Alright so Obsidian has set up some pretty awesome anticipation for this upcoming DLC. Making it sound like one epic of a battle of the end of Dead Money, Teasing us with Ulysses in HH and giving us a really good look at his ideology in OWBs. The stakes are high and the dice are about to be rolled, the question is will we be going home lucky or be disappointed in our boxers telling our lone sharks that we just had a bad luck streak that we can and will pay them back.

Frankly I want to be optimistic, the great divide seems to be the pinnacle of this story but with something with expectations as high as LR does they had better just get it out soon. The longer it takes, the more we will psych ourselves up, though I did the same with OWBs and was not disappointed (minus the obvious this didn't make the cut stuff) so here's hoping they hit it out of the park again. What do you all think?

I'm hoping it will, but yet again I don't want to set my expectations too high, like I did with The Strip. Honestly, this is the 'last' DLC, so they should end it with a bang.

The only way to know if it lives up to the hype is to play it. So unless MCA posts his opinions, then nobody would have an answer. :shrug:

The environment and atmosphere looks bland and boring. Heaps of metal with red dust storms all over.
But I hope the enemies, weapons, and new things are worth it. Seems like the environment is not.

I get the feeling that meeting/fighting/working with Ulysses will be anticlimatic.

In Honest Hearts meeting "The Burned Man" was ho hum for me. All the hype built up and in the end he was just a guy with anger management issues. He was tough and a deadly shot but I was not awstruck. The survivalist left more of an impression on me and that was the nugget of story I took away.

Having said that since they did such a good job on OWB they will probably follow up with a good overall DLC with LR. I get the feeling that making DLC's involves a learning curve of improving from previous DLC and bringing in something that the previous ones did not have.

Yes, if it focuses on story, and there is a fo plot changer located in the divide it could. I have all the faith in the world in Avellone and the Obsidian people that they will give us a real treat in this one.


..... on a side note, if it does not I will [censored]...

Dunno if it'll meet other people's hypes, but I think it'll meet my own.

I hope it does! I voted maybe, only because you never really know. For example, meeting Joshua Graham was a MAJOR letdown, as far as I'm concerned.

I try to ignore "hype" and just go with my own expectations, which I try to keep fairly level. Not too high. Not too low.

Leaving the story aside, there is absolutely no way that the final battle between Ulysses and the Courier (we know that a battle is inevitable) can live up to expectations when people put their expectations through the roof. And you can bet that no matter how tough or fast or skilled they program Ulysses to be, people are invariably going to post here within hours of LR's release to complain that Ulysses was "too easy." It's a given. It will happen. You look at any thread about the Legendary Deathclaw, or the Legendary Bloatfly, or the giant Roboscorpion, and you'll find someone saying "It was easy." or "I one-shot it." or something of that nature, whether they're speaking the truth or not. Some players just feel compelled to point out what a "bad-ass" they are at every opportunity.

Hype? What hype? Ive seen no attempt at hype over it. Its a DLC. Cool story, Bro.

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Agreed, there is usually always redundant anticipations for content before it is released. That seems to be the modus operandi of certain demographics on these forums.

I don't know what everyone expects but I trust Obsidian to come up with a mind blowing story.

No. They failed to exceed my expectations so far - nothing's going to change now.

I think doing this and then doing the main quest will be a big anti-climix for me. I wish this was the endgame

This is the last DLC? I thought there was suppose to be 5 DLC. Are they only making 4 DLC?

It's been said that they made four only. But now there is speculation that Obsidian could do another one *after* Lonesome Road, but it's highly unlikely.

You do know LR is completely interweived in the MQ of fonv this also could make or break a) LR and B ) the MQ of fonv so cool story bro. B)

It's a $10 DLC, what's there to expect? If it were a $20 DLC maybe it would be epic.

I view LR and ulysses as the reason to why the courier underwent his journey so if theres plotholes the size of long dike Johnsons dike then mq will also have they plotholes .If it turns out ulysses was hunting him down because the courier ate his last danddy boy apple then it will also cripple the MQ hence it needs to be a sublime DLC.

From what I've seen most of the hype for Lonesome Road is coming from the fans and not Obsidian, and that's generally going to lead to disappointment. Expecting an epic final battle for example is setting your expectations a tad bit too high, two guys fighting a typical Fallout 3/New Vegas battle in a small area (a fight that will probably be avoidable) is not what I imagine is considered "epic" around here. Obsidian has already pushed the engine further than they probably should have, so I don't really expect much more than great writing from the final DLC. As long as MCA delivers a great story (which he generally does, so I'm not concerned about this) Lonesome Road will have met my expectations.

But thats the thing it NEEDS good writing or it could flop like mr houses pencse .

The hype is indeed over 9000

I predict it will be good, not great.

I also predict that the confrontation between the Courier and Ulysses will be far less grand than many people hope it will be.

You took the post right out of my finger tips. The only DLC that generated any real hype was Honest Hearts...and after that it's like, "well, guess it can't get worse than this" now I've learned my lesson and I'll just go in thinking that each and every single thing brought out by Bethesdian will disappoint me, you know, go in with super low expectations, and then I'll be pleasantly surprised and Honest Hearts will never happen again. :clap: