Ok, so, I haven't gotten very far, but I'm fairly certain this is the best DLC released for either game, and I really enjoyed Point Lookout; all of the characters are fucking hilarious, I took at least 20 screenshots in the first dialogue because it was so GOOD, there's tons of unique shit, you don't have to ditch your weapons/armor, did I mention the characters?

The DLC starts off with you watching a movie at the Mojave Drive-In, and you get transported to BIG MOUNTAIN RESEARCH FACILITY (yes, all caps, that's how Doctor Klein says it), and once you get to the think tank, you meet all of these scientists who are just floating brains with 3 monitors for eyes and a mouth. The opening dialogue is long, yes, but so funny, and as it turns out, one of them got rid of your brain, heart and spine! OH NO! The incessant sniping between the doctors is great, and their incredulity that you can actually TALK and UNDERSTAND them is staggering. So they get you to help stop Dr. Mobius, who is the antagonist, and who wants to TAKE AWAY ALL OF THE SCIENCE. all of it. that's, well, quite a lot of science. I'm still on the first main quest, which is to go to 3 research facilities and gather things, but whatever. It also looks quite a bit different than New Vegas does. it looks a lot more like someone took the fallout 3 color scheme and added a bunch of weird shit to it. I liked Honest Hearts, I liked the story in Dead Money (BEEP BEEP BEEP), but this is so much better, it's crazy! Also there's a bunch of weird weapons and armor (though Joshua Graham's armor is still the best), weird enemies, etc... go buy this if you like weird shit

so what's y'alls opinions?

I downloaded it today, but i haven't got the chance to try it out yet since i started a new game on a new save. But what's funny is that they added a bunch of new traits too.

It really is. 
 
The dialogue with the Think-Tank is simply amazing -- not to mention the callbacks to Christine and Elijah from Dead Money, and hints of Ulysses again for Lonesome Road. 
 
Crazy-ass weapons - right out of the gate you get a scoped, automatic .357 machine gun which.. barks like a dog. And my sonic emitter now sets people on fire. 
 
Edit: some cool new perks too. One which gives you a Turbo-dispensing implant, another which makes you stronger when you stand in radiation, another which gives great "healing items" from living creatures.

The opening dialogue is long, yes, but so funny, and as it turns out, one of them got rid of your brain, heart and spine! OH NO! 

Fuck, why does everything good always come out at once.

Obsidian has some fantastic writing in their games.

@EuanDewar said:

@Laketown said:

The opening dialogue is long, yes, but so funny, and as it turns out, one of them got rid of your brain, heart and spine! OH NO!

What?

SCIENCE. that's should answer any and all questions you have

Wow, I'm sold!

Just found a list of the new traits on another forum: 

Yeah this one seems to have a lot of promise in it from what I've seen and heard (the writing especially). I'll have to pick this up later when time permits it.

yeah there's someone who'll give you a psychiatric evaluation, (which means you can rechoose perks) I went with Hoarder and Early Riser (there's not much of a drawback with hoarder with how I play fallout)

@CL60 said:

Obsidian has some fantastic writing in their games.

I dare say some of the best.

@CL60 said:

Obsidian has some fantastic writing in their games.

I dare say some of the best.

I can't check right now but the Steam achievements aren't up yet, if any. I haven't gotten into it yet because of that and I forgot to carry on my "true" Honest Hearts playthrough, which I recently completed since I downloaded Old World Blues.

you can hit on your light switch

DLC of the year

also the toaster is great

Is it a talking Toaster? And perhaps a Wild Wasteland encounter?

@Zombaholic said:

Is it a talking Toaster? And perhaps a Wild Wasteland encounter?

your home base is called the sink, and when you first get control of it, there's only the main computer that can sell you things and repair things, but you can find the personality modules or w/e in big MT and you can install them into various appliances, and they each do their own thing (sink gives you water, jukebox modifies one of your weapons, toaster modifies one of your weapons, etc.) and nope, no wild wasteland.

God....I got so much XP from disabling laser tripwires in the X13 facility....oh and the writing is great

Downloaded this today but haven't played any yet. Good to hear it's good. Lol at Hoarder though costing you if you go below a certain amount of weight. Never a problem for a packrat like me :p.

I want this, but Bastion is out tomorrow, and I think I may get that instead. I will get Old World Blues someday, though.

Man, really need to get into this game again :(

Had nothing but bugs with it though. Ended up having to kill all of Caesars Legion cos of a weird glitch thing :S

Is the game play less bland then Honest Hearts? what I mean by that is less fetch quests.

@Irvandus said:

Is the game play less bland then Honest Hearts? what I mean by that is less fetch quests.

don't worry, there's a lot more talking in this one than HH.

and it's easier to get around, because there aren't cliffs everywhere

Sold, I'm gonna go pick this up right now.

