After five long years of slowly working away at it, I've beaten my first Fallout game and it feels pretty good. Counterintuitively, as much as I profess myself a fan of RPGs, I'm actually quite bad at finding the time to complete longer ones. If I'm not sitting at a tabletop with friends, it's hard for me to stay invested in the story and world I'm being tasked to interact with. Despite all of this, Fallout New Vegas has been the one I could return to and I think my beating it is proof enough of its quality.

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Dito isso, facilmente um dos melhores jogos de rpg já feitos, os gráficos e a gameplay, apesar de hoje em dia não serem nada de especial ou muito atrativo, são completamente aceitáveis, e dão espaço pra uma história incrível, com milhares de npcs e quests únicas e com muita personalidade, q fazem tu realmente querer completar até as sidequests mais inúteis, a ambientação do mundo é incrível, e patrulhar o mojave quase faz você realmente desejar um inverno nuclear, todas as facções do jogo são muito interessantes nos seus objetivos e formas de lidar com as coisas, assim como a tua influência e capacidade de lidar com absolutamente tudo de diversas formas diferentes, sem falar em como esse jogo lida com o próprio universo de fallout e expande ele com novas facções, e como utiliza alguns conceitos ja estabelecidos de formas diferentes ao invés de só repetir oq foi feito nos jogos anteriores, sempre com críticas precisas aos nossos nem tão amados Estados Cunidos

One of the best Action RPGs that I have played, and arguably the best of the Fallout "3D" era. Characters are great, story and DLC's are excellent, and progression doesn't feel like a chore, it's very organic.

F:NV sadly runs on the Gamebryo engine which by 2010 was already very outdated and it shows in the gameplay, feeling very stiff and wonky, very janky animations, and graphics that, to be honest, aren't really up to standards even from 2010 (games like Bioshock 2 or Darksiders came out the same year), and, as the cherry on top, MANY technical problems that can and will bug out, crash, and softlock the game.

With this in mind, it's still one of the best that Obsidian has put out and eveyone should play it at least once in their life.

Easily some of the strongest writing I've seen in a video game paired with janky and frustrating combat that can make much of the moment-to-moment experience a chore to get through.

Balancing out all its parts, New Vegas is still a very good game. For as frustrating as some of its individual aspects may be, they aren't central to the experience in the same way that the story and writing are. Both in the macro-level conflict between the NCR and Legion and on the micro-level writing of the various characters and factions across New Vegas, the quality and quantity of writing are some of the most impressive I've seen in a game. So while the rough gameplay occupied a majority of my actual playtime, its always the writing that I think about instead when I look back at my experience.

New Vegas is absolutely worth playing. Just turn the difficulty down to easy and don't pick fights that you don't need to. Dedicate your attention to the game's strong writing and keep your involvement in other aspects to the minimum needed to get the full experience from the parts that are actually worth getting through.