My fondest memories of this game were literally... learning all the cheats for it, hacking the gamepig, then sitting around in high places playing Overworld Zero while the Von Braun falls apart around me. Good times. This game does have infinite replayability though. So many different ways to build your dude - you can mix and match between combat skills, tech skills, and even psi skills if you're feeling spicy. You don't always have to be strictly the one career path you chose [marine, navy, OSA]. Also, there are enough weapon types, ammo types, armor types, and implant types in the game to keep things fresh too. Maybe your second run you'll put in the perks to be a heavy weapons guy. Maybe on your third run you'll be a psionic who also hacks things. The fact that there are so many places in-game where you can farm resources [like money, healing, and ammo] is a big part of what makes this game replayable. If you're good, you can rack up dozens of shotgun shells and frag grenades to either "sell" or stock up with. Just keep one camera intact on each floor and keep tripping alarms for [relatively] free resources. The story itself is legendary and needs no exposition. It's Shodan being megalomaniacal as usual. But this time with a reality-warping faster than light starship in her sights. You can't beat that. Play this game. You won't regret it. There are even high definition texture packs to bring it kind of up to modern snuff.
The controls for this game are incredibly stiff. You feel like you're controlling a robot more than an actual human being. Turning is slow and clumsy, jumping doesn't let you do really anything useful [why it's in the game is beyond me], and you can't really crouch meaningfully outside of combat. Nothing feels intuitive - and there's a lot of stopping and popping into menus to do things - so it's also jarring. This game was clearly made before "context use" was a concept, as you have to keep manually going into your inventory to select an object to use on whatever's directly in front of you. And if you're not right on top of it, your character will just say "I don't understand" and assume you're examining the air. Combat is frustrating, not satisfying, as there's no mouselook for shooting so you have to use keyboard keys to aim properly, and no way to know what you're specifically aiming at. I'm only giving this 3 stars because I love the premise of the game itself and the story seems engaging.
GOG Fallout 4 GOTY in its vanilla state has absolutely nothing outstanding wrong with it that isn't also found in Steam version. It's when you get to modding that you might have issues. GOG's version, for one thing, doesn't support the creation club [for people interested in that sort of thing.] This alone can break or block full access to several mods that require CC content. Also, for whatever reason the GOG version's MCM [mod configuration menu] doesn't work properly. The reason I've seen given is some variation of "it needs access to the mod menu and cc club content menu". A mod provides access to these, Backported BA2, but it still doesn't resolve the problem. As a result, a lot of high level mods can't be set up properly since they don't come with holotapes [because they assume MCM usage.] TL;DR good for vanilla, good for modding, but beware of dysfunctional mods due to quirks with GOG's delivery.
Yep, this is exactly the ROTT I remember playing once upon a time. It just has one big problem: Vertical looking, as implemented in this game [when it was still revolutionary] is broken in this GOG repackage. When I say it's broken, I mean that you'll randomly be looking at the ground because the game either thinks an enemy is underground or it just glitches out on its own - most of the time it can fix itself, but this is usually after you're staring at 5 different enemies and have lost half your pills [aka life force] from getting shot forever. This is dangerous when you just picked up a missile weapon and are about to charge in and clear out a room, as you'll be clearing out your own gibs instead because you can't manually fix your view or "lookspring" like later games such as Quake or Hexen allowed. Other than that issue, it hasn't lost any of its charm or personality. You can still get the infamous "ludicrous gibs", you can still get the "republican bonus" for destroying all the plants and the "democrat bonus" for shooting all the money, you can still trip balls on shrooms and be the world's sleepiest god, you can still get your hard-earned Drunk Missile taken from you by a certain ballsy enemy type, and you can still hump walls for secret areas. If you're a fan of games like Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior, this one's right up your street. Try it out. You won't regret accidentally triggering Cujo mode and barking enemies to pieces.
