I think we all know the positives that are talked about, so I'll just say what I didn't like. The combat to me isn't fun or engaging. You just point and shoot for a few seconds. The main story is fine, but I think the writing really shines within the DLC.

Honest Hearts: Not much to say here. I liked it, Joshua and Daniel made for an interesting opposing ideological force.

Dead Money: This DLC is interesting. I hate exploring the area, but the Companions are incredibly written. Complex and differing personalities, and depending on how you intereact with one another changes how they help you in the end. The Fog, Radio, and Ghost People were interisting mechanics that did not work.

Old World Blues: A fun setting with fun characters. It's sci-fi gone wrong and it's beautiful.

The Lonesome Road: Old World Blues is the one I have often seen praised as the best DLC, for good reason, but Lonesome Road is by far my favorite. Ulysses is amazingly written and acted, the story of the DLC is great. Throughout the DLC and the base game we've heard of Ulysses and his exploits, now we meet him.

I have played this game for years and will continue to play it for years to come. Maybe my opinions will change, maybe I'll discover something new to experience. As we all know, the hardest part is letting go.

"Life Has A Way Of Punishing You For The Mistakes You Make."

The pinnacle of RPG having a great community of modders made this game accessible to so many people that experienced what a open world should be.

This game is the definition of a good FPS-RPG, you are free to play as you want. Being good or evil and support whatever faction of your choice, each having distinct ideology leading to the final battle where your path will forever affect the futur of the Mojave and each PNJ that you met.

Diplomacy, Dictatorship, Autocraty, Independence, Exiles none leads to the true endings because your own playthought is your true ending.

With each playthought you can have many ways to build your character, being a melee warrior, explosives fanatic, sniper, gunslinger with basic or laser weapon, or a pacifist resolving dispute with high intelligence. A charismatic playboy or a lucky wanderer.

What makes it special in my heart is the number AND quality of the sides quest.
NPCs are GREAT you have so many companions that will progress out of what you can imagine because of your interaction.
So many story describing each life and each take in this wasteland of a nation where humanity found a way to emerge.

So many peoples need help because humanity didn't learn from their mistake, as said, war never change.

The DLCs made it further is the symbolisms and is a huge part of the experience.

I've never seen a post-apocalyptic world so alive.

Giving this 5 stars because this game means way, way too much to me and I've played it a thousand times. I've never been enchanted so much by a game world and its characters quite like this game. It's occupied my psyche ever since I first loaded up my first adventure as Courier Six and it's stuck with me for years. I admit my glasses are fairly rosy at this game and I make no pretenses at objectivity but I have to say that this is the greatest game I ever played. Its setting is fascinating and unique. Its characters are charming, lovable, despicable, and everything in between. The dialogue is brilliant and engaging. Some conversations (including DLC) last 30 minutes of IRL time. The guns are awesome - one of the best vidya game arsenals of all time full of returning iconic favorites like the Bozar or the 5.56mm pistol, new and exciting uniques like the All-American or the Ratslayer (10/10 best gun and you can get it in the first hour or so of gameplay), and setting-appropriate cowboy weapons to eviscerate your way through a wild wasteland of colorful critters, jacked-up freaks, and ambitious factions grasping for control of the New Vegas Strip and that silly Dam that somehow still works. The DLC is also A M A Z I N G, adding new and unique locations to explore, a deep and invigorating mostly connected story, and more fascinating characters to meet, greet, and possibly delete. I love this game like it was my own child and I shill for it wherever I can because I'm a dumb fanboy blinded by the light of the ARCHIMEDES II orbital laser platform.

Quite possibly the most quintessential Western RPG of the 2010's (I don't care for Skyrim personally), Fallout New Vegas is an experience I come back to almost every year due to depth of its world and characters. Without spoiling anything, there's a lot more to this game than what the gameplay lets on, and compared to its modern brothers, Fallout's 3 and 4. No, I'm not mentioning the Antichrist right now. It is far more complex and morally grey. Your choices actually matter in New Vegas, and the consequences of those choices provide for an interesting narrative. Sure, the gameplay may not be perfect, but New Vegas is beyond that. This is a true Obsidian game, made by people who truly understand what the Fallout world is about. Not some two-bit monkeys trying to paint everything as black and white. New Vegas is a phenomenal game, and that is something that never changes.

I'm giving this five stars because I've been modding and patching it for almost a decade now so I can fill in most of the cracks this game has. Otherwise I'd probably knock off a star for the bugs and INCREDIBLY rough writing surrounding the Legion as well as some of the voice acting. But anyway, easily one of the best written games ever seen. The consistent theme of 'letting go' finds its way into all the companions, faction quests and DLC in a meaningful way. There's a great variety of weapons even if the combat is functional at best but what really makes this game stand out for me is the use of all your skills in dialogue meaning every character you make will have different solutions to most quests. I've sunk hundreds upon hundreds of hours into this game and I don't see that changing any time soon.

You know, I could drone on for hours about all the different things that make Fallout: New Vegas such an amazing, amazing game.

About the incredibly immersive world, the fantastic compagnions, the cool weapons, the absolutely awesome soundtrack and so. much. more.

But I wanna focus on two positives instead. Because they are, in my opinion, the most important and greatest triumphs that this game has to offer.

The First: I tried to find it, believe me, I did. But it's just not there. Fallout: New Vegas has no bad quests. Every single quest in this game, be it main quest or sidequests offers you its own distinct flair, small and engaging piece of story and world building and crafted with so many care and attention to detail in the department of writing that it's actually jaw-dropping. Every single one of the quests in this game is a work of art.... you just have to see it.

The second: This game has the very single best collection of DLCs I have ever played in my entire life.
Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Dead Money and Honest Hearts. They all offer different themes and their own unique take on how to expand and enhance the New Vegas Experience. They are all built to [near] perfection and every single one of these DLCs is better than your standard great full-price role-playing game. Yes, they are that good.

Fallout: New Vegas is a Miracle. The fact that Obsidian managed to pull something even close to it off after all the difficulties they had to go through amazes me to this day.

I applaud them and they have my utmost gratitude.

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more
One and 19 more
Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red
Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip
21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death
There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip