Expeditions: Rome

如果只是单纯想玩CRPG或者战棋游戏，还有很多其他选择。你游UI点不友好，包括但不限于，界面遮挡，高亮不明显，路径选择后无法取消等，还有战斗地图跑图累死人，视角还低得离谱，如果你的视角不面朝自己的角色，还无法穿透屋顶，搜刮非常麻烦，由于高亮不明显，很容易漏掉战利品或者箱子，如果是精罗也别想着有什么好的体验从剧情到装备全是魔改，很难代入，一个罗马军团长和他的伙伴开局大部分时间用着敌人的装备，因为自己的装备数值不好，真的很出戏。再说回游戏里兵种的设定，游戏背景设定的时间在公元前1世纪，还在用传统罗马三线阵模板，那么好，请问第三线的成年兵不应该是传统重步兵吗？为什么拿的是双手战矛（cos希腊长枪方阵？）？只有名字是历史的是吧？反而是只有壮年兵兼容剑盾和矛盾（我就当你名为壮年兵，实为军团士兵了），我也不知道罗马爱好者看着成年兵拿着双手战矛心里怎么想的，是想的太还原啦还是太好玩啦？反正我觉得非常出戏。还有我小青年呢？被你们制作组吃了？你这也对不上历史上的罗马三线啊，结果你游连卡米卢斯改革都没对上啊？更别说马略改革了。再说那个禁卫军招募，我真不知道为什么一定要搞一个平定任务，一定得带这个路人禁军，禁军又不能自定义能力，技能又乱点，就只能硬浪费时间在帐篷那刷，你要说刷的禁军自带装备很好很合理，那也算了，结果还是得自己一个一个搞。这么一比初始忠诚度莫名其妙低我都觉得不是什么大问题了（你忠诚度这么低来应聘什么禁军？罗马就是坏在你们这些虫豸手里），最难接受的还是不能洗点，你但凡技能点够点满所有的加点呢，犹豫个半天要么加载存档，要么从头开始，搞得都恶心了

Восстань,все по серьезу ,все сложно порой ,но как же затягивает,сюжет ультра. Главное ,что тут гибрид,WArtales И Rome : Total WAR,игра сделана на все сто. Я даже вина выпил....Как истинный римлянин)))

Der Quotenneger darf natürlich auch im antiken Rom nicht fehlen. Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die Spieleentwickler Geld von Blackrock für solche und ähnliche destruktiven Inhalte wie LGBTQ erhalten, muss man dies bei modernen Spielen wohl leider so hinnehmen... Es durfte aber natürlich auch keine Feminismuspropaganda fehlen. Die spielbare Truppe wird gleich um zwei Frauen bereichert, die für jeden nur halbwegs Geschichtsinteressierten oder auch Menschen, die in der Realität und nicht in einer Phantasiewelt leben, ein Schlag ins Gesicht sein. Die zweite Heldin ist eine Nahkämpferin, weil Frauen im alten Rom wahrscheinlich körperlich sehr stark gewesen sein mussten. Darüber hinaus ist sie eine Gladiatorin- wer kennt sie nicht? weibliche Gladiator*INNEN... Im Ladebildschirm des Spiels wird ein Hinweis des Entwicklers eingeblendet, dass es keinen Zeitdruck bei dem Spiel geben würde. Dann ergeben die Schlachten auf der Weltkarte aber wenig Sinn, da die Truppen sich nach Zeit automatisch wieder auffüllen durch neue Rekruten. Manche Inhalte ergeben auch wenig Sinn- zb. kann man ein bestimmtes Ziel durch verschiedene Wege erreichen- einer davon ist, eine Zivilistin zu töten, um sein eigentliches Ziel zu provozieren. Diese höchst fragwürdige Moral und Spielweise belohnt den Spieler sogar mit einem einzigartigen Gegenstand, welches die ermordete Zivilistin verliert. Tja, sowas kommt wohl dabei heraus, wenn Kommunisten anstatt Historiker an der Handlung eines Videospiels arbeiten. Die taktischen Kämpfe sind auch höchst unbefriedigend und ich kann leider nichts positives über dieses Spiel berichten. PS: Der Begriff Quotenneger ist in meinem Wohnort nicht "strafbar", also bitte ich davon abzusehen, mir die sogenannte Polizei auf den Hals zu hetzen, die mir um 5:00 Uhr morgens die Türe eintritt, während europaweit Einheimische täglich von fremden Wiederholungstätern abgestochen werden.

