Is New Vegas a Western?

[Cobra Commander]

Food. Scale with survival level. But it has an addictive effect, yes. Chance of 10%, if I´m not mistake.

EDIT: NO. Is a chem.

In fact I'm making a mod right now to create the Ranger Chewing tobacco, a special item that is a worsened version of Steady.

It's kinda hard to have a Western in the East, innit.
I like Western mashups with other genres. Sci Fi and Space Western in particular.

Same. I love the space rednecks cowboys in Starcraft 2

 

[Cliffy McEdgeface]

Huh, interesting.

On a semi-related note - does the Black Coffee recipe create a food item or a chem, technically? Guessing it's considered more of a chem, but not sure (never used it)

Cowboys need their coffee in the morning, after all.

 

[Cobra Commander]

Coffee is food. This one scale with survival level, even the negative effects.

 

[Cliffy McEdgeface]

Coffee is food. This one scale with survival level, even the negative effects.

Wait, the AGI penalty scales UP with Survival? I mean, in a way it kind of makes sense (stronger coffee = worse jitters maybe) but... hm.

 

[tgawt]

yea

 

[scorptatious]

Yeah, it has a lot of elements of a Western.
Protagonist is robbed and left for dead, miraculously survives and tries to find his would-be-assassin, meets different factions trying to control an otherwise lawless region, and potentially double-crosses a whole lot of them.
Classic Western storyline from movies like Hang Em High, the Dollar Trilogy and so on.
The Western elements, as said above, have always been present in Fallout, starting with Shady Sands and its adobe-like architecture and problems with bandits, Junktown with its rivaling "rulers" (Killian specifically enforcing "frontier justice" in his ending slide), Boneyard with its gangs and a group of armed people basically enslaving a group of people...
Fallout is basically a post-apocalyptic Sci Fi Western in many ways.
The only way NV could have been more Western is if it had more ponchos.

"Sci-Fi Western"

That sounds absolutely beautiful to me for some reason.

 

[tgawt]

thinking about it more its probably 'the most western' fallout game. shares a lot of themes with classical western (greed, love, money, ect) though the best way to describe it is probably

"Sci-Fi Western"

 

[Lone Cat]

Food. Scale with survival level. But it has an addictive effect, yes. Chance of 10%, if I´m not mistake.

EDIT: NO. Is a chem.

In fact I'm making a mod right now to create the Ranger Chewing tobacco, a special item that is a worsened version of Steady.






Same. I love the space rednecks cowboys in Starcraft 2

And Raynor has a 'hitech' revolver similar to what seen in first two Fallout games