There is a skill book for Weird Science named "It Just Works." You know what it means.

this game made everything feel like a main quest in quality

It's amazing when the major bugs don't interfere.

I have to say, this is my first wasteland game, and I haven't been this hooked on an RPG in a looooooong time. The replay value is huge

Loving this game so far. I have a hard time playing Fallout 1 and 2, due to the perspective, but I find this a lot more playable. I like the pacing a lot more than Wasteland 2 as well. Wasteland 2 pretty much throws you into a few very hard missions at the beginning. Here you basically start in a playground.

Praise the game pass, wouldn’t have tried this game without it but now I’m looking forward to giving it a try.

You’ve probably already figured this out but when you arrest someone you actually get to choose where they’re detained. You can radio for the marshals to take them to a marshal facility or radio to ranger hq to detain them at your base. Sheriff Daisy isn’t to happy when you lock downtown Colorado criminals in the ranger hq. Such a great game

Never played wasteland ever and I was surprised how easy the story is to get the grips with to be honest

I play a lot of games but I tend to bounce from game to game, playing multiple games at the same time. I have played nothing but this since it came out on Thursday.

Ground control to Major Tom . . . Commencing hair ball, dry heave on.

Can’t wait to pick it up. Thanks for the review Matty! Been here 5 years, still love your content 💪🏼💪🏼🔥

Almost done with the game and I really have to commended InExile for their writing. Normally when I play an RPG I feel compelled to choose the morally good option no matter what because the "evil" and grey options are always too over the top. However once things got a bit grey I ended up supporting a character that I would normally kill on the spot to the determent of another I really liked. And it's also really amazing how used a loose plot thread from the last game to achieve this greyness.

Wasteland 3 made me fall in love with tactical based/turn-based combat! It's seriously a pinnacle of RPGs with it's genius writing, adicting combat, build varriety, infinite choices (that actually have a huge impact), slapping soundtrack and phenomenal world building!

Loving the game after 20 hours. I’m impressed by the balance between depth and accessibility. There’s plenty of choice and consequence and a lot to learn when building your characters, but it also does a great job with tutorials and getting you into the swing of things quickly. As you mentioned, I think it does a better job at this than other recent CRPG’s like Divinity 2 or Pillars of Eternity. It’s just got a brisk pace to it that makes a huge RPG like this feel a little less intimidating. Also, infinite inventory weight! What an amazing change compared to most other western RPG’s.

This is the first time one of these CRPGs really hit home with me. The game manages to be deep and accessible at the same time, while consistently throwing interesting stories and choices at you non stop. It’s quickly becoming my favorite “Fallout” game of all time, and might even be one of my favorite 5 or 10 games I’ve ever played. Absolutely over the moon in love with this game.

After I got Major Tomcat I went to the HQ and he ended up dying in a fight... Reverted the save and lost like half an hour and then released him as a companion because I was going to be a long dangerous road and I couldnt have his blood on my conscious.

Who knows how great their next game is gonna be with Microsoft’s backing?

8:40 Oh... poor Polly... I paid for the bird and... let's say... the next encounter was giving me a feather as loot ^^;

i love how this game manage the text, it simple and user friendly while other rpg games throw at you a full page of text to your face...

Because of you I bought DOS2 and I love it - made its way to my top 3 fav games of all time. I know it's not related, I just wanted to thank you.

A killer review, you nailed the essence of this outstanding RTS adventure man! Digging it since launch day, radically improved over "Wasteland 2"!

As someone old enough to have played Wasteland 1 when it first came out, I'm not at all surprised.

Excellent video! I'm loving this game so far too - only about 20 hours in, but there's literally nothing I don't like about it, other than some of those sporadic technical issues here and there (like one fight against 3 razorbacks somehow dropped my fps to ~20, when I run at a smooth 60 against 7+ Payasos - very weird). I could go on for hours on how much fun I'm having, but suffice it to say, the combat, story, characters, chracter-build systems, and just overall "feel" of this game are top notch - great balance of dark humor, and just...dark scenarios in general. That Randy Gett quest at 3:11 man...I was thoroughly uncomfortable at the end of that one, and I love this game for making me feel that way I also like what you said about the combat - I find myself favoring strictly turn-based CRPG combat these days (e.g. Wasteland 3, Divinity OS 1 and 2) over traditional pause-resume combat (e.g. Pillars of Eternity, Baldur's Gate). I think it's just much easier to really flex that "strategic muscle" without being bogged down by random issues like being in bad position because the AI decided to path strangely, pausing just 1 second too late to re-issue orders, and now one of our characters did something suboptimal that might cost you the fight, etc. In Wasteland 3, if you're out of position, or whiff a move to the point of no return, it's more often than not because you made a poor and/or needlessly risky decision (which I've done on several occasions, costing me entire encounters at times).

