



The only fallout game i ever hated
I absolutely adore the Fallout franchise; fallout 4 and Fallout 76 were incredible experiences for me. However, when I first tried playing fallout: new Vegas, the gameplay and design felt like a massive downgrade by comparison. The absolute dealbreaker for me was that you couldn't even sprint. I got so annoyed by how slow and dated it felt that I rage-quit after just thirty minutes.
Cut to three days ago. After months of debating whether to give it another shotand fully expecting it to be terribleI forced myself to sit down and play. I didn't think I'd last two hours, but something shifted. I found myself completely hooked by the atmosphere, something I completely ignored during my first attempt. 😹
Looking back, I feel so dumb for abandoning it so quickly. New Vegas is an incredibly solid game; you just have to give it a couple of hours to breathe. The lack of a sprint button doesn't even matter once you adjust your pace. The game teaches you patience, and the more you invest in it, the better it gets. It captures that classic Fallout dystopia perfectly, though the world feels significantly more washed-out and dull.
It makes me wonder if the developers purposefully designed it that way to emphasize the harsh reality of the wasteland. Well I know the exact reason of obsidian to make it dull is due to technical limitation when it was released.