Man, some of this site's members are so tiresome, can't find joy in anything other than picking apart even indie games that are trying to cater to the gameplay they claim to desire.
Gamers can be so pathetically picky.
I guess you're talking about me?
I liked Age of Decadence a lot (though it's not without flaws in its current iteration).
I just haven't gotten sucked into Underrail so far. The narrative is lackluster to me, the world itself often inconsistent & fails to motivate me as a player. Since the world is punishing, I'm finding myself wondering if it's worth carrying on or not.
Aside from the lack of motivation, there's a lot of small things, like when you're sent to the Junkyard, it's portrayed as a large hub for trade. Which it totally is. So I packed up as much of my junk I could carry, and went there. Turns out none of the stuff I packed can be sold there. None of the merchants accepts any of it, even though it's all useful shit. And to trade with them you need to exchange your local money with the "world's" money at retarded exchange rates instead. It makes no sense for them not to barter with you otherwise and knocks me straight of the game world. It's just not immersive.
Just as people on this forum are allowed to like FO3/FO:NV/FO4, I'm allowed to voice my concerns & criticism of Underrail? Hell, I backed it, so contributed to it being a thing in the first place.
You're absolutely free to disagree with my assessment.
That said, it wouldn't be the first dev to call me an "
Internet Curmudgeon with a Heart of Radioactive Gold".
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I also rail against the inconsistency of Fallout 2 (New Reno & San Fran are horrendous from a world design POV, the easter eggs & slapstick humour are horrendously out of place, etc). So don't feel like I somehow single out Underrail.
I mean, if I were an isolated underground community, I would totally recruit people I didn't know just to send them on suicide missions...
Oh sure, no doubt about that. But if you don't motivate them the right way, you will find quite a few people saying FUCK YOU AND YOUR BULLSHIT QUESTS.