Now that all four are out...

Post » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:10 pm

Just a few questions, now that we can judge each DLC relative to each other in various categories - your personal preference, the DLC that added the best loot, the DLC with the best story, best companions (Old World Blues has Roxie!) and the one that require the most reloads on account of your Courier coming down with a severe case of the deads.
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Anna Beattie
 
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Post » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:11 pm

Just voted. My choices aren't final on account of me still working on LR, but I can always delete them. :shrug:
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Micah Judaeah
 
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Post » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:05 pm

Overall I rank them as

Old World Blues - Loved the SINK and the feel of the place and the story, while patchy, kept me interested

Lonesome Road - Best story easily overall and the atmosphere was immense plus the rewards kept coming throughout

Dead Money - Definitely the hardest but it hard it's own unique survival feel to it and while difficult, was rewarding to complete

Honest Hearts - Generally the worst for me due to a lackluster storyline, enemies being rehashed versions of enemies in the mojave or taken from Fallout 3 with the only thing I liked about it was the items given. Plus being mobbed by cazadors and geckos every 5 foot as they teleport out of nowhere was a terrible idea by Obsidian
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Post » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:12 pm

Best: Honest Hearts. Meeting Graham and the tribes and reading about The Survivalist and having to get my feet wet in the real day-to-day struggle to survive rather than the abstract nationalist conflict in the main game gave me a really good feeling. I love it.
Almost as good: Lonesome Road. A thrill ride from beginning to end, packed with almost as much human drama as HH, but way more high-intensity action and a lot of suspense and danger. This is the way a Fallout game, any Fallout game, should feel, at all times. Irrespective of HH's just making me feel good all over, this is probably the most fun I have ever had playing a video game. Ever. Nothing will pass this for the rest of my days.
Hilarious but over the top to the point of monotony: Old World Blues. Like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this is good in small doses viewed once a year and will just become shrill and annoying if done regularly.
Boring Crap: Dead Money. They got the title right, at least. Everything else? Contrived low-level video game bull [censored].
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