Even with my hardened level 40 Wasteland badass, I quickly found myself under fire by. Step outside of the cozy confines of the Think Tank for the first time, and you quickly discover why Obsidian cautions that Big Mountain is meant for players level 15 or above. As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!' Good stuff.īeyond the humor, Old World Blues delivers a welcome challenge steeped in 1950s pulp sci-fi. The homicidal device eagerly devours any other toasters you discover in the facility, spitting out ammo and items while spouting lines like, 'A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply. In particular, Toaster - an aptly named, A.I.-equipped appliance in your Big Mountain home base - is worth the $10 price of admission all by itself.

Obsidian outdid itself with all of the dialogue in Old World Blues, taking the franchise's trademark dark humor to an all new level. The out-of-touch, disembodied scientists dedicate themselves to solving the 'unpossible' and advancing SCIENCE(!) in their fortified lab, but they'd do just as well delivering punch lines as stand-up comics. The setup is exposition-heavy, but it's worth every minute of your time, as it's so damn funny. Using your heart, spine, and missing brain as leverage, the Think Tank (as the group is called) sends you out into Big Mountain in search of a way to defeat Dr.

The operators of the facility, a group of nutty pre-war scientists who preserved their brains in robotic bodies, enlist you to help take down former colleague Dr. After being teleported to the site - a huge hidden scientific research facility better described as Big Crater - he awakes to discover his brain, heart, and spine replaced with mechanical counterparts (which offer some interesting perks of their own). From the get-go in Old World Blues, the Courier (that's you - the otherwise-nameless protagonist) finds himself in the thick of the mystery that is Big Mountain.

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