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I don't truly know why I chose to put myself through that, perhaps it was completionism after playing the WL1 Remaster & WL2 DC again recently (guess I'm playing WL3 soon). It wasn't terrible unplayable garbage like every review that exists of it says, but it is high on the difficulty scale and grindy as fuck if you want to succeed, and even then the RNG element to certain encounters can be a pain in the dick.
It doesn't have as many maps but I wouldn't call it too short because of that, Miami actually has a few things to do for such a cramped game, it probably ends up like 1/2 as long as WL1 if you cut out any grinding portion to not die instantly while approaching the clown compound.
I think by far the biggest problem with the game is that it autosaves, which is crazy, the reason being that there's only one save slot (your entire game directory's files, which comes out to a whopping 950KB) and the game decides to autosave at the most inopportune times possible. Once you come to terms with entire directory copy paste savescumming (well, not really savescumming, just keeping more than 1 "save" available) it becomes tolerable. But this is obviously a huge reason why the game was considered such fucking dogshit back when it came out, imagine reinstalling the game every time you got autosaved into a situation with your entire party in a coma about to die before you can get back to a doctor, I can't imagine ever completing the game under those circumstances.
The setting in general I found to be fine, Killer Clowns and all, it's !!wacky!! and retarded, even more so than the first Wasteland having wacky stuff like Harry the Bunny Master, but it works fine for Fountain of Dreams. The gangs in Miami are suitably wacky but not overly so like the Clowns.
And then look to today, Wasteland 3 is gonna have a clown faction after all. I read in a few places that InXile was looking to buy the Fountain of Dreams IP from EA in 2019 but it was all very [citation needed], I'm wondering if Fargo has some idea to reincorporate FoD into the Wasteland canon in some way all these years later, there was that readable in Wasteland 2 that references FoD. I guess I'll keep an eye out in Wasteland 3 for any retarded possible connections between the clown world factions.
Have any of you fucks ever played this game long enough to complete it?
It doesn't have as many maps but I wouldn't call it too short because of that, Miami actually has a few things to do for such a cramped game, it probably ends up like 1/2 as long as WL1 if you cut out any grinding portion to not die instantly while approaching the clown compound.
I think by far the biggest problem with the game is that it autosaves, which is crazy, the reason being that there's only one save slot (your entire game directory's files, which comes out to a whopping 950KB) and the game decides to autosave at the most inopportune times possible. Once you come to terms with entire directory copy paste savescumming (well, not really savescumming, just keeping more than 1 "save" available) it becomes tolerable. But this is obviously a huge reason why the game was considered such fucking dogshit back when it came out, imagine reinstalling the game every time you got autosaved into a situation with your entire party in a coma about to die before you can get back to a doctor, I can't imagine ever completing the game under those circumstances.
The setting in general I found to be fine, Killer Clowns and all, it's !!wacky!! and retarded, even more so than the first Wasteland having wacky stuff like Harry the Bunny Master, but it works fine for Fountain of Dreams. The gangs in Miami are suitably wacky but not overly so like the Clowns.
And then look to today, Wasteland 3 is gonna have a clown faction after all. I read in a few places that InXile was looking to buy the Fountain of Dreams IP from EA in 2019 but it was all very [citation needed], I'm wondering if Fargo has some idea to reincorporate FoD into the Wasteland canon in some way all these years later, there was that readable in Wasteland 2 that references FoD. I guess I'll keep an eye out in Wasteland 3 for any retarded possible connections between the clown world factions.
Have any of you fucks ever played this game long enough to complete it?