Two things about Nuka World: I wish you could use the raiders to get into the institute Also I wish there was a quest chain with Preston about getting the minutemen to wipe out the raiders and take nuka world for the commonwealth
A Raider ending would be awesome. Also, there's a PC mod that lets you take over the main area with The Minute Men. You probably wanna combine it with something like "We Are The Minute Men" to buff them up though; otherwise you'll have a bunch of people in rags with pipe weapons getting slaughtered.
I always took Dead Money as an excellent practice mode for Hardcore Mode. Every piece of food, drink, ammo, and medicine is precious as you'll be paying extra attention to your health and choosing whether or not to fight enemies or sneak past.
Without unofficial patch those seekers or whatever they were called will always see you easily because their perception is so high and it was a mistake from devs
My first time playing Dead Money when I was like 15 I hated it because I got soft locked trying to get Dog to do his part at the start but when I went back at 25 and replayed the game it ended up being my favorite DLC by far from New Vegas.
Yea. When i started it as a kid, i hated it. It feelt tideius and boring. Now? Its was amazing story, i ENJOYED haved my stuff taken abd being forced to try to figure out how to survive.
Love love love Dead Money. The characters are amazing and nuanced, the setting is disturbing and suffocating (literally), and the questline is incredibly interesting with an amazing theme. Can definitely understand how people could not like it but I look forward to this DLC every time I do a playthrough. Without a doubt, my favourite DLC.
Biggest gripe with mothership Zeta is that it locks you out of area's you previously visited, so if you missed out on some unique weapons, you're screwed. That and the aliens can be bullet sponges.
wait, you can go back...you just have to travel to the crashed alienship on the wasteland, if i recall correctly. I remember doing that multiple times, but i can be wrong
Lonesome road is actually my favorite fallout DLC, it gives some good new weapons, armors and enemies(shoulder mounted machine gun, elite riot gear, marked men, tunnelers etc). But what really makes Lonesome road my favorite is the atmosphere of the Divide and the story and overall message of the DLC. I love Ulysses and his cryptic way of speaking. And also who doesn’t like having Ed-e as a companion.
Ulysses is the only part of FNV I despise, he seems like an edgy highschool philosophy student - a lot of words to essentially say nothing of value, none of his attempts at evoking player emotion worked for me, I was just annoyed at "bear and bull" for 2 hours lmao
Ron you should try the Tale of Two Wastelands mod, it lets you seamlessly play fallout 3 and New Vegas in one playthrough and I'd argue it's one of the best mods ever made
Dead money can be down right unfair your first couple of times. I had a character that was a guns character but had no science to get the police pistol and had to rely on other stats that were under levelled. Once you play it and know where to find deans staches you should have too much of a problem. Also get light touch
I played it for the first time as a kid I don’t remember straggling. Still many say it is difficult, so recently I downloaded fnv, made new character and tried to beat it lvl 1 with hardest difficulty and hardcore mode on. I didn’t die a single time(except 1 time final fight with Elijah witch is optional anyway) . Didn’t use holo rifle once, I even didn’t use companions to help me. So, I still don’t get why ppl say its hard. Can u please explain what gives you the hard time there? I am genuinely curious.
Honest Hearts and Dead Money will always be some of my favorite. The varying atmospheres that are very unique to the Fallout universe makes me very happy. My only thing is I always wished I was able to go back after completion of Dead Money. For Fallout 3 Point Lookout is my top, and the Pitt as a 2nd, Mothership Zeta is my 3rd, and Anchorage would be my least favorite although it is still an awsome DLC. For New Vegas Lonesome Road is definitely tied for my Dead Money first place, Old World Blues is my least favorite but is still amazing
Dead money is such an unusual DLC. Some people rightfully hate it for breaking the normal game formula, but then there's the fans which are absolute hardcore. I would even go as far as to say that dead money has gained a small cult following of its own.
I would agree with the cult following; I actually hired a custom playing-cards maker to print a deck of _Dead Money_-themed cards for me that I designed myself, and I still have it after 5+ years!
