It's Fallout 4. It's the most generic Fallout with more bloat and pointless story than ever before! It has no level cap! It even has the Brotherhood of Steel! Do you remember the Brotherhood of Steel? Would you clap if you saw Enclave power armor? IT BROKE NEW GROUND! Is it fun? Yeah, for the first 20 or so levels, sure but then you're stuck for the next 10-15 hours doing the same exact playstyle and just hoping that Todd alows the game to drop a legendary that actual works with your build that gives you SOME kind of variety. Look, if you don't know about this game that's nearing 10 years old at the time of this writing then I cannot help you. What I can help you with is to tell you is that I have load times upwards to FOUR MINUTES anytime I leave an interior zone and enter the comonwealth world zone and I CANNOT patch or mod it out to the best of my ability. DO NOT pay full price for Todd's hubris. You are worth more than the full $40 asking price.
I still have this some where on CD, when games came in giant cardboard boxes and the game was called Circle of Blood. I can basically play the game on auto pilot because I can remember all the puzzles. I am not thrilled with this director's cut. FYI I'm currently in Ireland right now durring this play through. The stuff with Nico is fine, I guess, but it has absolutely no bearing on the story of the game. It feels tacked on which it absolutely is. Unfortunately that's not the biggest issue with this game. The animation is broken in places namely talking animations. George still has his animations for the most part but every single other character is frozen in place when you interact with them. I don't know if that's on purpose and the trade off was the new character pictures that are put in the top corners but if that's the case why leave George's animation? Pre drawn cutscenes are either not working in places or edited, dialogue seems changed or the blood is removed for some reason eg. Lockmourne car. That's not even to mention the audio weirdness. The new stuff is a distractingly differnent mix from the original voice lines. Some of the old lines aren't even mixed properly in the same conversation in ways I do not remember them ever being like. There are numerous places where the music swells to the point where I cannot hear what the characters are saying. Lastly, I don't know if there's a fail state anymore. Again, I've only gotten as far Ireland in this play through and maybe I'm dumb and missed it in this game but I swear that there was one, possilby two, places in the game where George would've been killed. One for sure I know is at the hotel involving the Flap and Guido. In this director's cut, the game would not let me progress until I solved the puzzle instead of letting me fail like I did years ago. Circle of Blood was a great point and click game that I remember fondly. Broken Sword feels like George Lucas came in and updated it.
When I'm able to play the game it's pretty fun and I legitimately like it. When being the key word. I do not know what causes it but the game will just randomly crash, and that assuming I can get the game to start at all. The game just randomly decides if it's gonna get past the CDPR logo or just have the screen flick black and crash hard while the music still plays. I have updated my GPU drivers, changed graphic settings but nothing changes. It doesn't even matter if I have everything on ultra or low. The only thing that changes is the frame rate. Even the in game crashes are random. I'll be running down the street, buying something, or in a dialogue cut scene, the crash knows no prejudice and will pop up whenever it pleases. I need to stress that I really do enjoy the game but it's stability issues are making it almost unplayable at this point. As such, I cannot recommend that you pick up the game at this time.
Right off the bat I get mobile port vibes from the game. There's no mouse control and you're basically limited to wasd and the space bar. It's not really a strategy game. You do not control your minions. You can't even separate them out. You just hit space and that tells them to attack whatever's closest to them. The best you can do, strategy wise, is release the space bar so they'll stop focusing on what they're attacking and follow the cursor. Starting off it feels very bare bones. However, I really do like having a mindless army of horrors that will swarm and consume everything in it's path. I like the setting and I feel like they've hit the atmosphere and feel of the game right on the head. I think it's worth your while to pick it though at this point in time I'm not sure if it's worth the full $15USD
