So I'm playing it right now, and it's hard to like; the thought of asking for a refund has crossed my mind.
I'm out of what I guess is the extended tutorial or prologue, that is I've come out of some manner of stasis.
The first thing I did was travel south to the Picnic Neutral Zone, what with it being the closest place that's not a death-sowed parking lot, and a place I had previously visited during the prologue. There, Paris Langley is the very first person I talk to.
Uh... So far I've emerged from underground, very much unseen, then promptly traveled 10km without meeting anyone, yet I'm already The One Who Wanders The Dome? How? Why? Because it's a video game, I guess, and I need to be The One and everybody needs to know about it straigth away, without the need for any fait d'armes on my part; I'm the animu protagonist with crazy colored hair, so you know I'm special.
Now, amongst other things my questlog indicates the following: "Something changed in the world, and now you are to find out what happened under the Dome, and to you, while you were in stasis." That's great, but in Picnic there's half a dozen people, and I don't have a single conversation option to ask what the fuck happened. To Old Melville, a character I had previously encountered, I can ask how
his life is going, or remark that the station now reminds me of a settlement (it absolutely doesn't, but whatever), but I can't ask what the hell is going on. Same with other people in the area.
Worse, it seems my character already knows about the current state of things under the dome, someway, somehow. Behind the station, I meet this guy named Aaron Usman:
Ask him where the Phalanx gets its supplies? What the everliving fuck is the Phalanx? And why is my character talking about it with apparent familiarity?
It's as if the game skipped a whole bunch of script pages, leaving me to play with a character who knows more than I do, and certainly more than she has any means to. And I'm in the nearest populated place from the starting point, so it's not like I did something wacky, e.g. going from Klamath straigth to Navarro.