Summary
- I'm a dozen hours into a Fallout: New Vegas playthrough on Xbox Series X and the crashes have already begun.
- Things have improved massively since the 2010 launch, but it sucks that this masterpiece can still be so janky.
- Your best bet is probably to play on PC and absolutely stuff it with user-created mods.
I love 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas. I wanted 😼to make that clear, so you’d put the knife away.
Yes, I know I just🎐 wrote a piece all about preferring Fallout 3 to New Vegas, but that doesn’t mean both games aren’t near and dear to my heart. Years later, there’s still nothing else like them, with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4 failing to capture the majesty of its atmosphe🦹re and𓄧 mechanics, even though it had superior graphics and far greater technical ambition. It just didn’t hit the same.
Despite owning a capable PC, I’m a console gamer through and through, so my heart warmed when I learned that Microsoft had put in the work to not only make Fallout 3 and New Vegas play nicely with modern Xbox consoles, but to also support enhanced graphi🍌cs, 4K resolution, and 60 frames per second with nary a drop in performance. They feel incredible to play, even when their age is taken into account, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still filled with silly bugs and glitches.
Both games are still𝔉 on sale right now to help promote the Amazon TV show, so jump on ജthem while you can. Alternatively, you can hunt down cheap physical copies.
Right now, I’m 12 or so hours into a new playthrough of New Vegas, and I’ve already put up with several crashes, bugged quests, and moment-to-moment gameplay where you have to forgive a mountain𒐪 of awkward quirks. Its engine was showing its age in 2010, and a decade on it feels downright prehistoric. Charac🐈ters are robotic, the gunplay sucks, everything must be accessed through several layers of menus, and you’ll even come across quests which aren’t afraid of screwing you over. It’s a modern Fallout game though, so we accept it.
For context, I first played Fallout 3 and New Vegas on the PS3. These ports were the worst way to play games that didn&rsqu🃏o;t even run well on other platforms. Performance was awful, and got worse the more you played and the larger your save file became. Loading times were long, and actually getting through a session without a hard crash felt like a win. I was a kid though, so it’s not like I had any other option, and as someone whose mind wasn🍃’t yet rotted by gamer discourse on the internet, I still loved them both. Warts and all.
I expected most of these issues to be ironed out by now. But as I purchased all the New Vegas expansions and downloadable content from the Microsoft Store, things had started to buckle. I hopped into Old World Blues and watched an unskippable cutscene prior to being loaded into an entirely new location. But after taking my�💜� first step, it crashed. To fix it I had to restart my console, only to reload a save which forced me to watch the cutscene yet again. Only for it to crash. Again. Is it corrupted data? Or is New Vegas still a bit messed up?
When it comes to Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, the consen♕sus is that fans will eventually fix all of these problems with mods, but that shouldn’t be the accepted norm.
I think it might be the second one, so I left the expansion behind for now and decided to walk across the Mojave a little more. Then I came across a quest where I apparently went through dialogue too quickly, because I finished a conversation only for nobody to move. I deduced it to be a scripting issue, so I murdered a🍌 random NPC to spook everyone﷽ into getting back to normal. This just made them mad at me, forcing several more reloads until the quest finally fixed itself.
The brilliance of New Vegas makes wading through these annoyances well worth it, but it sucks that newcomers will be coming into this franchise for the first time and have to deal with so much technical mediocrity. There’s a reason why Fallout 4 is selling so well lately. The game isn’t nearly as compelling, but it’s widely available and works 99 percent of 🐷the t🎃ime.
Fallout 3 and New Vegas are beloved today in spite💖 of their issues, but there comes a time when that janky charm morphs into frustration. It’s at this moment that we ha🎶ve to begin asking the tough questions. For me, it’s still worth the trouble, but for others, it may not be.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Fallout 3
- Released
- October 28, 2008
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and 🧸Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language,ܫ Use of Drugs
- Developer(s)
- ജ Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Bethesda Softworks ꦅ♊
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Franchise
- Fallout
Fallout 3 tak🧜es place in a ruined area around Washington D.C. two hundred years after the Great War. In a game met with critical acclaim, you must traverse this wasteland looking for your father, while solving the mystery of his disappearance.
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