Rate: Worst Bethesda DLC ES and FO Franchise

[DirtyOldShoe]

This is a poll to determine the general consensus on Bethesda's worst DLC content. I would ask that you only vote if you have played the DLC as I know there are some members that like to have an opinion based on "research"

Due to limitations for polls I can only include one entry from each title.

 

[Mr Fish]

Wut... But... Mothership Zeta is way worse than Operation Anchorage.

And Dawnguard is 'faaaar' worse than Hearthfire. I mean, have you actually played it? Cause you, the player character, who has no knowledge of how to properly read an elder scroll and who hasn't prepared for it in any way shape or form reads not one, not two, but THREE fucking elder scrolls in a row and doesn't go blind or crazy. You know how certain lore matters more than other lore? Like the origin of a minor drug matters less than a civil war? Yeah? Well we're talking about ELDER SCROLLS here. The big thing. The big mystique that the very series is named after. That lore? They took a gigantic shit on it.

And I'd say Contraptions is worse than Nuka World. It is pretty much literally useless.

 

[CerberusGate]

I'd argue Horse Armor because it was among the first attempts in implementing useless (and rather over-priced) DLC that consumers have to pay for and pioneered the practice (correct me if I'm wrong).

Bloodmoon wasn't too bad, it was at least an open area unlike Tribunal (even if it was unbalanced at times) and Zeta was far worse than Anchorage. As for Nuka World, the Workshop DLCs are far worse than it (at least Nuka World has content, poor as it is).

 

[cordelionreaver]

Kinda of odd you didn't put Mothership Zeta on the poll.

I would say Horse Armor. It is pointless, you can't fight on horseback.

 

[DirtyOldShoe]

I can switch out the FO3 DLC, I thought they were all equally crap so I couldn't decide. I am disappointed that Horse Armor is winning, but I get that not many people have played what I consider worse, Nuka World.

Edit: Nevermind, Can't edit the poll.

 

[Irwin John Finster]

The Fallout 4 Season Pass has the lowest rating I can find of any AAA release on Steam. It is lower than No Man's Sky, Aliens Colonial Marines, and Duke Nukem Forever. It has a recent rating of 24% and an overall rating of 29% positive reviews on steam.

So I think it is safe to say that Fallout 4's DLC is the worst in the company's entire history and is a fitting end to an already terrible game with childish, idiotic writing that is thoroughly unenjoyable.

Fallout 4 is the worst, laziest game Bethesda has ever produced and its DLC has continued that horrible tradition, providing a fitting end to the official ruination of Fallout as a franchise. The base game itself is only rated about 10% higher than Duke Nukem Forever and Colonial Marines on steam in the "Recent" category.

With Nuka World, Fallout 4 went from "Another settlement needs our help" to "Another settlement needs to be raided." This game costs $110.

And if you think Horse Armor was worse, then keep in mind that there are three Workshop DLCs that were used to justify making the Season Pass $50. There's effectively three horse armor DLCs in the Season Pass, plus a fetch quest in Automatron. It's worse than horse armor.

 

[Deleted member 93956]

Well we're talking about ELDER SCROLLS here. The big thing. The big mystique that the very series is named after. That lore? They took a gigantic shit on it.

Elder Scrolls was just something cool to subtitle Arena.
They wanted something fantasy-y that sounded cool.

This is how Bethesda gets writing done.

Then, Morrowind writers either had to shoehorn the concept somewhere or they had this idea and made it canon.

 

[Mr Fish]

Doesn't matter 'when' they decided to make "Elder Scrolls" mean something, the point is that they 'did' and then they went back on their own lore and took a humongeous shit on it.

 

[Irwin John Finster]

and then they went back on their own lore and took a humongeous shit on it.

Are you talking about Elder Scrolls or Fallout?

Doesn't matter, they did it to both. I can't want for TES 6 - it's going to be the most dumbed down game ever made. It'll probably even play itself - no controller necessary, a new feature!

 

[Mr Fish]

Well, out of the Fallout 4 DLC's the one with the lowest score is Vault-Tec Workshop which lies at 33% positivity.

Are you talking about Elder Scrolls or Fallout?

Doesn't matter, they did it to both. I can't want for TES 6 - it's going to be the most dumbed down game ever made. It'll probably even play itself - no controller necessary, a new feature!

Elder Scrolls. The biggest shit on Fallout's lore as far as I can see is the debacle over power armours, ghouls being retconned, twice, and FEV magically appearing in a vault and at MIT.

And I quite frankly don't think any of them equate to what Dawnguard did. I don't even like Elder Scrolls and I think that this bit of lore fuckery is worse than anything done in Fallout. (individually, not combined.)

