Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition

I've never been a big fan of Classic RPG games. Then I saw some gameplay of Wastelands 2 and thought I should try it. I've now clocked in 17 hours in less than a week and loved every second. Most of the mechanics are a bit simplified and mainly based on RNG, however you can improve your odds by upgrading your skills. The combat system has a certain tactical depth to it. You gain advantages from cover and flanking. You use the Field Medic and Surgeon skills (both are very important) to keep your people alive. There's a wide variety of ranged and melee weapons. The characters and quests are interesting for the most part and everything from the sound design to the visual aesthetic and game mechanics make it quite an immersive experience (at least for me). You can pick locks, unlock safes, hack computers, disable alarms and disarm bombs if you have people with these skill sets in your party. The game has its quirks, however. Sometimes navigating to different areas to find a specific person can be a bit difficult. The User Interface needs some getting used to. After leveling up a few times the requirements for upgrading a skill become progressively larger, which means that you might need to level up 2 or 3 times to get enough skill points to unlock the next tier. Not all the NPC's are fully voice acted. Sometimes the RNG can be ruthless (like missing shots with 92% chance to hit), but it's a give and take as sometimes you can crit for massive amounts of damage. The enemies' AI could use some refining. Sometimes they almost kill one of your characters, just so they can focus on another one in the next turn for no apparent reason. Other times they spray and pray and end up damaging or killing their own friends with friendly fire (which you need to keep in mind when shooting btw). However, they do use cover when possible and sometimes go for the obviously optimal attacks. It's a great game and I'm having a blast with it. I think I'm gonna play more CRPG's after this.

The game constantly crashes on Mac during loading. First load is ok (when you just launched game), but next time loading between levels or from menu game crashes. :-\

Had a few glitches and crashes, but the world still drew me in and I'm loving it.

It's a pretty good game if you like crpgs with turn based combat, but I can't see myself replaying it. The story is ok even though I got a bummer ending. The combat is challenging and there is a lot of it, so you have to create a combat oriented party on higher difficulty. The dialogue is cool and I just with there was more of it , with more branches.

Really it's hard for me to say whether I do or don't like this game. I'm dropping it for now in terms of playthrough and sticking it on the backlog but that doesn't mean it's bad. I feel like my issue is with the game in terms of style and gameplay. The writing and setting is nice, the visuals aren't too shabby looking and get the atmosphere across. The gameplay is okay and that's where it begins to fall apart. I like old school CRPGs a lot so weird design and tedium don't bother me, but somehow in this game everything was just compounded into one tedious irritating mess. I'm sure for some people this game will hit some kind of super sweet spot and they'll love it but eh, myself? I think I'll pass on it. It's a real shame that I'm finding the game so grating because honestly the story has potential! It's just held back by silly little issues and poorly aged gameplay. Oh and combat that is eye-gougingly boring. Seriously. This has the worst CRPG combat I've played since Ultima 7. wth