Heliocentric says:

What? That was a zero hype launch. Wouldn’t be suprised to see this on impulse for all you no drm fiends, tilted mill put their expansion up there earlier this month. Diablo with city building sounds addictive.

October 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am

Diogo Ribeiro says:

What’s the point of non-descript hearts popping out of character’s heads while losing hit points in combat? There’s a reason those numbers exist in most other games.

October 1st, 2008 at 9:23 am

futage says:

“I’ve just downloaded my copy, and will have a crack in the next couple of days ”

Piracy shocker.

October 1st, 2008 at 9:42 am

Feet says:

No videos of the village building bit?

October 1st, 2008 at 9:46 am

yns88 says:

Alec: Hinterland, mind you.

Also, shame to hear all this talk of shallow gameplay. I was really hoping for a real open world city-building rogue-em-up experience. Guess I was asking for too much : (

October 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am

onkellou says:

For heaven’s sake, does really, really *every* game under the sun need to be released within the same six week sof the year? Even digital-distribution-only niche games like this?

Silly.

October 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am

Turin Turambar says:

Hmm. Disappointment.

October 1st, 2008 at 10:49 am

Ian says:

@ Jim: Pfft. You’ll be telling us gaming journos don’t drive solid diamond helicopters, next.

October 1st, 2008 at 10:58 am

Malagate says:

@Greg, such happenstances is why I think RPS is an evil force.

If you had not come to RPS and read this article, that would be £13 of the bank’s money that you would still have.

If I had never come here I would not have known about Mount & Blade and as such I would be able to get a decent night’s sleep.

If I had never heard of Mount & Blade then I wouldn’t have been able to tell my friend about it, who is now also playing it for hours on end. However he happens to have just started Uni, so I will hold RPS responsible for any low marks he gets.

Should the bank decide to ream you for overdraft charges, remember RPS and come join me in making a class action lawsuit, I’m sure there will be plenty of “justice” to go around after we get their solid diamond helicopters.

October 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am

Larington says:

I agree on the curse of games being released as a chunk during the christmas period… Considering how few games I’ve bought during the last few months and mostly out of I’m bored desperation, that all of this gets into my maybe/definately list in around 2 months is fugging ridiculous… Not to mention that, people start university in september so a sizeable chunk of folks who have had hour upon hour during the summer holidays are bored, but when winter rolls around theres suddenly too many games and not enough time. On the plus side, there’ll be plenty of budget choices for me for easter & summer next year (When I might otherwise have bought it full price).

For instance:
Definately
24/10/2008 – Far Cry 2
31/10/2008 – Fallout 3
21/11/2008 – GTA IV and Left 4 Dead

Maybe?
31/10/2008 – Red Alert 3 and 007: Quantum of Solace
07/11/2008 – Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
14/11/2008 – Call of Duty: World at War and LOTRO: Mines of Moria
21/11/2008 – Tomb Raider: Underworld

This is just on PC, can’t imagine what its like if you have multiple different platforms.

If these were spread over a longer time frame I’d be far more likely to pick them all up, by summer I probably will have forgotten half of them even existed.

Back to being fully on topic, I’ll wait for a review I think.

October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am

H says:

I dunno, from those clips, it seems… Very basic and a bit naff? Be good to see a demo.

October 1st, 2008 at 12:43 pm

EyeMessiah says:

So if this is hinterland then what is the vehicularly coop post-apoc game with 25,000 guns in it called?

October 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Heliocentric says:

I cant wait for (word that means edge)land.

October 1st, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Matthew Thiel says:

I picked it up last night, but I found it to be kind of a mixed-bag.

The combat is a bit awkward, but mostly fun. The difficulty is confusing. For some reason, I was mowing down the enemies like grass when I started as an “Architect,” but playing as more combat oriented classes caused the enemies to be MUCH harder to kill and I seemed to lose health more quickly. It might be something I was doing wrong, but I was left feeling very confused.

I’ll probably keep hacking at it for awhile, but I’m already starting to wonder, ‘is this it?’ For $20, I might have been asking too much too.

October 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pm

bowl of snakes says:

I like it, its definitely on the shorter end, like you sortof expect with a $20 game. Of course it would be awesome if it had the depth of Dwarf Fortress, but that’s a pretty massive thing to compare it to. It will be awesome if they improve it via patches and/or expand on this idea in future games.

October 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 am

mandaya says:

gave it a try because I was intrigued by the mention of Dwarf Fortress. Sadly, that seems to be just a well-placed marketing-gag, as all the stuff that’s so darn addicting about DF seems to be missing in Hinterland. the village and its inhabitants are not really customizable and serve as some kind of bland RPS-like base without any of DF’s charm.
for the price it’s ok, I guess…
… although it’d be better karma to donate to tarn adams instead!!

October 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Heliocentric says:

@Sf

AIM

February 18th, 2009 at 7:27 pm