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Not for this price. Current pricing is a joke, for years it was only 23€, but 45? It's a joke. I don't care that it was early acces. Game is basically still the same as it was back then. Games should get cheaper with age, not more expensive.

Short but sweet :)

I tried Lost Ark once when it released for "The West" and then again recently, because I wanted to play something resembling ARPG.
Let me say this straight: If you’re not willing to dive into hundreds of systems – Stay away from this game.
I’ve installed the game, hopped on old character, and I’ve remembered why I’ve dropped it back when it released.
Too much bloat. I get that this is partially the nature of Korean MMO’s I have “some” experience with that type of games, but here?
Housing is not just housing, it’s crafting, event creation, fleet management and many more in one. I can’t say that the game is bloated when singular features has so much extra fat that you need hours of tutorials to understand what you’re doing.
This is only one small part of the game but bloat is seen on almost every feature, and the game has a lot of them.
I’ve played for over an hour and did not manage to fight any enemies. It was just: get quest > interact with bunch of menus > finish quest. And like that for an hour. And from what I remember from release weeks this was the reason why I dropped the game, so I’ve just stuck in endless quests where I just have to click through menus.
This game supposedly has a lot of other problems, but I could not experience them, because again I am not able to dig through hours of tutorials, and menus on top of menus, for functionalities that I am not interested in.

What can I say? GOTY material!

Less creatively bankrupt than Starfield.

Is this game without a bugs? No, there's plenty of them, but most of them are not gamebreaking and they're result of the freedom that player has when doing story missions.
Is this game long? Time on my last save states 70 hours. Not long for a modern RPG, but... There was no filler content. No collectibles, no map markers just to increase your playtime. And I probably missed a lot of stuff.

Character creation is deep.
Plot is fun.
Companions are mostly fun.
Length is perfect.
Gameplay is smooth.

Maybe this is not “The best game ever” but I’m certain it will be regarded as one of “The Classics”, and probably one of the best RPG’s in the last 20 years.

BL was sitting in my library for years. I probably got it in a bundle or something similar. Finally, I've decided to play it and... I definitely didn't pick up the memo. It’s on me, because it’s not a new game, but from what I got, back in the day people were confused as well.
I was expecting Darksiders with a lot of humour, metal and Jack Black. Instead, I got discount Overlord (with a lot of humour, metal and Jack Black). Don’t get me wrong, I liked both Overlord 1 and 2, but here? I was not expecting that, and it got me off guard to the point that I’m not eager to continue the game. Especially that the RTS elements are just... mediocre at best. Add to that the fact that this game is an open world with nothing interesting to do between quest locations and... I probably will never finish this game.
It’s on me... but I can’t recommend this title unless you really love JB.

Skyrim VR is a lazy VR port that can be transformed into a good game with creative use of mods.
Fallout 4 VR is an atrocious VR port that can be transformed into bearable experience with use of mods.

I don’t even know where to begin. How to list every problem that is visible right from the start.
I’ve got the game for a fraction of the Steam Price (approx. $15) and I can’t even express how sorry I feel for the people that paid the full steam price, tested the game around for 2h only to realise how deep in ♥♥♥♥ they are.
The quality of the port is one thing but most outrageous thing for me is the fact that for the low price of $59.99 you get no DLC’s and while they can be loaded (if you Install OG Fallout 4 with DLC’s) they aren’t officially supported and can cause CTD’s.
The gunplay is just not there. A lot of weapons (especially pipe ones) have broken Ironsights, reflex sights are barely readeable, guns have CS-GO level of spread (which in VR is unacceptable since you’re aiming for real) There’s no interactivity with the gun. You hold all weapons with one hand and the reload is automatic.
The locomotion is okay’ish, but menu/pip-boy navigation is just nightmarish. You have to tap the piboy on your arm (which is nice) to turn it on, but the rest of menu navigation is exclusively done with your left controller. Which causes that you have less buttons than on a console controller and... if you accidentally turn the pip-boy off (by slightly lowering your arm) you’ll just walk randomly because you move with your left analog stick.
Graphics... Oh boy. It’s just awful. Skyrim was blurry, but this? Environment in closed quarters looks bearable, but when you go to the open world it looks like a mess. Forced low resolution, weird blurring, and a lot of typical Fallout 4 problems (z-fighting, texture pop-in, lod-pop) causes a lot of things to just “move”. That combined with barren and brown aesthetics of Fallout creates a visual mess that looks like cat puke that decided to come alive.
UI also suffers, but honestly? I don’t know why. It just looks awfully low-res. Especially things like compass and Perk Sheet. You can fix it with mods so it’s not as bad as the 3D visual mess that we’re cursed to look at every second we’re outside.
FPS drops are here double the usual fun (because of two screens that you’ll be looking at). I don’t know how they manage to make this game run so poorly on 3080Ti. I think they did this on purpose, because even OG Fallout 4 does not have issues like that. This is the first game that allowed me to catch ghosting on screenshots.

Long story short: Fallout 76 on launch was better experience for me. I really think that this thing either should not be allowed to be sold, or Steam should allow people with over two hours to refund this game. You can fix a lot with mods when it comes to Bethesda games. But this? This can’t be fixed.
If you’re Fallout 4 fan? DO NOT BUY THIS!
If you’re game-starved VR owner? DO NOT BUY THIS!
This shouldn’t be allowed to exist, at least not in this form.

Let’s be honest here. Even if devs don’t state it directly the game is heavily inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series and marketed towards the fans of those games (Don’t try to deny that. Even the boxart is bordering on plagiarism). I bought it mostly because of that. While this game has “some” similarities with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. if you’re looking for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but in VR this isn’t it.
Gameplay: This game is mostly survival with creepy lite-horror elements. It aims towards building tension, without making your heart explode. This may be similar to beforementioned game, but here it’s a main focus. I liked the gunplay, but I think everything else is kind of janky. I couldn’t find a way to reliably open cabinets on Quest 2.
Exploration and scavenging is boring because locations look way too similar. Looting “trash” is useless, because you can buy most (if not all) of the things you find in the shop with the money you get from the quests. There’s no incentive to fight the enemies aside of “Getting rid of them” because you can’t loot them for anything.
The world is dead: In a wrong way. I believe it’s by design, because it’s not a AAA game with a budget to fill the world with animals, interactive NPC’s, questgivers, human-npc's etc. This is both caused by lower budget (They don’t have to hire voice actors, animators, do lipsync) and deliberate design choice to depict the Zone as a desolate and empty space. Either way, I don’t have to like it. It makes exploration boring. I just wanted to go as fast from point A to point B to finish my quest objectives, because I didn’t feel any urge to see “What’s over there”.
Storytelling and Quests: Honestly I don’t know and I don’t care. The quest are on a level of eastern f2p MMO’s. Technically there’s a main story with a talking NPC but... it failed to interest me. I feel it tried to be more mysterious than it should be, instead of giving the player a question and forcing them to find the answer, they gave player basically nothing so the player is left only with “I don’t know who I am, I don’t know why I’m here. All I know is that I must kill”


TL;DR
If all you care about is to shoot things and walk around looking for stuff in a creepy lifeless atmosphere: You can try Into the Radius
If you’re a STALKER fan looking for STALKER but in VR? This is not it, despite what everyone tells you about it.
The worst thing for me is that people are still calling this “STALKER BUT IN VR” when only things in common those two have are: Guns, Scavenging, Anomalies.
Well... at least a lot of people like it.

I tried to love this game but just can't.