Guns, Lockpick and Sneak is what I would pick. Barter doesn't really do that much for saving caps and I don't care if my character sounds like someone who is five cans short of a six-pack.

FO3: small guns, lockpick and science =========> killing and looting.

FNV: guns, lockpick and speech =========> making friends, killing and looting.

Speech Science & Endurance

Speech- To talk my way into getting things and talking my way out of fights
Science- Because science is awesome
Endurance- So if things go south and I cant talk someone out of a fight I can flee the area and come back when I am prepared (or just not come back at all)

i would choose gun, repair and medicine, gun to be more effective in combat, repair pretty self explanatory but i would use that too keep my guns in shape and medicine i would use to make stimpacks effective as possible and wouldnt have to use much of them up after a battle. it is a hard choose tho as there are many other really good skills lool

I would choose Lockpick,sneak and science.

Guns, Lockpick and Speech FTW

Definitely Speech, Sneak and Guns

Medicine, Repair, and Speech are my picks.

Melee weapons,repair and survival.Thats what I only need to become a savage of the wastes.

I would pick speech barter and medicine.

Guns, Survival And Medicine I find these the most important

I would pick: Sneak,Guns and Speech

medicine, speech and guns.

I would do Sneak, speech and guns. Gonna really need it. Especially when ambushed by enemies. Or just talking your way out of bad situations.

I find my 5 most important are Guns, speech, repair, lockpick, and medicine so if i had to break that down into 3 it would probably be:

Guns: Arguably the best skill
Speech: The other arguably best skill IMO, EXTREMELY overpowered in New Vegas
Lockpick: to reach all those areas and get extra goodies

Guns:World is screwed.Enemies are everywhere.Guns will always help.
Speech:A kind word can open a steel door
Medicine:Must need for surviving attacks and healing yourself.

qanakin wrote:

I would do Sneak, speech and guns. Gonna really need it. Especially when ambushed by enemies. Or just talking your way out of bad situations.

Precisely. These are always the skills I focus on. I choose the speech mainly because the choices that you can make using the skills really refresh the game for me (instead of doing something you can convince the person to do the thing themselves and feel like a badass puppetmaster).

Guns are just guns. I never really tried doing the whole game just with melee weapons but I'm pretty sure it's just better with guns.

And sneak is really cool if you are playing stealthy character and let's face it, who can resist the feeling of sneaking up to a safe spot and taking your enemies one by one. Nothing beats that.

Guns - its pretty obvious why this would be useful
Speech - talk your way out of situations
Medicine/Survival - both of these skills help you stay alive, i would pick between them depending on the character i am playing.

I always go with:
Guns - because shooting things
Speech - because of all the dialogue options
Science or Repair or Medicine - because of the other options
(If i'm playing on hardcore I go for survival, medicine and sneak)

Guns, speech and repair. Man, I love repairing stuff in RL too but yet I couldn't do too much with it in FalloutNV expect the basic things and such. (So far as I know about.) ;_;