Posted on: October 7, 2014

Bigby_49

Games: 7 Reviews: 1

Don't go in expecting a AAA game

Wasteland 2 has its moments and can be good fun, but I get the feeling the end product is not really the masterpiece we were lead to believe it would be. The Good What's great about Wasteland 2 are it's world, all the nutty characters, and the interesting situations you'll have to decide how to handle. You will feel, for a while at least, like part of your rangers, traveling around the Arizona wastes and trying to help out the good guys and thwart the baddies. All the while trying to manage your meager supply of bullets and healing items. The Bad What the developers got wrong (or didn't get as right as they should have) is unfortunately just about everything else. Take combat, for example, which is about 50% of the gameplay. It's fun for the first few hours, until you realize the AI only has one trick: to run straight at your party and let itself get mowed down. There is no sense playing against a smart opponent. You can try to use some tactics in your fights, or not, in the end it doesn't really matter. The Bugs But the worst part of the game are the bugs. There are bugs galore, especially in the later part of the game. The difference between the first half (which had a test beta) and the 2nd half (which did not) is like night and day. This situation will no doubt improve with patches, but the the bugs aren't the only problem with the 2nd half. There is a clear drop in production value too, with under-populated zones, dialogue that doesn't make sense, and quests that aren't nearly as interesting as the earlier ones (a fetch quest, really?) It makes me wonder if the professional reviewers who scored this game highly played thru to the later part, or were basing their reviews on the much more polished first half alone. Verdict Let's face it though, there aren't many games like this that get made, so if you can overlook some of the glaring flaws, it's probably worth a play thru. Maybe try to get it on sale once the game's in better shape.

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Posted on: June 28, 2020

jammonstrald

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Games: 152 Reviews: 41

Love/hate relationship in game form

Things are... complicated between Wasteland 2 and me. I simultaneously couldn't stop playing it, and yet wanted to stop constantly. Some aspects of it are brilliant, and instantly brought back those long lost and yet oh-so-familiar tones I've missed since the original Fallout, while other aspects of it are just straight up trash. The good is so good that I want to ignore or overlook the bad. And the bad is just bad enough to question whether or not it's worth admiring the good. Overall I liked it, though I do wish they hadn't been so reverential to the first Wasteland. Being unfamiliar with the original game, so many of the characters, questlines, and plot hooks felt very undercooked, because the game expected me to just already be invested, and ultimately my squad didn't feel like much more than cardboard cutouts going for a ride. The game "tells" a lot, rather than showing, which is unfortunate because it is a very satisfying experience in the moments it decides to show rather than tell. Ultimately for me, it is the best successor to the original Fallout games that I've played, however I think the impression it leaves most is how much I would like to fire up the original again.

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Posted on: August 23, 2019

OlegBoleg

Verified owner

Games: 256 Reviews: 2

I had alot of fun with this

I played through this game in a few weeks with roughly 85hours of ingame time and i had a lot of fun. Its similar to Fallout (the original) in the setting and the mechanics. + tons of sidequests + decent main story line (though it never got me super involved to be honest) + good ammount of easter eggs, jokes and references + feels like it was mean with the developers having their heart in it + cool chaaracters with good conversations + very indiviual ending depening on your in game choises throughout the game + great npcs + very open world and free - you notice the budget at some points (repeating character portraits, less to explore then you would think cosidering the map size,...) - some skills are just plain useless - equipement management, options, grafics and variaty are ridiculous

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Posted on: October 29, 2014

brilliance

Games: 454 Reviews: 8

Waste of time and far too much money.

Wasteland 2 is moderately entertaining, though it eventually gets really tedious, but it lacks substance, style and variety. It introduces a combat system that seems complex at first, but then you realize that no tactics are involved: All you have to do is shoot the enemies with the biggest gun and hope to win by attrition. You can move your characters, which is the only thing you can do besides shoot, but you need action points to beat the enemies before they kill you, so that is not a good idea. Poor combat could be ignored if the game had an interesting story or set of quests, but Wasteland 2 is completely pointless. Mot of the quests are inane tasks like finding dogs and fetching items, and the quests become even less interesting as the game continues. Wasteland 2 has no story, villain or point until the end, where an incredibly, technophobic plot twists is introduced moments before the final boss. Imagination: Nope, sorry, all the settings, enemies, characters and quests are bland and uninteresting. This is the most generic of post-apocalyptic worlds:: One, I realized in retrospect, was a copy of a faction in Fallout 3--but the other, a disco robot that distracted me with blinding psychedelic lights, was legitimately clever. One original idea in a 70 hour game: Wonderful. Crippling bugs and design flaws: Objects blocked my view half the time, my characters threw away their clothes, my sniper forgot how to load her best sniper rifle, the game crashed repeatedly, half the loading screens triggered error messages, the scripting broke, the probability of accomplishing skill checks on specific objects was inconsistent, items disappeared, enemies came back to life after I restored saved games--this game was a mess. Hint: Do not save over an autosave or a timed save with dead enemies around, as the enemies may return to life upon restoring the game.

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Posted on: December 29, 2023

Gidon5

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Games: 88 Reviews: 12

Very limited and frustrating options

So this plays like your standard turn based game. However, it's filled with hundreds of issues where you need to know ahead of time what to do. Too many unintuitive areas. Some of the builds are also unforgiving, and the result by the end the of the game is that you wish all your characters just had super sniper rifles. The beginning of the game is absurdly rough as ammo is sparse. This makes it not particularly fun for this type of game. The characters you meet come and go, so you end up barely caring before you're off to a new environment. This feels like one of those games where the potential was there, but someone decided to make it 'hard' and ended up killing the one through annoyances. Some playtesting would have solved many the issues here. It also tries to push some modern social issues, which just seems out of place amidst all the other frustrations.

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