Wasteland 3

This game has its faults.

Like some of the quest being "Go here, do thing, come back, go other place then come back to finish"

Story is very good, loved the chats with the NPC's around the world. Quarex is my beloved.

The OST (or soundtrack) Is honestly very fucking good. The way some songs play in certain battles make it a good slap to the nuts




Buy the game

But its dlc's

Love this game. Starts a bit slow and sometimes things aren't quite as clear as they could be, but in the long run it's a game worth playing 3 times over. Base game is fantastic, don't bother with the expansions.

Wasteland 3 is a classic and a very good RPG in the grand tradition of Wasteland and Fallout, with which it has a common ancestry. I can highly recommend it.

But it is dark as feck. Just so that's said. Like Fallout it has some black humor, but here it's blacker and less humorous; more adult, in a way - coupled with more nerd humor. So there's that.

Re-training characters is very important and the game heavily punishes you for it, having so many characters while trying to avoid overlapping skills is impossible without re-trains.

Just as "DOOM" (1993) set the gold-standard for what an FPS should be at its very roots, so does "Wasteland 3" (2020) for what a CRPG should strive to achieve at a bare minimum. This is a tight, plug-and-play, highly rewarding, and EXTREMELY open-ended game that needs to be studied for decades to come.

great game, can't wait for the apocolypse to come.
Luckily it seems closer in the current political climate then ever ;)

This game is still a buggy mess after 4 years of being out, ive had over a dozen game breaking bugs and i had enough. Im just going to deinstall it and be done with it.

Its.....ok.

Combat is somewhat fun but there are limited options when it comes to character skills and such. Tons of super specific passive skills and a couple of super specific combat skills. Very limiting. World combat (random encounters) use the same combat field always and get super tedious over time.

The story is ok at best, predictable and cliche at its worst. Character growth and story is limited to your npc companions (non-created ones) and is VERY limited. It got to the point i was so bored i just gave up. Captured 2 out of 3 of the main objectives and dropped it. The story and motivations it gives are so bland you just don't care.

This game is really amazing. I don't know where to start. The art, the music, the story, the choices, the combat. It's a really fun RPG - I'd argue the best post-apocalyptic RPG ever made.

Controversial opinion: I also really enjoyed the DLCs. I'm actually a fan of the long drawn-out combats in them, but I'd imagine it's not everybody's cup of tea. (I'm also the kind of weirdo who enjoys XCOM 2's Beta Strike mode, so keep that in mind.)

Fantastic game if you like spending about 15% of your time trying to workaround and fix bugs.

This is a great game. It's very creative and well done. The turn-based combat is a lot of fun. The levelling up, 'classes', character progression, skills, perks, attributes, etc. are all really fun here. Allows for a lot of meta-gaming. The impossible decisions are fun; I have no issue with being forced to choose between two evils in a game. I have read this critique and dismiss it. The art is great and the music is greater. The combat is compelling. I want them to make a Wasteland 4.

The game has a well-crafted story and atmosphere.
The humor and cynicism are unparalleled. The cutscenes are very well directed.

The combat and tactics are decent, though not exceptional.
There's plenty of equipment, the skill tree is okay, and there are some cool Easter eggs.

For difficulty, I'd say it's advanced, and the boss fights are quite enjoyable.

Some decisions in the game have significant consequences.

9/10 points from me. A solid mix of real-time and turn-based combat.

Positives:

• One of the most engaging turn-based combat systems in the CRPG genre
  
• A wide range of weapons, including conventional, futuristic, and cartoonish options
  
• Extensive systems for crafting and gear modification
  
• Great soundtrack
  

Negatives:

• Companions are not fleshed out
  
[*]The setting feels reminiscent of Fallout and does not try to stand out

I Love this game. I have over 170 hours in it and I'm still playing it. The choices, the strategy, the gear, it is all fantastic. This is one game that should be in your collection.

It's a pretty nice game. I like the ambush system. Got progressively more and more bugged though, basically crashing every other hour by the end of it. Also the multiplayer session shouldn't just brutally stop on disconnect, should have at least an automatic save or something for those cases. The way armor and weapon modding work in the vanilla game is just silly imo, but you can mod it out so it's ok I guess.

8/10 farts. nicely done. many choices, upgrades, and characters. great graphics. sometimes your team doesn't follow you when you move? so staging is important

20ish hours into the game and I'm loving it so far (i restart a lot), the story is good, the quests are fun, I found myself laughing out loud a couple of times because of funny dialogue, your choices kinda matter and they have an impact on the world, the classes and customisation are fun and diverse, and finally the combat is a blast

Highly recommend for any rpg fan

If by chance you haven't played this game yet and are curious. its like a CRPG with xcom combat. Can be serious but lots of jokes/goofy moments as well. Overall i think it's worth a buy, it has kept me entertained.