Great review thank you! I'm thinking of getting this game at some point!

Fallout 4 feels like a linear game compared to wasteland 3

I'm loving this game, had to get through some fights on my last legs. Ran out of ammo and had to send my characters into a barefist melee.

A couple days ago, I was playing WL3 singleplayer and I had a buddy of mine in party chat doing the Dorsey mission in the GotD, when I found a frozen ferret launcher. I thought that was the funniest weapon in existence, it's so absurd that I doubt that even borderlands wouldn't even try to pull that off. My friend and I proceeded to laugh with its absurdity for the next 15 minutes or so. Seriously awesome game.

I really want this game. But it’s one of those games where I’ll just wait for it to be on sale

Playing through this game now with a buddy and we just got to the first big twist and we're so hooked! We love this so much!

Ive really enjoyed it so far! Unfortunately it struggles on my day one Xbone. I may just wait till I get my XSX to play it. We'll see if I make it that long...

I remember the first true gameplay trailer they showed, I believe it was last year?. Was really mixed in terms of reception because people saw it was too humor based and the tone was wrong. Nothing further from the truth, the game has super dark tones and mixed crazyness like Wasteland 2, it is Wasteland. So far it's been great for me. Everything I loved about 2 is here, and they got rid of some of the obscurity when it comes to for instance skills and what those skills do. Like initiative dictating which character will come in which turn and how far could they move, but there was no way of knowing for sure before a battle. Was kind of annoying. It's a fun game, and for anyone like me who never played the original Fallout 1 or 2 and always wanted to have something like that, this is it. As I've said Wasteland 2 was great, this one is the natural evolution.

This game is so good, I recently played through the remaster of the original and I though it was good, rough because of the mechanics, but very good. 2 was an epic journey, 3 is just addicting the writing and voice acting and everything about it is awesome, albeit there are some things they could patch and such which they probably will with enough feedback

I have experienced a few bugs, one that is making me replay a battle and one I had to look up what was happening, but so far it's been more stable than any recent Fallout game was at launch.

Matty, I appreciate your honesty, thanks for your hard work.

one of the few games i bought at a launch and actually not disappoint with it - in fact, this might be the game I enjoy the most this year

If this was on the switch id pick it up

This looks like a game which could be great for switch

I have this on PC (don't know if that makes a difference) but I've played for about 21 hours so far and haven't had any game breaking bugs yet. Just a few camera glitches here and there. My advice for someone who wants this but is scared of the bugs, buy it anyways. The few bugs in the game are worth the fun you have with it. Plus there's a good chance the devs will fix most of them in the next patch anyways.

Dude same. Haven't played anything else since it dropped.

When Ramen Noodles are a lost delicacy you need to recover, you know you're playing an awesome post-apocalyptic game.

it would be cool if mentioned somewhere in the description of title of your videos if there's any spoilers in the video or not

The game's amazing it's my first time playing this type of game I like how when you go to fight the enemy or that are you get attacked by the enemy they all attack you know one after another and not have to like wait That's not the worst bug the worst one is the when the screen turns black or you're stuck in a shop menu and can't exit and you got to like exit the game Had to play on easy cuz I suck at these type of games this game was still kick your ass even on easy so there's some challenge still even on easy surprisingly enough

My load times on PS5 are like 10 seconds but when I’m coop it’s like 60-90 secs when it works

Not usually a fan of this style of rpg, but matty has me thinking about it

Amazing game and definitely my GOTY if Cyberpunk is delayed, that being said it's the buggiest game I've played in years I've crashed over 10 times with numerous different issues

Love stories where my choices have a major impact, will get to this and divinity original sins series soon…

Just finished the game, it was really awesome!

fantastic video matthew

I hear a lot of people praising the turn system in the game, yet it is the thing I like the least about the game. As an Old School D&D player, I much prefer the semi-random Initiative System we had in Wasteland 2. I hope they consider it as a game option in a future update. The inventory management system is a massive improvement on its predecessor, though.

i bought this game because i loved wasteland 2. I'm also a huge fallout fan. So this really scratched that itch that fallout 76 just couldn't achieve. I'm not even 15 hours in and I can tell this is gonna be a great expierence.

