Expeditions: Viking

Expeditions: Viking сразу захватила меня своей атмосферой древних викингов. Каждый поход ощущался как небольшая эпопея, где мои решения действительно меняли ход событий. Бои были увлекательными и требовали тактического мышления, а разнообразие персонажей позволило подобрать свой стиль игры. Сюжетные ветки предлагали моральные дилеммы, заставляя выбирать между честью, выгодой и выживанием. Персонажи выглядели живыми, их диалоги наполняли мир характером и глубиной. Я постоянно чувствовал, что мой клан развивается под моим руководством, а каждая победа приносила удовлетворение. Если вам нравятся ролевая стратегия с сильным нарративом и возможностью влиять на историю, я настоятельно рекомендую попробовать Expeditions: Viking.

I play offline and I finish the game. So the hours are not correct. I have many more. It is an old game, but it seems new. Great game. Even if I am not into invader-game, here, the story is great and no one is fully good or fully bad. It has sarcstic humor too wich I like a lot. It had a time-line but it is okay to manage. You can choose super difficult to super easy. You can cheat at the time-line but the sucess will be blocked. Sometimes the remark's lines on the top-left are too quick to read. What's else ? Great companions, great choices, super fun combat, many languages available. I will look at the for expeditions rome since I really like expeditions viking. I will replay this game for sure.

Overall a good experience, if you favor story and tone over combat. That's not to say combat isn't plentiful, it just gets repetitive and unfulfilling. The pros are that it does a very good job of blending game elements and establishing what it would feel like to run a viking society. The downside is that combat and the leveling system require refinement. There's noting in the game that raises your starting attributes, so you have to choose them very wisely. Dialogue based tests will tell you that you have a moderate chance of success, but I have never passed a single one of those, so doing anything other than min maxing your builds seems like a waste of time. I've tried doing a jack of all trades, but it's just not effective. Cover and line of sight are incomprehensible and makes ranged combat pretty terrible. Everything blocks line of sight with no real indicators on the grid map to tell you where you would get a decent angle of fire from, while enemy archers will normally hit you with perfect accuracy from across the map. This, with often cramped maps and limited mobility, makes it hard to justify a lot of character builds. Lastly, crafting only seems possible while camping on the world map, unless commissioning a blacksmith, which can't create utility items anyway. Just heading out on the world map to rest and make stuff is also counter-productive, because the game has a game over timer. You already have to feed your people while on the road, it's not like an added deadline was really necessary. If you can get over those deficiencies you will find a really decent game that has a lot of unique things to offer, in a well made setting. If you enjoyed Banner Saga, this game is essentially an isometric RPG version of that.

Expeditions Viking mě velice bavilo. Vikingské prostředí her typu: Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Divinity Original Sin atd.

This is a pretty good game for fans of RPG's and turn based strategy. There are a few flaws with the combat system that make the early going very difficult (enemy archers shoot through cover with ease, many abilities don't work as advertised). It does a good job capturing Viking flavor. I give it a B-, so I recommend buying it on sale.

Expeditions: Viking is the second entry in the Expeditions series. Not only is it filled to the brim with w0ke historical nonsense like "shield maidens" on every corner, but also worse gameplay than the first game in the series. In addition to carrying on the X-Com disease (incredibly low to hit chances in ranged combat even with high skills at point blank range), enemies have almost none of your weaknesses while "surprising" you frequently, getting a first turn with attacks that decimate your team. If you are looking for a game with no such downsides look elsewhere.

Exercise in frustration. You can only heal injury in just 1 location and camping; no healer in large town. Think about that logic. Also, you can not eat in towns, you have to camp to eat. Think about that logic. Rotation control bugged to death, you want to rotate the camera to right? Nope, it will rotate to the left. Try to change the control for rotation, nope, it refuse to change due to bug. This game is so frustrating that i actively encourage you to 'try' (*wink wink) it instead of buying. This is the only way the devs will learn. Cool mechanism bogged down to brain dead QoL.

diamond in the rough