All right, every RPG on the market nowadays has an expansion pack DLC, but, how many of those DLC were diffirent in any way? None. A few examples would be titles like Dragon Age, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, ect. Have you guys noticed how almost all the DLC for popular RPGs are nothing more than "Hey, we killed those bad guys, but theres still some left, so like, we need you to kill them some more" Broken Steel and Dragon Age Origins: Awakening are sterling examples of this.

Point is, I'm afraid that NV's first DLC may be just another one of these cookie cutter wastes of money.

What are your views on this?

I can't have any views because I can't even play it for at least a year due to Microsoft's BS paying off companies skills. :banghead:

I think half of it is money, and half of it is "This is a good idea" and want to share it, or it's content they would never have finished by the deadline.

The only thing that I'm worried about is that it will only come to the PC in the form of a GOTY edition of NV. I can tell you right now that I will not be buying the game again, no matter how much I adore it.

I think most DLC's are a rip-off anyway. Stuff that should have been in the game in the first place that you have to pay extra for. People will buy any old rubbish on xbox live that they would never look at twice if it was on a shelf in a shop.

Possibly, heck there was one supposed Caesar's Legion follower they did not include with the game.

As for cookie cutter DLC, Bioware was notorious for doing this sort of thing with Dragon Age. Apart from the expansion the rest was a waste of money (the pranks and gifts DLC in my store was free unlike the other stores or on Live) Having played the DLC on Fallout 3 while personally they only lasted one play through at least it was fun and was integrated within the game, not a separate short storyline like what Bioware did for some DLC.

The FNV DLC will not be post-ending ones, they will simply be new side quests, like the FO3 DLC aside from Broken Steel. I'm hoping for something like Point Lookout myself.

We killed all the darkspawn in DAO?
I remember we killed the.... Arch... Dragon... Thingy..

I thought Dragon Age: Awakening was relatively interesting. Bioware approached Darkspawn in a new way. They may have been darkspawn, but they weren't the same darkspawn you fought in Origins. Fallout 3's DLC was pretty varied as well.

In Operation Anchorage you fought simulated Chinese soldiers.
With the Pitt you fought well organized slavers/raiders.
In Broken Steel you fought the "last" of the Enclave.
In Mothership Zeta you fought aliens.
And, lastly, with Point Lookout you fought mutants, and crazy tribals.

They were all different from each other. I don't know what you want Obsidian to do. It doesn't sound like you'll be fighting Caesar's Legion or the NCR, what's the same? I sort of get what you're saying, but I just don't see the similarities, especially with as little info as we have. I hope they release a trailer or something soon-ish. It'd be nice to get a better idea of what we're seeing.


(I still want a Broken Steel type DLC for New Vegas.)

I liked Awakening. It showed that the Darkspawn were more than just mindless animals. From what I've heard this concept is a segue into Dragon Age 2. The other DA DLC/expansions weren't very good, I'll grant that, but Awakening was worthwhile, IMO. How about instead of complaining we make some suggestions about what would be better...keeping in mind that DLC is not going to be large in scale?

Because there is no reason to burnoff ideas for the next game?

DLC is just a way to promote sales; if they are good, then the customers are happy and it's good business.

I actually fought the rebellious slaves. :grad:

I think I got good value on the Fallout DLC. I felt I got poor value on the DA:O DLC.

I loved awakening.
We got a topless lady in it.

Only one of Fallout 3's DLCs was like that. The other 4 had nothing to do with the Enclave.

I love how people complain about extra content, if they put all that extra content in the original game it would never come out, they would just keep adding to it and never release it, DLC only makes sense, i fail to see it as a downside at all, think of it like a tv series, the main game is the season premier and the dlc are the other episodes.

DAO: Awakening is a great game. And im psyched for 02.01.2011.

But i would like to see a side quest DLC, a broken steel DLC is would be okay, but meh i dunno

DLCs tend to be like that. Mostly bad investments from the gamers side, with very few exceptions. NV DLCs likely won't be any different.

I enjoyed all of FO3's DLC, I don't really have any complaints aside from how buggy it was.

Thats a very broad topic of "Heh we should kill those guys." I haven't played Dragon Age at all, but I know Mass Effect had great DLC (The two companion DLCs they released were similar in that you had to kill a main badguy, but all of the companion loyalty quests revolved around this. There storylines were great regardless).

But, all of those DLC's are different in almost every way.

Yeah but the Arch Dragon Thingy was what was leading them. It was almoast like a hive mind, and they needed it to remain unified according to.. well.. the entire game. But then in Awakening they were being led by a brood mother.

The OP is right. When Bioware had the meeting to discuss the content of the DLC is would have went something like this,



Person 1: "Hmm.. Umm.. Don't really know.."

Person 2: "..."

Person 3: "I've got it! Oh wait never mind.."

Person 4: We could.. Y'know.. Retcon the bad guys that were supposedly thrown into disarray at the end of the game in order to drag out the story and get more money."

Persons 1, 2, 3 and 4's Boss: "Okay!"

I purchased DAO and Awakening together for half price, cant say I was really impressed by Awakening, but certainly enjoyed(still) Origins, the addons were really lack luster, I thought Lelliana's story was going to be really good, until I played it that is, same with witch hunt.

I certainly hope FO:NV DLC does not follow the same pattern.

I think you're being unfair and too general. If you step back and take a look at all RPGs since forever, you could say they all consist of you killing stuff to get XP and loot. That, of course, wouldn't be fair because while that may be true to a certain point, there are enough details in many different RPGs to set them apart. I mean, how does Fallout differ from Dragon Age? They are both RPGs where you rack up XP, get levels, loot, and probably kill lots of stuff along the way. We all can quickly come up with a bunch of reasons why those two games are different.

So, likewise, to say that all DLC is nothing more than "go kill these guys some more" isn't a fair judgement. You were probably thinking of Broken Steel but The Pitt, Point Lookout, Operation: Anchorage, and Mothership Zeta had nothing to do with the Enclave. If you're going to judge all DLC based purely on a very, very generalized theme, you may as well not buy or play any DLC for as long as you live. Or RPGs for that matter.

Wait... What?

I bought that expansion but still haven't played it. Same with Mass Effect 2's Lair of the Shadow Broker (working on that as I speak).

Aww you dirty [censored], I just clicked who you're talking about lol. :yuck: