Wasteland 3: Review After 100% 

This is the next game after BG3 in my backlog. I played a bit on release and loved it, but like all of these kinds of games, I bounced off of it at a certain point. BG3 did for me what elden ring did. It smoothed the experience out enough for me to finally "get it." Always loved what crpgs had to offer in role-playing and choice. Just never could grasp the tactical aspects. I get it now.

I adore this game. Probably the most fun I’ve had in an rpg since New Vegas. I wouldn’t say it falls apart in the last act, but it definitely feels a bit rushed. Sadly, it’s clear there was a lot cut from the game, but hopefully a lot of it gets added in through dlc or a director’s cut.

Continued success and growth to you. I randomly found your Kingdom come 100% video and was so impressed I've begun watching your older content. As you can tell from a comment on a 2 year old video.

22:53, Ironclad Cordite is pretty involved and has a good arc to his story if you choose to do the scar collector's mission with him and we learn a lot through him about the Patriarch and his history with him, so I've found him interesting.

I loved playing the first game in the series in the late 80's on my C-64, so I am extremely intrigued with this new one & DLC! Thank you for the in-depth review, you clearly are the best at profiling these turn-based RPG's & go over them in a very enjoyable way my friend!

20:17 Was surprised about that recently. It always surprised me how even tutorial achievements were not earned by some people which implies they boot it up but don't touch it after I guess.

I was kind of disappointed too that there was no option to join the other side gangs, but I guess it would have taken them forever to make this game. Can't wait for the DLC though

I've been sitting on this game for the last few years. After a few reviews and finally biting the bullet, I really don't know how I didn't jump on this sooner. Expertly crafted is one way to put it. Game is super fun addictive and all that good shyt 👍

The 3D conversations were huge for Baldur's Gate 3 as well. I agree they help a ton!

The humor here is spot on. Love the two robots and the dark over the top characters. The talking heads are amazing and it never gets old to get the Honeybadger into your squad, who kills just everything.

I suspect that the to hit chance is capped at 95% is that each attack has a D20 behind it. If you roll a 1 (5% chance) you will miss no matter what.

Defiantly one of the best post apocalyptic games since New Vegas

Big thanks for timestamping the spoiler bit! Glad I could still watch this review.

Faran Brygo huh? Nice little Easter egg for Brian Fargo, the creator of the Fallout series.

DLCs helped with frontloaded content issue steeltown adds midgame quest hub and Cult of Holy detonation adds content to late game. And you forgot in companion section that you can recruit Victory Buchanan oldest Son of Patriarch . And of all his kids one that deserve bullet most.

100% completion is Legendary. Boulders Gate 100% is going to be monumental task.

Have to disagree with "companions are boring". Personally i enjoy most of Them, and they do what i expect Them to do. So for me they are perfect 👍

Oh man this game is good. Took a lot out of me to play CRPGs back to back. Pillars 2 then this, but well worth it. Almost done, but I think my next game will be a bit more brain dead.

You forgot to mention the most important skill in the game, and probably in the crpg genre: Toaster Repair.

a ronald reagan AI god? uncle ruckus must be loving it there

I absolutely love this game and it's a massive improvement on the second game. I'm new to CRPGS but I love them. I hater turn based games when I was younger mainly Final Fantasy stuff. I only like one FF type game and I got really into CRPG games with Classic Fallout and Wasteland 2.

The Twitter account became active again after BG3. This game laid such a great foundation. Hopefully a sequel can be developed that builds upon it, fixes its issues, and actually provides some good companions.

Installing this now, just grabbed it in the Steam Summer sale at 80% off!

Played Wasteland 3 after seeing this review. absolutely loved it. thanks a lot!

I do prefer the more serious tone with the odd joke and weirdness from Wasteland 2 - but this plays so nicely. Everything just fits. The music, the roleplaying, the builds and synergies, the rapid turnbased combat - its a really, really good game.

Definitely gonna pick this up when it's on sale, thanks Mortim!

fun fact fallout is actually a spiritual successor to Wasteland because the creator of wasteland wanted to make a sequel but EA owned the rights and didn't want to financially back it since wasteland wasn't a commercial success like Fallout was.

I suspected this game was front-loaded because watching the very early let’s plays the game looked super amazing, yet I’ve heard less buzz about it later on. This is why I don’t buy games at release. That said, I will pick this up on discount.

I usually hate turn based games but for some reason I loved how this one was done so maybe it's a turning point in my gaming or maybe this game is just an exception.

Been fun so far, the only issue the game has is that it never feels like you have a squad of people your playing with as much as you've amassed a blob of stats that either can or can't solve problems because of the number by their skill. A lot of the game outside of fights just feels like running point to point, with each point going, "Here's choices, and then here's the best choice hidden behind 'Skill name: Number'." and either the game auto-selecting the part of your blob that has the number, or nothing happening.

One of my favorite games. Great dialogue, music, mood. Masterpiece!

This is what fallout was supposed to be. I really wish if the old gameplay with improvements. Wasteland is an amazing series of game, not free of problems but still great.

