# Today at Best Buy I saw some parents buying Fallout 3 instead of New Vegas and I said nothing **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 30, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443 "2010-11-30T19:11:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/21 "2010-12-01T05:29:19Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > How do you know the giftee wanted New Vegas and not Original Recipe? Original recipe? The presence of a 3 there suggests that there is an Original Recipe 1, and a Sweet & Spicy 2, along with the Honey Barbecue 3. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/22 "2010-12-01T07:55:11Z")
Maybe they just wanted to play Fallout 3 on the [ultra quality](http://xkcd.com/606/) settings. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/23 "2010-12-01T14:49:51Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Original recipe? The presence of a 3 there suggests that there is an Original Recipe 1, and a Sweet & Spicy 2, along with the Honey Barbecue 3. Well, yeah, but not for current consoles or anything - 1 and 2 are not recent games and I assume not available at Best Buy. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/24 "2010-12-01T18:26:12Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Why didn’t you? > > My wife went to get Black Ops for our kid at Target the other day. She got a dressing down by the salesdrone for buying such a violent game for a teenager. The salesdrone appeared to be a teenager himself. Weird huh? According to my 15 yr old stepson, it is very violent. He usually doesn’t comment about such things, but he made a point of talking to my wife and I about how violent the game was and how it really was ruining his enjoyment of the game. In fact, he quit the single player mode before he even finished because of how gruesome it was. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/25 "2010-12-02T05:19:07Z")
> [@Lips\_Obsession](#): > > According to my 15 yr old stepson, it is very violent. He usually doesn’t comment about such things, but he made a point of talking to my wife and I about how violent the game was and how it really was ruining his enjoyment of the game. In fact, he quit the single player mode before he even finished because of how gruesome it was. That’s… an unusual view for a 15 year old male, unless it’s the videogame equivalent of _Saw_ or _Hostel_ or one of those sorts of films- and nothing I’ve heard from any of my gaming friends indicates that it is. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/26 "2010-12-02T13:02:22Z")
Unusual yes, but I have known many 15-year old boys who were (and still are as adults) bothered by graphic violence. We’re not all bloodthirsty monsters. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/27 "2010-12-02T14:34:37Z")
Then why would you buy a war game in the first place? How do you expect a war game to be anything but graphic violence? ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/28 "2010-12-03T00:35:44Z")
Off the top of my head: - My friends said it was cool, and so I bought it without really knowing what I was getting - I like games with violence just fine, but this one is so real it’s disturbing ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/29 "2010-12-03T02:17:37Z")
Look at it this way: A 15 year old boy who values his social life (and most of them do) would be well advised to _never, ever_ let anyone he knows hear him saying he thinks a particular war-themed but otherwise fairly standard computer game is “Too violent” or “Disturbing”. Also, it’s a valuable lesson for them in A) Reading the reviews first or B) An introduction to modding (modifying the game to make it less gory/violent). And I remember the brouhaha over _Mortal Kombat_ back in the day… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/30 "2010-12-03T13:31:19Z")
These days, buying games a year or two down the line at least means that there’s some hope of the game-breaking bugs to have been patched. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/31 "2010-12-03T13:47:59Z")
Hell, I was thrilled when Civilization V came out earlier this year…it meant I could finally go pick up Civilization IV. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/32 "2010-12-03T13:56:44Z")
Well Fallout 3 is a far superior game and they’ve at least managed to get rid of the worst bugs from it. New Vegas (360) is such a mess that I’ve put my game on hold until it is patched. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443/33 "2010-12-03T14:23:34Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Then why would you buy a war game in the first place? How do you expect a war game to be anything but graphic violence? War games don’t necessarily have to be graphically violent. The violence in Halo isn’t all that graphic. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kxc-afbyds#t=0m48s) is pretty graphic, don’t you think? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-at-best-buy-i-saw-some-parents-buying-fallout-3-instead-of-new-vegas-and-i-said-nothing/562443.md?page=1)