Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition announced

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-03-fallout-new-vegas-ultimate-edition-announced

Bethesda has announced the Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

It launches in Europe on 10th February and in the US on 7th February 2012.

The Ultimate Edition has all the game add-on content for New Vegas, including Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier's Stash and Gun Runners' Arsenal.

The DLC adds new areas and increases the maximum level cap to 50.

"For players who are seasoned explorers of New Vegas or just getting into the game for the first time, the Ultimate Edition expands beyond the Wasteland like never before with the Sierra Madre Casino, Zion National Park, Big MT research crater and the treacherous Divide now open for exploring," Bethesda said.
 
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Ha! I just started playing Fallout 3 GOTY edition. I saw it dip below $30 and I jumped on it.

Man....that is a long game. I'm willing to wait on Vegas though.
 
[quote name='ianoid']I hope it will be on disk like Fallout 3 GOTY.

I was very frustrated by Borderlands code approach to the DLC release on GOTY. Makes it hard to delete the DLC from your hard drive when you are done- in case you want to play it in 5 years. Can we trust Microsoft to keep the legacy DLC available? Probably not.[/QUOTE]

I got lucky and got the borderlands GOTY version that had the dlc on disk that was released later but yea if this is not on disk its a no go for me.
 
wonder if the save of my regular edition will be compatible, it should be right?? Will be picking this up but well after i put enough hours into skyrim, which by that point this will hopefully be 20 bucks.
 
I was definitely hoping for another one of these. Last time I bought Operation Anchorage for the 360 separately before getting GOTY for Fallout 3, I ended up getting FOV for $40 on sale, and I'll be picking up this too when it comes out.
 
[quote name='Dominick331']I had very few issues with my PS3 copy. Gland to see there will be a new edition..I'd like to go back and play it again.[/QUOTE]

I played 3 and NV on PS3 and I had very few problems with either game. Sure, it froze probably once every 5-6 hours, but it was tolerable.
 
I've put a little over 50 hours into New Vegas on PC and a few crashes are about the extent of issues I've had with the game, which may very well have been caused by the extensive list of mods I used. I don't doubt it was a buggy game at launch, but as far as the PC version goes, I think most of that has been sorted out by now.

Anyways, with how long the wait is for this Ultimate Edition, I'm kinda glad I just bought the Vanilla edition. I remember it was something like $25-$30 for Black Friday last year, and most of the DLC has been $3-4 on Steam sales (probably will get discounted again in the holiday sale).
 
After hearing of nothing but glitches with the first release of New Vegas, Brink and the issue on the PC for Rage I think I'm done buying games that have Bethesda's name anywhere on it. I was considering picking up Skrym at one point but now I'm not.
 
I might pick this up for a console when it hits 30, anymore than 40 dollars and I wouldn't even consider this a deal. I had fun with it on the PC, but there were too many bugs for sure.
 
This game is top tier. I wonder what the MSRP will be. If it's $60, you're only saving a few bucks from buying the standard game and all the add-ons. It runs great on the PS3. For some perspective, by the time this comes out it will have been 15 months since New Vegas launched.
 
If the DLC is on discs you get the added bonus of being able to resell the game when you are done with it which adds value to this.
 
Lol people are so retarded, even if this game had MORE glitches then it already does, its still worth more then what its going for. Same people complaining about this are the same people who buy every CoD game that comes out on release dates. The game isnt as buggy as people are bitching about.

Yes, the game crashes sometimes, but not that damn often. I have over 100hrs logged into NV and ive crashed maybe 4-5 times in total on the 360. And again, the game is so good, it doesnt even matter. Save often, you shoulda been doing that in the first place. Fallout is full of content that makes you actually want to play it if youre into that kind of game.
 
[quote name='JP73']It could be. A quick glance at the reviews on amazon shows that the PS3 version suffered more than the 360 one, although plenty of people had issues with the 360. Or maybe 360 owners are more tolerant. I don't know, but I had the PS3 version and it was such a letdown. So much potential.[/QUOTE]
Apparently there's a certain glitch on DLC add-ons which are broken on the PS3, with players who reached Level 30 and gained the extra cap per add-on had their games crashing when it was time to level up, or something about your status/rank never upgrades, well something like that.
 
