"But getting to it. That's not the hard part. It's letting go." And if Elijah had learned that lesson before he kidnapped me, he'd be alive and happy instead of starving to death in a locked vault while I slowly crawl back toward Novac with literal pounds of gold weighing me down.
There's an unclaimed lockbox in camp forlorn hope. If you have 10 strength, and both carry weight perks, you can carry 10 gold bars at a time. Go to the 38 once to drop off all your gear, then you will take four trips in between forlorn hope and the 38. When you're done (in about 5 minutes), you will have 37 gold bars safely stored in the Lucky 38. Or you can just leave them in the lockbox, they don't despawn and nobody takes em.
Problem is Elijah seems to have always been crazy. Abandoning the brotherhood during a war, basically causing problems for Christine and veronica, and straight up wanting to send the cloud over the Sierra madre all over the wasteland to basically wipe out all forms of life
The skeletons in the casino can be found at doors and corridors with finger nail scratch marks found on the walls, indicating they were murdered by the casino’s faulty security system with the holograms and turrets. Scary
actually security system was not faulty, as elijah mentioned, holograms performed their tasks properly. they were tasked to kill anyone and anything within casino walls, except vera keyes, if armageddon becomes a reality. casino would be a shelter for vera, with no living thing to bother or possibly harm her, until help arrives.
@@alpbartuakdemir6489I don't think the holograms were meant to kill all of the visitors loke a trap, the nukes fell and somehow caused the holograms to kill the visitors. The Sierra Madre was meant to be a place where it was self reliant.
@@Hidinginthetreeline Truth to be told, I never actually found any vendor who had enough caps to buy at lest one golden bar, so I just kept 'em in my desk at Lucky 38
Getting the gold? That’s not the hard part. It’s letting go. Okay you experience the satisfying disappointment of needing to leave behind the gold, intrinsically tied to the themes of the DLC. Now you can know that if you have a stealth boy (there are a couple throughout the area, I know there’s one in the police station) you can hide behind that generator to the right when you leave the vault and then you can just let him walk by and sneak out before the shield goes back up. He’ll lock himself in the vault and you walk away rich having not learned a damned thing
In a sense, it is "kind" of easy, first maneuver around the generator as slow as possible (which you'll probably be over cumbered so don't worry about that) then as he's turning to the terminal, bolt it for the door, if you failed, you'll face the infuriating feeling of having to reload a save, over and over AND OVER
Dead money is basically a survival horror dlc, mixed with heist game elements and Jigsaw-like mad man who wants to kill the Mojave with the red mist due to petty anger towards the NCR.
I love how it followed the book it was based on. Want a treat? Watch the movie with Humphrey Bogart. Yeah it's old and black and white but it is SOOOO good. If you liked this DLC, you will love the movie.
Yeah I was on edge the entire time I played it. What really got me was the mix of maze-like environments filled with things designed to kill the player, and zero healing items practically. There was one moment early on where I had no ammo and no healing, running around with 10 HP desperately scrounging anything I could. I missed the stimpak recipe which made my run hell. Going back to New Vegas even out in the middle of the wasteland I felt like I was back in the safe space.
@@Dr_goman You mean other than the fact that everything looks exactly the same, forcing you to get lost for hours, or how some of the doors the game straight out says "Go look for a key :)" when it was in reality controlled through a terminal. Or these radios, which annoyed the hell out of me, or these absoloute annoying ghost who are *way* too strong, who were impossible to beat with my build, or that i had to babysit three charackters through a dlc, wasting my time to convinve them not to unalive themselves. Or how the loot is garbage. Or how grandpa without his meds won't stop talking, or how God said that he is gonna rip off my arm for like 300 times, or how Dean didn't even let me stealth through these overpowered ghosts, because everytime he was like "Trust me bro, i'd win" charging with his (what is practically a airsoft towards the ghosts) pistol into battle. This was probably one of the worst gaming experiences of my life.
Sinclair? sinclair?! I'm trapped! Please, oh god. The security systems won't let me out. They're keeping me here! ... I'm going to die here. Amongst the ghosts. I... I'm still being recorded by the holographic system....
Warlockracy (and rpg and crpg reviewer, one of the best) talked about how going in underleveled is idea to actually get the survival horror but damn 7? Big oops.
A fun thing with Dead Money is that basically the lower level you are; the easier the DLC is. Running in there at around lvl 4 when all the enemies are so easy compared to running in at lvl 50 when the enemies are literal tanks.
What? Just aim for their limbs, man. Blow of an arm or a leg, and they don't get back up. It's what I did in my most recent playthrough, and I think I was at or near 50 when I got there. Lonesome Road, on the other hand, is a nightmare with endgame stats. Every enemy hits lie a train and can absorb hits like a fortress. I was mainly using the anti-materiel rifle, too.
@@OuroborosChokedat least Lonesome Road lets you go back to the Mojave whenever you want, I love Dead Money but it sucks that if you’re not prepared you’ll kinda be fucked since it rids you of everything, and the Sierra Madre is the only DLC location you can’t return to later either, which sucks since it’s my favorite
@@calypsoparadisepunchlemonade if you go into it with the mindset of playing a survival horror game with a heist story it might be a little better, personally despite its flaws I love the atmosphere in it so it’s worth the headache for me
So the ghost people were former workers who got exposed to the gas leak(caused by Big MT)and Big MT sent them hazmat suits. The suits were uncomfortable and bulky, and the gas corroded the locks on them, forcing them to lock shut. The suits also have trauma harnesses in them. This is why the ghost people shrug off any wounds except dismemberment. The trauma harness won’t let them die. It was all a giant experiment by Big MT.
@@crusaderthestranger5982 I don't think it's written anywhere, or even implied. Most of the information just says that the suits sealed their occupants in and then the mutagenic gas changed them from the inside
@@greg_mca yea, Ghost People are basically tanky feral ghouls with a regenerative factor due to the gas. I haven't seen any mention of the trauma harness except for the actual trauma units in Big MT.
One of my favorite things about this DLC is that the deep droning noise you hear when you trigger the Gala event isn't just ambience. It's the air raid sirens that went off when the bombs fell and the Sierra Madre went to shit. The reason it sounds like that is because it's been 200 years and they decayed due to not only the time but the parasitic effects of the cloud.
