‘LR’ isn’t hard lmao. Turn it on VE, finish the DLC at level 12ish and you’ve got pretty good gear and and you can nuke both the legion and NCR without consequences. Since you haven’t made it to Vegas yet, your reputation will reset once you get there. No harm no foul, right?
@@todd2.08 OWB if you don't use a LAER you'll run out of ammo and it will be hard, you are supposed to use a LAER and craft weapon repair kits and fire energy rounds like crazy. I mean alternatively you could just bring in a TRUCK load of ammo, but theres a ton of energy weapon rounds and your base makes weapon repair kit pieces, you should be using the laer.
True. I’m always tempted to greet my old pal Vulpes and grab big book of science from the third floor of the town hall and turbo from the basement, but then I remember that I would have to kill legion doggies for that, and postpone that until I get animal friend. Biggest test of willpower indeed.
@@Nairdillo Animal friend perk makes it so normally hostile animals won't attack, as for needing the Legion dogs alive, he is clearly Legion scum... XD
Old World Blues: aesthetic of old absurd sci-fi Honest Hearts: one of the best Fallout character Dead Money: deep and sad story, survival like gameplay Lonesome Road: *The Bull and The Bear...*
I used to play like that, it made me feel absolutely miserable. It’s just a nonstop ride from level 5 to almost 30, and by the time I’m done with all of that I have best weapons, best armor, a metric ton of consumables and a enough caps to buy out vendotron stock n times over. How can anyone go back to goodsprings and do shit like ghost town gunfight, or rescuing a deputy from bison Steve is beyond me. I had way more fun when I just did the quests as they appeared, and progressed through the game naturally, DLCs, while fun, take you out of that flow.
@@et34t34fdf Unless you're in the Commonwealth. . .then it's toilet paper. . .and realistically speaking, toilet paper in a post apocalyptic nuclear world would have more value then just about anything else including guns and ammo.
I love them all, but I keep a permanent save file just outside the caravan cave that leads to Zion for when I want to replay it. The HH dlc, and Joshua Graham, have my heart ❤ "Do you ever fall?" "Every day. Some days are harder than others."
Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road are my 2 favorites, though Dead Money was a nice flip or the script in terms of gameplay, and Old World Blues I’ll admit I never made it far enough 🤣🤣
@@AspenFireflyGaming I think that’s my issue with it too personally. Sure, Fallout has ALWAYS been goofy, but for some reason it’s just THAT DLC for me. The others I’ve beaten a few times and I never had any trouble getting back into them
@@AspenFireflyGaming New Vegas was my first Fallout ever, an old friend told me about it on the bus when we were back in middle school, he was starting a RU-vid channel and was playing the PS3 version, I had 360 AND PS3 back then, but I heard the Xbox version was better so I went with that one and the rest is HISTORY! Played 3 shortly after that, loved it as well but I saw how the original creators being behind New Vegas and taking what Bethesda did right was the DEFINITIVE formula for the franchise! I was there for 4’s launch when I was in 11th grade, LOVED the action and crafting aspects but similar complaints to Fallout 3 for me with the story and choice elements lacking compared to New Vegas. With mods on Xbox I used to and still build some of the most lore friendly settlements I can, I just started the PS4 version over at my girlfriends a few days ago, so being limited with mods I took every visual enhancement I could grab, plus the overgrown wasteland mod, better water reflections. It looks like a 2018-19 game now on a LAUNCH PS4 nonetheless, I fix consoles too so the SSD I have installed in place of the factory HDD is really helping the load times just like I saw when playing it and the classics on my One X 😎👍🏻 like I said though New Vegas always has been and always WILL be the best of the franchise, it’s the best of both worlds under one roof! Not to mention that it’s basically the cancelled Black Isles version of Fallout 3, NCR and Legion included!
OWB in general has some very bad respawn rates of all enemies. It also has a major coding error which increases all enemies' perception to 10, rather than lowering them as was intended. (Lobotomites, who are missing chunks of their brain, are half-blind and half-deaf, shouldn't hear you sneaking from across the map. Apparently, the devs wanted to code their vulnerabilities by lowering their perception, but a misplaced zero or a minus or whatever caused the opposite of that to happen.) The respawn rate is so quick you can stand still in an area for just a few minutes and lobotomites will just respawn right next to you. Nightstalkers too (again, all enemies in the dlc suffer from that perception glitch, so they'll just spot you from across the map and investigate.) Same with some spots in honest hearts where white legs will just jump you, catching you sneaking even though you have a sneak of 100 with pipboy lights off. It doesn't make much sense, but that's what rushed development looks like. This alone is why OWB ISN'T my favorite dlc. That and the obnoxious dialogue at points, specifically when you first arrive and a HALF HOUR dialogue occurs. Yes you can skip dialogue, but you shouldn't have to. Devs really dropped the ball here. To me, OWB falls dead last because of these many errors and also the small size and relatively boring landscape that is the map. Aside from the technology you find, there's really nothing of note to look at or discover.
Old World Blues forced me to go Cannibal after running out of food. Honest Hearts introduced me to a gigachad of a man... you know of whom I speak... one of bandages and proverbs.... therefore best DLC
I always have this debate in my head. Do I do Old World Blues first for those amazing perks that are better the sooner you get them? Do I get some of my favorite armor and weapons from Honest Hearts? Or do I do Dead Money first just to not ruin the level scaling with end stage characters, especially a lot of Old World Blues implants (although it is kinda funny to just blast through the Sierra Madre kinda OP)1
I will be honest, i didn't enjoy OWB that much, bullet-sponge scorpions everywhere, its horrible for a guns build, and a bunch of fetch-quests i didn't care for, i did like Mobius and the Think Tank though. My favorite DLC from the game is Dead Money, to each their own.
