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Comment on Wasteland 2 is something I wish I didn't feel mid about

setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I feel like Wasteland 3 improved on your complaints specifically, and in general it was a lot more tightened up. WL2 while good just sort of seemed to go on and on and on, especially when you go to LA and essentially have to start over. The game world was just too big, and much of it pointless.

WL3 presents the central conflict right from the start, which is a faction based dispute and going to deal with it involves radiating from the central location and then going back to it. It builds more faction investment by creating ongoing interactions with them, and quest choices will affect standing with factions which have tangible effects in the game world. I think this helped make it feel like less of a drag than WL2’s mystery which was sort of vague and didn’t really involve much back and forth with the player until the end.

WL3 uses talking heads for important characters, and they convey a lot more personality. With recruitable special NPCs there is actual voiced party banter, and special NPCs have their own loyalities which can make them leave a party under extreme circumstances.

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steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wasteland 3 is objectively better but I missed some of the janky charm of 2 when I played it.

Take my opinion with a pinch of salt since I only got halfway through each of them.

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CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Good to hear. I’ve heard really great things about 3 so I’m excited to try it. Your points did bring up what I thought a lot about this game though. It feels like they had a lot of time for world building, dialog, and level design but just never put all that work to good use. Likely that was due to time and budget but what you get is a product spread too thin. Still fun but not enough meat on the bone to stay constantly engaged.

And yeah talking to people was fun with the voice actors doing a great job but I look forward to actually seeing their faces instead of a poorly rendered character portrait.

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- setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s definitely worth playing, I can’t stress how refined 3 is compared to 2. Also a while after launch I mentioned in the wasteland subreddit I was having a very particular bug and a dev reached out by PM asking for screenshots. The bug was fixed in the next patch. That really meant a lot to me.
  
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- charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Wasteland 3 is one of the few games that I beat and then immediately ran it back. So, in my opinion, it’s a good game.
  
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