@@Greyspecies9999 Hardcore isn't really all that difficult. Occasionally check your food, water, rads and occasionally sleep, and you'll be fine. Food also works to heal in a fight, so don't be afraid to eat if you need a stimpack. Also choose what build you plan for (Ballistic, energy, or melee), and prioritize the ammo you use accordingly. I also suggest the perks Strong Back, Pack Rat, Long Haul, Heavyweight, and Burden to Bear. Pack Rat are especially useful for Food Water and Ammo, (which you'll have a hard time running out of thanks to cooking the meat you'll commonly find). Heavyweight is also very useful for if you want to use more than pistols and rifles. You can still take as much ammo as you want, just remember to stash away the ammo for weapons you aren't using back at the Lucky 38. TLDR, just treat it like your standard fallout experience, but stash your ammo as well as your weapons, remember to eat/drink/sleep, and carry a few doctors bags at any given time.
I love this one. The atmosphere, the janky-ass way they force you into a psychological survival horror thing, the story... only thing that bothers me is that Dean pretty much just stuck around for TWO HUNDRED YEARS and he's talking to you like he just got done putting on a show at the Casino.
@@willlauzon3744it's crazy when you ask him why he hates Sinclair he just says because he loved Vera and built the sierra madre... but what did he do to you? -that's what I told you... dean was just a self absorbed jealous prick.
Trueth is he went feral, but he had so much god damn determination to settle the score, it was the only feral hunger left in his rotting mind! I kid, it is tue he is rather onedemtional. But hey it was nice to meet another old world goul, who was an entertainer. Killed him dead with no remorse when he turned every time, aint that just a kick in the head!
Yes. This! It's the only expansion that I continuously think about after the fact, like I'm not ready to go back to the mojave and leave these trauma bonds behind forever. It's a hell hole but out of all the dlc it's the one I add the most mods to i.e some of the weapons mentioned in Elijah's ending, the grand entrance to the casino, and of course a return to the area mod and the casino penthouse which I use as my home base. It is a hell of a backtrack every time but I just love being there.
Honestly lonesome road is worse. I have PTSD Flashbacks to those boring, drawn out, 20 minute long exposition dumps with Ulysses every time I hear the words “bear” or “bull”
I loved the sierra madre. Great atmosphere, interesting (but sad) story, great survival horror experience. Always play on Very Hard for the best experience. I left my heart at the Sierra Madre.
@ButteryEvolution. I'm not a politician. I just liked FO3 better. There were also aspects of FO4 I found enjoyable as well, in particular the weapon and armor crafting systems.
When christine came out of the auto doc it actually gave me a jump scare. I got so caught up in looting and atmosphere i completely forgot i was there to find someone.
To properly play Dead Money you need to have high Speech so you can experience everyone's story and get the right ending for dog/god and probably play on hardcore that way you can experience the true pain the cloud inflicts.
the chips are the real treasure with the vending codes .. in my playtrough i had collected and won in totally 11.590 , so in mojave i can live easily ! repair kit are good , the code is in the police station above a locker in the cellway
Every DLC plays to a different play-style. The Divide is challenging but forgiving. There’s tough enemies but you can come and go as you please. Making it good for casual gamers. Honest Hearts tests you in areas your character might be lacking (survival, endurance) but gives you plenty of resources to get through it if you’re willing to explore. Still making it fairly easy if you know how to craft; collect, and extract resources. Good for a challenge but not overbearing. Old World Blues caters to more of a scientific build but also offers opportunities to advance through the story in your own kind of way. Which does take trial and error and getting things wrong before you can get them right. But it’s about as challenging as you want to make it. If you explore, it will get pretty rough. If you just play the main story, the difficulty will more or less scale with your character accordingly. But there’s enough cool loot out there to make the challenge of exploration worth it. Which is great for players who like to scavenge. Dead Money, I think experienced players love it (myself) but inexperienced players will hate it. It makes you fall in line with how to play it out and really puts your skills/build to the test. It has its problems but it really is a great DLC if you’re patient and experienced.
Dead Money is tedious and that makes it annoying and I am pretty experienced when it comes to Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas. The worst thing about Lonesome Road is the finale.
If you think Dead Money is better than Lonesome Road you are just objectively wrong. Dead Money only really has atmosphere and story going for it, while LR has not only atmosphere, not only story, but gameplay too.
Hey I was the person who wrote the 3rd review at the start of the video and seeing it in here really shocked me, I was watching the video this morning and saw my review and I was really happy so it made my day. anyway I am very glad to see my review in something. :)
They took my stuff at the beginning of the game. I don't like people taking my stuff. So I figured out how to steal every single thing in this game incuding Elijah's weapon his clothes and all the gold. People shouldn't take my stuff. 👿
Dead Money is good - it expanded what the Fallout franchise can do and showed that it can also be a horror game. Dead Money is basically a whole different game. Had it been released on PS2 back in the day as a standalone title it would have been a beloved game. The people who don’t like it just wanted a different experience. Nothing wrong with Dead Money.
pro-tip for playing Dead Money: Step 1.) Get your strength to at least 6 and your Unarmed skill up to 100 Step 2.) Go do Lonesome Road first Step 3.) Fight Rawr (and survive) and loot his talon from his corpse. Don't do anything with it. Don't touch it. Don't look at it. Just have Rawr's talon in your inventory and leave it alone. Step 4.) Be patient and wait until after you enter the Dead Money DLC Step 5.) Very, very first workbench you happen across, craft "Fist of Rawr" Step 6.) Enjoy one-slapping ghost people into a fine red mist ❤
@@jovalleau true dat I really feel like lonesome road is supposed to be last it really feels like from a gameplay and lore perspective that it's the last leg of your journey
I wasn't aware that many people consider this to be worst. I though it was quite immersive and it has good atmosphere. Bleeping gets a bit annoying though. Honest Hearts is easily the worst one because it doesn't have any content and it is over very quickly.
@@baiomarlaye3165 Probably like my third playthrough I shot Daniel just to see what would happen. Now whenever I see someone complaining about HH being too small/too short when it's on-par with 2/3 of the other DLC I just assume that's what happened (even though I know it's more likely they just didn't do any side content since it isn't linear like LR, doesn't give a strong feeling of FOMO like DM and doesn't let you come back and explore (and genuinely isn't as content-dense) like OWB). I liked HH enough (especially after my second playthrough) to work at ZNP in real life. Huge mistake, worst job and worst national park I've ever been to. It's actually a nicer place in the game about a post apocalyptic hellscape than it is in real life! The funniest part of that to me is that my roommate there was playing NV every night, and going through HH while we were working there.
