Comments on: Hexyback: Conquest! Medieval Realms Demo

By: Sentient

Sentient — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:05:04 +0000

Well an open source version of Slay would be cool. I also thought about this, if only so that you could rescale the window. But fear of plagiarizing kept me back. So I was a it surprised to see this conquest game shamelessly copying 80% of Slay. Maybe Slay is also a conversion of a boardgame? I got the impression that I am missing something. ;)

By: Pod

Pod — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:20:41 +0000

This is very poor. It’s only a tiny improvment over slay in terms of multiple units and that, but it somehow manages to convey less information than that windows 3.1 game. You have no idea what the enemy just did on their turn, where your troops went to, which territories you lost etc. I even found it hard quitting the game. (”Pause menu > clikc a little flag that doesn’t look like a button). I was planning on making my own open source version of slay, and seeing the “competition”, I might well have to.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:54:24 +0000

I’m a big fan of turn based games, and I’ve supported a few of those highlighted by RPS. But this game seems a bit high priced for what looks to be a diversion for a couple of nights rather than a deep game. I’ve subscribed to the Slitherine newsletter to see if it comes down in prices or the game gets expanded at some stage.

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:28:54 +0000

Extended download is only required if you dont keep a copy of the files backed up. You get an exe and a serial number and can reinstall later no problems. Full game is 35MB.

By: clovis

clovis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:04:26 +0000

How big is the full game? It should really tell you somewhere on the site considering its a download and they have a EAesque “extended download service”. So i pay for something and then if i lose it oh well i dont own it anymore and i better cough up money again? Because what you want more money or cant be bothered keeping some kind of simple record system?…

By: Poita

Poita — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:32:15 +0000

Nice. I installed it and gave it a shot and now the music won’t stop playing even though i quit the game, and that’s with the music set to zero in the game settings.
It’s always nice when you have reboot to get your settings back after trying a demo.

By: Pace

Pace — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:57:28 +0000

But he complained there isn’t a demo! But in the time between then and now, that’s changed in one, very important way. That there’s a demo. There’s totally a demo.

It gets tedious to keep saying this, but it deserves mentioning every now and then that it’s these little gems that keep me coming back to RPS.

By: Clovis

Clovis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:39:17 +0000

I don’t know if this applies to this game or not, but the hex grid and cute figurine looking soldiers makes this look like a board game. Sometimes it is bad if a video game is just a glorified board game, but if done right they can be the best kind of games. Too often computer games, and ESPECIALLY computer strategy games, get rather bogged down in complex rules and tons of numbers. At some point this isn’t actually adding to the strategy of the game. I mean, the rules of Go are pretty simple, but the strategy is deeper in Go than in most most strategy games.d

What’s the pacing like in this game? Do you end up with hundreds of troops that take an hour to move each turn, or do you have a limited number of choices? I really prefer the latter.

I wonder why I keep thinking about board games when I pull up RPS….

By: ToSt

ToSt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:30:23 +0000

The AI is very bad, though, especially in comparison to Slay. Right now, avoid it and get Slay instead. And hope this wil change with a future patch.

By: VPeric

VPeric — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:11:01 +0000

So, it’s like Slay with more than one troop type? Sounds pretty awesome. :D

By: Hajimete no Paso Kon

Hajimete no Paso Kon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:50:43 +0000

I’d say the computer is complete HAX!

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:34:26 +0000

So you wouldn’t say it’s hexcellent, then?