Crazy little world building with some rather interesting folks to meet and kill. Never quite sure if we were the bad guys, but it's kinda hard to tell since everyone seems to be the bad guys. When in Rome....

Overall this is a great game and entry to the Wasteland franchise, however, the story did not feel as carefully crafted compared to the previous games and the latter parts feel rushed through development, effectively deflating all the tension leading up to the final conflict. Nonetheless, the music, dialogue, characters (especially Lucia & The Patriarch), combat, weapons and gameplay (except for crafting) were all amazing and fun to experience. A lot has been improved regarding those aspects from the previous games. Regarding both of the DLC's, unfortunately, they are really lackluster with combat being drawn-out boring encounters, an ensemble of annoying uninteresting characters and little to no nuance to the decisions you can choose from.

Wasteland 3 is an absolutely fantastic (isometric?) RPG. I've never played the first two and even then I don't feel lost in terms of the worldbuilding, this game is so fun!

Good Music, Good Storytelling, much enjoyed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game. One of the best isometric rpgs I've played. It's up there with Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Divinity 2 Original Sin, and XCOM 2 for me. Great story, great music, and plays well with a controller on PC. My first play through was almost 80 hours on normal difficulty, but I still wish it was a little longer, with a few more side quests, but that's just me being greedy. Highly recommended game, especially if it's on sale.

A Fallout 2 clone.
Not bad for entertainment however it needs more polishing.
Couldn't feel what I felt with original Fallouts.
Quests are good Role Playing is meh.
Didnt use any armor or weapon modes. didnt need it on normal difficulty.

Pros
A post apocalyptic dystopian hellhole to explore, quest, battle, contemplate life and death moral dilemmas, in with a great story, voice acting and general ambiance.
Coop with a friend or go solo

If you love Fallout series, this may be right up your alley, the main differences are
different dystopian dimension
Top down view
turn based combat
control up to 6 companions

Cons
Not exactly family friendly
The chickens can cheese things (=




Have fun storming the nuclear winter)))

The turn based strategy got popularized last century and been done so many times. Wasteland however showed up and perfected it.

Awesome CRPG. Skill based progression (Based on your party's skill levels) and decisions matter!

Now this... This is a good game! The single-player experience is wonderful and the online co-op makes this even better. There are so many creative ways to play this one through so I have played this to the end multiple times.

8.5/10
Dark, difficult and hilarious this top down gritty strategy game delivers on all points. The setting is beautifully bleak and hilariously horrible. The extreme challenge of every choice being important both now and later is great for the game play. Honestly the consequences of minor interactions have huge ramifications in unexpected ways throughout.
The downside is the typical run around a set piece and find enemies and loot loop that we all know and love is a part of the experience and honestly a distraction.

Wasteland has always had a very unique flare to its games. Wasteland 3 is certainly unique, but it is also very disappointing in comparison to Wasteland 2.

I'm going to do this in a bullet point form to make this simple:

Pros
-Story is great, although there is a lot of boring dialogue that I eventually found myself skipping by. As with Wasteland 2, I eventually found myself just playing to kill stuff.
-Lots more customisation with outfits and character creation, although armour now shows on your character, so clothing is more or less irrelevant as you never see it.
-They have a lot more weapon variety. E.g. automatic weapons includes automatic bullet and energy weapons, big guns includes spewers(flamethrower, cryothrower etc.) and machine guns.
-Map travel is lovely. You get a nice snow-plow-tank to drive around in and it just looks cool.
-Quests have a suggested level on the quest page, which is useful to know what you should be doing next.

Cons
-Difficulty/balancing is all kinds of wack. If you thought W2's difficulty was ridiculous at times, this game just feels unreal. Overkill(and a lot less fun), but in virtually all fights my characters were being kill in easily 1 or 2 turns, even my 'tanky' character, and enemies are bullet sponges. I dropped the difficulty, and enemies go down by over 200% health (one enemy went from 200~ to 60~). The health and damage values are just insane in this game, it feels like they took the wrong lessons from W2 on balancing.
-Related to the difficulty, there's a lot less tactical options in W3. W2 wasn't the deepest game but it had a lot more depth than W3. Every fight in W3(at wastelander or higher difficulty) just feels like a turn-wide DPS check.
-Status effects are weird. There's some new status effects of course, but they reworked DoT and it's awful. Admittedly I don't remember how much damage they did but in W3 they do % damage, and DoTs last a long time. Having the first aid kit, or alternatively a lot of stims(which is realistically impossible), is essential which is a bit unfortunate as an optional skill.
-There does seem to be some bugs and issues but they are negligible in my experience.
-They removed initiative and who goes first in combat(the first turn) is dependent on who starts the fight. This is a big reason as to why I think the fights in W3 are "DPS checks" because all of your units act at the same time, and vice versa.
-Perks and skills have been changed a little bit, a lot less perks but the skills feels not unique at all.
-Gameplay based on skillchecks sucks like hell, especially when forced into every interaction.

