Favorite New Vegas DLC by a country mile, I’ve always been a sucker for classic sci-fi and they approach the concept with a lot of love. The character dialogue is also 10/10.
Best line in the DLC: This crater looks like it was tag teamed by a pair of giant fuckbots.
OWB is probably the best one on balance, but I do love Lonesome Road. Some of those levels are so cool and the atmosphere of pure desolation is chefs kiss.
I wasn’t expecting it to be as funny as it was. Like, I know New Vegas is known for being funny in some places. But this DLC feels more like the developers just wanted to have fun and make jokes. I’m in love with it right now
This is peak Bungie, they really hit their stride with halo 2. A lot of people would argue marathon 2 was peak, but halo 2 was so much fun and really fleshed out the universe in a way that marathon 2 couldn’t due to technological limitations.
Do you think your age when you played it has anything to do with disliking it? It was leaps beyond anything else available at the time, and I was young and impressionable, so even for its faults it was amazing.
i wasn’t very old but i was experienced enough i guess. i was used to games starting immediately for example. while the first time going through the intro is an impressive tech demo, it becomes quickly obvious that it’s not meant to be replayed. similarly to Bethesda game intros, it sucks and it’s bad for a videogame.
physics were also impressive at times but it led to slippery controls which wouldn’t be so bad if the game didn’t require platforming. it’s frustrating and unforgivably so in my opinion. compared to much older games like quake and doom which had incredibly precise controls, it just felt floaty.
but the absolute worst was the crouch jump. Jesus Christ what were they thinking‽ unnecessarily complicated, unintuitive, badly implemented and barely even used so it was also unnecessary in general.
there were lots of technical feats and design choices that were good, mind you. level design was pretty good. enemy designs were cool. the mystery elements were very cool.
I still need to do the main story. I’m trying to do them in some sort of Chronological order. I think the only one I for sure will do after the main game is Lonesome road. It just feels right
I’m cheating a little bit by posting screenshots I took a few days ago, but I’m a college student and I’m not scheduled to start classes again until next month. So playing is like the only thing I really have on my plate right now besides a few pet projects. I try to get at least an hour in though on games to help clear my mind and relax (though, there’s probably better ways to do that)
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