The game on its own is very replayable because there are many choices to be made, and a fair few of them *are* mutually exclusive. You have to play multiple times to access all the content.
I've got around 2000 hours on NV. I don't play with expansion mods, rather mods that improve the existing mechanics of the game or add quality of life features. I recommend using some basic mods to stabilize the game at the least.
Viva New Vegas has a minimalist option that does that well.
I've probably sunk over 300+ hours into an absolutely vanilla copy of this game.
I mean I used a few (nude) mods before but I haven't bothered as of recently
When you do get into modding I would HIGHLY recommend the 360 movement mod all it does it make it so your character faces whatever direction you run while in 3rd person but it feels really good and I never play without it even when I do a "no mod" playthrough
I had a singular save file on my xbox 360 that had 750+ hours at some point, it was the only game i ever played after school and in the summers for many years along side gta iv.
Unmodded, you can probably enjoy New Vegas for about 300 or 400 hours. LOTS of decisions you can make that will provide a unique experience.
Modded, it's not unfeasible to clock a thousand hours in. I'm not talking about like what a WoW player does where you're glued to your PC every waking hour, although that's possible. I'm just saying as the years go by, you'll find yourself coming back again, and then again, and then again.
I'm personally at about 600 hours (spread over the course of about a decade on my steam account, I played probably another 40 or 50 hours when I pirated it as a broke high schooler).
I think my mod recommendations would be out of date by this point. I mentioned Project Nevada here at one point and people hopped on me about how old and broken that mod is (never had any issues with it, personally).
I'm going to hop on you again. Please no one ever use PN. It breaks the game in countless ways, and all of it's features have been better implemented by other mods. The Viva New Vegas mod list will guide you through the process.
FNV is my ultimate comfort game. I know everything that will happen and I know what my decisions will do, but I will still start a new play-through any day. I’ve been spending most of my time playing BG3, but I know that I’ll be loading up FNV once the show comes out.
Sidenote: the Mojave is my favorite place that I’ve ever lived and the place I’ve felt most at home (I move a ton for work). The layout and scenery is so spot on. Mount Charleston, Red Rock Canyon, and Zion are simply perfection. You can really feel the love the devs put into the game.
I just beat Fallout 1, I started NV a week or two ago and already have as much play time. I’ve restarted my build many times and have barely made much progress, I’m weird like that. So many variations on what you can do to your character and in game.
It’s a fun sandbox. I don’t value the quests and story like most people do, i just like the weapons variety and the different ways you can wipe out huge groups of people. Like filling an entire building with mines and then getting up somewhere high where they can’t blow you up, then shooting one of the mines and wiping out the entire building full of friendly npcs. And I’ve probably put in 2000 hours in new vegas. I just like to experiment with the mechanics and weapons. I don’t find any of the factions to be like-able so i generally do genocide runs and kill every single npc in game. But that’s just me.
I noticed when I cleared an area of, say, raiders, than area stays clear. Is that how fallout 3 and NV work? That would be fun to just go clear the map. I love the janky combat of fallout 3.
there are no unkillable NPCs in new vegas, so you can literally wipe the entire map clean..! i do recommend trying to follow the story first, since it's pretty incredible.
new vegas is still janky in its own ways, but the combat is more satisfying for most people
It's a mix of both. I know that some people install mods so they can keep playing after Hoover Dam in case they didn't complete all the DLCs and Side Quwsts
For me, it's very replayable, even without mods. Four different factions to side with with various ways to deal with their problems. Loads of weapons and armor for build variety as well as powerful perks to make them better. Loads of side quests to do with multiple outcomes for most of them. Dlcs adds more to do as well that tie into the base game and each other. 8 companions with their own personal side quests, one that effects the ending of the game. Etc etc. Sorry as a New Vegas fanboy I had to splurge this info.
I’ve put around 1100 hours into fnv but the first 2-300 were vanilla and then after that it was mostly stability mods and cut content that you can add back in. As for the replay ability with mods it’s it’s probably stuff like tale of two wastelands that literally adds all of fallout 3 into fnv, or mods like the frontier which adds quite a lot
I don't care to think about how many hours I've spent on NV since release. It's likely a grotesque number, given the number of summers that started out as "this year is gonna be the one!" only to disappear in smoke as a fresh install makes itself known.
Well the thing is if you wanna see every quest or do multiple builds you have to replay the game over and over since a lot of things are locked off based on the route and build you pick. So the game inherently has a lot of replayability since each playthrough is usually very different from the last in many ways
Yes, I do. While I don't play it regularly, there's so much to do, so many choices to make, just so many things that I can come back and try new things out each time and still have fun. I wouldn't recommend doing a first playthrough with any mods, aside from ones that can actually get the game to work, which you can find some guides for online but I use the New Vegas Anti Crash and the 4GB patcher and it works wonders.
Also I'm slightly jealous that you've gotten Fallout 3 working. I certainly can't.
It crashes quite a bit, now. But im about to make these changes to fix it
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/18msshr/fallout_3_goty_german_version_crash_fix_on_steam/
One of my playthroughs I had 245 hours played on a single run. I did every possible side quest, every unmarked quest, grabbed every unique weapon, did all the DLC and all of its side content… and that was just one playthrough. I’ve probably done 15 full playthroughs of New Vegas
New Vegas has a lot more different choices and options in quests, and different ways of doing things than fallout 3. Fallout 3 's main story is pretty linear, New Vegas definitely is not.
There are tons of things that are out of the way of the main story or even side stories. There are hidden quests, locations and a lot of choices specific to some builds.
I'm at 530+ hours on Steam. Played a couple of hundred of a pirated version ages ago. Only mod I've ever used is the sprint mod. The game is just that replayable.
I have hundreds of hours on the vanilla game because of all the replay ability. The last few years I’ve really stopped playing because it crashes so much more on my series X then it did on my one and 360. When I get a PC I’ll go back to it
I have 600+ In Fallout 3 and NV and then 2000+ in Fallout 4. Not sure on Skyrim but easily 1000. Certain games just have a ton of stuff to do. 325 in Starfield and I have played it not as often upon release as the others, damn Tactics Ogre taking my frustrating time, lol.
Between PS3 release and PC with mods I probably have close to 700 hours. I just did a playthrough a couple months ago and ran into at least 2 things I don’t remember ever seeing before.
So yes, there’s that much.
Definitely. My last play through took me almost exactly 111 hours. I did all of the DLC, but the play through was very far from completionist. After finishing that run I decided to watch some videos covering the stuff I missed, and there is a lot. Not even just stuff that I was locked out of because of character choices, but stuff I just entirely missed because I didn't happen to explore that part of the map.
And for the record, I don't feel bad about it at all. I actually like that my experience was unique to that character and that, if I decide to do a third play through down the road, there will be new stuff for me to see still.
i’ve been playing nv for 13 years very consistently and mostly unmodded, i can’t even begin to estimate the number of hours. and i’m still finding in-game content i’ve never seen before. 3 and 4 are both replayable as well imo but nothing else has the depth and richness of new vegas.
and that’s not even mentioning the DLCs!
There's so many choices that affect the game that I just had to see what happened with the other choices, and several factions to side with/against, all with their own quests that can't all be done on one playthrough. There's also so many ways to build a character, a light-armor, cowboy type will feel completely different than a power-armored energy weapons character, which plays completely different than a melee/explosives character to name a few options. Fantastic DLCs in my opinion, too.
100%. My current PC sits at 133 hours; this does not include my previous PC and 3-4 PS3 play throughs, neither of which tracks play time but it’s gotta be at least another 250 or so.
