jackofshadows
Magister
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2019
- Messages
- 4,545
Steam says I finished playing in Jan 2016. Think of it, it's amazing how little I remember from that playthrough.
Stopped playing after completing settlement with gladiator arena in it.
The lore didn't grab you, I get that, but it's a very subjective opinion and the fact that you've missed a huge chunk of the game (even the massive expansion aside, it wasn't released back then yet) doesn't help that either. I think both games have a good bunch of colourful characters although F2 have the advantage of talking heads with VO no less even if all the other NPCs don't have avatars like they do in Underrail.
I don't see how main story in Underrail is worse than F2's, comparable macguffin shenanigans, with the difference that as ItsChon noted, build-up for SGS caring is way better than similiar for Arroyo. Moreover, at least for me the idea to roleplay as some tribes(wo)man who gotta stick together with its own didn't click well tbh. I replayed F2 recently and the president's quasi-nazi motives didn't click well either, prefer vague and mysterious Underrail's end-game denouement way more but that's obviously also subjective.
What's not subjective, however is
It's worth noting how funny it is that Fallout 2 gets relentlessly shat on for every detail deemed unworthy, while this game gets free pass for its bad parts.
the fact that Fallout 2 has the exact same backtracking and respawning enemies but somehow you gave it a pass while accusing others in the opposite :DCombat and crafting are the only things that Underrail did better than Fallout 2. Story, characters and factions are forgettable, and some design decisions, like forcing the player to backtrack a lot combined with respawnig same enemies are gamebraking for me.
Eh, I don't think so. Those Fallout 2 ratings has been made too long after release when the game has legendary status and all that. Many people rated it after buying for their collection, having <10h played or even less. At the same time, Underrail is some obscure indie game which has long history of changes even if some were arguably for the worse, I'm sure such things like lack of big enough fonts option or a fucking map have affected it.Now, comparing Underrail and Fallout 2 ratings is legit