Of anything I could say, my biggest issue is with the combat. I find it unfathomable as to why these turn-based 'tactical' rpgs always find it so difficult to balance their games effectively. Obviously play on the difficulty that suits you, but this game is insane with its damage and health values at, what I assume is, the normal and standard difficulty. I'm talking double your health, quadruple your damage. It was very odd trying to play this game and I was very excited to finally try it, but I was met with utter disappointment. W2 was *much* easier on the normal difficulty (while the harder difficulties were fittingly BS in some parts) and while I appreciate the greater focus on combat with W3, they really dropped the ball here. It feels like they tried to make it more varied and interested but they forgot to balance all the new mechanics, the tweaks, and just everything really. Also, trying to have every skill available to you is somehow harder in W3 and there's weirdly high skill checks in areas / quests that are low suggested level, so expect lots of missed checks. I can't explain that one, it just felt like odd design.

EDIT: Also, to add to the bugs point, one of the biggest issues I've been having quite a big into my playthrough is lag spikes. To compare to this game, I've been able to run games like Cyberpunk 2077, DOOM 2016, and other beefy *OPTIMISED* games that dwarf this game in requirements. Not to mention Wasteland 3, like Wasteland 2, unfortunately runs on Unity. Not the best engine from what I've seen. I mean, it works, but I've seen that it always has its issues especially with optimisation

Great turn-based tactical combat, amazing (and totally wild) worldbuilding, clever writing

A definite upgrade to Wasteland 2, even though many of the upgrades are designed to make the game friendlier to consoles. If you enjoyed the Fallout Series, this is a great next series to pick up.

One of the better rpgs of recent years.
+history
+characters
+humor
+world
+lots of blood
-small bugs
This is what Fallout should look like.

its one of the best rpg games of all times good story telling and nice voice lines the soundtrack ooooooooohman its gold the caracters you find and the funny bad ending of letting the bomb detonate was fun af and steeltown hard af but overall goated game this game was a blast and a enjoyment 10/10

Like, easily, one of the top ten best video game soundtracks of all time... turn based strategy... cool Colorado stuff... best thing since Xcom ! tenouttaten

A very nice game. I discovered it in a list of game similar to x-com, but actually it much more like Fallout series (the old ones, not the recent). The game has many gray morale decisions that somewhat impact the world around you. Cool stuff.

Childrens TV show level dialogue and character writing.

Squad based action RPG gameplay is not fun enough to make up for the writing

This game is tons of fun even though I beat the game on easiest difficulty. Probably one of the best turn-based games I have played by far. The gameplay is superb (combat, crafting, modding, wide range of classes and weapons). Also, the way you must make a thorough decision in hard situations that will have an impact in the flow of the story.

I’ll play this again in normal mode one day. Always side with the patriarch and make America great again.

Super fun game. If fallout and borderlands had a baby this would be it. Will for sure be replaying.

I wanted to love this game with the funny writing, but I keep encountering progress blocking bugs. For example I have already killed an enemy that needed to be killed to progress story, but objective doesn't change. It has happened too many times to continue playing.

Great game, as others have stated it is a bit like XCOM meets Fallout (gameplay to narrative respectively) and although being rather ridiculous at times in terms of events occurring in the story remains an interesting but challenging experience. Supreme Jerk is difficult if thrust into combats you weren't expecting, as most things can one-shot your characters regardless of armor, though similar to Xcom if you maintain a well-rounded team/strategy you'll get through most fights just fine.
DLC's are okay, though it is best to leave them until late in the story (Cult before Aspen and Steeltown after that) as they can be rather difficult with just early game weapons/skill levels. Pursuing one route for Steeltown might necessitate starting earlier as enemies and their damage do scale in that DLC too if you aren't lucky at the start of one end game encounter regarding the protection of an NPC.
Otherwise I had a blast with this game, got all achievements, and had plenty of both chuckles and moments pause throughout the narrative being woven in front of me.

I've tried playing the game before, and while I completed it soon after release I held off reviewing it then, and wanted to get back to it later. Now several years later I have, and ten hours into my new playthrough hit a bug I'd run into on my initial second playthrough. Mission log was completely wiped. Everything just gone. No active quests, no completed quests. All the DLC locations disappeared. Game is now completely unfinishable. Look online and the only thing the Dev has ever said is to use a different version of the game, which is frankly a completely unnacceptable response. The game has been out for years, and a bug this bad is still in it. Do not buy if the Developer cannot be bothered to fix gamebreaking bugs this bad.

It's a lot of fun. The story is interesting and dynamic. The game-play is challenging, but rewarding. I'd love to recommend it, but it just has too many bugs. The first time I tried to play through this game, all of my quests disappeared and I could no longer progress the story. The second time, near the end of the game, it began to freeze during load screens. I just can't recommend a game too buggy to complete.