I played through this game in a few weeks with roughly 85hours of ingame time and i had a lot of fun. Its similar to Fallout (the original) in the setting and the mechanics. + tons of sidequests + decent main story line (though it never got me super involved to be honest) + good ammount of easter eggs, jokes and references + feels like it was mean with the developers having their heart in it + cool chaaracters with good conversations + very indiviual ending depening on your in game choises throughout the game + great npcs + very open world and free - you notice the budget at some points (repeating character portraits, less to explore then you would think cosidering the map size,...) - some skills are just plain useless - equipement management, options, grafics and variaty are ridiculous
Upfront: i only played for an hour, before i deinstalled it again. While i was rather envolved in the Story and Idea and was mmore annoied by other things liek the controls. My first timpression when i started the game: The intro story is very good, but graficly feel like they are not made with love. (i dont need high res grafics) When the actual game starts you have to run around forth and back alot, which gave me the feeling of someone just placing stuff on the map, not narrating me through the tutorial. The tutorial is very detailed and yet missing important information. The UI is unintuative and again feels loveless and inefficient. The music and sounds are nice and put you in the right mood and - again - the story seems great so far. The fighting system has some nice ideas (nice implementation of "strikes of oppertunity" abd "flanking"). But i had no fun with my first. Why does the tutorial explain that "green" is how far i can walk and cover grants cover, but not how to end my turn, or that i can only attack once. the first two rounds i thought characters move in turns, but turns out, groups move in turns (so yeah i ended the turn of my party waiting for the others teammembers to get "their turn" while having 2 of 3 characters just standing there) So i would recommend trying it out first somewhere and come back to buy it if you wanted to continue after the first camp.
