Recent reviews by StealthyKraken

good

Just finished this game on Ranger difficulty in roughly 40 hrs. While I did not explore everything, I did get the Achievement for having a lvl 25 character.

All in all solid gameplay, even if the UI can be a little finnicky and some abilities aren't as intuitive as they could be. I've shot my own people more times than I'm comfortable to admit, just because I was looking at the hit percentages on one character and then, wanting to switch to a different character to see theirs, I clicked the sidebar only to end up killing my sniper with a salve of automatic fire. But I digress. I doubt there will be much about the gameplay that I'll remember. All in all, I don't recall much variety between the fights. This may be due my relatively save playstyle and I did not experiment much with the weird science weapons until the last 10% of the game's story. In terms of enemy variety and interesting abilities, XCOM 2 comes to mind as better example. Or Divinity Original Sin 2 for the mixing of environmental effects. While you can discover some fun weapons for sure and nothing beats the satisfaction of that 5k sniper one-hit kill on a boss, gameplay isn't what made this game stand out to me.

Its strong suit is the dialogue, the voice acting and the soundtrack. I really have to stress the good work of the audio department on this game. The way gameplay and sound worked together will definitely be the thing that I will remember about this game. It reminds me a little of the original Red Dead Redemption. Sure, I finished that game because it was a good. But I played through it 5 more times after that, just so I could listen to Far Away by José Gonzaléz while riding my horse along a river. Not spoil anything, let's just say I have a feeling it will be similar with this game.

To close, I've had some bugs that added about 3-4 hours to the playtime due to a garbled up save game where a faction I aided would treat as though I hadn't. Across the internet there's reports that this game is lacking some polish in terms of bugs and I can relay that. After one or two more patches I can definitely recommend picking this game up. At its current state I'd give it a 6/10 with potential towards 7/10.

Makes you feel eerily like Mad Max. Because by the time you finish this game, the repetitive and shallow core gameplay loop will have turned you into an insane man. The muscle car to fit didn't come with it, I'm afraid to say.

I'd actually love to recommend the game, but as it stands I've quit the game too many times due to outstanding annoyances.
Several glitches have costed me at least a quarter of my playtime in progress, due to the game either not saving properly or glitches forcing me to either Alt + F4 or be stuck eternal.

It's really remarkable how such gamebreaking bugs are this frequent four months after release.

Let's see for how long I'll remain salty about the last bit of BS before I pick it up again.


Update 2020:
Still a waste of time.

Do NOT get this SH*T GAME!

S-SHUT UP!

I'M N-NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!

Ever been so mad that you wanted to hit a motherf****r with another motherf***r? Well, then this is the game for you.

5/7 would again use a bagged friend as a weapon


(But seriously, the amount of detail and polish to this game is amazing.)