Big MT houses many different weapons to help you through. I’d say that the content might be easier for a character with a different build, but when the game spawns roboscorpions every time a major quest is completed, supplies become limited quickly. It got to be frustrating at points, especially given that I didn’t have access to more than the single vendor in Big MT and my survival skill was bare minimum. I found myself scrounging for stimpaks at every turn and quick traveling back to my base to have appointments with my autodoc often. There’s no shortness of content either, and clearing everything in the DLC will likely take between 6-8 hours.ĭespite the amount of humor in this DLC, be warned: the difficulty for Old World Blues is much higher than the original game or Honest Hearts.
The characters are great, with The Sink (the Courier’s home base) filled with tons of unique personalities and quests that are full of guffaws. The rest of the game follows suit with its quirkiness, and it’s obvious that the developers were going for a B-movie vibe. You’re trapped here by “doctors” – floating brains with monitors attached to them – who want you to defeat Doctor Mobius, who’s antagonizing the area and, unsurprisingly, has your brain. The overall premise is a silly one: you are taken to the world of Big MT (pronounced “Big Empty” or “Big Mountain” depending on who you ask), and you’re subsequently stripped of your brain, your spine, and your heart. Much like several episodes of the television show Futurama, Old World Blues manages to be simultaneously hilarious and somber.
I should be clear that Old World Blues is not a particularly serious piece of downloadable content, despite the above paragraph.
Beyond its ability to tug at my heartstrings, Old World Blues has lots to love – but don’t expect everything to come easily. I didn’t care what happened to the Sierra Madre in Dead Money or the Sorrows in Honest Hearts, but Gabe – Gabe was the one who really got me. Obsidian has done something fantastic here: in a game where I couldn’t care less about loyalty, morality, or what my character did, they gave me a piece of downloadable content that made me have an emotional response. This is going to sound bold, but Old World Blues is one of the best pieces of downloadable content that I have ever played.