Dead Money

(Ignore the Tv show)

Before Lonesome Road sucker punched countless Couriers with a mostly linear gauntlet of tanky af enemies, one human NPC that was an S-Tier yapper, topped off with three brutal bonus dungeons that were the in-game equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot(Courier's Mile, Long 15, Dry Wells) we got loaded on that Dead Money. And as I'm sure you all remember, our crew includes a megalomaniac you can only truly side with if you were enough of a douche to the NCR, a cybernetically modified mute assassin whose life was ruined by that same megalomaniac, a Nightkin that'll end up dead or as one personality, and The King Of Swing himself who ruined an innocent man's life. Who, if allowed to escape, will go on to ruin more lives in the pursuit of robbing more casinos blind. Yeah, as far as token evil teammates in the Fallout series go, Dean's up there with Strong and Gage. Hell, in his ending slide, he even has a classic ignored epiphany.

Though, at the same time, he does chip in very well if you get on his good side(the most notable thing being the disabling of the speakers during the final confrontation with Elijah). And he has been trapped in this gilded hellhole for over 200 years. I don't know, is it a bad thing for him to roam the wastes a free man? When the holidays are through, I'd like to hear what y'all would do with Dean.

Like, seriously, just collect a bunch of chips, use the knife spear(because somehow, that’s the most effective weapon against the ghost people), look up how to get all the gold bars, and dodge the traps. I did three out of the four right(and goddamn, I gotta work on the fourth thing if I want to play games like Amnesia: The Bunker and Stay Out Of The House). A low point for me was that the DLC’s snow globe didn’t spawn, so I can’t complete my collection. Eh, I can always headcanon my character returning to the Madre. And yeah, I can definitely see Bioshock’s influence on the DLC

So let me put things into context for y’all. I had the dumb idea of starting the Dead Money DLC first before I got the perks from the other DLCs. At first, things weren’t too hard. But then the game told me I needed to delete some saves(I saved frequently in Dead Money), and I mindlessly deleted the save where I was outside the Abandoned BOS bunker. But I was reckless in Dead Money, I kept running through bear traps and letting ghost people get up close to me. Now, I have to trigger the Gala Event, and if I remember correctly, that’s when you get swarmed by hordes of ghost people. And to make matters worse, I’m down to less than twenty Stimpaks, and I’ve yet to pull off the heist of the centuries(where there’s holograms, killer signals, and toxic clouds galore). This DLC truly is Nintendo Hard(if you don’t know, it’s a term for a game that’s intentionally unfair. Now, the unfairness ranges from “you’ll die if you’re reckless” to “this is a souls-like motherfucker”). And I don’t have the heart to restart after all I’ve achieved(of course, I could come back to it in a few years, but not have Dead Money, but still). Now, the only good thing about my situation is that I have that health regenerator implant. So, is there even a sliver of a chance that I can(after many deaths) survive dead money in this sorry state? Or should I just throw in the towel and put the damned DLC out of sight and out of mind?

One thing I noticed is that whenever I try to start a playthrough for FNV and decide to do an energy weapon build, Chet will just never have the recharger rifle, but whenever I do a sneak build, he always has the recharger rifle. is it because I'm taking the wild wasteland perk or is it smth else? also what are the best starting traits for sneak builds and gun builds and energy builds, and melee builds? (I don't have any of the DLC for FNV so I can't use any of the starting traits from DLC's like Lonesome Road and Old-World Blues and Dead Money) Also, i restarted my fallout 4 playthrough cuz i hadn't liked what i did with my previous save, but all the enemies are suddenly a lot harder than they were before even though im playing on the exact same difficulty and im nearly the same level as my first character. is it because i downloaded the DLC's? on my first character i didn't have any of the DLC's downloaded and I only got them a few weeks ago cuz my dad had them previously when he wasp laying fallout 4 so they had been shared to the xbox-one and i could download all the settlement and story DLC's like Automatron and Far Harbor and Nuka-World. Can anyone tell me why all these things keep happening?

Sorry for making this so long, thanks for taking the time for reading this if you did ^_^

And would you prefer he did or didn't?

Guys Well I found these Sierra Madre chips on a main game corpse yes and well I do have Dead Money installed but I haven’t played it yet and well I am not lying to you I did not plant these here, but well I am playing on PS3 and on Hard Mode with Hardcore on and I found this corpse is found in the radscorpion nest with the giant radscorpion, well maybe you can find it or maybe this is a random chance I do not know yes

The distance from nelson to canyon is more than 40 miles.

