Posted on: September 4, 2020

CounterpartJack

Игр: 79 Отзывов: 1

Fallout Recycled

After playing about 50hrs the game got broken by an update and I could not load any old save (or a new one from a new save). That's going to get fixed, hopefully, but as of now the game is unplayable for me, so I thought I'd take time for a review. First off, let's defend the title of the review and get the "computer game history buff" argument out of the way: I KNOW THAT WASTELAND WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR FALLOUT 1 & 2. But: (1) Fallout 1 & 2 sold together more than 10x as many copies and thus did much more to define player's expectations about the genre than the original; and: (2) Wasteland 2 is trying to bank on the nostalgia of players who (like me) did play Fallout 1 & 2 when they went out and not so much to cater to the (limited) number of players who played the original Wasteland. With that said, does the game work. Well, frankly, not that well. It's more of the same, with nothing new. Here's a quick list: * Same college humor as Fallout 1 & 2, but not as good. * Same quirky NPCs, but not as memorable, and with immersion-breaking discrepancies between text descriptions, thumbnails, and models. * Same turn-based combat, but not as satisfying or fun (no PIP-boy-like computerized silhouettes). * Same enemy power creep throughout the storyline (us-versus-raiders-and-occasional-mutated-critter, then-us-versus-bots-and-stronger-critters, then... cultists?). Now, I don't think that I've gone far enough in the storyline (I explored a lot and ran 2 playthroughs in parallel to get the two alternative starts) so I may not actually be able to tell if there's a surprise change coming. But do I really care to play longer to find out? Well, if the bugged update is fixed, maybe, just out of nostalgia for Fallout 1 & 2. But if not, would I care to start over a playthrough? Maybe not. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to love this game. But so far, I just don't.

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Posted on: November 4, 2021

argentvixen

Владелец игры

Игр: 102 Отзывов: 1

Wasteland 2 Directors cut

My experience with RPG started many years ago. I've played Fallout 1 thru 4, The Elderscroll series, Baldours Gate series, Divinity series, Diablo series, etc. The graphics for Wasteland 2 Directors Cut aren't bad and the story is decent, but the combat is a slog. This is by far one of the worse combat systems. I see no reason to finish this game. The story is not enough to entice me to finish. Based on my experience with 2, I will not be purchasing Wasteland 3.

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Posted on: October 5, 2014

Mutti7

Владелец игры

Игр: 72 Отзывов: 1

My favorite game right now

I've played 20+ hours and so far the game has been loads of fun. Contrary to some other people, I like the story and really enjoy the gameplay and graphics. I love leveling up my characters, getting new gear and battling enemies. Combat in general is quite enjoyable to me. I cherish the feeling of getting more XP and plotting out which skills I will level next and how they will benefit my party. I am amused by the wide variety of skills available and actually found myself enjoying having separate lock picking, hacking, and safe cracking skills, as well as various melee and ranged weapons options. There are so many options that make me think strategically about what I want for my group. I love the updated graphics. The camera is not sluggish at all for me. Neither is the UI. I have a high-end GTX 580 (lots of modern GPUs are probably on par with it or better nowadays). On my Dell U2312HM (IPS) monitor things aren't hard to spot or see, especially once you get used to the graphics and UI which doesn't take too long. I haven't had this much fun with any game for a while. The simple fact that it is a CRPG totally makes the game for me. The only (small) gripe I have with it thus far is the limited selection of pre-made character portrait images. I'll give it some more hours and update this review... the first few missions have been incredibly fun.

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Posted on: October 12, 2014

jaylsip15

Владелец игры

Игр: 55 Отзывов: 1

Not a 'great' game

I was neither a player of the first Wasteland nor Fallout series, and one this I noticed is that the game is pretty noob-unfriendly. There were no tutorial nor in-game instructions (aside from several icons on the right of the screen that don't really help. Logs looks clumsy and rarely provide any useful information. Ammunition and medical supplies are scarce as hell (witch actually make sense for an post-nuclear-wars setting), and enemies are either very nimble or tough to kill. Random encounter on the world map sometimes spawns enemies way stronger than the rangers, forcing players to load a save. The storyline I've seen so far is frustrating, watching the player's super noobie team running around as if they are all the manpower Desert Ranger has on hand. I gave up on this game after several hour of gameplay and felt regret buying it. Maybe it doesn't suit my taste, or it just doesn't really worth the prise.

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Posted on: October 18, 2014

coffee_darkness

Владелец игры

Игр: 220 Отзывов: 6

so so; quest bugs galore; needs work

It was mostly fun. Overall the game felt a lot like they had big intentions but weren't able to follow through. The story line was so so and was really hurt by all the late game quest bugs. The story really fell apart at times due to this. In part I just had to keep in mind what the intended story line was and ignore some of the discrepancies. There wasn't anything I found particularly new or interesting in the story or setting. Though that's not really a problem but it also means the game left a much weaker impression than it could have. And the story just wasn't all that compelling to me. In general it was fun and is a decent filler if you're craving this style of game. The style being post-apocalyptic and/or the mostly overhead RPG/action/tactical combat game. Overall there weren't many major engine type bugs. There were a few annoyances about the engine setup. In particular the lack of keys for many options including moving the selected character. Also there is no real control over the camera angle. You can rotate the camera around the main character, but the angle is locked in to the zoom and there is no way to change that. The biggest problem are all the quest bugs. There far too many of them, and they really broke immersion. Especially in the later half of the game. Hollywood in particular was really bad for quest bugs. At least none of them broke the main quest line. So far I've played it once, and I don't know that I will replay it. Though I probably will but with hefty character edits to easily skip over a lot of the buggier parts or to be able to skip content. I finished the game and hit alt-F4 to get out of it without bothering to read the epilogs for each of the locations. That's a first for me for this style of game. There were 2 reasons, first was the story just wasn't interesting enough for me to really care. And the ending route I took resulted in a pointless race against the clock just to find a f***ing room you've never been to before.

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