I trapped Elijah for the first time in 12 years a couple days ago, it was WONDERFUL to hear him go through the stages of grief all in one go over the radio afterwards
Get banned from the casino and get the vip status giving you Sierra Madre chips every week and use the vendor to get repair kits and your golden let alone all the loot and gold bars
“The worst” I thought bro meant honest hearts, it’s repetitive and full of fetch quest. I loved dead money brought something new to the table the horror survival aspects and coming in with nothing at a high level forced to use what you can get no over powered weapons.
Well that depends as it is very easy to get Rawr's Fist into the DLS and pwn it up. No cheating or console commands needed. Just the way the game works.
Three things I love about Honest Hearts - 1. the mega OP .45 SMG, which is nearly game breaking for high level gun builds 2. Original setting - Zion isn't a bombed out shithole like every other location in Fallout and 3. Joshua Graham is such a badass character to hang out with.
I just always saved it till last cuz it's scary and I'm always really high level when I go in there so the enemies are super strong unless I'm doing a melee for energy build
I was playing with console command infinite carryweight, so i didn't have to get rid of the gold... I kind of wish I wasn't, just for that moment where you have to let it all go. What a beautiful story, for a fantastic dlc, tied with Lonesome Road for my favorite.
I first went into Dead Money with a questionable build on Hardcore mode. It was the greatest survival horror/stealth experience I’ve ever had. After a drug-free life prior to the Madre I was forced into the throes of addiction in order to survive the opening ceremony. Hiding, getting lost, being overjoyed to see a filthy mattress next to a hot plate, saving the characters only to be forced to confront the consequences of my previous actions, leaving behind the gold bars because I already had a fortune in chips, one of the best Fallout experiences I’ve ever had. But I get that not everyone enjoying a vaping The Cloud 24/7 while being harassed by holograms.
I love the soft reset it gives you; taking everything you had away, and forcing you to be vigilant, and resourceful. The only people who complain are those who min/maxed their characters, and are now stuck because they dont have what they built their characters around.
16:30 gang you did it wrong, you can’t take all, but you gotta trade all your loot for a few bars I was able to leave wit 6 (along wit the Gauss Rifle🔥 and Robe from Eli’s body), but it’s gonna vary based on weight/END; drink a bottle (gives more weight)…RUN!!
The real treasure of the Sierra Madre is the stimpaks. Get all the chips you can - 2k for the snowglobe, and the rest elsewhere, and collect as much pre-war money as you can. Trade all that for chips too. Go play blackjack. Win until you're banned from the Sierra Madre. (+10k chips) Buy unlimited simpaks from the vending machines with the chips. Never struggle with healing ever again. I also personally have more .357 ammo than I know what to do with by the end, so you'll possibly have no shortage of ammo, either. Walk out with the gold too, and then the hardest part of the game is slow-walking to gun runners to liquidate all that gold.
This reminds me of the case that also inspired the movie "30 seconds or less" where in real life a group of people strapped a homemade bomb on a pizza delivery drivers neck and gave him a cane-gun hybrid to rob a bank. later on in the news the device goes off...
I hated the dlc at first when i played it over a decade ago, but now, having replayed the game, I actually appreciate the feeling of helplessness and eerie atmosphere. Other dlc are too easy because you have all of your resources with you. I know the theme is to let go, but I wish we could legitimately go back and explore without console commands.
Lonesome road > dead money > old world blues > honest hearts. Though i need to replay LR and DM. Owb and hh are fully fetch quests. Hh in the same nature as base game. Owb in a nice tech dome. But lr and dm are in great settings
@@snarkymoosesshack8793 I'm currently replaying owb. It is fun. But it's been a long time since I replayed lr and dm. Dire settings are more interesting to me than the silly owb, or the otherwise pleasant hh
Got a great apartment in old world blues and talking clothes. Ok the toaster is not gonna make you toast. Old money I got everything not nailed down. But I wish I could haven't the lunch boxes in honest hearts. Wanted the chinese lunch boxes in Achorage Alaska fallout 3, too. I guess I like lunch boxes. 🤣 I think you should be able to put a lunch box down and store stuff in it. Although it is pretty funny to fill your room with bottle cap mines . . .and mini nukes. Decor is important 🤪🤪🤪
I honestly kinda loved this being high level going in and still getting my shit rocked. Kinda freaky and you have to be resourceful, I think people hate on Dead Money because it’s a harder DLC.
ignoring the point of the dlc with a pup boy you can just sneak around father elijah as he walks towards the vault and make an escape with all the gold
I don't know which mod it is but, it added christine's constant constant banging noise inside the autodoc while the circular saws keeps buzzing. I don't know why it's not in the base game because that sht scary af and it made the time inside the hospital more creepy.
My biggest issue is the unkillable speakers, why, everything else can be overcome through not being stupid, but those just require trial and error luck finding the blind spots
It’s a great DLC, once. I won’t even bother to redownload it it’s such a hassle and a slog. It’s not stressful or difficult. Or scary. Just too long. And not having access to your gear makes it less fun. The other new Vegas dlc however? Infinitely replayable. Big Mountain is my favorite. I find the think tank is really compelling and fascinating. I’m a bigger fan of scifi than i am of heists. Plus it’s a linear story which i think is a disservice to an open world survival game. If you wanna kill Joshua Graham first thing in honest hearts you can. Which feels in spirit with the rest of the game (allowing you to wipe out every faction besides yesman). If you felt like it you could run straight to the legion and kill caesar. You’re telling me that with 100 explosives, 100 science, and 100 lockpicking i wouldn’t IMMEDIATELY be able to take the collar off?
I personally really liked Dead Money dispite its flaws. The atmosphere and the horror/mystery lore alone really made me appreciate it a lot. Plus I did the DLC when I was lv.50 and funny enough if you're overleveled, like myself, it becomes even harder because Ghost People are literal tanks. Dead Money and Old World Blues are definitely my favourite DLCs.
@@Meme.calculator Riot shotgun with And Stay Back plus Shotgun Surgeon perks makes short work of those clowns. Just don't piss of an entire clan of them at the same moment and get surrounded.