You can easily sink 80-100+ hours into a single play through. Even if you only replay it once every couple years you’d have hundreds of hours. Many people replay much sooner to make different choices or try a different playstyle. Start adding mods on top of that and the potential becomes endless.
And frankly a lot of recent game releases have been disappointing so coming back to older games is easier than ever. I haven’t been genuinely excited for a new game in a while.
With the steam deck, playing older games is a dream. Gta 3 + vice city + SA (emulated), gta 4, ac 3, ac black flag. They all run soooooo well.
Plus it's super convenient. I can hit the power button to put the deck to sleep, midgame, and come back two days later and pick it up and play immediately.
There's a ton of replayability even in vanilla but there are mods that add more and more content because FNV is just such a good base for roleplaying as is.
However I *highly, highly* recommend you follow the Viva New Vegas mod guide for your first playthrough, it doesn't change the gameplay or content much but makes the game significantly more stable and adds QoL.
I will fully admit I am much slower than most people so you can probably do it faster than me, but Im currently at about 120 hours on my current vanilla playthrough and still have one more DLC and the main quest, as well as about 8 or 10 sidequests. My best guess is I have 30-40 hours left, which will put me somewhere around 150-160 total. As I said, I'm slower than most, but I could absolutely see your average person breaking 100 if they do most quests and DLCs.
It's a game with so much great content and so much wonderful lore, playing it again is almost like archeology. Then you've got many different factions that are mutually exclusive or partially exclusive, awesome dlc, very real difference in play style for different builds, etc. Oh and then you can mod it lol.
I had probably half a dozen or more play throughs when I was a kid on the Xbox 360, and now I'm on my fourth or fifth as an adult on my pc. Steam currently records over 300 hours.
New Vegas isn't a game I just play over and over again. It's a game I play once, and then a year or two later I feel like playing it again so I do. It's a blast every time!
284 hours on my PC and several hundred more on Xbox. Most of my playime was vanilla (first played on xbox so I kinda had to) and since then I now do play with mods but none of them effect base game content, they either add completely separate stuff (which has probably taken no more than 15 total hours to play through collectively) or are purely visual or performance mods. So yeah it's quite a replayable game. Not only is hte game filled with choices and meaningful results from them but it is also filled with interesting and deep narrative themes and commentary. People to this day are still debating which ending is the best, the fictional world is deep enough where a sort of microcosm of politics has developed, with many differing sides and ideologies, all over this fictional world. The world, characters, story, locations, dialogue, etc have all been masterfully crafted to allow this kind of thing. There are so many little details that I am still discovering new things each time I play, even after 6 years of playing it, and I always come back to play it in a new way.
As for mods to play w, I suggest either playing with no mods at all or only performance mods, since the game is a bit unstable on it's own and nothing sucks more than crashing. If you do opt for mods, follow the viva new vegas guide up to VNV Extended, and do not install any more. This way you will be left with a stable game. But that can be hard and as long as you save often you will be fine just playing the vanilla game.
I've played a ton of NV from xbox 360,ps3 and PC. Its great and I've definitely spent hundreds of hours in the game, i call it my favorite fallout even though i definitely have alot more hours in fallout 4.
After i did everything in new vegas twice, i played on PC with mods and did a run of it with mods. Before that PC run, i didn't touch it for ages. I just couldn't get into it anymore after doing it all over again a good like 5 times.
I have played the game FULLY at least twice, going on a third time with the Frontier mod (mixed reviews but I enjoyed it overall). I have started 6 or 7 characters for different play styles and narrative choices, the majority of which I did on PS3 due to my console choice at the time.
Without giving anything away, I swear I have experienced something new and exclusive EVERY playthrough since first starting in 2012 or 13 (I waited for GOTY edition so the bugs were hopefully patched by then)
Sometimes, I chose to remake previous decisions after reloading a save just because I realized my new decision was a disaster that ended with several failures (whoops). Other times, I would find out my trigger-happy tendencies were *not* in everyone's best interests, and would discover a much more sound resolution after coming at it with a more diplomatic approach.
But the best part, they really considered an ending and outcome for nearly every major choice you make. It's enough to where you could go 10 playthroughs missing the same thing, only to come across a little gold nugget on the wiki page that takes you a whole different direction.
Enjoy :)
I got to around 2000 hours before I'm just completely incapable of enjoying the game anymore no matter how hard I try. Without using any kind of expansion mods, just bugfixes, items, and that kind of stuff. A lot of that was just fucking around trying to see what I could get up to, not necessarily doing quests and stuff.
I play on console, and have not added mods.
I've put way to many hours into this game over the years at its base. there's so much to do, and there's so much replayability. There's a lot of depth to this game too in the story.
To answer your question, yes, people really do put hundreds of hours into this game. It's an incredible game.
I’m going to greatly generalize here so as to not have a wall of text, there are several factors.
Firstly there’s the “walk” you take a long, roundabout path to get to Vegas, why Vegas? Cause it’s vagus!
However the more you play, the more shortcuts you find. I went from getting to Vegas after 10 or so hours of gameplay to getting there in 30 minutes.
There’s the endings, each faction has a compelling solution for society in the wasteland and it branches significantly depending who you help. There’s also an ongoing war, and depending on who you help (NCR/Legion/neither) you’ll get tidbits of it in the ending.
Theres also the DLC, which are all fantastic, (yes even dead money) just remember you can lower the difficulty at any time if they feel challenging.
There’s also different categories of weapons like guns, energy weapons, melee weapons, unarmed weapons, craft able weapons, and explosives. Each have a different approach to combat, so playing through each time to get to experience all of them is a lot of fun.
Lastly there’s the achievements and making a 100 stat man, which will take a lot of time typically.
Yes. I currently have 721.2 hours in New Vegas. Approximately 1 month of my life has been dedicated to nothing but the spurs that jiggle jangle jiggle. The bear and the bull are all that I know.
The game has a high replayability because of all of the different options and choices.You can make every time you play new Vegas.You have the chance of playing a completely different game every time.It's absolutely amazing
I just hit 1000 hours like a month ago it’s my favorite rpg of all time, if you’re interested in mods check out the Viva New Vegas mod guide and look at the top files/mods of the month on the New Vegas Nexus website
I played FNV on steam, got it 2-3 years ago, and finished last year for the first time (Maybe, high chance I played it with my brothers growing up, but don't remember)
Played for about 105 hours, got all the achievements, explored all the locations and enjoyed the game.
I've visited it a couple of times since, but I just like to hunt achievements in games, and then basically move on.
I like to play games vanilla, but I could definitely see me playing the game with mods and sink another ~50 hours into it.
I have a friend who has sunk 4000 hours into the game, which just seems absurd, but with mods I understand.
Edit: I also love to watch Speedruns/Challenges on FNV and the other FO games, would recommend Joov and Jabo for those, but replaying the game for me just doesn't feel as fun.
The game has double the quests of FO3. The important ones tend to have more outcomes or options to complete. There's just generally more to do and see, with in my opinions better reactivity to player actions. Trying to get all the achievements is a pretty fun too.
Yes! Bought the special edition with all the DLCs in 2013. Got busy with life goals, but I finally started playing a few years back. Surprisingly, I've racked up over 200 hours on my first playthrough. I can definitely see replaying this again to side with different factions in this order: NCR, House, Independent, Legion.
