Ghoul central around that area, urk! And those two giant radscorpions at the entrance - I hated that area, but SubRosa's Molly Hatchet made it with ease!

All the different playthroughs on here, and I've never heard anyone else talk about going to that crashed helicopter with the unique weapon nearby it in the southern end of the map (heading east from the middle of the map). I must have been killed a hundred times getting past all the sentry bots in the area before finally getting the gun and escaping the area - haven't done that one in years, but haven't heard about anyone else doing it either!

Has anyone else gone for it?

Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

I think Obisidian rushed New Vegas out the door before they were finished. Not just because of the bugs. But because there are so many locations with nothing in them. I was expecting so much more from that airport than a few radscorpions on the runway. Or the Emergency Service Railyard. It has a map marker, but there is literally nothing there but a few bottlecaps. Why go to all the trouble to make these places, and do nothing with them? My guess is they ran out of time.


Persephone did that area recently. The Ghouls were tough, even for a chopper like her. But not as bad as with previous characters. She found the crashed helicopter with the unique energy weapon. But she never ran across all the robots. It must have been a glitch, because they are usually down there thick as fleas.

Yes, I used to have to save my game at each leg of the mission because sometimes even getting the gun wasn't enough the sentrybots would kill you trying to leave the area with it too. I died so many times it wasn't funny getting through those sentry bots; and only once made it out of there with the gun. And I don't remember ever actually using the gun, just displaying it for the trophy it was, lol.

I did some gaming with Cho today, last I saw he was running around the Mall. Really fun getting those super-mutants all riled up!

Yeap, just did it last night for the first time.

Wow! Such a crazy battle. I have never fought (or even seen) the hardened bots before. They nailed both me and Veronica on the first attempt. I was not expecting such a tough fight and it ended up in a very gruesome death scene with Elmer lying on the ground with only one leg. Lol.

Reloaded, adjusted tactics and eventually defeated them. Used up a ton of chems, hid behind boulders and 5 minutes of real time fighting later, but finally claimed the unique weapon at the crash sight. Boy was that tough!

Oh, and I walked over the next hill hoping to try out my spiffy new advanced weapon and walked straight into 3 Reavers and 2 Glowing Ones.

Another death and another reload!

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Good luck with those muties Renee.

Send over the MIRV. I could use it here in the Mojave.

But doesn´t this go for Fallout 3 as well? There are quite a lot of buildings that you cannot enter there either

It is mozt def an epic battle for that gun! And if I'm not mistaken - over the hill where all those ghouls were there is another unique item (some armor or weapon) - floating in that radiated pond the ghouls were protecting. The mesa-type mountaintop they are on has an opening into a cave that brings you down to about midway down the mountain (on the other side from the armored sentrybot zone).

Yes, but in FO3 they didn't make those ones prominent, and give them map markers and names. FO3 put those boarded up buildings in places where they had a bunch of buildings all together, and creating an interior for each would have meant making thousands of new areas. OTOH New Vegas only has a third of the locations FO3 does, and many of them have nothing there.

I have to admit to being disappointed in that Airport being nothing too; I mean - all they would have had to do would be to duplicate and rename that same building from the Boomers and stick a door on it. That was really lax; and like you pointed out - they didn't have enough places fully fleshed out for exploration.

But on story/questlines/in depth characters I think they aced it. Their character's backgrounds were fully fleshed out, even if their buildings weren't, lol.

Whenever I play New Vegas, I play it for its story and quests, never for exploration while in FO3 it's the opposite, most of the time I play it for exploration and just random adventuring.

Good thing New Vegas was steamrolled instead of Fallout 3 then...

I agree with all the comments added. NV has really surprised me with just how many locations have been devoid of anything to do and also without any interior cell to enter. Fallout 3 never gave me that feeling and the underground locations just added to the supreme open world game they created there.

However, all the companions and quests rock so much that NV is a worthy continuation of the series. Veronica's dry sense of humor more than makes up for any other shortfall. I cannot imagine playing a Fallout game with the old Beth companions now. I just hope they put more effort into FO4.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Sep 9 2015, 08:37 AM

Found a Butter Knife yesterday on a feral ghoul. Seems like a rare thing so it goes to da collection

Ha ha that's pretty funny! Yeah, they do carry some odd stuff sometimes.

Last time I played FO3 (Sunday, I think) Cho had attached the satellite dish to the Monument, left the Mall (after downing a good portion of its super-mutants), and then made his way back to Megaton. He is now on his way back to see Three Dog (owwwwww)

I did that quest long after I had done the ones I wanted to do, after I had resorted to running around just shootin´ and lootin´

EW! Gross! An eating utensil used by a ghoul ... and you are keeping it? Urk, I see we are going to have to do an intervention on you for your collecting getting out of hand,

I am the same with FO3, exploring in it is worth every minute for all the hidden Easter Eggs you can find - like the teddy bears and gnomes in various settings, or the little things written on walls, etc. That kind of sense of humor made that game one that you didn't want to hurry through or just quest through, it needed intricate exploring to savor all the little extra things they added in.

New Vegas lacked a lot of those extras, and lacked the epic battles of FO3 - but the NPC's had a lot more personality; their storylines were so interesting; and the quests so intricate and intertwined into the ending scene so you never knew (without a guide book) which quests would factor into the ending scene. Like those recruits you are supposed to help train, etc.








Agreed 100% with everything you said here!




This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 11 2015, 08:28 PM

Actually, it´s 400.007 bottle caps, and here´s the proof!


I have also gotten no less than 12 Stabhappys!




Next up: Half a million bottle caps!!!

I wish I had that much in real money!

I´m planning to send it to Bethesda and convert it to gold and silver, think they´ll bite?