Great scenario, great historical representation, great fun.
Old school serious RPG are rare now, and ATOM did fill in the gap with a nice post-apocalyptic feel. now with this follow-up every small detail from ATOM has been brilliantly polished, and for once..... for ONCE I do not regret having bought this gem as a pre-order (looking at you in my Dragunov lens, other titles). The world never feels small, you get attached to several NPCs despite limited dialogues (which is a good thing, even with these limits the game is huge and takes a long time to play through), the graphics look very nice, even on older hardware, game works as promised on all platforms I tested it on, the game is just very good.
Game just does not launch (Ubuntu 20.10)
Nice hack and slash with a RPG setting, this follows a creature hunter in a medievalistic setting. Beautiful, huge, the game lacks of maturity. Secondary side quests are simple and uninteresting, while the main quest (and major side quests) feel immature and oriented towards teenagers. Characters are all caricatures - nicely voice acted though, and while there is always something to keep you playing, you each time feel that it was not worth the time put.. but maybe this next one... Leveling system is just a pain, wit the whole world just levelling up as you are (exception made of some quests). Loot is generated based on your level, level is leveled on your level and... that just make the game feel empty.
Fig backer here. Was really expecting the newer inXile game after TTON and W2. But this is just not inline with these previous games... Interface: - Inventory has no weight, shared between everyone. - Camera movements are off - Keyboard mapping is incomplete! you can't remap camera movements (only rotation). But when you start, it does tell you you can press the green A button or any key. Ambience: - Music is poorly composed and over-compressed (as in dynamic compression, not data compression) crap. Feels more like a Hollywood production than a wasteland. - Voices are totally off. They sound like a poor prod. might as well have no voice and save the money to implement proper item descriptions. - Voices are interrupting : I mean every single useless NPC halts the game to talk. Not just text being displayed, but the full you gotta wait for the noise to die to get back into the game thing. World: - So many things in the field, and... it juts feels fake. Lots of non selectable boxes, dead enemies that were shooting on you conveniently have no munitions on them when dead, things you feel you could watch and get some comment on (e.g. wall of dead hung rangers) but no, there is no linked description or text. - From the start the scenario feels poor. You have this guy talking to you on the radio like he actually is watching you and staging everything just for you instead of being in a real fight. - Enemies actually go "Oh my god some rangers are here. you should go and kill them" when an NPC ranger is literally 2 squares away, waiting to be script executed. - Even the first map feels off, more like a console map-like linear corridor than a, RPG map. All in all was expecting a PC game, and what I am getting is a lousy console game, you would almost state that Wasteland 3 is to Wasteland 2 what Fallout 3 is to Fallout.
The first contact with the game is nice. Graphics are deliciously outdated, character sheet is fine, some more info could be given on the inner workings of the different skills, and the starting point, though tried and tired (amnesia with a look here for the next note type note) always works. Monsters are allright by the obvious old school feeling of the game. However... the story is thin, the world is ... empty. Not as in real forest empty, but as in bad empty. oh a beach. Oh two or three pirates / ship sinkers camp. They attack on sight. Ok... city? 4 persons, 5 dialog trees and that is all. This is more of a turn by turn beat them up with scenario that anything close to role-playing, whether linear and playing an imposed role or open and choosing your persona. Dialogue are poor to say the least, descriptions are mostly absent. You just feel like an NPC waiting for the Hero to come up and make things interesting.
