Let's discuss Dead Money. Was it that bad?

For a man that spent so long trying to get to the Sierra Madre vault, i don't think he's interested in face to face talks.

What? You can threaten to destroy the content of the vault, say you don't care for the contents of vault and say you just want to leave, say you'll unlock the vault and take everything for yourself, or cooperate. How are are any of these shit? These all sound reasonable given how desperate Father Elijah wants the Sierra Madre vault.

 

The mere fact that he had to put a bomb collar on you and only spoke to you through speakers and screens really just tells the player that he's not interested in face to face talks.

And he tells you his motive and really everything about him before you convince him to come down. What would be the point of a face to face talk? It would be redudant since you already know everything about him. A face to face talk would actually be absolutely ridiculous given how paranoid the man is.

 

I just shot him down after passing the barter check.

Elijah: I’m glad you’re willing to cooperate.

Me:

 

Who is hating Dead Money? It is the best DLC of the four, the only one worth keeping as is in it's present state actually, if one was to rewrite New Vegas.

This old world blues atmosphere works because the storyline is well executed, and because Dean Domino is still around to incarnate the old world parts of the story, and helping the player character to relate to it. It isn't enough to have a old world atmosphere, as proven by the DLC litteraly named Old world blues.

Ghost people die with a few headshots from a simple gun, that is when you have to fight them at all... But why bother when hiding, or running is smarter and faster. Holograms 'dies' with one shot in their holo device, as for the robots in the vault, I never needed to fight them at all, unlike say, the damn real bullet sponges that are OWB roboscorpions.

The villa is small enough for it to not being that confusing to navigate, it didn't give me much trouble, and yet I generally dislike the walking simulator part of NV so, it can't be that bad.

What? I give you that a few speaker are a pain, near the end in the vault, there is a mean vicious series of them that are a little too much and took me a few trials before making it. But I barely died because of the collar and speakers\radios except there even on my first time. You just have to look around and think a little, I love that element of DM, not only it is a bit different from the gameplay NV made you confortable with, but it serve and fit the story perfectly.
This certainly isn't ugly, on the contrary.

If these bad decisions are those you referenced, well...

 

Ooh!Would love to try the game

 

Weird how you say it is 'that bad' when Dead Money ain't bad in the first place.

It's THE best New Vegas DLC out there. Literally every 'problems' with Dead Money are only problems for scrubs.

Now, if you argue it from the perspective that New Vegas's base game doesn't have properly working RPG mechanics and combat gameplay in the first place, I can say there's something bad, but only because the base game is bad.

 

Personally I thought the confusing layout and the Ghost People being hard as fuck to kill were great and helped the purpose of the DLC. My Courier who would usually just try to put down something out to kill him is suddenly now stalking through these alleyways, hiding from Ghost People and trying to remember which way he came in this hellish death maze. Generally, I avoided fighting the Ghost People and it did what Dead Money overall achieves very well: throws you out of your base-game comfort zone.

I also never, ever really found the speakers/radios a problem. It's weird, but they were always quick resolution to me. It was just another SAW trap to overcome in the Sierra Madre rather than a roadblocker to me.

The only gameplay part I thought was unfairly difficult and unfun to play was the final ringer of security holograms before the vault. There's three of them all in different patrols with very well hidden emitters. They are a pain in the fucking ass to deal with.

 

I played DM for the first time recently, and ended up liking it overall more than I thought I would. The gameplay was a bit tedious for me because I had low sneak and unarmed skills, but it wasn't anything I didn't end up handling just fine. I loved the story. All the characters were interesting. Domino was my favorite, although I had to kill him because I insulted his ego.

As for my ending, I managed, by some dumb luck, to sneak back out of the vault before Elijah raised the force-fields, and hurried out of there. I didn't get to see what happened because I never looked behind me once I got to the door. I'm assuming he got trapped in the vault, since the other option was killing him.

 

I killed everyone except Christine and Dog/God.

So I killed Dean and Elijah. I liked Dean, but in that scenario I realistically would’ve shot someone that obnoxiously full of themselves first chance I got, I loved Christine because sweet, kind lesbian, I had a soft spot for Dog because I have a soft spot for broken things, and I killed Elijah because... well, why the fuck not?

 

Just found that the Ghost People are apparently level-scaled. The fuck.... Oh well. My only advice against them: get Bloody Mess. Or abuse VATS. Or if using mods like Project Nevada which has bullet time, just aim at their limbs repeatedly. Crippling them guarantee a kill, even though their actual HP hasn't reach zero.

 

I found the speakers to be more annoying than any of the enemies, especially when I couldn't find them.

BTW, when I first found Christine, she mentioned something about looking for something, but I took her back to the fountain right after finding her. Was there supposed to be a side quest for her?

 

Police pistol and Hand Loader. That's it.

I kinda don't like the final message of "Let go of gold" when it's literally worthless when compared with fully upgraded holorifle, the best light armour in the entire game, complimentary voucher and literally thousands of pre-war money.

 

*Laughs in 15 Guns skill*

 

Melee builds are not kind to this DLC, ghost people just die so fast to them. The holograms are kind of annoying, but you can hack the terminals that monitor their routes and change them.