Wasteland 2: Director's Cut

slow, unfun

Love tactical games but this one is not for me due to the use of random success and unbalanced dice... "Giant crate labeled US Military Ammo" has 6 rounds. 3% chance gun jam... happens way too much as does missing with a 80% chance to hit. Not Fun!

Superb RPG. One for the ages ! if you consider yourself an RPG enthusiast and haven't played this one then, the hell with you ! Brian Fargo and inXile Entertainment have knocked it out of the park ; everything from the main narrative, to the actual dialogue choices and skill checks make you feel immersed in this Arizona + LA wasteland. Makes my nostalgia tingle for the good old Fallout 1 & 2 days. The Desert Rangers are a force to be reckoned with and will stick with you till the bitter end ( some more than others ). I've only slightly dabbled in the first game, but this sequel is a true successor, as in it keeps a lot of the subject matter of 80s / 90s design choices alive and relevant. The terminology ranges all the way from robots to androids, cyborgs and synths ! Hearing voice actors speak about nuclear subject matter and having it sound like nucular - lol. A post apocalyptic delight. Beside these guys, the world is brimming with the scum of society, like wh0res, drug dealers, cannibals, con artists, zealots, thieves, weirdos, etc. And I love that the creators of this game weren't bashful with the language or subject matter. It is raw and often times brutal ! Not like today's stories.... for a generation of soft, entitled phone addicted tampons. Also, this really has to be said: it has some of the best dark humor out there. It's also a perfect coffee game, if you enjoy turn based tactical games. You really need to ponder your choices when creating the characters and also how exactly to use them in combat. Speaking of choices, I'd say it has a good amount of replay value. Be prepared to rely heavily on the quick save / quick load spam ; because this game really doesn't F around with its difficulty, even on standard. The 3 PDF books this edition comes with are a decent read too. I'm now looking forward to properly playing and completing the third installment. For some reason, this review automatically attached itself to the original W2 not the W2 Director's Cut, where I've put in over 70 hours. Must be another Steam thing...Echo Team signing out.

TLDR: Game is a C+ I've played Wasteland 2 since its initial release. I'm a fan of the OG Fallout games, and when I came across Wasteland 2 I was pretty excited. On the surface it ticks a lot of boxes; you create your own squad, assign skills and stats, roam around a hellscape and fights baddies, and have a pretty strong hand in shaping the narrative. Those parts of the game are a lot fun, and for the most part they are executed well. Where the game struggles, for me, is in the heavy reliance on RNG. If you played Fallout 3 and New Vegas you'll understand what I mean. FO3 had percentage chances for speech checks and the like, which meant you were at the mercy of a dice roll and could save scum your way to success. NV made hard requirements for checks, which gave you certainty that you would succeed if you met the requirement. Wasteland 2 opts for the former approach, and 90% of the content in the game bows down to the almighty dice roll. When RNG is on your side, it's a great time and you feel like you're making headway. When RNG is against you, it feels like you're fighting the game, and it was so bad for me as a new player that I stopped playing for 5 years. The Director's Cut fixed a lot of QOL issues I had with the original release, but RNG is still king. If you can put up with chance, or don't mind getting ♥♥♥♥♥♥ now and again, I would give Wasteland 2 a shot. If the thought of what I said above makes you pause, then skip it

6/10. I played this game after trying to make myself like Fallout 1 or 2. At the time, this game was fun, entertaining, had a good story and seemed balanced. Maybe it was just me, maybe something else happened (an update?), but I just can't do it anymore. Whatever the reason, now it's super hard for me to get into and to play. It feels like you have to build a VERY SPECIFIC group with very specific stats or you're going to miss out on everything the game has to offer. You'll have to make an infiltrator that deals with traps, explosives, lockpicking and safecracking. a healer that specializes in healing everyone, a talker that specializes in all the conversation perks, and a sniper. All of them must preferably use assault rifles and suffer through the first half of the game because of it, or else the second half will be too difficult. If any of your team has cybernetic stuff, expect a bad time at the end of the game WITH NO WARNING. If you're into TBS games and are into to doing group-character-builds, then pick this one up, it's one of the best.

All hail the notepad

A bit slow on the start, but when you get into it, oooh boy you are in for a ride. Excelent atmosphere, characters and gameplay if you are into turn based tactics and RPGs. Bonus point for all the "old word" references.