Fallout Series Thread V14: When i entered this thread i was hoping there would be more gambling - Games

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;46352318]Think of it as a hardcore game mechanic. :v:[/QUOTE] I got through it all the same, but I had to restart the game at least 15 times. The Dog and God part really fucked things over, too. Replaying the same save only to explode and crash.

[QUOTE=Dmaster;46351507]I loved Dead Money's story. Playing it is a different matter. Especially when every bomb collar death caused my game to crash.[/QUOTE] Oh jeeze, I'm really lucky I never had that problem That'd be annoying enough to ruin it

Dead Money is my favorite DLC it's also the only one I've played that had a story along with it.

Honestly I didn't mind the bomb collars cuz they changed how you played, almost in reference to the entire situation being out of the norm for you. You go from being able to walk wherever you please to being herded like cattle by the radio frequencies, I find that to be really cool since the gameplay represents the feel you're supposed to have

[QUOTE=Sentomi;46351384]You can't beat Old World Blues' writing, though. That shit was god-tier, ESPECIALLY for something Bethesda-made.[/QUOTE] That's because Bethesda didn't make NV or its DLCs. Obsidian did. But yeah, the writing in OWB was absolute masterpiece. I just loved the whackyness and the whole pseudo-scientific stuff. One of my favourite DLCs on par with Dead Money.

Is it just me or has popular opinion of Dead Money really shifted over time? A year or two ago, I remember Dead Money being consistently ranked as the worst of the story DLC, and now a lot more people think that it's the best, not just here but also on /v/.

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;46353878]Is it just me or has popular opinion of Dead Money really shifted over time? A year or two ago, I remember Dead Money being consistently ranked as the worst of the story DLC, and now a lot more people think that it's the best, not just here but also on /v/.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure the worst has always been Honest Hearts [editline]28th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Sentomi;46351384]You can't beat Old World Blues' writing, though. That shit was god-tier, ESPECIALLY for something Bethesda-made.[/QUOTE] It was made by Obsidian, not Bethesda. But yeah I agree Old World Blues is the best of the DLC's in general, cuz on top of the fuckload of new content it adds, the writing is so hilarious and memorable. It's just not a deep story though so I like Dead Money more in that regard, though this is fine since the DLC was meant to be like a love letter to old, ridiculous sci-fi

[QUOTE=HWECQI;46353768]Honestly I didn't mind the bomb collars cuz they changed how you played, almost in reference to the entire situation being out of the norm for you. You go from being able to walk wherever you please to being herded like cattle by the radio frequencies, I find that to be really cool since the gameplay represents the feel you're supposed to have[/QUOTE] It's a hard puzzle but not totally bullshit. The story makes the DLC worth it by a mile.

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;46353878]Is it just me or has popular opinion of Dead Money really shifted over time? A year or two ago, I remember Dead Money being consistently ranked as the worst of the story DLC, and now a lot more people think that it's the best, not just here but also on /v/.[/QUOTE] OWB and Lonesome Roads are still [I]slightly[/I] better in my book, and honest hearts is honestly shit

Yeah, I gotta say I loved DM, OWB, and Lonesome Road equally for different reasons, but HH is just eehhhhhhh. I mean it's supposed to be survival themed, it seems, but it's just so cramped and the story isn't much either

[QUOTE=Sentomi;46351384]You can't beat Old World Blues' writing, though. That shit was god-tier, ESPECIALLY for something Bethesda-made.[/QUOTE] Bethesda only published the game, and gave Obsidian the engine to work with, Obsidian did all the writing. Bethesda was kept as far as possible from anything writing related with New Vegas, and it shows.

[QUOTE=Manneh;46354738]Bethesda only published the game, and gave Obsidian the engine to work with, Obsidian did all the writing. Bethesda was kept as far as possible from anything writing related with New Vegas, and it shows.[/QUOTE] Bethesda's writers are passable and uncreative at best and boring and nonsensical at worst. They either need to hire better writers or outsource all of it to obsidian.

[QUOTE=doomkiwi;46354977]Bethesda's writers are passable and uncreative at best and boring and nonsensical at worst. They either need to hire better writers or outsource all of it to obsidian.[/QUOTE] the oblivion/skyrim lore has an incredible amount of work put into it and is still staggeringly mediocre

IMO i thought HH was pretty cool, even if it didn't have the best writing.