Have just started playing and I am having a blast in it so far.

The best new RPGs are the isometric ones. DOS2, Wasteland 3, Disco Elysium, and especially Pillars of Eternity are all some of the best RPGs I have ever played. Although Bethesda and BioWare have kind of moved away from the genre, we still have great developers willing to create games in this "niche" genre.

It just came to me, this kind of 'level gated main quests', where it forces you to play side quests that are actually on par with main quests in terms of quality, is probably what would make modern Assassin's Creed games less mediocre.

Finally trying this game out, and loving every minute of it

Great to see what theyve improved 6 months later...loading screens have been shortened it seems, as these often end before I expect them to. This is only my second isometric style RPG, first being Disco Elysium, and I am enjoying myself thoroughly....to me, its like Disco storyline/gameplay with FF Tactics style combat. Delightful.

Your camera is the best I’ve seen on KZfaq... what brand do you use? It’s amazingly crystal clear.

I'm not really a fan of CRPGs. Or haven't played many. But this is so easy to get into. I've put so many hours into this game so far. And I barely just got to Denver. I love this game so much. I hope that their next game is a 1st person RPG. And they keep it just as complex.

Ive never played theres types of RPG games. Is this a good title to start with? If not what should I try?

2:14 I actually screamed at "Major Tomcat"

What do you have the game installed on on your PC? Hard Drive or SSD? That load time is crazy slow if it is on an SSD

I purchased this for Christmas this year! I am super excited 😊

One Tip: In Wasteland 3 you can have Custom Avatar Pictures for your Rangers. It works the same as for Wasteland 2. Look for the folder were your savegame Folder is in: ...\Documents\my games\Wasteland3 There create a Folder named: Custom Portraits In it you can post the Images that should become your new Avatars, BUT they not should be bigger then: 256x256 Ingame, go into the Character creation Menu and look for the Avatar Pictures. Normaly there are 3 Points under the Pictures for three Sides. This will expand, so there will be more to see and use. Have Fun creating your own custom Crew ;-) (If you still have your Wasteland2 Custom Avatar Folder, copy / paste it over. It should work just Fine.)

Finally getting around to playing this about 30 hours in. a couple restarts and replay throughs and now in really rolling with my current setup. I just cleared out the Warrens so hyped. Tons of shit left to do!

I was loving the game co-op when the technical issues made me lose six hours of progress haven't touched it since but the game was so perfect.

Can someone explain lucky actions? I thought a lucky action was when you do an action then it doesn’t cost anything because your AP are refunded to you. What I don’t get is why do I get a lucky action at the beginning of combat before I even do anything or any action? Like it’ll say “Combat Started” then all of a sudden I’ll get a lucky action right when it’s my turn and I’ll get 1AP added. It’ll be before I even do anything though, so how am I getting that 1 AP if I didn’t do anything? Lucky action is supposed to refund AP, so how am I getting one refunded to me when I haven’t even done an action?

It's awesome when it's not crashing. Well made . Hard to stop playing it.

I've been having quite a fun time playing it, I thought the long loading times were due to my potato (which the game keeps insisting it is below minimum specs, even though I run it at medium/40-ish FPS), the only complain I have is during conversations. You have to constantly click, space bar or enter to move forward, instead of letting it flow naturally, stopping only during choices (as is in every RPG). The conversation boxes seem too clanky, I feel they could be streamlined (I don't know if that was an aesthetic type chosen to be more pleasing on console).

I'm loving every second.

