Posts Tagged ‘Bethesda’

Scavenging In New Vegas

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

I return, this time singing the praise of Fallout: New Vegas. I’ve spent a mere 43 hours trawling the wasteland, and have just began making a dent in the main quest. What I’m particularly enjoying about the follow up to Fallout 3, which I put 80-odd hours into and fully expect to match with New Vegas, is that Hardcore mode exhibits a more realistic spin on scavenging, an integral part of survival in the wasteland.

During one of the many hours I sunk into Fallout 3, I couldn’t help but feel that Bethesda could have refined the scavenging side of things. Starting off with nothing but a Vault 22 jumpsuit and slowly building your arsenal as you fulfilled quests and uncovered new locations, was both equally fun and challenging, but the risk of survival was dampened by the fact the only real threat were enemies, and whether you were well enough equipped with weapons and aid to effectively deal with them.

With the development of New Vegas being handed over to Obsidian, things have changed in respects to scavenging. Much to my enjoyment, (if you play on Hardcore) you’re faced with the constant threat of dehydration and starvation. What was once a pleasant surprise when you casually happened across a bottle of purified water, often becomes a desperate scramble for some form of hydration — any form of hydration. Even those plagued with rads. Fast traveling to locations speeds up the starvation / dehydration process. Things can get tricky! With that said, purified water and what not isn’t so rare that the game becomes impossible, and you become familiarised with the wasteland enough to know where to go to fulfill specific needs.

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Operation: Anchorage Is Just Like Tom Cruise

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

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When I Tweeted (or Twittered, whatever the technical term is) that I was playing the new Fallout 3 downloadable content, Operation: Anchorage, quite a few people @ replied me asking if it was any good. If you were one of those people who asked and are pissed I never replied, well that was simply because I had just started playing, and was wishing to reserve my opinion until I had actually finished it. Which I now have. And it really didn’t take long. The gist of it is, yes, it’s good - heck, it’s Fallout 3 - but I’m not so sure it’s worth what it’s being charged at.

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Guest Post: Why I Put 210 Hours into Oblivion (or Why Ash Should Really Give This Game Another Chance!)

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Two hundred and ten hours, just think about that for a second. That’s nearly nine full days, or twelve thousand, six hundred minutes, spent running around the fields and dungeons of Cyrodiil. And I loved every second of it! The full extent of my addiction to Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion didn’t quite sink home with me until several months ago when I downloaded the Shivering Isles expansion and put the game disc back into my 360, ready to blow the dust off my enchanted daedric sword and strap on my armour once more like some returning hero of legend, which, let’s face it, to the local populace I was. (more…)

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