Expeditions: Viking

Проходил на релизе, решил перепройти в 2025. И тогда, и сейчас - очень нравится!

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Хорошая crpg

[h3] Summary [/h3] This is an excellent heavily story based rpg where you lead a team of vikings to protect your home village. It tries to follow as close as possible to actual events in history but does take a large amount of poetic license. Unless you are a history professor, you are unlikely to notice or be fussed about this. The game is broken up into map travel, city travel and questing, camping and crafting, and turn based action point / movement point combat. [h3] Detail [/h3] Probably the best part of this game is the writing. The dialogue is remarkably well done and even through there are limited options, the wit, sass, and personality behind it is praise worthy. The game is a story broken into two parts, and each has a time limit but it is beyond more than enough to achieve what is required. The game takes you through becoming the new leader of your town and having to decide between being a trader or a warrior. These are two loosely based goals where you ultimately either kill everyone or convince them to be your allies. There are consequences / story arcs behind your decisions but ultimately you either go for power or prosperity. You can get both with some reading up online. This is a party based game where you control 5 of 10 or more total team mates at a time. Ultimately you only ever play in one of three windows or interfaces, each of which with their own UI and interactions. 1. The map / travel window, where you move your whole party from town to town and decide which zones to enter / where to camp or rest. 2. The town / combat window, covers all your main gameplay where you are in a fixed map with lootable items and interactable npcs and fixed exit points. Some of these maps can have doors to buildings for example where you enter into mini maps for houses / smaller areas. These towns or areas could be further broken two categories: 2a [Major] A town or village zone, where you are able to move around and interact with npcs to start or progress quests or trade. Combat can still sometimes occur in these. 2b [Minor] A combat zone, where you can explore, loot, investigate, complete quests and ultimately engage in turn based combat. 3. The final area is the camping window, where when travelling on the map, you can stop to camp in order to hunt for food, scout for resources, heal, or most importantly, craft weapons and armour. This is the key place to make all your equipment. The combat itself is enjoyable, following the standard 2 point setup where you have 1 action point and 1 movement, and can either to a massive 2 point action, do 2 points of movement, or do 1 attack and 1 movement. The builds of each character are very free (as in you are free to choose your skills and talents) but very permanent so rather don't spend any points until you know what you are doing and then allocate them later. The only metric which affects this are your character attributes which open up or limit which skills and talents can be used. Also those are fixed from the start so choose your and your companions stats to balance out your requirements or gameplay style. In terms of the looks and feel: the environments are picturesque and the music is while fixed per zone very good and pleasant. The detail of the actual characters you play with however could be a bit better but if you stay zoomed out you can overlook that. This is one of the few games I played from start to finish without wanting to play other things in-between, and without feeling bored or like it was a chore. I don't think I would play it again but that's just me.

Josh Gandos

good viking game :) my only complaint was not seeing the fate of my other companions, only the romanced companion is shown at the end.