Comments on: Feeling Orcward: Hinterland: Orc Lords

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:31:09 +0000

Recently from Toady, re: Dwarf Fortress:

“03/09/2009: I made it a good way through tissue styling today. There’s an entity component in the raws and a creature component, so as long as a creature has a group of tissues tagged in a way that is recognized by a civilization, it can interact with that society’s style definitions. For example, if dwarves were administering some conquered humans, human children born there would adopt beards if they identify with the dwarven civilization as their primary group (something which will probably be a little too strict now, as there’s currently no notion of tribute or conquering that isn’t fairly total). Dwarven children kidnapped and incorporated into goblin society might sh… shave. We’ll see how it plays out when I finish it off. The primary motive now is to get beard descriptions showing up in the appearance paragraphs.”

No, I’ll skip this next iteration of Hinterlands. The original was disappointing anyways.

By: boatorious

boatorious — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:01:01 +0000

I had a lot of fun with Hinterland but it just quit working for me. Not too fond of Tilted Mill at the moment.

By: theleif

theleif — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:09:43 +0000

That’s weird. Have they explained their reasons why Brittish people with sawn-off legs living in a box can’t buy the game digitally?

By: Thranx

Thranx — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:23:34 +0000

Now, if they’d made this being able to play the Ord side of things and added multiplayer… it’d easily be worth the $20

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:30:46 +0000

Yea, settlers would be a great touchstone for hinterland 2, villagers going about their work in a way that makes placement relivent. And things like guarding miners bringing back materials. Setting up patrols and convoys for example. Course, nothing stopping you going out there yourself. Would be nice if you were genuinely wanting the terrain you are fighting over. Rather than it simply providing a bonus. Even a touch of black and white 2(for the settlement design) would be interesting. Hell, maybe i’m looking at it wrong. Maybe what i want is a game like majesty to provide an avatar you can micro with. I’m currently playing spellforce and it shares the diablo/rts split. Quite different.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:11:32 +0000

I bought Hinterlands a few days ago, and I can’t say that I’ve been very impressed. It gets the loot/level aspect of the game right, but the building part is pretty poor. I’d like to see someone combine the loot aspect of Hinterlands with the building and resource management of Settlers, and maybe a little bit of the atmosphere of My Life as King.

By: qrter

qrter — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:57:30 +0000

Can’t purchase it from the Netherlands either. Not that I’d do that anyway – also purchased the original through Steam, not going to pay twice for this.

What I don’t understand is this extra stuff is for the boxed retail version.. aaaand the download version through the Hinterland website? What?

By: I am beginning to understand this comment system

I am beginning to understand this comment system — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Yeah a liked Hinterland, but the game doesn’t last long. $20 was steep price to pay for it and releasing an expansion to boxed buyers only isn’t going to ingratiate them to the digital distribution indie community.

By: Cypher

Cypher — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:57 +0000

My worst purchase last year, and seriously affected my opinion of Tilted Mill. I bought on the strength of Children of the Nile, which I enjoyed.
With Mosby getting poor reviews I kind of struck them off my indy list. Won’t be going back.

/angryinternetman

By: suibhne

suibhne — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:47:32 +0000

Hinterland remains one of the purchases that I most regret from last year – $20 for just a few hours of gameplay before I felt like I’d explored pretty much everything that game had to offer. The idea of the game was much better than the game itself. I’ll feel a lot better about it if Tilted Mill releases this free for previous owners, but otherwise…forget it.

By: Brother None

Brother None — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:20:11 +0000

This one goes in for one of the more confusing press release of all time. What’s changing? Will it cost people who already bought it anything, and if so why and how much?

Eh. Honestly, Hinterland was not that good anyway, so no huge interest from me.

By: M_the_C

M_the_C — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:20:04 +0000

* Party-based RPG Action – Variety of characters, weapons, and strategies. Will you lead the charge with a two-handed strike or stand behind the armored herder with your bow?

I’ve never been able to get a good party going, you need to start from the beginning so that they level up properly, and yet you can’t afford to take them away from the village then.