Old World Blues speculation

As long as it doesn't reach Fallout 3 levels of stupidity, I'm okay with some silliness. Especially the SCIENCE! kind. *Cue Dr. Insano laugh*
 
Silliness does not always equal stupidity, so I think this DLC will be fine.
 
The only last anchor this DLC is doing for me is that Avellone is playing some role in it. I said the same "WTF is this shit?" stuff before I played Dead Money and it turned out to be very good. Only the future can tell. :)
 
If you read about real scientific experiments this isn't actually that wacky and crazy as people say.
For example a group of scientists are currently riding around on weird ass bicycles trying to figure out how a normal one stays up.
Growing ears on mice, making corn and monkeys that glow in the dark... talking light switches seem pretty tame by comparison.
 
They are trying to figure out why a normal bicycle stays upright?
Are you kidding me? Are those christian fundie-scientists who never had any scientific education?
Well, I don't mind if OWB gets a little funnier. Dead Money was pretty dark, and while I find mormons and third degree burns hilarious, Honest Hearts was pretty serious, too.
 
This still has potential to be pretty dark. Remember, they're doing experiments on people that leave them voiceless or blind or dead just to see what happens. Reminds me a bit of the Nazi medical experiments in WWII.
 
This still has potential to be pretty dark. Remember, they're doing experiments on people that leave them voiceless or blind or dead just to see what happens. Reminds me a bit of the Nazi medical experiments in WWII.
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Agreed, it will probably be the darkest of the DLC's. Honestly I found Dead Money more tragic than dark, mainly self imposed foolishness rather than actual evil, Honest Heats was actually fairly uplifting with the message that even the worst of us can find redemption. Old World Blues will be the NV version of the Pitt, it will involve people doing possibly justifiable things, with terrible cost, and the player will decide if its worth it in the end.
 
It definitely won't be the darkest of all the DLCs, but it still has potential. Didn't I read somewhere that it was supposed to have a lot of dark humor?
 
A Legion assassin inviting you to a constantly stormy canyon so he can get revenge for some unknown reason? Yeah, it'll be darker than talking toasters.
 
“A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!”
—Toaster

Ugh, I hate when my world gets burned. It's all black and crunchy.
 
Hassknecht said:
They are trying to figure out why a normal bicycle stays upright?
Are you kidding me? Are those christian fundie-scientists who never had any scientific education?
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They are probably tryng to figure out the exact physical mechanism, so that they can replicate it to create a stable two wheeled platform in the shape of a bicycle or even apply it to create something that emulates human balance?

I do agree that it's going to be the darkest DLC yes. While we did see some silly stuff, I wager it's going to be offset by some really heavy themes and malevolent themes, the foremost being the excesses of science unhinged.
 
Yeah it'll probably have a major theme of how science progresses rapidly when morality isn't an issue, a bit like Bioshock. OWB has potential to be pretty dark, but I still don't think it'll be as dark as Dead Money.
 
Again I did'nt find Dead Money dark, only sad. A truly dark story centers around the depraved. The only one who who could be described as that would be Elija, everyone else were just sad people who could'nt let go.
 
Tagaziel said:
Hassknecht said:
They are trying to figure out why a normal bicycle stays upright?
Are you kidding me? Are those christian fundie-scientists who never had any scientific education?
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They are probably tryng to figure out the exact physical mechanism, so that they can replicate it to create a stable two wheeled platform in the shape of a bicycle or even apply it to create something that emulates human balance?
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Centrifugal Inertia? That shits been known for like forevers. They just wanna waste the grant money.
 
My hope is that they cram all their pot-induced ingenious ideas of gimmicky lulz into this DLC and make the last one the dramatic/epic one.

Of course I'd be more than glad if OWB would be a kafkaesque tragicomedy - but I don't see that happening.

Silliness does not always equal stupidity
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No, and variety is good. Silly moments have their place in every work - even, if not especially in "dark" ones. They do good to break up the tension and make the world more believable and vibrant and expose the viewer to more emotions - in a way breaking a sort of "negativity immunization". A work that follows a steady slope of hopelessness is never as bleak as a work that builds up hope and then crushes it.

At the same time too much silliness and the work becomes goofy or a parody of itself.
 
Courier said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics

There's a bit more to it than centrifugal inertia, and it's still not entirely understood.
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It's Centrifugal Inertia and Angular Momentum.
 
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