The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[The Brain]

Been playing Vagrus - The Riven Realms. It's a RPG without a main story, where you play a leader of a traveling merchant and/or mercenary company in a Roman-inspired post-apocalyptic world. Your goal is to get rich and/or famous and there are various side stories you can find in the world. Lots of lore and history.

What's the gameplay like?

There's a free prologue for the interested.

[crazy canuck]

Expeditions Rome is out - I have played for about an hour - the action points based combat is a nice change.  It makes combat a more tactical then it was in Vikings.  Interesting opening premise for your character and the dialogue options are well scripted.  Graphics are pretty nice as an added bonus.   

[Josquius]

Do they have a 21st century UI on this one?
That killed conquistador for me.

[crazy canuck]

Do they have a 21st century UI on this one?
That killed conquistador for me.

You realize how old conquistador is right?  Vikings was made years after that.  And it has been about 5 years since the release of Vikings.

[Jacob]

How good is Expeditions: Rome?

[garbon]

Do they have a 21st century UI on this one?
That killed conquistador for me.

You realize how old conquistador is right?  Vikings was made years after that.  And it has been about 5 years since the release of Vikings.

The UI for conquistador looked shitty even in its time. I bought it in 2014 and gave up for that same reason.

[Habbaku]

I gave up on Vikings because the combat was a drag and the storyline not particularly engaging. I hope Rome is better.

[crazy canuck]

How good is Expeditions: Rome?

Can't really say, an hour of gameplay really just gets me just past the intro piece.  But looks good so far.

[celedhring]

Conquistador had an engaging story - I loved the attention paid to the period, besides some small things done for gameplay purposes - but the combat bored me to tears.

If Rome is more fun to play, I'll certainly get it.

[crazy canuck]

How good is Expeditions: Rome?

Ok, played around a bit more and I really like it.  There are a lot of choices to be made regarding how you skill up your group; how you equip; manage your legions; and manage your economy.  Lots of levels to this game in addition the usual dialogue choices that have meaningful impacts on the game which is the hallmark of the Expedition series.  I also really like the combat, many options here (pro tip you can weapon switch at the start of a turn to get options presented by other weapons/gear).

[mongers]

Just noticed the classic Bitmap Brothers platfomer 'Gods' is in the Steam sale for $1, well worth it for a blast from the past:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628720/GODS_Remastered/

[celedhring]

Guy in Spanish EUOT has posted this easter egg from Expeditions: Rome



He says they're recruitable.

[Habbaku]

 

[Josquius]

I bought a pack containing Suzerain and Yes Your Grace.
Despite having zero time to play games at all.
I have had my eye on them for some time though....

[Oexmelin]

Many years ago, Syt posted how he found the Dark Souls game somehow relaxing. I bought Dark Souls then, but just couldn't get into it and didn't really have the time. I got back to it last fall, and finally "got" both the game, and what Syt was saying. Since then, I have finished DS, and started (and am almost finished with) Dark Souls III. The last couple of sessions Sister Friede has been mopping the floor with my character. And yet, what a fascinating and beautiful game.

Thanks, Syt.