I want to sit down and play through Far Harbour and Nuka-World because a few of my friends always talk about how good it is. But o just cant play Fallout 4 man. Its so hard to get invested in any form of dialougue in that game. I have about 120 hours in there, which is really low for how long its been out, but i just wander around and collect things because the story and dialouge just sucks
I have just finished my NV DLCs playthrough (all of them for the first time except for Lonesome Road), and Lonesome Road is my all-time favourite, the location is breathtaking, Ulysses is one of the best characters ever written in the history of games, it's challenging and the marked men are so cool lore-wise, I kinda want to replay this masterpiece even though less than a week has passed since I finished it OWB is really great, but it's like a sitcom gag, too much reliance on humour for me, and it's kinda sad that the game makes you run around 30 times to grab stuff from places where you have already been numerous times, other than that it's fantastic Dead Money's characters make it great, though I didn't like the gameplay part too much - it was cool, but for the most part it felt unnecessarily punishing, especially the moment when you open the casino gates and there is a whole army of ghosts, if the game could let you take med-x+slasher and use power armor, it would be ok, but I had to replay it like 40 times until I actually managed to run past the ghosts into the door (maybe the problem is, I run a modpack where something makes enemies take like 70% of your hp with every hit on very hard, and hardcore wouldn't let me heal instantly) Honest Hearts felt a bit too short and I couldn't care about the main story enough to actually enjoy it, but again characters pull it off and the side story with the terminals in cave is just sheer brilliance, so to me LR and OWB would go to S tier, DM and HH would go to A tier
Dead money was surprisingly easy the first time I played it, because my playstyle and build trivialized the ghost people. High energy weapons, sneak, and perception meant I could one-shot them with the holorifle before they even noticed me
The only one of the Fallout 3 DLCs I really enjoy is Point Lookout. Despite the brutal unfairness of the swampfolk, I really enjoy the area and story. I never like playing through Dead Money and it's mostly due to the first half of it. The exterior of is too much of a maze, too many enemies keep spawning and, of course, the damned cloud is all over the place. Once I actually get into the hotel proper, I love the rest of the DLC. Old World Blues is New Vegas embracing the 50's B-movies that are a major component of Fallout's DNA and the cherry on the sundae is completing it gets you the best player home in the game. Honest Hearts just bores me to be honest. Zion is pretty and Joshua Graham is an interesting character, but to me the rest of it is just 'meh'. I don't like Lonesome Road for one reason. Ulysses. That hypocritical egotistical jackass just pisses me off with the sheer amount of bullshit he spews. I still complete it every time so I can get the upgrades for Ed-E and so I can shoot Ulysses in the face. Courier's Stash and Gun Runner's Arsenal are just gear packs which is nice, but it's just gear. I've never played any of the Fallout 4 DLCs.
To me Dead money is not a love it or hate it dlc, it's a love it and hate it at the same time dlc. Nuka world was just terrible for me, Bethesda completely misunderstood the players who said they wanted the option to be bad, and made a dlc where being bad was the only real option.
After playing both Bethesda's Fallouts and Obsidian's New Vegas, I felt Bethesda's team doesn't understand players as well they should. The Bethesda games felt creatively less focused and just less polished as far world building. I suspect some of that is Bethesda's management meddling in the creative development of the game prioritizing features and set pieces for marketing purposes rather than a more better developed world for more immersive single player experience.
This, this is the reason I honestly despise Nuka World and it is wasted potential. It couldve given so many great options, like after the start you get out of Nuka World, get back to your faction and create a plan to save the people and crush the raider army. Then infiltrate Nuka World as the *Leader* of raiders and help them, only for an army to show up and have a massive battle in the wasteland around the park, then charging into the middle of the park and hit strategic objectives. This is what couldve happened, a gigantic climactic battle between good and evil and not between evil and butthurt crybaby evil that didnt get as much toys as them. After the one time I tried the dlc raider way, I blast Gage to bits every time when he gives the condo to me and then rip and tear starts playing, but this way 90% of the dlc is lost.
@@okupant880 same, I would have loved to be able to go back to the commonwealth, gather an army and return. Build artillery in the open areas outside and bombard the headquarters. Or use BoS troops to airdrop in, etc
95% of my hate for nuka-world comes from the star cores galactica quest, jesus christ is it infuriating. I honestly hope the guy who made this never even looks in the general direction of gaming industry again (also nobody talks enough abt how the hubologists quest is a really bad rip-off of come fly with me)
@@nicholastuttle2445 teleporting an entire synth division or see explosions everyehere as a third of surviving raiders change names to railroad agent as heavys charge through the front door.
