Right before I bought this game I tried reloading fallout tactics to see if that would satisfy me (having already replayed fallout 1 and 2 so many times...) It didn't... tactics is a buggy and unfinished mess with brain dead AI. About 2 hours in I'd totally penetrated it and there wasn't any challenge left, just a lot of naked flaws daring me to get upset about all the missed potential. Fallout 1 and 2 were buggy as hell too but you know, you stuck with it because you loved it or you bailed because you didn't. I'm about, I dunno, 20-40 hours into Wasteland 2 and I have at this point totally penetrated it. That makes it 10x better than tactics but at this point only my interest in the story is carrying me forward. Needless to say I'm playing on the "supreme jerk" setting, but despite the colorful name, even terrifyingly impossible battles are easy enough to blow through at this point, and the real shame of it is that 3 of my characters are basically useless for combat and my conservative skill point commitments ( at least 70% unassigned ) means I'm basically only at 30% capacity of how much I could be tearing through these baddies. I could 6 people with maxed out weapon skills but I'm destroying everything with only 3 gunners with minimum skills, 2-3 points here or there. The bottom line is that the game is too easy, I'm not trying to be a badass or something, you just can't argue with those numbers. Everything else is great but damn... unless you're like hopelessly bad you will learn the system and have it pretty much cornered after your first couple major quests are complete. After this point only the cheapest of surprises will even have REVIVING a fallen party member, outright deaths are so rare its just ridiculous. That and the economy is already breaking pretty bad as well... I have almost no supply stress whatsoever, even for freaking bazookas. What I find is that I'm basically playing a rather gimmicky and violent adventure game, which is cool and all, but the gameplay, which is awesome, just runs out of challenge way too early in. That's my honest opinion and I don't regret buying it.
