CRPG Addict - Return from Hiatus, First Impressions of Fountain of Dreams

If you are anything like me, not only are you aware that the CRPG Addict is back from his month-and-a-half long hiatus, but you have already greedily gobbled up his first impressions of EA's pseudo-Wasteland 1 follow-up Fountain of Dreams.  However, for the rest of you, said impressions reside here:

Given all of this, I found myself, to my surprise, not hating it. If you strip away its Wasteland baggage and mentally block some elements of the story and setting, it becomes a perfectly serviceable little RPG that does a reasonably good job recreating Wasteland's engine and adapts some of the previous game's best elements. Oh, it's not perfect, but when I was playing yesterday and had to stop and get some work done, I didn't want to stop. That's better than a lot of games.

Update: And he won the game already.