Posted on: September 22, 2024
Games: 0 Reviews: 5
The worst parts of what inspired it.
I wanted to enjoy this game, I did. It's great in some places; it's creepy in some, humorous in others, meta sometimes, and choices you make do matter. Unfortunately? The gameplay sucks. Real bad. Nobody played the original Fallout games for the combat, or to initiate combat and be CC'd before you get a turn. In fact, even in the first Fallout game, those moments were rare: it's why knockdowns were largely dislocations instead of 1-3 turns of doing absolutely nothing. The one way you could end up doing this is if you took Jinxed, and at that point every enemy is doing it too. In this game, every single melee attack has a high chance to stun an opponent... for an upwards of thirty seconds of normal gameplay, and it's boring. You'll also be subject to this by the way, and for even less fun it'll often be before you get a turn. The implications on build variety and quality of gameplay are many, and I'll leave it to you to think them through. A final note, this game has some kind of severe memory leak. It's the sole game that has caused my computer to BSoD on me. No Man's Sky at max settings for 30 hours? No problem. X4 for 500 straight? Just fine. Star Citizen? Smooth 75 at max for hours on end. This game? Unplayable on Survival because it could, at any moment, cause my entire system to crash, and sometimes more than once an hour. I'm done. The sole reason it gets two stars instead of one, and why I'm keeping the game itself (and only refunding the supporter packs) is because beneath all the garbage is something with infinite potential. Too bad it'll never be realized.
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