After playing over a hundred hours of Fallout 3, and approaching that same time with New Vegas, I have to give one of my biggest complaints: I find the radio programs in New Vegas extremely lacking.  After roaming through the Capital Wasteland, hearing Three Dog chime in occasionally, and listening to the songs that played on GNR, I have to say that Wayne Newton, Mr. New Vegas, is just not interesting to listen to in the slightest.  It's all celebrity personality without any, well, personality.  He's boring, monotonous, sounds like he could care less about what he's saying, and when he talks it just sounds, stiff and hard to pay attention to. 
 
Now, I'm not saying that every radio host in the games need to be as energetic as Three Dog was, but having them be likable is something completely different.  When i wake up in the morning with the radio on (having it play all night long), I'm not greeted with a super energetic voice (like Three Dog), I'm listening to a very mellow, calm voice that comes on in between the classical musical numbers that are played.* 
 
As for the entire station itself, I also found really boring.  The song, though they may have been hits when they came out, or ultimately forgettable.  There's no catch to them, nothing to makes me feel like I'm IN the Mojave Wasteland like I did when I was in the Capital Wasteland.  There are no side shows, like the Adventures of Herbert "Dashing" Dashwood or the PSA announcements, and I feel as though Obsidian dropped the ball on this, not taking advantage of having a more civilized radio show, complete with more, and longer, interviews with some of the more famous people of New Vegas.  The King interview doesn't really count since it didn't really say anything outside of, "We need to reconsider."
 
I never would have thought that the radio stations would have played as large of a role in my enjoyability of the games as they have.  Has anyone else felt this way about the radio shows in the newer Fallout games, or disagree with me completely? 
 
*Colorado Public Radio station

Something I noticed, was that there aren't any western songs!  Maybe Obsidian wanted to go for a Vegas-only sound with the music that plays over the radio.  I don't know what to believe since they do have a cowboy perk, plus the western looking caravaning, but lack the music of it.

Nah, New Vegas was better. 3 Dawg was a morning DJ, more appealing to simpletons I guess.

If you're on the PC, you could always find mods for custom radio stations or if you're mod-savy, you could always create your own soundtracks.

Is the title of this thread a Eraserhead reference?

" If you're on the PC, you could always find mods for custom radio stations or if you're mod-savy, you could always create your own soundtracks. "

" If you're on the PC, you could always find mods for custom radio stations or if you're mod-savy, you could always create your own soundtracks. "

I hated the radio stations in NV, I mean I don't want to set this thread on fire, but I'm a mighty, mighty man, I'm young and I'm in my prime, and I'll keep hackin' and whackin' and smackin' on the New Vegas Soundtrack because on these forums, anything goes.

lol dude the songs are based on the mythos and theme....1940s-1950's ideal of technology and society being thrust forth for a certain amount of time before all creative outlet and civilization is destroyed in nuclear war... therefor the remnants that are left are direct products of that 1940's-1950's culture... so the songs are going to be that type of stuff. 
 
As for that I don't think they dropped the ball because they can't get most of the songs from that era they are restricted not only by space concerns but getting the songs they can the songs are still under copyright and require rights purchases.

" Nah, New Vegas was better. 3 Dawg was a morning DJ, more appealing to simpletons I guess. "

" If you're on the PC, you could always find mods for custom radio stations or if you're mod-savy, you could always create your own soundtracks. "

" Is the title of this thread a Eraserhead reference? "

" I hated the radio stations in NV, I mean I don't want to set this thread on fire, but I'm a mighty, mighty man, I'm young and I'm in my prime, and I'll keep hackin' and whackin' and smackin' on the New Vegas Soundtrack because on these forums, anything goes. "

" lol dude the songs are based on the mythos and theme....1940s-1950's ideal of technology and society being thrust forth for a certain amount of time before all creative outlet and civilization is destroyed in nuclear war... therefor the remnants that are left are direct products of that 1940's-1950's culture... so the songs are going to be that type of stuff.   As for that I don't think they dropped the ball because they can't get most of the songs from that era they are restricted not only by space concerns but getting the songs they can the songs are still under copyright and require rights purchases. "

" I hated the radio stations in NV, I mean I don't want to set this thread on fire, but I'm a mighty, mighty man, I'm young and I'm in my prime, and I'll keep hackin' and whackin' and smackin' on the New Vegas Soundtrack because on these forums, anything goes. "

New Vegas's juxtaposition is what makes him brilliant. Like I said, not everyone gets subtlety and subversion. You just want the easy, obvious joke. 3 dawwwwwwwwwg.

I'm obviously missing something then.  Is the joke that Wayne Newton actually had his own show in Las Vegas and is actually called "Mr. Las Vegas?"  If not than the joke is completely lost on me.

I really enjoyed listening to the radio in Fallout 3, even if it was repetitive. However, I didn't play the game all that much with the music playing. I'm too much of a spaz to listen, unless I know the area is completely safe. I want to be able to hear enemies creeping up on me, you know? So in my limited time with New Vegas so far, I've probably only spent a couple minutes to the radio, but it does sound disappointing that they eliminated the extra radio stuff, and from what I understand, there are very few songs at all. Wasn't that one of the major complaints about Fallout 3's radio? You'd think they would have fixed it for New Vegas by simply adding more music.

Three Dog was the man. Don't Feed the yao Guais!

" @Entus said:

" If you're on the PC, you could always find mods for custom radio stations or if you're mod-savy, you could always create your own soundtracks. "

There's only one actual station mod I know of (it plays cold war era PSAs or something), the rest just add songs to the existing stations. edit Oh and the robot technoey station which is actually occasionally funny, which might be a convert from Fallout 3."Let us now take a moment of silence for the Wastelanders who died in the time in took me to complete this sentence". "

Three Dog was the most annoying fucker in the wasteland,.
 
I set him on fire.