The first quest is fun, the Tesla Cannon is awesome, and it lets you keep playing the game indefinitely, but like, Broken Steel is barely a suitable ending to the game's story. It's a mega-rushed final scrap between the Enclave and the Brotherhood, so rushed that it's only three missions long and when the third mission comes along, the Brotherhood's like "oh yeah this is the final battle btw, I know we literally just got that Tesla Coil, but I guess we're ready to whoop the Enclave's asses now".
Honestly, I was starting to feel bad for the Enclave after three straight missions of kicking their ass. They aren't even a threat anymore, just a bunch of guys running away from you with their tails between their legs. They're in disarray and they've been broken down into splinter cells, so like, it honestly feels like you and the Brotherhood are just bullying the Enclave in this DLC. Sure, the Enclave may shoot at you on sight, but it's understandable, they're like a threatened, frightened animal biting you on impulse. Kinda wanted to throw the Enclave a bone at the end of it all, y'know? I know they're a bunch of genocidal elitist pricks, but they're also the genocidal elitist underdogs in Broken Steel, so it's really cute how the game likes to think they're a pressing threat when, in reality, the Brotherhood already has all the advantages. "Broken Steel" my ass, the only thing they lost was their already-overpowered patriot robot.
(I'm aware you can blow up the Brotherhood's Citadel at the end, but like, what good is that gonna do for the maybe six people still left in the Enclave by the end of the game? Not like it changes anything, it's just another randomly evil choice for the sake of it.)
Other than that, there is nothing to talk about with Broken Steel beyond the fact that its' title is hilariously mismatched with the Brotherhood-steamroll narrative. Its three missions are repetitive shlock and new characters are carelessly introduced and discarded (like these random Ghoul survivors at Old Olney or Stiggs, a guy indebted to the Enclave that could have been cool but instead has no screentime to speak of). But it does have the Tesla Cannon, so. 2.5 / 5.
Honestly, I was starting to feel bad for the Enclave after three straight missions of kicking their ass. They aren't even a threat anymore, just a bunch of guys running away from you with their tails between their legs. They're in disarray and they've been broken down into splinter cells, so like, it honestly feels like you and the Brotherhood are just bullying the Enclave in this DLC. Sure, the Enclave may shoot at you on sight, but it's understandable, they're like a threatened, frightened animal biting you on impulse. Kinda wanted to throw the Enclave a bone at the end of it all, y'know? I know they're a bunch of genocidal elitist pricks, but they're also the genocidal elitist underdogs in Broken Steel, so it's really cute how the game likes to think they're a pressing threat when, in reality, the Brotherhood already has all the advantages. "Broken Steel" my ass, the only thing they lost was their already-overpowered patriot robot.
(I'm aware you can blow up the Brotherhood's Citadel at the end, but like, what good is that gonna do for the maybe six people still left in the Enclave by the end of the game? Not like it changes anything, it's just another randomly evil choice for the sake of it.)
Other than that, there is nothing to talk about with Broken Steel beyond the fact that its' title is hilariously mismatched with the Brotherhood-steamroll narrative. Its three missions are repetitive shlock and new characters are carelessly introduced and discarded (like these random Ghoul survivors at Old Olney or Stiggs, a guy indebted to the Enclave that could have been cool but instead has no screentime to speak of). But it does have the Tesla Cannon, so. 2.5 / 5.