Fallout: New Vegas - first screens of the Vegas Strip

Scans of the first screenshots of the Vegas Strip in Fallout: New Vegas have been posted up, along with some new information about the upcoming game.

[NecrumSlavery]

Beautiful....Just Damn Beautiful!

[HolyOrangeCows]

I don't know about beautiful...
All of the non-distinctive Vegas stuff looks pretty much recycled from the last game.

[mistajeff]

yeah, the engine is showing some serious, serious age. but personally, i'm not going to let that cloud my judgment of the game. it's obsidian, and for a lot of those guys, fallout is their baby. i'm gonna let the story and the characters take the reins.

what i'm hoping, though, is that bethesda tosses out their dated engine and just starts using id tech 5 now that id is owned by the same company. let bethesda focus on crafting their worlds, and all that effort that went into trying to beef up the engine can be spent on refining story, gameplay, progression, character development, etc.

[darkmurder]

Id prefer Elder Scrolls V screens, hopefully Bethesda get rid of this engine as it is looking pretty old and use Megatexturing for the next Elder Scrolls!

[SprSynJn]

That's not necessarily a bad thing though.

[HSx9]

I have lost any hope for this game, it's just a rebuild of Fallout 3 with new characters and story, I was expecting better graphics, oh well, there's always Elder Scrolls 5 to wait for.

[danielle007]

So. a new Fallout with completely different characters, completely different environments, and completely different story isn't worth exploring because.. It's not pretty enough?

You're letting your graphics whore of a self get in the way of playing something that will most likely be super amazing. Fallout 3 was awesome because of the characters, story, and environments, not because it was pretty. & Even then, Fallout 3 is still pretty. I don't understand why some people feel that their games have to be at top notch graphics to be worth playing. I mean, the gameworld in fallout 3 is huge, there's like no loading times when you're just wandering around, and the level of detail in the world is disgustingly awesome. Even if they aren't pushing boundries with graphics, I don't think they have to. I'm still going to buy it even if it just looks the same as Fallout 3.

[iHEARTboobs]

What i'm hoping for the most is that it runs better than the last fallout. I'll be fine with it looking the same. Just please run better.

[danielle007]

I can understand that complaint more, but still, none of the glitches in the game that I really came by were game breaking at all. One time dogmeat died while he was stuck in a wall so I couldn't heal him, but I learned early on to save often - especially if I wanted to keep dogmeat around.. so it was no biggie, I just reverted to an old save. I think I would be more harsh on the glitches if the game wasn't so massive and so detailed. .. and amazing. My reasoning is if they're going to spend so much time making this huge world that's super detailed with a bajillion places to go and a bajillion things to do, some things are going to fall through the cracks. So, really, I can forgive the few problems I've come across.. I love fallout. <3

[HSx9]

Better graphics doesn't mean top notch, it just means a newer feel, you know, like a new game. This just seems to feel like a super Fallout 3 Mod made by any user.

[iHEARTboobs]

Luckily for you there wasn't any game breaking glitches. Personally I stopped playing it on my 360 because of a freezing glitch. I reverted back to older saves but they all kept freezing untill I could't even play it anymore. I ended up buying it for my PS3 and luckily it didn't have that problem. Still ran cr*ppy though.

[el zorro]

It looks pretty good to me. You have to consider how big and open the world is. It looks a lot better than Infamous did, as a comparison to another open world game.

[R2D2]

If i wanted Madden I would buy Madden.

[keyserhitman]

cant f'ing wait for this..

lol hes got boxing gloves and taking it to the super muties.. lol

but im sure i read somewhere that the map would "dwarf" the capital wastelands
and vehicles would be available... can anybody confirm or denie me this info?

also its starting to remind me of
gta:san andreas meets fallout3 lol

[Orange Juice]

Hopefully we'll actually be able to explore the city and not be limited to using the subway tunnels to get around.

[NecrumSlavery]

The subway system is what gave linear structure to the story before it dumped you unto the world to run free. But you can actually get to 90% of the city locals without the metro.

[Orange Juice]

I know the purpose of the subway tunnels as I played/own the game, I'm just saying that the city couldve been more fun to explore if it was just a seamless world like Oblivion or Morrowind (dont mind the loading). The one thing that stands out in my mind about f3 was hating the subway tunnels and how they made me feel disconnected from the game world when I just wanted to explore the city, a feeling I never had while playing Bethesdas older games, and I hope they are gone this time.

[NecrumSlavery]

I see your point. But the maze of DC was still badass. I never felt disconnected from the world. Oblivion was too open and too repetative in nature. The DC section reminds me of Midgar in FFVII, before the game really opens up. And that is another reason I don't mind the metro

[Orange Juice]

Thanks for using your last bubble to reply, here have one. I guess when I heard that we would have Washington DC to explore I was not expecting half of it to consist of subway tunnels, and thats where my disappointment comes in. For New Vegas my expectations will be more realistic to avoid any unpleasant surprises :D

[danielle007]

I think it was actually more realistic to have to go into the subway system. I definitely don't think it was half of the game world, or even close to it. But, D.C. itself, if you ever go visit, has a very large metro system, and it makes sense that you do have to use it sometimes to get around. I didn't think that it disconnected me from the world at all, I actually think it connected me even more because I was like "wow, they even included the subway underneath the city." Especially since the tunnels weren't empty, they had some legit cool locations like the ant hive and the vampire cannibal homies. I love Bethesda's level of detail.

