{"id":9693,"date":"2022-07-04T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:23:51","slug":"wasteland-3-triangle-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wasteland-3-triangle-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasteland 3 & Triangle Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up Wasteland 3<\/a> quite some time back on a whim, despite not being particularly fond of its prequel<\/a>. Played up through clearing the Bizarre location, then put it down to potentially continue later… which occurred around the time I was playing Cyberpunk<\/a>. So at this point I can safely say I’m not going back to it.<\/p>\n

It’s okay I guess? There’s just this weird balancing issue where you kind of have to max out a couple unique skills on each character as quickly as possible to progress smoothly, while your attribute progression will basically be identical across all characters. I’m not really a fan of the midwestern flavor either.<\/p>\n

Another game I was playing at that time was Triangle Strategy<\/a>, which I ~think~ I heard about on some forum or other. And as with Wasteland<\/em> my interest just kind of drained away one day for a similar reason: While the game boasts non-linearity in its storyline decisions it has extremely rigid character upgrade options. You can’t change a character’s equipment and their ability upgrade trees are ~75% generic attribute increases, which gets boring real fast.<\/p>\n

It’s damn near criminal that Final Fantasy Tactics<\/a> continues to remain one of best examples of a complex, large-scale tactical RPG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up Wasteland 3 quite some time back on a whim, despite not being particularly fond of its prequel. Played up through clearing the Bizarre location, then put it down to potentially continue later… which occurred around the time I was playing Cyberpunk. So at this point I can safely say I’m not going back to it. It’s okay I guess? There’s just this weird balancing issue where you kind of have to max out a couple unique skills on each character as quickly as possible to progress smoothly, while your attribute progression will basically be identical across all characters. I’m not really a fan of the midwestern flavor either. Another game I was playing at that time was Triangle Strategy, which I ~think~ I heard about on some forum or other. And as with Wasteland my interest just kind of drained away one day for a similar reason: While the game boasts non-linearity in its storyline decisions it has extremely rigid character upgrade options. You can’t change a character’s equipment and their ability upgrade trees are ~75% generic attribute increases, which gets boring real fast. It’s damn near criminal that Final Fantasy Tactics continues to remain one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541,33,7],"tags":[28,121,62,120,473],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-switch","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-science-fiction","tag-tactical-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}