 

[Irwin John Finster]

Well, out of the Fallout 4 DLC's the one with the lowest score is Vault-Tec Workshop which lies at 33% positivity.

The ratings are probably going down chronologically according to their release, as Bethesda keeps releasing more and more garbage and people are realizing there is less hope for Bethesda releasing a DLC that "fixes" Fallout 4.

That's probably why Automatron is still rated higher than the other DLCs - it was the first so people still had some expectation of better DLC coming later. Now that it's clear Bethesda's Season Pass is a total scam, people are laying into Bethesda with the negative reviews on Vault-Tec Workshop and Nuka World.

 

[SarcasticGoodGuy]

I consider MZ non canon.
Never played Anchorage. Based on 'research' I can positively say it's shit.
Nuka World had some good in it- the new settlement objects are far better than both Contraptions, WW and the Vault DLC combined. I made a decent RR base with raider objects, most fun I've had with F4 (then the crushing realization that my work is for nothing but unnamed assholes who eat my food and take my armor, which reminds me that the only reason I played over 10 hours is underdeveloped trash).
Bloodmoon I never played.
Hearthfire was what F4 settlement building should've been. Large spaces, only a few locations, with the option of having other people there.

Horse armor is just... just wow. I mean WW and contraptions are far worse but they weren't on here. I feel that for the RPG fans who liked or were indifferent about Oblivion that this was the alarm bell for things getting much worse.

 

[Hassknecht]

I added a few responses to the poll.
Personally, I can't really decide. Dawnguard took a huge dump on the actual Elder Scrolls, but in general I kinda liked it, it had fun moments.
Horse Armor is where everything went downhill, but Mothershit Zeta is just offensively terrible...

 

[Millim]

Eh... I would say MZ.

But I've not played all the DLC on that list yet.
Also Horse Armour was the start of the downfall.

Some of the DLC on that list isn't bad per say, just kinda bland (see operation Anchorage).

 

[Irwin John Finster]

Mothership Zeta was better than any Fallout 4 DLC for several reasons, among them are the fact that Fallout 4's dialogue is complete garbage by design so it can't even function as an illusion of an RPG, which at least Fallout 3 managed to do.

Yes, I know it is hard to give credit to Mothership Zeta, but it was better than Fallout 4. And that is saying a LOT.

Plus, at least the Zetans didn't make you their leader in the first 5 minutes.

 

[Millim]

Mothership Zeta was better than any Fallout 4 DLC for several reasons, among them are the fact that Fallout 4's dialogue is complete garbage by design so it can't even function as an illusion of an RPG, which at least Fallout 3 managed to do.

Yes, I know it is hard to give credit to Mothership Zeta, but it was better than Fallout 4. And that is saying a LOT.

I can see your point.
While the workshop dlcs were nothing but cosmetics, I did appreciate that there was at least a story to Automatron, a very thin story, but a story never the less.

Personally, I like the addition it made to the game, but it was overpriced.

 

[Irwin John Finster]

I can see your point.
While the workshop dlcs were nothing but cosmetics, I did appreciate that there was at least a story to Automatron, a very thin story, but a story never the less.

Unfortunately the Automatron "story" is a lazier version of The Superhuman Gambit from Fallout 3, so even that DLC is worse than Fallout 3 at least in my opinion.

Plus in true Fallout 4 fashion, the main character's only purpose is to transform into another Preston Gravy and give you "disable the robot" infinite procedurally generated quests.

 

[Big No]

Voted Horse Armor.

It's worthless in every way. I'd rather have Zeta, if only because the Alien Disintegrator is cool.

 

[RangerBoo]

Why is Dragonborn not on there? To me Dragonborn is worse then Hearthfire. Hearthfire is pretty inoffensive while Dragonborn is linear as fuck and is just a big "FUCK YOU!" to players who want choices and for a RPG to be, well, a rpg. To me Dragonborn and Nuka World are tied for second worse while Mothershit Zeta is number 1.

 

[DirtyOldShoe]

I added a few responses to the poll.
Personally, I can't really decide. Dawnguard took a huge dump on the actual Elder Scrolls, but in general I kinda liked it, it had fun moments.
Horse Armor is where everything went downhill, but Mothershit Zeta is just offensively terrible...

Thanks for fixin' it up Hass, I'm glad I made the thread, but I was sort of hoping it would be an overwhelming vote count to Nuka world, but I guess people arguing about how shitty all Bethesda's DLC post Morrowind are is just as rewarding. Props to @Irwin John Finster for being a hate bro.