Hey and for the record it wasn't douchy to say you found it very easy we need that info most of us know you are very good at this genre so super easy for you isn't super easy for me 😁 but that's the info we need so we appreciate it and don't hold back

I'm very glad I found your channel! Are you planning on doing a Pathfinder Kingmaker video?

@21:00 they did the same thing with wastelands 2. to a point that the game was broken on the second half. looks like they somewhat fixed it on the director's cut, but this is an inexile thing.

I need to go back to this game and see how it is now. I put a lot of hours into it in co-op on PlayStation but it was one of the buggiest releases I’ve ever seen. We finally hit a game breaking one and gave up on it. A shame, because the writing and gameplay were great.

I wanted to play this game with a friend, but online multiplayer was bugged and broken at launch, so we gave up after a while. Has this been fixed so that we might give it another try?

No mention of Scotchmo? He’s an absolutely hilarious companion, not too mention the only direct carryover companion from WL2!

I liked it overall. Can understand there were too many bugs at launch. But the game has great combat and a mediacore storyline. It's short but not terribly short

Yeah I finished a play through on Xbox with minimal bugs (some game crashes and quest problems) but trying to do a 2nd play through is just impossible for me. The entire game fell apart basically, vendors don't sell anything, combat crashes when trying to move rangers etc

I agree that the highest difficulty is not difficult, but it is amusing to do create pretty shtty teams, perhaps even more "realistic" teams without min-maxing stats. That said, the first part of the game can be annoying with min-min builds. That said, even when playing to win most battles forces you to use your brain. Not many battles work well by rushing, so compared to many titles its rare that you feel completely overleveled (except Denver if you do everything else first).

I'd like to see you do a 100% on Wasteland 2. I think the game is a little clunky and occasionally annoys me but it is good. It also is very difficult compared to W3.

I liked this a lot - but I did prefer Wasteland 2, it just seemed larger in scale, longer and deeper to me.

Wasteland 3 Colorado Collection is $19.99 on GOG if anyone is on the fence about getting this. Going to take the plunge. Thanks for the review

Liberty Buchanan alone is reason enough to give this game a try.

Every time watch one of your videos, I always expect the DOS2 music at the beginning...

Can't wait to play this one after I finally finish BG3 lol

haha "Faran Brygo" I get I get

wasteland 3 is a great game i love it , but i stumbled upon Disco Elysium and i truly couldn't stop .

I'm disappointed to hear they frontloaded this. I would have enjoyed the last Wasteland a lot more if it weren't for the second act where everything just sort of fell apart and it got boring. It feels like devs planning for players to not finish a game becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hey I would really love if you reviewed Underrail. It is my favorite cRPG, with some great stealth mechanics. One that you might find a great challenge, particularly on dominating difficulty. With two different ways to earn EX. Through xp and killing. Or through finding items throughout the world. There is a lot of builds to choose and enjoy.

the game itself is great! it runs like crap on my PS5 but plays really smooth on my series S

Bought my buddy this game so we could have a coop run. Im happy that not only does he love the game, but he got more people to get the game.

i can’t possibly figure out which name “faran brygo” is supposed to be a play on…

I just finished this game today and man it’s been a blast! The final battle feels like something was missing and it felt a little easy? This game is criminally underrated and I put it up there with DOS2 and Witcher 3 , there are various outcomes to certain factions that you allied with and it affects the consequences of the world itself and it affects final ending too

22:00 MAJOR SPOILERS: Well, you can't formally join a gang. You can, however, with Cordite as companion, choose to bring the gangs to destroy Colorado Springs for the final battle. It will piss off everyone at HQ, and the only companions okay with decision are Fishlips, Cordite, Scotchmo, and Vic. Everybody else would leave. You then can have the option of choosing to go East with Ironclad or do so by yourselves as an ending. (possible DLC... imo)

Thank you for the review

Just the mere fact that you even try to 100% gets me back every time. That I like your taste in games and outlook.

I loved this game. I like that its full of moral gray areas. Obviously the developers wanted to steer you in the "down with the patriarchy" direction, but i'm glad it wasn't forced down your throat. I opted to arrest the patriarch's kids and peacefully work with him, to maintain the stability of the region, and get the needed supplies to Arizona.

You can join Liberty - that’s kinda like joining the gangs.

you forget the best companion, morningstar

Loved this game, its still a bit of a go to if I haven't got anything else I fancy playing

Just popping in to ask about the state of the game. I haven't started yet due to the reports of all the bugs. Do you think it's suitably fixed to play yet?

Love your stuff Mortam!

The problem with this game is the fatigue from trying to optimize my party’s perfect skill spread.

absolutely loved this game

Worth to replay it? I loved every minut of it, but not sure i can replay it with the way i know all the Areas.

This is the first CRPG game that I've played. I was really enjoying it.. the hours just disappeared while playing lol. That is until I got the Steeltown.. I lost all motivation to keep playing here. I felt myself just getting bored on that section. To make matters worse the game crashed on me in 2 different battles while doing non-lethal forcing me to start the battle all over again. It just happened a third time and I just chose to delete it. It sucks cause I was really loving the game.