10:13 I'm not sure if you edited it out or not but usually music is supposed to play when you start the gala event, which would've made the experience much better for you
First time playing through DM was hell. Once I learned the ins and outs of it, it became way more bearable, even fun. It's still a drag though, because you're forced to use the DLCs equipment instead of your normal stuff.
I spent like 50 percent of this DLC with atleast one broken leg. 48 percent was spent with below 100 hp. And that 2 percent is when I was in the Madre, with minimal bear traps and such.
I can't wait till season 2 of the show, man. I hope they acknowledge the dlc events, amongst other things, new vegas related. Like a character saying " you'll have more luck finding the Sierra madre"
It’s not a “bad” DLC. It’s just really hard if you’re unprepared. I went in on my third play-through of Dead Money with maxed unarmed, melee, stealth and explosives. I was able to easily get through the whole thing unseen, especially after getting the stealth suit. I was also able to smuggle all the gold bars out after leaving behind everything I didn’t want later.
"But getting to it. That's not the hard part. It's letting go."
And if Elijah had learned that lesson before he kidnapped me, he'd be alive and happy instead of starving to death in a locked vault while I slowly crawl back toward Novac with literal pounds of gold weighing me down.
Lol i went back to Novac too
I went all the way to Gun Runners, I don’t regret a damn thing
There's an unclaimed lockbox in camp forlorn hope. If you have 10 strength, and both carry weight perks, you can carry 10 gold bars at a time. Go to the 38 once to drop off all your gear, then you will take four trips in between forlorn hope and the 38. When you're done (in about 5 minutes), you will have 37 gold bars safely stored in the Lucky 38.
Or you can just leave them in the lockbox, they don't despawn and nobody takes em.
Problem is Elijah seems to have always been crazy. Abandoning the brotherhood during a war, basically causing problems for Christine and veronica, and straight up wanting to send the cloud over the Sierra madre all over the wasteland to basically wipe out all forms of life
Find a bloatfly or a shot off piece of an ant and put all ur gold bars in there, carry it to prim and mail it to the strip.
"Thank god dog isn't actually a dog" the puns are immaculate.
That’s actually a true instance of no pun intended
The skeletons in the casino can be found at doors and corridors with finger nail scratch marks found on the walls, indicating they were murdered by the casino’s faulty security system with the holograms and turrets. Scary
All the while Vera is locked inside forced to witness and hear it all. I really enjoyed the story of Dead Money.
actually security system was not faulty, as elijah mentioned, holograms performed their tasks properly. they were tasked to kill anyone and anything within casino walls, except vera keyes, if armageddon becomes a reality. casino would be a shelter for vera, with no living thing to bother or possibly harm her, until help arrives.
@@alpbartuakdemir6489I don't think the holograms were meant to kill all of the visitors loke a trap, the nukes fell and somehow caused the holograms to kill the visitors. The Sierra Madre was meant to be a place where it was self reliant.
@@angeloluna529 i dont think you paid enough attention while playing it, you're just repeating what the introduction told you
@@Rustyemu93 i read the wiki, i think you're misremembering things
Finding it? That's not the hard part. It's letting poverty go while carrying gold in Father Elijah's leg
lmao
DAMMNN
The smart bastarda actually made elijahs body undraggable
Slow walking across the wasteland with a life changing amount of gold.
@@Hidinginthetreeline Truth to be told, I never actually found any vendor who had enough caps to buy at lest one golden bar, so I just kept 'em in my desk at Lucky 38
Getting the gold? That’s not the hard part.
It’s letting go.
Okay you experience the satisfying disappointment of needing to leave behind the gold, intrinsically tied to the themes of the DLC. Now you can know that if you have a stealth boy (there are a couple throughout the area, I know there’s one in the police station) you can hide behind that generator to the right when you leave the vault and then you can just let him walk by and sneak out before the shield goes back up. He’ll lock himself in the vault and you walk away rich having not learned a damned thing
You’ll need the Assassin Suit
Edit: Side note, your window to run for the elevator is when he’s approaching/using the terminal to enter the Vault
In a sense, it is "kind" of easy, first maneuver around the generator as slow as possible (which you'll probably be over cumbered so don't worry about that) then as he's turning to the terminal, bolt it for the door, if you failed, you'll face the infuriating feeling of having to reload a save, over and over AND OVER
you can put all of the gold in Elijah's head and carry it that way out.😮
@@ForTheFREEMAN yeah, but where's the fun in that? Also you don't get to hear Elijah rant about you on the radio.
You don't even need a stealth boy
Dead money is basically a survival horror dlc, mixed with heist game elements and Jigsaw-like mad man who wants to kill the Mojave with the red mist due to petty anger towards the NCR.
I love how it followed the book it was based on. Want a treat? Watch the movie with Humphrey Bogart. Yeah it's old and black and white but it is SOOOO good. If you liked this DLC, you will love the movie.
Best dlc ever
Yeah I was on edge the entire time I played it. What really got me was the mix of maze-like environments filled with things designed to kill the player, and zero healing items practically. There was one moment early on where I had no ammo and no healing, running around with 10 HP desperately scrounging anything I could. I missed the stimpak recipe which made my run hell. Going back to New Vegas even out in the middle of the wasteland I felt like I was back in the safe space.
@@Dr_goman You mean other than the fact that everything looks exactly the same, forcing you to get lost for hours, or how some of the doors the game straight out says "Go look for a key :)" when it was in reality controlled through a terminal. Or these radios, which annoyed the hell out of me, or these absoloute annoying ghost who are *way* too strong, who were impossible to beat with my build, or that i had to babysit three charackters through a dlc, wasting my time to convinve them not to unalive themselves. Or how the loot is garbage. Or how grandpa without his meds won't stop talking, or how God said that he is gonna rip off my arm for like 300 times, or how Dean didn't even let me stealth through these overpowered ghosts, because everytime he was like "Trust me bro, i'd win" charging with his (what is practically a airsoft towards the ghosts) pistol into battle.
This was probably one of the worst gaming experiences of my life.
@@PSYMEDICOmg you complain too much.. jesus just say you suck ass at the game💀
Father Elijah is basically Amanda waller
This comment 😂
With reason, everyone betrayed each other before he "connected" the collars for the treasure
Most true thing that I’ve heard all day
Looool true
and like the argus he fell .. dc universe shows it various times
I played this as a kid, I can still hear "Sinclair, sinclair!" in my head
@sippypooinvaderman9641 it's a recording on an endless loop lasting over 200 years. it's fitting imo
Sinclair? sinclair?! I'm trapped! Please, oh god. The security systems won't let me out. They're keeping me here!
