Wasteland 2: Director's Cut

Glad I bought this on sale. Get it when it is %66+ off, since full price does not justify the lack of polish. I understand that this was released 6+ years ago, but damn.. so was Divinity Original Sin. And that game is superior than this: in graphics, CRPG mechanics, and voice acting. JFC, the voice actors even read the character's description aloud (queue in Kevin Sorbo's "dissapointed" line) It has questionable design choices like: - not being able to access an incapacitated character's inventory - the need to "radio in" to level up is just busy work for no reason - accidentally left clicking a corpse in battle can open its inventory and consume 1AP (fallout needs a right click to open a corpse during battle) - No sneak system. 1997 Fallout had one working. - Shooting one enemy, aggroes every enemy from a mile away, and automatically "knows" where all of your party members at. These are issues you can ignore in the 90s. But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was 2015 when this ♥♥♥♥ came out. It lacks the atmosphere and immersion of Fallout 1, 2, Arcanum, and Atom RPG. A great game if you are a fan of Fallout Tactics, XCom, Mutant Year Zero (without the sneaking system), mechanics.This is at best, a $10 game. I just hope Wasteland 3 is better.

Wasteland 2 has aged poorly so this recommendation is a qualified one. The story is great, the setting is great, but the mechanics are clunky, unintuitive and unforgiving. Did you play the first Wasteland way back when? Then you'll enjoy this. Did you recently play and enjoy Wasteland Remastered? Then you'll enjoy this, it definitely won't feel as archaic as the systems in that game. Did you love Wasteland 3 and want more? Then this is worth trying, but you may find it hard going. The systems are much more primitive in this game. Wasteland 3 is much more polished by comparison. If the answer to all of those is no, only give this one a try if you're willing to put up with game mechanics that are distinctly less than modern.

Прошел Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, потратил на это 100+ часов. Не ожидал, что игра такая длинная. По механике похожа на богоподобный Fallout 1 и 2 и новую ATOM RPG. В общем готов к выходу Wasteland 3.

This is one of the games where Steam needs a Mediocre, nether good nor bad rating, because its not terrible, but its not really a good game either. This is a first game made by inXile after getting enough money from crowdsourcing on Kickstarter. And you can really tell with a lot of weird design decisions, inconsistencies, bugs and glitches. They are annoying, but even if you look past those, the game just drags on with little of any meaningful reward. It took me 92 hours to beat it on easy, and I stopped carrying about the story not even half way into the game. There were some good characters, and interesting parts, but those were very few and far in between. They definitely went with quantity over quality for the size of the game, while not introducing anything new or interesting after the initial few hours of the gameplay. You will do everything game offers withing probably 3 to 4 hours, and then play pretty much exactly the same way for 90 more hours after that. The gameplay and combat is very rudimentary and not very engaging, the story is basic and very predictable, with no real twists or anything notable. Some areas that take hours and hours of clearing, really have no effect on anything and just don't matter. The ending is just few paragraphs hastily trying to wrap up some of your decisions into a generic ending that is definitely not worth 90+ hours that it takes to get there. It was a good first stepping stone for a new studio, sure, but if you are looking at this game now and thinking about playing it, then it probably is not worth it unless you just really enjoy older odd games like this and pick it up on sale for few dollars.

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The best Fallout since New Vegas.

Honestly not a very good CRPG. It has many many flaws, the game is underbudgeted and very unpolished. The story premise is interesting but not worth following for 40 hours it will take you to beat the game. There is some to like about this game. + RPG mechanics themselves are good - skills, stats, gear, weapons, it is pretty good, at least on paper. + Story premise is interesting and is what kept me playing for most of the game. I liked that at the end you get support from people you helped in your playthrough. + I like the setting, its interesting enough and doesnt step on Fallout much. And the bad? The bad is everything else. - It feels like various systems were stringed together but there isnt much cohesion. On paper it sounds good but its very rough and unpolished. Its also very clearly underbudgeted, your imagination will be doing a lot of heavy lifting. - Main quest straight up sucks. Premise is interesting but thats all, everything else is boring - mostly you will play a technician trying to fix up radio towers, thats like 80% of your main quest. - Side quests are just boring and uninteresting. The main conflicts are very tacky, few are interesting but the majority are pretty generic, rail nomad camp being the worst offender. - Unnecessary runs back and forth are unenecessary. Maps are also very weirdly designed so its also annoying to navigate and the camera is never just right. - It costs 25€ which is terrible value for money. - Game stretches too much, it coulc be cut back to about half the playtime. It gets pretty repetetive. - I dont like how checks are done in this game. Your character has maxed out lockpicking but lockpicking a chest is still just a 30% chance? The whole chance system needs to go. - It cant be taken seriously in any moment. You play as the desert rangers - elite para military group of wasteland vigilantes - you arrive in a new base where a previous team lost contact and you realise the previous team was wiped out by a group of dogs? Elite para military group? By dogs? - Balance is completely broken, some weapon skills are useless, some are overpowered. Speech skills are pretty useless and rarely get checked. Overall I've played better indie games with more polish and better game designs. This isnt worth the money and the time investment. Skip this one and play the third game instead.