Expeditions: Rome - the final Expeditions game from Logic Artists

[Lacrymas]

This is going to be in the next Humble Choice, good thing I decided against buying it now, lol.

When is that?

Tuesday most likely.

 

[mediocrepoet]

This is going to be in the next Humble Choice, good thing I decided against buying it now, lol.

When is that?

Tuesday most likely.

Always first Tuesday of the month.

I was thinking the same. If the leaks are right, the December HC should be great.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Worth it with choice? You get Elex II on top of it though i hear that's a shit game lul.

 

[cvv]

Worth it with choice? You get Elex II on top of it though i hear that's a shit game lul.

Elex 2 is just an asset flip of Elex 1. The same exact game, mostly on the same map, with a few tweaks here and there.

There's enjoyment to be had here, if you liked E1, but overall it just smacks of staleness and creative bankruptcy.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So i loaded up the first (Expedition), which i own on steam but never played, and i'm already having trouble with 50% female ratio in ever possible role and didn't even make it past the character creation screen.

I asume Rome is even worse with full on niggers everywhere etc, right?

The Humble deal is a good one but this kind of shit rustles my jimmies too much.

 

[Lacrymas]

It must be exhausting to constantly be triggered by everything.

 

[Stavrophore]

So i loaded up the first (Expedition), which i own on steam but never played, and i'm already having trouble with 50% female ratio in ever possible role and didn't even make it past the character creation screen.

I asume Rome is even worse with full on niggers everywhere etc, right?

The Humble deal is a good one but this kind of shit is rustles my jimmies too much.

They packed a lot of wymbyn upfront it gets better in later parts of the game.

 

[cvv]

It must be exhausting to constantly be triggered by everything.

Must be amazing to be utterly unbothered by the world going down the drain.

 

[Grunker]

Viking's character building was too complicated IMO

u wot mate

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I think he means it's would be too complicated to have the same system in Rome where you have to juggle all the minions.

 

[The Wall]

It must be exhausting to constantly be triggered by everything.

Must be amazing to be utterly unbothered by the world going down the drain.

They think this societal decline and collapse simply means more niggers on the screen. No. It means, eventually, niggers, whether robot niggers, KFC eating niggers or government niggers fucking you to Death. They really think any of this will stop or stay at this lvl, which midwits find comfy enough. Noooooo

Prepare for veeery Uncomfy Times, dear Midwits

 

[cvv]

It must be exhausting to constantly be triggered by everything.

Must be amazing to be utterly unbothered by the world going down the drain.

They think this societal decline and collapse simply means more niggers on the screen. No. It means, eventually, niggers, whether robot niggers, KFC eating niggers or government niggers fucking you to Death. They really think any of this will stop or stay at this lvl, which midwits find comfy enough. Noooooo

Prepare for veeery Uncomfy Times, dear Midwits

I bet when they joke about white genocide some of them actually mean it and most would go with if it actually happened.

 

[cvv]

So I gave this a spin, just finished the tutorial island and a bit more.

I don't hate it, I like the aesthetics, the realistic character portraits (yeah, nogs everywhere... well at least there aren't female centurions I guess), the writing is startlingly non-retarded compared to most of the contemporary Western production and the combat can hold my attention.

Thing is I much prefer the traditional Viking TB combat instead of these finicky puzzles. Hated that shit in Blackguards 2, not a fan of them here. And even though I've already done three legion battles I'm still struggling with most of the mechanics. I just can't wrap my head around what some things actually do and what strategy is best at countering what. Seems to me I always press some buttons randomly and I win. This is either way above my IQ or it's hilariously badly explained.

I'll give it a chance still but I can already tell it's not gonna turn into one of the best RPGs ever made like Viking did, that's for sure.

 

[Oropay]

I haven't played E:Rome since the legion battles were reworked, but they were always mindless. The game calculates all the stats for you, so you just mouse over and pick the one with the best outcome. The main thing is that you want to destroy or completely rout the enemy. If you let them retreat, they'll join forces with another army, and eventually you'll have to fight a huge conglomerate

 

[Barbarian]

It was literally the most boring part of the game.

 

[cvv]

The main thing is that you want to destroy or completely rout the enemy.

Yea I got the option to destroy the enemy once. No idea how I did it tho. Is it just random? Can you force it? I really can't fucking understand that retarded system.

 

[Oropay]

Can you force it?

