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Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG, Expeditions: Viking. H...
Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG, Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?
As the newly appointed chieftain of a modest Viking clan, you’ll have a village of your very own. But to carve your name into the runestones of history you’ll need great strength, and great wealth to grow your village’s prosperity and renown. There is little left to be gained from the Norse lands and so you must set your sights on the the seas to the West, where tales speak of a great island filled with treasure ready for the taking.
Your trusted huscarls will follow you to Valhalla if that be the order of the day, but you’ll need more than loyalty to leave a legacy that will be remembered for a thousand years. Now assemble a worthy band of warriors, build a ship, and seek your wealth and glory across the sea. Britannia awaits in Logic Artists’ Expeditions: Viking.
Create your very own Viking chieftain! Carve out your character from our unique character system, where stats, skills, and abilities define your character's role.
Raiding or Trading? Vikings were known not only as violent warriors, but savvy tradesfolk. How will you find wealth, with the carrot or the stick?
War and Politics: Side with various factions be they Norsemen, Picts, or Angles.
Reputation: Be mindful of your choices, the stories of your actions may bring others to fear you, but will they trust you?
Step into the pages of history: In a beautiful and visceral telling of the Nordic history.
I liked Conquistador, but I might just love Vikings. 6 straight hours on first play through before sunrise reminded me that I'm too old for that. About to restart from scratch to be smarter.
++Surprisingly strong story
+Combat is effective the same as first tile, but you have a lot more character customization
-As this is release version, there are a few bugs, but not story breaking.
-I'm less in love with the changes to campaign map approach, but it might just take time to grow on me.
-Really, really could use a Tab button to highlight clickable items on ground.
-Game defaults to "Insane" level at start. That's a bad idea....
Those are very minor critiques (most might even get patched). If you like like the first or like turn based strategy, this should be a very quick buy.
I'm really enjoying it - far more than the previous title. I agree with others that there are frustrating points, most notably the lack of ability to organise your character positions (combat might be nicer with a semi-simultaneous turn based nature rather than just having the entire team move and act in a turn). I turned down difficulty from the default insane level to medium and am still finding it challenging, mainly due to the limitations in combat.
Now, I'm hoping that the devs patch this to improve it in some way, as it is my only gripe so far. Everything else is my cup of tea and I'd definitely recommend it. Story is great so far, atmosphere rich. I have had no problem with the writing or characters either. Were it not for other commitments, I could have seen my weekend disappearing into this.
I won't babble, so in short:
I just stated playing (<10h), but what I love is
- no fantasy
- realistic historical background
- compelling story
- many desicions relevant to the story
- tactical fights
- base building concepts
- nice music
- doesn't feel forced to be great, but rather blooms by itself
- good graphics (not "awsome")
What I don't like:
- camera not tiltable (but rotateable)
- camera tild too vertical, can't see the characters good and enjoy the view (compared to Pillars o E)
I had no bugs so far.
The story and tactical combat is extremely captivating. Several well-designed companions and NPCs make you want to play one more quest... and then one more... and then it's the middle of the night :).
There are two downsides:
1) Resource management becomes meaningless around mid-game, because you'll always have an abundance of everything.
2) The loading times... each time you enter a big area, you can just as well go make yourself a sandwich... or three... and some coffee... and read some article on the Web.
All in all, definitely worth playing! If only for the story.
An amazing exploration game, finally (almost) bug-free
TLDR: Best Viking themed game to date, very interesting, fitting "cast" and story in old Britain and Viking Denmark, great range of genuinely different approaches to the new isles (raid and pillage, conquer, trade, or political intrigue), still not completely bug free, but finally well playable.
First off: I've never come to understand why recently, so many big gaming titles have been released in a state that cannot be described any better than beta, and it is beyond me why even Indie studios are following suit. Expeditions:Viking is a very, very strong turn-based exploration game, and [+] trumps, in my eyes, it's predecessor E:Conquistador in everything but the setting (graphics, characters, customization, less tediousness / grind, impact on the in-game world). When trying it before 1.04 though, it was a buggy mess. Now, after 1.04, it's finally in a version that can be released in good conscience, and alas, there lies a rough diamond beneath. I'm convinced that had the game been released now, it would hold a 5 stars on GOG and 9-10 / 10 on steam, but what can you do. Now it's fun, decently long (~ 40h), and far more beautiful than E:C.
Here are some tips to overcome the balancing problems the game still has:
- Damage dealers: BOW. Every weapon does ~ 130 dmg at some point, but bows shoot double, which is insane. Build your Char around a Perception max, Sense high, (both are pivotal for conversation options) bowman and you and Kentill will kill off the first 4 opponents in every battle without a Demoraliser.
- Crafting is OP. After playing the first 3 h, you will gain some free hirdsman. Make one a pure smith (and later cook/healer) and learn repair. Salvage almost all weapons. You will never take him/her to battle, but you will make the best possible weapons right at the start instead of waiting and commissioning them.
- Hides are rare. A top-notch armour costs 80 hides, a top-notch sword 36 salvage. If you break down armour, swords, shields, whatnot you always, always gain salvage only. Hides are also more expensive than salvage. Sounds stupid? It is. Buy hides, collect the immensely important armour oil for + 1 mobility, train one hirdsman to FULL armousmith, save, and then build a perfect oiled armour directly, nothing below.
