* utterly boring start with a hilariously incompetent dragon "protector" * very interesting followers with much more drama in the first few hours than they've had in the entire Kingmaker game * still a buggy mess ("Doesn't wear armor" after every other rest, text bubbles missing in "cutscenes" leading to minutes of painful waiting) * extremely unbalanced, no matter what difficulty you take, half the fights feel like a joke, and the other half like banging your head against a wall * occasionally awfully long "cutscenes" ending with a fight, forcing you to watch the unvoiced text bubbles for hours if you have to reload a few times Overall an experience just like Kingmaker. They've learned a bit from it, but not as much as you would have hoped. A diamond in the rough. It will take a lot of patches and a lot of mods, but then it will become a gem like Kingmaker.
Larian has finally hired someone who can sculpt faces that don't look like poop, yay! The dice-rolling is fun, the story picks up at a decent pace after the boring mindflayer start, however ... ... the combat is the worst I've seen since Torment - Tides of Numenera. ITS SOOOOO BOOOOORING TO FIGHT! Action points in DOS2 were already boring, but this 1-attack-per-turn is even worse! I don't know what the Larian devs were smoking when they came up with this, but I deeply hope they'll fix it before the full release. I literally dread going into battle because of this tedious mechanic.
Two years after release the game still has game-breaking bugs that end your campaign. I like the concept, but the end result is a disaster.
* world graphics are nice, character models are a disaster * story is okay, but very predictable * inventory and character management are still a mess * having to create 2 player characters is still dumb (but at least its not 4) * very few NPC followers * balancing is totally random, expect A LOT of trial-and-error * EXTREME loading times for tiny maps Overall Wasteland 3 feels like the Director's Cut of Wasteland 2, a console port of a PC game. You can feel the love the developers have for their game, but you are also constantly reminded that they have no idea how to make a good game out of their vision. Asking 70 bucks for this is a joke. Get it on sale, then its okay.
