New Vegas Expansion Pack? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:45 am

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

your damn right i made a promise to him that i would let him kill ceaser. even though he had alot of damn gaurds

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:01 pm

lol i made the same promise, man i wish i recorded the head-shot Boone got with the AMR

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:41 pm

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."

definitely this

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:33 am

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

I agree with this, they could tie in more of the old story to please the old fans while giving the new ones more background information on what went on plus, they could tell it the way it was originally intended to be told which I doubt when they came up with the story in their head they were thinking of telling it froma birdseye view.
They could immerse you so much more now but, at the same time I think the franchise has started to take a different direction and I'm not sure how relevent the old stuff would even be now. As much as the old fans love the old games, story and look, the new games have re-invented that look and took things in the direction they now want to take it.
Personally I love it, I prefer Fallout 3 to the old games, I prefer it over New Vegas to bar the gem mechanic improvements but, I love them all.
Everyone on here has a different view and idea of what the game is and where it should go, what's right and what's wrong etc so, it's hared to please everyone, infact it's impossible.
I think they've done a great job with the game and I also thinkt here is some great ideas kicking about on this forum too.

I'd also like to see a big expansion aswell, I love Shivering Isles and it really was worth thr money. I don't know about you's but, when I play the DLC's for Fallout I really take my time, check every area out slowly, don't rush throught the quests and I have a feeling of dread that the next quest is going to be the las tone and it's all going to be over soon.
This is because the DLC's are always so short and it's hard to immerse you and make the side-stories to the main game worthwhile when you enter a completely new area for a short amont of time them travel back and can't ever go back their, no-one knows where you've been, no-one cares and everything is just as it was.
I always wanted a DLC a bit like Broken Steel but, taken further so it affects the world map, maybe expands it, updates villages, updates areas of the map, new random encounters, old villages expanding, new ones appearing etc and making a long quest that relates to the main game, lets you know more of tha aftermath of the end of the main game and takes the whole thing further.
There is so much potential in this but, if I'm being honest I think if Oblivion came out now when it came to releasing Shivering Isles they would release it as a sequel on it's own disc.
I don't think they really made the sort of money/dev-work cost, time off that DLC than they have of the smaller ones.
Saying that, I think DLC is more popular now, I just can't see us getting a DLC of such size and quality again unfortunately. Not that I have disliked any of them so far, it's just I never want it to end and I hate fearing the DLC ending 'cos I know they always end so soon.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:23 pm

If you want more background information about Fallout then play Fallout, Fallout 2 and Tactics.
Hell, if you want more then read up the bible at the wikia.
No need to do a remake or revisit the old locations at all.
Only reason people want it is cause they want better graphics which isn't a very good argument.

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:43 am

If you want more background information about Fallout then play Fallout, Fallout 2 and Tactics.
Hell, if you want more then read up the bible at the wikia.
No need to do a remake or revisit the old locations at all.
Only reason people want it is cause they want better graphics which isn't a very good argument.

we dont need any more ncr appearances either

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:07 am

i gotta agree with the whole legion thingy, as it kinda turned me off my legion playthrough after a while, but a expansion would be nice if it had like 50% legion then 50% other stuff like place expansions and dens with more tunnels. I mean i'm not a big legion guy, but i don't hate them or love them, but with more stuff related and more understand i would could to have option of them.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:07 pm

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...

Fallout 1 is placed 120 years before Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 2 is placed 40 years before FNW. So there would probably plenty of changes if there wold bee a DLC from California.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:11 pm

Fallout 1 is placed 120 years before Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 2 is placed 40 years before FNW. So there would probably plenty of changes if there wold bee a DLC from California.

I could see going back to California, but it would more like an investigative type storyline. Stopping or helping a revolt, playing off 3 or 4 large power groups (bramin barons, NCR military types, polititions, etc), or something like that. And of course the story/quest line would have to be really well written.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:34 am

that's true! :thumbsup:

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:19 am

If you want more background information about Fallout then play Fallout, Fallout 2 and Tactics.
Hell, if you want more then read up the bible at the wikia.
No need to do a remake or revisit the old locations at all.
Only reason people want it is cause they want better graphics which isn't a very good argument.

This

So, let me guess, people want to return back to California to understand the whole story, no thanks, I prefer that they concentrate in this story now, if they want or they cannot stand "outdated graphics", we have the Wikia and the Fallout Bilble for that

But we dont need to return to California at least that is about for a new plot about NCR or Legion

Some people here dont need "new shiny graphics"

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:58 pm

I'd like an expansion pack. Maybe to the north like the Dakotas and Wyoming and stuff.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:56 am

daed money was great... but when i was done i was a lvl 35 and im not done with all the side quests. i quit playing for now waiting for dlc and hoping that on the next one bethesda will again rise the lvl cap. I know it hasnt been done in the past but with all these cool perks its absolute torture when i hit the lvl cap and its inbetween perks. thats the only thing on my wish list.. south would be a cool place to go for dlc, like the Grand Canyon with two sides fighting for contro of the river, or texas and the Rio Grande...

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:46 am

I have to say I am all for an expansion or a DLC long as its priced right and it has a good story.

As far as revisiting some areas from FO1 and FO2, I could put forth the argument that not everyone could play those games. Theres alot of games I have from the same "era" or years as the FO games that just wont play on my pc because it doesnt recgonise the 64bit system. Thats the biggest reason why I dont waste my money on the orignals is because theres the chance that I couldnt even get it to install. Theres also the problem with I grew out of the birds eye view games back in the late 90`s. Only games I like now that are birds eye view are games like "Civil War generals" or "R.U.S.E." where its a birds eye view tactical game. I prefer my story based game now in first person or third person view.

So I am all for revisiting some areas in previous fallouts, hell I want to see Texas in a fashion like New Vegas even though it was already covered in a previous game. For those that dont want to revisit an area its simple in my eyes, just like the DLC you dont want or wont like just dont buy it. I know lots didnt buy the Mothership Zeta DLC, so if they recover an area you dont care to cover again, dont buy it I say.