Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delight

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Fallout: New Vegas by tomatoangus in 17:25 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 - YouTube

The 2025 edition of charity fundraising speedrun event Awesome Games Done Quick has been running for the last week, featuring such wonderfully absurd runs as an Elden Ring saxophone-controller boss showcase and a Crazy Taxi speedrun performed with a live band. As a Fallout sicko, I was pleased to see Tomatoangus (also known as Tomatoanus) tackling a New Vegas all-romances run, a somewhat niche speedrun record we’vewritten about before.

There are 12 romanceable characters in Fallout: New Vegas, and collecting them all Pokémon-style in a single playthrough would normally be impossible. Its NPCs have predetermined sexualities, and there’s normally no way to change your character’s sex to suit their preferences mid-game. However, as Tomatoangus explains in this run, quicksaving and quickloading right before the moment you’re asked if you’ve finalized character creation means the pop-up keeps appearing throughout the game, letting you sneakily rebuild your character halfway through.

Abusing the quickload is a recurring theme, as it can let you skip through dialogues and also launch yourself forward. A glitch in the revolver-reloading animation can also provide free dashes, infinitely chained if you jump in the middle of it. There’s a lot of stuff a normal New Vegas enjoyer would have no idea about, which is part of the fun. Did you know if you clip out of bounds you respawn at the entry point of the location you’re in? It’s a convenient way of getting around New Vegas at speed, which you’d never know about if you weren’t trying to hop across the waste in record time.

I’ll leave the rest of it for you to discover for yourself. If you’re looking for more of the same, back in 2020 Tomatoangus performed a legendaryFallout Anthology speedrun, in which he demolished Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 back-to-back in 2:16:21. It’s an entertainingly wild ride.

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