Just a little heads up there will be possible spoilers in here so if for some reason you haven't done this DLC and don't want to know what happens please stop reading here...
I recently completed Dead Money for the first time because I decided to finally think fuck those creepy looking fuckers, I'm going to grab my Hunting Shotgun, Enclave Power Armour and a Gatling Laser and fuck them all up.
Little did I know I'd appear with nothing but a bomb collar on my neck... =P
Now because I had completely basically everything else on Fallout New Vegas quite a few times I had grown comfortable knowing everything from The Divide to the Mojave and anything inbetween. When I went to Sierra Madre casino I was for the first time in a long time excited, fearful and filled with a sense of adventure which after years of playing Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3 I'd lost.
Since this playthrough I was trying to be evil and with the NCR I played like a dick while going through the Sierra Madre area. I think that the radios being able to set off your collars made it a need for caution so that you can't go running around carelessly and this caused you have to be even more alert.
Know the Ghost People are possibly the most scary enemies I've seen in Fallout. Heavy breathing, freaky suits and do not speak but scream a bit when they find you. To me that is what makes them scary and the fact you need to remove a limb or they'll get back up. Just while exploring and hearing the heavy breathing usually made me tense up a bit.
Although I did read a little bit about how the Ghost People came to be with those Hazmat Suits eventually becoming locked on them with them stuck in a suit which made it hard to breath and unable to speak. Can't remember where those Terminal were but read some stuff about them.
Because I was being a dick to my companions I did actually have to kill Dean and Christine but Dog I helped bring back to sanity. That was because the other two didn't give me an option while talking to them.
I will probably have another playthrough with another character in the future as I quite enjoyed the layout and exploration. I would also like to find more intel on the history of the Casino.
Would have liked some very good weapon to pick up but there wasn't anything that good in Dead Money. Holorifle isn't that good as weapons you can get later or from Big Mountain and the Automatic Rifle isn't all that great because of a twenty round magazine. If I had a Bren which had a much larger clip I'd be happier... Although going around with a Battle Rifle (Or "This Machine"), Thompson and a Automatic Rifle it is always fun to act like a American soldier from WW II using only weapons used by the Americans in WW II also I guess you could say an 9mm Submachine Gun is kind of like a Grease Gun but I ain't going to use a piece of shit 9mm which can't do shit against people in armour...
But more on Dead Money I found it very enjoyable with its addition of problems that you need to solve to advance like finding radios and speakers to destroy or turn off all while searching for various people and things in a Casino and its surrounding area.
I do like how most of the DLC links in with each other. Adds in for a more expanded side story which is pretty nice. I like Fallout 3's DLC but its just extra adventures and what happened after Project Purification which don't get me wrong is very nice but I would have liked to see them all linked in a way but not much you can really do to expand Fallout 3's side stories as you were born/taken to a vault when you were young and there isn't much to do to expand that.
Just wonder what were other people's thoughts about Dead Money?
Edited by dx144, 23 July 2014 - 02:59 AM.
