I feel the exact same way about portraits in RPGs. Dont give me a portrait option if my character model cant conceivably look like it. Its annoying as all heck not being able to match those things up. Haha
The "several wars of self defense" line is pretty amusing to anyone who knows about Roman history. More or less every war Rome ever fought was in "Self Defense". They would purposefully twist the rhetoric and reasoning and then go through a very ceremonial process of declaring war on an enemy state, which involved a verbal and written declaration, as well as throwing a spear into their lands. The game seems to start you out in the Greek territories, which Rome annexed 'unofficially' for it's 'own protection and stability'.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 The ancient greeks kinda found themselves in an amazing situation where the country that conquered them, through both force of arms and diplomacy, was extremely enthralled with their culture
Yeah and they were mostly right to do so too, but still less hypocritical and sanctimonious about it than any modern regime. We use the Roman self defense excuse too but also invent absurd lies like “democracy” “freedumb” “socialism” “human rights” “genocide” and “war crimes” to justify waging the most brutal wars at home and abroad(not unlike the ancient Athenians, tbh).
After Conquistador and Vikings - I'm just getting it blindly on a wishlist. They really nail the idea in their previous games, not only combat but that RPG-strategy feel - iterating with each game to make it better. Conquistador was an unpolished gem made on the budget of two potatoes, Vikings was serious game studio time.. I have high hopes for Rome
Splattercat love your content hope you're doing well stay safe and well I guess I'd say stay warm but you live in California it's cold as hell here in Iowa
The evolution from one game to another is really impressive. You can feel the vision always present being refined more and more. Not only does the combat and character evolution look solid, but it's also tightly woven into the story line.
I remember Expeditions Conquistador which came out like 10 years ago, really enjoyed it although I never got the Vikings one. Looking forward to this one.
OK this looks great, bought both the expeditions games based on splat videos but haven't finished either... not because they aren't great games but because I get decision paralysis in all branching story path type games but also don't like using walk-throughs... That said I love the Roman setting.
I really hope they included slings. While I know the protagonist's backstory is established and thus you can't actually be a Balearic slinger, slingers were well established in ancient Rome and it's a weapon I quite appreciate. They were in Viking; it'd be odd not to include the option here. Also, it's a shame more games don't allow the sling and shield combo. If someone were to include it anywhere, I'd say Rome's a prime choice given that the slingers on Trajan's Column are depicted wielding shields. Thank you for bringing this game to my attention. Need to get my computer back up to 100% so I can give it a go.
In words of Maximus Iceus Cubus: "Here's a murder rap to keep y'all dancin' With a crime record like Charles Manson A Roman Pilum is the tool, Don't make me act like that Oedipus fool"
Looks really nice - I look forward for the Steam release. Just minor squirks - it is not historically accurate at some places ... by the time of the 1st BC triarii, princeps, etc. did not exist any more. They were part of the manipular legion setting - early and middle republic era. By the 1st BC the legions followed the cohort system, invented around and after the 2nd Punic Wars = the gear of a legionaire was unified - large rectangular shield, metal armour, pilum (throwing spear), gladius, pugio ... but all in all really nice ... I have always loved the era ...
Yeah true, but they probably work better as archetypes/character class templates considering how uniform the roles of legionnaires became as result of those reforms.
The triarcus did not fight your opponents, and focused on slaying wounded pirates. Which may have been done to stop them from talking post battle. Couple that to the fact that he was anxious even before the attack and first refused to give a straight answer to when you'd be arriving. I'd say those are telltale signs of him working with the pirates.
Well said about gameplay vs exposition. Indie games seem to be the most guilty at throwing a lot of text before gameplay. Sometimes it is better just to experience the game and discover the game world while playing. Good vid bro!
I'm so glad to see how far Logic Artists has come, I've played both Conquistador and Vikings and this game is already showing to be much more technically impressive than it's predecessors
That looks like a really nice game. I'll be downloading the demo for sure to try it myself Also, as a fun fact: the intro is really anachronistic. In the times of Rome they did not have a color called blue. They used to describe the sea as "wine colored".
I didn't connect it until you said "Third game" but holy Hell another Expeditions game! Fantastic! That's one thing I'll say about Rome. It was brutal and harsh, but the middle ranks (less so the generals) were expected to actually fight with their men.
I hugely appreciate the effort they put in with voice acting in this game... Would have wish-listed just for that alone, but the rest seems extremely well polished as well.
It's funny you mentioned the Robin Hood weaponry when talking about the staff. On the Modern Rogue channel they checked out quarterstaff combat, got a demonstration on why you don't laugh at the stick. It's great. 8D (And they mention that at least in Historical European martial arts you don't really hold the stick Robin Hood style like Syneros is.)
Hah, the loading screen at a place talks about how there is no time limit then talk about how strange it would be for the developer to put that in the game. Oh, the callback and the snark.
What year is this supposed to be? Your ship has phalanx style roundshields but you're carrying oval scuta, the first enemies are wearing linothorax, the pirate ship has a giant Persian Wars era helmet on the sail...
