Wasteland 3: Colorado Collection

Wasteland 3 is neat, I like the canon, setting, story line, gritty writing, occasionally severe decision making and harsh consequences, all the little parallels to what made Fallout 1 & 2 really good, and am alright with the gameplay despite not being a fan of turn-based combat. This game had good potential, unfortunately it crashes a lot, and I hit a sort of wall in Little Hell, seems no matter what I do it crashes hard as it fades out to enter the dialog scene with Vic, tried changing game settings several times, changing equipment, dismissing critters, back tracking to go there earlier (instead of doing Steeltown first), etc, until after a few days of frustration I just gave up on it and uninstalled. Sorry to see inXile was bought out by Microsoft, which I assume means Wasteland 3 won't be fixed, I see their forum disappeared along with community support & a lot of troubleshooting references (dead links), it's always sad to see MS eat good studios and kill off good games. I like that this runs natively on Linux, I run Fedora and stopped getting Windows games awhile ago, with some exceptions. I'm also disappointed with the lack of modding support, this game really needs a community bug fix patch, or even a way to bypass buggy stuff like the dialog scenes and broken bits of side quests. Compared to Wasteland 2, there's a lot to like here, with the expanded gameplay features, new setting, and better graphics, but suffers similar frequent crashes (I could not finish WL2 either), and WL2 has some mods including a community patch. I didn't play Wasteland 1.

Great game, and the soundtrack is my absolute favorite game soundtrack ever. Lots of options and branching paths, although all are a bit morally gray-ish.

Been meaning to play this with some of my best friends and picked up the colorado edition on sale. I played through this game on xbox and loved it, but that was before the dlcs came out. I knew it would be a better game solo, but not to the extent that i thought it would be. You cannot alternate characters to set up combos if the character belongs to your coop partner. Which soft-locks harder content. If you don't get disconnected first. The dlcs are interesting and funny as I would expect, but also extremely bugged. Busted status effects, dialogue prompts, character models being untargetable at least in Steeltown. Love the comedy and gameplay, but have your alt-tab ready and open to problem search.

First Tactical RPG gameplay wise i've loved, and that comes down to the world, the choices, and the characters. Plenty of replayability here has quests can go a BUNCH of different directions.

I've been a longtime fan of the genre and series. W2 is the only crowdfunding project I've supported with actual donations. Got my copy, realised I'd made a mistake getting it on PS4, almost gave up on the series. Eventually I was convinced to give W3 a try, and instantly I fell in love with it. So much so I bought the whole series each on three separate platforms! It's a bit of a tone shift from W2. I wouldn't say it's more humourous, but they lean into the humour a bit more. If you like Fallout, especially Tactics (I know it wasn't rated, but it was the funniest and it did squad combat wonderfully), you'll love this!