There are two Dead Money Bugs that stand out to me: 1.)The Ghost People's perception is actually 0 believe it or not. However due to how the engine is coded, it registers it as infinite perception. This was most likely intentional so as to make them more of a threat. 2.) There is a way of getting all 37 gold bars. Walk up to the force field on the right before Elijah enters, when he lowers the field and walks forward, it knocks and teleports you behind him and you can just walk to the elevator. Now I did this back in the on the Xbox 360 back when Dead Money first released I don't know if its been patched, but I thought I'd bring it up.
OWB is by a country mile my favorite DLC for any Fallout (or Elder Scrolls, for that matter) game. The various labs are (mostly) cool and interesting to explore, I love the characterization throughout, especially DR. MOBIUS! and the way his mask slips once in a blue moon and you see the confused, well-meaning crackpot behind the performance, (and Muggy) and it incorporates hints at the other DLC better than most, with all the nods to Elijah, Ulysses, and Christine. Also, not a bonus to the DLC itself, but I love the Transportalponder in TTW, where people have extended it so it can be used to travel between the Sink, Mojave, and Capitol Wasteland.
I hate OWB. In dead money the "you are dead "ending had no indication, okay kinda bs but at least you can remember that trigger and avoid on subsequent runs. In OWB i still don't know what triggers that ending BECAUSE I THOUGHT I CHOSE THE ONE WHERE I SURVIVED. God i hate that shit.
Personally, I think Dead Money is the best DLC (by a pretty good margin) on this list for a first playthrough because the storyline, characters, and novelty of having to scavenge gear are all really, really good. On repeat playthroughs, however, it can be pretty tedious compared to the others, and the rewards are only really worth it if you're running and Energy Weapons build and want the Holorifle.
Oddly enough, dead money is probably the dlc i've played the most. I just adore it. The rewards are actually pretty incredible. I always make it out of the dlc with around 11k chips and collect every single vending machine code. You effectively have infinite weapon repair kits, (super) stims, steady, buffout, med x, doctor's bags, mentats, heavier frag mines and 308 rounds/357. And you get free chips every week/can make them with fission batteries and scrap metal. Although the ammo is kinda meh, the great kahn vendor has a ridiculous amount of ammo in stock.
I like having the settlement DLCs in my game. I like having couriers stash and gun runners arsenal in my game. But none of them are worth paying actual money for. They all should of been free updates. I'd put them all into D tier. Couriers stash and GRA are better admittedly than the settlement ones because they were much cheaper. The New Vegas ones launched being around £1 and the F4 ones being around £4. But either way I wouldn't buy any of these separately
Dead Money belongs in S in my opinion. It's a more linear experience than OWB, but the story is second to none. It has all the emotional impact of The Survivalist's story fron Honest Hearts, except fully voice-acted. And I never felt more clever in a video game than I did figuring out how to take all the gold bars while trapping Elijah in the vault.
Best to Worst Old World Blues: Fallout at its best and every single character is pitch perfect Lonesome Road: Loved the development for the Courier's backstory but never really cared for Ulysses as a antagonist. Point Lookout: Unique setting and a solid story. Far Habour: Ditto. Dead Money: Like the idea of the DLC but somewhat flawed execution (especially with casino abuse and dropping all the gold bars behind the barrier) and way too easy to get lost. Honest Hearts: The setting and its use of colour is a breath of fresh air (literally) but the main story is kind of boring The Pitt: A decent DLC but needed more story and quest content to be great. Gun Runners Arsenal: Yeah its basically a weapons mod you pay for but its solid and contains some of the most fun weapons to use along with the nice challenges. Automatron: Completely forgettable, the robot companions are neat but not really amazing, wish they had done more with Jezebel. Mothership Zeta: Buggy and basically a corridor shooter. Had potential but not fully realized. Nuka World: A pretty cool themed dlc, shame you have to play an evil/amoral character to get the full experience. Broken Steel: A dlc that basically addressed a lot of the problems I had with Fallout 3, and should have been part of the story in the first place.... Courier's Stash: Pre order bs that now with all the dlc in the game makes the start way too easy. Picking which one you want ala alternate start mod feels like the best solution to me. Operation Anchorage: It basically serves the role as GRA for fallout 3 but tack on a throwaway story, horrible linear cover shooter FPS and just giving the player the most broken "I win every fight" gear in fallout history. It makes Turbo Plasma/Power Armour in Fallout 1 look absolutely balanced by comparison. Vault-Tec and the other ones: The world best argument for playing Fallout Shelter.