[QUOTE=innerfire34;46355037]the oblivion/skyrim lore has an incredible amount of work put into it and is still staggeringly mediocre[/QUOTE] well that's cause one crazy bastard wrote all that shit

[QUOTE=FlamingBlizza;46355095]IMO i thought HH was pretty cool, even if it didn't have the best writing.[/QUOTE] I don't mean to say it's a bad story or a bad dlc just, out of all of them, it's the weakest

I'm sad now. I actually regard Honest Hearts pretty highly. Second best, at least. Good gear for a Guns user, and I like Joshua Graham and the Survivalist.

I liked Dead Money for the most part, but damn the ghost town in the beginning is boring, frustrating and repetitive. It's like a huge maze, and it looks and feels like a CS 1.6 map. Old World Blues's writing was great, but goddamn were the dialogues long. I don't usually mind, but those were sometimes ridiculously and unnecessarily long.

[QUOTE=Sentomi;46351384]You can't beat Old World Blues' writing, though. That shit was god-tier, ESPECIALLY for something Bethesda-made.[/QUOTE] How is it that new vegas has been out for like 3 years and there's still a sizable number of people who think it and it's DLCs are made by bethesda

Honest Hearts is my favourite, the environment is so beautiful and the atmosphere is amazing. The characters are unique, my only real complaint is that it was too short, the characters couldn't be fully fleshed out.

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;46355546]I'm sad now. I actually regard Honest Hearts pretty highly. Second best, at least. Good gear for a Guns user, and I like Joshua Graham and the Survivalist.[/QUOTE] The main quest in honest hearts is meh so I think that winds up downgrading peoples opinions of it. The whole survivalist side story is cool and there's some good gear, but really cool gear =/= novel merit. Hoenstly the survivalist story is probably one of the more worthile things in honest hearts, because that main quest is very short and very fetch-oreinted

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;46355601]How is it that new vegas has been out for like 3 years and there's still a sizable number of people who think it and it's DLCs are made by bethesda[/QUOTE] Probably because it says "bethesda" when you start up the game. And on the title screen. And in the credits.

Honest Hearts is really good, but lacks a little in content The best parts are the Randall Clark's story, his equipment and Joshua's equipment.

Dead Money was kind of frustrating, but the writing was so amazing. On more than once I've thrown away hours of progress just so I could get enough speech [sp]to save Dog/God[/sp]

Yeah, I don't mean to say Honest Hearts is a bad DLC. It does have a great story and the concepts it explores were surprising to me, you never would think a game dripping with satire could make a good commentary about belief. It felt lacking though imo

i think i like lonesome road the most because it's like this big epic culmination of all the themes and foreshadowing before it. it's like the fallout version of mgs4 [editline]29th October[/editline] it should have turned into a fighting game when you confronted ulysses. and it would occasionally cut to joshua graham with no arms sword-fighting a bunch of marked men in the background with a shiskebab in his mouth

I agree with your comparison to MGS4. The whole theme of Lonesome Road gives you that feel of being a false "hero" because you delivered the detonator and now you're facing what you did.

[QUOTE=Cone;46356015]i think i like lonesome road the most because it's like this big epic culmination of all the themes and foreshadowing before it. it's like the fallout version of mgs4 [editline]29th October[/editline] it should have turned into a fighting game when you confronted ulysses. and it would occasionally cut to joshua graham with no arms sword-fighting a bunch of marked men in the background with a shiskebab in his mouth[/QUOTE] Yeah, LR is my favorite I just loved they had to balls to give you an antagonist fueled by shit you did in your past, like he felt like a real antithesis to you, and all because you made a stupid mistake and completely destroyed a place

[t]http://oi58.tinypic.com/nuowo.jpg[/t] Jesus christ how horrifying. What in the FUCK is up with her eyes?

So I just remembered what you guys are usually talking about when it comes to AWOP when I walked into a basement consisting of a narrow room with 30 laser turrets and a stat buffed sentry bot in the middle, all of them taking a good 3-4 grenades to kill each The only entrance was a narrow staircase and it was impossible to do any damage without taking half your health in bullshit instant firing laser beams. Jesus fucking christ how does anyone playtest that and think "Yeah this is fine"?