

In terms of genre, Fallout: New Vegas can best be described as a cross between an adventure game, a role-playing game, and a first person shooter, having elements of all three. Fallout: New Vegas begins in the late 23rd century, shortly after the events of Fallout 3, allowing you to once again enter this bizarre alternate reality and explore the post-apocalyptic wasteland surrounding and including Las Vegas, now known as New Vegas. Once in the game you can simply reload one of your old saves.If you're unfamiliar with the Fallout series of games, the quirky premise is that America effectively became culturally stuck in the 1950's 'Atomic Age', right up to a devastating nuclear war which occurs in the early 21st century. Now, next time you encounter a loading screen that goes on forever, restart the game and load that save. When Doc Mitchell is done with you and you’ve regained control of your character create a hard save at this point. It doesn’t matter whether you create the same character or not. You’ll wake up Doc Mitchell’s house where you’ll once again be guided though creating your character.

Note that you’ll want to retain any saves you may have to this point. Very annoying.Ī simple work-around for this problem is to start a new game. When this happens the actual game will not launch and game play cannot continue.


One intermittent problem that remains, however, is an an infinite loading screen. GOG has done an excellent job of fixing most of the bugs, crashes and other problems that continue to plague the version of the game available from Steam. For this play through I bought the game anew from GOG.com. With the Corona-19 virus curbing my outdoor activities I decided to have another go at playing Fallout: New Vegas on PC.