... I'm going to die here. Amongst the ghosts. I... I'm still being recorded by the holographic system....
Yeah I disable their emitters with a quickness when doing the Christine portion. Those same lines over and over get tired real fast.
“This dlc is for level 20+”
My ass at level 7:
Played it to completion at level 7 last night. The frequent and constant level ups are great
Child’s play… I did it at level 3
I beat it going into it at lvl 6 on very hard hardcore mode
Surprisingly a really good strat, enemies are soft asl in early levels
Warlockracy (and rpg and crpg reviewer, one of the best) talked about how going in underleveled is idea to actually get the survival horror but damn 7? Big oops.
A fun thing with Dead Money is that basically the lower level you are; the easier the DLC is.
Running in there at around lvl 4 when all the enemies are so easy compared to running in at lvl 50 when the enemies are literal tanks.
What? Just aim for their limbs, man. Blow of an arm or a leg, and they don't get back up. It's what I did in my most recent playthrough, and I think I was at or near 50 when I got there.
Lonesome Road, on the other hand, is a nightmare with endgame stats. Every enemy hits lie a train and can absorb hits like a fortress. I was mainly using the anti-materiel rifle, too.
@@OuroborosChokedat least Lonesome Road lets you go back to the Mojave whenever you want, I love Dead Money but it sucks that if you’re not prepared you’ll kinda be fucked since it rids you of everything, and the Sierra Madre is the only DLC location you can’t return to later either, which sucks since it’s my favorite
Wait the enemies adjust themselves too the dlc??? Shit
ah, so im in for a terrible time then
@@calypsoparadisepunchlemonade if you go into it with the mindset of playing a survival horror game with a heist story it might be a little better, personally despite its flaws I love the atmosphere in it so it’s worth the headache for me
So the ghost people were former workers who got exposed to the gas leak(caused by Big MT)and Big MT sent them hazmat suits. The suits were uncomfortable and bulky, and the gas corroded the locks on them, forcing them to lock shut. The suits also have trauma harnesses in them. This is why the ghost people shrug off any wounds except dismemberment. The trauma harness won’t let them die. It was all a giant experiment by Big MT.
Were there trauma harness' in the suits? i don't think there was any mention of such.
@@crusaderthestranger5982 I don't think it's written anywhere, or even implied. Most of the information just says that the suits sealed their occupants in and then the mutagenic gas changed them from the inside
@@greg_mca yea, Ghost People are basically tanky feral ghouls with a regenerative factor due to the gas. I haven't seen any mention of the trauma harness except for the actual trauma units in Big MT.
One of my favorite things about this DLC is that the deep droning noise you hear when you trigger the Gala event isn't just ambience. It's the air raid sirens that went off when the bombs fell and the Sierra Madre went to shit. The reason it sounds like that is because it's been 200 years and they decayed due to not only the time but the parasitic effects of the cloud.
Well listen to the base sounds of the game you will hear a faint air raid siren running .
9:30 Knowing what Dean's ethnicity was pre-Ghoulification makes this so much funnier.
LMFAO
When I played it, I wasn't aware this DLC was "hated", I found it being one of the best Fallout experiences ever
totally agree
Playing this on hardcore where your health constantly depletes and companions cand die is an experience
Can you describe it in 7 words
i really need to finish fnv in hardcore, man
yep the toughest experience in my life, its like being in the trenches every time you peek your head you have a %50 chance of dying
@@Greyspecies9999 Hardcore isn't really all that difficult. Occasionally check your food, water, rads and occasionally sleep, and you'll be fine. Food also works to heal in a fight, so don't be afraid to eat if you need a stimpack. Also choose what build you plan for (Ballistic, energy, or melee), and prioritize the ammo you use accordingly. I also suggest the perks Strong Back, Pack Rat, Long Haul, Heavyweight, and Burden to Bear. Pack Rat are especially useful for Food Water and Ammo, (which you'll have a hard time running out of thanks to cooking the meat you'll commonly find). Heavyweight is also very useful for if you want to use more than pistols and rifles. You can still take as much ammo as you want, just remember to stash away the ammo for weapons you aren't using back at the Lucky 38.
TLDR, just treat it like your standard fallout experience, but stash your ammo as well as your weapons, remember to eat/drink/sleep, and carry a few doctors bags at any given time.
@@russmastermasterofrusses7463 funny you say that cuz I'm just about to finish it
Granted it's a *bit* modded
I love this one. The atmosphere, the janky-ass way they force you into a psychological survival horror thing, the story... only thing that bothers me is that Dean pretty much just stuck around for TWO HUNDRED YEARS and he's talking to you like he just got done putting on a show at the Casino.
I’m sure the days kinda ran together a bit
Dean is so self absorbed I could see him waiting that long to get his revenge.
@@willlauzon3744it's crazy when you ask him why he hates Sinclair he just says because he loved Vera and built the sierra madre... but what did he do to you? -that's what I told you... dean was just a self absorbed jealous prick.
Trueth is he went feral, but he had so much god damn determination to settle the score, it was the only feral hunger left in his rotting mind!
I kid, it is tue he is rather onedemtional. But hey it was nice to meet another old world goul, who was an entertainer. Killed him dead with no remorse when he turned every time, aint that just a kick in the head!
[Speech 100] “You son of a bitch. I’m in.”
Lol. I get the reference.
@@willlauzon3744 We're gonna rob the Heistotron 😄😄
This dlc always makes me feel so melancholy at the end. I actually wish it was longer with a bigger town with more quests preparing for the heist
Yes. This! It's the only expansion that I continuously think about after the fact, like I'm not ready to go back to the mojave and leave these trauma bonds behind forever. It's a hell hole but out of all the dlc it's the one I add the most mods to i.e some of the weapons mentioned in Elijah's ending, the grand entrance to the casino, and of course a return to the area mod and the casino penthouse which I use as my home base. It is a hell of a backtrack every time but I just love being there.
@@CheeseTaxCollectorI like it too. We should make a real one in real life. That would be awesime
Hell no, I am glad this shitty DLC ended where it did, I would go insane if I had to stay there longer
The only change I'd make is being able to tell a certain someone back in the Mojave what you found, and (dream) take them back there.
Favorite thing about this dlc is being able to give Elijah what he wants and locking him up with it forever
Yup I always give him the Safety Deposit Box treatment.
