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The reason I loved the first 2 Fallout games, and games that tend to be like this one is for 1. dialogue and being able to make differences in the story based on how well my stats are in thing like charisma and other relevant stat checks and 2. being able to feel like I have a real tangible effect on the world. That I am something special in the wasteland that can enact real change.
I played a lot of hours of Wasteland 2 as well (never finished it but got really close, I got to the second map and I think was maybe a mission away from beating it, I just always get busy around the times I end up wanting to play these darn games.) I even supported the second games kick starter, as it looked like something that really peaked my interest as I loved the old fallout games even back then!! To note I think I was only like 13 or so at the time and now I'm almost 23 lol. Anyways this was all just examples to show I do love these types of games usually!! I have even put a good amount of hours into this one and liked it in a lot of parts!!
So I think after saying all of that, I am gonna make this a negative review for a lot of reasons, ill list some of the reasons this is a negative review below.
BUGS & UI
The bugs in this game, even after about 3 ears of being out is just unforgivable! The thing is, if they were small and funny bugs, I would understand and be okay with the bugs that are in the game right now, but a lot of these bugs border on game breaking. For example, one of my least favorite bugs is mid fight sometimes the game will get stuck on your friendlies turn or on the enemies turn and just stop. This forces you to load back to a previous save before the combat. This wouldn't be that bad, but a lot of these fights can take about 15 to 45 minutes (that may not be totally accurate that is definitely a guesstimation) but sometimes you will be doing really well in a fight, get a lot of lucky shots and lucky moments and just really cool moments that make the fight awesome, but then this game breaking bug happens and you have to restart the fight! Not only that, but if you didn't save before the fight and it was a save from a while ago you are fucked and that inst your fault at all! There are many more bugs like the one I just listed as well.
The UI is terrible in a lot of different areas. Which is weird, because the second game was kinda weird to use, but I never really had to much of a problem getting it to function (plus it was kinda nice because in a lot of ways it reminded me of fallout 1's UI :D) This games combat UI and how it just doesnt like to function a lot of the time has lost me a couple of different pets that I really grew attached to in this game. That sucks. I should be losing them either due to skill or because the AI did something wrong. Not due to stupid UI problems. For example, I would be trying to heal these pets or companions and they were quickly dying to burning or poison or both lol. When i go to try to heal them the UI keeps dissapearing and or just not functioning correctly and cost me two of my pets. So insanely annoying. Another problem with the UI is that its not user friendly at all. In the menu options there is a option to Load, Save, Quicksave, and Quick load. SO FOR SOME REASON THE GAME ASKS ME IF IM SURE IF I WANNA SAVE, BUT DOESNT ASK ME IF IM SURE I WANNA LOAD. quick load one of the times lost me about 2 hours of progress and almost lost me that same amount of progress like 3 other times if i hadnt started saving every couple minutes after the first time it had happened. BRO JUST MAKE A ARE YOU SURE BUTTON COME ON GUYS.
Gameplay, Story, Characters and other problems.
Okay so when it comes to the gameplay I have very mixed feelings. I don't think the combat itself is bad (except for awful UI as stated) but I do think its been done a ton better by other games (of course im referring to X-Com series). This would be okay if it was more focused on resolving thing through dialogue and or solving things with different ways, but in the end all this game really wants me to do, and it wants me to do it a TON is fight. Which leads me to a other issue that I also sorta had with the second game. It just feels like I can hardly talk my way out of a fight ever. Or really do any of the things that I want to do ever. It wants me to fight the people it wants me to fight. SPOILER WARNINGS!!!!!! So there was a point in time where I was pretty pissed of with the patriarch. The game had given me the option to kill him a couple other times previously. Or at least I thought it was a "option". So, with a bunch of planning on my end, I slowly and methodically took out his room of cronies and I was pretty darn proud and finally was able to kill him!! I thought that meant that like Angela death would call me, or that ranger HQ would step up and try to take over. or we WOULD HAVE SOME SORT OF OTHER OPTION. but no, it just instantly game ended and made me out to be a asshole for killing the dictator which I found so stupid, especially since thats what a lot of the game is telling me to do. But then I realized. This probably is a valid option but I am supposed to do it when the game wants me to do it, even if it makes no sense that I cant do it at that point in the story. I was very dissapointed im not gonna lie. That was probably my biggest hit to the love that I could have had for this game.
I had a similar issues with the Gippers plot line and the commune. I understand that the head lady had to go, but I had built so many relationships throughout the place before I took the Ronald Reagan AI away from them, why isnt there a way to convince the others that they dont have to die, that they can still worship reagan at the commune or that you dont have to follow the religion anymore!! why do I even level the stupid dialogue option skill trees if I cant use them when they really matter the most outside of a couple different instances. One of my favorite parts about fallout 1, fallout 2, fallout new vegas and to a lesser extent fallout 3 is that you can legitametly move mountains and change peoples mind through dialouge and make a different outcome with it. It feels like you sometimes can in this game, but its far and few between I would say maybe a little bit better then fallout 4 and from what I can remember a little worse then wasteland 2. In the end, at least from what i played so far (I just got done speaking face to face with Angie the first time and im about to go for the patriarchs daughter) it seems like the dialouge option ones are for maybe some hidden dialouge that doesnt really do all that much or for extra money, ammo, or loot which ill be honest i dont care for all that much. I think I would care more if the combat was what i came here for, but its just really not.
All together I dont think its a terrible game at all, I just think they made wasteland 2 and when that didnt do like insanely good (it was still received rather well, I just remember people being a little disappointing because of performance and bugs and some other issues.) They took a lot of the wrong lessons away from 2. Instead of making the story more fullfilling and giving us better ways to deal with stuff other than fighting, they tried to make the fighting better, but in my honest opinion the fighting just still isnt nearly good enough to be relying on it (especially with the terrible UI) I know these games arent the fallout games so maybe my comparisons to it arent fair, but i only compare them in that way because whatever this game is, I just dont think it is very fun where its at. It feels like both games are in this weird amalgamation of games that arent working well together. The thing is, its not even that they couldnt work well together, I think that its just not done very well all the time.
I Have a lot of other complaints but I already wrote way to much into this and have a paper to write lol. If anybody has differing opinions let me know about them!!