Wasteland 2 Kickstarter

[Tonitrus]

I got and just started on it. 

I never played the original, and mostly got it as a time-killer.  But so far, I am finding it entertaining.  No huge bugs/flaws so far.

Perhaps my biggest complaint would be that I wish there were a way to save my custom-created characters (to be available along with the stock characters, if I were to restart).

[PRC]

I'll kick in my 50 bucks when the game goes on Steam.

You're in luck, only requires $40.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/

[Razgovory]

Neat.  I'm really impressed by you being able to talk to 2012 Raz.  I'll be your best friend ever if you can send a message to 1995 Raz.

[Valmy]

Neat.  I'm really impressed by you being able to talk to 2012 Raz.  I'll be your best friend ever if you can send a message to 1995 Raz.

Fraid the best we can do is 2009 Raz.  Anything you would like for me to tell him?

[Razgovory]

No, he's already a fucking tard.  I hate that guy.  I blame him for the weight gain.  We need to get a message to pre-2000 Raz before he goes over the edge.

[Caliga]

What should we tell him?  I'm loading Mr. Fusion up with rotten bananas now.

[Legbiter]

So is the game good? Is it like the old Fallout games?

[Legbiter]

No, he's already a fucking tard.  I hate that guy.  I blame him for the weight gain.  We need to get a message to pre-2000 Raz before he goes over the edge.

Message sent.

[Valmy]

So is the game good? Is it like the old Fallout games?

Wish I had time to play it.  The reviews are all pretty high and it is selling like crazy.

[Tonitrus]

I didn't play the old Fallout either, but if I understand correctly, I think it is.

It plays a real-time, 3rd person top-down, isometric view, and goes into turn-based, X-COM type combat (using action points).
NPC interaction is the usual pick-a-topic-based-on-key-words (and may be based on previous convo's, things you have found).

The '"feel" of the world/graphics reminds me a lot of those Crusader: No Remorse/Regret games, except for the going into turn-based combat part.  The isometric view can be annoying at times, making you rotate/zoom out quite a bit just to see a goodie box/door.

Skill diversification is a major must-have.  It seems that if you don't have someone with decent skills in everything (from lock picking to safecracking to computer hacking), you can miss out on quite a few things...or just have to go the really hard way.

And plot wise, the game whallops you with a pretty hard decision(it seems with major story ramifications) early on.

But, so far, I am enjoying it quite a bit. 

I had it crash one time, and another where it "lost" the mouse curser (just had to restart).  So stability is so-far, so-good (I am playing right now on my Mac OS).

[Pedrito]

This game is hard. It was quite some time since I reloaded so many times in the first game hours. In the first encounters, a jammed gun at the wrong turn is enough to destroy the party.

Toni, I imagine the hard decision is [spoiler]between the agricultural complex and the water reservoir[/spoiler]: which one did you choose to save?

My main gripe is that I find difficult to sort my characters from the zoomed out view, the one I use most of the time; perhaps a bit more diversification was better.

L.

[Tonitrus]

Yeah, I hear you on the save/reload...I swear the skill percentage chances are way off..too many failures on 90%+ skill checks.  It also seems there are quite a few skill check spots that are unrealistically difficult for what is essentially your starting mission (the Highpool/Ag Center missions).  Maybe to encourage people to go back to them later.

As for the hard decision: [spoiler]I actually have just now done both!  I started with Ag Center, and finished that...but saw a spoiler online that made me want to choose Highpool instead.  And having learned more about how the skills work, and their impacts, felt inclined to start over anyway, before I really got too far in.[/spoiler]

I mostly play zoomed in, and only go far out for those few rooms that are too blocked off unless you zoom out...or to double check for hidden goodie boxes.

[Syt]

Could it be the 90% chances shown are base chance, unmodified by enemy stats/rolls? Blackguards does a similar thing.

[Duque de Bragança]

Participated in the funding by Kickstarter so I am playing. I like it but and yes it's close to classic Fallout but different enough. Tough choices (early dilemma e.g as said before [spoiler]but how did you make both [/spoiler]Tonitrus?) and skill specialisation as said before. Toaster skills can wait the mid-game

[Tonitrus]

Participated in the funding by Kickstarter so I am playing. I like it but and yes it's close to classic Fallout but different enough. Tough choices (early dilemma e.g as said before [spoiler]but how did you make both [/spoiler]Tonitrus?) and skill specialisation as said before. Toaster skills can wait the mid-game

[spoiler]You cannot save both.  I had restarted a new game.  If you save one, it appears you get a severely abbreviated version of the other.  And I think overall, the saving Ag Center mission is a bit more in-depth, lengthy than saving Highpool. [/spoiler]