Expresate said:
Personally, I'm going to wait until I play it to form a concrete opinion.
So you plan on spending your money to play a game about which you do not have a concrete opinion?
The chance of a gameplay demo at this point, is close to nil, and you aren't going to get anything other than video trailers and mag/site reviews on which to form your opinions.
We've heard this exact sentiment before, all through the run-up to Fallout 3, where people took it upon themselves to repeatedly post the obvious non-point that "it
might be different from what the trailers show", as if this is a valid reason to ignore what we can see with our own eyes and what they've chosen to highlight of the game in the trailers.
Sadly, FO3 was worse than the trailers showed right out of the box, and worse than a lot of people suspected as a game, and then they did their best to completely destroy it as a coherent game with some of the least setting appropriate material that they could think of to sell as DLC.
Did you miss out on mothership zeta? Should we have played that first to develop the opinion that it was complete garbage and had nothing to do with fallout and that it shat upon the most central theme of the entire franchise?
Nobody who was capable of coherent thought should have needed to play THAT to figure out what it was about since we already had a way to test the gameplay mechanics (play fo3) and we had seen the new thematic elements they decided to introduce (stupid aliens and shiny spaceships which we saw in the pre-release info).
It's the same with NV. If you aren't sure how the gameplay mechanics will feel 99% of the time, go play fo3. and you'll get it.
If you want to form an opinion about the setting change, or some new gun that they've introduced watch the trailer.
That's about all the trailers have been anyway... Highlight reels of new guns and splosions and pretty scenery that supposedly represents the setting.
You don't need to "pay your money and play before you have a thought" and you really don't need to go around telling others that doing so is a better idea than looking at what's available for free and making an informed decision based on that info.