Wasteland Remastered

Played via XBox pass as I've got it free right now. Loved the original, this is garbage. Looks like someone's college thesis to get into inXile. Not worthy of their recent resurgence and success. Money grab for almost no work. You're better off playing the DOS version.

I enjoyed it until my party got guns, then I noticed that the monsters would just sit there and let you shoot them without moving. So, about 1/4 of the way in I switched to the original and enjoyed it to the end. I liked the new voices and graphics, but the lack of challenge from the creatures ruined it for me.

Pros - New visuals and sounds. Now I know "where I am" and I know what sounds weapons do. But still it wants your imagination. - The music makes the experience immersive. Superb. - I like the chess kind of movement. - Two different text boxes between damage texts and skill raising while in combat, the 1988 layout everything together in the only box. Good idea, not good implemented though (CONS). - Great save list, still with its own autosave. Take that, 1988 autosave option!! - Great new paragraphs layout, presentation of the idea, texts, voice narration and scenary pictures. 10 out of 10. Wonderful. - Nice sleep option with weather changes, just do not do it in Las Vegas' sewers unless you have the ax :) - You can use the old keys and new ones. In my opinion, the presentation is good, and it makes your old brother pay attention to you, that younger lacking in videogame taste sibling. Cons - Layout of "combat texts" makes you have to pay attention to the text. The font needs to be bigger, it makes the texts go over your head and you have to pay close attention about who is hitting who. In 1988 it was very clear who had a 4 skill in AT weapons. Very meh. - Enemies who make damage at 10' feet do not come to you if they are far and you called their "attention", but they move away. In 1988 they get closer. - The new visuals and sounds tell that you get ranged damage from some enemies when you actually do not get any damage from them because you have to come closer to your enemies because they do not come to you. Distracting. - Although I said new visuals are now immersive, these enhacements make the game look like that cheap "Alien Whatever" from Steam that nobody wants to play. - Sometimes it does not load a saved game and you have to Ctrl+Alt+Supr. - Macros not possible now.

I am a huge fan of the genre which this original version started far as I know. Post Apoc and almost no fantasy or magic scifi and real world items and situations. As far as this version it is pretty good though it looks like it should have came out in 2000 not 2020. I have encountered only 2 bugs in 3 hours of gameplay that is not bad guess some were ironed out. In my opinion all the stuff it adds is great and it plays deep down like the old DOS game.

When they decided to remaster this classic they really ment just remaster the graphics. Except for the graphics, there is really no improvements. Not even the limitations of the original, like several characters looking exactly the same, is improved. And the story? Better have a godo imagination because just like the original, you are given minimal information about the story. It's up to you to fill in the gaps and imagine the characters motivations and what makes them do what they do, or how somethings are connected. The game also sometimes force you into doing horrible things, like killing children and even infants, just to be edgy. This can also be a rather hard game sometimes. If you have good imagination and are forgiving to all the jank, or want to play the first game in the series (since Wasteland 2 is a direct sequel), then give it a try... if it's on sale. But you might just as well play the original. It's unfortunate because this could have been really good.