Bethesda has released a trailer for the upcoming Fallout: New Vegas downloadable content, Dead Money. The DLC, which is exclusive to the Xbox 360 until further notice, features an epic heist with a twist that reminds me of that classic Rutger Hauer film, Wedlock.
Check out the video, let us know what you reckon. Also, let us all remember how excellent Rutger Hauer is.
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I wonder, why i was able to play through most of the game without any game breaking glitches, and yet so many people call it an "unplayable mess". I'm sorry, Black ops was an unplayable mess, NV was just sometimes silly with it's glitches. I'm talking about PC version, of course. No point in playing Obsidian games on other platforms, anyway
This is a day three-hundred sixty-five purchase for me since i've gots myself a PS3. Hopefully I'll be able to find one or two games to hold me over until then. Enjoy X-boxers!
@JD85
If you have this game on the 360, then as someone who plays it on the PC, let me be the first to point and laugh at you for thinking you have the superior version.
Anyway, fankids aside, this DLC does look pretty interesting. New companions are always welcome. Doesn't look like it advances the story at all, which means it can't be compared to Broken Steel, but it might be worth a run. I'm not buying it before I see how much content it contains, or after I read some reviews, though. Fallout 3 DLC was definitely hit and miss.
Just got NV in last week and haven't wanted to play anything else. Calling FNV a Time Vampire would be an understatement. So far, I'm lucky to report no glitches (other than the normal ones where creatures are stuck in the ground, etc.) on my end.
Beat the story after 70 hours, not a single game-breaking glitch. I've been running around since discovering all the locations & secrets and finishing up the quests. It's hard to put this game down, it's nice to that come the 21st, I won't have to!
This might seem early to be asking for it, but does this DLC raise the level cap in any way? I don't know if I'm unusual in this but I was level 30 about 3/4 of the way through the actual NV. I wasn't trying to grind out levels or anything; I simply enjoy wandering the map and finding the neat little one-off stories in all the locations that have no bearing on story quests or side quests. I'll still buy and enjoy the DLC (just as I did NV regardless of watching 20 hours of wasted EXP whilst slogging to the end) but even a 2 or 3 level cap raise would give me a lot more impetus to play.
Whenever fallout is consered I give it a year before I buy it, either the Goty edition is out by then, or enough patches come out to smooth over the rough spots.
This is one series where patience truley is a rewarded virtue.
@Nero: and watching a PC elitist remark on console fanboys is like watching a fat virgin being jealous of the retard insulting the kid with ADD. Comes full circle.
I think you missed the point. Mods > limited exclusive DLC by about 12 miles. That's why people who have FO:NV on PC are amused when people who have it on Xbox act superior for getting first crack at the DLC. It's nice, sure, but it's like bragging about your Honda when someone with a Mercedes is in the room. I think your ROFL LOGIC needs new power cells.
@HEL105: Thank you for that, can't stand fanboyism in any aspect of gaming. Granted, I only came on here to ask about if a higher level cap was to be instituted in the upcoming DLC. Refer to earlier post if anyone reads this and knows the answer.
you know if bethesda had announced this would be exclusive DLC BEFORE the game came out i might have got this on the 360. as it stands i just feel cheated.
@ gritzy...I'm the same way..just hit level 24 last night and I'm doint the boomer quests, just about to raise that plane from lake mead..I just spend so much time roaming around doing other quests. I really wish the level cap was higher, but they have to please the casual gamers as well, too. All the more reason for another playrhrough I suppose
Looks cool. I've beat Fallout: New Vegas on Hard difficulty and am running around finding all the locations. Most of them are kinda lame and lazy of Obsidian, like caves with Nightstalkers and coyotes, OoOOoOooohhh... I'm sorry, but Fallout 3 had amazing sidequests and dungeon levels throughout - whenever you stumbled on a random location, if you looked hard enough you'd be sure to find the story behind it and what had happened there to bring it to its current state.
Fallout:NV barely has any of that, except for the main quests and some of the side quests. It's pretty lazy.
But at least this will give me more to do than to wander around and look at caved-in mines/ caves that spawn a bunch of mutated creatures to attack me!
At any rate, I'm probably going to replay Fallout 3 for the third time soon. It's just that much more worth it.
@Kilgore Trout
Or GECKs. As a reference to the special encounter in the FO2, where you broke the water chip in FO1. I guess, you were referring to the same thing
This should be free to EVERYONE-CROSS-PLATFORM and should be called "SORRY SOOOO SORRY - Dead Money".
I played about 10 hours into the game and while I was enjoying it, I thought it was better I stopped playing until a patch sorted out the potentially tear-inducing bugs.
A buggy console version aside, New Vegas has some impressive writing going on. The dialog and general tone compared to Fallout 3 is like comparing a tiger and house cat respectively.
So is this DLC going to be independent from the main storyline or integrated into it? I've never really been interested in DLC that doesn't add to or continue the main story.
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10:40 AM on 12.16.2010 | 
*splutter*
*gurggle*
That's us PC people choking on our resentment as well. But at least I won't have to wait as long as the PS3 peeps.
If you have this game on the 360, then as someone who plays it on the PC, let me be the first to point and laugh at you for thinking you have the superior version.
Anyway, fankids aside, this DLC does look pretty interesting. New companions are always welcome. Doesn't look like it advances the story at all, which means it can't be compared to Broken Steel, but it might be worth a run. I'm not buying it before I see how much content it contains, or after I read some reviews, though. Fallout 3 DLC was definitely hit and miss.
I'm still going since day 1 on my first hardcore play through. And now I have an excuse not to end the game and get my Chivos.
Enjoy paying to be a beta tester.
Whenever fallout is consered I give it a year before I buy it, either the Goty edition is out by then, or enough patches come out to smooth over the rough spots.
This is one series where patience truley is a rewarded virtue.
And, argue all you want about who has less glitches. The fact remains that Xbob gets the DLC first! My ROFL LOGIC GOES PEW PEW PEW PEW DISCERNED.
Anyway, can't wait to get this. I had less problems with NV than I did with Fallout 3, so I'm cautiously optimistic that the DLC won't break anything.
I think you missed the point. Mods > limited exclusive DLC by about 12 miles. That's why people who have FO:NV on PC are amused when people who have it on Xbox act superior for getting first crack at the DLC. It's nice, sure, but it's like bragging about your Honda when someone with a Mercedes is in the room. I think your ROFL LOGIC needs new power cells.
you know if bethesda had announced this would be exclusive DLC BEFORE the game came out i might have got this on the 360. as it stands i just feel cheated.
again, fuck you bethesda, you sell out pricks.
Fallout:NV barely has any of that, except for the main quests and some of the side quests. It's pretty lazy.
But at least this will give me more to do than to wander around and look at caved-in mines/ caves that spawn a bunch of mutated creatures to attack me!
At any rate, I'm probably going to replay Fallout 3 for the third time soon. It's just that much more worth it.
Also, I'm a PS3 owner and really I'm not too worried about the DLC delay.
I SAID MOAR!
Or GECKs. As a reference to the special encounter in the FO2, where you broke the water chip in FO1. I guess, you were referring to the same thing
However, way points for companions is a welcome addition so I'll be updating!
I played about 10 hours into the game and while I was enjoying it, I thought it was better I stopped playing until a patch sorted out the potentially tear-inducing bugs.