And Ultima 7 where you see infents sacrificed to unholy evil demons from the burning hells...

It might be useful to have a sticky FAQ on your own "Q and A for non-backers"-forum on logicartists.com, in which you include this statement.

For me that would be a place where I would look for this kind of information.

And congrats for getting the game released!

Oh god yes, finally!

This was one of three games I considered backing, and I don't even know why. This is normally not my genre at all, but something about the gameplay demos immediately drew me in.

I honestly have to force myself not to immediately buy this. Gotta be reasonable and read some reviews first, right?

And welcome to another developer!

Will give this a go later today, seems like a fun game.

I'm not sure how anybody can find any of the current five reviews helpful, though! Obviously the 1-star troll review is retarded, but the other four are silly as well. None of them are reviewing the full game, just stating they've played the beta etc... Come on! This isn't beta review time. I'm pretty sure none of the five people have even completed the full game. Would be nice if you could see how many hours the reviewer has played the game. For all I know this is one troll and four developers that have reviewed the game so far.

What is even more weird is that so many people thought those 5-star reviews were helpful :/ One of the reviews makes this statement: "Not flawless - but what game ever was?" Well I guess that's good enough for 5 stars.
People have no clue how to review games...sigh. it's either 1 or 5 stars... min/max reviews...

Well, you have first a choice between stats for your character (diplomacy, tactics, hunting, scouting, medicine and leadership I think). They affect dialog and obviously my character starting with high diplomacy and leadership will be more suited to peaceful negociations than outright combat.
So far, diplomacy has been used much more often (mostly to get lower prices), but that might be because it's high for me and the lower stats just don't appear as options.
Your character doesn't seem to gain levels and doesn't take part in combat, so I guess you're stuck with the starting stats there.

Secondly, you can choose about 10 followers from a pool of around 40 divided into 5 classes. Each of them has personality traits that affects what makes them gain or lose morale. Each of them seems to have a unique personality too, I got conversations at camp with 3 of them so far. They can gain experience, and get more skills from a pool.

As for randomization, the map isn't random, but the events you get when you camp seem to be. As for the loot, it's mostly abstract resources rather than actual items, but what you get comes mostly from exploring and camping events, so it's a bit random too.


Well, considering the game just came out today and nobody has played it much so far, I wouldn't consider any of these "reviews" useful. I've played the game for 2 hours and I like it so far, but I certainly don't know nearly enough about it to write a review.

Seems interesting, but I will wait for more reviews, and any details about patches etc..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%A9s_de_Su%C3%A1rez

Oh come on, you know what I mean.
There may have been a few exceptions, but women in 1518 were excluded from the army or any scouting expedition like the one we're playing as, while in this game, fully half the people you can recruit at the start are women, your first side quest is finding what happened to the patrol a man's wife was leading as a sergeant, and the second officer you meet in the game is a captain commanding her own garrison.

That just doesn't reflect history, even though it doesn't bother me.

I know, I only listed an rare exception

Except he wasn't.
Hitler would have never established anything resembling The Napoleonic Code... More importantly, for the most part, Bonaparte ended up being dragged into military conflicts due to a series of coalitions recklessly determined to crush the French Empire, constantly declaring wars against it.

@GOG: just a heads up. Normally the thumbnail pic in the release article, will link the reader to the game card page. But not for this one. Link is missing on the photo.

Man, the portraits in the game are great.

love this chick, her healing keeps saving my soldiers :)

Would be really happy to have a Linux version on GOG too. But I fear that's not gonna happen in the near future.

Game reviewing, like any other sort of service/product review is entirely subjective. One man's 5 is another man's 3. For some a 5/5 is withheld at all times, because no game is ever truly 'perfect.' For others, 5/5 simply means 'better than anything else I played this week.' There are no hard and fast guidelines for game reviews, especially consumer ones on an internet site. It is also patently ridiculous that you feel a reviewer must play an entire game, start to finish, in order to post up an amateur review.

So I'll thank you to take your pretension and oh-so-lofty expectations of the entire world conforming to your own specific viewpoint and cram it somewhere uncomfortable. Until a very narrow and specific set of all-encompassing guidelines are mandated by the site on which I am posting, I'll continue to use whatever standards I please when reviewing a game.

Looking forward to play it since i backed on kickstarter.