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| grim-one wrote: | | admeister wrote: | In case anyone has been wondering, Namco Bandai have confirmed that the official Aussie release date is October 21st.  |
Did they mention when the GOTY edition with all the DLC is being released?  |
October 23rd.
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| PS Blog wrote: | Fallout: New Vegas for PS3: Meet the Companions
The Mojave Wasteland is a dangerous and desolate place… so you feel the need for some companionship during your adventure. Like Fallout 3, New Vegas allows you to have one humanoid and one non-humanoid companion at any time.
Fallout: New Vegas’ senior producer, Jason Bergman, has put together a list of bios for the companions you’ll meet throughout the Wasteland. Learn more about them below.
[Warning: some spoilers below]
Humanoid Companions
Arcade
- Full Name: Arcade Israel Gannon
- Sex: Male
- Race: Human
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Age: 35
- Profession: Doctor, Followers of the Apocalypse New Vegas Chapter
- Perk: Better Healing – While Arcade is a companion, the player regains more health from all sources.
- Description: Arcade is highly ethical and moral, but he understands the post apocalyptic world is one in which sometimes, people just have to be shot in the head. Most of Arcade’s concerns about the world around him have to do with large-scale issues rather than the needs of individuals. While he appreciates what individual people go through, he firmly believes that it’s more important to affect large-scale societal change than fix problems little by little.
Boone
- Full Name: Craig Boone
- Sex: Male
- Race: Human
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Age: 26
- Profession: Town guard, Novac
- Perk: Spotter – While Boone is a companion, hostile targets are highlighted whenever the player is actively aiming.
- Description: Boone is a town guard and former NCR sharpshooter, bitterly whittling away the hours until he can find out who’s responsible for his wife’s death — and kill them. Hardened and psychologically troubled from his time in the NCR military, Boone vacillates between being a stone-cold killer and a decent human being. Venturing out from the relative safety of Novac brings Boone into close contact with his old life until he is forced to deal with the tragic events that caused him to leave the military.
Cass
- Full Name: Rose of Sharon Cassidy
- Sex: Female
- Race: Human
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Age: 37
- Profession: Water merchant, owner of Cassidy Caravans
- Perk: Whiskey Rose – While Cass is a companion, she and the player gain Damage Threshold when they drink Whiskey. Additionally, the player does not suffer intelligence loss from consuming alcohol and ignores the negative effects of alcohol addiction.
- Description: Worn down by years of hard luck and a recent rash of terrible misfortunes, Cass is a despondent merchant who’s about to get out of the caravan business. She’s smart, tough, and steady with a gun, but she hasn’t been savvy enough to survive the ruthless caravan wars that have flared up in Nevada since NCR’s expansion. Though she’s quick to join up with the player for some easy money, she’s still interested in finding out if she’s been suffering from bad luck or something more sinister.
Lily
- Full Name: Lillian Marie Bowen
- Sex: Super Mutant
- Race: Nightkin Super Mutant
- Age: 203
- Ethnicity: African
- Profession: Farmer, Jacobstown
- Perk: Stealth Girl – While Lily is a companion, the duration of Stealth Boys is increased by 200% and all Sneak Attack Critical Hits do an additional 10% damage.
- Description: Though she now lives a peaceful life tending to Bighorners in the community of Jacobstown, Lily was once a Nightkin in The Master’s army. Before that, she was an elderly grandmother enjoying a simple life in Vault 17. Heavily medicated, Lily struggles with her dangerous schizophrenia and distant memories of her old life.
Raul
- Full Name: Raul Alfonso Tejada
- Sex: Male
- Race: Ghoul
- Ethnicity: Meztiso
- Age: 230
- Profession: Repairman (Black Mountain), Vaquero (pre-war)
- Perk: Regular Maintenance – While Raul is a companion, the Condition of weapons and armor decays 50% slower.
- Description: Raul is an old Mexican ghoul who has had a long and storied history. After living the life of a wild gunslinger, Raul took up the trade of a simple repairman in Nevada. While traveling to New Vegas, he was swiped by Nightkin from Black Mountain and imprisoned by their leader, Tabitha. After being freed from captivity, he will join the player out of gratitude. A new taste of adventure reminds Raul of his tumultuous past, prompting him to consider if he should embrace his old gunslinging ways.
