over in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Key landmarks in this game are Las Vegas, now known as New Vegas, resurrected by a &#8220;Mr House&#8221;. There is also to the southwest of New Vegas, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. The Hoover Dam! Yes, it still lives! It&#8217;s under control by what I think is some police force called the New California Republic, or &#8220;NCR&#8221;.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re defending the dam from some evil gang called the &#8220;Legion&#8221;. Caesar&#8217;s Legion. They can easily wipe out the NCR and take over the dam if they wanted to, but haven&#8217;t yet. No one knows why they&#8217;re waiting. What they would want with the dam is anyone&#8217;s guess. Maybe it&#8217;s up to the Player (you) to find that out.<br \/>\nCould be to claim the power (and the Colorado River) for themselves and make everyone pay out the ass, or make everyone suffer by destroying it.<\/p>\n<p>And you, you&#8217;re a Courier. The story goes as you&#8217;re trying to complete your job by delivering a package that has a Platinum Chip in it to the strip. But due to shady deals, you get shot in the head. But resurrected in a town called Goodsprings (a town that actually exists IRL).<\/p>\n<p>So, the story seems to be split into two parts, and I&#8217;m confused in which is the final main story quest. Getting the chip back from the guy that shot you, and another battle of the Hoover Dam.<br \/>\nWhy am I concerned which is which? Two words. NO FREEPLAY! D: This is why I&#8217;m desperately going everywhere I can and seeing everything I can without continuing the story until I&#8217;m ready to. I want to know the final quest so I know which quest to avoid &#8217;till I complete all side-quests.<\/p>\n<p>Well anyway, you can gamble in this game by heading to The Strip anytime you want (yes, the famous stretch of road still exists). You got four ways to gamble;<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/fallout.wikia.com\/wiki\/Slots\" target=\"_blank\">Slots<\/a>. (requires chips purchased from that casino to work)<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/fallout.wikia.com\/wiki\/Roulette\" target=\"_blank\">Roulette<\/a>. (requires chips purchased from that casino to work)<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/fallout.wikia.com\/wiki\/Blackjack\" target=\"_blank\">Blackjack<\/a>. (requires cards from that casino to work)<br \/>\n4. A card game called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fallout.wikia.com\/wiki\/Caravan_(game)\" target=\"_blank\">Caravan<\/a>&#8220;, which can be played outside of The Strip. (requires cards to work)<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also these strange-looking robots that have a TV screen for a face. Some have a cop face. Others have a cowboy face. They&#8217;re all controlled by Mr House, who lives in Lucky 38. A casino shut down and no one is allowed to enter it.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the poor choice of music. You got of course 50&#8217;s music, but you also got country (due to being in the southwest US). As I mentioned about the town you were resurrected in, there&#8217;s other towns that look like western towns.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, Fallout: New Vegas is a pretty good game, and I like the western theme. Some say it&#8217;s &#8220;the way Fallout 3 should had been&#8221;, but I disagree to that claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would explain about the super monster cold front that went through Tuesday at noon. Gave us our first HIGH risk of severe weather of the 21st century. But what&#8217;s important is it didn&#8217;t actually do anything but look deadly, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2010\/10\/28\/fallout-new-vegas-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}