ViewtifulJoe posted... OWB > Dead Money > Lonesome Road > Honest Hearts
OWB is the game firing on all cylinders. The main glaring weakness is being made to watch a long cutscene at the start and end but other than that I'm really happy with it.
Dead Money is fun to revisit after a break from the game because you're never going to remember the whole thing after that long, you get to relive the struggle in parts. Then on subsequent playthroughs you can sprint through it. Holorifle is my favorite energy weapon in the game too so using it then keeping it is the real incentive. You can get a stupid amount of stimpaks from playing the casino and swapping the chips out too which always feels rewarding.
Lonesome Road beat Honest Hearts because you can turn right from Primm and go there immediately to get some good stuff early for a brand new playthrough if you're up for it. The game really treads on your roleplaying here and tells you who you are though. Blade of the BEST is available really early as well as the shoulder mountain machine gun and a bunch of stuff you can sell to the commissary terminals for a headstart on the game. The utility beats Honest Hearts.
Honest Hearts isn't bad in fact it's fine, it's kinda like Lonesome Road, it's just a new area with some quests that feel distant to your character. Nice looking place at night. I never find myself using the unique weapons, I take pretty much everything in the footlocker at the end then just carry it around with no real need for it. On the whole it's a nice break for a playthrough that's starting to become aimless though.
My issue with Old World Blues is that it's all too repetitive. There are a lot of places to explore, and yes most of them have a little bit of lore in it, but it ends up feeling like they're just there as a place to put a Sink holotape. And having to repeat the Stealth Suit and High School quests over and over with just minor changes is always a slog.