Veronica
- Full Name: Veronica Renata Santangelo
- Sex: Female
- Age: 27
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Profession: Journeyman Scribe, Procurement Specialist, Brotherhood of Steel, Hidden Valley Bunker
- Perk: Scribe Assistant – while Veronica is a companion, the player can craft Workbench items through Veronica’s dialogue.
- Description: Veronica is a Brotherhood of Steel journeyman scribe who has been indefinitely assigned to the role of “procurement specialist”, responsible for venturing out of the Brotherhood bunker to find and acquire resources that the Brotherhood cannot create on its own. Irritated by what she sees as the Brotherhood’s unrealistic and uninformed views of themselves and the world, Veronica is a perpetual outsider caught between her loyalty to the Brotherhood and troubling doubts about the validity of their current course.
Non-Humanoid
ED-E
- Full Name: Eyebot (Duraframe) – Subject E
- Sex: N/A
- Age: 6
- Ethnicity: N/A
- Profession: Shop Security, Primm
- Perk: Enhanced Sensors – while ED-E is a companion, the player can detect enemies at an increased range. Additionally, enemies will appear on the player’s compass and can be targeted in V.A.T.S. even when cloaked.
- Description: Unlike standard eyebots, ED-E is a highly customized “duraframe” model with hardened armor and specialized weapons. It was an eyebot on an incredible journey, carrying an enormous amount of valuable data when it was badly damaged and taken in by a Primm shop owner. Though ED-E still retains all of its data and an understanding of its mission, its internal positioning hardware is badly damaged. The only reason it has not been seized by interested parties is because ED-E has not communicated its special mission to anyone.
Rex
- Full Name: Cyber-Hound Mk. III, LEO Support Model, Serial Number B955883
- Sex: N/A
- Age: 209
- Ethnicity: N/A
- Profession: Sidekick to The King
- Perk: Search and Mark – While Rex is a companion, unequipped chems, firearms, and ammunition within a short distance are highlighted when you zoom the camera.
- Description: Rex is a cybernetic dog that has been around since pre-war times. He was used by the Denver Police Department and Caesar’s Legion before being mostly blown up during the Battle of Hoover Dam. Since then, he’s been the loyal pet of The King of The Kings in Freeside. Capable of sniffing out loot and taking a large amount of punishment, he only has one (big) problem: his brain is starting to deteriorate.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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I swear the game looks worse every time I see it.
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Graphics wise? I can agree with that. The engine is a bit dated and it doesn't really do much to impress. Being a huge Fallout 3 fan though I'm looking forward to the gameplay. I spent hours on the last one, it was great.
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Sorry, yes, the graphics. It is REALLY showing it's age. I can't remember Oblivion looking this dated, even recently when I saw it.
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Last time I played Oblivion it looked awful. Took me about an hour or two to stop noticing the graphics. I have to agree with Cyph. The graphics for Fallout 3 weren't that good to begin with except some of the landscape views.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah you'd hope Bethesda are currently busy working on a new engine for Fallout/TES games.
I'll still love this game no doubt, loved the last one. My 2008 GOTY.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:45 am Post subject: |
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Just a heads up, ozgameshop.com are taking pre-orders for the regular 360/ps3 versions for $55.99
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Whats the best price going around for the Xbox CE? Online or whatever? Anyone seen a good deal?
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| Furianshi wrote: | | Just a heads up, ozgameshop.com are taking pre-orders for the regular 360/ps3 versions for $55.99 |
Do they ever ship asian copies or are all copies from the UK region?
I only really like owning the UK or Aussie editions.
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^ the faq on their site just says "All games supplied by ozgameshop.com are 100% compatible on PAL systems."
But I think it's just the Aus/NZ version of 365games or something. I've bought a couple of games through them in the past and they were both UK PAL. One was the ps3 version of the 360 game I ordered, but that's another story...
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Went to EB to put a pre-order on the CE and they tell me that they have over ordered and I won't be able to get a CE at launch from them 
Will call GAME on Monday to see if I can get one from them.
Anyone know of a website selling the CE that has a reputation for pre-orders arriving on launch day?
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Finished paying off my collectors edition off so now i just gotta wait for the game to be released
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| Kaotac wrote: | Went to EB to put a pre-order on the CE and they tell me that they have over ordered and I won't be able to get a CE at launch from them
Will call GAME on Monday to see if I can get one from them.
Anyone know of a website selling the CE that has a reputation for pre-orders arriving on launch day? |
I went looking for the same thing - but I can't find the collectors edition listed on any Australian site. I asked someone I know who works at JB, and they've been told to stop taking orders. I'm guessing it'll be pretty much the same everywhere. I'm kicking myself for not organising this sooner.
