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KanWan posted...

When everything is brown or green things just look like they deserve to be barren.. it was nice to have that broken up with an entire city completely in ruins.. for what its worth it felt alive and rife with Supermutants and ghouls.

New Vegas just doesnt feel that way at all even when you factor the The Strip. Hell the only two places that felt unique or deserving of any note is where you meet that awesome Nightkin community and the Khans community. Everything else just feels like such a missed opportunity to show something awesome.. for a sequel I just felt like it went back a couple of steps in that regard. It did everything else right.. but its stuff you cant see and good dialogue and quest-lines only hold merit if the actual quests are fun or interesting.

They should take you some place new.. I guess its easy to do if everything is brown.. Maybe Im just disappointed and cant reconcile how HYPE I was for FO3 AND NV and didnt get that payoff.

I mean, I disagree with this almost entirely - between Fallout 3's barren and forgettable western half of the map, endless repetitive metro tunnels, and nonsense haphazard worldbuilding that has random Deathclaws and Sentry Bots wiping out settlements because the devs didn't think to put a random encounter point a few hundred feet further away; and New Vegas having for my tastes far more interesting places to discover, explore, and pick a fight, such as (in addition to Jacobstown and Red Rock Canyon already mentioned) Primm, Nellis AFB, Helios, Black Mountain, Camp Searchlight, and Quarry Junction to name a few, not to mention the overall worldbuilding that feels like settlements were actually made based on logic and trade routes - but I do honestly appreciate that you elaborated.