Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition

The game is riddles by small defaults, which in the long time will make you resent the game more and more. Exemples: No switch the game to combat mode, no hide mode nor even cautious walk while it's asked (AG). No pause before a fight to prepare an ambush. Don't throw explosives throught doors, those are too low. As there is no stealth, you have to start a fight before being able to use animal calm or robot hacking, and then, the xp reward is riduculous compared to normal fight. I received 2 herbs with differents effects, the game mixed them withour asking. You can't organize the way your rangers walk, only who is leading the party. Dialogue talents are to be used asap, if not, the possibility desappear. Use of competences are sometimes by right clicking sometimes you have to use a talent from your shortcuts, it's nowhere explained.PNJ and interactive object are pixels size, damn, it's not a point and click. It's okay-ish at the beginning but become more and more tedious, some zones are reallly big. Some competence are not really interesting (animal handling). Sniper and AR are the kings. There might be a key to go back to tutorial advices but it's hidden in the tutorial, nothing is explained Some quest ask you to act a certain way and will punish you hard if you ever try to be a little independant. And so much more. Personnally i stopped the game while trying to save tom 's wife: i received the quest, dialogue ends he runs like hell out of the screen, i try to follow but too late, 10 sec after, he's dead and mission fail. Ok let's start again, explore a little before and see what killed him. Ok a group of monster, i kill them go back to the guy and then i see that he killed himself !!! WTF Controlling A..H.... creators Before you try Wasteland 2, be warned that the develloppers don't really respect you and love to make fun of you (at least 2 party kill by detonating explosives, lots of extremly difficult safe to crack with just shit inside etc etc) Prison was OK

The spiritual successor of Fallout 1 & 2 is also a post-apocalyptic RPG where instead of starting with one character, you get to build a squad of 4 desert rangers. Pretty much all you do in this game is combat and unfortunately combat is not that great. There are no formations for your squad and there is no stealth, so engaging in combat can be a lot of micro-management. Characters have to be positioned individually while the enemy might come close enough and start combat themselves and ruin your plans. Just because you positioned somebody before the combat, it doesn't mean that they'll keep their position when the turn-based combat starts and each character has to belong to it's own square. Repeat this enough times and you'll get enough of it pretty soon. The range of the weapons is pretty limited and you can't target anything outside of it. Makes sense that you have penalties when firing rifles (very) close range but 0% is ridiculous. I disagree that this is really an open world game because there is not much else to be done besides the "main quest". Your party can have a lot of skills for situations other than combat and you do get to use those skills. Those skills give you a success percentage for a particular action, so even if you have a 10% chance of something, you can abuse the game with scum saving until you succeed. A way to make the game more challenging (and fun?) is to never re-roll your skills check. The main difference between the difficulty levels is in how much damage you take and deal. A higher difficulty, while extra challenging, might not be really worth the pain of a poor combat system. Rating: Three goats. And they are all the best! http://pixelloot.com

Having been a fan of Fallout 1 & 2 I was hoping for a modernized version of that genre with more features. What I got was a whole lot less. Wasteland 2 was a huge letdown as I've come to expect from new adaptations on this genre. The combat is boring and leaves little room for strategy. The voice acting is corny and the dialogue is not interesting at all. The writing is filled with cliche. I actually prefer Fallout's 1990's graphics to Wasteland 2's. WL's visuals just look so fake and the way it displays your movement range really kills the immersion. Someone needs to just make a new Fallout style game with mostly 2D backgrounds. They were so much more beautiful and interesting than the cookie cutter looking worlds you get from 3D. Who cares about moving the camera angle around if the background is too ugly and repetitive to take your interest? Also, this game feels way too on rails for an open world RPG.

I anticipated this game greatly. I was waiting for a pre-2006 title (long story short - not for imbecilistic TV masses looking for "passing their free time with their brains turned off"). No, I was waiting for a GOOD pre-2006 title. Well, as many people already stated: Wasteland 2 simply does not deliver. Yes, at its fundamentals it's an old-gen title through and through. No game-breaking mechanics (that would throw a game-over states out of the window), no quest compasses, no SJW stuff (no, having a lesbian couple in game is not SJW). But oh boy, it's a bad old-gen title. If not some names behind it and the title - it would be forgotten immediately. If it was released back in, let's say, 2000, it would be universally summed up as "mediocre" at best, if not "sub-par". This game is so disjointed, shollow and ultimately pointless, it boggles my mid why it seems to be so universally acclaimed. Maybe people who are amazed with it, really didn't play anything before their precious "absolute classic" - Oblivion, and discover joys of a real computer game? Anyway, Wasteland 2 is a pile of different ideas and mechanics that don't really fit together. Heck - attributes and skills are almost completely autonomic! Wait, what did you say? Yes, and attributes are for the most part absolutely pointless dumps. They don't interact with skills and the gameplay itself besides bonus skill points and some areas of effect. There's no point to take other attributes than Intelligence (bonus skill points) and Coordination (AP). Calling this system "CLASSIC" is really a joke. Also, just pump conversation skills, lockpicking, computers and melee weapons. You will find some ranged goys along the way, and 90% of enemies rush you to melee range anyway. It's really sad, that this huge wall of text world, with no real exposition (the game cannot tell the story outside not-interactive monologues - do you remember the Glow?), is full of generic encounter, where big badgers are the same as robots.

I really enjoyed this game and was a bit surprised by the bugs that a lot of people seem to have run into. Maybe I was lucky, but the game ran smoothly for me and I had fun with it. The story was engrossing and I became attached and commited to my team and completing the mission. The NPC's were fun and interesting, especially in L.A. The game had a lot of humor and funny Easter eggs relating to the pre-apocalypse history of the world. I loved the weapons and having to manage my ammo, which is really important. The skill system makes a real difference in the game as well and you need to think about where you spend your points. A solid strategy is essential in this game, especially on higher difficulties. I'm sure I missed a few missions and did things my way, but that just added to the feel of real consequences at the end. If you're able to run this game without any bugs you'll be in for a lot of fun.