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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire
Just an extra challenge, I suppose.
There was a certain part in Fallout 3 where I could mow down anyone and anything with minimal effort, even on the highest difficulty setting. It ceased to be challenging at that point. Until the release of Broken Steel that is, and the introduction of the super creeps. But that was a cheap act of 'balancing' the game by inexplicably creating an all-powerful enemy for no other reason than to make the player-character bleed and remind him/her that they are not immortal.
It's not for everyone, I get that, but I wanted to give it a try.
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I really like it. I played Fallout 3 on the hardest difficulty and New Vegas is on hard. New Vegas is much more unpredictable when it comes to the difficulty of the fights. 3 was boring in that regard and you had to put so much lead into the enemies on the hardest setting that it got a bit grindy.
Now you can't simply stand in front of a minigun using stimpak after stimpak.
Balance and variety are better in New Vegas, in both the fights and the weapons. My character also can't take much damage, so the experience has been better that way too.
I don't use VATS and New Vegas is an improvement there as well. Iron sights is a fun feature when you get used to it.
The NPC framerate fix that photon linked to above works, by the way, but only if you disable your second monitor. At first I thought it didn't work for me because I didn't realize that.
Overall, the atmosphere is closer to Fallout 2, like you'd expect. The characters are more interesting than in 3. Fallout 3 was somehow depressing, like there was a grey cloud on everything and nothing really came alive, apart from maybe some of the urban environments in the capital city ruins.
I haven't been amazed by anything in the game, but once you get into it, New Vegas is both lighter and darker, livelier and more brutal than the previous game. Bethesda's writers are pretty boring, and while Obsidian is maybe trying too hard at least with some the companions, New Vegas is still much better.
When I first heard about the game, I thought that Las Vegas was a boring choice of location, but the story is more interesting than in Fallout 3.
Graphics are glitchier, though. Something's not right about how it renders long distances.