Hello NV my old friend....

khain

[X] Sarcastic
Ok, well I've given up.

More batshit stupid quests in FO4, more bang bang you're dead, more looting, more pointless dialogue... Anyway, you know what I mean.

So, I thought I'd go back to NV before working my way back in time to FO1.

My question is, what's my best approach in terms of platform.

My choices are to fire up the XBox 360 where I already own the game and all DLCs, or... to try and run it on my Macbook Pro which I use for work. The Windows PC at home wouldn't be able to cope, and in any case I couldn't sit at that thing for hours.

On xbox it's all there and ready to play, but it obviously means no soup... err... mods for me.

Are the mods benefits worth me trying to get the game (and said mods) to run on Mac OS?
 
Whenever possible, I prefer to play (buggy) games in a way that you can use the in-game console to circumvent these bugs, and Bethesda games are most certainly that kind of game.
The notion of playing NV on an Xbox or Playstation is scary to me, even if that game did not have a lot of stuff needing fixing, still, that little minimum is nice to see fixed while playing.

On the PS, you get a bug, that's it, you have to pretend really hard the bug is part of the story :I
 
Yeah, and if I was playing it for the first time I would probably agree.

But I know that NV on XBox was reasonably ok last time I played it through, so from that perspective I should be ok (famous last words).

It's more to try and have the best experience possible, and since that means mods, whether the effort to get that to run is worth it.
 
I played it on the 360 fully patched without problems. Disable autosave and regularly save so you can revert if something bugs. You will still encounter some issues on console but it is very playable.
 
Yeah, I'm starting to lean that way. I had a quick look into which mods would be on running on Mac yesterday night, and it all looks doable, but I'm not convinced I can spare the time in case it's not super straightforward.

I've also got used to playing from the comfort of my couch, like the lazy bag that I am.

It's funny how I'm looking forward to diving back into NV and exploring all that world for the 4th time. Thanks, FO4, at least you've served that purpose. Bit of an expensive nostalgia trip.

If only I could talk to my past self from 2010. The khain who's about to launch NV for the first time. I would tell him "Man, you're holding what's probably the last good Fallout game. Enjoy the shit out of every minute of it".
 
DAMN I love this game.

Yes, I'm replying to myself weeks later, but beats starting yet another thread.

I've dived back into the Mojave over the holiday season, and it just feels so good after the Unnameable.

I'm even doing stuff I never did in my previous playthroughs - for example, I was astonished to realise I had never really invested points in Survival that much (not sure why), so now my courier is remembering his days as a cook and is getting rather skilled at turning any radioactive creature into Michelin-star-worthy gourmet food.

I'm having fun. There.
 
Survival is awesome. I made a Tallahassee(Zombieland) character who would only eat food he cooked and twink.. I mean Fancy lads.
 
Whenever possible, I prefer to play (buggy) games in a way that you can use the in-game console to circumvent these bugs, and Bethesda games are most certainly that kind of game.
The notion of playing NV on an Xbox or Playstation is scary to me, even if that game did not have a lot of stuff needing fixing, still, that little minimum is nice to see fixed while playing.

On the PS, you get a bug, that's it, you have to pretend really hard the bug is part of the story :I

I play NV on the 360 and never have any problems
 
Whenever possible, I prefer to play (buggy) games in a way that you can use the in-game console to circumvent these bugs, and Bethesda games are most certainly that kind of game.
The notion of playing NV on an Xbox or Playstation is scary to me, even if that game did not have a lot of stuff needing fixing, still, that little minimum is nice to see fixed while playing.

On the PS, you get a bug, that's it, you have to pretend really hard the bug is part of the story :I

I play NV on the 360 and never have any problems

Same. Over 250 hours on multiple playthroughs, and I've had three times the game have a quest or engine bug, and all three times I could fix it by reloading the autosave.
 
On xbox it's all there and ready to play, but it obviously means no soup... err... mods for me.

+1 Rads for Seinfeld reference

I also have the game + DLC on the xbox, since my computer is too lame to run it.

It's a tough call, if your Macbook can handle I'd give it a try for the JSawyer Mod.

On the other hand, there's still plenty of options for interesting playthroughs on the Xbox, especially if you have all the DLCs.
 
I've played New Vegas on the Xbox 360 a lot.

The advice I'd give if you're going to give it a go is:
- Remember to unequip your companions from any non-concealable weapons before you go in casinos (the game eats them)
- Late game be cautious about using VATS in Fiend Territory since that seems to crash a lot.
- Don't enter another area that triggers an autosave while the previous autosave is still saving.

Beyond those headaches, it's fine.
 
DAMN I love this game.

Yes, I'm replying to myself weeks later, but beats starting yet another thread.

I've dived back into the Mojave over the holiday season, and it just feels so good after the Unnameable.

I'm even doing stuff I never did in my previous playthroughs - for example, I was astonished to realise I had never really invested points in Survival that much (not sure why), so now my courier is remembering his days as a cook and is getting rather skilled at turning any radioactive creature into Michelin-star-worthy gourmet food.

I'm having fun. There.

You know... now I want to make a survival character.
 
I've played 1,500 hours on 360 and nearly like 95% of my gamebreaking mods were from my disk rather than from the game itself. Also no I don't have a problem, I can stop whenever I want. (I have graduated to PC finally though with my new compooper.)
 
Stupid question perhaps but do you feel the older graphics are perhaps off putting?

The feeling lasted about 3 seconds when I stepped out of Doc Mitchell's house. Basically I was absolutely fine with the way the indoors looked, and even the characters themselves. But upon going outside and looking at the textures around me, yeah, I could feel the age of the game a bit - just because I had come straight from FO4, which is no Caspar Friedrich painting, but still looks better.

However, it took only a short while to get used to it, and once I was out of Goodsprings I no longer noticed it.

Also, since it was my initial question in this thread and a few people have chipped in, I thought I'd update: I decided to just go back to the game on Xbox rather than attempt the Macbook route.

Only issue I've had so far was the infinite loading screen issue when I was around Primm, but it's easy enough to work around.

Oh, and I'm in Zion now, where I was treated to a complete freeze when aiming at a White-Leg.

Not bad in terms of stability, for about 30 hours of game time.
 
Stupid question perhaps but do you feel the older graphics are perhaps off putting?

The feeling lasted about 3 seconds when I stepped out of Doc Mitchell's house. Basically I was absolutely fine with the way the indoors looked, and even the characters themselves. But upon going outside and looking at the textures around me, yeah, I could feel the age of the game a bit - just because I had come straight from FO4, which is no Caspar Friedrich painting, but still looks better.

However, it took only a short while to get used to it, and once I was out of Goodsprings I no longer noticed it.

Also, since it was my initial question in this thread and a few people have chipped in, I thought I'd update: I decided to just go back to the game on Xbox rather than attempt the Macbook route.

Only issue I've had so far was the infinite loading screen issue when I was around Primm, but it's easy enough to work around.

Oh, and I'm in Zion now, where I was treated to a complete freeze when aiming at a White-Leg.

Not bad in terms of stability, for about 30 hours of game time.

Make sure to turn off autosave since it tends to cause more crashes. Just stick to hard saves. At least if you are playing on a console.
 
Playing NV without mods? You don't know what you're missing....
"Playing New Vegas on console"
:rip:

Everyone's heard of Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation right? He has a Steam account and has none of the Fallout games on it, yet has reviewed FO3, NV, and FO4, which means he did it on console. Correctly, he reviews a game on release as it is without bias.

Good games stand on their own, man!

(But yeah, I have New Vegas on PC with up to a hundred mods.)
 
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