Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition

Ran without problems on my Win10, Intel HD machine in late 2020, but I still lost a spade in an inventory bug. Wasteland 2 in a nutshell: There are three separate speech skills, featured prominently in your very first conversation: Smart Ass, Hard Ass and Kiss Ass (actual names). All of them have several levels and are upgraded separately at the cost of a few skill points per level. Your character usually won't be able to pay for a new skill level with just the points he'll get when advancing one character level, however. More skill insanity: Machine Repair and Toaster Repair, Field Medic and Surgeon, Lockpicking and Safecracking, Brute Force (for kicking down doors -you didn't think just being strong was enough, did you?). All these are actual skills. Combat isn't tactical, at all. There's cover but doesn't make a lot of difference. I wish it was like XCOM for XBox -not even close. The one thing I liked is everyone has their turn individually, not as a group. Camera control is unwieldly and room design doesn't help. Something that bugged me a lot: if you create a custom character you select his 2D portrait from a small, detailed premade gallery but then have to customize his 3D avatar separately instead of having a premade 3D avatar somewhat matching the portrait. If you don't fix it the immersion is totally ruined, as the UI relies on portraits a lot. And you'll want to make your own characters to avoid the insane skill system. I gave it two stars instead of one because they tried, but this is a case of more is less. The UI is great considering the underlying mess, but still has issues. Wasteland 2 was supposed to be great by doing the squad turn-based combat FallOut 3+ dropped. And I personally thought it could surpass XCOM by adding an immersive world with CRPG elements. Well, nope. I might give it a last chance by creating a squad of very similar soldier types who don't talk a lot, but the game itself warns you'll probably run into ammo problems.

Old fan of all the Fallouts here. This is in the line of the first ones. Not bad but too many shortcomings. First: lots of crashes on loading. UI: painful. Screen readbility: poor. I keep zooming in and out, using Z all the time to spot tiny colourless objects on the floor. Gameflow: laborious. Is the game fun? Yes. Do I come back to it? Yes. Is there a sens of urge to keep playing? Alas, no...

Well - not as great as I thought. Don´t get me wrong - it´s a cool game! But at this price-tag, it should be more than "cool". Story, graphics, music etc., is all fine by me. I love the setting, and it´s neatly crafted. There are some major flaws though, which makes it difficult for me to play more than just small bits at a time. 1. The interface/controls are very messy. The camera (very "upwards") and crew-control is just not good. I understand that it´s a party-game with turn-based system - but controlling the camera with WASD and the crew with the mouse is simple put: totally opposite from what we´re used to today. It´s messy! 2. The skills system is kind of nice with simple points. Though the skills themselves doesn´t make any sense at all. Some skills are general to extreme - and some are split up in absurdity. It feels like the skill system is in beta-test stage, and that´s not a good thing. 3. The inventor. Oh boy... It´s so messy that I just simply shoot anything instead of using items. Who has time to figure out what all those tiny icons mean anyway? Too much, too cluttery and, again, very messy. I haven´t even come close to trading since everything has to be pooled around and - well, it gets pretty frustrating after a while. Those three major complaints make the game difficult to enjoy. And I SOO much want to enjoy this game! It´s just so sad that the developers has such a gem hidden in there - but controls, inventory and skills makes it so damn hard to find. Well... maybe Wasteland 3 is better, but frankly - it will be tough for me to pay for that...

Having completed the game twice, I find Wasteland 2 a great game, comparable to Fallout 2. The second playthrough was much more enjoyable. I met characters and visited places that I did not properly encountered while playing for the first time, and was able to follow a rather different plot lines. It is a challenging game; at times I had to spend some time "grinding" to get a level up so that I can comfortably progress. Tactical combat is good, weapon selection, perks and abilities are interesting. Very good dialogs and characters that you start to care about. All in wall, it is a great game, perhaps deserving the third playthrough :)

Great post apocalyptic survival story. I was not a fan of the man eating plant section, but the rest is pretty good. I see reports of the Linux version not being Linux compatible. Not sure what is going on with the persons machine, but if it helps, I just booted up the Linux version on Manjaro stable and it works great!