10. Talk about your pets or the pets you would like to have.
Mumm Ra is my cat-baby.
I love him dearly.
He is currently curled up next to me, sleeping.
Almost 10 pounds.
Hes getting so big!!
AAand
someday I would like to have a crow.
Pardon the ranting, it does get a little stuffy in here.
Fallout New Vegas.Has is been taking up a lot of my time?The answer is "yes".At this point I am at level...18? And well on my way. So here comes the "review", so to speak.The beginning of the game may have been the biggest disappointment I have faced since Sonic the Hedgehog became 3D.The storyline was god-awful, the startup of the game was slow, the area was boring and the new features were confusing.Total play time before throwing down the controller: 45 minutes.Total time spent bitching because the game sucked: 5 days.Eventually I had some more spare time and I finally mustered up the patients to guts to pick it up again.Same thing.Total play time: An hour and 15 minutes.Faith in Bethesda: Diminished."Oh, it gets better," they said."Keep playing!" They said.Fine."You can launch Ghouls into outer space!" They said....Well... in that case...Controller back in hand, I trudged onward through the Mojave wasteland, trying to make the best of things.Total playtime: 32 hours and 15 minutes.Ultimately, it redeemed itself, making it a more playable game. Less frustrating, too. Here is a quick run through of what is good and not so good.Good:The dialog. I was extremely impressed with the dialog, this time around.In Fallout 3, you could walk around and another character would make a nasty, offhand remark about you. Though, as soon as you clicked on them to speak, they were cheery as can be.Here, that changed that. When they're mean, they're mean. When they're nice, they're nice. It is refreshing. Other than that, the dialog options are great.Creatures and people.The new characters and creatures in the game are awesome! Robotic dogs, firebreathing geckos, Elvis impersonators. Its great. A lot less run-of-the-mill.Companions.The companions you have follow you are swell. They also give you a lot of neat-o perks.Let me tell you, Boone is just the bee's knees.Fame:Instead of just having good or bad karma, you gain fame an infamy amongst the other colonizations and groups in the wasteland. This is really nice, actually, because instead of having EVERYONE shooting at you, you only have a few people. Though, the disguises and outfits don't work as well as I had hoped they would...Mediocre:The storyline.Perhaps Im just not far enough along yet, but I think that I like the other storyline a little bit better....Housing:It takes a bit longer to get your house here, I feel, but the options are greater. The first house you get, there is little or no attachment to the tow you're in. No reason to stat, reall. Evertually you get a really badass one.Perks: There are some good ones, but there are also a lot of the same ones.... its disappointing. On top of that, you only get to choose a perk every-other level, which confused and upset me in the beginning.Weapon mods:Cool in theory, but a little too complicated for my liking. Especially the ammo. It is too time consuming and the menu screens are too cluttered for my to bother taking my time on it.Bad:THE BUGS AND GLITCHES.This may be the reason that I permanently lay this game to rest. There are too many quest-breaking bugs. It stutters, freezes and stalls. People and items don't show up where they need to be, and we have has some file corruptions that set us back HOURS.Ammo mods/Creation:I hate this and try to avoid it at all cost. Too much of a pain in the ass for me.Snow globes:I miss the bobble heads! And they give you money, instead of skill points... Oh well...Overall, its pretty cool, but it doesn't quite hold a candle to Fallout 3. After falling in love with those characters, it really sucks to have to start over again. The bugs in the game are excruciating and frustrating (along with the lengthly loading screens...)I would recommend picking it up, for sure. But I may actually recommend that you wait until there is a patch out for it or you will just be wasting your time.