I've been playing Fallout: New Vegas all week long. This is my favorite game of all time and the culmination of my three month gaming journey that I started back in July. There’s so much content in this game that I don't even know where to begin, but I guess I'll start with the main quest. I'm going for “Wild Card”…

James Vega is the most tolerable of the shitty Mass Effect companions. If I could replace him with someone like Jack or Legion I would, but I'd prefer him to Miranda or Kaiden.

I'll probably check it out then. Thanks!

How long would a typical campaign take to beat? I probably won't have much time for video games in the not too distant future, but if it's just a short and fun shoot-em-up I could dig it.

I know it's really late to be asking this, but should I play the first three Gears game? I like the Halo campaigns, so I don't really care if the story in Gears is crap, but I'm wondering if it's fun to play through alone, because I don't do multiplayer.

I have four endings that I can copy/paste to ME3. Rated from happiest to saddest:

"Skyrim and Solitude" was the one I was thinking of.

I played it with Broken Steel. I was referring to the original ending in my first post. I'll give Bethesda credit that at least they knew that their ending was shit and retconned it away with DLC. I only wish Bioware did a similar add-on with ME3.

I don't know how to link it, but Paul Tassi's article on Skyrim sums up my feelings on Fallout 3 pretty well, just swap Skyrim for F3, which also feeds into your point about the Bethesda making the same game over and over again.

I finished Fallout 3 with about 54 hours clocked in. I know it's been said many times before, but it bears repeating: The ending is really, really stupid. Blatantly illogical and stupid.

I'm halfway through the Pitt and I love it. I wouldn't mind a whole game set in this area or at least some other part of the Rust Belt, like Detroit.

I think the Pitt is the best one, and then PL, and the rest in whatever order you prefer. I'm skipping the alien one entirely though.

Knee deep in Fallout 3. There's a lot I want to cover, so I'll break it down for convenience.

I agree about F3's base game being better. The questing feels like it happens more organically than it does in NV. But you're right about bad DLCs. The only thing I'm planning on skipping in F3 is Mothership Zeta. I like the rest of the DLCs, even Anchorage, but Zeta I just plain dislike.

Once again, I'm playing Fallout 3. I still remember when I first got this game in about 2010 or so, my freshman year of high school. I actually didn't like it at first and ended up selling it to some other kid in class. But after a few months without it, I started to miss it and so I re-bought it and tried it again.…

Don't feel bad about hitting Miranda with a grenade. I think she deserves that much at least.

Altman be praised, I'm playing Dead Space again. The story can't help but be a bit bland and it really needs better music. A series like this is just begging for a really good soundtrack. I still love the zero-g mechanics though and the core gameplay is really good.

Yay, more masturbatory nerd-rage about Star Wars. I really needed more of that.

And then you find the guy on the logs has been ghoulified and he's worshiping the obelisk with all the ferals. Very good, atmospheric quest.

I'm fine with supernatural stuff in Fallout as long it stays on the sides. Mothership Zeta in F3 was too much, but something like the Cabot House quest in F4 was alright.