Comment on Wasteland 2 is something I wish I didn't feel mid about
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
At the time it came out, CRPG throwbacks were still a pretty rare sight, and the ones that did come out after Baldur’s Gate 2 and Fallout had low production values, like Geneforge.
Getting to see a new CRPG with modern graphics and lots of voice acing was really exciting. I know it’s why I bought it.
But I never finished it. The intro sequence at the farm with the killer rabbits was so unbalanced, the hardest part of the game, and poorly done. It was cool that you could have different characters do dialogue and be a hardass or a smartass or a kissass, they did all feel like different flavors if the same outcome. And the game was just too long, so after putting 40 hours into it and still not being close to done, I put the game down.
Someday I’ll definitely try Wasteland 3, since HowLongToBeat says it’s shorter.
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Good points and yes the rabbits at the farm are insanely hard for the very first encounters. It’s easily the hardest fights you’ll have in the entire first act.
I did appreciate the different types of dialog skills but really I think it could have been done better. Mostly because there are so many other skills to level into that by the time you’re done, you’ll probably have not even hit level 10 on your main weapon skills with some characters. I’d say you get about 2 skills that you can max out with each character and then 2 other skills you can half invest in by the end. And that’s out of close to 30 skills I think? So there’s just much more meaningful stuff to invest in.
IMO the way this should’ve been handled is through skills. So have a general speech stat that allows you to talk your way through difficult conversations and then either use items or actual skill points to get special outcomes using kiss/kick/smart ass. They also aren’t used the same amount it seems. Smart ass barely seems used in the second half of the game. Kick ass is used the moss, kiss ass somewhere in between. Just an odd choice of systems.