Yesterday I reached one of the many endings of New Vegas, after about 50 hours of play. This is one of the best games I’ve played. There is so much to say about this game, stay tuned.

Finished Assassin’s Creed 2 yesterday (including DLCs), and began New Vegas today.

Haven’t even left the initial village yet, but so far so good! It’s great to be playing a Fallout again. It feels pretty wild west settler-ish, but maybe that’ll change with lasers and the like later, or when I get somewhere else than the sleepy village with two-headed cattle that is the starting point.

Killed me some geckos, which look like little monsters in this version, and a big ass scorpion what wasn’t a radscorpion (not by name anyway).

Had to restart when I realized, right after I left the house that strength is needed to operate guns (more strength the heaver the gun is). I started out with 3/10 (strength isn’t important in Fallout 3, not for the type of character I play), but in NV apparently it is. I set it to 5/10, hope that’s enough.

Oh well. Tomorrow the adventure resumes.

Played it a lot more now, should be completed in a few more gaming days (not all days are).

The colorfulness compared to the first game keeps being striking. It is especially obvious during the masquerade, ending with fireworks and everything.

There’s a lot little references to Altaír, the assassin in the first game. That’s pretty cool if you’ve played that one, and it makes him seem almost like a legend, more so than when you played him.

Like the first game I think the story is convoluted and pretty hard to follow in detail, though partly, I guess, because I don’t try very hard, as I just don’t particularly like it. It’s a lot of names and intrigues to the right and left and I just don’t care enough to keep track of it all. That doesn’t matter much though, I get the main quests and the immediate goals, and I like the gameplay. That’s enough for me.

It’s not a hard game. That’s fine, I’m not an adherent of the school of thought that games have to be challenging to be enjoyable; I’m more of an immersion and flow kind of guy, though challenges can be fun at times. (The best venue for challenge is probably multiplayer anyway).

And ahh, the music is mostly very good. Being such a fan of music that’s important to me, as it contributes a lot to the feel and immersion of a game.

There’s a lot of small additions and improvements over the first game, like a reputation system and some really cool weapons, like the possibility to secretly poison someone and than watch that person go crazy and strike blindly around him. Too much fun.

Anyway, this concludes my two part series on Assassin’s Creed 2. I will definitely be playing Brotherhood some time later.

Yep. The 1.05 patch did fix a lot of bugs, and 1.06 is on its way and apparently it’s going to be a huge patch for the PS3 — more than ten times as big as the XBox counterpart (but then the PS3 version currently is the most buggy of all, as was, alas, Fallout 3.)

So I finally purchased the game, and I will probably get playing as soon as I’m done with Assassin’s Creed 2, assuming the new patch has been released. If the game at that point still has freezing issues I’m going to… I don’t know, keep whining about it here perhaps. Or sacrifice a goat with the game attached to it.