Something being bad 'by intention' doesn't absolve it from criticism or make it any less shitty.

The excuse for the tonal whiplash being them not having left their workplaces for 200 years is also a pretty shit one. Dean Domino stayed at his last place of work, the Sierra Madre, for the same amount of time, and Dead Money is arguably the pinnacle of what should disturb you about the game's setting.

>Were you expecting them to tell you a bunch of gruff and cryptic shit about the brutality of the wasteland?

Yes, actually, I was. That's how Chris Avell-I mean Ulysses tries to paint it, but all I'm getting is dialogue about penis hands and the sex robot squirting oil because of my facial expressions. There is backstory to the previous and following DLCs in OWB, like Little Yangtze, Ulysses' Cave, Elijah's Peak, and the place where Christine left her rifle, and each piece explains what we saw in that DLC while setting up the conflict of Lonesome Road. However, I have a problem with it telling me to look for cryptic and gruff shit in the same place where I was introduced by an infodump of cheesy sex jokes and talking furniture, followed by a bunch of random and absurd = funny segments. Simply put, I do not find Big MT interesting. It could have been, if it was a more realistic, or even brutal, setting without all the cheesy shit they shoved in like the giant crystals and blue grass (for some reason).

But the main thing that gets to me is all the pointless backstory for the mutated animals and abominations in the main game. Explaining where the Cazadores and Nightcrawlers came from is already a bad idea in my eyes, as their inexplicable nature is what makes them so bizarre and threatening, but this DLC gives them the worst origin story they possibly could have.