A reader celebrates the storytelling of Fallout: New Vegas, while lamenting the endless bugs that make it difficult to properly appreciate.
There comes a point where the evergreen Fallout: New Vegas clicks for each player and, for me, it was probably around the time when Obsidian’s open-world role-player turned into a light horror game for about 30 minutes, as I looked for a ghoul scientist lady in a cave while my cybernetic dog, brain visible through a mechanical apparatus, hunted infected plant men.
Oh yeah, I got the dog from someone known simply as The King. You know, The King.
First released in 2010, Fallout: New Vegas’s launch was riddled with bugs and glitches, but it has since become a cult classic. I’ve beaten the game at least twice before and decided to play through it again after finishing The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s most recent role-playing game. While that game is polished and streamlined, it also boils down to essentially two choices of faction, one of which is clearly the evil route.