I ordered Wasteland 3 for the PS4 and I also ordered another game Car Mechanic Simulator. I figured with me being a mechanic I would enjoy it. The CMS came in a couple days before wasteland 3 did and I'm now so hooked on Car Mechanic Simulater, it will be a while before I get to Wasteland 3

Do you need to have played 1 and 2 before diving in? This is the first time I've heard of this franchise, and as both a huge fan of dos2 and fallout, I am very interested

I kept restarting just to get a build i felt was right, but really loving this game

How's it stack up to a game like Divinity Original Sin 2?

Good review!

I actually just did a replay through Wasteland 2 directors cut last month to satisfy my old fallout tactics nostalgia. I never even expected W3 to come out. I'm very happy but will wait a bit to get it I think cause I'm a bit behind and started Batman Archam Knight and Control this week.

Never played this series always wanted too since I love the Fallouts I'm going into this blind as I'm hearing really good thing's about it and hankering for a CRPG

Start playing it on the Xbox one X and the loading screens were so bad that I just put it up until the new one came out and just now remembered it three years later here we go

How the hell do you still have the drawstrings in your vault 111 hoodie?! I got a 101 hoodie years ago and those things were out withing the first few months.

The music, my god the soundtrack is top 10 modern VG soundtracks ever. I found myself wanting it on CD, thats when you know the music is good when you want to listen to it outside the game

Story dlc has been confirmed to be made once they are done working on bug fixing and performance which i am VERY exited for

Are you using an SSD? Could help with the load screens

I wish the Co-op wasn't absolutely broken, made it 15 hours with a friend on steam and the entire quest line reset, like we still had our gear and our levels, but we went back to ranger HQ and The Patriarch is there with a Dorsey tied up and everything, old radio messages the whole nine yards, def waiting on a patch before we continue.

The only bugs I get is my character goes invisible an sometimes when walk the footprints follow

Wow this Fallout 76 Wastelanders update is amazing!!! It’s actually worth playing now guys!

Love the sound track🎶

Gonna have to give this game a go. Loved DOS2 and this seems similar.

Just fired up a second play through and the load times are so much better. From around a minute to now between 6-8 seconds

Bryan Fargo is also a character in the game. The boss of little Vegas...

I'm not very far because I've been mainly running sidequests, and raising the money for my next objective but I'm loving this. Wasteland 1 was my second RPG and while I like most of the Fallout games I've played (Basically everything except for 76 which I have no interest in) I've always felt the Wasteland series deserves more love, and hopefully this game will lead to that coming. What's funny is we went opposite with our Animal Whisperer concept. Yours is a brawler while mine is the team sniper.

Been watching CohhCarnage's let's play of this and it looks like a blast! Definitely gonna pick this up after I Finish with Remnant: From The Ashes

I want to love this game but I feel like I’ll have the same issue I had with divinity original sin 2. I can’t get immersed into a top down game, the combat feels so off. If anyone has a good recommendation that would change my mind let me know.

I’m buying it tonight and road to year end

Hi Matty do u think they will the triple A route with their next project

Just started playing this cuz it was on the game pass and I'm addicted to this game

Yes, I’m about 15 hours in right now and LOVING THE S&!T out of this game! Maybe a Top 5 CRPG of the last 20 years?!

This is exactly what I thought when I started the game. Problem is it falls short right after denver. It felt super rush from that point on. Aspen and Yuma were both very disappointing.

It gets your pickle tickled a little for Wasteland 3.

Just picked this up a few days ago and noticed a few bugs that you mentioned still In the game, wall humping, random noise keeps happening like I've uncovered a secret booby trap or dig spot, on xbox the combat system is janky (especially the stealth attacks, party management, sometimes trying to select an enemy to attack doesn't work properly) switching to the map screen causes my tv to flicker purple for 1 second and then it shows the map and modifying a weapon or armour doesn't bring up the menu and you have to reselect the option. It's a shame because I really enjoy this game, never tried wasteland before and I'm glad I decided to play it just wish the devs had patched some of these bugs as they are really annoying.

Glad I got the game recently. The loadscreens are but a few seconds. The "problem" was with the DLCs because I got the GOTY or whatever and started steeltown without knowing it was a DLC. Not that it had any negative effect other than the loot being lower level, but I didnt know that so whatever. Overall a great game I will be playing for a very long time.

Is there controller support for PC? It's on sale right now on Steam

5:30 Single player has many crashes as well. I had one crash every hour for about 4 hours at one point. hopefully updates account for this.