I'm about 15 hours into Wasteland 2: Director's Cut and I'm unsure if I should keep struggling with the game. I heard a lot of bad things about this game, but I found myself liking it a lot at first. It's has party, turn-based, tactical combat, and it has just the right amount of difficulty for me on the normal setting.
I like taking advantage of the terrain, having my combatants take cover and have my Rangers take pot-shots with rifles, while my shotgun wielders wait in ambush for the enemy to charge forward. Also, I think my party has a pretty good spread of skills from computer hacking to mechanical repair.
There are some tongue in cheek moments that are great, and I like the subtle commentary of places like Happy Valley, which seems more natural and clever than anything Bethesda could put together in their own games.
But I feel like I'm struggling against poor coding and game design. The camera is a fucking mess, and when I'm trying to adjust my point of view it sometimes glitches and starts moving around on its own. There were some tight corridors in the Ag Center, and the camera just didn't work in there at all.
I also can't complete some quests due to poor quest designs. For instance, I freed some pigs for some farmer, but they blew themselves up when they tried to return home via a mine field (I don't have the skill to disarm traps or explosives...oops), but the game doesn't allow me to tell the farmer what happened and death is permanent in Wasteland 2, so it's not like I can bring the pigs back.
The game crashes on me often. I'm also stuck since the game won't load the Ranger Station when I try to return to base to continue my quest. I've deleted the game and reinstalled, but I get the same error. I can look for unofficial patches, but at this point I'm getting frustrated and don't want to spend a lot of time trying to hunt down fixes to this game if I'm going to continue to run into other problems down the road.
It's a shame. There's a good game in here, but the bugs are really sapping the fun out of it for me and I'm wondering if I should bother.
I like taking advantage of the terrain, having my combatants take cover and have my Rangers take pot-shots with rifles, while my shotgun wielders wait in ambush for the enemy to charge forward. Also, I think my party has a pretty good spread of skills from computer hacking to mechanical repair.
There are some tongue in cheek moments that are great, and I like the subtle commentary of places like Happy Valley, which seems more natural and clever than anything Bethesda could put together in their own games.
But I feel like I'm struggling against poor coding and game design. The camera is a fucking mess, and when I'm trying to adjust my point of view it sometimes glitches and starts moving around on its own. There were some tight corridors in the Ag Center, and the camera just didn't work in there at all.
I also can't complete some quests due to poor quest designs. For instance, I freed some pigs for some farmer, but they blew themselves up when they tried to return home via a mine field (I don't have the skill to disarm traps or explosives...oops), but the game doesn't allow me to tell the farmer what happened and death is permanent in Wasteland 2, so it's not like I can bring the pigs back.
The game crashes on me often. I'm also stuck since the game won't load the Ranger Station when I try to return to base to continue my quest. I've deleted the game and reinstalled, but I get the same error. I can look for unofficial patches, but at this point I'm getting frustrated and don't want to spend a lot of time trying to hunt down fixes to this game if I'm going to continue to run into other problems down the road.
It's a shame. There's a good game in here, but the bugs are really sapping the fun out of it for me and I'm wondering if I should bother.
), horrible itemization (and/or firearm representation into a game-friendly format - i don't know what moron though the weapon tiers were a good idea), and mediocre content (areas and quests) at best
