Introduction

What up GOG, this is my 2nd try* on requesting Wasteland 2. Hopefully this time ^{this time.....}

^{* here's the link to the first one}

I'm gonna try and shake things up here in my 2nd try, but if you've read my first post I can't blame you if the things you read here might somewhat feel like a retread.

Anyway, New Vegas gave me an itch for the Post Apocalyptic Genre and crafting your own characters and this game seems to be the one that'll give me the creamy lotion needed to sate this terrible itch

What is Wasteland 2 (The Abridged Edition)

Wasteland 2 is a sequel to Wasteland, one of the most significant influences to the Fallout series (Next to Mad Max), it takes places in an alternate timeline where a nuclear holocaust happens during 1998.

It has very deep character creation features despite the limited ways on how you can mold your character's appearance (Something which I hope will be improved upon in the Director's Cut)

You control up to 6 individuals, 4 of which you can create yourself and an addition 2 you can recruit. Combat is sort of like X-Com/Classic Fallout, everything is turnbased and your environment is used to gain levity among foes, like using destructible cover, getting the high ground, or blowing up explosive objects. Like most CRPGs, there are skill checks, branching paths, multiple outcomes, and different scenarios that can occur

Why Wasteland 2? Why not Fallout 3? The Classic Fallouts, or any of S.T.A.L.K.E.R series?

I'm gonna be real here, I'm an RPG player true and thru and through. While I heavily enjoyed New Vegas and Borderlands, I'll still prefer old school turn based dice rolling, and despite New Vegas and FO3 also still being an RPG, there are moments when just player skill can just trump character skill ,Though New Vegas tried to hamper that by having hard checks for most skill checks, meaning you can't do them unless you have the required skill, unlike say Skyrim, in which if you're skilled enough, the difference between a Very Hard and a Normal Lock is unnoticeable. I want something that can definitely either go really bad or really good for me depending on what image I had for my character not because I played this game for 50 Hours and have enough muscle memory on what to do in certain situations that my "character" shouldn't theoretically be able to know

That still doesn't explain why not the Classic Fallouts

While I am still interested in the Fallout series, most of what I heard about Fallout 1 and 2 is that you really need to be optimized in your builds, which really dampens the whole creating my own character because apparently I need these skills in my build so I'll even have a chance of getting thru the game. I'll probably get to these games though once I have the mind set for it.

But WHY Wasteland 2?

To risk repeating myself and sounding redundant. I like creating my own characters, I like thinking up fun gimmick runs in New Vegas, and seeing as how this game gives the opportunity to make multiple characters, that's like Fun^4, that's Fun raised to the fourth power, Fun multiplied by Fun multiplied by Fun multiplied by Fun! I like the squad elements because unlike just loosing my character and immediately starting on the last savefile, that character is permanently dead but without the tediousness of having to replay the entire thing all over again. Instead, I just have to push through with what I have left and see what happens next. I like how open everything seems to be, but not too open that I'll be left helpless and have nowhere to go. I love how the game presents itself as a choose your own adventure game (Heh, anyone remember those books? I was a Goosebumps guy myself) where you can do anything as long as you deal with the consequences of your actions. But most of all, I love games that gives everyone who plays it an individual, unique experience that only they can witness but can be shared with like minded people.

Misc Stuff

My Steam ID

http://steamcommunity.com/id/KalElSonOfJorEl

The Store Page of the game

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