I played most of New Vegas as a stealthing-and-sniping type, high on perception and intelligence, because that's the kind of character that appeals to me... but I have to say, Dead Money has been annoying me.  I loved meeting Christine and conversing with her at length -- that kind of character back story is great -- but after the first three hours, the tension and skill involved in avoiding the gas and the radio speakers finally just began to grate on me and I went and downloaded a mod to disable them instead.

I feel like Dead Money could have been great but after maybe 4 or 5 hours (I'm in the casino now, working on stuff there) I feel like maybe the payoff won't be worth the effort.  And that's after I put a ludicrous amount of time into the core game (and even now, still plan to go back and try some of the other endings).

I guess really it's not that different than most of the Fallout 3 DLC (Brotherhood of Steel not counting), in that it locks you into a specific location with a specific mission, but I still hope for more from the rest of the New Vegas DLC yet to come.

Yeah, it is definitely a more divisive DLC than others, but some of the future stuff they allude to sounds kind of cool, so I will most likely give the next one a chance. Thanks for reading!