New Indie game Expeditions Conquistador

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I've played to the point where I've finished all the missions on Hispaniola and moved on to the mainland. 

It's a decent enough game but it does become a little repetative.  The game it most reminds me of is an old, old Apple II+ game called Expedition: Amazon.  That one was set in modern day but the play styles are similar in that the game can kill you if you have bad luck and get a series of bad andom encounters/incidents in a row.  That's what happened to me on my first attempt to play.  I was given a mission with a time limit when I was on the opposite side of the map and my doctor was knocked out by a poison spider bite.  Then I got ambushed by pissed off Indians and my scouts went down.  As my doctor was out of the picture, I couldn't heal the scouts which meant that I wasn't able to hunt for food or guard my camp so as I tried to make my way across the map, I ran out of food and my camp was constantly getting raided by theives in the night or attacked.

I'm enjoying it enough to keep coming back to it but I hope it finally lets me off the leash of scripted missions and just lets me explore.

[Nefaro]

I'm enjoying it enough to keep coming back to it but I hope it finally lets me off the leash of scripted missions and just lets me explore.

I had hoped that it was a pretty open game, but sounds as if it's a lot of nose-leading via scripting.  So I haven't grabbed it.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I'm enjoying it enough to keep coming back to it but I hope it finally lets me off the leash of scripted missions and just lets me explore.

I had hoped that it was a pretty open game, but sounds as if it's a lot of nose-leading via scripting.  So I haven't grabbed it.

It's not too bad.  There are a few time critical missions that pop up but they aren't thrown at you constantly.  The thing is that they do throw scripted missions at you at random times and it can get a bit frustrating if, say, you've spent the last 10 days of game time travelling deep into the jungle and just about to get to a spot that you think might hold something interesting to discover and the game will pop up and throw some stupid random mission at you that requires you to backtrack all the way to the main village.  They always seem to pop up at the most inconvenient times.

[Gusington]

Maybe that is intended to simulate dysentery. If the game does eventually open up that will make me get it quicker.

[steve58]

An editor for Expeditions: Conquistador has been released.

Logic Artists is now offering the Fabula Event Editor for Expeditions: Conquistador, allowing owners of this strategy/RPG to create their own new scenarios. This a free download for Windows, Linux, and OS X offered through Steam. Word is: "With this XML editor, players can change existing content or generate completely new events. Players can change quests and rewards or write their own narration. With these tools, they can modify the original campaigns to their own tastes and share them with their friends."

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/151849/expeditions-conquistador-editor-released

...and its currently $5 on Steam.  It might be finally time for me to pick up this one.

[Boggit]

I bought it the other day on 24hour sale at Gamersgate at 75% off. Haven't played it yet - too much other stuff I should be looking at for articles, but it had a lot of good feedback.