Lonesome Road is definitely the headiest of the dlc's. Really wants to force you to think about everything that goes on in this game. Think about what Ulysses has done, what you The player has done, and what you the character has done. I think Ulysses pov kind of goes over my head sometimes, dampens what I get out of it. I also think forcing a backstory to your character is kind of weird, but kind of cool; I think i needed more dialogue choices to really set in how I react to this information.
This DLC also shows me how silly speech checks are in Fallout, cause, even if this is New Vegas, if you have the skill points; you just instantly convince people. Sometimes I feel like the dialogue chain doesn't really represent you changing their minds, its just "Oh, okay!" and they do a 180. Ulysses has like 2 or 3 dialogue checks from my little experience. Sure, its a level 90 check, but I feel like that guy is too stuck in his convictions that 1 good sentence isn't gonna budge him. Maybe I should have picked the dialogue for finding all his tapes, maybe that would have felt better?
Lonesome Road is great location wise though; at least when you have the vistas to look at. That first distorted view over the destruction wrought over this land is fantastic. The winds stronger than any other place whipping around like radiation mutated nature itself. The second area being these broken highways, maybe the truest symbol of a civilization lost; more so than any amount of buildings to me. You know by these highways that this once impossibly vast nation was decimated and destroyed; gone forever.
I think there is beauty in concrete, in the structures we humans have made that stamps out the beauty of nature. These are colossal feats that we humans have come together to show, to prove something. I went to a real major city for my first time a couple months ago. I went to Chicago from Terre Haute; and the awe I had when I saw those impossibly huge highways, the way they twist and turn to connect to each other, to allow thousands of people to go to and fro. The towers that reached to the heavens, what would it like to be that high? The water of Lake Michigan going so fucking far that I can't see the other side. I went again like 2 weeks ago and still found myself enamored. We drove deeper inside the city than along the coast this time. More closer to the towers, and the other buildings. I saw a shopping complex that had an inside garage; something else im floored by just like highways. I saw an actual indoor parking that had the fucking circle slopes, those things are so cool. I thought it would be a life changing experience to go to higher floors of the towers, look out the window, and just puke from the height. On the way in to Chicago, there is a highway that is surrounded by walls, vines and greenery tries to reclaim this concrete beauty. Back home, in Terre Haute, there is a lot of land with a square ass brick building surrounded by a concrete parking lot. The ground beneath the building is slightly elevated, and the parking lot is filled with cracks that no one cares to fix. Natures cracks this stone to try and share its space with it, I think its one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
So yeah, the beauty of this DLC is just the destruction of all of it. Nature is warped and perverted; the structures man had built destroyed and incomplete; all because of the hate and destruction we could not seem to overcome.
This DLC also shows me how silly speech checks are in Fallout, cause, even if this is New Vegas, if you have the skill points; you just instantly convince people. Sometimes I feel like the dialogue chain doesn't really represent you changing their minds, its just "Oh, okay!" and they do a 180. Ulysses has like 2 or 3 dialogue checks from my little experience. Sure, its a level 90 check, but I feel like that guy is too stuck in his convictions that 1 good sentence isn't gonna budge him. Maybe I should have picked the dialogue for finding all his tapes, maybe that would have felt better?
Lonesome Road is great location wise though; at least when you have the vistas to look at. That first distorted view over the destruction wrought over this land is fantastic. The winds stronger than any other place whipping around like radiation mutated nature itself. The second area being these broken highways, maybe the truest symbol of a civilization lost; more so than any amount of buildings to me. You know by these highways that this once impossibly vast nation was decimated and destroyed; gone forever.
I think there is beauty in concrete, in the structures we humans have made that stamps out the beauty of nature. These are colossal feats that we humans have come together to show, to prove something. I went to a real major city for my first time a couple months ago. I went to Chicago from Terre Haute; and the awe I had when I saw those impossibly huge highways, the way they twist and turn to connect to each other, to allow thousands of people to go to and fro. The towers that reached to the heavens, what would it like to be that high? The water of Lake Michigan going so fucking far that I can't see the other side. I went again like 2 weeks ago and still found myself enamored. We drove deeper inside the city than along the coast this time. More closer to the towers, and the other buildings. I saw a shopping complex that had an inside garage; something else im floored by just like highways. I saw an actual indoor parking that had the fucking circle slopes, those things are so cool. I thought it would be a life changing experience to go to higher floors of the towers, look out the window, and just puke from the height. On the way in to Chicago, there is a highway that is surrounded by walls, vines and greenery tries to reclaim this concrete beauty. Back home, in Terre Haute, there is a lot of land with a square ass brick building surrounded by a concrete parking lot. The ground beneath the building is slightly elevated, and the parking lot is filled with cracks that no one cares to fix. Natures cracks this stone to try and share its space with it, I think its one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
So yeah, the beauty of this DLC is just the destruction of all of it. Nature is warped and perverted; the structures man had built destroyed and incomplete; all because of the hate and destruction we could not seem to overcome.
SlimeLord
7 months ago