Of Orcs and Men - Want to know your thoughts

Nobody? Wow, is my choice in games really that bad?

As far as I know it's not a very popular game. It doesn't interest me in particular, but the spinoff game Styx: Master of Shadows is great!

Ah, I see. i had a few serials for it and I've noticed, over the space of a week, that some traders have snatched my hand trying to trade for it, along with The Fall

Link for anyone else out there being lazy like me to search manually: http://store.steampowered.com/app/216910/

I personally don't know this game, but I would like to see a giveaway of it. Looks good. :)

You know, I forgot the link, thanks for that

A very interesting story, but the combat is...fucking strange. It would have been a much better game if it was an action-RPG like Fable, Kingdoms of Amalur, Venetica, Overlord, Rise of the Argonauts, etc. Instead they opted for an old-school, masked turn based combat system. Not a great fan of this, I must admit, but it doesn't bother me if it's well implemented, like say Dragon Age Origins or The Witcher. . Hell, my favorite RPG ever, Neevrwinter Nights had a similar combat, but Bioware really does know its stuff when it comes to RPGs, both old school and new. i'd pick this over the combat in JRPGs any day,.. In JRPGs combat is an exercise in boredom and tedium.

Of Orcs and Men is part of the video games made in the Confrontation universe (this is the Rackham's tabletop game, not Game Workshop's). An universe not very known, mostly popular in France and some parts of Europe.

Games so far: Confrontation, Aarklash: Legacy, Of Orcs and Men and Styx: Master of Shadows. None of them are very popular, as they are quite hard, but they do have interesting stories and a good gameplay if you like old school style. Personally, i picked up Barbaric bundle (Bundle Stars) for two games: Drakensang (another old school, but in the Dark Eye universe, german board game in the vein of D&D) and Of Orcs and Men.

For more information about the Confrontation universe, please use your google-fu.

I own it but haven't played it. It just sits gathering dust like all my other games. But I've heard it has a nice story though the gameplay and combat system isn't all that special.

Its very good game, after 7 minutes uninstall :D .. but yop you can creat GA why not

Played it a bit. Story is nice. Characters swear a lot... Partly justified, but still, sometimes feels forced. Camera is terrible. Combat system a bit weird, takes getting used to. Both main characters have fairly good models and textures(some clipping occurs though). Rest of the character models/textures are of lower quality.

I'm yet to delve deeper into the game, but story seems nice, and that's the only reason i got Of Orcs and Men.

Wow, 73 votes for Yes, it's fine and 17 for No, you cheap bastard!! (It's good to be loved) I guess I'll create a giveaway then. For those interested, I'll post the link in here, too

It's in my wishlist so yeah, I'd be happy to see a giveaway with it :)

Good call because it's definitely worth it. My review probably speaks better than I could attempt to surmise it right now.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/a2o4c6/recommended/216910

Dudusch2, I'll leave that thread open, you got your last word! ;)

It's a Spiders game ... the best way I can describe those is that they're like a pie made by an amazing, but absentminded chef. It would be extremely good ... if he didn't use salt instead of sugar. One mistake that ruins the entire thing.

Aarklash (the world where Confrontation takes place) it's not a nice world. It's a very grey, morally questionable one. If the characters in Confrontation MIGHT be considered heroes (barely), the ones in Aarklash: Legacy are basically villains hellbent on revenge. Of Orcs and Men and Styx have characters that barely can be considered anti-heroes (as AoC reviews mentions) and that only because the oposition is worse than them. Would love to see better games in the universe, but Cyanide/Focus seems to be the ones holding the license for the video-games.

As a side note, play Drakensang and Drakensang: River of Time/Phileasson's Secret for getting familiar with the Dark Eye Universe (Blackguard 1+2, Chains of Satinav, Memoria, Demonicon, Realms of Arkania series/HD remake for the original RoA are set in the Dark Eye Universe, a universe almost as rich as the one from D&D).

If you like old school stuff (and i mean really old school), the Drakensang series is a joy to play. You can check some reviews on the RPG watch site.

The only RPGs I've ever really gotten into were the first Spellforce, for some reason, although I almost detest pretty much any RPG, I loved that game...and quickly hated it when the Medusa's decided to populate an entire map with their Stone Gargoyles......and Vampire: Bloodlines, which is barely an RPG, for the most part

It is somewhere in between the enormous gulf between those two options. But if I really had to make a call, I would lean ever so slightly toward the 'no', than the 'yes'.
It's worth playing, but I would be surprised to find anyone calling it compulsory.

I've given away Bad Rats 6 or 7 times. If you have a spare copy of a game, someone will want it for one reason or other.

Edit: Lol, I see you'ce given Bad Rats before too! Overcast is meant to be pretty horrible as well and that's another. Of Orcs and Men definitely has better rep than those.