Major Nelson Podcast interviews Jason Bergman

Oh man, could anyone who has listened to the podcast quickly summarize anything important? Any news on what the "aesthetic" version of the ghoul is?

 

4 to six houres, seems short, but I guess Im going to spend much more time in dead money

 

depends how straight forward the nature of this DLC is. You can only do so much in long corridors or maps with a clear line pointing in only one direction ...

On the other side 4-6 ours ... that is embarrasingly short in my eyes. But it all depends on the price in the end.

Though the visuals so far (like the hotel/casino on the hil ?) looks totally flat and uninteresting. Even if I would buy dlcs (which I dont) this one not like something interesting. Sorry Obsidian

 

So the DLC has its own beginning and ending slideshows? I'm not sure if I'll like the "game within the game" effect, but we'll see.

 

I'm hoping by "its own ending slideshows" he meant added to the rest after the hoover dam battle

 

Dean kinda changed.

 

Avellone tweet

 

I hope the game doesn't explain it this way, and that it's Bethesda, not Obsidian, that cannot into mental illness. Schizophrenia is not Dissociative Identity Disorder. Undoubtedly it's going to be more mental illness for the lolz (flat affect)

 

They called Tabitha "schizophrenic" too pre-release (not to mention a cross-dresser) but in-game her specific mental illness wasn't explained/mentioned. I think Marcus mentions the Nightkin as generally "schizophrenic" and that's it. So yeah, I doubt they'll mention Dog as specifically schizophrenic in-game.

 

4 - 6 hours does seem short but, if it is similar in price to the Fallout 3 DLC's at 800 MS points, it equates to just over $10. For whatever reason, I always translate my entertainment value ratios vs. movie tickets; which sell for $10 here (12.50 for 3D) with a rough average of 1 hour & 45 minutes of entertainment.

4 - 6 hours of entertainment for the cost of one movie ticket seems like a fair exchange. If, by chance, there are at least two distinct ways to make it through Dead Money, it becomes closer to 8 - 12 hours of entertainment and the value increases dramatically for me.

Still... waiting on reviews to get a better idea how it plays.

 

Err... that's pretty short... only 4-6 hours? I hope that only means the main quest and that there are side quests to add a little fat to the dlc

 

Chris Avellone tweeted:

Granted, his point of view is obviously biased but he seems to hint that there are opportunities to explore too and it's not completely linear.

 

I like the way you think. I've long used a similar litmus for determining the worth of my time and money (we economists call it an opportunity cost analysis).

I'm just curious how they plan to keep low level characters from falling into this DLC (I'm unsure whether it was itemized above but I've seen a dev quote stating this DLC has been built for lvl 20 and above characters).

 

Keepe in mind that there are many full-price games out there that don't last more than 4-6 hours, and which then sell boring add-on missions that are over within the hour, for the same price as these guys are charging for theirs. Still, I hate the pricing for the majority of the DLC's out there, so I'm not exactly on their side. I'm just saying it's usually much, much worse. Assuming it's a well-designed and thoroughly entertaining 4-6 hour experience you get for your ten dollars, I'd at least consider buying it. It would be more than you'd get for the same price (or even a higher one), for the crappy DLC's that make up 90% of the market.

 

I think that $10 for a DLC is a little bit of a ripoff, but I also think that if it's entertaining and if buying it supports the possibility for Obsidian to work on future Fallouts I'm probably not going to quibble over 5 or 6 extra bucks.