03-25-2013, 09:34 PM
The other day I finally finished the Dead Money dlc for Fallout New Vegas. I love the game, but I think the DLC was alot more annoying than fun.
Before you play it, you should know ahead of time that you lose all your previous weapons for the duration of the mission (you can only use the stuff you find during it, and some of them are decent, I admit), and for the whole mission you have a bomb collar on your neck that can be activated from certain radio frequencies. Most of the time spent exploring is desperately trying to find and destroy clunky old radios and malfunctioning loudspeakers before they make your collar explode. and especially near the end, some of the speakers are indestructible and require you to hack computers in order to turn them off.
I always try to be a paragon of justice in these games just because I'm a goody two-shoes, but that meant I had to kill Dog (one of the partner characters) at the end because I never forced God to switch personalities to make him easier to deal with.
Ok, I should explain. Dog and God are two personalities to a big super mutant that are constantly at odds with each other. Dog is a dumb follower that can usually be lead on by anyone; while God is intelligent, cynical, calculating, and outright despises the other personality. You first meet him as God, and you have multiple chances throughout the mission that can make you force the other personality to take over, which can be useful for the mission because God can be very stubborn and is a bit of an asshole.
But I never did it, because I didn't want to lower his IQ just to make the mission easier. I told you, I'm a goody two-shoes. It should also be noted that Dog outright refers to the main villain as "Master", while God is trying to rebel. That's not a spoiler or anything. You know this the second you meet him due the circumstances of the mission.
I looked up the character endings afterward and it turns out that letting God stay in control was the right way to go, but I just went about it wrong which lead to Dog being locked up in "the cage" for so long until he couldn't take it anymore and I had to put him out of his misery.
My character specializes in Speech and Bartering, but even then my level wasn't high enough to talk him down. Just needed a level up or two and I could have done it.
Before you play it, you should know ahead of time that you lose all your previous weapons for the duration of the mission (you can only use the stuff you find during it, and some of them are decent, I admit), and for the whole mission you have a bomb collar on your neck that can be activated from certain radio frequencies. Most of the time spent exploring is desperately trying to find and destroy clunky old radios and malfunctioning loudspeakers before they make your collar explode. and especially near the end, some of the speakers are indestructible and require you to hack computers in order to turn them off.
I always try to be a paragon of justice in these games just because I'm a goody two-shoes, but that meant I had to kill Dog (one of the partner characters) at the end because I never forced God to switch personalities to make him easier to deal with.
Ok, I should explain. Dog and God are two personalities to a big super mutant that are constantly at odds with each other. Dog is a dumb follower that can usually be lead on by anyone; while God is intelligent, cynical, calculating, and outright despises the other personality. You first meet him as God, and you have multiple chances throughout the mission that can make you force the other personality to take over, which can be useful for the mission because God can be very stubborn and is a bit of an asshole.
But I never did it, because I didn't want to lower his IQ just to make the mission easier. I told you, I'm a goody two-shoes. It should also be noted that Dog outright refers to the main villain as "Master", while God is trying to rebel. That's not a spoiler or anything. You know this the second you meet him due the circumstances of the mission.
I looked up the character endings afterward and it turns out that letting God stay in control was the right way to go, but I just went about it wrong which lead to Dog being locked up in "the cage" for so long until he couldn't take it anymore and I had to put him out of his misery.
My character specializes in Speech and Bartering, but even then my level wasn't high enough to talk him down. Just needed a level up or two and I could have done it.