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MC_BatCommander posted...

He does kinda suck, seemed like the writers got a little too try hard to be cool and poetic. It's a really strange DLC because it completely shits all over the roleplaying aspect of the game and forces a backstory on a character that was supposed to be a blank slate.

Has a lot of cool items tho, so at least it's worth playing.

Of course the kick in the pants was that they couldn't fully commit to giving the Courier a backstory with Ulysses because they didn't want to ruin the player's RP aspects, so we ended up with this wishy-washy "you delivered a package once that inadvertently destroyed a community and your carelessness became this guy's sole misplaced motivation to destroy everything and you don't remember any of this because bullet to the head or something."

Now with the benefit of 14 years' hindsight, I think I can say that LR's story would've been greatly improved if Ulysses had simply zeroed in on your faction choice as motivation to be your nemesis; the mechanic / most of the dialogue was already there, just needed fleshed out a bit. It wouldn't have been stellar, but it also wouldn't have left a bad taste in the player's mouth the way the vague halfhearted forced backstory did.