Finished my second play through of Fallout New Vegas since the year the game was first released. Heavily modded of course and yeah the T.V. show inspired this! I remember on launch day I had to download a community modified d3d9.dll just to make the buggy 1.0 build of the game launch and run without being a slideshow. With some help the game certainly held up.
Every time I see a picture of F:NV I need to muster self control to ensure I don’t relapse and spend another 300h modding it for a new playthrough instead of actually playing new games from my backlog.
You really can get some amazing end results with all the amazing mods for it.
You ain’t kiddin’. I just went with the top pick mod collection on Nexus and stumbled into the huge Long 15 fan expansion without knowing the collection author added it! That was super cool to go into blind.
Have you ever made a dent in your backlog? I was inspired by a youtuber doing a year long challenge with the rule that he could quit a game in his steam library backlog after playing it for at least 2 hours. After that, can uninstall guilt free and never look back. I whittled my 19 year old steam account backlog down from 240 games to 116 today, and while there’s some choice paralysis…I certainly dropped most of that in 2 hours. Publisher collection cruft from the very first sale on the platform predominately. That said, found some gems I never got around to and actually finished like Alpha Protocol and Binary Domain.
I got sidetracked a bit in the fall, otherwise I was on a decent roll of both playing and actually finishing new games. I don’t tend to buy games that are such gambles that I might quit in a 2 hour timeframe, though, so I don’t have the problem of a massive pile of tripe to sift through, necessarily. The problem is that even though my backlog pile is huge from past sales, I still can’t impulse control and stick to working on them - I sneak in some new releases or new purchases from time to time because I get in the mood. So the pile grows faster than I can finish games.
Alpha Protocol is actually on my wishlist! Initially because Brian Mitsoda worked on it (although I think very little or his writing remains untouched in the game) but in general it just sounded interesting.