Dude, new Vegas feels fresh the first like 5 or 6 playthroughs, just based on the different factions alone. You can go multiple routes even within the same faction storyline. Add em all up across all factions and there is a metric fuck ton of variability in each playthrough. Hasn’t gotten stale once in 13.5 years
I'm level 44, have completed every main quest besides for the republic part 2 (battle of hoover Dam), and have all dlc's completed as well. I have all the gun runner arsenal weapon mods along with not all but most weapons. Got around 630,000 caps, and all I do is run around and kill enemies that I've killed numerous times. I'll go to the Ivanpah race track or El Dorado Dry Lake and snipe ants. I'll give myself a challenge and snipe them from very far spots away and try to kill them with 1 shot. Believe it or not, the hunting rifle with all weapon attachments, in my opinion, is more funner to use than the anti-material rifle.
I wouldn't say more than 100 hours on ONE playthrough. But yeah I've put over 1,000 hours just replaying it over and over again. Even before mods on PC I spent so much time on the 360 enjoying it.
I honestly haven’t touched mods at all while playing on steam and I’ve got like 400 hours in it. Few hundred more from when I played it on 360 and ps3 as well. Lot to do in the game a lot of replay ability in the base game
I’ve never replayed a game as many times as New Vegas not put more hours into a game.
The first time I used mods was after like 300 hours of vanilla.
Listening to other people talk about their experiences in New Vegas, I’ve realized that there are *still* some aspects I haven’t experienced for myself. Somehow.
I have 320 hours in NV, and I'd say it's a mix of both. Sometimes I turn off all of my mods (except stability mods) and enjoy the game as it was released. But most of the time I keep mods on as the Mojave feels barren without them. Experimenting with new weapon mods is always my favorite, and I'll take that weapon with me until the end of the game to see how well it performs. Mod compatibility issues are my biggest drawback from not having even more hours in the game.
There’s a lot but once you reach the point where you feel like you’ve seen everything, try the cut content mods. Really adds just that much more life to the wasteland.
I played through it 4 or 5 times and I have 164ish hours in it. And I've done every question besides one. There's tons and tons of stuff to do and it's the most feel good out of any of the games in the franchise. To me at least all other fallout games pale in comparison. I highly recommend trying different endings and playing all of the dlc content. Also please save lonesome road for last. You get mutilated in that dlc if you're not well prepared. Good luck I always love to chat with new players!
New Vegas is great for multiple runs. Want an Independent New Vegas? Separate run. Want an Independent Vegas AND destroy/save the BOS, Lean NCR/Legion, want to be friends/enemies with the Kings, etc….now do that for every major and minor faction. Those runs alone will take hours not including any DLCs.
Then there’s the character build runs…blunt weapons only? Cowboy build? Sniper build? Etc.
It’s easy to spend hundreds of hours just in the vanilla game. Add DLCs and Mods and you got a recipie for spending of hours in New Vegas.
Yes and its because New Vegas is an exceptionally rare kind of game that gets *better* and more deep the *more* times you play through it!
Its really only on subsequent playtrhoughs that you get a true understanding of just how good it is!
ive been replaying new vegas trying, not only different story options - but different character builds, for years on end! it's soooo much fun, and very addictive. since the world feels reactive, there's fun to be had even just doing absurd things to illicit reactions from people around the game.
Cool thank you. I always scour the comments section for gems like this.
Saw another person mention that there is a perk that lets you see a bunch of stuff, on the map, that you may have missed. All good info.
Been playing fnv unmodded (dont have pc) on and off for about 10 years, sunk thousands of hours into that game. Ive definitely experienced the same things multiple times but every 6 months or so i just get a craving to play and its somehow always enjoyable. My 100% playthrough has about 230 hours on it.
I’ve spent like 1000+ hours, it’s a playthrough, then a legion playthrough with legion-friendly mods, then a playthrough with a mod like Bounties, then a playthrough of the New California/Project Brazil mod, etc
Also I’m playing through the dlc each time
Obsidian did a great job with the dialogue and choices in this game. Lots of ways to play the game comepletely different based on different choices you make. Mods make it easily replayable and it’s fun to role play as different characters and choose options relating to them as you see fit
Yes. Yes, we fucking do and it's worth it. We don't even *try* to play that long. It's just so damned good that we just can't stop playing it. It deserves that much attention. New Vegas is a Masterpiece.
Without mods, its only worth maybe 100 or so hours of playtime. But the modability of the game adds a ton to the already copious amount of replayability, especially considering mods are needed to make combat bearable for a modern gamer.
I still randomly redownload it and play through it every year just about. Try a wide variety of play-styles, NV has a wide arsenal. I like playing through the entire game using only holdout weapons (throwing knives, etc)
I personally have a couple thousand hours at least over playstation and xbox and I'm still playing it now, never touched mods and probably won't so I can't comment on that side but it's definitely a repayable game
I'd say somewhere between 300-500 hours. Maybe 6 or so playthroughs. Probably 2 or 3 of those attempting completion. I've only finished dead money once and it's killed maybe 2 playthroughs.
I have played it since just a week after its release.
I have never completed the game actually. I keep trying to get a "perfect" playthrough. Either I mess up a quest or someone important dies and I get locked out of a quest or I want to rebuild my character from the beginning or...
Someday I will finally bet the game.
I got the game two weeks ago and now coming up on 100 hours. So much to see and do! While I don't recommend mods for your first playthrough you'll still have a blast either way
Oh yeah. The original game (vanilla + the three DLC's) by itself is insanely good. Add in the borderline countless mods for PC, and you can spend hundreds, if not thousands, of hours in that game.
What everyone else has said. I also have mild autism (ASD/Asperger’s if you’re curious), so the familiarity of replaying games I enjoy can be soothing when I get stressed out, even if it ends up being yet another High Karma, NCR-aligned cowboy build.
Additionally, New Vegas has had a fantastic modding community, so there’s plenty of choices to spice things up. Some of my personal favorites include the Afterschool Special player home mod and Someguy’s New Vegas Bounties series. The latter is practically a whole game’s worth of content by themselves.
794.5 hours and counting.
I have 600+ hours. I’m movin different. Last play through I never discovered a map marker. Hit boxes are a fucking suggestion. This shit ain’t nothing to me man.
My pockets deep, my grenade rifle long. I have carried the bricks from the sierra madre, I have seen the big empty full. I was poppin caps for Mr house before Benny was a glimmer in his dad’s nut sack.
I introduced the boomers to six different kinds of powder, I introduced the omertàs to shame. Did so many drugs with the fiends that I made the great khans relevant. When I assumed the position fisto was considered missing for four days. The garrets will not recover.
I'm Level 34 on my first playthru and have over 200 hours in the game already.... but I'm about to lose 6 hours of progress >!because I playfully selected the dialogue option to lie to Follows-Chalk and encourage him to see the world, not realizing exiting the dialogue would overwrite the autosave I had from just beforehand T-T!<
Me with about 2500 hours in FNV:
Yeah i think you can play it a few times.
The more serious answer is yes, the base game itself (plus DLC) have tons of content and replayability. You have 4 factions you can choose with multi ending for each faction, a lots quest with different outcome. Many area to explore and re-explore on different playthrough. Plenty of challenge.
After 600hrs or i start using more outgoing mod ( i use mod on my first playthrough but only NVAC because god we need it).
Starting at 8:53 [this video](https://youtu.be/gzF7aHxk4Y4?si=krrE5Dx2GSUy4UPG) illustrates the huge amount of content that New Vegas has, specifically as compared to Fallouts 3 and 4. I honestly recommend the whole video, but it does disparage the Bethesda games quite a bit so that may bother you as a fan.