I've played it for a few hours so far, and apart from the incredibly long-winded introduction dialogue, I fucking love it. It's far and away the best NV DLC so far, and dare I say, at least as good as Point Lookout? The characters and writing are better than ever. So much of the dialogue is on multiple levels of hilarity that I've never wanted to exhaust every option as badly as I do playing this. The new weapons can be kind of strange but so far, they've been pretty good. I'm partial to the Proton Axe right now, even though the character I'm using isn't even good with melee weapons. The Sonic Emitter seems pretty neat as well, though I haven't had a chance to test out what different effects it has yet. I also found a neat piece of armor that is essentially a halo that sits around my head and regenerates health, albeit very slowly. It's still useful considering how tough the enemies are and how few stimpaks I have. My only other gripe is that some enemies seem needlessly overpowered to the point where I'd rather run away from certain encounters rather than waste a shitload of ammo and health. But as I've said, I still absolutely love this DLC and can't wait to play more.

Also, "Stripe" is easily the best Wild Wasteland easter egg in the whole game.

I gave my friend Fallout New Vegas...and i will never see it again, fuck. 

I agree with everyone else here: this DLC was awesome, how it tied into the lacking Dead Money, into the overall New Vegas story, and just the boonkers this all is.

"Your brain is GONE!"

*sigh...* Here we go...

So can you take Logan's Loophole if you're already past 30?  Would it just freeze you at whatever level you are or knock you down?  I can't wait to play it once I finish the others.

Spoiler your shit man, I was expecting something general but saw "watch a movie" and stopped reading...I've downloaded it for PC, but picked up the game+DLC in the steam sale so haven't gotten to the stage where I've played it yet.

Didn't realise that this was out so soon. I love fallout! Only played a bit of New Vegas, have to wait another three months before I'm home and I can play it and all the dlc to date. It'll be awesome.

It's by far the best DLC for New Vegas. It's too short though, and not enough to do afterwards.
 
Also the dialogue is hilarious. Especially when they joke about "Penis Toes"

I want it! It appears it's not up on the European PSN yet. Come on!!

That bloody stealth suit got me addicted to Med-X! 
 
I love this DLC.

I heard Chris Avellone is the lead project director on these DLC's so maybe it's why the writing and stuff is pretty good.   Though I'm probably wrong.

No quick look though? :( 
 
I enjoy GB fallout quicklooks, even if they don't really know how to play RPGs...

Yes, this DLC was maybe the funniest, most enjoyable video game experience I've had in a very, very long time. A Quick Look might be weird because the first (literally) half hour or so is just listening to //won't ruin it// talk, but it's amazing. Totally amazing.

And it's home to easily my favorite Fallout character ever (don't spoil it for yourself if you haven't played it yet): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kp4zBF-Rc

After playing the Honest Hearts DLC, this new stuff is blowing me away. It's easily the best DLC for NV, and it rivals the best that was put out for FO3. It's got some really funny stuff, as well as challenging gameplay. Some cool new goodies and mechanics are included. The sink homebase design is genius imo. Whoever's responsible for this improved DLC needs to make more.

Anyone know if they are planning on releasing all of the DLC on a disk once the fourth is released?

I guess nobody is having the problem I am, where bad guys just spawn in front of me out of thin air...  Today I was walking and 3 people just spawn in front of me and attack, i turn around and 3 more spawn. It has happened with the robots also. I'm guessing its just a load issue.

@Aishan said:

@jorbear said:

@CL60 said:

Obsidian has some fantastic writing in their games.

I dare say some of the best.

Bethesda should just put them on retainer for the purposes of dialogue and story. They could learn a few things.

I feel as if Obsidian should just become a Bethesda studio and be given Fallout full-time. Bethesda Game Studios only knows how to make dungeons, landscapes, and linear quests. Obsidian knows exactly what Fallout needs from a tone standpoint, and from a player agency standpoint. New Vegas feels like a continuation of Fallout 2 in a lot of ways, probably because a lot of those Black Isle guys are now Obsidian employees.

@Brodehouse said:

@Aishan said:

@jorbear said:

@CL60 said:

Obsidian has some fantastic writing in their games.

I dare say some of the best.

Bethesda should just put them on retainer for the purposes of dialogue and story. They could learn a few things.

I feel as if Obsidian should just become a Bethesda studio and be given Fallout full-time. Bethesda Game Studios only knows how to make dungeons, landscapes, and linear quests. Obsidian knows exactly what Fallout needs from a tone standpoint, and from a player agency standpoint. New Vegas feels like a continuation of Fallout 2 in a lot of ways, probably because a lot of those Black Isle guys are now Obsidian employees.

I could agree with that idea, as long as Bethesda would share the new engine and related, up-to-date tech. That and some tech and testing help in the QA department where Obsidian has historically failed pretty miserably.

Lol my hardrive got corrupted so lost my new vegas save game :D

This just goes further toward reaffirming my belief that NV is a far superior game to Fallout 3, ignoring all the technical bugs.

Just finished it and I can say that while I always enjoy Fallout DLC this was rather dry in terms of game play. There was no real enemy to destroy and basically you just searched the area for different quest items. That is good in a sense because it was more RPG like than action. At the same time though the enemies were very redundant and got boring after awhile. I did think the lobotomites looked cool. But I just rolled my eyes when I saw more scorpions.

I felt Honest Hearts had more to it in terms of story. And I'm sorry but in no way does this rival Point Lookout for Fallout 3. That is still the best Fallout DLC imo.

Can't wait for the final DLC with the courier.

I was really hoping I'd get a companion during the length of this DLC, other than Roxie for that one area (she died, didn't bother making another), since I usually sneak around when I'm alone, thus making things slower than usual.