Honestly lonesome road is worse. I have PTSD Flashbacks to those boring, drawn out, 20 minute long exposition dumps with Ulysses every time I hear the words “bear” or “bull”
The way the escape is edited at the end is exactly how it felt at 14 years old running through this for the first time. Man, that was great editing
I loved the sierra madre. Great atmosphere, interesting (but sad) story, great survival horror experience. Always play on Very Hard for the best experience.
I left my heart at the Sierra Madre.
i left my sanity in sierra madre
I hated it as a kid it was too hard , but now its my favourite dlc and ive come to like the fear and anxiety the gameplay and atmosphere make together
I still hate it. It's too long and gets boring fast.
@@visceratrocarTypical politician take 😂😂
@ButteryEvolution. I'm not a politician. I just liked FO3 better. There were also aspects of FO4 I found enjoyable as well, in particular the weapon and armor crafting systems.
This dlc and Lonesome road were the most challenging Fallout NV experience I've played
Just pick the rad perk, and the DLC is a total cakewalk.
@@et34t34fdf Rad Child makes most of the game pretty trivial. Radiation is easily manageable for 95 percent of the game.
@@jovalleau It makes dead money in particular extra easy.
Dead Money is only challenging if it decides to break while you're playing it. And it always decides to break.
@@TheOwneroftheICYou have to let go
i'm very biased towards this DLC because of the holorifle, that shit eats deathclaw for breakfast
When christine came out of the auto doc it actually gave me a jump scare. I got so caught up in looting and atmosphere i completely forgot i was there to find someone.
Not sure how you missed her incessant pounding on the walls of the auto doc until you release her.
I hated that bomb collar
Me too! And the Sierra Madre felt claustrophobic!
Me, before starting dead money: I bet this dlc will be cool
Me 5 minutes after starting: WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?!
Best fallout dlc by far.
To properly play Dead Money you need to have high Speech so you can experience everyone's story and get the right ending for dog/god and probably play on hardcore that way you can experience the true pain the cloud inflicts.
the chips are the real treasure with the vending codes .. in my playtrough i had collected and won in totally 11.590 ,
so in mojave i can live easily !
repair kit are good , the code is in the police station above a locker in the cellway
that first hologram of Elijah still gives me the willies though for some reason
Every DLC plays to a different play-style.
The Divide is challenging but forgiving. There’s tough enemies but you can come and go as you please. Making it good for casual gamers.
Honest Hearts tests you in areas your character might be lacking (survival, endurance) but gives you plenty of resources to get through it if you’re willing to explore. Still making it fairly easy if you know how to craft; collect, and extract resources. Good for a challenge but not overbearing.
Old World Blues caters to more of a scientific build but also offers opportunities to advance through the story in your own kind of way. Which does take trial and error and getting things wrong before you can get them right. But it’s about as challenging as you want to make it. If you explore, it will get pretty rough. If you just play the main story, the difficulty will more or less scale with your character accordingly. But there’s enough cool loot out there to make the challenge of exploration worth it. Which is great for players who like to scavenge.
Dead Money, I think experienced players love it (myself) but inexperienced players will hate it. It makes you fall in line with how to play it out and really puts your skills/build to the test. It has its problems but it really is a great DLC if you’re patient and experienced.
Dead Money is tedious and that makes it annoying and I am pretty experienced when it comes to Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas. The worst thing about Lonesome Road is the finale.
You mean the best DLC
The ping of collar is like music to my ears
Can't even tell if this is sarcasm.
But then again weebs tend to be complete sociopaths...
If you think Dead Money is better than Lonesome Road you are just objectively wrong. Dead Money only really has atmosphere and story going for it, while LR has not only atmosphere, not only story, but gameplay too.
the best dlc in new vegas dont ever disrespect dead money again
Joshua graham, does it have Joshua graham crackers hmm?!
Old World Blues is better lmao.
@@FgyjtIngenieroEuropeoOld World Blues was boring, the only redeeming factor was the loot.
@@2wenty256 Dead Money is boring, the only redeeming factor is the gold bars.
@@FgyjtIngenieroEuropeo Correct.
Hey I was the person who wrote the 3rd review at the start of the video and seeing it in here really shocked me,
I was watching the video this morning and saw my review and I was really happy so it made my day.
anyway I am very glad to see my review in something. :)
That's dope! I hope you're managing the schizophrenia well!
@@YetiForHire The ghost people are my friends now :)
@@8bitbuckethead939have you made peace?
Is it a bad dlc? No
Should it at least lube you up instead of going in raw? Yes
It's a good dlc. People who hate it like easy linear gameplay.
They took my stuff at the beginning of the game. I don't like people taking my stuff. So I figured out how to steal every single thing in this game incuding Elijah's weapon his clothes and all the gold. People shouldn't take my stuff. 👿
Dead Money is good - it expanded what the Fallout franchise can do and showed that it can also be a horror game. Dead Money is basically a whole different game. Had it been released on PS2 back in the day as a standalone title it would have been a beloved game. The people who don’t like it just wanted a different experience. Nothing wrong with Dead Money.
pro-tip for playing Dead Money:
Step 1.) Get your strength to at least 6 and your Unarmed skill up to 100
Step 2.) Go do Lonesome Road first
Step 3.) Fight Rawr (and survive) and loot his talon from his corpse. Don't do anything with it. Don't touch it. Don't look at it. Just have Rawr's talon in your inventory and leave it alone.
Step 4.) Be patient and wait until after you enter the Dead Money DLC
Step 5.) Very, very first workbench you happen across, craft "Fist of Rawr"
Step 6.) Enjoy one-slapping ghost people into a fine red mist ❤
Wait you can do that i thought all items got removed from your inventory
@@shadowmm1365 Quest items don't, I believe.
@@jovalleau didn't realise it was a quest item and I have played this game for years
@@shadowmm1365 Just an assumption on my part. I would never do Lonesome Road before Dead Money, haha!
@@jovalleau true dat I really feel like lonesome road is supposed to be last it really feels like from a gameplay and lore perspective that it's the last leg of your journey
my first thought when i saw those security guard helmets was cobra commander as well
Great minds think alike
I wasn't aware that many people consider this to be worst. I though it was quite immersive and it has good atmosphere. Bleeping gets a bit annoying though. Honest Hearts is easily the worst one because it doesn't have any content and it is over very quickly.
