Meanwhile my lonely ass been sitting over here absolutely loathing Fallout: New Vegas since its release. I did not like that game. I probably would today if I got over myself and tried playing it again.
I read that tweet as something that wasn’t really about Fallout: New Vegas, and more as something using it as a vehicle for a joke (about adult women being nostalgic for the games they played as teenage boys).
Yeah somehow almost everyone is missing the joke? 😭
The joke is partly that lots of trans women in particular enjoyed this game in particular, so plenty of people who noticed the switcheroo in the tweet will still see it as an opportunity to talk about the game rather than seeing the game as something irrelevant that could be swapped out for another.
For anyone considering playing or replaying New Vegas, I cannot reccomend the Viva New Vegas modlist enough.
It’s unfortunately not just some “one click setup”. There is a Wabbajack installer, but there are some small steps you still need to do manually too.
That said, it is by far the best and most comprehensive “vanilla plus” modpack I have ever used. I’m a modding addict; I don’t say that lightly. It doesn’t change core game mechanics, story, or anything the makes New Vegas what it is.
It polishes what’s there, upgrading visuals in a consistent manner that blends perfectly with the original content. It fixes countless longstanding bugs, performance issues, and crashes (only two crashes in ~40 hours on a setup that was modded even further past what the pack includes).
It polishes New Vegas to what it should have been on release (if Bethesda didn’t force Obsidian to rush it out the door early), then brings it as close to the quality of a modern release as possible through modding.
If you want to replay Fallout 3, a lot of people prefer playing it in the New Vegas engine using the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. The version of Viva New Vegas that covers that and includes mods for the Fallout 3 content is “The Best of Times”.
It appears to be up to the same quality as VNV standalone, but I haven’t used it myself yet.
I liked NV way more than FO3 because it felt like the same world as FO1 and 2, while 3 felt like an imposter wearing their skin.
It also is the most RPG-like of all the 3D fallout games. Obsidian actually knows how to make an RPG. And having a couple of the people who made FO1 and 2 was a big help. To this day, Old World Blues has some of the best dialogue in a video game.
I liked NV way more than FO3 because it felt like the same world as FO1 and 2, while 3 felt like an imposter wearing their skin.
100% this. What I said to a friend of mine was “Fallout 3 is not a bad game but it is not a Fallout” FNV was a real continuation of the franchise.
Funnily enough, Fallout 76 is also quite good, a little bit like a parody Fallout, using funny elements.
The only thing that I disliked about 76 when I finally did play it, was that even when you’re by yourself the NPC enemies still rubberband like they were high pinging players, making it just super frustrating to do any kind of combat.
