Weird West: Definitive Edition

gameplay is fun once you get the hang of combat and stealth, and I love the setting with its unique blend of supernatural with wild west themes; also the UI oozes "Dishonored" (presumably the same artist, WolfEye was founded by ex-Arkane employees) if the isometric camera is putting you off, there's a quasi-official first person mod you can get that works excellently definitely glad I picked this one up

Weird West is a really difficult game to rate. It gets a recommended, though with a caveat, so be aware of what you're getting. So the positives. The game is super ambitious. They've done a fantastic job of creating a Wild West environment jam packed with supernatural entities. Every game the map is different. You've got your bounties, your towns, farmsteads, mines, and caves. You'll come across random encounters while travelling. Treasure hunting, gunfighting, bank heists, duels -- everything's there. Even the world mechanics are incredible. Throw a firebomb into the grass and you'll quickly start a brushfire as an example. The things you do are also remembered and can alter later events, and while I'm not ever convinced with "choices that matter" design -- and this still falls into the pit trap that the story has to go on, so ultimately the choices don't make that big of a difference -- Weird West has still achieved about as close as you can hope to get in choices that matter. Quest outcomes can lead to later bounty requests. The people you help/travel with can become friends, the people you wrong become vendettas and then potentially hunt you down. You yourself can become a bounty. You can go and destroy a town, turning it into a ghost town. Literally every inhabitant has a grave spot for them to end up whether they die from your gun or something elses. Most everything you do ends up becoming a newspaper article. The amount of evolution in the world is quite staggering. The story is also pretty compelling, spanning five very different characters who all have their own antagonists and resolutions. There's a huge amount of creativity been put into this, and that absolutely should be recognised and praised. The issue for me stems from the gameplay, which I cannot emphasise enough, I found so frustrating that it largely spoiled my experience. I was playing it on hardest difficulty, which I tend to do with most games, but honestly, if I have to dumb the game down so that the stupid events can just be ignored I don't see the point. The gameplay falls into two parts, set in arenas whether they be towns, tunnels, or open land scattered with rocks. One part is a stealth game that reminded me a lot of the old Commandos games, whereby you sneak around the area trying to knock out the enemies patrolling it without being detected. The second part is your shootout, whereby once things have detected you, it's all guns ablazing. The problem I found was that the game wants to be the shootout, but the stealth aspect is a necessity since not taking out a large portion of the enemy force means you get swamped, since the moment guns start going off everything (and I mean everything) in the area is swarming down on you. But the stealth game itself is garbage. The camera's stuck in a 45 degree position that often prevents you from seeing the area ahead. This is particularly egregious in tunnels, where quite often you can't see a guy standing on a ledge directly in front of you, but he can see you! Couple that with enemies that detect you through walls, the junk littering the arena being hard to see and getting in your way, or pathing that has bad guys randomly doing 180 flips and the odds are you're going to be caught pretty regularly. And they don't even need to have detected you. Sometimes they'll start chasing down critters, only to then chase you down even if you've done nothing but crouch in an alcove. Once this happens, you then find yourself flanked on every side, bullets flying, two to three enemies stuck to you trying to knife you, and your own gun clicking away firing nothing because it needs to be reloaded, but you can't do that because doing anything other than stepping backwards or standing still cancels the reload. Add in environmental hazards, such as firing a gun while crouching under an oil lamp for some reason has your character deciding to shoot the lamp over their head rather than the bad guy in front of them, thus giving yourself a shower of fiery oil ... I'm sure you get the point by now. There are tons of additional abilities, four for each character, + 3-4 for each weapon, plus your crouch, your walk, your roll, your jump and all of them are ultimately pointless because, even if you're not fumbling for the many keys during the chaos of the battles, they share an ability bar that almost exclusively needs to be used for the slow motion escape roll that allows you to fire enough rounds to kill anything. There are 4 weapons, but the shotgun is complete trash and the melee weapon doesn't even hit half the time even if you could get into range without becoming a bullet sponge. You can get up to two people to join you in a posse to help even the odds, but the AI is just not up there, and in many cases your support just stands in the middle of the grounds getting killed, but on the rare occasions they do decide to help, more often than not they're either acting as meatshields to protect the enemy from your shots or they're running through the camp pulling what little hasn't already aggroed in a manner that would make Leeroy Jenkins blush with pride. Even the story goes out of its way to handicap you, with many boss encounters being preluded with a conversation that involves your character being made to stand face to face with your foe while you click through the dialogue, only for the conversation to abruptly end and throw you into combat whereby you're immediately shot down. So yeah, difficult to outright recommend. If you're into westerns or you like unique and creative works, definitely give this a shot, but do yourself a favour and play it on the lower difficulties to experience the story with as little frustration from the horrific gameplay as possible.

Was expecting common tactics game with turn-based battles. In fact got some kind of isometric voodoo metal gear. Nice.

I really wanted to love this game but despite troubleshooting with the sole employee on the Discord, I have not been able to unlock achievements for a week now. If you're going to have achievements on steam, they should work.

While the game had potential most of the mechanics are monotonous and uninteresting repeated nonsense. Even that I could forgive, but the companions AI is so abysmal and suicidal that I find myself having to either reload the game constantly or play solo.

Typical game with great ideas but awful execution. Such a shame as it could had been a classic.

Сюжет конечно прикольный, но геймплей мега унылый, прогресс не ощущается, есть перки про которые забываешь из-за ненадобности. Работа с окружением тоже понравилась, но есть ощущение, что не доделали. Трава разгорается прикольно.

I would like to play Dishonored 3 made by these guys with departed Daniel Licht's OST but it will never happen sadly.

«Dishonored» для людей с моноклем и претензией на элитарность.