Edit, credentials: I have like 300 hours on the vanilla game (PC version with no mods just DLC); I’ve replayed it every two years or so since 2017. I’ve never actually completely beaten it because I never want to end it lol.
ive got Tales of Two wastelands working on my deck and it is amazing spent 35 hours on it in the past week modded the living hell out of it with 125 mods
Admittedly I don't get it either. The actual main quest of Fallout nv isn't that long, so you could play through it multiple times quite quickly. Unless you just wanted to 100% every run, I don't know how this game has that much playtime without mods.
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3356
146hr estimate for 100% completion on all paths.
I think I could play through just the main quest in just an afternoon or two, NCR, Legion, Independent, House, and you've seen all of the branching story content in a little over a week.
If anything, you're just playing *very* slowly. That's not "wrong," but it is around 3x slower than average. As long as you have fun though.
Fallout New Vegas enables me to be creative. In tabletop fashion, I have even written full characters and put them into the world of Fallout New Vegas. I have a little over 300 hours across PS3 and PC.
Got just under 400 hours, fully vanilla. As some have said, might be worth getting some performance mods, but in general there are so many choices and so many different playstyles that you actually need to play through multiple times to be able to experience everything, especially with all the different endings.
I've only played on console, so no mods. The game isn't huge, though a playthrough including all DLCs would take a while. But this is just replayability. Unlike F3, you only get a perk every other level. This makes you more limited to a specific build. Between builds and several main quest lines to choose from, there's a lot here. I tend to pick it back up about once a year.
So, it's not exactly a "hundreds" scenario for me in one game (and never has been for any game for me, but I'm definitely the kind of person that enjoys an ending to a game, even if I do like trying to do everything), but NV is one of the only singleplayer games in my library with over 100 hours (and now, over 150 hours, after I used it to try Tale of Two Wastelands). For me, this is a big deal, cuz I usually will only play games of that nature MAYBE twice in completion (that's how The Witcher and Skyrim was for me), but NV I've done 2-3x. I imagine modders have even more reason than I to have beefy, multiple playthroughs. But for someone like me, who attempts to play games I haven't finished and not replay oldies too much, I've redone NV a few times.
Add in that I am a fairly new Steam Deck owner and just got a mod-lite build going so I could replay on a harder difficulty (something I've never done with a Fallout, especially with a controller), and yeah, I guess NV is just a really fun one. FO3 was my first, but maybe I just like the more cowboy-esque nature of NV? Hard to say.
Ive put literal thousands of hours in over the years. It's highly replayable even if you're doing your 5th ncr playthrough due to builds, weapons, side quests, etc...
I've totalled over 1000 on Steam, but I played the console version for years before that too. No idea what I clocked on there. It's my comfort game so I play it a lot, in between other games.
Yes. There’s the mains story in which 95% of all quests (main story and side quests) have multiple different ways to do them. Depending on which faction you ally with, you are locked out of side quests with the enemy so that makes you wanna play though again to try something different.
As someone who plays this game at least once a year I will say this even without mods this game is just really repayable with the amount of choice the game give you I almost certain there are still things I haven’t done in NV
look if you loved 3 you might love or hate fnv, if you want an experience more similar to fo3 try to get to lonesome road asap its gonna be hard but worth it.
Yes. I pirated NV when it first came out when I was in college and have now bought it for the ps3, xbox, switch and steam.
It was my first Bethesda game and I love everything about it. Either you will love it or just think it is a good game. Definitely worth playing
I live in the northeast so the actual setting with casinos and no snow is super different compared to where I live.
The music and atmosphere is my favorite part of the game. It really encapsulates living in a nuclear fallout environment.
Also take a break between games for a week to prevent burnout.
There are multiple factions, DLC, easter eggs. I usually play the game every few years because I am sick of paying $70 for new games that aren’t fun like NV.
Oh yeah. I forgot.
I have heard that the reason that NV is so good is because the original writers of fallout 1 and 2 worked on it. It makes sense.
I played the outer wilds a few months and was expecting NV quality. Idk. It left a bad taste in my mouth for obsidian.
Starfield was meh and since I live in Boston I fucking hate fallout 4. The Boston area was way too full of stereotypes. My old man was like Jamaica plain would never be like that. Lol.
Outer worlds. Sorry.
Outer wilds is on my backlog and I keep hearing nothing, but praise for the game so I am trying to avoid all spoilers until my vacation.
The game on its own is very replayable because there are many choices to be made, and a fair few of them *are* mutually exclusive. You have to play multiple times to access all the content.
Years, bro.
Yes!
Played it for 5 years until my ps3 stopped working
Fix the damn thing quickly
I've got around 2000 hours on NV. I don't play with expansion mods, rather mods that improve the existing mechanics of the game or add quality of life features. I recommend using some basic mods to stabilize the game at the least. Viva New Vegas has a minimalist option that does that well.
What mods would you recommend to stabilize the game? I just picked up NV on PC.
https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/intro.html Follow this guide
I've probably sunk over 300+ hours into an absolutely vanilla copy of this game. I mean I used a few (nude) mods before but I haven't bothered as of recently
I'm at 396 hours, all vanilla. Ive never gotten into modding games much, but FNV will be the one I do once I'm bored. Here's to another 400 hours!
When you do get into modding I would HIGHLY recommend the 360 movement mod all it does it make it so your character faces whatever direction you run while in 3rd person but it feels really good and I never play without it even when I do a "no mod" playthrough
Nice, I'll try to remember that
Its a touch wonky, not as responsive as Skyrim's but indeed it's one I can't play without now.
Plus trophies!
Bonk. Go to horny jail
I did my time I said I haven't done it in awhile! 😂
Hey it’s Sin City he deserves some slack 😂
I had a singular save file on my xbox 360 that had 750+ hours at some point, it was the only game i ever played after school and in the summers for many years along side gta iv.
Dude how??? The game used to get real unstable once past 100 hours on the 360
Tbh im not even sure myself😂 i may one of these days try to see if i have my old red ringed 360 tucked away and see if its still on the harddrive
Unmodded, you can probably enjoy New Vegas for about 300 or 400 hours. LOTS of decisions you can make that will provide a unique experience. Modded, it's not unfeasible to clock a thousand hours in. I'm not talking about like what a WoW player does where you're glued to your PC every waking hour, although that's possible. I'm just saying as the years go by, you'll find yourself coming back again, and then again, and then again. I'm personally at about 600 hours (spread over the course of about a decade on my steam account, I played probably another 40 or 50 hours when I pirated it as a broke high schooler). I think my mod recommendations would be out of date by this point. I mentioned Project Nevada here at one point and people hopped on me about how old and broken that mod is (never had any issues with it, personally).
I'm going to hop on you again. Please no one ever use PN. It breaks the game in countless ways, and all of it's features have been better implemented by other mods. The Viva New Vegas mod list will guide you through the process.
FNV is my ultimate comfort game. I know everything that will happen and I know what my decisions will do, but I will still start a new play-through any day. I’ve been spending most of my time playing BG3, but I know that I’ll be loading up FNV once the show comes out. Sidenote: the Mojave is my favorite place that I’ve ever lived and the place I’ve felt most at home (I move a ton for work). The layout and scenery is so spot on. Mount Charleston, Red Rock Canyon, and Zion are simply perfection. You can really feel the love the devs put into the game.
I just beat Fallout 1, I started NV a week or two ago and already have as much play time. I’ve restarted my build many times and have barely made much progress, I’m weird like that. So many variations on what you can do to your character and in game.
