• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    21 hours ago

    Anyone who doesn’t understand this reference should consider playing Fallout: New Vegas, because it is a very good game

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      16 hours ago

      Does it get better after a while? Because I tried playing it, but the first few hours are just painfully slow.

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        15 hours ago

        Your comment has caused me to reflect on the early game, and I think I agree with you. I suspect I hadn’t noticed the slow early game because the catalyst for me playing the game was grieving a friend who had loved the game — this means that even if I had found it painfully slow, I would have been likely to push on regardless.

        I’m trying to remember at what point it potentially gets better. It’s hard to say without knowing how far you got in (especially because it’s entirely possible that maybe you just didn’t jibe with this game (which is fine, because subjectivity is cool)); I remember part of what I enjoyed about the game was the general vibes.

        That being said, going off the map above, I think the most engaging parts of the game for me happened after Boulder City. The world gets more content dense as you approach New Vegas, and I remember enjoying the anticipation as I got closer to the city, and how I was beginning to feel like I understood the various moving parts of the world better (such as the politics around the NCR).

        So I think the short answer is that yes, it does pick up. If New Vegas seems like the kind of game you usually play, it might be worth giving it another crack (but I can’t gauge how far into the game it starts picking up, time-wise)

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    1 day ago

    Why not just take the 15? It’s so much shorter, and you have a couple guns to protect yourself in case anything pops up, right?

    Right?

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    21 hours ago

    My brother lives in the lower-left corner of Vegas, kinda by the edge of the city. Every time I visit (I’m actually out here right now) I can’t help but think of New Vegas. Anytime we drive on the 215 to go somewhere I’m almost always looking around at stuff and trying to picture how it’d look in-game but in real life.

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      1 day ago

      I assume it’s because property developers are very creative with thier naming.

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    1 day ago

    You’ll get there a lot faster if you ride a bike…

    And there’s probably nicer scenery around red rock canyon national park if you’re just into hiking.

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    1 day ago

    A bit of a roundabout way. I’m just gonna hop straight from Goodsprings to Las Vegas tbh

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      21 hours ago

      It’s currently 82° F with a high of 109°, which it’ll probably reach in about an hour or so. It’s not even 8 am here yet.

      Good luck.