You are aware that virtually every single quest in every single game is fundamentally a fetch quest…right?? You are aware that fetch quests are also basically real life….? All things you do, you do for reasons by survival or subsistence. To acquire the means to do both. Life is a fetch quest. My point? Poor argument.
@@sandman4663 Its the nature of the quests, its that they are boring and repetitive, i rather not run through x8 or whatever it is called multiple times, for some upgrades, thank you. Take Dead Money, you have multiple ways to solve your quests, the way you interact with companions and so on. Honest heart? Multiple ways to solve things. When i think OWB, i think running through the same facility multiple times and hearing Baurus talking about Richie's balls. Not everything is a straight fetch-quest, actually, but all of OWBs quests except deciding what do to with the think tank, is 100% linear.
My advice to every NV newbie: just play the game, the way you like. Don't worry about dlc order, character creation, main question/faction order. Nothing. Just play it blind. Once you've played at least 1-2 times, and you're still into it, THEN start thinking about micro-managing. One of my biggest early regrets playing it a decade ago, is I was too obsessed "getting it right" and trying to cram (pun intented) everything into a single playthrough. Its close to impossible and will just suck the joy out of one of the greatest games every made. My two cents.
Nah you should definitely do leave lonesome road for last. Other ones, yeah the order doesn't matter too much. Most people go HH > DM > OWB > LS but I actually think that HH >OWB > DM > LS is a bit more impactful.
As someone who played exactly the way you recommended, I wholeheartedly agree. My first run I didn't do the DLC at all, second one I included the DLC and did a different ending, and it was the third one where I tried to do the "fit as much of everything as I can" run, and I'm very glad I did it that way. This game is something to be savored and revisited from time to time. I would personally add the recommendation of taking time between runs, or trying to split doing everything between runs; these days it's hard to want to replay, I spent so much time playing in 2017-2020(dozens of runs and many of them "complete" runs) that even after a year or more away it just doesn't impact me at all like it did before, and I never stick with a run these days, despite wishing to. A slow burn is best, though I can empathize with wanting to go all in lol
@@Theologica_ I always leave OWB for second to last because of the final line during the slideshow. Unfortunately most of the times I get to Lonesome Road I start running out of steam during it or just after finishing it.
I was about to say, hot take, I reckon Honest Hearts (even tho it has some of my favourite gear and character) is the closest to being not good. It reminds me of the DLC for F3, not Operation Anchorage cause that shits fucking 🔥. P.S for your next F3 run b-line to Operation Anchorage and enjoy an op sword, op gun and non degrading Power armour. PPS. No you don't have to fight the Outcasts you can straight up yoink the gear and bail before they know wtf is happening XD
I would agree that I find Old World Blues the most fun overall. However, my favorite DLC weapons are in Dead Money, (Love me an Automatic Rifle 😍) , and there's also the fun thrill of successfully heisting the gold 🤑💰.
OK this cracked me up lol 😂. Even though Joshua Graham is my favorite side character in the franchise, I prefer the Sierra Madre DLC. Hey can you use this Jameson meme for F3 & F4? Lol 😂
My favorite DLC of fallout new vegas: Dead money. I learned a lot of things. The sierra madre casino, fredrick sinclair, vera keys and dean domino. Even that brotherhood, whatever his name was. When i beat dead money i got the gold and all the upgrades for the holorifle weapon.
My favorite DLC of fallout new vegas: Dead money. I learned a lot of things. The sierra madre casino, fredrick sinclair, vera keys and dean domino. Even that brotherhood, whatever his name was. When i beat dead money i got the gold and all the upgrades for the holorifle weapon.
I like the other DLCs, they were wonderful. Weapons, enemies and adventures. Haha i gotten so greedy collecting lots of guns, ammo, snowglobes and getting rare armor. Such as getting the elite NCR in the lonesome road
Idc what ppl say, Dead Money is the best one imo. It has impeccable tone and aesthetics and it brilliantly turns the gameplay into a survival horror, further accentuating the bleak and tense tone. The characters are so unique and well written and I love how the player ends up having a confrontation with each of them and is given a choice as to how to deal with them.
I always tried old world blues (with equipment of course) it was fun Then i tried Dead money, and somehow i managed to get out of there alive and then Honest hearts But with the loot and the exp the other dlcs gave me The honest hearts dlc was easy for me
I think Dead Money would be held in much higher regard if everything worked the way it was supposed to instead of giving the Ghost People infinite perception.
I’m shocked. I had always thought old world blues was the funland one people like but considered the worst critically. I still think lonesome road is better overall and honest hearts is more interesting on a deeper lore dive.
Seems that Steam reviews don’t agree with that statement. Probably has something to do with the casino load of annoying ass mechanics you have to deal with
I'd rather not run the same challenge like five or six times and go on a tedious scavenger hunt. Old World Blues was good for dialogue and the player home, not much else.
You're not alone I didn't like OWB either, it was too much goofy sci-fi for me. Meanwhile I loved the seriousness of HH, and its Biblical themes and allegories were so well done ❤
all dlcs are shit in their respective ways. Courier's Stash preorder dlc is the best one, because it gives you the caravan shotgun that you will use right until you find a hunting rifle.
