In general, I haven't had very much success with the Fallout 3 DLC. Besides Operation: Anchorage being mediocre at best, suffering from the combat-oriented gameplay that is not Fallout 3's strong suit, it wasn't all that bad in the end. The only part of it that I didn't welcome was the consistent crashes post-DLC, and a slew of little annoying bugs that also didn't exist before the download.

Now we fast forward to The PIt, Bethesda's second promised bit of DLC. Already, I've been having exponentially more crashes (5 alone on my way to the quest marker, alleviated slightly after my updating my Xonar D2Xs sound drivers). I haven't even made it further than talking to the quest-giver, but I also hear of purely broken DLC from both the PC and 360 versions once you get to Pittsburg. I'm crossing my fingers, praying that nothing happens to me, as some people have had sucess getting the PC version to work.

But the real reason I stopped to write this post is what I believe to be a glaring story-line plot mishap. Obviously, there will be some minor spoilers in the coming sentences, so stop reading here if you want to avoid it. However, I believe this is all pretty much explained in the description of the DLC itself, so whatever. Anyway, you're told by the slave that starts off the events of The Pit that the Brotherhood of Steel swept through and cleaned the place out "around the time (he) was born." However, the kid you talk to at the Citadel was also supposedly saved by the Brotherhood during this sweep. The slave from the Pitt seems to be a full grown adult, so if his story is to be believed, then the kid from the Citadel would not have been alive to be saved.

Now, I don't know if maybe I'm remembering something wrong, but I don't think I am. I guess Video Games have far fewer continuity checkers than novel writers seem to have, but things like this make me take the story far less seriously, since the illusion that Bethesda was trying to foreshadow the events of the DLC by including little snippets about The Pitt in the original game is ruined.