Bethesda Podcast #3: New Vegas gone gold

Sam Ecorners

Sam Ecorners

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New Bethesda Podcast is up. It is completely about New Vegas, announcing the title has gone gold and shipped to manufacturing. Some more info from it:
  • *ED-E is the only big reference to Capital Wasteland, you will learn more about what's going on in California, as well as Arizona, Baja, Utah and more.
    *Strip will be accessible 40-50% of the way into the story. Possible to access it in 15 minutes.
    *Getting to level 30 is a big accomplishment, it's not easy.
    *Preorder bonuses are added to inventory wherever you are in the game.
    *Hardcore mode does not affect difficulty
    *Companion recruiting is based on reputation, not on karma.
    *There are dominatrix ghouls o_O
    *There will be characters from Fallout 1 and 2 in the game and references to characters no longer alive
    *Most of the companions will have unique costumes that unlock after completing their quests.
    *Recommended PC specs:
    OS:Windows XP/Vista/W7
    CPU: Dual core 2GHz, enhanced for multi-core
    RAM: 2 GB
    HDD: 10 GB
    Video Card: Geforce 6 or ATI 1300XT minimum
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Well, I guess something good came out of Bethesda's purchasing of the franchise....

I doubt ol' Herve would have made anything remotely good of the franchise...
 
Incognito said:
BTW, this cake was actually for someone's 30th birthday
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Which was a week ago. And "happened to coincide with the official end of development". Various devs were tweeting about cakes at that point which is usually a sign of it going gold and whaddayaknow, it did.

'course Bethesda PR then holds back that news for a week coz that's what they do :ok:
 
Getting to level 30 is a big accomplishment, it's not easy.

- please let this be true. I want 30 reachable only after doing most quests and exploring most of the map, not like in FO3 where I had level 20 with 30% of the map explored.
 
Paul_cz said:
Getting to level 30 is a big accomplishment, it's not easy.

- please let this be true. I want 30 reachable only after doing most quests and exploring most of the map, not like in FO3 where I had level 20 with 30% of the map explored.
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That was one nice thing about VtM:B, you got what equated to experience as you completed quests and such to ensure good pacing. That said, paint me the skeptic.

I haven't been paying too much attention to New Vegas but is anything other than the dominatrix ghouls news? I hadn't read anything about ED-E but given what's on the Vault, I figure it's old news.
 
Yes, there are some news inside. It was also said that if you complete the quests of your followers, they will get new clothes. Okay, since the Raul concept art with his armors, it was pretty obvious, but not officially confirmed.

I am really tensed to see the 'badass ncr armor' that Boone will get.
 
Fingers crossed Ross of Sharon gets to wear her dad's old leather armour, that'd be awesome =)

*There will be characters from Fallout 1 and 2 in the game and references to characters no longer alive
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This gives me lots of hope I've expressed in previous posts; I'd really like to run into the Chosen One - who would still be alive in this time period, or otherwise Vault 13/Arroyo descendants, Sulik's tribe, the illegitimate Bishop child, broken down Chryslus Highwayman, etc etc.
 
I'm also noticing that the price of FO:NV on Steam has been increased by forty fucking dollars to $89.95 USD for Australian customers. So sick of this regional pricing bullshit. Pretty sure Europeans and/or Brits also have to put up with some similar stuff.
 
frosty_theaussie said:
I'm also noticing that the price of FO:NV on Steam has been increased by forty fucking dollars to $89.95 USD for Australian customers. So sick of this regional pricing bullshit. Pretty sure Europeans and/or Brits also have to put up with some similar stuff.
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QFT. It's a load of horseshit they do that.
 
Paul_cz said:
Getting to level 30 is a big accomplishment, it's not easy.

- please let this be true. I want 30 reachable only after doing most quests and exploring most of the map, not like in FO3 where I had level 20 with 30% of the map explored.
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Let's hope so...
 
frosty_theaussie said:
I'm also noticing that the price of FO:NV on Steam has been increased by forty fucking dollars to $89.95 USD for Australian customers. So sick of this regional pricing bullshit. Pretty sure Europeans and/or Brits also have to put up with some similar stuff.
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49,99 in Spain
 
How long was NV in development anyway ? Year and a half ?

It seems so strange that Obsidian would make a game bigger than FO3 in such a short time, even with already done engine and and a lot of assets..I really hope it will not be buggy. I don't want to wait few months for patches again, especially since I am getting CE.
 
Well, it is pretty much possible. Fallout 2 was done in a year as well.
 
I think they mentioned in another interview that they began work on it in February last year, so it's more like a year and a half. As for the bugginess, it's Obsidian. Expect the worst, hope for the best.
 
Lexx said:
Well, it is pretty much possible. Fallout 2 was done in a year as well.
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Yeah, and it was incomplete, rushed and buggy.
We will see. I won't buy it immediately, anyway. Maybe next year, when it's cheap and I finally got around getting a new PC.
 
Ausir said:
And Fallout 3 was released only two years after Oblivion too.
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Didn't they start pulling people off Oblivion to work on F3 as Oblivion got closer to finished?
 
frosty_theaussie said:
I'm also noticing that the price of FO:NV on Steam has been increased by forty fucking dollars to $89.95 USD for Australian customers. So sick of this regional pricing bullshit. Pretty sure Europeans and/or Brits also have to put up with some similar stuff.
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Wow that is fuckin BS! So glad I bought it when it was still pre-order for 49.95. If you live in Aus and want it cheeper you can always get a friend in the US to buy it on steam and gift a copy to you or set up a fake US steam account (need a proxy IIRC).
 
I would never buy a game via steam for the full price anyway. It feels like I get robbed, when I pay the full price for a digital download, while the boxed version is much cheaper in some other store.
 
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