Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout New Vegas is one of the greatest games of all time. I like just walkin' around the beginning area and running away from radscorpions at level 1 and drinking toilet water at 1 hp. I like talking to the same NPCs and doing the same roleplaying as I did in my last run. I always go :o when more of the world and characters are revealed. Never gets old!

I got into New Vegas a little after it came out, cuz there was a big thread on Something Awful forums about it. Yeah I used to lurk the forums for game recs :^) So maybe.. like 2012-2013? It was my first Fallout game, and you never forget your first 😍 I loved it as soon as I played it for the first time, cuz it had the fun open world of Oblivion but MUCH better dialogue and characters!

I never participated in the the ~fandom community~ aspect of Fallout, and just stuck to rotating my faves in my head and playing with mods. I only know the opinions of Something Awful and Reddit fans, and I don't know what the Tumblrite shippers are discoursing about. I think one time I got a “callout post” on Tumblr for posting art of Vulpes slorping on Caesar's stinky penus, but that was before doxxing and harassing were more rampant .

• Storming the dam with the ex-Enclave GMILFs and getting a lil helicopter backup
• Getting praised by Mr. House for being a good gopher 🐶
• Putting Mr. House back into his pod, safe and sound :)
• Being Mr. House's good fergal and him being proud of me when I take the dam for him 😍
• Killing Mr. House with a golf club
• Sniping Vulpes the first time I played the game so I didn't know the Legion had backstory or dialogue-able characters.
• Bunny-hopping up the Quarry walls to find Melissa in a straight line, then getting stuck in-between 5000 Deathclaws
• First time playing Dead Money and being scared!!!
• Corrupting Joshua Graham as his personal Palpatine and telling him to pop a cap in a fool.

In my brain rotation:

• Joshua Graham
• Vulpes Inculta
• Raul Tejada (voiced by Danny Trejo, how can I resist??)
• God
• Father Elijah
• Christine (veronica does not deserve)
• Dean Domino
• Robert House, both computer screen and in his stinky pod

Unfortunately most of my “ships” are more like mob x character hentai cuz I just like to rotate the character in my head :D Romantic shipping is not my priority in my New Vegas interest, but I do like thinking about general character interactions!

Ships are probably left/right fixed unless otherwise stated.

• 20 wild cazadors impregnating Joshua Graham with blasphemous eggs and Mormon shame
• Every legion recruit x Vulpes Inculta's slutty mean ass
• Every Nightkin and Night Stalker x Raul's raw meaty senior citizen ass
• Tabitha x Raul
• Tabitha x Ronda (probably riba?)
• Dog x God
• Dog x Father Elijah
• Me canonically holding Christine's hand
• Me canonically pulling the plug on House's iron lung
• Every Ghost Person x Dean Domino's crusty senior citizen ass

IDK how I feel about Vulpes/Caesar right now. When I was younger I was more reversible and liked twinks bottoming. Right now I don't really want to see Caesar's butthole OR penis. Though I know it's probably canon compliant for Caesar to act all Greek about having to top cuz he's the commander LMAO.

• I don't have any specific NOTPS I can think of right now. Mostly just riba stuff :) i.e no Top!Raul or Top!Joshua…
• Redditors legit arguing over faction politics but they're WRONG cuz EVERYONE SUCKS including ME when I take over the wasteland as a lobotomite god-king!!!

In current year, you may NEED some mods in order to run New Vegas on a modern machine. Even at release, NV was very buggy, crash-prone and nigh unplayable.

You may also want some fun mods to add new quests, or femboy legionairies to the game. Those are cool too.

My NV Modlist is on a separate page cuz it's so long.

Clean, curated mod packs are a great starting point to see which mods are well-known to work well, and play good with other mods! They'll also walk you through any errors you may find if you try to install stuff yourself the first time.

• Viva New Vegas - Instructions for a vanilla-like NV experience that fixes bugs and crashes.
• The Best Of Times - Instructions to play FO3 in NV's engine using the TTW mod.
• SALVO - extremely HD overhaul, ymmv on the aesthetics that make everyone look like Skyrim characters

Once you have a good base set-up from modpacks, you may wish to pick and choose mods for your own taste.

• Mod.Pub is a great mod site with more creator-friendly control over their work and compliance towards European privacy laws. There are some mods you can only get on mod.pub, such as Eddoursul's work.
• ModDB has been around for a while, and the UI is a bit dated. Still, it has some mods that I quite enjoy like a working version of the DarNified UI. Yeah I like DarNified over VUI+ :P
• Nexus Mods is the most popular site for creators to upload their work. It is highly commercialized, full of ads, uses the modders as free labor for their own financial gain, but it has the most work on it.

I like that we can choose alternatives to one big site! It's nice to spread things around and choose the policies that work best for our own needs.