I've had well over 400+ hours in this game on an old account, I dedicated years of my youth to mastering and perfecting this game. Fallout: New Vegas is the perfect experience. I might have thousands of hours more in other game series throughout my life, yet none of them have even come close to the level of happiness nor feeling of true growth and evolution that this game regularly fires up straight into your brain for doing the simplest of things for any reason you desire in any method you please. It is a constantly gratifying rollercoaster of emotions no matter what choices you make, and going into it blind you get drawn into those great moments and highlight areas easy enough by the map and how landmarks work, catching your eyes on the horizon.

Every companion is great. Every single one of them. I treasure all of their quests and the adventures they brought. There's easily a tonne of side characters that have as much, if not occasionally *more*, depth as the companions and their stories. Unique NPC's are always a treat even if it's only a few sentences, and more often or not they will become relevant down the line of your other quests and it rewards you by making you feel smart and good about exploring and finding that NPC ages ago and them now being relevant. Refer to the "constantly gratifying rollercoaster of emotions".

The DLC's are mostly great, I'd have to do a full review on them later individually. Lonesome Road, Honest Hearts, and Old World Blues are all masterpieces and truly amazing. Dead Money is...respectably miserable. But hey, it's a 3/4 with the 3's being 8-or-9/10 each so I'll accept it.

This game consumed a lot of my life, and I eventually did the obsessed player thing and read the wiki for 18 hours straight and starting deconstructing the game piece by piece, and even then I never got bored with it. I would still work on my separate vanilla saves while working with a admin testy b*llsh*i save. And I did that for countless hours for days of my young life. It is a true RPG that centres everything around your actions and the consequences that come with them, and it is infinitely fun to constantly poke those possibilities in multiple save files and see the results. It has no replay limit outside of the players own tolerance.

The real fun begins when you've achieved Neo of the Mojave status and have fully mastered the game and understand how to play efficiently, you move onto mods. Modding has given New Vegas unlimited replayability, with new companions and quests, or locations, weapons, characters, home bases, entire expansions, mechanics overhauls, the J. Sawyer Ultimate Edition, and thousands more other options to truly craft the Mojave into your own personal ultimate experience with the game in any way or canon you desire with ease. The foundation was laid by Obsidian, and modders built where they could to assist players in crafting their own New Vegas, granting this game true timeless status and an ultimately immortal gaming experience that will never bore or die out.

Fallout: New Vegas is the perfect experience.

10/10.