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Nominator(s): Famous Hobo (talk) 14:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Fallout: New Vegas, a 2010 video game that is still quite popular to this day. A bit of history about this article. It got promoted to GA status back in 2013, but was brought up for a GAR in 2024. I decided to try and save it since I love the Fallout series, and gave it a complete overhaul (for reference, this is what it looked like before I made any edits). Since then, this has been a passion project of mine, slowly building it up to what it is today. I've scoured all available reliable sources, including digging through some old magazines, to try and find every little detail I can about this game. And at least for now, I think this is about as comprehensive as this article can be without delving too much into WP:GAMECRUFT. Baffle gab1978 did a lovely copyedit, and now I think this article is ready.

One last thing to note. The second season of the Fallout TV show is going to be set in New Vegas, so I'm sure more info about the game will come out as the season get's released. However, all sources seem to indicate that the second season won't be released until at least 2026, possibly even 2027, so for now I think we're good. Every now and again a new bit of info about the game's development trickles out but nothing substantial. Famous Hobo (talk) 14:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LunaEclipse

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FYI: I am reviewing this revision of the article.

Will do a spotcheck in the following days. 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST) 11:31, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[71]: OK

[3]: OK

[62]: OK, but I believe you should start the quote with "[...] when I reflect on the experience..." instead of "When I reflect on the experience...".

[39]: OK

[37]: OK

[82]: OK

[76]: OK

[49]: OK

[75]: Dexerto is a situational source per WP:VG/S; please remove it from the article.

[56]: OK

Weak oppose. The article has some minor issues here and there with sourcing, but they can be fixed in a timely manner. 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST) 18:21, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Famous Hobo: forgot the ping. 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST) 18:21, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ImaginesTigers

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Hello! Big fan of the series so happy to offer a review for this; thank you for your work. I will deliver the review in chunks.

  • Lead
    • The lead is very crowded and heavy on narrative and neglects the game's extensive RPG systems, including branching narrative and dialogue, in favour of mentioning energy weapons. I would guess the RPG systems are more prominent across the reception sections than the melee combat (or guns, which were largely the same as its predecessor.
Condensed the narrative sentences, and will add more info about the other mechanics once I can find references for them.
    • Likewise, I don't think additional game modes (e.g., Hardcore mode) deserve this much emphasis placed on them. IMO, it should explicitly mention that it was a direct sequel to Fallout 3 made by a different studio.
I do mention in the first sentence of the second paragraph that New Vegas is a spin-off to the Fallout series and that it was made by a different company.
  • Gameplay
    • A thorough, well-referenced gameplay section! I like to see it.
    • I think there are some problems with ordering, as with the lead, though. Gameplay sections of articles should explain from the top down, stringing gameplay mechanic to explain how someone would play the game. The mention of the Mojave in the first paragraph anticipates a need to explain the open world, because the open world is vital to understanding traversal, but then it doesn't mention the open world for for two paragraphs.
Switched paragraphs two and three, so now it goes straight to the open world. I agree with your comment, I think overloading the reader with more complex RPG components instead of just telling them the basic functions of the game is not a smart idea.
    • It might be worth splitting this section up under different subheadings to make this easier. That is what I would do for this article.
I decided to split it into two sections, the second of which talks about the role-playing mechanics. I can go more specific, but I'd rather not since that would more than likely lead to single paragraph sections, which I really don't like
    • Again, no mention of the RPG elements of the game – including dialogue, branching quest design, the game's delayed reactions to your choices, or the different end states.
Working on adding that. I'll probably have to use the guide book since none of the reviews make any mention of how dialogue works or branching questlines.
    • It mentions the reputation system but not the karma section, the game's other morality system.
So I'm gonna be honest, I know that karma exists in New Vegas but does it honestly even warrant a mention? It doesn't do anything other than affect the end slide show. Even fansites speculate that it was likely just a holdover from Fallout 3 that Obsidian either forgot about or scrapped larger plans for during development. I decided to instead focus on the reputation system. Note that none of the reviews I found even mention that karma even exists in New Vegas, so they don't seem to think that it's important either.
  • Plot – Setting
    • This might be a limitation of sources, but New Vegas is quite a morally complex game; this section describes the NCR as a "democratic republic [attempting] to maintain law". My memory of the NCR is a bit more complicated than that, and I would hope this article had coverage of how immensely political the game is. I found a Polygon article that mentions that the game making the faction more expansionist.
  • I'll provide more feedback later. Thanks again — ImaginesTigers (talkcontribs) 01:15, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @ImaginesTigers:! Thank you for the review. I've started tackling these issues on my sandbox, and I'll move them over to the mainpage when I've finalized them. I'll address more comments as I go along. Famous Hobo (talk) 12:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Hobo (lol)! IRL's eating up time right now but I'll come back to this at the weekend. The Development section I think will require dedicated time. — ImaginesTigers (talkcontribs) 11:13, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

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  • File:Fallout_New_Vegas.jpg needs a more expansive FUR. Ditto File:Fallout_NV_gameplay.jpg
  • File:Flag_of_the_New_California_Republic.svg: why would the uploader have the right to release the image under the given license?
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