This DLC is tied with Lonesome Road as my favorite New Vegas DLC, if only because of Joshua Graham.
Honest Hearts is the second DLC for Fallout New Vegas but is often suggested as the first you should complete when replaying the game. It is more open-world than its predecessor Dead Money and also a much gentler difficulty curve. The stories for each DLC being ultimately non-linear up to Lonesome Road also lend well to this route. So shortly after arriving at New Vegas proper I decided to head to the start of this DLC as an in-game excuse to nab some caps before heading into Vegas to find that rat bastard who shot me. What I found was a mini-open world with plentiful resources and a few very intriguing characters - though I wish I had gotten a few more.
The Good
-Zion itself is beautiful, the art direction and music fit perfectly with the mood of a tucked away part of heaven, incredibly distinct from the Mojave.
-The main characters of Joshua Graham, Daniel and of course the posthumous "Father in the Caves" are enthralling. Legit choked up several times reading the survivalist's notes + Graham has some excellent lines.
-The POIs are mostly quite good. Old ranger stations, supply drops, soul-shatteringly sad schoolbus remains...
-More melee focused White Leg enemies are a good differentiator from typical raider or Legion bad guys in the Mojave. VATS is actually tough to use on them from point blank range.
The Bad
-The main middle quests of "helping" the Sorrows and Dead Horses are pretty thin excuses to just wander around. There's only one kinda interesting quest in the middle with the Fiery YaoGui. The rest are too straightforward.
-The "Happy Trails" group is a thin plot device to get you to the start of the DLC but then get a whole chunk of the ending slide? Who honestly cares
The Meh
-Sadly the graphics are showing their age here. The blockiness of a lot of the textures does not flow well between the rock, dirt and plant life. That's just the time the game was made + the Bethesda engine sadly.
-The ending two quests are halfway interesting but need a bit more meat on their bones. Either you have enough Speech to have a sorta-peaceable ending or you just kill everyone and deal with the fallout. The base NV has MANY ways around your problems besides a speech check or gun - sadly not the case here.
-Didn't really care for any of the new guns either.
The Hmmmm
-The Flee Zion ending seemed a bit underbaked compared to the White Legs assault
Honest Hearts doesn't present a huge shakeup to the New Vegas formula but a combination of a more verdant wilderness + some excellent characters and the somber tale of the Survivalist that you piece together really make an excellent DLC that is quite a bit more than the sum of its parts. Ultimately being forced to choose whether to flee from danger or to face it head on, but ultimately realizing that will fundamentally change you... feels very apropos for the series.
Final Grade: B+
The Good
-Zion itself is beautiful, the art direction and music fit perfectly with the mood of a tucked away part of heaven, incredibly distinct from the Mojave.
-The main characters of Joshua Graham, Daniel and of course the posthumous "Father in the Caves" are enthralling. Legit choked up several times reading the survivalist's notes + Graham has some excellent lines.
-The POIs are mostly quite good. Old ranger stations, supply drops, soul-shatteringly sad schoolbus remains...
-More melee focused White Leg enemies are a good differentiator from typical raider or Legion bad guys in the Mojave. VATS is actually tough to use on them from point blank range.
The Bad
-The main middle quests of "helping" the Sorrows and Dead Horses are pretty thin excuses to just wander around. There's only one kinda interesting quest in the middle with the Fiery YaoGui. The rest are too straightforward.
-The "Happy Trails" group is a thin plot device to get you to the start of the DLC but then get a whole chunk of the ending slide? Who honestly cares
The Meh
-Sadly the graphics are showing their age here. The blockiness of a lot of the textures does not flow well between the rock, dirt and plant life. That's just the time the game was made + the Bethesda engine sadly.
-The ending two quests are halfway interesting but need a bit more meat on their bones. Either you have enough Speech to have a sorta-peaceable ending or you just kill everyone and deal with the fallout. The base NV has MANY ways around your problems besides a speech check or gun - sadly not the case here.
-Didn't really care for any of the new guns either.
The Hmmmm
-The Flee Zion ending seemed a bit underbaked compared to the White Legs assault
Honest Hearts doesn't present a huge shakeup to the New Vegas formula but a combination of a more verdant wilderness + some excellent characters and the somber tale of the Survivalist that you piece together really make an excellent DLC that is quite a bit more than the sum of its parts. Ultimately being forced to choose whether to flee from danger or to face it head on, but ultimately realizing that will fundamentally change you... feels very apropos for the series.