Fonv is like playing fo3 on steroids. Both are great in their own right but fonv is so much better. The storyline and options are so much more vast than fo3. Love the content!
Old World Blues while amusing early on, has very juvenile humor that wears thin quickly on multiple playthroughs, and the quests get repetitive and boring. The only reason I do it anymore is for the gear. Lonesome Road is loads of fun, especially the expanded lore for EDE.
I love how The new vegas dlcs are all on a spectrum of seriousness to wackyness dead money being the most serious and OWB being the most wacky and lonesome road and honest hearts falling In between.
I feel the same way about OWB as most people fo about Dead Money. It's just too difficult to be fun, and I find it tedious. If it weren't for all the cool loot, I wouldn't even bother.
IMO, the Pitt DLC is better that base F3 game with all other DLCs. I can can it is nearly New Vegas level with their grey moral choices. Also it feels like another game because they tried to explain how Pitt's society works, how did they manage to survive and why things work that way, and that really differences from the game where you can wind little lamplight
Yeah but it's also an essential part of the experience. Being constantly on edge. Dead Money may be my favorite DLC because it feels like a definite experience.
- Operation is a bad DLC. It doesnt fail at anything but sets you up as overpowered for no reason and can be done at the start of the game without weird shenanigans or roadblocks, like the DLC is scaled at that low level but still gives endgame gear that lasts for ever. No replayability, no story or characters basically, cool gameplay and theme. It's a C. - Broken Steel is a good endgame DLCs. Adds stronger enemies, higher cap, stronger weapons, and it does a good job at showing that even if you won the purifier battle, the wastland keeps moving and the war with the enclave hasnt ended. - Point Lookout i would say is S because i value the things it did best a lot. Best job at theme and worldbuilding (locations, side quests, NPCs, exploration...) in a fallout DLC, plus the ocultist lovecraftian horror theme was greatly executed. The main story i thought was nice, had some really cool mission. And I didnt mind the characters, thought they were nice. - Zeta is worst Operation, the first part is interesting because you are breaking out, learning about your situation and it hasnt felt repetitive yet. It feels bad to play, it's awesome that you are in a spaceship and that only matter twice and you are too bored of the same rooms, corridors, enemies and quest to enjoy the walk outside or the button mash that is the ship fight. If there's a D tier (story) dlc in fallout it's this one. - I put Dead Money S tier because again, i like the theme of the DLC. Robbing a super advanced prewar Casino with an elite super interesting team and a good villain that has been foreshadowed by people in the game (at the time of me playing it i had played NV for a while, knew of Elijah and was cool seeing him there), cool story and backstory to the casino... - Lonesome Road is another excelent endgame but it doesnt change the game, it adds and endgame area and that's good too. You get nice loot during the DLC, and after you complete it you bomb people at the end for nice faction loot, like a sidequest at the end and that's also neat. - Gun Runners i think is good enough of a weapon mod to award being A tier. Adds a lot of cool weapons, some with different effects and ultimately more variety to combat at no cost or story, just more items on vendors. - For Nuka World, I actually hated the start of Sierra's sidequest (the ending was awesome after getting the passcode, cool to see Sierra back and making sense with how much of a fanatic of Nukacola she is). To side with the slaves is not a real choice, since people wont try to because they are pushed towards the raider side, unless they "investigate" it and see the quest pop up. It's a choice but never hinted at and that's a good way to do it in my opinion. Worst part about the DLC btw: it was 100% made with fast travel in mind, play it in survival and every quest taking you back to the commonwealth takes like 4 trips of the train. Any of those quests takes 30mins for no reason instead of 5mins with fast travel. The building DLCs in fallout 4 are the only reason i wouldnt put Zeta as D tier. They are worst than Zeta. And Zeta is in between D and C.
