Let's get the positive out of the way - the game technically seems OK, I haven't experienced bug or crashes - I chalk this up to Unity being stable. I gave up early on in the game so there may be issues but I wouldn't know. I played Wasteland 2 DC - it's far from being any sort of a classic but it was entertaining, even with all its faults. Beyond the one positive above, Wasteland 3 isn't good at all. Visually the game looks irritating: colors are way over-saturated, the camera has a very limited angle and the environments look cartoonish (even though they're supposed to look realistic. The user interface is nothing short of atrocious - every single UI element flashes and animates all the time; it's impossible to move the mouse without triggering some cheap-looking animation and every screen involves an unskippable transition or two. Controls are awful. Try scrolling the descriptions of skills - it's impossible because the content resets when the mouse moves. Rotating the camera around in one go is also impossible because the screen edge stops the mouse. The camera also resets during fights so it has to be realigned all the time. The voice acting is so way-over-the-top that it makes the entire thing just comically bad, it's like watching a cheesy, badly made 70's cartoon. The writing is mediocre at best but I stopped playing soon after the Sans Luxe quest so I have limited experience with the story. What I did see is just ridiculous and ham-fisted: hand-built cloning machines and solar panels, super-high-tech random gear, etc. in a post-apocalyptic world. The game clashes all over with its own story. Fallout had stuff like this but it was way better integrated with the story. The inventory management is totally pointless and is hard to use since everything is just dumped into a single list and the loot is randomly generated with generic items like Level 1 Shotgun, Level 2 Shotgun, etc. Not recommended.
I got this game a while back on a sale but only played it now. Daedalic made some pretty-looking but completely brain-dead games in the past and I probably wouldn't have bought this one after playing some of their other games. Fortunately, this isn't one of those bad games and I'm glad I got it. I read the source story a while back and I liked it a lot - the game seems to be a pretty faithful adaptation with beautiful artwork, great voice acting and good music. At first i wasn't sure what to think of the art style but it grew on me quickly and I decided that I love it. The detail is fantastic and it brings the story to life. A few reviews mention that this isn't much of a game but more of a visual novel - this is true, I guess. There aren't traditional point-and-click puzzles and the inventory is very limited. The story itself is also fairly linear but some choices do make a (slight) difference in how the story plays out. This didn't bother me, I got lost in the story and never noticed that I wasn't playing an "adventure game". If you like the the source novel, this is a must but I'd recommend it to anyone who likes historical fiction.
I'm surprised that GOG sells this game that I cannot honestly describe other than a PoS. I bought the game a while back but only tried to play it now - I spent hours getting recommended mods to fix the widely-reported issues with crashing, etc. and initially it worked fine, no problems. I only had maybe 15 mods installed (including the DLCs) and most of them were deemed essential to playing the game by blogs. After playing for a few days, at one point when my character leveled up, the game started crashing. I reverted back to an older save (losing hours of playtime) and it worked for another two hours and then it started crashing again during saving. This garbage is unplayable. I'll say this though: even if the game was technically perfect, it still wouldn't be a great game - most of it is just aimless go-around-and-explore, finding basically the same interiors everywhere, fighting the same enemies and looting the same mostly-pointless objects. There isn't much reward to exploration - some of the quests are decent but the game feels like a pointless walking simulator. It's good for a while, but like New Vegas and Outer Worlds, it becomes boring and repetitive. There is very little in-game motivation to play. I love the original Fallout 1/2 and sort of liked New Vegas and wanted to like this game, too but it's just too much. Not recommended.
