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OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

Hanlon’s a lion in winter; a hero from times gone by

A single character explains why New Vegas is a classic. Joshua Wolens
Vegas doesn’t welcome all comers anymore.

Well it happened to me. By my count, approximately 97% of the human race fell deep into a Fallout hole after Amazon dropped all eight episodes of its TV series this April, and you can bet your bottom bottle cap I was one of them. It took me a while to settle on the one I was gonna pour my time into, though. I flirted with the first game, endured the Temple of Trials in FO2, and even tried to remember what the hell I was doing in my last Fallout 4 save before I finally accepted the truth: I was going to have to install the requisite 60+ mods to coax New Vegas into playability on modern hardware.

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