r/falloutnewvegas • u/Euphoric-Medium8154 • 19h ago
Discussion DLC Ranking after a handful of playthroughs
1) Dead Money — the atmosphere, the characters, the lessons about letting go and moving on in life… the villas are so fun to explore and lurk around in… obviously the huge, game breaking bonuses via the vending machine you get at the end, basically an infinite supply of Buffout, Med X, and Stimpacks, what else do you need ?? Not to mention Weapon Packs as well you can buy from there with endless Sierra Madre chips from the vouchers… Sierra Madre Cocktail is a really great consumable to unlock… doing this after completing Veronica’s storyline with the BOS and hearing about Elijah from her, then dealing with Elijah all DLC, is really something special… I actually like uncovering all 15 of Dean’s secret stashes… oh yeah, I almost forgot… The fully upgraded Holorifle ;-)
2) Honest Hearts — very cool setting with Zion NP, Joshua Graham is the coolest character in the entire game, and the consumables you can craft from this are top tier… Light Shining In The Darkness is the best gun in video game history IMO and the Survivalist Rifle is also S Tier, along with Randall Clark’s story pieced together from all the caves he lived in… the actual main quest line is pretty short and needs to be fleshed out more tho, more tribal warfare IMO to really set the mood… I like having the White Legs taken out and the tribes staying put, to open up trading routes throughout Utah with Happy Trails and also because Daniel is a sanctimonious little twat who shouldn’t get his way
3) Lonesome Road — very cool atmosphere kicking ass along the highway, but it’s an extremely straight forward DLC… if you’re doing an explosion/gun character, Red Glare is pretty badass with all the rockets it can shoot… the legendary Deathclaw you can kill is a fun battle and gives a nice unarmed weapon… Ed E here is the best part of the DLC, it was really cool to experience its journey of going to Chicago and trying to find Navarro, and ultimately its sacrifice to stop the missile launch… Blade of The West is a GOAT tier melee weapon if you’re doing that sorta build… Ulysses was a bit of a letdown for me, personally… thought he’d end up being a more badass character, instead he‘s pretty fucking lame and a petty asshole
4) Old World Blues — very cheesy and campy sorta DLC, the old school Sci Fi movies schtick gets old quick… the Sink is nice to use as a base cause it has a hot plate to craft consumables, all the other player bases in the game don’t have a fire/hot plate… I found it very tedious uncovering all the personality mods for the Sink appliances… the Think Tank doctors are all a bunch of lames still stuck in High School mentality and obviously they are mass murderers via all the lobotomies they‘ve performed… Möbius is pretty cool and I really like his glove as an Unarmed weapon… boring map to explore as well, the whole DLC is just a giant chore