Seriously. Shoot Daniel, grab the map and leave. How was Honest Hearts a DLC they actually charged people for? LMFAO!
True honest hearts is boring compared to the other dlc's but thankfully it's lore, writing and characters carry it
@@vitriolicAmaranth unironically what I did the first time. Accidentally killed Follows Chalk so the rest hated me
@@baiomarlaye3165 Probably like my third playthrough I shot Daniel just to see what would happen. Now whenever I see someone complaining about HH being too small/too short when it's on-par with 2/3 of the other DLC I just assume that's what happened (even though I know it's more likely they just didn't do any side content since it isn't linear like LR, doesn't give a strong feeling of FOMO like DM and doesn't let you come back and explore (and genuinely isn't as content-dense) like OWB).
I liked HH enough (especially after my second playthrough) to work at ZNP in real life. Huge mistake, worst job and worst national park I've ever been to. It's actually a nicer place in the game about a post apocalyptic hellscape than it is in real life! The funniest part of that to me is that my roommate there was playing NV every night, and going through HH while we were working there.
I trapped Elijah for the first time in 12 years a couple days ago, it was WONDERFUL to hear him go through the stages of grief all in one go over the radio afterwards
Best dlc to farm money, even if you dont take all gold
Get banned from the casino and get the vip status giving you Sierra Madre chips every week and use the vendor to get repair kits and your golden let alone all the loot and gold bars
And if you take all the gold bars........... Forget about it 😭😭😭
Haha yep! Unlimited Stim Packs too!
It ain’t much but it’s honest work
Love to see how I’m not the only one still loving this game to this day. I’ll always come back to Ol’ reliable after a while. War never changes.
The dlc ending lines would almost be something that would likely play at the end of a great film.
saying dead money is the most mid is insane when honest hearts exists
Joshua Graham and Randall Clarke were somehow good enough to make people forget how shit just about every other aspect of that DLC is
@@crptpyr that DLC needs graham bad
@@molnet999This DLC doesn’t even have a redeeming quality besides the 37 gold bars and the gauss rifle
@@agoodguy2230 do you know what "mid" means mf?
@@molnet999 Yes, Dead Money.
“The worst” I thought bro meant honest hearts, it’s repetitive and full of fetch quest. I loved dead money brought something new to the table the horror survival aspects and coming in with nothing at a high level forced to use what you can get no over powered weapons.
Well that depends as it is very easy to get Rawr's Fist into the DLS and pwn it up. No cheating or console commands needed. Just the way the game works.
most of the dlcs are just fetch quests, dead money included
@@Stubbies2003 lmao Rawrs fist is a quest item, if you have to exploit to play a game that’s your problem.
Three things I love about Honest Hearts - 1. the mega OP .45 SMG, which is nearly game breaking for high level gun builds 2. Original setting - Zion isn't a bombed out shithole like every other location in Fallout and 3. Joshua Graham is such a badass character to hang out with.
The Ghost People suit is in Old World Blues in the basement of a blown up lab!
Song at 2:20 Is "When my blue moon turns to gold again, by Marijohn Wilkin
1:40 hitting you with the galaxy gas
😂
My only issue with it is how long and repetitive it is. It just gets boring after hours of running in circles around environments that all look alike.
I just always saved it till last cuz it's scary and I'm always really high level when I go in there so the enemies are super strong unless I'm doing a melee for energy build
Enemies don't level up with you
Boo 👻
Difficulty 100/10
Story and lore 100/10
I always made sure to have 100 sneak and trap him inside of the vault or use Elijah's head and carry the gold indide of that.😂
I'm usually stoned as shit when I play fnv so I avoid this dlc cause it gives me paranoia
being stoned while playing fallout NV has to be the upgraded version of wild wasteland
I was on shrooms when I played and I got stuck in the cloud because I was distracted by all the interesting geometric patterns I saw.
I was playing with console command infinite carryweight, so i didn't have to get rid of the gold... I kind of wish I wasn't, just for that moment where you have to let it all go. What a beautiful story, for a fantastic dlc, tied with Lonesome Road for my favorite.
I first went into Dead Money with a questionable build on Hardcore mode. It was the greatest survival horror/stealth experience I’ve ever had. After a drug-free life prior to the Madre I was forced into the throes of addiction in order to survive the opening ceremony. Hiding, getting lost, being overjoyed to see a filthy mattress next to a hot plate, saving the characters only to be forced to confront the consequences of my previous actions, leaving behind the gold bars because I already had a fortune in chips, one of the best Fallout experiences I’ve ever had. But I get that not everyone enjoying a vaping The Cloud 24/7 while being harassed by holograms.
I Left my Heart in the Sierra Madre 💘
"it's Letting Go" *proceeds to loot the whole vault and all gold bars*
I love the soft reset it gives you; taking everything you had away, and forcing you to be vigilant, and resourceful.
The only people who complain are those who min/maxed their characters, and are now stuck because they dont have what they built their characters around.
So your BEST arguement is to build your character for this one single dlc? Wow.......
@@themanwithnoname1839you can get by with any build unless youre disabled irl.
@@themanwithnoname1839 what would that build even look like tho xD? Melee and Explosives?
16:30 gang you did it wrong, you can’t take all, but you gotta trade all your loot for a few bars I was able to leave wit 6 (along wit the Gauss Rifle🔥 and Robe from Eli’s body), but it’s gonna vary based on weight/END; drink a bottle (gives more weight)…RUN!!
Dead Money was my first DLC and I LOVED it. The switch up caught me off guard.
The real treasure of the Sierra Madre is the stimpaks. Get all the chips you can - 2k for the snowglobe, and the rest elsewhere, and collect as much pre-war money as you can. Trade all that for chips too. Go play blackjack. Win until you're banned from the Sierra Madre. (+10k chips) Buy unlimited simpaks from the vending machines with the chips. Never struggle with healing ever again.
I also personally have more .357 ammo than I know what to do with by the end, so you'll possibly have no shortage of ammo, either. Walk out with the gold too, and then the hardest part of the game is slow-walking to gun runners to liquidate all that gold.
They’re insane for making this the first DLC they launched. That takes some balls. I approve
I love when i can't see anything and have to find radio in 5 seconds before my head explode
Sierra Madre was very difficult, but that doesn’t make it bad
Unless you prefer easy DLCs.
