A gunshot echoes in the night, reverberating off of worn cliff faces, ringing for miles. “The game was rigged from the start” are (probably) the last words you hear before the world goes black. Death, it seems, has caught up with you. And yet, a few moments later, you awaken in a battered old house, miraculously nursed back to health, vengeful and ready to take on the world. The beginning of Fallout New Vegas never gets old.

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