Expeditions: Viking

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fedex quests. boring after a few hours of back and forth. go kill 3 wolves here go see if I'm there over there. game uninstalled and deleted from my account.

just ok

This game is great. The people that are saying this game is boring are probably expecting a Action RPG, which this is not. The story is great, the mechanics work as intended, its everything a historic turn based RPG should be. Kill things, make decisions, level up.

It's... fine, I guess? Probably get it on sale if you know what to expect. My first impressions (hard difficulty, still in Ribe): The combat is probably the best part, as it's frustrating yet rewarding. A dozen or so restarts into a particularly difficult fight (the one with the "spirits"), I was ready to give up, only to somehow win. It forces you to learn your party members' skills and juggle tasks/healing injuries, which is good in a strategy game. But if you don't like micromanaging and time limits on exploring the map as you complete quests, you probably won't enjoy it. The quests themselves could use some improvements. Two examples of this ([b]minor spoilers[/b]): - A stranger invites you to a feast that turns out to be an assassination attempt. You kill him and empty out his house. Later, you have to find a way to get a group of orphans to vacate someone's property, but there's no option to move them to the now-empty house. You can only attack them or send them to a farm. I would have appreciated at least 3 options here. - When I talked to the jarl's guards I exited the dialogue, thinking they were there to waste my time or get my party into trouble. But then I checked the wiki and found that said dialogue was actually the start of a quest... which I now can't complete because the guards won't talk anymore. As for other aspects, the graphics are okay, with a level of detail that's fine for a CRPG. The camera has a weird limitation on zooming out that makes any area look small and claustrophobic. The story is interesting so far. Dialogue feels modern at times, with the occasional switch to Norse. Companions have their moments, but don't expect them to be on the same level as Bioware games or BG3. They don't interact frequently with each other enough (or with the player character, for that matter) for you to become invested in their narratives and relationships. I wouldn't say Expeditions: Viking is terrible per se, but based on these impressions I'm not keen on continuing. Who knows, maybe one day I'll find the time to finish it and change my mind. Might start over and do min-max builds.

Zuerst habe ich Expeditions Rome gespielt, und das war bereits ein geniales rundenbasiertes Strategiespiel. Auch Expeditions Viking ist ausgezeichnet, ich wurde nicht enttäuscht und kann es jedem empfehlen.

Every Expeditions game is good!!