Okay it's official: I fucking HATE "Old World Blues"

[Qvar]

I found OWB fantastic. Maybe an hour too long, but only because I forced myself to get every single piece of everything that there was to collect in it. On the other hand, Honest Hearths was awful. I blazed through it because I couldn't stand the place a minute more.

Lonesome road level scales better. You won't have any trouble fighting enemies there at level 30+, OWB enemies however get ludicrously high DT/HP as time goes on, you can still kill them with bullet spam, but there's not enough bullets in OWB to finish it. As far as I can tell they didn't playtest a lot of perfectly acceptable builds from the core game in it, and just assumed that the player would be statted for energy weapons.

I wasn't statted for energy weapons (only had 25 points on it when started) and yet I was able to finish it with only a bit of care about not spamming bullets. Oh, always used overcharged ammo, if that tells you anything.

 

[Sansha]

I haven't played Old World Blues because Dead Money was so bad, so offensively appalling, so aggressively putrid and toxic that it completely ruined New Vegas for me, despite 300+ hours of play time.

Haven't played New Vegas since forcing my way through that rancid shit. I uninstalled the entire game, and even couldn't play Fallout 3 for months.

I've been gaming since 1992 and 'Dead Money' DLC for Fallout: New Vegas. is easily the worst gaming product ever conceived by human minds and hands.

No bullshit. I hate it that much.

Care to explain your complete hatred of this DLC?
I thought it was good.

I have completely nothing positive or redeeming to say about it. I had zero fun. Nothing but frustrating gameplay, honestly. Nothing about it was fun. The hologram guards, the collar and the ancillary bullshit that set it off, the completely unlikable characters - especially for someone like me who plays without dialogue captions, which made the interactions with Christine impossible.

The absolute worst was having that irritating maze of a town, with the whole place looking the same all over, with enemies who don't fucking stay dead and that poorly explained, poorly executed 'Cloud' hanging over the area.

The things about Dead Money that were supposed to make it unique and/or challenging ended up making it irritating. I had no fun playing it, and wouldn't have bothered if I had a save to go back to before going into it. I had to force myself to get through it over a period of something like two weeks, and even afterward, it took me literally years to be able to play New Vegas again.

It is that bad.

I've never played OWB or Lonesome Road. I loved Honest Hearts; it's true to the kind of Fallout I know and love. OWB is just silly, but to me Lonesome Road is sillier. I never bought into the whole 'two Couriers' story. It sounds like complete bullshit.

 

[Windcaler]

Ive never really thought about it before but when I rate DLC's from New vegas by which ones I enjoyed the most and want to play again Old world blues is really at the bottom I think. The reason being that it just outstayed its welcome and it didnt make me want to explore the big empty (actually that was a problem with all of Fallout NV but even more so with Old world).

My favorite DLC is probably Honest hearts. You just dont tend to see tribal settings and it really had something to say about the various philosophical outlooks of the different tribes. Behind that is probably Lonesome road, mostly because the other DLCs built up to it, and then Dead money which was a great survival horror-esque DLC

 

[Lictor Face]

Hooooooooooooooow did this get popularly acclaimed as the best of the New Vegas DLC? In just a few short play sessions I've gone from generally enjoying my replay of the game to generally hating it, and not coincidentally this transformation occurred immediately after starting Old World Blues.

Then you'd better stay away from Lonesome Road. Maybe Honest Hearts too.

If I'm not wrong, OLD WURLD BLUEZ was actually the best received dlc out of the fallout new vegas tetrad of dlc.

Probably because it was the only one which didn't take itself so seriously. DED MONEY was relatively serious, Honest Hearts was back-breakingly serious, Lonesome road is terminally serious and might give you a bad case of seriousness.

 

[Sansha]

Hooooooooooooooow did this get popularly acclaimed as the best of the New Vegas DLC? In just a few short play sessions I've gone from generally enjoying my replay of the game to generally hating it, and not coincidentally this transformation occurred immediately after starting Old World Blues.

Then you'd better stay away from Lonesome Road. Maybe Honest Hearts too.

If I'm not wrong, OLD WURLD BLUEZ was actually the best received dlc out of the fallout new vegas tetrad of dlc.

Probably because it was the only one which didn't take itself so seriously. DED MONEY was relatively serious, Honest Hearts was back-breakingly serious, Lonesome road is terminally serious and might give you a bad case of seriousness.

The fact that Dead Money and Lonesome Road took themselves so seriously is why I don't play them. They're such aggressively ridiculous premises; a hotel vault robbery run by a lunatic, surrounded by immortal soldiers and a toxic cloud, and an epic battle of wits and strength between... two Couriers.

At least Honest Hearts has a correctly proportionate level of seriousness with its plot and setting. Ain't nobody give a shit about this 'begin again' stuff in Dead Money, and a Courier battle? I mean, come on.