If you're patient, there are a few UK sites around that still have it listed. They're all quoting about GBP70. (Lucky for me, I'll be away on holidays that week, so won't be hating the delay too much...)
Good luck!
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| Bethesda Blog wrote: | New Vegas News: It’s done! Plus PC reqs, and cake
As you may have heard in this week’s episode of The Bethesda Podcast, Fallout: New Vegas is officially finished and off to manufacturing. Congratulations to the team!
In other news, look at that cake. It was presented to New Vegas designer Robert Lee on his birthday, which happened to coincide with the official end of development.
“Complete surprise birthday present from my wife,” says Lee. “I had no clue she was planning this.”
The cake was designed by Christopher Garrens, whose Costa Mesa bakery “Let Them Eat Cake” is regularly featured on WEtv’s Amazing Wedding Cakes. Click here and here for a few more angles.
Also on the podcast, we revealed the PC system requirements for New Vegas. In case you missed it, here they are in chart form:
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| Bethesda Blog wrote: | Fallout: New Vegas Official Strategy Guide Blog — Mapping the Mojave: Stunning Vistas, and Slaughtered Settlers
 
After a one week hiatus, David Hodgson, author of the Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide, returns to discuss to discuss places you’ll visit on your trip to the Mojave Wastleand..
Here’s David…
A lonely shack, slowly rusting in the dry heat of the Nevada sun. But what oddities are contained within? Traps? A crazed Prospector? Moonshine? The guide knows all….
Sometimes you need to take a moment from your massacring of the Viper Gunslingers, and gaze out across the arid plains where sharecropper farmers are eking out an existence using a mixture of chutzpah and NCR-owned water. Or, go swimming in Lake Mead, and drink as much radiation-free H2O as you can… before you’re set upon by savage Lakelurks. Where the Capital Wasteland was a pock-marked mess of radioactive hot-spots and shacks containing madmen named Dave, the Mojave Wasteland has much more of its natural environment intact. New Vegas contains just as many shack-dwelling madmen. Perhaps the most deranged is known as No-Bark Noonan. He lives with his shotgun traps and showroom dummy friends.
Mapping the Mojave for the strategy guide was no easy task. While it didn’t lay me out in a fit of conniptions like linking the DC Metro Underground areas together, the number of locations that the guide covers (in meticulous detail I may add, which includes every single type of collectible you’ll want to find, and every Crafting location, Healer, Trader, and Caravan Player) is still immense.
New Vegas has a massive game world featuring well over 200 primary locations, and that’s not including around the same number of secondary locations not on your Pip-Boy’s map (which the guide tags). Basically, if there’s ammo, something to tempt you, an item of interest close by, or if there’s an Abomination prowling nearby, the guide lets you know. From threat levels to lists of every character that inhabits a location, the tour of the Mojave Wasteland is exhaustive.
Occasionally it’s okay to stop trying to complete every one of the over 70 side quests, and 90 free quests and sit a spell to marvel at the sunsets and check out the gleaming spire of The Strip.
But what kinds of locations are available to the sight-seeing Courier? Well, some personal favorites include The Devil’s Throat; a giant rock depression filled with Evolved Centaurs, radioactive barrels, and heavy Energy Weapons. There are stretches of lonely highway to trek down passing savaged caravans with Brahmin corpses stinking in the mid-day sun.
There’s a whole mountain wilderness where Super Mutants are the friendliest creatures you’ll face, and hidden pathways to find locations you previously thought inaccessible. There are mines, shacks, ravines, mountains, caves, sweeping plains, dry lakes, rocky promontories, and wild canyons where the thrill of traversing the rugged landscape changes to fear as your hunting rifle jams just before a Legendary Fire Gecko spots you. And that’s before you enter the outskirts of New Vegas itself. Finding out which locations are safe to explore and which are deathtraps filled with Deathclaws is only a glimpse of what the strategy guide offers. Expect a full, complete, and helpful tour of every nook, cranny, and secret safehouse there is to find. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Release already...
The wait is killing me!
And I can't possibly start and finish Fallout 3 for the 4th time.... or can I?
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This is the first game i have preordered in a good 8 years. Very excited
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Oh man, if I'm able to dance naked in a fountain in this game, every dollar spent buying this will have been worth it, times a thousand.
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