Preview Expeditions: Viking Gameplay Footage on Twitch Gamescom 2016 Broadcast

[GrainWetski]

I'm so excited to play this game! I really hope it starts getting some more recognition in the coming months. It looks like they have made all the changes they needed to make to their Expeditions formula.

Also, this game really deserves a thread in General RPG Discussion. I feel like a large portion of the codex has no idea about this game.

Not much points since most people are too busy fawning over the latest upcoming garbage FPS.

 

[Volrath]

Hexes

 

[Kem0sabe]

Remember when everyone was excited about Conquistador and it turned out being uterly Mediocre...

Conquistador did a fuckton of cool things. It's main problem was lack of interesting character customization, and it looks like they've fully addressed that.

Well, and I hope they've rebalanced the wound/disease/starvation death spiral system.

Conquistador has a boring world, boring characters, extremely simple quests, extremely simple combat. It front loaded the fun gameplay bits at the start, with some interesting writing and situations, but then it went downhill from there and hit rock bottom once you reached mexico.

Unless they change most of the game mechanics for the better... not seeing this being a hit.

 

[Infinitron]

This game doesn't even appear to be the same genre as Expeditions: Conquistador, so I'm not sure what the value is of comparing them.

 

[Kem0sabe]

This game doesn't even appear to be the same genre as Expeditions: Conquistador, so I'm not sure what the value is of comparing them.

It's the only other work they have that i can compare to, and also the combat seems to be similar.

 

[tuluse]

Remember when everyone was excited about Conquistador and it turned out being uterly Mediocre...

Conquistador did a fuckton of cool things. It's main problem was lack of interesting character customization, and it looks like they've fully addressed that.

Well, and I hope they've rebalanced the wound/disease/starvation death spiral system.

The main problem was that combat was too easy when you got a handle on it (and some upgraded characters), so there was often no penalty for getting a fight option from a text adventure.

It was otherwise one of the most interesting rpgs I've played.

 

[ArchAngel]

This game is getting better and better. I am excited to play it. Their last game was also excellent.

 

[NorthLurker]

i now i cant wait for it to be released