This reminds me of the case that also inspired the movie "30 seconds or less" where in real life a group of people strapped a homemade bomb on a pizza delivery drivers neck and gave him a cane-gun hybrid to rob a bank. later on in the news the device goes off...
I’m a simple man. I see Steve Buscemi, I like the video.
how do i feed dog, he keeps blabbering "no cant help, need food, voices stop, voices too loud"
Now reload a save and save the gold by locking Elijah in the vault
I hated the dlc at first when i played it over a decade ago, but now, having replayed the game, I actually appreciate the feeling of helplessness and eerie atmosphere. Other dlc are too easy because you have all of your resources with you. I know the theme is to let go, but I wish we could legitimately go back and explore without console commands.
Lonesome road > dead money > old world blues > honest hearts.
Though i need to replay LR and DM. Owb and hh are fully fetch quests. Hh in the same nature as base game. Owb in a nice tech dome. But lr and dm are in great settings
>Kirkland Signature brand Dark Souls ranks higher than OWB
You're either high or trolling.
@@snarkymoosesshack8793 I'm currently replaying owb. It is fun. But it's been a long time since I replayed lr and dm. Dire settings are more interesting to me than the silly owb, or the otherwise pleasant hh
Got a great apartment in old world blues and talking clothes. Ok the toaster is not gonna make you toast. Old money I got everything not nailed down. But I wish I could haven't the lunch boxes in honest hearts. Wanted the chinese lunch boxes in Achorage Alaska fallout 3, too. I guess I like lunch boxes. 🤣 I think you should be able to put a lunch box down and store stuff in it. Although it is pretty funny to fill your room with bottle cap mines . . .and mini nukes. Decor is important 🤪🤪🤪
If you hide around the barrier you can walk past Elijah and then lock him in the vault, and keep all the gold. No stealth boy needed.
I honestly kinda loved this being high level going in and still getting my shit rocked. Kinda freaky and you have to be resourceful, I think people hate on Dead Money because it’s a harder DLC.
It’s easy as fuck wdym
@@Thedog-1-not everyone sees it that way
@@jeambeam3173 I don’t see it I did it. Easy but tedious
It’s not a harder DLC it’s an annoying DLC
ignoring the point of the dlc
with a pup boy you can just sneak around father elijah as he walks towards the vault and make an escape with all the gold
I will not stand for this Dead Money slander.
I don't know which mod it is but, it added christine's constant constant banging noise inside the autodoc while the circular saws keeps buzzing.
I don't know why it's not in the base game because that sht scary af and it made the time inside the hospital more creepy.
I came here just to say “Objectively False”
Obsidian: The theme of Dead Money is letting go...
Me: tcl
it's not that it's hard.. for me, _the_ main thing is that you can't leave until you finish it
that's all
cool video, by the way _!_
i mean it wouldnt make sense story wise if you could leave it at any time.
of course. also, you know what I mean.@@manyseas1219
My biggest issue is the unkillable speakers, why, everything else can be overcome through not being stupid, but those just require trial and error luck finding the blind spots
It’s a great DLC, once. I won’t even bother to redownload it it’s such a hassle and a slog. It’s not stressful or difficult. Or scary. Just too long. And not having access to your gear makes it less fun. The other new Vegas dlc however? Infinitely replayable.
Big Mountain is my favorite. I find the think tank is really compelling and fascinating. I’m a bigger fan of scifi than i am of heists.
Plus it’s a linear story which i think is a disservice to an open world survival game. If you wanna kill Joshua Graham first thing in honest hearts you can. Which feels in spirit with the rest of the game (allowing you to wipe out every faction besides yesman). If you felt like it you could run straight to the legion and kill caesar.
You’re telling me that with 100 explosives, 100 science, and 100 lockpicking i wouldn’t IMMEDIATELY be able to take the collar off?
boring ahh player
I personally really liked Dead Money dispite its flaws. The atmosphere and the horror/mystery lore alone really made me appreciate it a lot. Plus I did the DLC when I was lv.50 and funny enough if you're overleveled, like myself, it becomes even harder because Ghost People are literal tanks. Dead Money and Old World Blues are definitely my favourite DLCs.
Pros: Good story, good atmosphere,
Cons: Alarms, Speakers, Isn't Old World Blues
You know lonesome Road is the best according to everything
@@AbdEl-Rahman555 the tunnelers made it worse than owb for me
OWB is probably my favorite just because of all the goodies you can get there. Namely Christine's CoS sniper rifle. Beastly.
@@Meme.calculator Riot shotgun with And Stay Back plus Shotgun Surgeon perks makes short work of those clowns. Just don't piss of an entire clan of them at the same moment and get surrounded.
dead money not being old world blues is a pro
The security hologram is DEFINITELY not a Destiny 2 player.
Dam this is the bad DLC? It’s the only one I played for NV….
theyre all good tbh
@@ashblue777 true no cap 💯 busting truly rizzing 10,000 NCR fanum tax
@@ashblue777 wait I also did the one you go to Colorado or something I believe. I liked that one more
@@LispyJesusutah, that’s honest hearts
The only bad DLC was Lonesome Road
10:13 I'm not sure if you edited it out or not but usually music is supposed to play when you start the gala event, which would've made the experience much better for you
I have music disabled
The "worst" NV DLC ??? This is one of my most cherished DLCs in any video game ever
That's actually a really sick shot at 3:20. I had to go open up FNV and recreate that image with my character!
Blud is litiwilly the goat
First time playing through DM was hell. Once I learned the ins and outs of it, it became way more bearable, even fun. It's still a drag though, because you're forced to use the DLCs equipment instead of your normal stuff.
Ghouls in Paris 🤣
I spent like 50 percent of this DLC with atleast one broken leg. 48 percent was spent with below 100 hp. And that 2 percent is when I was in the Madre, with minimal bear traps and such.
Yes, very S tier 💪
I can't wait till season 2 of the show, man. I hope they acknowledge the dlc events, amongst other things, new vegas related. Like a character saying " you'll have more luck finding the Sierra madre"
hated every second
Worst? Are you kidding me? It's one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Love you Buster, keep it up👑👑
It’s not a “bad” DLC. It’s just really hard if you’re unprepared. I went in on my third play-through of Dead Money with maxed unarmed, melee, stealth and explosives. I was able to easily get through the whole thing unseen, especially after getting the stealth suit. I was also able to smuggle all the gold bars out after leaving behind everything I didn’t want later.