Wasteland 3

[Sam Lin 3559]

Wasteland 3 is releasing on Fri!

Very much a spiritual successor to original Fallout, the iso-view tiled movement post-apocalyptic game with action points. Wasteland 2 was a cult hit, made largely through crowdfunding, and was quite good though short. Wasteland 3 looks great so far, all of the humor and ethics that the series has always been good at.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/wasteland-3-impressions-post-apocalyptic-tactics-ethics-and-economics/

[Hozz 1017]

Pleasant surprise...I didn't realize it was so close to release until a week or so ago.  Steam shows an unlock at 7p central tonight.

[ulukinatme 1763]

I'm still ticked inXile didn't hire me to be part of the team.  I was so overqualified...

Wasteland 2 was great and definitely felt like the spiritual successor to the original Fallout games.  

[vtaenz 601]

I've heard mixed things on this but if it's more of the same with some things cleaned up here and there I think it will be good (assuming the story is solid). It sounds like the main complaint was "it seems like it was dumbed down for console"

[bernorange 8361]

I enjoyed Wasteland 2.  I read the review referenced in the OP.  I didn't like hearing that load times for game transitions can run almost 2 minutes each.  That would get very old very fast.  I might wait until the PS5 comes out and see if the load times are minimized on that platform.

[Hozz 1017]

I am playing on a PC.  The load times are terrible.  I have an SSD for Windows and an SSD for my games.  My machine will cold boot to the login screen in 9-10 secs.  Loading a save or transitioning an area takes ~30 seconds in the game.  That said, the game is awesome.  Any fans of Fallout 1/2 or Wasteland 2, this game is worth your time and money.

[MillerEP 30455]

Yeah, I've hit some weird bugs on PC, and the same load time issues, hopefully they can patch and optimize it up. So far I'm liking it, I've been a fan of the series forever.

[vtaenz 601]

Any updates from those that played how it was for them? How it compares to Wasteland 2?

[MillerEP 30455]

I mean they have the best faction in the series in Wasteland 3 "The Gippers" So what's not to love?

[Hozz 1017]

18 hours ago, vtaenz said:

Any updates from those that played how it was for them? How it compares to Wasteland 2?

IMO it is a great game and better than 2, which I liked but just was released too soon.