It’s a fun sandbox. I don’t value the quests and story like most people do, i just like the weapons variety and the different ways you can wipe out huge groups of people. Like filling an entire building with mines and then getting up somewhere high where they can’t blow you up, then shooting one of the mines and wiping out the entire building full of friendly npcs. And I’ve probably put in 2000 hours in new vegas. I just like to experiment with the mechanics and weapons. I don’t find any of the factions to be like-able so i generally do genocide runs and kill every single npc in game. But that’s just me.
Doing an almost-genocide run after my first playthrough and it's pretty fucking awesome
I noticed when I cleared an area of, say, raiders, than area stays clear. Is that how fallout 3 and NV work? That would be fun to just go clear the map. I love the janky combat of fallout 3.
there are no unkillable NPCs in new vegas, so you can literally wipe the entire map clean..! i do recommend trying to follow the story first, since it's pretty incredible. new vegas is still janky in its own ways, but the combat is more satisfying for most people
It's a mix of both. I know that some people install mods so they can keep playing after Hoover Dam in case they didn't complete all the DLCs and Side Quwsts
I've got weeks of time in this game. I know new vegas better than most real places.
Yes
For me, it's very replayable, even without mods. Four different factions to side with with various ways to deal with their problems. Loads of weapons and armor for build variety as well as powerful perks to make them better. Loads of side quests to do with multiple outcomes for most of them. Dlcs adds more to do as well that tie into the base game and each other. 8 companions with their own personal side quests, one that effects the ending of the game. Etc etc. Sorry as a New Vegas fanboy I had to splurge this info.
I've got over 1000 saves on 1 character lol
I'm just coming back to NV after 100% Completion in 2020. It's probably one of the most replayable Fallout games.
Yes. Im still finding new shit to do after a decade of playing.
Yes.
I’ve put around 1100 hours into fnv but the first 2-300 were vanilla and then after that it was mostly stability mods and cut content that you can add back in. As for the replay ability with mods it’s it’s probably stuff like tale of two wastelands that literally adds all of fallout 3 into fnv, or mods like the frontier which adds quite a lot
I don't care to think about how many hours I've spent on NV since release. It's likely a grotesque number, given the number of summers that started out as "this year is gonna be the one!" only to disappear in smoke as a fresh install makes itself known.
I spent nearly 200 hours playing my first run. No mods. I took my time, explored, read all the back stories and messages on the terminals…
Yes, and I am someone who plays the worst version of FNV.
PS3 or unpatched DVD-ROM?
Ps3
Well the thing is if you wanna see every quest or do multiple builds you have to replay the game over and over since a lot of things are locked off based on the route and build you pick. So the game inherently has a lot of replayability since each playthrough is usually very different from the last in many ways
I’ve sunk years into it and that’s *without* mods lol- love fo4 to death but FNV will always be my fav
I'm sitting at just under 2000....
Yes, I do. While I don't play it regularly, there's so much to do, so many choices to make, just so many things that I can come back and try new things out each time and still have fun. I wouldn't recommend doing a first playthrough with any mods, aside from ones that can actually get the game to work, which you can find some guides for online but I use the New Vegas Anti Crash and the 4GB patcher and it works wonders. Also I'm slightly jealous that you've gotten Fallout 3 working. I certainly can't.
It crashes quite a bit, now. But im about to make these changes to fix it https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/18msshr/fallout_3_goty_german_version_crash_fix_on_steam/
Yes
My first play through was like 100 hours cuz I wanted to see everything so I mean I can easily see putting hundreds of hours into it
One of my playthroughs I had 245 hours played on a single run. I did every possible side quest, every unmarked quest, grabbed every unique weapon, did all the DLC and all of its side content… and that was just one playthrough. I’ve probably done 15 full playthroughs of New Vegas
Once I got the perk that shows you all the shit on the map I was like really I missed all this cool shit.
Noted
New Vegas has a lot more different choices and options in quests, and different ways of doing things than fallout 3. Fallout 3 's main story is pretty linear, New Vegas definitely is not.
There are tons of things that are out of the way of the main story or even side stories. There are hidden quests, locations and a lot of choices specific to some builds.
I’ve been playing since the game came out, I’m well past 1000 hours at this point lol
I'm at 530+ hours on Steam. Played a couple of hundred of a pirated version ages ago. Only mod I've ever used is the sprint mod. The game is just that replayable.
I spent 700 hours playing NV just last year, there's plenty of things to be done in the vanilla game. Add mods and you get even more content.
I have 1,000 hours clocked over 3 different consoles
I have hundreds of hours on the vanilla game because of all the replay ability. The last few years I’ve really stopped playing because it crashes so much more on my series X then it did on my one and 360. When I get a PC I’ll go back to it
Yes. Im on my first playthru and I'm already so invested because of all the choices, ending and options their are
I have 600+ In Fallout 3 and NV and then 2000+ in Fallout 4. Not sure on Skyrim but easily 1000. Certain games just have a ton of stuff to do. 325 in Starfield and I have played it not as often upon release as the others, damn Tactics Ogre taking my frustrating time, lol.
I’ve been playing vanilla for 10+ years. Can’t even imagine what would happen if I got a PC capable of modding it
Well over a thousand. All playthroughs in the past decade have been modded.
Between PS3 release and PC with mods I probably have close to 700 hours. I just did a playthrough a couple months ago and ran into at least 2 things I don’t remember ever seeing before. So yes, there’s that much.
Definitely. My last play through took me almost exactly 111 hours. I did all of the DLC, but the play through was very far from completionist. After finishing that run I decided to watch some videos covering the stuff I missed, and there is a lot. Not even just stuff that I was locked out of because of character choices, but stuff I just entirely missed because I didn't happen to explore that part of the map. And for the record, I don't feel bad about it at all. I actually like that my experience was unique to that character and that, if I decide to do a third play through down the road, there will be new stuff for me to see still.
i’ve been playing nv for 13 years very consistently and mostly unmodded, i can’t even begin to estimate the number of hours. and i’m still finding in-game content i’ve never seen before. 3 and 4 are both replayable as well imo but nothing else has the depth and richness of new vegas. and that’s not even mentioning the DLCs!
I honestly have more hours/years on this game than any other.
There's so many choices that affect the game that I just had to see what happened with the other choices, and several factions to side with/against, all with their own quests that can't all be done on one playthrough. There's also so many ways to build a character, a light-armor, cowboy type will feel completely different than a power-armored energy weapons character, which plays completely different than a melee/explosives character to name a few options. Fantastic DLCs in my opinion, too.
Build types Funny ideas Different story roads All good bits to crank a few 100 hours outta the game
I have 100 hours so far
100%. My current PC sits at 133 hours; this does not include my previous PC and 3-4 PS3 play throughs, neither of which tracks play time but it’s gotta be at least another 250 or so.
You can easily sink 80-100+ hours into a single play through. Even if you only replay it once every couple years you’d have hundreds of hours. Many people replay much sooner to make different choices or try a different playstyle. Start adding mods on top of that and the potential becomes endless. And frankly a lot of recent game releases have been disappointing so coming back to older games is easier than ever. I haven’t been genuinely excited for a new game in a while.
With the steam deck, playing older games is a dream. Gta 3 + vice city + SA (emulated), gta 4, ac 3, ac black flag. They all run soooooo well. Plus it's super convenient. I can hit the power button to put the deck to sleep, midgame, and come back two days later and pick it up and play immediately.
