I think I'm going to buy one of the DLC packs for New Vegas but I am only planning on getting one. I'm more tempted to go for Honest Hearts but I'm wondering which DLC pack you think is better. Are they worth getting or shall I wait for the next DLC?

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Didn't much care for either, but out of the two... Honest Hearts I guess... I like the open concept.

Honest Hearts, definitely.
Didn't much care for Dead Money, but I did enjoy Honest Hearts.

Well, it depends. Dead Money has a better story (and better writing in general), but it's very survival oriented. You're stripped of everything at the beginning, and you have to avoid toxic clouds and deal with a collar that asplodes your head if you get too close to speakers. You have to be patient and take your time with DM, you'll also likely end up reloading a lot.

Honest Hearts on the other hand is a bit more player friendly. The storyline isn't as interesting as Dead Money's (though Joshua Graham is awesome), but it focuses more on exploration and doesn't saddle you with an exploding collar. This appeals more to some people.

Honest Hearts. Prettier, with a couple very excellent (although sadly underdeveloped) characters. Also a returnable worldspace, with a truly enormous quantity of resources to scavenge--unlike Dead Money, which is a one-off.

EDIT: To be fair, though, Dead Money's story is much better. By which I mean it has a story, and a semi-coherent and plausible one to boot. There were a couple times in Honest Hearts when I would awaken from whatever stupor I was in while playing to realize that I had no bleedin' clue what was going on...nor did I particularly care.

I still think HH is on balance superior, though.

Dead Money.

Better story.
More choices.
Better perks.
Better features.
Better characters.
Better atmosphere.
More rewarding exploration.
More challenging.
Better new equipment.
Better enemies.
AND it had two new ways to end the game. (Greed and Elijah.)

It's better in every aspect IMO.

Still waiting on the European PS store to update, then I'll decide.

They're both extremely good and extremely bad in their own ways. Dead Money's first half is probably one of the top 10 hardest and most frustrating sequences I've ever played in a video game, and it made it difficult to enjoy the amazing plot of the DLC. The second half when you're in the casino, however, is actually fun challenging (not just brute difficulty like the first half) and is really unique and interesting. The loot you can get from the casino is also ridiculous, you can walk out with 100,000 caps worth of pre-war money, along with the gold bars in the vault. But there's not much tangible, unique loot other than the Holorifle, in the entire DLC. The plot is also extremely rewarding.

Whereas Dead Money is like a shot of triple-distilled vodka in terms of raw excitement, Honest Hearts is more like a tall glass of beer. None of it really jumps out at you as being wild, but it is never really dull. It's 3-6 hours (depending how much you take your time) of decent fun. It unlocks really cool crafting recipes, looks AWESOME, and gives some cool loot. Unfortunately, the quests are mostly fetch quests, you never really interact with the main characters like you do in Dead Money, and the plot is weak and not gripping. It's also a lot like FO3 in that you're forced to side with the scripted 'good guys' faction, without any choice.

Basically, Dead Money is a complete 180 from the usuall F:NV experience, while Honest Hearts is a continuation to the regular game.
I would go with Dead Money, mostly because it is just a more memorable experience. Honest Hearts was solid, but nothing unique and kind of throwaway.

I personally dont really care for either of the dlcs, but Dead Money FTW.

Honest Hearts; a little short, but at the end I wasn't yelling at my TV for it to be over unlike Dead Money where I didn't have any fun, except for when it was over.

Both try to do diffrent things

One being a closed space pulp survial horror story and the other being live of the land tribal story.

it more goes to prefrence

I agree, but strange enough i enjoyed Honest Hearts more and i don't know why... maybe if i could go back to Sierra Madre it would make a differents.

Liked the mazed canyon & caves

Ps got Light Touch & love my Holorifle

I LOVED Dead Money, but it all depends on what you're after and how you like to play. But I voted DM seeing as you didn't give us a clue as to what you like. :thumbsup:

You should get both. The play experience is different, but both are integral to the overall story of Courier Six. They both provide foreshadowing of the upcoming dlcs.

They are very different. I prefer HH just because I like that style of open DLCs better. But Dead Money had an awesome story.

More or less this. Dead Money has more punch for its buck compared to the long awaited Honest Hearts. Though HH has its qualities and flavor to it, it falls behind DM for many reasons (refer to quote). Honest Hearts may allow the player to go back, but there is little reason other than to get missed stuff and some ingredients that are exclusive to the area.

However, Dead Money can be very harsh the first go around, whereas Honest Hearts is pretty friendly to all for the most part. The second time I played Dead Money I actually enjoyed it more than playing Honest Hearts. This is not to say Honest Hearts is worth a pass, but between it and Dead Money it simply has a hard time comparing and stacking up.

Bottom line: Dead Money > Honest Hearts for my vote.

If you want a more gripping story and challenging DLC then go Dead Money, but if you want a new map to explore then go Honest Hearts. To be honest I think DM took me a lot longer to finish than that of HH, I was playing hardcoe mode the entire damn time. DM isn't really for the faint of heart for the most part you will be low on supplies and health most of the time, but it does give you some good perks and equipment I do love the Assassin's Suit.

Honest Hearts doesn't really have much to it, you do get some good equipment, Light Shining in Darkness, Desert Ranger clothes, and the Survivalist's Rifle. But it doesn't really have much of a story to it and the characters aren't really brought out at all. But unlike DM you can revisit Zion whenever you feel like it, plus it adds rain and a plant filled area so if you are tired of the desert its a nice change of scenery. In fact I found that most interesting story that came from HH wasn't even about Joshua Graham (or the Burned Man as he is also known) but of the Survivalist, someone you never really meet.