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ViewtifulJoe posted...

Even if there's no lengthy tutorial, do you ever get bored of making the same few runs?
Like you start the game and you still have to choose between running past cazadors/raiders, over Black Mountain or following the normal questline.
Sometimes I like to drop the difficulty and go straight to a DLC instead for the sake of variety.

Not really. Even in a game that offers so many diverging options, I'm the kind of gamer that still typically enjoys following certain beats the same way each time, so I usually don't mind doing the 'recommended' path for the first act. The only thing that's ever truly bugged me about this is that Cass is clearly geared for being an early-game companion, but you can't actually recruit her until you've returned from Vegas; by then you've already organically met the two strongest companions in the game. So sometimes when I beeline to Vegas I'll hop over to the Crimson Caravan and get that sorted out before starting the game proper.

Even still, the game's set up that even if you follow the suggested path for the first act of the game, you don't actually have to stop for any of the quest beats along the way; it's just a more roundabout way of making Vegas your first stop, and you can come back and do those quests later at your leisure. Or you can take your preferred beeline route to Vegas right from the start (I prefer the Black Mountain path), get a fast-travel location or two unlocked, then do side quests in any order you please. I like to do the Khans quests early to get chem recipes + a Vault Utility jumpsuit from Vault 3 without having to fight my way in; I also do the Boomers early because they've got a precious Repair skill book for getting Jury Rigging asap.