Since there's a young Julius Caesar, probably around 80 BC. They've seemed to have taken a lot of creative liberties such as using greek fire which would not have been invented yet.
@@therealpianofairy I think, most likely, nobody ACTUALLY cares that much. If the game is fun and the story is interesting anachronisms aren't important.
I love how historical these games are. These people don’t judge themselves by modern standards, but by standards of the time. Vikings raid people and don’t have a problem with this. Romans conquered things, and they didn’t feel like they needed to feel guilty about it.
I liked your let's play of conquistador. The game has been on my radar since then. I bought Vikings but it was a letdown so I kept away from the first game. I see there's a demo (24 Giga wow) so i'll at least be able to judge it in advance. An advice to people who are tempted to buy games from this company : wait a while after the game is released, there are usually many bugs which are fixed only after at least one month after release (if ever). And watch more than a one video test from youtubers to make an opinion and even if you can try to watch more than one youtuber/streamer.
I have been carefully watching this. I played Expeditions 1 when it came out and enjoyed. Second game I was enjoying. Got to Briton and was doing the Viking thing and progressing and then got kerb stomped in a random encounter. Tried to scum save out of it. Failed. Checked forums. Yeah... seemed to be a consensus some of the random encounters were massively OP. Should really go back and see if they patched that out as I was enjoying the game. This one I might hold out on. I need a new PC and feel I should wait till I get that sorted so I don't have to download stuff twice.
I studied Classics and Linguistics, like 30 years ago, but the pronunciation is pretty good. I believe their is a channel with Metatron that studies stuff like that. nice to seed such attention to detail as you mentioned. just my duo asses
We really did our best to get the Classical Latin pronunciation right :D not all the actors had an equally easy time of it but we got there for the main cast at least.
I do t know much about Roman culture (nor Ancient Greek culture, all I know about them are from the Percy Jackson books and the Greco-Roman myths.) but whenever I try to create a character with Roman/Greek names. I put a regular name, then add us at the end. (Example using my username would be GamingMasterAnthonyus)
Nice, i watched your original video from Expedition Vikings some time ago and i really liked that game, i hope the party management and camping is better on this one.
I feel like the normal body was a bit too buff. 4:52 no reaction, comment etc.? I'm I the only man-child here? Something I noticed is that your avatar is in armour when chatting, but in a Toga outside of dialogue. I can actually see the logic behind cooperating with pirates, especially if it's about them either not killing you and your crew and are paying for damages and maybe a bit of ransom - Also, had it been him who killed the downed pirates, well dead men speak no tales. What's the difference between heavy and strong armour? o.O 25:54 Oh, I really hope your earlier dialogue is what gave you the "heroic" personality/trait. I don't think so, but I hope! 30:47 I agree. Besides, spears are supposed to be pretty overpowered, just look at people who've tested it on RU-vid. 30:51 No, if you negate the point, that'd be a quarter staff, I'm sure! ;) While I'm not usually into CRPGs, I'm going to link my dad to this.
I love anything Roman in nature...I loved playing Ryse:Son of Rome, I loved watching Spartacus back in the day...and most recently I am watching Barbarians on Netflix...which has been alot of fun too to see those on the other side of the Roman empire. ALso these devs are pretty good I played Consquistador years ago and it was pretty solid if not more simple.
Hahahah shut the fuck up dude :) ....i spit my food out of my mouth... " surprise pilum! " that whole monologue was the best thing I've heard all week!! You keep being you my bro..
Awe shit I remember that Conquistador playthrough, good to know best girl is still looking disappointed on the channel banner to live on. Edit: Nvm. :(
How are you playing this already when it was not released yet, not even in early access? edit: 9:10 wow, did you really just complain that most RPG's behave like an RPG instead of going to battle for you to stab things? I rather prefer if there would be fewer battles and more meaningful dialogues in an RPG, more fleshed out characters and a reactive story.
Ahhhh, Mr SplatterCat, thank you ! 😁🙏 This one looks WICKED GOOD !!! 😍 @ 17:00 "Owwwwwwwwwww" Oh, mate. I feel your pain! 😢 @ 22:23 I like your thinking here, sir. Very nice. Honourable and clever. 😇👍 M 🦘🏏😎
I love anything Rome or Greek mythology related stuff. And this game was really fun. I played on insane and it was too difficult so I had to go back to hard mode. Which was also difficult but after many tries, I did complete the demo on hard. What’s funny is the last battle in the demo was super easy. Anyway, I like this game and will get it. After this demo, I got Expedition Vikings. 😂
This game is so close to perfect. They just need to slap really terrible mouth animations on the portraits during dialogue phases, and this could be a GOTY shoo-in for 2022
Expedition Viking and Expedition Conquistador where both pretty fun until you reach midgame bugs, because they never finish their damn game for some reason.
Looks pretty good so far. I will definitely look up the demo. I was confused about how the scene at the beginning relates to the main character and had to go back and re-watch it (the eldest child is the woman, the youngest child is the one who was sent away - presumably the main character).