Final Grade: B+
El primer DLC que me paso del New Vegas. Y... está ok. Cumple pero no sorprende. Me lo he pasado bien jugándolo, pero creo que es algo olvidable y simple.
joshua graham 😍😍🤯🤯🔥🔥
I hate the way you hyped this fuckface and he is just religious and violent
While Zion Canyon is one of the best looking environments in New Vegas it’s really dull to explore. Hope you like discovering broken bridges and camp grounds over and over. What saves it is Joshua Graham being one of the best characters in the game and it’s still fun to playthrough because New Vegas is incredible. Still I could see myself skipping this one in the future.
It’s a shame this DLC is so short, really wish I could bring Follows-Chalk back with me.
I was surprised how short this DLC is and kinda disappointed. I liked Joshua Graham a lot and how both endings have their ups and downs but this DLC could’ve benefited from atleast three more hours of content and some mission variety. All in all, it’s pretty decent and has its moments but still is pretty weak compared to the main game and doesn’t offer that much interesting content like I was hoping it would do.
While a little too short and simple for what it was trying to achieve, this was a good dlc, Joshua Graham is a fantastic character that I wish I got to see more of
Also being able to get his and Daniel’s outfits at the end of the dlc is a nice touch, I love those outfits
Also being able to get his and Daniel’s outfits at the end of the dlc is a nice touch, I love those outfits
Joshua Graham.
My least favourite of New Vegas' DLCs. Joshua Graham is a really cool character but he's the only thing that really stands out. The rest is just standard fallout exploration.
Besides praying really really hard that Barry B. Benson doesn't show up this is probably the best DLC so far. Joshua Graham is one of the most complex personalities I've seen in a game and it's not often you see something reference religions, which are VERY touchy subjects.
I want to love Honest Hearts but I just can't
I know that Joshua is a popular character but to me he's just severely underdeveloped and the level design itself isn't fun my experience in general was just really mediocre maybe even bad.
I know that Joshua is a popular character but to me he's just severely underdeveloped and the level design itself isn't fun my experience in general was just really mediocre maybe even bad.
Misiones simplonas y aburridas en un mapa donde es tedioso moverse, en el peor sentido, junto a una historia bastante lineal y personajes olvidables.
Lo único bueno aparte de las armaduras son el actor de voz de Joshua y la historia de Randall Clark
Lo único bueno aparte de las armaduras son el actor de voz de Joshua y la historia de Randall Clark
Joshua carries this DLC hard
I really love the Zion National Park world space, the new items and I really enjoy certain parts of the narrative like Joshua Graham and The Survivalist story
Other than that, the DLC is definitely too short and is just a whole lot of fetch quests. I really wish there was more dialogue and interaction between tribes and other characters.
It's still pretty enjoyable to play every time I replay through New Vegas.
Other than that, the DLC is definitely too short and is just a whole lot of fetch quests. I really wish there was more dialogue and interaction between tribes and other characters.
It's still pretty enjoyable to play every time I replay through New Vegas.
Joshua graham my beloved
been manically going through new vegas again with a fine-toothed comb begging it to Just Miss One Time so I can get it out of my system and this dlc was thankfully/unfortunately the first part of my playthrough where I could definitively step back and say "ok this sucks". Josh I get what you're going for here with the caesar backstory parallels but i don't think having more memory on the ps3 would have made this read any less racist
Boa dlc, bem curtinha, mas com uma historia maneira. Consegui umas armas poderosas que não tinha ainda.
why no feet
Main memory of this dlc was trying to play it but the game constantly going into the slow motion cinematic shot because every enemy just has no armor and dies to a few hollow points.
"I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other."
Words cannot possibly express how heavily Joshua Graham carries this DLC, Honest Hearts contains a lot of generic kill and fetch quests, and it only really stands out due to the writing of Joshua Graham as well as his similar yet conflicting ideology with Daniel.
Really does feel like they wrote the character of Joshua Graham and hamfisted a handful of missions to facilitate it. But it is definitely worth experiencing, even if just for the man himself.
Words cannot possibly express how heavily Joshua Graham carries this DLC, Honest Hearts contains a lot of generic kill and fetch quests, and it only really stands out due to the writing of Joshua Graham as well as his similar yet conflicting ideology with Daniel.
Really does feel like they wrote the character of Joshua Graham and hamfisted a handful of missions to facilitate it. But it is definitely worth experiencing, even if just for the man himself.
Iswtg someone wrote Joshua and then just half-assed the rest of the story and setting so they'd have somewhere to put him lmao.