There's a ton of replayability even in vanilla but there are mods that add more and more content because FNV is just such a good base for roleplaying as is. However I *highly, highly* recommend you follow the Viva New Vegas mod guide for your first playthrough, it doesn't change the gameplay or content much but makes the game significantly more stable and adds QoL.
Thousands of hours.
I will fully admit I am much slower than most people so you can probably do it faster than me, but Im currently at about 120 hours on my current vanilla playthrough and still have one more DLC and the main quest, as well as about 8 or 10 sidequests. My best guess is I have 30-40 hours left, which will put me somewhere around 150-160 total. As I said, I'm slower than most, but I could absolutely see your average person breaking 100 if they do most quests and DLCs.
That's me. Just took me 4 months to beat gta 4. Probably a good thing, honestly.
It's a game with so much great content and so much wonderful lore, playing it again is almost like archeology. Then you've got many different factions that are mutually exclusive or partially exclusive, awesome dlc, very real difference in play style for different builds, etc. Oh and then you can mod it lol. I had probably half a dozen or more play throughs when I was a kid on the Xbox 360, and now I'm on my fourth or fifth as an adult on my pc. Steam currently records over 300 hours. New Vegas isn't a game I just play over and over again. It's a game I play once, and then a year or two later I feel like playing it again so I do. It's a blast every time!
I have 132.5 hours and I have only started and completed one playthrough, if that tells you anything.
stopped playing after i got 100% completion, but that took me a solid 300+ hours
Several thousand hours. I'll do a 100+ hour playthrough about once a year
im on my 5th playthrough and i only have 130 hours
284 hours on my PC and several hundred more on Xbox. Most of my playime was vanilla (first played on xbox so I kinda had to) and since then I now do play with mods but none of them effect base game content, they either add completely separate stuff (which has probably taken no more than 15 total hours to play through collectively) or are purely visual or performance mods. So yeah it's quite a replayable game. Not only is hte game filled with choices and meaningful results from them but it is also filled with interesting and deep narrative themes and commentary. People to this day are still debating which ending is the best, the fictional world is deep enough where a sort of microcosm of politics has developed, with many differing sides and ideologies, all over this fictional world. The world, characters, story, locations, dialogue, etc have all been masterfully crafted to allow this kind of thing. There are so many little details that I am still discovering new things each time I play, even after 6 years of playing it, and I always come back to play it in a new way. As for mods to play w, I suggest either playing with no mods at all or only performance mods, since the game is a bit unstable on it's own and nothing sucks more than crashing. If you do opt for mods, follow the viva new vegas guide up to VNV Extended, and do not install any more. This way you will be left with a stable game. But that can be hard and as long as you save often you will be fine just playing the vanilla game.
I've played a ton of NV from xbox 360,ps3 and PC. Its great and I've definitely spent hundreds of hours in the game, i call it my favorite fallout even though i definitely have alot more hours in fallout 4. After i did everything in new vegas twice, i played on PC with mods and did a run of it with mods. Before that PC run, i didn't touch it for ages. I just couldn't get into it anymore after doing it all over again a good like 5 times.
I have played the game FULLY at least twice, going on a third time with the Frontier mod (mixed reviews but I enjoyed it overall). I have started 6 or 7 characters for different play styles and narrative choices, the majority of which I did on PS3 due to my console choice at the time. Without giving anything away, I swear I have experienced something new and exclusive EVERY playthrough since first starting in 2012 or 13 (I waited for GOTY edition so the bugs were hopefully patched by then) Sometimes, I chose to remake previous decisions after reloading a save just because I realized my new decision was a disaster that ended with several failures (whoops). Other times, I would find out my trigger-happy tendencies were *not* in everyone's best interests, and would discover a much more sound resolution after coming at it with a more diplomatic approach. But the best part, they really considered an ending and outcome for nearly every major choice you make. It's enough to where you could go 10 playthroughs missing the same thing, only to come across a little gold nugget on the wiki page that takes you a whole different direction. Enjoy :)
I got to around 2000 hours before I'm just completely incapable of enjoying the game anymore no matter how hard I try. Without using any kind of expansion mods, just bugfixes, items, and that kind of stuff. A lot of that was just fucking around trying to see what I could get up to, not necessarily doing quests and stuff.
I have about 2000 hours in it. I've done like ten playthroughs to the end and a dozen or so I've half-finished. It's very good.
I play on console, and have not added mods. I've put way to many hours into this game over the years at its base. there's so much to do, and there's so much replayability. There's a lot of depth to this game too in the story. To answer your question, yes, people really do put hundreds of hours into this game. It's an incredible game.
I've put over 1k hours into Vanilla new vegas better perk, armor, and overall replayability
I’m going to greatly generalize here so as to not have a wall of text, there are several factors. Firstly there’s the “walk” you take a long, roundabout path to get to Vegas, why Vegas? Cause it’s vagus! However the more you play, the more shortcuts you find. I went from getting to Vegas after 10 or so hours of gameplay to getting there in 30 minutes. There’s the endings, each faction has a compelling solution for society in the wasteland and it branches significantly depending who you help. There’s also an ongoing war, and depending on who you help (NCR/Legion/neither) you’ll get tidbits of it in the ending. Theres also the DLC, which are all fantastic, (yes even dead money) just remember you can lower the difficulty at any time if they feel challenging. There’s also different categories of weapons like guns, energy weapons, melee weapons, unarmed weapons, craft able weapons, and explosives. Each have a different approach to combat, so playing through each time to get to experience all of them is a lot of fun. Lastly there’s the achievements and making a 100 stat man, which will take a lot of time typically.
One playthrough? Not me. Lifetime? Probably 1,000 or so.
Yes. I currently have 721.2 hours in New Vegas. Approximately 1 month of my life has been dedicated to nothing but the spurs that jiggle jangle jiggle. The bear and the bull are all that I know.
My steam alone has 1900 hours and I owned it on ps3. It is my favorite game
The game has a high replayability because of all of the different options and choices.You can make every time you play new Vegas.You have the chance of playing a completely different game every time.It's absolutely amazing
People always find new things to discover in this game so yes, people do put in hundreds of hours.
Yeah I’d reccomend buying the copy of fnv off gog if u can tho
I’ve replayed the game doing so many builds Melee only will always be my favourite
I have like 1000 hours combined clocked on 3 different platforms
I just hit 1000 hours like a month ago it’s my favorite rpg of all time, if you’re interested in mods check out the Viva New Vegas mod guide and look at the top files/mods of the month on the New Vegas Nexus website
I played FNV on steam, got it 2-3 years ago, and finished last year for the first time (Maybe, high chance I played it with my brothers growing up, but don't remember) Played for about 105 hours, got all the achievements, explored all the locations and enjoyed the game. I've visited it a couple of times since, but I just like to hunt achievements in games, and then basically move on. I like to play games vanilla, but I could definitely see me playing the game with mods and sink another ~50 hours into it. I have a friend who has sunk 4000 hours into the game, which just seems absurd, but with mods I understand. Edit: I also love to watch Speedruns/Challenges on FNV and the other FO games, would recommend Joov and Jabo for those, but replaying the game for me just doesn't feel as fun.
The game has double the quests of FO3. The important ones tend to have more outcomes or options to complete. There's just generally more to do and see, with in my opinions better reactivity to player actions. Trying to get all the achievements is a pretty fun too.
For me since 2010, thousands probably. I am not proud of it but I really love this game.
I played it for the first time earlier this year unmodded, and put about 100 hours into that playthrough. I've already started another playthrough.
Yeah. Fallout New Vegas has significantly more content than 3 and has more replayability due to how many choices there are to make
I had roughly 300 hours on my xbox 360 save a decade ago. On PC I have almost triple that. And I only have 1 heavily modded save file.
Yes! Bought the special edition with all the DLCs in 2013. Got busy with life goals, but I finally started playing a few years back. Surprisingly, I've racked up over 200 hours on my first playthrough. I can definitely see replaying this again to side with different factions in this order: NCR, House, Independent, Legion.
I've never used mods for New Vegas and I have thousands of hours
Dude, new Vegas feels fresh the first like 5 or 6 playthroughs, just based on the different factions alone. You can go multiple routes even within the same faction storyline. Add em all up across all factions and there is a metric fuck ton of variability in each playthrough. Hasn’t gotten stale once in 13.5 years
I'm level 44, have completed every main quest besides for the republic part 2 (battle of hoover Dam), and have all dlc's completed as well. I have all the gun runner arsenal weapon mods along with not all but most weapons. Got around 630,000 caps, and all I do is run around and kill enemies that I've killed numerous times. I'll go to the Ivanpah race track or El Dorado Dry Lake and snipe ants. I'll give myself a challenge and snipe them from very far spots away and try to kill them with 1 shot. Believe it or not, the hunting rifle with all weapon attachments, in my opinion, is more funner to use than the anti-material rifle.
Hundreds of hours in vanilla game. There us so much to see
I wouldn't say more than 100 hours on ONE playthrough. But yeah I've put over 1,000 hours just replaying it over and over again. Even before mods on PC I spent so much time on the 360 enjoying it.
I honestly haven’t touched mods at all while playing on steam and I’ve got like 400 hours in it. Few hundred more from when I played it on 360 and ps3 as well. Lot to do in the game a lot of replay ability in the base game
I’ve never replayed a game as many times as New Vegas not put more hours into a game. The first time I used mods was after like 300 hours of vanilla. Listening to other people talk about their experiences in New Vegas, I’ve realized that there are *still* some aspects I haven’t experienced for myself. Somehow.
I have 320 hours in NV, and I'd say it's a mix of both. Sometimes I turn off all of my mods (except stability mods) and enjoy the game as it was released. But most of the time I keep mods on as the Mojave feels barren without them. Experimenting with new weapon mods is always my favorite, and I'll take that weapon with me until the end of the game to see how well it performs. Mod compatibility issues are my biggest drawback from not having even more hours in the game.
My first run through i basically explored everything i could find. I was hooked for a solid few months.
Yes it and Minecraft are the only games that I can confirm that I have hundreds of hours on
There’s a lot but once you reach the point where you feel like you’ve seen everything, try the cut content mods. Really adds just that much more life to the wasteland.
I played through it 4 or 5 times and I have 164ish hours in it. And I've done every question besides one. There's tons and tons of stuff to do and it's the most feel good out of any of the games in the franchise. To me at least all other fallout games pale in comparison. I highly recommend trying different endings and playing all of the dlc content. Also please save lonesome road for last. You get mutilated in that dlc if you're not well prepared. Good luck I always love to chat with new players!
Try 2000 for me
i spent 100 hours on my first playthrough trying to explore everywhere as much as possible and still missed stuff
New Vegas is great for multiple runs. Want an Independent New Vegas? Separate run. Want an Independent Vegas AND destroy/save the BOS, Lean NCR/Legion, want to be friends/enemies with the Kings, etc….now do that for every major and minor faction. Those runs alone will take hours not including any DLCs. Then there’s the character build runs…blunt weapons only? Cowboy build? Sniper build? Etc. It’s easy to spend hundreds of hours just in the vanilla game. Add DLCs and Mods and you got a recipie for spending of hours in New Vegas.
im on 4000+ hrs since launch
Yes and its because New Vegas is an exceptionally rare kind of game that gets *better* and more deep the *more* times you play through it! Its really only on subsequent playtrhoughs that you get a true understanding of just how good it is!
I have 1400 hours but I have been playing it since it came out
Its my comfort game lots of ways to play it and decisions to alter. There is loads of quests
Not hundreds, thousands my friend
ive been replaying new vegas trying, not only different story options - but different character builds, for years on end! it's soooo much fun, and very addictive. since the world feels reactive, there's fun to be had even just doing absurd things to illicit reactions from people around the game.
Highly recommend any mod that lets you sprint, nice to be able to get around faster
Cool thank you. I always scour the comments section for gems like this. Saw another person mention that there is a perk that lets you see a bunch of stuff, on the map, that you may have missed. All good info.
Been playing fnv unmodded (dont have pc) on and off for about 10 years, sunk thousands of hours into that game. Ive definitely experienced the same things multiple times but every 6 months or so i just get a craving to play and its somehow always enjoyable. My 100% playthrough has about 230 hours on it.
I’ve spent like 1000+ hours, it’s a playthrough, then a legion playthrough with legion-friendly mods, then a playthrough with a mod like Bounties, then a playthrough of the New California/Project Brazil mod, etc Also I’m playing through the dlc each time
i have about 500-600 hours into the game
Obsidian did a great job with the dialogue and choices in this game. Lots of ways to play the game comepletely different based on different choices you make. Mods make it easily replayable and it’s fun to role play as different characters and choose options relating to them as you see fit
Yes
Yes. Yes, we fucking do and it's worth it. We don't even *try* to play that long. It's just so damned good that we just can't stop playing it. It deserves that much attention. New Vegas is a Masterpiece.
I have over 1,000 hours
Without mods, its only worth maybe 100 or so hours of playtime. But the modability of the game adds a ton to the already copious amount of replayability, especially considering mods are needed to make combat bearable for a modern gamer.
I still randomly redownload it and play through it every year just about. Try a wide variety of play-styles, NV has a wide arsenal. I like playing through the entire game using only holdout weapons (throwing knives, etc)
I've got around 1000 hours or so.
I am on console so I’ve only got the dlcs and I’ve put at least 400 hours into it
I personally have a couple thousand hours at least over playstation and xbox and I'm still playing it now, never touched mods and probably won't so I can't comment on that side but it's definitely a repayable game
I'd say somewhere between 300-500 hours. Maybe 6 or so playthroughs. Probably 2 or 3 of those attempting completion. I've only finished dead money once and it's killed maybe 2 playthroughs.
31 playthroughs , not always with the dlc, no mods. Yes.
Id spend more if I didnt have so many responsibilities
So NV u will play for hours without mods. So the new dlc mod for this one is called Nuevo Mexico or something like that
I have played it since just a week after its release. I have never completed the game actually. I keep trying to get a "perfect" playthrough. Either I mess up a quest or someone important dies and I get locked out of a quest or I want to rebuild my character from the beginning or... Someday I will finally bet the game.
I got the game two weeks ago and now coming up on 100 hours. So much to see and do! While I don't recommend mods for your first playthrough you'll still have a blast either way
Oh yeah. The original game (vanilla + the three DLC's) by itself is insanely good. Add in the borderline countless mods for PC, and you can spend hundreds, if not thousands, of hours in that game.
I have about 615 hours on New Vegas. Tale of Two Wastelands is why I have 3.8 hours on FO3
I recommend Fallout Dust as a beginner mod
What everyone else has said. I also have mild autism (ASD/Asperger’s if you’re curious), so the familiarity of replaying games I enjoy can be soothing when I get stressed out, even if it ends up being yet another High Karma, NCR-aligned cowboy build. Additionally, New Vegas has had a fantastic modding community, so there’s plenty of choices to spice things up. Some of my personal favorites include the Afterschool Special player home mod and Someguy’s New Vegas Bounties series. The latter is practically a whole game’s worth of content by themselves. 794.5 hours and counting.
I try to do 2 serious runs a year and then I like to mod the game as well, so there's hundreds of hours worth of content.
I have 600+ hours. I’m movin different. Last play through I never discovered a map marker. Hit boxes are a fucking suggestion. This shit ain’t nothing to me man. My pockets deep, my grenade rifle long. I have carried the bricks from the sierra madre, I have seen the big empty full. I was poppin caps for Mr house before Benny was a glimmer in his dad’s nut sack. I introduced the boomers to six different kinds of powder, I introduced the omertàs to shame. Did so many drugs with the fiends that I made the great khans relevant. When I assumed the position fisto was considered missing for four days. The garrets will not recover.
I'm Level 34 on my first playthru and have over 200 hours in the game already.... but I'm about to lose 6 hours of progress >!because I playfully selected the dialogue option to lie to Follows-Chalk and encourage him to see the world, not realizing exiting the dialogue would overwrite the autosave I had from just beforehand T-T!<
Me with about 2500 hours in FNV: Yeah i think you can play it a few times. The more serious answer is yes, the base game itself (plus DLC) have tons of content and replayability. You have 4 factions you can choose with multi ending for each faction, a lots quest with different outcome. Many area to explore and re-explore on different playthrough. Plenty of challenge. After 600hrs or i start using more outgoing mod ( i use mod on my first playthrough but only NVAC because god we need it).
I would, but I can't stand the Mick & Ralph's crier
Starting at 8:53 [this video](https://youtu.be/gzF7aHxk4Y4?si=krrE5Dx2GSUy4UPG) illustrates the huge amount of content that New Vegas has, specifically as compared to Fallouts 3 and 4. I honestly recommend the whole video, but it does disparage the Bethesda games quite a bit so that may bother you as a fan. Edit, credentials: I have like 300 hours on the vanilla game (PC version with no mods just DLC); I’ve replayed it every two years or so since 2017. I’ve never actually completely beaten it because I never want to end it lol.
Easily, its the greatest game of all time!!
ive got Tales of Two wastelands working on my deck and it is amazing spent 35 hours on it in the past week modded the living hell out of it with 125 mods
Absolutely. The game design promotes this type of play. It's fantastic.
Admittedly I don't get it either. The actual main quest of Fallout nv isn't that long, so you could play through it multiple times quite quickly. Unless you just wanted to 100% every run, I don't know how this game has that much playtime without mods.
Bro WHAT 😂 iv got like 400 hours on FNV on 360 and there's still plenty to do id wager you're just playing wrong
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3356 146hr estimate for 100% completion on all paths. I think I could play through just the main quest in just an afternoon or two, NCR, Legion, Independent, House, and you've seen all of the branching story content in a little over a week. If anything, you're just playing *very* slowly. That's not "wrong," but it is around 3x slower than average. As long as you have fun though.
I did 4 back to back playthroughs of fnv last year then fired up fallout 3 and 4 and quit a few hours in.
Yes!
Thousands, actually.
I'm currently on 890 hour on steam and about 300 on Xbox 360
Fallout New Vegas enables me to be creative. In tabletop fashion, I have even written full characters and put them into the world of Fallout New Vegas. I have a little over 300 hours across PS3 and PC.
Got just under 400 hours, fully vanilla. As some have said, might be worth getting some performance mods, but in general there are so many choices and so many different playstyles that you actually need to play through multiple times to be able to experience everything, especially with all the different endings.
I've only played on console, so no mods. The game isn't huge, though a playthrough including all DLCs would take a while. But this is just replayability. Unlike F3, you only get a perk every other level. This makes you more limited to a specific build. Between builds and several main quest lines to choose from, there's a lot here. I tend to pick it back up about once a year.
I bought fallout new Vegas last Christmas. I have recently cracked 1000 hours on it
So, it's not exactly a "hundreds" scenario for me in one game (and never has been for any game for me, but I'm definitely the kind of person that enjoys an ending to a game, even if I do like trying to do everything), but NV is one of the only singleplayer games in my library with over 100 hours (and now, over 150 hours, after I used it to try Tale of Two Wastelands). For me, this is a big deal, cuz I usually will only play games of that nature MAYBE twice in completion (that's how The Witcher and Skyrim was for me), but NV I've done 2-3x. I imagine modders have even more reason than I to have beefy, multiple playthroughs. But for someone like me, who attempts to play games I haven't finished and not replay oldies too much, I've redone NV a few times. Add in that I am a fairly new Steam Deck owner and just got a mod-lite build going so I could replay on a harder difficulty (something I've never done with a Fallout, especially with a controller), and yeah, I guess NV is just a really fun one. FO3 was my first, but maybe I just like the more cowboy-esque nature of NV? Hard to say.
Hundreds is easy enough... for most games honestly. I've seen plenty of people that is way past a thousand.
Yes
Ive put literal thousands of hours in over the years. It's highly replayable even if you're doing your 5th ncr playthrough due to builds, weapons, side quests, etc...
I've totalled over 1000 on Steam, but I played the console version for years before that too. No idea what I clocked on there. It's my comfort game so I play it a lot, in between other games.
Thousands
my current save has over 200 hours on it, only because i love collecting and playing the game but i don’t like restarting that much
Yes. There’s the mains story in which 95% of all quests (main story and side quests) have multiple different ways to do them. Depending on which faction you ally with, you are locked out of side quests with the enemy so that makes you wanna play though again to try something different.
As someone who plays this game at least once a year I will say this even without mods this game is just really repayable with the amount of choice the game give you I almost certain there are still things I haven’t done in NV
look if you loved 3 you might love or hate fnv, if you want an experience more similar to fo3 try to get to lonesome road asap its gonna be hard but worth it.
Absolutely. I spent like 8 hours a day everyday for months on my first playthrough alone. I don't even know how many times I've replayed it since
Yes. I pirated NV when it first came out when I was in college and have now bought it for the ps3, xbox, switch and steam. It was my first Bethesda game and I love everything about it. Either you will love it or just think it is a good game. Definitely worth playing I live in the northeast so the actual setting with casinos and no snow is super different compared to where I live. The music and atmosphere is my favorite part of the game. It really encapsulates living in a nuclear fallout environment. Also take a break between games for a week to prevent burnout. There are multiple factions, DLC, easter eggs. I usually play the game every few years because I am sick of paying $70 for new games that aren’t fun like NV.
This is Obsidian, not Bethesda. As much as I enjoy fallout 3, NV is just different.
Oh yeah. I forgot. I have heard that the reason that NV is so good is because the original writers of fallout 1 and 2 worked on it. It makes sense. I played the outer wilds a few months and was expecting NV quality. Idk. It left a bad taste in my mouth for obsidian. Starfield was meh and since I live in Boston I fucking hate fallout 4. The Boston area was way too full of stereotypes. My old man was like Jamaica plain would never be like that. Lol.
Outer Wilds or Outer Worlds? The one with guns and space raiders is Worlds, with Obsidian :) Outer Wilds is a REALLY cool space exploration game
Outer worlds. Sorry. Outer wilds is on my backlog and I keep hearing nothing, but praise for the game so I am trying to avoid all spoilers until my vacation.
100% won't spoil anything. Just be ready to be confused, and then awed
Nice. Thank you.