I'm a lifelong RPG reroller: I'm obsessed with restarting these things over and over until I'm sure that my first time hitting the credits will be perfect. My white whale for the past 15 years? Fallout: New Vegas, one of my very favorite games, which I finally completed for the first time after 323 hours and I don't know how many characters.
Part of my problem was New Vegas' myriad mechanical and story possibilities: Cowboy sniper, or unarmed ninja? Yes Man, or NCR? After a propulsive and semi-linear opening that takes you in an arc from Goodsprings through Novac, the game opens up in pure open world possibility.
The fact that you can't keep playing after finishing the main quest incentivized me to try and do everything before heading to Hoover Dam. I'd always take a break to play something else before achieving that goal, and by the time I came back to it? New character, baby.
That midgame was one major filter for me, another was hesitation of a different kind at the start of a playthrough. I realized recently that I've literally never played New Vegas without some kind of mod: Even by the time I got it for Christmas 2010, the scene was already out in full f...
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