Starting in the small village of Goodsprings, you have one overarching goal, but the way to tackle the task is completely up to you. Let us just get this out of the way: “Fallout: New Vegas” is incredibly strong in its storytelling and worldbuilding and it does even offer an open-world setting in which both of those things are included brilliantly. Now, your purpose is clear: Get back that Platinum Chip, but whether you want revenge on those who wronged you or simply want the job done correctly is up to you and part of the story that you write in “Fallout: New Vegas”. It would have been the perfect crime if it was not for a strange robotic helper digging you out and carrying you to the doctor of the local village of Goodsprings, who manages to restore the spark of life in you. The current task is to deliver a small Platinum Chip to the New Vegas Strip, but what seems to be just a normal delivery job turns out to be a deadly trap: Two members of the tribe of the Khans, as well as one of the leaders of the “The Tops” casino on the New Vegas Strip, intercept said delivery, taking the chip for themselves and leaving a bullet in your head as the parting gift before burying you in a shallow grave. The game introduces our player character as a courier for the Mojave Express, a delivery company that carries letters and packages throughout the territory of the New Californian Republic. We get shot before the game even begins? Well, “ Ain’t That a Kick in the Head“? Heartache by the Number So, let me tell you a little bit about a diamond in the rough. “Fallout: New Vegas” can be a hard sell at the beginning, not unlike “The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind”, but if you manage to get past the flaws you have dozen hours of entertainment ahead of you. However, the stellar quality of the writing, the interesting characters, the creative perk system, and the fact that the game works with such an interesting scenario despite taking place in an actual desert kept me interested for long enough to get hooked. It is strange to me that I hold the game in such high regard since I did not play it until years after it came out and was originally not that impressed with the way certain things function in the game, like armor making certain enemies near unkillable and therefore incredibly deadly and seemingly unfair if unprepared. Before I talk about the actual main series “Fallout” titles with numbers attached to them, let us talk about the odd one out and, at the same time, about the best “Fallout” game in existence if you ask me: “Fallout: New Vegas”.
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