So I finally got around to playing FO3 GoTY and left The Pitt for the last DLC to do before moving on to my first play through of FO NV.

I loved FO3 and I loved the DLC... except for The Pitt. Now I hear people saying the pitt was their favorite DLC so I'd like to know why. Was I missing anything?

What I took away from the pitt was this.

Brotherhood of Steel went through and purged the place. From that purging rose the "empire" run by Ashur who keeps the surviving residents in slavery under his rule. He miss treats them, abuses them, kills and neglects them. Offers them a chance at freedom by opening the Arena. Then there is his right hand man who turned against him and got tossed out. Wernher. He comes to me playing to my own sense of moral justice begging that I help free the slaves and help get them the cure that Ashur has.

I felt there was no right or wrong way to have done anything. I probably could have gone in with guns blazing and killed everyone from the start.

Instead I play along, knowing I hate raiders and slavers. Remembering the faces of every loud mouthed one of them so I could later be sure to put a bullet in their head. But then Wernher turns out to not be such a great guy. The cure is a baby girl. Ashur's own daughter. Now I'm a kidnapper... She'll grow up probably finding out the great hero of the capital wastelands is the one responsible for her parent's death. And then there is Medea. All she does is complain the child cries to much and blah blah.

Sure I freed the slaves but I felt like the monster in the end. My character went back to Megaton and drowned herself in a ton of whisky...

Thoughts? What other outcomes are there? Well besides helping Ashur? is there a feel good ending?

No. The reason that many people liked the Pitt was because of the moral ambiguity. In terms of plot outcomes, it's probably one of the most realistic ones of any videogames out there. History of revolutions and progress aren't as clear-cut as people seem to think they were: the Civil War was partially based on States being able to make their own laws, independent of the Federal Gov't. The Revolutionary War had, at most, support from about half of the people in the colonies, and the Tea Party event was because the British were taxing products sold in the colonies, but NOT off their own ships. And we all knew what happened at the end of WWII, as well as the debate on whether or not the bombs should have been dropped, especially on civilian targets.

The lesson from the Pitt is how much of your own personal values are you willing to sacrifice to to make the wasteland a better place, and what you feel is the best route to make that goal. And if you're unwilling to make those choices... it might have been better to not get involved.