@@aradan3913 Dude what you give gunners Arsenal an a but mothership Zeta an c or d Tier i mean is it really good no but you cannot tell me that a dlc where you get 3 or 4 weopons is better than one where you get more weopons a new Story Gear New npcs and more to explore
Oh please the only thing hard about Lonesome Road are those damned Deathclaws 😂 Tunnelers are a joke. Edit: And sacrificing EDE. EDE was a good boy he will be missed 😭
I think courier's stash breaks both the story AND the role-play aspect of the game. The courier shouldn't start with a full set of weapons and armor right at the start. Maybe this is just me but it bothered me so much that I downloaded a mod that scattered the items through the mojave wasteland
I agree for the most part except I loved lonesome road probably my favorite dlc throughout all the games, owb would be on the high end of a tier not quite s tier, and the pitt would be more a tier, could almost put dead money on high b tier, it was a good dlc but it was stupidly hard for me, worse than lonesome road, it just kind of lacked the fun element, but told a good story
Dead Money is my favorite. It's a great experience, but it also hard filters the worse players who only ever use guns and ignore everything else about the game's combat. Even a high level guns build with zero melee/unarmed investment would have a far easier time if the player just bothered to try out the clean cosmic knife spear or bear trap fist.
@@ReapeeRon the opening cutscene with the blank room turning into butterflies dispersing every direction is incredible if your lucky enough to do it at night, the sky box for shivering Isles is incredible
I looooathe Old World blues from its Rick and Morty style humor, to the world breaking story where it renders the fight over Hoover Dam irrelevant. Why care about this tiny 20th century facility, when there's this place with technology far above it? Also it just throws a bunch of "bosses" at you which are just scaled up versions of enemies which is pretty lame. But as a fun note, my charasmatic survivalist cowboy plowed through this. Animal friend renders Night stalkers neutral, and plenty of 357 and 44 ammo for my trail carbine and cowboy repeater.
Dead money is a weird one. For the story and location it’s absolutely awesome. For gameplay it’s just bad. Bethesda open world games are all about different ways to play and doing the same thing. Dead money really limits your options for build. First time I did it I was doing a ballistic rifle vats build and it felt awful trying to use weapons I didn’t build for in a difficult location. I ended up switching my build towards stealth and used stealth melee in dead money. At this point I don’t think I’d do dead money unless I was already doing a melee build.
A lot depends on what your gaming background was before coming to the Bethesda era Fallout games. A lot of the newer fans came from first person shooters so Operation Anchorage and Lonesome Road, where you have a clear linear progression and you're provided with a character to play rather than create, are going to be more entertaining. For rpg fans Honest Hearts and Old World Blues are going to be more popular because they provide you with objectives but then turn you loose in a wide open area with multiple methods to achieve the objectives so that the character you create doesn't have to be a combat optimized death machine. It's not a case of one style of gameplay being better than the other it's a matter of taste. Except for Gage. If you think Gage is more interesting than Nick you are just wrong;).
Man i REALLY want a Fallout game totally centered around the pitt and the rest of Pennsylvania, hands down the most interesting location I've ever seen in a Fallout game. Fallout 76 just reaffirmed my wish when the expeditions came out.
Nice to see Far Harbor getting some appreciation, Fallout 4 is my least favourite 3d Fallout game but bethesda knocked it out of the park with that DLC. I actually think it's the best expansion pack of all the 3d fallout games.
I loved the characters and interactionbs in desd money, but the enemies are straight up bullet sponges. Even with max guns, the police pistol took so many shots just to cripple a limb and kill them. I love honest hearts, but i really really dislike the fact that siding with joshua is the "bad" ending. I dont understand why its the bad ending, and i feel as though it was only bad because the new vegas dlc's HAVE to have a "bad" ending and a "good" ending
It is not the bad ending, siding with him and having him execute salt-upon-wounds is the bad ending. If you tell him to let SUW duel you, or better, convince him to have mercy, his anger gets tempered and the sorrows and dead horses learn from the act of mercy rather than just becoming more militant.