You have to reduce the enemy forces below a certain point. I think you can also chase them as they flee. Can't really remember, it's been a while.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Expeditions: Rome is utter shite. This is coming from someone who thought Conquistador was a fun game, and Viking is one of the better isometric RPGs of the last 15-20 years. Huge letdown with Rome. They learned nothing from the first two games, released a shit nugget, and were promptly dispatched by video game gods with poetic justice. Everything about Rome sucked, constant switching between 30 different layers, none of them good, turd combat with jumping through hoops for developers instead of actual fun combat system, stupid pointless meta-layers like army battles, woke stuff to kill the historical flavor, think of anything dumb, it will be in this game.

Viking's character building was too complicated IMO. In Rome, you have to develop a squad of blank slate praetorians in addition to yourself and your companions. It was too much for many people even with the system it has.

If managing a multitude of minions requires shallow systems, perhaps they shouldn't have included them in the game, and focused on a small group of characters, like in Viking, which was incidentally by far their best game.

Worth it with choice? You get Elex II on top of it though i hear that's a shit game lul.

2022 was a shit year. Rome, ELEX 2, and Elden Ring were all huge disappointments.

Worth it with choice? You get Elex II on top of it though i hear that's a shit game lul.

Elex 2 is just an asset flip of Elex 1. The same exact game, mostly on the same map, with a few tweaks here and there.

There's enjoyment to be had here, if you liked E1, but overall it just smacks of staleness and creative bankruptcy.

Fake news. ELEX 2 was not an asset flip of ELEX, it was a much worse game, where they somehow lost most of what made ELEX fun. Worse factions, worse world, worse story, somehow worse combat (which is not easy to achieve)...

 

[Ladonna]

Expeditions: Rome is utter shite. This is coming from someone who thought Conquistador was a fun game, and Viking is one of the better isometric RPGs of the last 15-20 years. Huge letdown with Rome.

Damn, that sucks. I really like Conquistador and Viking. I read what was happening with this game, and didn't like where it was heading, but thought "maybe after enough time, it will turn out ok". Big let down.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Didn't seriously play Viking yet, but I did play Conquistador a few hours and in comparison Rome is much better game. More developed systems (though some of them, like Legion command, quite obscure), more options in combat. I enjoyed the story that kills off Gaius Julius Caesar in a random skirmish and puts you in his place in history. Plus, unlike Conquistador, the visuals of Rome did not make my eyes bleed with ridiculous amounts of bloom.

 

[Ladonna]

Didn't seriously play Viking yet, but I did play Conquistador a few hours and in comparison Rome is much better game. More developped systems (though some of them, like Legion command, quite obscure), more options in combat. I enjoyed the story that kills off Gaius Julius Caesar in a random skirmish and puts you in his place in history. Plus, unlike Conquistador, the visuals of Rome did not make my eyes bleed with ridiculous amounts of bloom.

Did you finish Rome?

You should try Viking. It's a good game.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Didn't seriously play Viking yet, but I did play Conquistador a few hours and in comparison Rome is much better game. More developped systems (though some of them, like Legion command, quite obscure), more options in combat. I enjoyed the story that kills off Gaius Julius Caesar in a random skirmish and puts you in his place in history. Plus, unlike Conquistador, the visuals of Rome did not make my eyes bleed with ridiculous amounts of bloom.

Did you finish Rome?

You should try Viking. It's a good game.

Yup, I chose to follow the footsteps of real Julius Caesar and conquer Rome, which lead to several grand battles within the city walls.

I have Viking in my libray, waiting for the proper time. Is it true the campaign has a time limit? Not a fan of such limitations of my freedom.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

Is it true the campaign has a time limit? Not a fan of such limitations of my freedom.

It exists so you can't grind camps as a way to max power/prosperity and get the best ending like Conquistador, there's more than enough time to do all the quests.

 

[cvv]

I have Viking in my libray, waiting for the proper time. Is it true the campaign has a time limit?

IIRC you have to build your village in a certain time in the prologue and I think there's a general time limit for the rest of the game too.

But you'd have to make a serious effort to hit it coz I'm the slowest RPG player ever and I haven't even come close. It's really just there to force you economize your camping a bit but it's not a big deal.

I personally consider Viking one of the best isometric RPGs ever made, it felt like Fallout 1 with Vikings and more enjoyable combat. It also helps I love purely historical games without any draghun bullshit but your mileage may vary.

 

[Lord_Potato]

I personally consider Viking one of the best isometric RPGs ever made, it felt like Fallout 1 with Vikings and more enjoyable combat.

Almost sounds too good to be true!

It also helps I love purely historical games without any draghun bullshit but your mileage may vary.

Yes, I'm also in the pure historical setting camp.

Expeditions: Rome took a lot of liberties with the setting (possibility to play as a female legate, native legion formed in Africa from non-Roman citizens etc., also unit abilities that can only be explained by magic) I can only hope this game is more restrained in that aspect.