Fallout: New Vegas DLC Overview

[LobsterFeng]

Haha, you pronounce "Zion" in a funny way. Well now that I think of it, that may be the right way to say it. It's just that everyone here in Utah pronounces it like "Zi-en", like how most people pronounce words that end with "on".

OT: Still haven't bought any of the DLC yet, seeing as how I haven't even beaten the actual game yet.

 

[Comando96]

I own this on the computer and have bought no DLC yet due to many facts.

Firstly I am a cheap-scape and am waiting for the inevitable steam dropping the prices.
Secondly my saves are fucked... I completed the game 4 times and they are as cluttered as fuck.
Thirdly, there are so many mods, I have mixed and matched them... not helping my saves.
Finally bugs, bugs fucking bugs. I wanted to wait until the bugs were gone to the extent Bethesda will get round to them.

So by the sounds of it I'll buy OWB and HH... leaving dead money (I got board... of a lets play of it...).

 

[foxlovingfreak]

My opions are as follows

Dead money: I like the whole heist aspect to this stort and love the companis you get becase each one is patuclart neat and intersting and the fact your striped of your gear at the begening actually gave me a reason to try new armoer and weapons I would have never consided. You also get what is prehaps one of the strogest wepons in the game jusr for starting it the holo rifel. How strong is this gun? Rembere the quarry thats infested with deathclaws in the main game. Even at max level I felt only got therw on luck then I tried again with the holo rifel and I just brezzed threw it. The only things I didn't like about dead money where the bomb collar concept got real anoying in the last area to the point of being unfair and you finally get it off your like thats it. its like whoever wrote the story could not find a justifible way to remove ir other then you beat the main quest. You also cant go back once you beat it like with honest hearts and old world blues.

Honest hearts: What I like about this one is that zion is just amazing to expolore and the burened man is easily one of my alltime favoirte fallout charecters. But In terms of actual quests there really isn't anything intresting to do here. And where the companion charecters in both dead money and the main game where intresting the ones you get here just feel dull and lifeless. The rewards you get for completing this adventure make it difantly worth the trip.( I took my light in shining darkness pistole with me into old world blues and only stoped using it when I ran out of ammo).

Old world blues: easily my faviorte so far the charecters are hilarous and the quests actually give you incetive to expolore the whole of big mt also wail the othet two entries hint at some epic confentration thats going to take place in the last dlc old world blues starts to show what it may be about if your willing to look. the one thing I didnt like is if you dont fully explore everything before finshing the main quest the game wil penalize you for it in your ending. This also fetures another favurote charecter of mine I wont spoil it for you but please go out og your why to reactvate the toaster. Another plus for me is that thers both a store and repair shop in your main base that you can litarly return to from almost anywhere in the wastes.

In retrospecte I loved the dlc this game had to offer and have already prepared my charecter for his final journey in lonely road.

 

[Calbeck]

Old World Blues is just such a thick and tasty offering that there's no contest as to which is the best DLC so far. Besides some genuinely jaw-dropping moments of SCIENCE! (in the classic sense), it gives you quite a few tie-ins to explaining some of what's going on in the main game as well as in Dead Money.

On this particular play-through of New Vegas as a whole, I actually did OWB as the first of my DLCs, and in this way it provides an excellent set-up and motivation for doing Dead Money as my next run. There are numerous connections to major Dead Money characters, so that it feels like you're stumbling across the track of several mysteries that just beg to be solved --- at the Sierra Madre. Since I now feel like I'm following a real narrative, as opposed to just being a greedy SOB who gets jumped and collared, I have a real reason to replay Dead Money.

As to Honest Hearts --- as gorgeous as Zion is and despite an exceptionally well-written story, there's not really much in-character reason to go, except to be a tourist.

The in-game pull is that you'll be paid a couple of hundred caps, and take weeks out of your schedule, to escort a caravan. This minimally-interesting lead-in is exacerbated by the fact that the DLC's start point is on the north edge of the gameworld map --- by the time you can get there, you'll have accumulated levels and caps to the point that the job is strictly small-time.

Moreover, there's no tie-ins to either the main game or the other DLCs. The one major one there could have been --- being employed by Caesar to find and assassinate Graham --- was rejected for voice-acting and patching concerns. So although there's quite a bit of talk about Graham being a wanted man, and even with Caesar routinely sending teams of killers to find him and finish the job, you'll receive no reward or even recognition for doing the deed yourself.

I really feel Honest Hearts would have done better as the first DLC, with a start point closer to Goodsprings so as to provide the player an early character-building experience.

 

[ChupathingyX]

NV was crap because it was so linear compared to Fallout 3. I really didn't like being forced to go in one direction to get the game going... that and the whole bug-ridden crashes that destroyed quite a few saves in my game...
Obsidian, why do you have to make games with awesome concepts and horribad QA testing?

How can it be linear if you're given way more choice in the main quest than Fallout 3? The way you're told to follow a certain in NV serves as an extended tuturial, along the way you will encounter the NCR, Caesars Legion, helpful items, weapons and introductions to things like traps, you can kind of compare it to going through Vault 101.

