Note - if playing on PC, do yourself a favor and consult one of the many excellent guides on modding this game for stability. An 18-month development cycle on one of Bethesda's famously buggy engines did it no favors.
New Vegas is the best modern Fallout game, and one of the best RPGs ever made. Obsidian took Bethesda's open-world formula, combined it with the quality writing of Black Isle's previous Fallout titles, dialed back the silliness of those games just a little, and made something truly extraordinary. I only wish they had been given more time to refine some of the elements that clearly needed more development, mostly concerning the Legion's pretty unambiguous "bad guy" status - the Roman-LARPing fascists were going to be the villains anyway, but they feel too simple for a game which truly revels in the moral complexities of its setting.
New Vegas is the best modern Fallout game, and one of the best RPGs ever made. Obsidian took Bethesda's open-world formula, combined it with the quality writing of Black Isle's previous Fallout titles, dialed back the silliness of those games just a little, and made something truly extraordinary. I only wish they had been given more time to refine some of the elements that clearly needed more development, mostly concerning the Legion's pretty unambiguous "bad guy" status - the Roman-LARPing fascists were going to be the villains anyway, but they feel too simple for a game which truly revels in the moral complexities of its setting.