Hinterland Out on Steam

[Fragamemnon]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17140/

Seriously this is the biggest no-brainer $20 you'll ever spend on Steam.

Loot, level and build with fast paced RPG combat and strategic base building!

Can you build a vibrant settlement, lead your people to prosperity, and tame the wild Hinterland?

Party-based RPG Action — A variety of characters, weapons, and strategies are at your disposal -- will you lead the charge with a devastating two-handed strike, or stand behind the herder in plate mail with your trusty bow?
Town Building — Choose your settlers from a huge cast of characters and arm them for defense, or give them tools for production.
Character Development — Develop lowly farmers into great warriors and customize your character with a variety of specializations.
Random fantasy world — Each game of Hinterland takes place in a new location with different resources, items, and challenges. Different challenges feature a range of enemies, including orc war camps, dark elf raiding parties, goblin infested mines, ruined cities filled with undead, and more.
Customizable Gameplay — From a hardcore game to a world without raiders you make the choice about the type of game you want to play.

I'm sooo there. Been waiting ever since it was annouced for it to finally come out.

[muckhole]

Awesome! I've been waiting for this ever since someone (you?) posted about it here a while back. 

[Mrbob]

Is there a demo?

[Great Rumbler]

Hinterland's a melding of a medieval city builder and a Titan Quest clone, with neither side being particularly deep. Still, it's a really fun game to just mess around with and kill monsters and stuff. Plus, it's only $20, so it's not a big investment.

Stability issues need to be addressed though.

[TVC15]

I demand impressions, Frag!

[Smooth Groove]

Yeah, I need some impressions too since I'm still playing The Witcher.  It's kinda hard playing 2 WRPGS at the same time. 

[pilonv1]

stolen from gaf

Ok, here's the promised impressions after playing an hour or so:


- Combat is really simple. Like Diablo 1 simple.
- Economy and town building are pretty awesome and pretty complicated, and tie into the loot from the combat pretty well. For example, I found a hammer that had better stats than my sword, but I gave it to my craftswoman so she could make more stuff instead (hammers buff craftspeople).
- Basic flow of the game: go out into the wilderness, clear an area of monsters, return to town, spend loot improving town, return to wilderness. This is disgustingly addicting.
- Most of the real decision making centers on the town building... you'll have enough resources to do about half of what you want to do, which is awesome, because it forces you to make tough decisions.
- It took me forever to figure out how to sell unwanted crap to the merchant: drag items onto the merchant's building. That interface kinda sucked :-p
- Oh, I almost forgot, you have to make a bunch of customization choices about your character and the game before you start, which seem to have a bunch of effects on things. You have like 20 backgrounds to choose from that buff/debuff various areas of your character's combat/town related stuff. You can also customize difficulty and size of area, and so forth. My favorite parameter: you can choose to randomly generate all resources in the region, or guaruntee that everything will be found locally. I think random generation is going to be a lot more fun.

Anyway, pretty enjoyable so far, though the ultra shallow combat is a bit disappointing. I'd have liked at least usable special attacks or something.

sounds awesome

[ToxicAdam]

Hmm .. I kind of wish it were reversed. Where the combat is deep and the town building is shallow. I'll still buy it (once I get bored of DDO).

[pilonv1]

any eb impressions yet? i want to buy but i need more convincing

[Tieno]

I read that as Hitlerland...

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I bought this and am getting like one frame ever 2-3 seconds

:/

[muckhole]

What are you running it on? I didn't get much time to play it last night on my home rig, but what I did play was fine.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHz
GeForce 6600 GT

far from state-of-the-art but I mean it runs most stuff pretty decently, I wasn't expecting a $20 Steam game to curb stomp it

I have a better machine at home so I'll try again there

[muckhole]

I'm pretty sure the requirements called for a 1.8 and a 64 bit video card, so I don't know what the problem is. My only slight hiccup was the game hung on launch the very first time, but ran fine after that.

[Great Rumbler]

I turned up all the settings and it still runs smooth as butter on my Geforce 8800 with 2.66GHz dual core.

[MrAngryFace]

Im getting deeper in my NWN2 cups, so this one will have to wait. Got a BONE PHEONIX random drop on one of the first dungeons. Sold it for 5000 gold since no one in my party could use it and got some awesome overpriced equipment.

[Van Cruncheon]

it's pretty choppy in vista on my E6850/Radeon HD 4870, ouch

[Smooth Groove]

it's pretty choppy in vista on my E6850/Radeon HD 4870, ouch

Probably bad drivers.  It's why I still prefer Nvidia. 

[Van Cruncheon]

it's choppy under vista, period

it's chopping out on my 8800GTX rig and my laptop (8600M) as well

[MrAngryFace]

haha, your rig is nothing to scoff at either. thats bizzare

[Smooth Groove]

yeah, the graphics look like they're from a 5 yr old game. 

[CajoleJuice]

vista suxxxxx

[pilonv1]

choppy? nooo 

[MrAngryFace]

OWNED! Buy NWN2 GOLD TODAY!

[TVC15]

Game doesn't run well in Vista at all.  Run it in compat mode for XP2.  It mostly runs fine then, although it still appears to load slowly and is crash-prone while loading.

[pilonv1]

might wait for a patch then