IGN's Favorite Fallout: New Vegas Memories

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Apparently IGN has taken a liking to writing pieces dedicated to Fallout: New Vegas as they came out with another one titled 'Favorite Fallout: New Vegas Memories'. What is it? IGN editors sharing their favorite moments of the game apparently. Obviously, the article contains spoilers. Not so obviously, the article contains badly done pseudo-Vault Boys. Here's a "moment" that stood out according to IGN:<blockquote>Bugging Out

So far I've lost multiple days of my life to Fallout: New Vegas over the past couple weeks. In that time I've encountered multiple characters, storylines, and gameplay moments that have made me glad I neglected my personal life. Really though, I have one memory in particular that truly stands out.

My moment was caused by a bug. We all know that there are bugs in this game... everywhere. But the first and biggest bug I saw had me laughing for quite a while. While charging Black Mountain in the Crazy, Crazy, Crazy mission, I found myself face to face with the Nightkin leader Tabitha. While this could have been a tense moment, instead what I got was Tabitha rocketing straight up into space when my first bullet hit her. What proceeded was me taking a sniper rifle to swat her out of her flight, with me laughing the whole time. Not all major bugs are bad! </blockquote>
 
Hey BN, "entitled" in the link.

Not that it even matters. I'm usually the first one to jump on IGN's news articles because I think they firmly re-enforce what the "mainstream" gamer thinks, but this is just another example of terribly written articles by people who are making money off of their limited knowledge of video games.

I found one error in NMA's post and, like, a hundred in theirs.

Why am I even complaining? It's an opinion piece.

Because I think if you are going to dedicate your life to the pursuit of video game journalism, you should consider it an artform, and not rofl when a huge errors occurs. In my opinion, when it happens, you should be attempting to justify it through the lore of the game. "Oh, Tabitha flew into space because of..."

That's right, bad journalism.
 
cunningandvalor said:
In my opinion, when it happens, you should be attempting to justify it through the lore of the game. "Oh, Tabitha flew into space because of..."
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Really? When you encounter a bug you try to justify it based on the game canon? This doesn't seem like such a good idea. Sometimes it's better to just acknowledge things as broken.

And the newspost wasn't lying-- those were some bad Vault Boys.
 
Regarding this journalist's remark about the bug in which Tabitha took off for the sky, that happened too in Fallout 3.

In fact it happened quite often that the ragdoll mechanics went crazy.
- A super mutant I just killed suddenly flying off into a building.
- Talon Mercenaries that suddenly start bouncing and stretching across the sky.
- A Radscorpion starting to hump the side of a building.
- A Mirelurk Hunter stuck in a support pillar while Enclave troops run and shoot around it like crazy.
- Cups and other stuff floating miles in the air.

And my computer is pretty much up to standard.

Fallout New Vegas is in general quite more stable than Fallout 3.
 
At least that way you can search the Deathclaw, I found it very annoying when I was finally going to get a hand to make the Gauntlet and then BOOM away he goes... Always made me laugh though, not all is bad :)
 
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