Plus, I don't really understand how you were limited to the subways, I always just ran around uptop or fast travelled. Plus, majority of the places I didn't really need to take the metro to at all.. I dunnos.

[Faztkiller]

Please less metro tunnels
I always fast traveled that way I didn't have to go through the metro and after Fallout 3 and Metro 2033 I don't think I can look at another metro

[Kingdom Come]

It's great to see the non-destroyed locations, gonna be fun at the Casino.

[DeltaZ3R05]

Yes!!!! this is awesome!

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

Sudden incredible blur filter?

[mrv321]

It's going to be interesting having a reason to fight and have hope.

Seriously what is there to look forward to in Fallout 3, Dads ran away, mommy is dead, EVERYTHING WILL KILL. Food, drinking, walking, not sleeping and I'm pretty sure sleeping is also bad.

I hope it goes to Dragon Age level with the codecs and such. Where the books aren't destroyed and you can read entries etc.

[Nihilism]

That info was pretty weak, I don't know why, but this generation we have to know every single thing a game contains and how it works before we get it, O.C.D in the hizzouse...

Anyone, it's going to be one of the best games of the year, loving me some RPG-ness in the form of the witcher right now, nothing like a grind till 3am to F your life up...

[Demons Souls]

They should've waited a bit longer before deciding to rehash Fallout 3.

[i_like_ff7]

Im a big fan of fallout 3 but i still wish the game could have looked a bit better...

[King of Creation]

Unfortunately, Bethesda didn't give the developer Obsidian enough time to use anything but the crappy Gamebryo engine and assets that Fallout 3 was built with. Obsidian has improved a lot of the art and animations, but there seem to be definite limitations to the more than 10 year old engine.

[Dnied]

the only thing I really hated was the 3rd person character movement / animations. I'm hoping this is significantly improved.. nothing like hovering across the wastelands on foot lol

[Letros]

there's always mods...

[ps3best]

that caesar's legion guy looks like a pimp

love this game so far...must buy

[MexicanAppleThief]

Hopefully there's a dark side to this game (in a good way). In F3 you could sell children to slavery, visit cannibalistic towns and murder them and so much more. I loved the dark humor in F3 and just praying its still there in NV.

Hope the map is bigger too, F3 map was way to small for my tastes.

[Jack-Pyro]

lol wut?

In all seriousness, a bigger map can only bring better things in a game such as Fallout, so I'm hoping the landscape is bigger too.

[R_aVe_N]

I can not wait for this game... Bring on the Fallout! I have always been a huge fan of the series going back to the PC days. Speaking of that I think I might play through those games again 8)

[gtamike]

lookin good

[ShOtCall3r33]

its a beautiful thing

[AliTheBrit19]

Awesome, Can't wait.

[Pika-pie]

I really hope they dont fluff the PS3 version

[Lykon]

agreed . new vegas looks fantastic (I'm not talking about pixels...f all that ocd nonsense) but the freezing with the dlc for fallout 3 was horrendously bad. can't wait tho. F3 one of the best games i ever played.

[el zorro]

Well, I wouldn't hold your breath. The last one looked better and ran better on the 360 and it won't surprise me in the slightest if that turns out to be the case this time around as well.

[MadMan00]

I'd like a game for what happened BEFORE the "Fallout" you know...Would be kinda neat or a Story happening like right after with the few survivors or something.

We already know it's gonna be kinda like a replica but just in another place.

[herukuti]

i hope move support is added as i would not be too interested in a return visit to the fallout universe without it.

[The_Zeitgeist]

Why would you not want to return without motion controls? And for the record here I am willing to bet my left nut that the game will not be move compatible.

[The_Zeitgeist]

I just told myself this was the last picture of this game I was going to look at before its released. The only problem is I told myself that last time new screen shots were released.

[yamzilla]

is annoying to me as it is delaying elder scrolls 5....which...in a way may be a good thing....they will probably wait to announce it when the xbox 720 is announced later this year (hopefully at e3, or else e3 will be a waste)

Fallout 3 was playable and very fun in some spots...i did play it all the way through....but man...what an ugly game, terrible charachter modeling, repetitive enviroment )...and i played it on pc with 1920x1200 res, 16x AA and AF, and yes it did look 10 times better than my brothers 360 version.....now that was a REALLY ugly blurry version...the pc version compared to the console version is like wii sports vs Madden 2010.)

Bring on the NEXT GEN of consoles and hook me up with some Elder Scrolls 5 and a proper fallout game.

[ps3best]

you really think their gonna announce x720 this year when they are trying to get natal out the door?

im thinking they announce next year and release x720 xmas 2012