С викингами было лучше

this game is fully alright. if someone told me they liked it, i'd understand why. but for me at least, it's missing that extra spark that really interests me in a game and its world. for example, the game plays lip service to roman misogyny(no fighting, few rights, no first name), but still puts a female main character in charge of a legion right off the bat. it's mainly because your character is a nepo baby and your commanding officer is a powerful family friend, but still feels weird! it'd make more sense, given that you're fleeing assassins and politics, to do as another character does and crossdress for the duration of the war. instead, systemic misogyny is brushed aside with a single victory. it makes the setting feel hollow. another problem, it barely feels like your dialogue choices change anything. if you say something approving, the other characters will act like you're disapproving and need to be convinced. if you're mean you get the same promotion as if you were nice. if you spare a man's life and use him to sneak into a city, surprise! the enemy general saw you coming anyway and you still have to fight. and the rest of the characters feel archetypal and bland. caeso is a mildly misogynistic yes man, the old man is just there to stroke his beard and say vague and approving things, the gladiator just yells about how you should kill everybody, and julia is roman mulan. so who cares? not me. the gameplay is boring too. no magic, obviously, so party battles are just one simple and plain fight after another. and the army battles are an overly complicated mess that comes down to "the bigger army wins". it's just dull. a game like this that handles all of these aspects(writing, choices, party and army battles) far better is rogue trader. go check that one out if you haven't already played it.

Expeditions has been one of those series that has been downhill from the start for me. The first game was one of my surprise favorites that I still think about often but each game trades it's unique charm for "AAA quality". Good on them if this has been working for them, but I'm definitely not the target audience anymore. I want to start with the good because it's absolutely there. It's still got the fantastic historically focused roleplaying games that I loved. The writing is good enough and the core tactical engine here is enough to do the trick. And when it looks good, it looks real good. But sadly, there's some definite bugs in the graphics/texturing which loads in play-doh versions of the game. (I suspect it's for quicker loading, but the game just forgets to finish the HQ loads) The thing is, at any moment, I'm right on the cusp of enjoying my time with Expeditions: Rome. But I can't honestly say I've enjoyed any of my actual playtime. It was frustrating. It was annoying. It was tedious. I feel that the negatives are frequent enough, and harsh enough that I can't find the flow. One of the things I loved about the first game was that it felt like you were a commander to a larger force. You had a massive number of near-faceless characters to choose from. It was fairly open-ended in how you do things and was very much a system-based game like X-Com with RPG elements. I described the game as "Abstract". By now? It's an modern day AAA RPG where you have a cast of pre-written characters and a plot to follow. The quality of the writing is "Video Game Writer". It works fine when they remember that they are making a game. But it has a tendency to be a bit sloppy and amateur when they overestimate their skills. An example of this has gotta be what the girl boss complaints are whining about. There's a Mulan moment and the writers decide we need to hear each characters individual thoughts on the reveal. - "Of course I've known. She's one of the best soldiers I've ever had." - "What? How could a woman be so good?" - "I suspected it all along" - "We'll make strong babies!" The problem is that she's a cool freaking character, but the writing for the scene actively hurts the experience. Most of the time, its not THAT bad. You just get a Marvel-Tier joke on a serious quest. There's "No S*** Sherlock" tier mysteries and reveals. If you play video games, you know what I mean. From a functional standpoint, it works but I wish they just trusted the game and the players a little more. But the AAA story means that you have a premade party to use for much of the story. You'll still recruit and customize rando's but why would you use a weaker version of the heroes? Well, the devs asked that question too and added missions that require a party of faceless units. (There was an option to disable these on a New Game and I wish to god I did) But the battles are really where the game loses it for me. Nearly every battle so far has been a gimmick fight. Unique objectives is a great idea, but it's overdone here. Each mission requires a unique strategy, path, playstyle, or just RNG to succeed. I haven't once felt "That was a good challenge"... but "Oh, that's what I was supposed to do" or "That was annoying" Even in random battles they'll be a gimmick to make sure every fight is a challenge. Sure, I'm a heavily armed roman legion... but I'm paying off bandits because I'm tired of starting a mission surrounded, outnumbered 5 to 1, and watching my healer sniped by arrows before I've been allowed to act. It's just not fun. And that's the ultimate problem... it's just not fun. The world map is tedious as you need to control your party and an army seperately. The inventory management is tedious as you need to arm dozens of characters with individual items and manually craft replacements for consumables. Finding food and medicine is somehow more annoying than the first games "Set up a camp every night". The missions are challenging for the wrong reasons. The UI is jank, and I've encountered bugs ranging from texture to falling through the ground. I know this review sounds ultra-negative which sucks because I don't hate this game. It's decent enough quality and you can see the fun core. But every emotional response and every memory I have is with it's problems. I'm sure there's an audience that could like this, but its not me.

بكيت ضحكت غضبت حقدت فرحت و حزنت رحلة طويلة عشتها فذي اللعبة مع شخصيات لن انساه و قصة اقل ما يقال عنها ملحمة. الجيم بلي المعارك المصغرة شي حلو و متتع و ما حسيت بملل و الشي الرهيب حصار المدن شي اسطوري و معارك متقنة و لكن للاسف الحروب بين الجيوش ملل و تحس بتكرر و ما في اي ابداع بس روح اشتري جنود و ارميهم على الخصوم

My Roman Empire Dreaming.