I pretty much agree with all that. You hit Nuka world on the head. That’s exactly how I feel about it. I love all the New Vegas Dlcs. Joshua is my favorite character as well. Daniel was written well, but he kind of pisses me off a little bit tho. No matter how you end that dlc he’s never completely happy and he’s just to caught up in his own failures to really be a spiritual leader to these people. At least imo.
I found Nuka-World a disappointment. Sure the location was cool, but I was trying to play a good guy when I went in, so I felt like I lost out on half the content.
I like him as well, but he failed monumentally at Sierra Madre. Not only does he get either trapped or killed by the Courier, but there are no signs of schematics or anything that would allow him to use the Holograms or the Cloud, there's just a ton of gold in the vault. Useful, yes, but useless for his mission of destroying the NCR.
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Dead Money's definitely my favorite NV DLC, as I love the shift to survival horror and the characters are all really compelling. I get why people don't enjoy it, and it certainly has frustrated me in the past, but the pros outweigh the cons. Far Harbor is definitely the best part of Fallout 4 as a whole, the setting, quests and characters are fantastic, and I'm really glad they gave more focus to Nick, as he's the best character in the game. I wish Nuka World got the same amount of quality, as the setting is super cool, but the lack of a good path is very idiotic. As for 3... Point Lookout, I guess. Fallout 3 is pretty mid.
i can understand that some ppl like dead money although elijah's motivations don't make much sense at times. but putting it above lonesome road? like bruh
20:08 have you heard the holotapes of Dixie? There's one horror story for you. She is (was) totally evil. Actually, I love killing all of them. (except Harvey)
I really liked Old World Blues it was just so wacky and it was a melting pot of various other dlc elements like Elijah was there at the same time as Ulysses
My friend: Hey so, another RU-vidr made a Fallout DLC tier list. He put Old World Blues in S tier. Me: Not surprising. My friend: And he also put a single FO3 and FO4 DLC in that tier too. The Pitt and Far Harbor. Me: Now that IS surprising. My friend: Whoaw, just wait till I tell you where he put the New Vegas weapon and item add-ons
I breeze through Honest Heart, i cant say the same with the other 3. I can put both Old world and Lonesome on S while placing Dead Money in A while Honest can go elsewhere like i give a damn.
Lonesome Road definitly deserves to be in S tier. The entire subplot of your backstory and Ulysses is just masterpiece. Mostly Fallout New Vegas dlc deserves to be in S, or A tiers. For Fallout 3 dlc Mothership Zeta was the best in my opinion, but I can see why some people would put it lower. In case of Fallout 4 Far Harbor is the best dlc.
Mothership Zeta is a great way to start the game. If you rush to the site at early levels you can get one of the best energy weapons ( Alien Disintegrator) at the start of the game. That combined with the ability to be a samurai and the little side stories of all the characters and earth lore like the Giddy-up Buttercup make it one of my favorites.
Dead Money was the best on my first and second playthroughs, but after that I get so tired of it that I usually just no clip through a lot of the BS. It's still one of my favorites just for that amazing experience of the first time going in. The characters are some of my favorites, and the ghost people are honestly pretty terrifying if you face them at low levels.
Automatron was my favorite, I was very excited to be able to build My very own robot companions. Also, in fallout 4 there's a perk you get where you can sit up provisioners for your settlements. You can build your own provisioners that way and basically make an army of death robots rolling around the Commonwealth. So this is why I think a lot of people didn't really like that DLC very much because I don't think they really put to good use of what it was designed for. With the death robot army provisioners rolling around you are basically fallout 4 as Mr House at that point lol😂
Dead Money is a beautiful, tragic story about love, obsession and betrayal, featuring some of the best written characters in all of fallout. A good chunk of the story is told through terminals and visual storytelling, and if you want further understanding of the circumstances leading to the current state of the sierra madre and its surroundings you have to play Old World Blues. One might argue that this is asking too much of the player, but this approach allows the player to get more immersed in the story, and seeing all these accounts from random workers makes this world feel more alive. not to mention the gameplay is excellent, and the pure sense of death and depression is noticeable in every aspect of the DLC. I fell in love with Dead Money years ago and I still can't let go.
