KnownUnknown
Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Apr 26th 2011 at 11:58:29 AM
<spittake> There's a Patrician IV? Must find!
Patrician II was my game... even if I did move on to Port Royal and Tortuga eventually. Is the series still made by Cinematic Marquee or whatever the company's name is?
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
ssfsx17
crazy and proud of it
Since: Jun, 2009
crazy and proud of it
#3: Apr 26th 2011 at 12:00:36 PM
Developer is listed as Gaming Minds Studios, while the publisher is listed as Kalypso Media Digital (the publishers of Sacred and what not)
Total posts: 3
It's the X-series... in medieval Germany & Scandinavia!
Alternatively, you could see it as Recettear... with marriage and 3-D graphics!
So, been playing this game for a bit, and it does a pretty good job of scaling up the difficulty and complexity as you progress through the game, so that there is always something more to do. It even has co-op play!
Also, apparently medieval rulers & merchants were not a whole lot different from today's Mafia. One of the things you have to deal with at higher ranks is nobles repeatedly asking you for shakedown money, and building up defenses against what they do when they're angry.