How???

Guys well it is true if you use the NCR Emergency radio you can take the troopers or rangers to DLC areas like here

Also well I am sorry Ranger Lady but you are probably going to die here in the sierra madre

What were your thoughts on the DLC as a whole?

Does this irritate anyone?

*Spoilers*

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Hear me out,but does anyone find it weird that the Fallout Prime series,which is supposed to by lore accurate,got a part of the lore incorrect.The subject of this rant is of how the Fallout show nullified a pre-established part of fallout lore,this change being in of how in the finale we are shown the groups that conspired to end the war with the bombs included Frederick Sinclair of the Sierra Madre as an Executive of BIG MT.Not only did they get the fact that Sinclair was a CLIENT of Big MT and not an Executive wrong,they also got the way he looked wrong too.Take a look...

(F:NV DM)

(Fallout [S1E8])

Anyone notice glaring contradictions in these two images? I noticed quite a few.First of all,Sinclair was not a round man,he was a slim man as shown in the mosaic.Second of all,he doesn't have any of his defining features.and finally,he wouldn't even be at this meeting,he would be presiding over the Sierra Madre construction(The casino in question is canon,because of House commenting on it).Sorry if this came off as an adrenaline-filled rant coming from someone who played way too much New Vegas,but it does beg the question of why they brought him into the series to Begin with,and of why they wouldn't have put in someone like Dr Klein(real name unknown) in in place of him.That was all

There were 21 prisoners taken by Elijah. We at least know that, since The Courier was Collar #21. Aside from the main crew, (Dog, God, Christine & Dean) are there any other known prisoners? As someone who’s tried to play Dead Money to 100% I don’t recall finding ANY corpses of prisoners past. Even though Elijah confirms that one team all died inside the sierra madre, you can’t find their corpses.

So I just beat Dead Money for the first time. As I was leaving the abandoned BOS bunker, I was delighted to see the Mojave for the first time in 10 or so hours. I stumbled towards nearby Camp Forlorn Hope, where I was even more delighted to see NPCs. I stumbled through the desert towards HELIOS One when I got ambushed by Legion assassins. I was so happy to finally have all my weapons back (and not just some shitty melee weapons and a weak revolver) that I spent like four minutes in my Pip-Boy deciding what I was gonna use to kill them. I fucking hated this DLC, the characters were definitely amazing but the map was kinda meh (though I loved the liminal space vibe it had) and I hated the collar mechanic. I’m glad to have finally escaped that shithole, never gonna do it ever fucking again on any playthrough. Fuck the Sierra Madre, fuck Dead Money.

Also, wiki says that City of The Dead plays in this DLC, but I never heard it. I did hear Mutant Massacre in the casino, but not COTD.

I usually do it like this

Dead Money: 25-30

Honest Hearts: 35

Old World Blues: 40

Lonesome Road: 45-50

I still have no idea how to get each ending

When I saw the trailer for the first time, I was hooked, the setting the place and the characters that appeared on screen for a short time "Oh man I wanna play this." years latter I brought fallout new Vegas, its game of the year edition and boy was I not ready to tackle the DLC. So I played the base game for quite some time and got some of the endings and got somewhat of a good understanding of the game, then I played the other DLCs like Honest Hearts, lonesome road, then I finally played dead money, I heard a lot of things about the DLC, "Its the best DLC in any fallout game ever!" "It sucked, the story sucked, the story sucked!" so I prepared myself for problems during my playthrough, the start/intro was interesting, it explained the Sierra Madre Casino and what it was, but the bombs fell yada yada yada, and it all went to hell, already this place went from promising to a hell scape. I know I'm skipping a lot here but I wanna place my thoughts down about this. the DLC was a 6.7/10, not too bad and not too sad, I like the police pistol that it brought with it and it was a beauty to fire and handle, with some critical perks and pistol perks It would be one fine handgun to wield in the wasteland. I also unlocked the 'Safety Deposit Box' and 'Cash out' achievements, quite simple to get really.

In Blood Money DLC I made so much prewar money that the game doesnt wven have a point anymore.I made about 45K witch is about 10 caps each so it is 450K.I just bought every weapon in GRA.Anyone have any intresting Ideas on were to spend them?

The courier who got away…….. with 37 gold bars