I suppose that’s to be expected to some degree since we are in the Mojave desert… but it doesn’t make for fun game play. Primm & Nipton have been areas that are at least sort of interesting but other than that – not much. In fact, the places I’ve been to around the Goodsprings area and the quests that lead from it are really pretty bland and unappealing. In the original Fallout 3, there was Vault 101 and then there was Megaton, both of which were amazing places to freely roam around and visit, with lots of valuable & functional places to enter and engage. I am a little disappointed that the game didn’t come out of the gate with a really cool playable environment. It makes navigating an already long list much more difficult.

I am annoyed by how the list of miscellaneous objects gets REALLY cluttered by playing cards that you find/buy. Other than these two incidents and the whole “system freezes when you attempt to customize your character”, not much has gone wrong. And I had another sequence when I attempted to save and the system froze for 10-15 seconds while I panicked… but then came back and the save apparently took. I had one enemy visibly get stuck in a rock and upon dying disappear, meaning I couldn’t collect his loot. This game has been pretty rock solid throughout with very little issues. Again, I return to the fact that the original Fallout 3 that FO: New Vegas is based on, never had these issues. Really makes me wonder what these dudes at Obsidian were doing while they were busy not testing the game adequately. Of course this is insane but this never happened back during Fallout 3. The lock ups require a complete power cycle on the Xbox 360. I’ve had the game lock up on me a dozen times now, but each time, I’ve been fortunate enough to have had a save done relatively shortly before the lock up. This game is NOT rock solid but it’s doable.

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