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-04-obsidian-boss-brands-online-pass-a-gimmick

Giving customers compelling reasons to hold onto a new game is a more effective way to fight the secondhand market than online passes and similar "gimmicks", according to the CEO of Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian.

Speaking in an interview with GameSpot, Feargus Urquhart explained that ensuring gamers have plenty of content available to them should stop them from wanting to trade-in a title in the first place.

"I think you have to go in and forget those gimmicks, and say, 'How do I make them want to keep the game on the shelf?'" he said, referring to passes that require secondhand purchasers to pay to unlock on-disc content.

"I think each genre has a way to do it. Battlefield and Call of Duty have it in multiplayer with maps, rankings, leveling up, and unlocks. There are different things, but the idea is making people feel, 'I want to keep on playing it.'

"With a role-playing game, it is the same thing. We come up with things to make players want to keep on playing it," he continued.

"By having a good and evil track, like Knights of the Old Republic II, I can play as a light or dark Jedi. I may play through as a light Jedi, but I know that I could play through as a dark Jedi. So I think, 'I'm gonna do that some day.' So I put it back on my shelf and I don't take it back to GameStop."

Urguhart added that offering engaging post-launch DLC was another way to keep gamers from trading a disc in and feeding the used market.

"If I play Fallout: New Vegas for 50 hours, but there are all these other quests, and there's this whole other area I didn't go to, and online there are people talking about all these things that you could have done all these different ways, I'll feel like 'Wow, I could play this game again,' because there is all this stuff I didn't get.

"And knowing that, publishers announce DLC plans the day the game comes out. And now, as a player who hasn't experienced everything yet, I know there are these new stories, and I'm going to be able to level up my character and get better stuff, be more of a hero. The game is going to go back on my shelf, not back to GameStop."

Almost all this winter's major AAA releases will demand an online pass, including Uncharted 3, FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3.
 
Demon's Souls is on my shelf and has no dlc whatsoever... hmmm.... how about just releasing a quality game for a change? what a novel idea!

fyi; I had the 360 version of fallout 3 goty and there was plenty of crashing/freezing as well. of course when that was happening, i had already completed the main game before starting the dlcs, so ymmv.
 
[quote name='pure skill']My sentiments exactly. I loved Fallout 3. That's probably an understatement. I played through 3 complete times. I was skeptical about this one because it wasn't the same developer. From what I understand though, it's basically the same gameplay and the bugs have now been fixed. I will get this complete edition after a good price drop and be done with it once and for all.[/QUOTE]

The great thing about Obsidian is that a lot of people there were part of Black Isle and had a hand in the original Fallout games.

The only bad thing about New Vegas was the main story. It had a good start and finish, but the middle was lacking. They nailed the world and characters though. I felt far more attached and interested in the world then Fallout 3. For me though both games are awesome, just for slightly different reasons.

I'll be grabbing this on it's release day because I want to dig into the DLC that I've waited to play. I'll probably start a new character and side with The Legion instead of the NCR.
 
Seems like you can't ever buy a new game these days without the fear of a superior edition coming out 9 months or a year later. Call me obsessive, but I can't stand owning the vanilla version of a game knowing that a greater version exists. So now I rarely buy anything new. This has kept me from buying NV and LBP 2, and now I see I would have gotten burned if I would have bought them. I'm sure I'll get burned on Batman AC, but didn't want to wait a year to play that one.
 
Been waiting for this since Day 1 of New Vegas. I bought Fallout 3 at launch, paid full price for the first DLC and caught the rest at half off later. Two games of over 100 hours, and I had plenty of glitches. Getting stuck in the environment, bizarre NPC behavior that didn't cease, etc. Making a game like this with so many open world variables and movement has got to be difficult. I'm trusting in the post-release patches and picking this version up Day 1.
 
I was probably going to make a hybrid CE, by selling/trading in my vanilla copy that is in my (sealed) CE, then getting the ultimate edition when it comes out, so I have the CE extras plus all the DLC.

I did the same thing for FO3. Now they only need to make a new CE guide...
 
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