Also Bethesda did the QA testing for NV, not Obsidian.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

Personally Dead Money is my favorite of the three DLC's from a narrative standpoint. Granted the Ghost People got on my nerves after a while, as did the bomb collars going off because of radios of all things. But when you put all of that aside, and really take the time to listen to what all of the companions an Elijah have to say. As well as take the time to read the logs, and learn about the Sierra Madre it really paints an interesting picture and sends a really strong message about letting go and moving on. Which is only exemplified more at the end when you are faced with the gold bars. Which lets face it, we all probably took some but for me I couldn't help but feel guilty when I took even one after going through DM a second time and really taking the time to reflect on and learn about the whole theme of the DLC. :/

 

[duchaked]

LOL whoops killed of the main quest...d'oh well

still working on Fallout 3, but I do have NV in my sights. haven't invested in any of the DLC yet, but will be looking to decide where I spend the extra cash...

 

[grigjd3]

Perhaps my experience of Honest Hearts is different because I had the Animal Friendship perk (both ranks) so I rarely had a fight in the whole expansion until the end. What stood out to me about it was that there was so much potential for story telling in Dead Money that they just wasted. In Old World Blues they attempted some story telling but they front-loaded it with so much dialog that I quickly lost interest. Dead Money was the only DLC where the story telling was spread evenly through the game. It was a nice mixture of action and character interaction with a number of things happening as you move through the setting. In fact, what really stood out to me was the Dead Money was the only one which really embodied the ideal of doing more than seeing or being told.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Gotta agree, I loved Old World Blues. Interesting location, tonnes to explore (even some Fallout 3-esque 'dungeon' areas) and the characters were completely batshit insane and hilarious.

Dr Dala is probably my favourite Fallout character since Torr.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

The Casino and even what was in it was a let down. Even at the end I said to myself, "What, that is it?"

Spoiler

Gold bars? That is it, I was walking around with 49,000 caps already and was pissing them away all the time. I wanted a great gun/armor/implant SOMETHING, but nothing.

You actually need those gold bars unless you want to farm some more in the Mojave as OWB will rob you blind for stuff and implants.

 

[Sparrow]

This seems like a really backward way of doing it, why not simply wait for like two weeks for the last one to come out and THEN review it?

Regardless, Dead Money was a total drag for me. Difficult to get through due to how linear and dull the quests were. Plus, it's totally possible for you escape with over 500,000 caps worth of gold - what's the point of ever looking for money again? I'm having much more fun with Honest Hearts, and I'm due to play Old World Blues later today. OWB looks the best of the lot.

 

[ChupathingyX]

You actually need those gold bars unless you want to farm some more in the Mojave as OWB will rob you blind for stuff and implants.

Actually, the whole point of the gold bars was to teach you that greed overcomes veryone and will eventually destroy if you pursue it.

The Great War and Resource Wars were the result of greed, and many people have died in search of the treasure of the Sierra Madre.

That's why the gold bars at the end of Dead Money were so heavy, so you couldn't take all of them without cheating or using glitches. You go through all of that work for almost nothing, that was intentional.

 

[cthulhumythos]

dead money was my favorite followed by old world blues. honest hearts was meh in my opinion.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

You actually need those gold bars unless you want to farm some more in the Mojave as OWB will rob you blind for stuff and implants.

Actually, the whole point of the gold bars was to teach you that greed overcomes veryone and will eventually destroy if you pursue it.

The Great War and Resource Wars were the result of greed, and many people have died in search of the treasure of the Sierra Madre.

That's why the gold bars at the end of Dead Money were so heavy, so you couldn't take all of them without cheating or using glitches. You go through all of that work for almost nothing, that was intentional.

And that too!I think the whole moral of the adventure was that greed can be good but you have to know when to let go.

 

[Jfswift]

Personally, I say save "Old World Blues" for last since it's, in my opinion, the best of the DLC's released so far. Also, I can't believe he forgot the toaster.

 

[D0WNT0WN]

Hmmm.... I reckon I will wait untill they make a bundle of all the DLCs together.

Just started New Vegas and it is hard.

 

[tg851]

don't even play it at all. Its borked beyond help
the main quest doesn't register even when its complete at a 95% rate, I still haven't played it. when i tried the first time i got trapped and had to go back to on ~6 hours progress
I've tried 3 more times and still haven't got it working. I've given up up.

 

[Denvarte]

I don't know why this is necessary, Dead Money and Old World Blues are part of a trilogy that, to me, has been putting the main game story to shame. Honest Hearts is the only one that's not involved with the Ulysses story, but more of an add-on to the main story, so If you can just buy that one, yeah, I guess. But recommending Dead Money or OWB on their own seems unfair to the overarching story their beginning that's going to end with Lonesome Road.

That said, the recs are pretty solid. Dead Money is a refreshing gameplay change. Honest Hearts is short, quick, and deep. While Old World Blues is fucking hilarious.

 

[leviadragon99]

Funny, I actually found Honest Hearts to be the weakest of the three, with a pretty obvious and overused underlying message/dichotemy of goals and not much beyond the survivor to distinguish it's locale.