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Posted May 30, 2013
Tactics! Strategy! Adventure!

If you like your gaming to be a delicious melange of gaming style, mixing tactical combat with strategic management and a soupçon of classic "choose your own adventure" decision making, then games like Expeditions: Conquistador are a delightful break from the usual.

Set in the newly-discovered Americas, Expeditions: Conquistador gives you the opportunity to play through the discovery of a wondrous new land and peoples. In history, the choices that the conquistadors were ruthless and bloody and secured the Old World's place as the ruling power in these new lands. As you go through the intricately branching plot, you can choose to follow the path that history has laid out for you, or take a new direction and see how history plays out. With unique expedition members, random events that can completely change the circumstances your expedition is facing, dynamic trading system and economies, and even maps that are based on topological maps of the Dominican Republic and Mexico, this game's deep gameplay and high replayability will keep you entertained & engaged for hours.

A successful Kickstarted project, you can get Expeditions: Conquistador on GOG.com for just $17.99 for the first week, so if you're thinking about checking it out, don't wait!
Posted May 30, 2013
This game has quite the interesting setting. I'll wait for a sale due to my backlog and it gives me an excuse to wait for some patches too.
Posted May 30, 2013
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kwankwan: 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...
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banedon: 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.
Hey, if you are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine.. so you can cram that somewhere uncomfortable.

How is it patently ridiculous not to review a game before completing it? So I can play 10 minutes and review it? Watch 20 minutes Memento and review it? Read 10 pages of any given book and review it? Listen to one track on an album and review the whole thing? How can you review anything you haven't finished?
Posted May 30, 2013
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kwankwan: Hey, if you are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine.. so you can cram that somewhere uncomfortable.

How is it patently ridiculous not to review a game before completing it? So I can play 10 minutes and review it? Watch 20 minutes Memento and review it? Read 10 pages of any given book and review it? Listen to one track on an album and review the whole thing? How can you review anything you haven't finished?
You really are living in some sort of fantasy land if you think even 10% of online game reviews are posted by people who have completed the game in its entirety. How much free time do you think people have, for Chrissake? There are reviewers who review half a dozen games or more per week.

Furthermore, I was not trying to disallow you your precious 'opinion.' I was chastising you for your ridiculous statement that so many other people 'have no clue how to review games.' As though your own personal guidelines were all that mattered in the world and anyone else who didn't conform to your specific, personal opinion has no business posting reviews.
Post edited May 30, 2013 by banedon
Posted May 30, 2013
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kwankwan: 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.
Betas are supposed to be the final game, but buggy. So why not beta reviews, should be the same game.

Edit: Not a good idea to discuss history here, so removed...
Post edited May 30, 2013 by jamotide
Posted May 30, 2013
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Kristian: Does this have or is there any chance it will get a Linux version? If so I won't get it on GOG.
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Woolytoes: Would be really happy to have a Linux version on GOG too. But I fear that's not gonna happen in the near future.
It feel like having to choose between children some times. Do I want Bobby DRM-free, or Roberta Linux? So sad some days.
Posted May 30, 2013
I don't know much about graphics cards, but this is insane for the Mac:
NVIDIA GeForce GT650M or ATI Radeon 6770M with 2 GB VRAM or higher
Currently the cheapest Mac that can meet the minim requirements is the more expensive 21.5" iMac or the 15" MacBook Pro. Yikes! I thought the game looks cool, but it would melt away my graphics card. What on earth do they need all that extra power for, compared to the Windows requirements?
Posted May 30, 2013
Wishlisted for now, will be looking to grab it when it's significantly discounted.
Posted May 30, 2013
Looks very intriguing...
I guess there's no chance for a demo or trial version? I'd like to see how it runs on my system.
Posted May 30, 2013
I wrote six events for this game. :)
Posted May 30, 2013
Being a conqueror but working on peaceful pacts instead of killing, raping and baptizing? The concept and graphics look very promising. I'm bit torn about the tale turn-base strategy element. Is there a demo available?
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kwankwan: 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.
Just neg them. I always do it when they mention that they are like 3 hours in, regardless of their rating. Or if the description basically screams that they played only demo. It helps to weed out useless observations.
Post edited May 30, 2013 by Mivas
Posted May 30, 2013
I just bought this but NOT on GOG. If GOG doesn't want me money I am going to have to give to somebody else.
Posted May 30, 2013
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Kristian: I just bought this but NOT on GOG. If GOG doesn't want me money I am going to have to give to somebody else.
I'll take it.
Posted May 30, 2013
So how strong is the RPG element in this game? It actually looks cool, especially the setting, but not something I'm willing to gamble 20 bucks on
Posted May 30, 2013
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Fenixp: So how strong is the RPG element in this game? It actually looks cool, especially the setting, but not something I'm willing to gamble 20 bucks on
Depends how you define RPG elements. The building of your character is pretty simple, you put points into it and the start and then it doesn't improve. Each of your units can level up and you can assign them equipment and have them learn passive abilities (in addition to the active ones they get automatically). Most of the RPG-ness, though, comes from the dialog. There's a lot of freedom in how you roleplay you character and what sort of things you can do in events and stuff. It's also worth noting that the game often lets you fail battles, with different results happening when you do, instead of just throwing up a game over.
Posted May 30, 2013
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Kristian: I just bought this but NOT on GOG. If GOG doesn't want me money I am going to have to give to somebody else.
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Gazoinks: I'll take it.
You are too late Valve already took it and delivered the game on all supported OSes.
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