[Manco]

There is so much shit to do in New Vegas that I’m still playing it, and I’ve still not finished the main plot.

It’s become a bit frustrating at the moment, though, due to a compound of ever more frequent freezes and bugs mixed with the brick walls that crop up when you reach the bottom end of the high-level quests – I have so much I want to do, so much that I’m not able to do, and it feels like the engine is working against me in some cases.

Today I spent a good half-hour or so discovering that my wanton exploration had consequences – due to my wrecking my reputation with the Legion it became impossible to initiate a conversation with Caesar, which advances the plot. I then had to plot an alternate solution (murder) in order to retrieve the weapons I’d had taken from me while maintaining my disguise so as to reach Caesar’s tent.

I’ll never know Caesar, at least this playthrough. Then again, I got to steal all his shit, and to top it all off I even managed to waltz out the front door unaccosted – and then snuck back in a few minutes later to wrap up another quest.