Well I know they have yet to release DLC to anyone except for Xbox users. And I have nothing against DLC it is great. But does anyone else feel that they are in need of making at least one major expansion pack. With a whole new area to explore. Maybe that lets you travel further west to California or a major new city like Los Angeles (that's just a random location suggestion). And Oblivion had a bunch of DLC and a major expansion so it can be done, they do not have to choose one or the other.
But does anyone feel that a major expansion would be more beneficial to the experience than a bunch of small DLC?
-Please note I have nothing against DLC I actually love it, and can't wait for the PC release of Dead Money, but I would really like to see a major expansion pack.

yah theres like a couple of threads about the same exact thing

Oh sorry I did a search of "FOVN Expansions" and no result showed up. Oh well

lol its all cool man

The entirety of California was pretty much covered by Fallout 1 and 2, so going back would be kinda pointless. LA is pretty much blown to bits, and doesn't have anything really interesting other than Adytum.

The problem is, is that New Vegas is sandwiched between Caesars Legion and the NCR. I have no doubt that we will be moving towards CL in a sequel, and moving towards the NCR feels like it's going backwards. So really I'm at a bit of a loss as to where an expansion would go...

But wouldnt it be awsome to play it now in california i mean yah they did it already in fallout 1 and 2 but this is 2010 and it would be awsome because graphics way better from 10 years ago

Eh... I'd need a much better reason than graphics.

1. its not in that gameboy mode anymore you can also see in first person and get a real good taste of the surrounding.2 once again graphics3. there could be a whole new story line there and plus many people didnt play 1 or2 and they probably wont because its really old and outdated no offense 4.you would get to see california in great detial

My chief concern is that style would be off. Fallout 1 and 2's style was different than 3 and New Vegas's. Vaults, architecture, how everything looks, etc. A lot of the old fans were put off by F3's style, because it was a radical change for the series as a whole.

Also, it really would set a lot of the people who are fans of sandboxes, because Fallout 1 and 2s cities were built around a map node system as opposed to something as the sandbox system that F3 and NV was designed around.

If we do get an expansion-type of DLC, hopefully it will go South or North; not East or West. I am sure there is more to the West side of the US than just NCR and CL territory.

To the north is New Canaan. It was pretty much finished during Van Buren production so there's less work than designing a whole new area. There are also references to it in the game.

Oh and I'm all for an expansion rather than 4 hour DLC's. But I admit I am intrigued about this so called "DLC Story Arc".

why dont they focus more the midwest though

They can always set a large expanson in Montana or Idaho/Oregon,... where the Kahns and Followers went, (providing you didn't kill them all.) Who knows, there might even be some BoS and Enclave groups still around in that area.

They should leave that area for Tactics II.

or not...

And why not?
The mid-west is Tactics (Micro Forté's) playground, just like how west coast is Obsidians (former Black Isle) while east coast is Bethesdas.

Well when would this tactics game even come out they might as well have another fallout game just for it

It depends, if Bethesda wants to give us more lore and another amazing game and whether or not it would bring profit.

i dont see why they wouldnt its money and money grows on trees for them :clap:

I am FAR more likely to pay good money for a high-quality expansion pack that's essentially a "Part 2" to the main game experience. I'm an older gamer, so I find the whole DLC thing kind of a "nickle-and-dime" affront to my intelligence, since when all is said and done, you're ultimately paying far more per "second of awesome" than you would in a much larger release. Not to mention that expansions tend to be coherent, and DLC is just, as another poster put it, a tack-on arcade game with little to do with anything. Plus, short DLC doesn't get my motor going -- "Oh boy, ANOTHER single quest line that doesn't really tie into the game. Joy." -- for this kind of stuff, I'm going to go to the modders who tend to try and tie in their stuff more neatly and aren't doing it for the money.

Please, PLEASE deliver an expansion. And if you do, I've only got a few requests:

+ Make it pace well and really a part of the "main game" experience. I don't want to jump on a caravan and be magically transported to Antartica, where nothing in the main game effects it and it doesn't effect the main world, ala Shivering Isles. Throw me a bone here, please. Seamlessness.

+ PLEASE, for all that is good in the world, PLEASE... make Caesar's Legion more "worth it" to play. Right now, it's little more than a tribute to [censored] hack-and-slasher gameplay, and I expect so much more from you folks... You could have easily achieved the same thing in the "independent" game ending. If I wanted to run through the game without any real story and no side-quests and just gun down everything that moved, then I would have saved my game and then done just that for my jollies -- I don't need CL for it. It had so much potential for sixiness and underperformed -- I mean, the game shipped with 8 companions and not a one of them (save the dog/bot) are playable if you're in CL and 70% of the game's side stories are sunk in NCR goodness.

+ PLEASE do not push a "good vs. evil" storyline anymore. The game was marketed to me as one that would present me with morally ambiguous decisions, and that fell short. Except for the Bitter Springs side-story, the NCR is made out to be all puppies and rainbows and good will for all, when in 'reality' it's as big of a power-mongering machine and as full of nasty, racist/classist/fascist individuals as CL. If there's a NCR-leaning quest, give it an awesome CL alternative. One that doesn't involve "slip in and kill EVERYONE."

I agree I've tried to beat the game for CL and it just turns into a slaughter-fest. I end up killing most of the population in New Vegas and everyone I don't kill, except CL, want me dead which completely destroys my chances to complete most of the side quests.

you see the legion is terrible because every one hates them and people dont like being controled by them and they have no free speach

Lol yeah pretty much

when i looked up the CL ending in youtube it was just terrible i was so sickened once i seen that and was glad that i didnt choose that

Lmao agreed, me and Boone put that man down like the animal he is :-p