Goodsprings, New Vegas is a place on Earth
January 13, 2019 8:48 PM   Subscribe

A mere handful of photos from the real Goodsprings, which was the opening location for the PC/X360/PS3 game Fallout: New Vegas.

Please do add any other cool links to Fallout-related actual location photos below. I'm simultaneously wowed and clueless. Heck, I never even knew Primm was a real place until I drove there in American Truck Simulator!
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue (7 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 


I guess this is as good a place as any to post my Flickr album from 2009.
posted by tobascodagama at 11:03 AM on January 14, 2019 [1 favorite]


I was born, and grew up, in Vegas, so the game never felt right to me. Rather than seeing what it was copying, I saw all the flaws in the copy. Literally, the sand-encroached Las Vegas strip in that one Resident Evil film felt more legitimate, and that was crap.

Of course, by the same token, I am absolutely convinced that Fallout 4's rendition of Boston is 100% correct...
posted by mystyk at 12:20 PM on January 14, 2019 [2 favorites]


Living in Boston, I had the same experience with Fallout 4. Oddly enough, Fallout 3 gave me a very eerie feeling of recognition, to the point where I felt uneasy the next time I visited Washington DC. I'm not sure if that's because Fallout 3 is a more faithful recreation of Washington (the developers are based there, after all) or because even though I've visited Washington many many times, I still don't know it intimately and instinctively enough for the little differences to break the immersion for me.

I also suspect that Fallout 3 did a better job of getting a couple key areas right, (mainly the Mall and the design of the subway stations) and then doing whatever they wanted with the rest of the world, while 4 and New Vegas sprinkle their bits of real-world fidelity more widely, but too thinly to really create that eerie sense of deja vu.
posted by firechicago at 1:31 PM on January 14, 2019 [2 favorites]


I liked New Vegas a lot, and what would be super cool is if they could stitch 3, NV, and 4 together into one seamless(ish) world, and remaster it in a less shitty engine. But, just a remaster of NV would be good in and of itself. 3 and 4 are good but NV just felt more Fallout-y.

Really looking forward to The Outer Worlds by Obsidian as well. And for Pillars 2 to finally come to PS4.

Also, Fallout 76 is oodles of fun even with all the bugs, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. HMU if you need a wasteland buddy on PS4!
posted by turbid dahlia at 2:32 PM on January 14, 2019 [4 favorites]


Tale of Two Wastelands stitches 3 into NV.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:23 PM on January 14, 2019 [2 favorites]


Living in Boston, I had the same experience with Fallout 4. Oddly enough, Fallout 3 gave me a very eerie feeling of recognition, to the point where I felt uneasy the next time I visited Washington DC. I'm not sure if that's because Fallout 3 is a more faithful recreation of Washington (the developers are based there, after all) or because even though I've visited Washington many many times, I still don't know it intimately and instinctively enough for the little differences to break the immersion for me.

My brother told me about the time he visited DC and found the subways completely intuitive to navigate. He was confused as to how he'd come by that ease until he realized that it was due to dozens of hours running around in them in Fallout 3.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:28 PM on January 19, 2019 [2 favorites]


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