Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition

It's quite hard to review this title. When it's works, it's fun, but there are many glitches and just disappointing quest outcomes due to no alternatives being offered, even though it wouldn't take much more than a few lines. Things like having to trudge around the map everywhere, vendors never upgrading their stock, lots of useless, low value items being inside high skill containers. I don't have much problem with the combat. Combat Initiative seems weird, but workable. The big problem is game design. It's like they had a game 85% complete, then just decided to tie up the loose ends and call it finished. Examples; For most of the game, you right-click to examine an object, then any options to interact are displayed, (disarm, lockpick, etc). But on a few occasions they don't work this way, right-click and you get nothing - you need to select the skill from the bar on the screen then click on the object to see your chance of success..assuming you know what skill is needed. I had to look up how to open the door at Darwin because of this. AFAIK, the peaceful solution to Rail Nomads Camp can only be done by typing in the right word at the console. Often when you leave a map, a recruit will say a line that sounds like it should be said upon entering the area. The boss battle with Tinker in Damonta has NO spoken lines, and is all text bubbles. Some objects appear solid, but you only find out after getting shot through them they aren't. Energy weapons are feeble, and I can't think of any area where they are superior to regular weapons. Some encounters are time sensitive, but as you speak to someone asking for help, the event they want you to stop is happening. It's easy to bypass a quest, or complete one by just entering a room, when it's obvious this quest wasn't meant to be done until later. Any NPC who might follow you will charge into battle with bare fists and 30 hp. My advice, pick it up during a 50% off sale, research beforehand to avoid pitfalls.

While certainly not the worst game I have played by any means, this title is littered with questionable design decisions, backtracking, quest bugs, and linearity. The game is split into two parts, Arizona and LA. They might as well be the base game and an expansion- once you leave Arizona you can never return. Quests are often confusing to follow and too obtuse in instructions. Some main quests require collectathons to find items hidden amongst settlments. And the combat, oh lord... talk about unbalanced. The guns are a complete hit or miss compared to melee.

I bought the game to play it on my notebook (i7,16 GB Ram, nvidia 750m) using the latest Linux Mint. Unfortunetly there is some massive problem with the camera. Whenever i change the perspective there is a big the area goes "black" (happens more often than not) until i change it again to some working state (till i move/rotate next time). This is so annoying that i wanted to make contact to gog in hindsight of their garantee. It seems impossible to make contact with them choosing the topic about technical issues. Writing an complaint using a different topic on week ago, did not lead to anything exept an support ticket. Despite my personal technical issues i don't understand why they choose a 3d enviroment for the game, seems just less beautiful and more clumsy.

(LINUX) For those who are having problem with the game crashing at start, it is a problem with filedescriptor limits. What you need to do is set add the line below to the startup script: ulimit -n 4096 That should fix all your problems.

I genuinely was enjoying this game, but after a little over 90 hours, it gets to a point where problems that weren't that bad for the rest of the game become glaringly horendous. I wanted to finish the game since I had already put so much time in effort into it. Sadly *spoilers* for me, once I got to California, the difficulty ranked up to a point where unless you grind random events over and over again, and level up your characters to a ridiculous level, and pray to God that you get a decent weapon, you will not be able to win. You can't even skip certain missions because story missions are about as difficult. It gets to a point where your characters are fairly high level and can only attack maybe once or twice (if you're lucky) and the enemies can attack over six times in one turn. Some enemies have weapons that can one shot any of your characters, but your stuck with what you find, sometimes meaning you do a 20 damage to somebody with 1500. There is a lot of jank to the game that makes certain aspects of the game extremely frustrating purely due to the fact that almost all jank in the game benefits the enemy and hurts you. I liked this game a lot, but after 90 hours, problems that could be ignored became almost game breaking. I generally put my games on the hardest level I can. I quit when I realized that I had already lowered the difficulty to second easiest. There is no reason why a game should be that difficult. The amount of resource management you have to do rivals the original Resident Evil. You almost never find any good equipment. There is almost no randomly spawning healing items. The graphics aren't that great and after a while the game becomes one of the most frustrating experiences I've had with a game. I'm extrememly sad because I was have a really fun time, but the design and the mechanics are not good, and they really show themselves in the late game.