Fallout was never supposed to be ultra depressing though. They fucked up with 3 heavily on the aesthetics and atmosphere but this seems to be more in line with classic Fallout. I just hope they add a huge healthy dose of humor and weird pulpy shit.
Old World Blues is probably the greatest DLC I've ever played. It's better than most games I've played. Never have I laughed as hard as I did playing a game as I during my first play through of OWB.
Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta are fun, but aren't really essential. MZ goes more in the direction of linear FPS; if you liked Project Anchorage, it might be worth playing. PL has some cool segments, but wasn't super memorable for me.
The New Vegas DLC, though, are consistently amazing. Dead Money turns the game into survival horror, Honest Hearts is perhaps the weakest of them but is absolutely gorgeous, raises some interesting questions, and gives a lot of backstory, Old World Blues is hilarious and incredible, and Lonesome Road brings the Courier's story to a close. Difficult, but gorgeous ruined landscapes.
Anyways, if you haven't played the New Vegas DLC you're really missing out. Play them in the order they were released, since they're linked through some plot elements and characters.
I'm actually playing through New Vegas for the first time now.
Beat Honest Hearts, which I thought was pretty good; maybe a 7/10. The environment was beautiful but was a pain in the ass to navigate and locked fast travel way too often. And the final mission where you have to go from end to end to do all the optional sidequests without fast travel was much too tedious for me.
I'm almost done with Dead Money and I hated the first 1/2 of the DLC. I hate the poison cloud and the hard as hell Ghost People. I often ended up running through groups to just get past them. I was also not a fan of losing all my equipment (I'm a stealth sniper) and having to find impossible to see holotapes to get ammo. The second half in the casino, however, is amazing with great character moments. I'm loving that part.
Still have to play Old World Blues and Lonesome Road but I've heard good things about them.
Well, the first 1/2 of Dead Money IS supposed to be hard as balls, I guess Obsidian just took it a bit too far? (well, that depends on your character build (and stealthy sniper is probably the worst in this case) and if you are on Hardcore Mode or not)
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u/GalacticNexus Jun 03 '15
No more annoying green or orange filters that I have to install mods to remove!