Manny's casino....

[mercury149]

Is my luck just horrible or are his games rigged so you are guaranteed to lose? Fortunatly I saved before starting but I have yet to win a single game there....burnt through all my ammo betting and everytime I got 20 or 21 the dealer had 21, they NEVER busted....always one point higher than me.
About 100 hands of blackjack and not ONE win for me....the odds on that are.....insane....

So has anyone won a hand at Manny's?

[mercury149]

No one had any problems with this?

[Mouth]

I played ten hands. Won 0. I'm not terrible at Blackjack IRL. I believe it is rigged.

[|$m0k!n|-Mr. 4HyDe-]

I never actually bothered, but I would assume that there would some party note of it in the game. Do all the losses open up for some additional dialogue with Manny or his security guy?

[mercury149]

None that I could find, I thought that as well and went back to talk to Manny and the rest of the crowd, no new options, and this was AFTER helping him with his long term problem.....

[King of Turtlerock]

The NPCs around town tell you it's rigged.

[Big Boom Boom]

It's rigged, also what's your LUCK. Remember, LUCK determine luck (well duh). Get 10 LUCK and ransack casino New Vegas style.

[Cat]

It's rigged, I got 21 a few times in a row, the dealer ALWAYS get 1 higher OR equal to you so it's impossible to win. It's sort of the point though, these guys are jerks.

[TheGodlike]

Yeah, thats the point ^^ - even the slot machines are rigged - tried it around 20 times without a single win

[Cat]

Originally posted by TheGodlike:

Yeah, thats the point ^^ - even the slot machines are rigged - tried it around 20 times without a single win

You can use mechanical repair on them to make them put out ammo once, I got 100 .45 ammo from them that way.

[TheGodlike]

Nice, thanks for the hint! Have to check if that still works after the Mayor is back in charge.

[Dr. LoveStrange]

Wow how annoying. The whole casino portion of Hollywood is a disappointment. It seems like they just gave up on it, and dumped the whole thing outside in a little patio, and slipped in some comments about 'rennovations'. After all the hype about how great Manny is, how honest, etc, and how great his shows are, all you get is a crowded patio with blackjack dealers offering games that cant be won.

[Bamboonga]

I've won twice. But that's twice in about 250+ attempts. The In all 250 rounds, the dealer has never busted.

Eventually I just started betting every single bullet I had, and quicksaving/quickloading until I won. 2 wins doubled every bullet I'd been saving since Ag Center...it was enough to clean out all the merchants I've found in Cali so far.

But yeah, the only reason I even bothered is because one of the wins was my 3rd attempt, otherwise I'd have assumed it was impossible. It takes forever, but eventually yeah, you'll win.

[CaptSternn]

Originally posted by Captain Cranium:

Wow how annoying. The whole casino portion of Hollywood is a disappointment. It seems like they just gave up on it, and dumped the whole thing outside in a little patio, and slipped in some comments about 'rennovations'. After all the hype about how great Manny is, how honest, etc, and how great his shows are, all you get is a crowded patio with blackjack dealers offering games that cant be won.

You wont care how much of a dump it is after your 5th free drink... err wait.

[Ichthyic]

Originally posted by VLH:

Wow how annoying. The whole casino portion of Hollywood is a disappointment. It seems like they just gave up on it, and dumped the whole thing outside in a little patio, and slipped in some comments about 'rennovations'. After all the hype about how great Manny is, how honest, etc, and how great his shows are, all you get is a crowded patio with blackjack dealers offering games that cant be won.

really, can't say it better than that. really looks like a big bit of laziness on the dev's part.

can't say they haven't had enough time to finish puting together a normal casino at this point, after 5 patches.

you know, it's the LITTLE things that really set aside games like this, and makes them memorable.

...and that works whether those little things are good, or in this case, bad.

[airmikee99]

Originally posted by Ichthyic:

really, can't say it better than that. really looks like a big bit of laziness on the dev's part.

can't say they haven't had enough time to finish puting together a normal casino at this point, after 5 patches.

you know, it's the LITTLE things that really set aside games like this, and makes them memorable.

...and that works whether those little things are good, or in this case, bad.

You expect an honest casino operation in a post-apocalyptic wasteland?

I don't think that's laziness on the devs part, I think it's naivety on your part, especially considering there isn't a single honest caisno operation today, in real life. You've never heard the expression, "The House Always Wins." Why do you think it's profitable to open casinos? Because the odds are always in favor of the house, only a few extremely lucky people (and the ones who cheat) are able to walk away from gambling with more cash than they started with, the vast majority of people barely break even and plenty of people lose everything.