In Fallout New Vegas I'm about 14 hours in and only level 11 and I'm on the strip!
I wanted to get there much sooner except I didn't know where to find it on the map until I decided to start exploring north. That and I got immersed in a bunch of side missions.
Such a great game, and i've only had 2 freezes and zero bugs if I dont count a few enemies stuck on rocks or clipping through the ground. lol. they were easy targets. But I stopped playing it this week so far to finish the Claptrap Borderlands DLC after the level cap got raised in a patch and then started COD: Black Ops on tuesday. Dove into the Zombie mode first and only got to wave 11 with 4 people. It's tough! I think the Zombie mode trophies will be the hardest trophies to get to platinum Black Ops.
So I'm playing Black Ops single player on veteran to start and so far its not World at War grenade spawning from the ground cheap, thank god! So its really not too bad. Checkpoints are plentiful so that's good. I do think its harder than MW2 veteran though. MW2 veteran was too easy. Also I have one piece of advice on the level "SOG" that will save you a half hour of deaths or more. My advice is to not try to take a marker the game is pointing you towards during the part where you are pushing back the front line. Don't try to take the marker by reaching it and holding it like you normally do for other markers before. Instead there are 2 fire barrels you need to kick over and you will get checkpoints for each one. Once both are kicked then you'll automatically take over the point where the marker is. It took me at least 30 minutes to figure that out. Then another 20 minutes to knock the barrels over without getting killed during the animation. That part was still cheap no matter what but this will definitely save you guys time in case you don't figure it out right away.
I am only on the 6th level so I may still be in for more frustration on Veteran. And looking at my buddy list on launch day there were 19/24 people signed on all playing Black Ops. Thats definitely the most I've seen for everyone playing the same game. It really was the biggest videogame day 1 launch ever with apparently 7 million sold. And it seems like I'm the only one playing the single player first. Everyone is in the multiplayer.