Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition

The game constantly crashes on Mac during loading. First load is ok (when you just launched game), but next time loading between levels or from menu game crashes. :-\

Had a few glitches and crashes, but the world still drew me in and I'm loving it.

It's a pretty good game if you like crpgs with turn based combat, but I can't see myself replaying it. The story is ok even though I got a bummer ending. The combat is challenging and there is a lot of it, so you have to create a combat oriented party on higher difficulty. The dialogue is cool and I just with there was more of it , with more branches.

Really it's hard for me to say whether I do or don't like this game. I'm dropping it for now in terms of playthrough and sticking it on the backlog but that doesn't mean it's bad. I feel like my issue is with the game in terms of style and gameplay. The writing and setting is nice, the visuals aren't too shabby looking and get the atmosphere across. The gameplay is okay and that's where it begins to fall apart. I like old school CRPGs a lot so weird design and tedium don't bother me, but somehow in this game everything was just compounded into one tedious irritating mess. I'm sure for some people this game will hit some kind of super sweet spot and they'll love it but eh, myself? I think I'll pass on it. It's a real shame that I'm finding the game so grating because honestly the story has potential! It's just held back by silly little issues and poorly aged gameplay. Oh and combat that is eye-gougingly boring. Seriously. This has the worst CRPG combat I've played since Ultima 7. wth

Wasteland 2 is split into two halves. The first half of the game feels really well put together and thought out, the plot revelations all lead to more forward momentum, and the enemies continue to present a challenge to the player while also staying new and fresh. Things start to fall apart in the second half of the game. Enemies get stale, minus a few set encounters. The quests become a string of bland, endless menial tasks. The goals of the main quest still hang over your head during this part of the game, but it's one of those situations where you have to achieve a bunch of small things before you can get back to the fun stuff. The game starts to just throw potential NPC recruits at you, as if by that point in the game you don't already have much better allies anyway. The player encounters different factions LONG before they ever get explained, which is kind of off-putting and sort of breaks immersion if you start to wonder just how in the world your Rangers know the name of those specific robots or moral zealots, etc. The second half just feels tacked on and overly long for it's own sake, as if the developers really, really wanted to be able to advertise 80+ hours of game play, even if the last 30 or so hours end up being a slog. There are other complaints to make, like a handful of useless weapons skills, an irritating skill use system that rewards save scumming, barely tactical combat, enemies that get dull well before the game is over, SOOO MANY faction quests that are just either/or choices... in fact, most of the game is faction quests, and they get old real quick. All that said, I still enjoyed Wasteland 2. The story is enjoyable when it's firing on all cylinders. The garbage loot is always fun stuff like old game consoles, sex toys, Atari ET cartridges. There are a lot of funny NPC dialogues full of Easter eggs and inside jokes. I would cut out most of the second half of the game if I could, but it's still a fun time to play through at least once.