Only things I'd change: Old world blues (SSS) WOB is what every DLC should strive to match. Dead money=low (S) DM is really underrated as Elijah is well written with a nice Mexican hotel feel to dead money. Nuka world = (B) Honestly take away becoming a raider king vibe from it & it is not that great! I never played (far harbour) or (Automatron) but what I have seen gives me (Point lookout) mark 2 copy vibes. (Fallout 4) I never played much at less a 40 hours roughly as it never felt like a fallout game to me. I'd rather play fallout 1 or 2 honestly! Base building, bullet sponges, voiced Main character dialogue & repeatable fetch quests. No thanks that seems more like Skyrim then a fallout game. Todd fvcked the fallout franchise!
I just use the DLC games that I don’t like to prepare for the ones I do like. I like lonesome road but I play it like a psychopath. I go in at level 4 with easy Pete’s dynamite/ an arc welder so I can destroy all the sentry bots, then I blaze through the entire DLC by rushing lockpick so I can get some riot armor for free.
A problem with fnv is that once you get to the mid game or even get some good early weapons like rat slayer the game difficulty falls off a cliff. Dead money resets you back to the difficult early game in a way and that’s why it was my favorite
I like the Pitt and Old World Blues the most. I like Dead Money after entering the casino, but the horror survival stuff before is not my cup of tea. I never actually played either Point Lookout nor Far Harbor myself. Creepy spooky island mistery is not something I'm really interested in and its not what I'm looking for in a Fallout game. I prefer when the game does whacky Sci-Fi settings where you go "I thought the post apocalypse people were kinda crazy, but WTF where these pre war people doing"
given how much broken steel breaks the game crashing wise and the last area is almost unplayable d tier c if u want cuz the hellfire stuff and new weps and lvl cap was cool but seriously that dlc is so broken
I'm not a big fan of Old World Blues. I find its sense of humor grating after a while, and the fact I can't walk ten feet in that crater without getting attacked by something is exhausting. I like Lonesome Road, but I gotta disagree about the character of Ulysses. Underneath that godlike voice of his is just a pretentious prick who is butthurt about some tragedy you had no control over, intent on spreading his misery to others. Elijah was similar in his goals, but at least he didn't drone on and on about history repeating itself and blaming you for it all. Speaking of, Dead Money and Honest Hearts are absolute masterpieces that are always a joy for me to play through. Incredible writing in those.
I hate old world blues because it is the buggiest piece of shit ever and i hate the "the courier died" endings because they have no reason to exist. Dead money is like this as well but at least there it's more clear what to do to avoid it.
Lonesome road is actually my favorite fallout dlc by a mile, it’s interesting to see other people don’t like it that much. The atmosphere is done so well and Ulysses is the greatest fallout character. My only big complaint is the stupid warheads you have to detonate around the map.
Agree 100% with your fallout 3 rankings. The Pitt and Point Lookout add memorable locations and characters. The other 3 are fun and have good loot but are too linear.
I had to speedrun through Honest Hearts because the whole DLC just made me really uncomfortable throughout. Joshua Graham is a very cool character, but the rest of HH just doesn't sit right with me personally.
Hot take, I HATE OWB's start, The over 30 minutes of childish badly written bull crap is so terrible, and the DLC is outright terrible if you have the wrong build.
I may be in the minority, but I hate Dead Money. The story is great but the gameplay is awful. First time player traps and bad gimmicks. I played dead money maybe 5 or 6 years ago and did absolutely everything so I never have to play it again.
I agree the Pitt is the best fallout 3 dlc but ranking it above dead money is a crime. It’s maybe on par with honest hearts the other NV dlcs blow it out of the water, and why in Holy Christ has lonesome road been put next to Mothership Zeta?? 😆
I haven’t seen a single comment harping on far harbors tower defense section. I was astounded in a bad way at that creative decision, and I don’t think I could justify an S tier, so I think an A rating would be more fitting.
Broken steel is s tier hands down just for the increase of the level cap. I’d be lost without broke steel lol. Thank god fnv has a level cap increase for all of its expansion packs.
Man... i know dead money is atmospheric, has a nice narrative and it plays like a horror/ investigation book... but fuck me i never have a good time playing it
