When your favorite game begins to show its age

#fallout #newvegas

It can be a sad feeling knowing that your favorite game is starting to feel dated. Also this isn’t a too much of a dig against new Vegas cause it felt dated when it released and it’s still pretty much the GOAT

[thebigboss]

"The world's still the same there's just less in it"
That line always gave me chills

[iron_dude_j]

I love that the dialogue from a funny pirate movie and the soundtrack from a slightly funny post apocalypse game can just come together to make something great.

[bastyman]

These 2 had the best chemistry of anyone in those movies, friend or foe they were great together.

[garrettdoyle]

"The world is still the same there's just less in it" hit me right in my core.💀

[DTyrant]

That little guitar strum after Jack's "There's just less in it" fits so damn beautifully

[QuicklimeTime]

_(Back in 2010)_

Fallout 2: "I used to be groundbreaking. But then they changed what groundbreaking was. Now what I am is retro, and what's groundbreaking seems weird and scary. It'll happen to

New Vegas: "No way, old man! We're gonna seem brand new, forever! Forever! Forever! Forever!"

[RogueFox]

The OG Pirate’s trilogy ages like fine wine.

[ScoundrelSFB]

This was more emotionally investing than I had anticipated...

[mikewazowski]

This genuinely is one of my favourite dialogues in movie history. Two old men of a time past trying to grapple with a changing world, trying to save what they can from the dissapearing old world.

[codeine]

The hard part isn't getting into New Vegas.

It's letting go.

[granudisimo]

Few things in this world are more reassuring than Mr. Vegas' velvety sand paper of a voice flowing outta the Pip Boy's speaker.

[Arcian]

Online games that die because no one plays them anymore.

"All those moments will be lost in time... like tears... in rain."

[proximacentauri]

This fits so well because that scene is about Jack reeling with the knowledge that his original way of finding meaning in the world and his life no longer works due to the passage of time. the same goes for enjoying older games. Eventually, nostalgia wears away and if you want to keep enjoying it you have to look harder to find something fun and meaningful to you, because (due to the game's age) it feels as though there's "less in it".

[weeoth]

Unironically such a great piece of dialogue between characters who don't even like one another

[zackarystockdale]

I can't describe the hope I got hearing Mr. NewVegas say he's not going anywhere, and his love for us is too strong.

[AurickLeru]

I would consider that to be a compliment; the game has remained beloved and relevant long enough for the graphics to show their age. Despite the game looking dated compared to now, it's still considered one of the best games, period. Gamers keep returning for the world, with the stories, characters, encounters, and flavor found within. How many other games that focused on graphical quality have disappeared after the initial hype because of weak story or gameplay?

This game is much like a house with a good foundation and solid structure, just needing a fresh coat of paint and new carpet to spruce it up a bit but otherwise lasting far longer than newer ones with weak foundations and flimsy structures.

[MattII]

I recently got my first gaming pc after years of playing vanilla New Vegas on console, it’s nice to finally be able to mod it and make it feel almost like a new game.

[rustkarl]

I remember being really hung up on this dialogue the first time I saw it.

Felt like the first time that getting older felt like the world was shrinking, becoming less.
Those actors and celebrities I looked up to getting old, passing away, the little things I used to enjoy so much seeming old and dull, no more wonder in discovery or learning.

That feeling, that understanding, realisation or what you want to call it seemed to just hit me then.
Watching Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush playing a pair of pirates while the finality of the world pressed down on them.
And in that unlikely place I felt like I knew what it was they were really talking about.
“The world used to be a bigger place” things to do, new things to learn and possibilities.
“The world’s still the same, there’s just less in it.” knowing the depth of what I thought back then now seems shallow.
Everything is repeated. Nothing really new happens.
Born too late to explore the world, born too early to reach the stars.

[nemolives]

I used to play NV in my first years of college, hours and hours spent in those yellowed desert landscapes, just listening to old Jazz songs and hunting geckos, hoping to discover the next uncharted location. I lost count of how many times I started it from scratch, how many simultaneous characters lived in the multiple save files, how many stories were created even in the same universe, but with so many possible results. So many ways to do the same, but differently...

I thought I would never get tired of playing it, that I could always come back and roleplay with the same excitement as always. But years have gone by and I can't remember the last time I spent more than 20 minutes in the game, even with its mods and graphic improvements.

Fallout was the first video game that I developed true feelings for, I miss wandering its paths as well as I miss the old city that saw me born, and the people who saw me grow up.

And although all this sounds melancholic, somewhat hopeless, I know that it is a matter of time until a video game title manages to sink me as deeply as this one, a game that opened my mind to a new universe, to a way of understanding video games as a true art, not just a distraction or entertainment.
And I just hope sometime in my life I can carry out a project with as much love and dedication as the one they put into NV.

Thank you for inspiring me and for accompanying me on those long nights, I will never forget you Mr. New Vegas.

[Virgil-]

The final line is timed so well with the final note of the guitar