Spreading the love!

...and by love I mean bitching.

Today's update revolves around a lesser known company by the name of Tilted Mill Entertainment. They are hereby found guilty of failing to follow through to this end-users expectations. May mighty Jeebus have mercy on their souls, 'cus i sure as fuck won't.

TME(or just TM) released a game known as Hinterland. Hinterland is a cheaper game, typically about $20 but none the less they made hyped up promises and yet failed to live up to them. They promised "continued content updates" to Hinterland and did manage to provide a small Halloween update and another small itemization update, but otherwise they haven't done much o'nothin!

Hinterland is one of those games you play once or twice and think "wow this is a pretty sweet game here!" then you rapidly realize that the replay value is a lot less than you think. specifically, there is really not much difference in game to game. Oh it "seems" there's tons of variables to change with many building choices and varieties of characters with varied attributes to play with, however, by your second game you should start to see that the ultimate end result is practically the same every freaking game. There is way more room in the town than you need to have to pick & choose between character types and the few types that are mutually exclusive can be tested in literally 2 separate games or even in a single game (with very little effort) by destroying an already built structure and building the alternative. The same applies to graphics used in the game. There really is not much variation in what you will see every game as far as enemies go and your allies are as well out of a very narrow list. Weapons & armors have very few varieties as you will use the same items with a different set of random set of stats every game.

Now I know what some of you are probably thinking, "well for fuck sake man, what do you expect for a $20 game?!" and in many ways, you are right! However, not only have TM failed to live up to most players expectations (the two content releases are not_very_noticeable to say the least, and posts can be found on their forums asking "what gives?" with the content) but now there has been some sort of power shift in the ownership of TM (or somthing?no public information that I've been able to dig up here) and Hinterland is being repackaged as Hinterland:Orclords with, according to what limited information is available, is practically the same as the original! So, essentially, take this post as a warning. If you bought Hinterland, you really should take care before buying Hinterland:OrcLords, as you are the guy they are ultimately screwing over. See, the new content in OrcLords is the shit they have been developing for the regular old Hinterland you and I bought and was supposed to be given for free via content releases but has been abandonware for the last 6 months. As always now days, some trouser-pilot in suit has decided "hey, what the fuck are we paying man-hours for free content? fuck that shit! repackage and sell! sell! sell!"

Fuckers.