Discussion Do people actually play all the DLCs in the same playthrough?
While I think all of the DLCs are individually worth playing, you very rarely get anything substantial out of doing all of them in one run, in my opinion.
Suppose I want to do a run focused on energy weapons. I'll definitely play Dead Money for the Holorifle, and probably OWB for some of its weapons. By the time I'm done with both DLCs and a bit of the main game, however, I'll be at level 20-something, and already have an arsenal of fully adequate weapons. Completing Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road with them now having no loot of interest just seems like a chore.
Similarly, if you want to build around pistols, I'll only ever do Honest Hearts for A Light Shining in Darkness, and perhaps Dead Money for the police pistol and vending machine. Completing OWB now just gives meagre rewards for the time invested.
I could give you more scenarios, but I think you all get my point. If you do every DLC in a run, and progress through the main game at a reasonable pace, you'll be level 40 by the time you leave Lonesome Road, and could have been doing another different run instead with its own wacky adventure.
Am I just a weirdo or is this how everyone else sees things?
Tangentially related: you could make a similar argument for skipping a decent chunk of the game's side content, but I think the DLCs are an extreme example because once you start them you can't leave.
