Eurogamer has a new video of the beta version of Wastelands 2. As usual a spoiler warning is required, and you have been warned.
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Wasteland 2 - Lets Play Video @ Eurogamer
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Looks very promising!
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DArtagnan
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"Tested" the beta - and I was impressed. Think it will be a good game and I'm definitely buying it 
I'm tempted by the idea, but I think this is one of those games that I'd rather not experience prior to playing the finished version.
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DArtagnan
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Fair enough
I only played 20-30 minutes to confirm it'd be for me - and it was
That said, I'm NOT impressed by the UI - which is both ugly and needlessly elaborate/clunky. I'm sure it will be improved, but I'm not seeing it ever being great.
Thankfully, the rest of the game was just up my alley.
I only played 20-30 minutes to confirm it'd be for me - and it was
That said, I'm NOT impressed by the UI - which is both ugly and needlessly elaborate/clunky. I'm sure it will be improved, but I'm not seeing it ever being great.
Thankfully, the rest of the game was just up my alley.
Fair enough
I only played 20-30 minutes to confirm it'd be for me - and it was
That said, I'm NOT impressed by the UI - which is both ugly and needlessly elaborate/clunky. I'm sure it will be improved, but I'm not seeing it ever being great.
Thankfully, the rest of the game was just up my alley.
Damn - had thought the UI looked pretty good from early demos - isn't it reconfigurable?
Fair enough
I only played 20-30 minutes to confirm it'd be for me - and it was
That said, I'm NOT impressed by the UI - which is both ugly and needlessly elaborate/clunky. I'm sure it will be improved, but I'm not seeing it ever being great.
Thankfully, the rest of the game was just up my alley.
They said it was one of the major points they wanted to improve during beta, especially the inventory and character creation UI's. The gameplay UI is alright by me.
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DArtagnan
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Yes, but I didn't mess around with that. I don't think it can fix the general opaque nature and layout. I used to be a pretty hardcore gamer, so it's no big deal to me - but I can see it as a big turn-off to some people.
It's just that it takes a lot of fiddling around for minor stuff - like using items correctly from inventory and the like. I also happen to think it's butt ugly - but it might just be a deliberate style that I'm not falling for.
That said, it does have some relatively slick "sounds" and sliding stuff - so it's not completely rough or anything.
I'd just say it was designed with incompetence by a non-UI person.
Fallout 1 and 2 were better - and they share the same functionality, more or less.
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DArtagnan
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Rough = unfinished - and it seems they've worked a lot on it, they just don't really know what they're doing
Thrasher
Wheeee!
Ugh, I hated the FO1 and 2 inventory UI. So slow to scroll through all those items…. This is worse?
Unfortunately RPGs have had tortuous inventory management UIs since their inception most often with insufficient space for the amount of stuff you need to carry and poor sorting, stacking etc, necessitating constant trips back to town and reorganisation. That's something that really sucks IMOP. This is one area that MMOs have solved pretty well, whether you like them or not for other reasons. In particular, the inventory UI (and configuration UI) for Guild Wars 2 are awesome. Wish everyone would just copy that.