Have you ever tried “Tower of Time”?

did u have vic as companion? he has a lot of comments especially with patriachs 3 wives..pretty sure he is voiced by the same actor of handsome jack

How's the difficulty compared to Wasteland 2?

scotchmo is also fun as a companion

Good game, but highly repetitive combat. Combat experience peaks I think during the Bizzare mission where you clear the Payasos. Pretty challenging I'll give them that. After that, however, it would appear that combats are too homogenic. Low on AP vs robots? Hack 'em. Don't want to waste time on a few toads? Tame the beast. After learning that your tank is better used as a rammer than as a tank that fires shots, you should have no problem with encounters in the wild.

Wish they would remaster the first two games and sell as a bundle. I would buy that in a heart beat.

I did enjoy this game but I think the buggy console launch prevented me from finishing it. The game crashed dozens of times (not exaggerating, on Xbox Series X) and while I thought the game was good, I only have so much patience for a game. If it wasn't good the crashes would have turned me off way earlier. Now I'm on to Wrath of the Righteous, so I don't know when I'll get a chance to come back to this game

Fantastic game. Still looking for something to match the entertainment this brought me

Will I enjoy this game if I'm not into strategy games? I love RPGs a lot btw

This game deserves way more attention than it gets. Also, if you take the Circus Freak perk, your character looks like a clown. I was really hoping that would change your teams interactions with the Payosas.

I keep almost buying this, but whenever I look up some footage of the game to get an impression of what it might generally be like to play, the comedic writing turns me off of the idea completely. I just do not share this game's sense of humor and find it super obnoxious. Is the overall tone as consistently comedy-oriented as most previews make it appear?

I really struggle to power though this one. I remember Wasteland2 being clunky but not THAT clunky. I really can’t get into the story. It seems absurd for absurdity sake.

Well usually a ton of pc players hates turn base. Playing this on console it will be harder for a real time game play. I understand the hate but it's the game play and story matters the most.

a lot of early side missions but empty end game cut content, you also couldn't choose many choices you want... great points there man 👌❤

There is an ending where you join the gangs…

This or Atom Rpg? I want to buy the better game

What a classic. Great game.

I really enjoyed this game. It was almost as good as wasteland 2.

One thing I noted in the story section. (Spoilers for the franchise ahead.) The nuclear war wasn't an accident. It was a Terminator future scenario. A US defense computer became self-aware, and decided that humanity represented a threat to it. The space station you mentioned was an automated defense station controlled by the AI. It altered the data it was sending the US to include a false distress signal so the US government thought a meteor shower was actually a Soviet nuclear missile barrage. This led to the US launching nukes at its enemies, and they retaliated but the space station was destroyed and the AI's main base was severely damaged preventing it from launching any attacks against the surviving humans until the era of Wasteland 1 where defeating the AI is the original game's final objective.

Wasteland 3 is the best game that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. It's just way too buggy and fucked up. I've finished it (and loved it), but after recently buying the DLC I can't even get to the main menu without the game crashing

It's in good family, this one is short compared to WL2.

This game is so fucking good

"Faran Brygo" Brian Fargo hmmmmm

The meteor part is Wrong, In wasteland 2 you find out what actually happens. So for those interesting click the read more. for those who don't wish for spoils, play the game (Wasteland 2) Spoilers, you've been warned So the Cochise (however you spell it) AI started to become more conscious, learning and watching. Realizing that it would, at some point, be taking down and basically "killed". Also realizing that Humanity is flawed and it would never stop fighting, no matter how hard it tried. So the AI decided to strike first, Faking the meteor part and launching the missiles, nuking the world to oblivion. Th problem was it didn't kill everyone. So in the first game it tries to finish the Job by creating robots, and killing every Human it finds. Of course it fails and humanity lives. But in the second game (to make a long story short) it uses a guy to get back into power, taking control of the new Ranger Citadel and taking over people (with robotics) and machines, toting how it'll finish the job. You decide to nuke the base killing everything inside

The game seemed a bit rushed and unfinished to me.

Any chance mutant year zero review

I love this game. Times batter than bg3

Does it have way points

Wonderful game, indeed....but not as good as Wasteland 2. W2 has the better story, the better maps & quests (Canoyon of the Titan!!) and because of the lower budget it looks more realistic. I thought that the fights in W3 have too much details, bars, colors, etc. When you fight too many enemies it becomes confusing due to too much information on the screen. But as I said, I love both games, W2 just feels a little bit more realistic - especially in the first part until they fly to L.A.

I dont understand how you can not like turn based combat Action combat has its place, but rpgs are very strong when theyre turn based.

Funny how inexile had a joke in wasteland 2 that they would never do dlc and yet for 3 almost straight away.🙄Loved wasteland 2. This is not a deserving sequel. It’s not a bad game but the fights lack the tactical aspect of 2. Plus the humour is just…gone..the storyline is simpler, although I guess the muddier morality is meant to add depth.I finished this in very little time. ☹️

Too many damn loading screens