Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition

Fallout 2 lite; its a good game, but it is not quest-friendly at all. Sorting out quests is really tough; if you don't keep written notes finding the quest-giver after solving a quest is hard, and many of the quests have really obscure solutions.

I was looking forward to playing this, but it will not run natively in Linux. Can't play the game. Can't have fun. Saw in the forums that it was acknowledged that the game cannot work in Linux. Why is it still listed as a Linux-compatible game? Remove the little penguin icon!

Some heterophobia going on at this company. I reported a bug where two women characters were talking about being married. Obviously one was a man, just an error in the dialog text. I got kick banned for "homophobia, spam, circumvention" I just thought it was a funny thing. The game DOES feature, among other things, characters that own sexual slaves and ones that want to rape you. I guess those topics are a-ok. Otherwise I would have given 3 stars. The game is an ok fallout-like role playing game. You open chests, you kill things, you level up, you buy better stuff. At fist I did not like the overhead camera view that this game uses. Constant mouse panning. But then I bothered to learn the keyboard controls and that helped alot.

As a big fan of Fallout 1&2, I find Wasteland 2 a good successor. However, it could have been much, much better. The other reviewers already mentioned that the combat could be more challenging, tactical and smart. Little variety of enemies and random encounters doesn't help in that regard. However, my biggest personal disappointment was the quests, or, more specifically, the approach to alternative solutions and attention to the writing if the party doesn't do things in exactly one way that was envisioned by the devs. The quests in Arizona felt a bit more polished in that regard, but later on I started to see too much of it. For example, when I'm just entering a new town, I expect there will be quite a lot of learning to do. I need to understand who's in charge there, what are the interesting places and people and so on. However, when I start talking to NPCs in slightly different order, I get very weird interactions, when the topics I can discuss are the ones my party is not even supposed to know about yet! Imagine this: your party enters a bastion of some faction in a slightly unconventional (but properly designed) way, so that you appear right next to one of the bosses. You start a talk with that NPC and the topics you can discuss are, like, 6 names of the other NPCs related to that faction, while it's literally the first time I even hear about all of them. This approach to conversations completely kills my interest - I lose all the bits and pieces of information since they just don't seem to fit together. It's a shame, since the tech engine could be a basis for a really great RPG. Sadly, sloppy writing killed it for me mid-way.

I was really excited about this game, especially as the promised the new fallout 1/2. Unfortunately the only similarity between this, and the old Fargo games, especially FO2 is the insane amount of bugs in the initial release. Start with the pros: the setting is good, and the art creates a good overall atmosphere (though its not today's standards but this game is not about eye candy). Writing is also ok, the story is just enough for such a game. But that's it. :( The bad: Fighting is terribly unbalanced, this close range penalty thing on assault rifles and other long barreled weapons is just ridiculous. The system suggests a tactical flavor, but hasn't even got the depth of shadowrun returns. The combat AI is also terribly simple... With also make your NPCs "going rouge" actions suicide, as they rush into the hands of the enemy without any second thoughts. And so much more is bad with fighting... The bugs. Some quest variables don't update properly leaving the game in inconsistent state (leaving you with all your weapons confiscated for good, this is why i personally stopped playing :/) The random number generator has a resemblance to the one in temple of elemental evil, which was so much bugged that natural 20 was impossible due to a fencepost error (funny in a d20 game). Skills are totally independent from the attributes. First this makes no sense, second, this makes some attributes unnecessary (e.g. charisma, which the developers noticed really fast so they started to tell people that is is important in loading texts...). I could list the design and programming flaws all day but that's where is stop. Buy it when it is $5, no sooner.