ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

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This really is Russian Fallout 1-2 with better graphics. It's about the size of Fallout 2 (with a similar amount of annoying world map backtracking) although the setting feels more like Fallout 1 to me. It plays very faithfully, including some questionable choices (like the slow map movement, uncontrollable companions and clunky inventory) but if you could handle them in Fallout, you can definitely handle them here. For me, ATOM's best quality is recapturing the mystery of Fallout 1. With the same love of ambiguity, subtle references and humour, you don't always know what's folklore/rumour/a joke and what's real (unlike actual Fallout stuff that's become well-known franchise icons: super mutants, ghouls, deathclaws, the Brotherhood, Vault experiments, etc.). That's just the nature of sequels - even good ones like Fallout 2 and NV. Ironically, being a new IP makes ATOM closer to the experience of Fallout 1. And the lack of English resources online contributes to this (although obviously that has downsides). The early game has a really great survival feel with every food item, bottle of vodka or handful of bullets feeling important. Unfortunately, it loses that later on and becomes the classic juggling carry weight and running out of merchants to buy all your expensive loot. And sadly there isn't much of an endgame: by the time you get high level gear, there's almost nothing left to do and the actual ending is surprisingly abrupt. This is a very open game with a surprisingly short main quest and a lot of side content (and backtracking). That's not an issue - side quests feels worthwhile because a lot of key areas are money gated. And the quests are good with lots of interesting, ambiguous choices. BUT it often feels like there's not much consequence to what you do. And that + the short main quest + the anticlimactic ending + all the backtracking makes the game SEEM a lot smaller in hindsight than it actually was. XP balancing also seems a bit off with combat giving WAY more XP than quests or skill checks, e.g. killing a few rats ≈ completing a side quest. This is weird because it feels like punishing non-combat solutions, which the game otherwise does a good job of supporting. Don't get me wrong, this is a strong recommend for any Fallout 1-2 fans. Just go in with realistic expectations. This is like a version of Fallout 1 from an alternate dimension; it is NOT the Platonic ideal of the lost Fallout franchise.

I didn't continue playing the game because I found the world uninteresting and the dialog quite annoying, there is a common annoying trend with modern RPG games, this trend is that *let's out an exhasperated, long sigh* they keep using [roleplay talk]. This is a game, an audiovisual medium, not a book, don't write roleplay type of talk, use audio or visuals to express what you want the characters to convey, write the story and dialog in a more interesting way, remove useless dialog in general (specially from useless NPCs), etc. I have about 10 hours on this game, I must have spent 30% of that reading useless garbage, as with most modern RPGs this game is uninteresting TL;DR garbage, I don't mind Fallout 3, Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale being text heavy and dialog heavy, become those games are fun and interesting, this game is not, in this game some random NPC will give you a 900 words of uninteresting dialog, with 200 words of RP type of talk mixed in it, and after that you get basically no useful information, or quests, or anything that progresses the story. To give you a non-game equivalent, it's like if you were reading a forum post that's 4 pages long, but it could be half a page long, the forum post has annoying RP type of talk in it, and a lot of the post is barely relevant to the topic of conversation (this would be the equivalente of random NPCs yapping too much about nothing), and on top of that the post is boring. Regarding gameplay the game is mid at best, but I didn't get much gameplay done considering 30% of my time is spent reading the characters yapping about nothing until I had enough.

一定要我评价的话，这是一款把全部经费投资到了对话系统上的辐射2。 游戏的汉化有点问题，比如k城的女传教士问你是不是地球上所有的政权都不该存在，回答里的“完全不是，那里必须有授权”一眼是机翻的“世界上总得有个当局（把一切管理好）”，还有错别字满天飞。 游戏机制不太完善，没有通缉系统导致我杀了一个人就和全城敌对了。 剩下的就没啥了，这游戏属于是把俄罗斯社会如果打了核战后变成啥玩意写的很搞笑又准确了。（我知道游戏背景是冷战后期的苏联，但老实说，我很怀疑这段时间苏联地下的纳粹主义和大脑升级的共产党员，比如叶梅利昂诺夫有没有在游戏里被忠实还原），但是也许可怜的老黑索金就是那段时间苏联文艺工作者的写照，他让我想起了某个格鲁吉亚坏作家。 这游戏记得多手动存档，自动存档太少了。 众所周知，列宁的母亲是个大官，而他父亲是个打猎熊类的猎人，他和他老婆都是凡尔登战场上的士兵（迫真） 我才不怕吃，一听到有吃的就高兴。教学里的饼干不叫吃，船镇烤肉才叫吃，听说还有法西斯和sm（难视）

If you are a fan of cRPGs, it is already a great game. If you like classic Fallout and/or stalker, metro etc. generally speaking post apocalyptic themes, you have to play this cRPG. Solid 8/10 Pros: +Multiple viable combat builds +Lots of skill or stat checks +Some quests actually allow these checks to be applied in dialogue and that can lead into a solution +Quests and characters are interesting +Dialogue is not cringe, generally well written +Combat is very fun and fluid +Side quests are mostly engaging +Raiding caravans or peaceful stalkers actually have consequences Neutral: >Locations are ok. Unfortunately not too great. Compared to The Hub (FO1), New Reno (FO2) or Tarant (Arcanum), locations in Atom RPG unfortunately not interesting. They are just ok >Rest of dialogue is just ok >Some quests are.... just ok (not a bad thing tho) >Leveling up and character building is good but unfortunately you have to grind too many random encounters to farm experience. Quests don't give much exp. So, leveling up is in neutral Cons: -Some maps are unnecessarily big without allowing you to exit from any edge/corner of map. This is a big issue. Even when you camp to cook or enter a random encounter, you might have to walk a while to exit. Not all edges count as exiting map for some reason. It is not a good design choice. It won't take forever but it becomes exhausting -Pacing is not smooth. After mid game you just do everything very fast and world map travel speed will bother you -Map travel speed is an issue. I understand that it makes sense in first map. However it becomes incredibly boring not only in mountains, but it becomes very annoying in dead city. Especially dead city metro. For few quests, you travel at snail speed. That world map is not designed well. It was boring and frustrating. You can't use all tunnels in metro because there are rubbles blocking some tunnels. No shortcuts. Ok. So lets walk entire map in snail speed. Not good. -Some speech checks you can encounter in early game require comically high level of skill and you might not be able to re-do them -not all NPCs need to be talkable. Almost every NPC is talkable even if they dont provide any info. They might tell you their name, what they do etc. No. Fallout 1-2 did it with "over the head texts". It added some personality to locations. IF a player can initiate dialogue screen with an NPC it should at least serve a purpose. And yeah, to find quests you will talk to everyone which becomes exhausting after a while -You do a lot of quests but they give little experience, and most experience comes from combat random encounters

Если вы ждали "Fallout в советском стиле" - то нихера подобного. Это обманчивое впечатление. По началу то действительно игра цепляет своими локациями, квестами, персонажами на этих локациях, но чем больше в это играешь, тем больше понимаешь, что разрабы доделывали игру на скорую руку. Основной сюжет - так это вообще ебучее непонятное нечто, где даже с гайдами просто ♥♥♥ поймёшь куда тебе идти.

Pra quem tentou jogar os primeiros Fallout mas não se acostumou com os controles antigões, esse aqui é bem bom