Comments on: Thoughts: Expeditions Rome https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-expeditions-rome/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 By: BletchleyGeek https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-expeditions-rome/#comment-61014 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:52:37 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=6798#comment-61014 I have not really enjoyed the Expeditions games much, but always appreciated the effort the devs made to keep me entertained for a few hours.

The news of them leaving relatively niche PC CRPGs for NFT “games” was a bit like wtf. If they were looking for jobs that paid mortgages there are better lines of work…

]]> By: ilitarist https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-expeditions-rome/#comment-61013 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:05:50 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=6798#comment-61013 I’ve played Expedition Vikings just recently. I liked its approach to history (I think it did a good job highlighting ahistorical concessions to gameplay or story. Certainly a lot better than Assassins Creed Valhalla that basically has the same plot) and tactical battles. But I agree with you about the abundance of incohesive mechanics. Whole survival aspect interacts with the time limit, but that time limit is extremely generous. Very rarely you have to fight a series of battles and injury system comes in place, and I don’t think my people ever fought while starving or exhausted. There are defended resting places that are probably supposed to give you unique opportunity for a small battle when your party is not at full strength, but you can just walk few hours more and sleep there, it’s a no-brainer. Especially with the game having a little too many tactical fights already. Many of them had unique maps or challenges but there was enough generic ones too. It’s always sad when complex looking systems turn out to be a puzzle you solve once and then it’s busywork.

I also think that tactical gameplay was good but suffered from classless system allowing to make characters that are just a little too perfect. Glad to hear Rome has class system. You sold me this game even if strategic map mechanics do not sound interesting.

And yes, full voice acting is a plague of RPGs. Pillars of Eternity 1 (2 tries to pretend it has full VA but has a lot of book interactions that have no VA) or Pathfinder is the best approach really, make VA for the most important scenes, give it to important characters. Don’t set script in stone months before release or force an actor to invent a new voice for unnamed peasant #24.

That review ending is M. Night Shyamalan level shit.

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