It's terribly unfair to judge a game like this with just 20 hours played, so read what I have to say with a huge spoon of salt.
I'm in love with the ambition and scale of Mount & Blade, what this game tries to do is mindblowing with the complete freedom it gives to the player to build it's own story. But, at the same time that's also one on the game weakness, cause the tech and design it's still not quite there and it drags it a bit.
Still, the sequel is coming and I have very high hopes and expectations.
I'm in love with the ambition and scale of Mount & Blade, what this game tries to do is mindblowing with the complete freedom it gives to the player to build it's own story. But, at the same time that's also one on the game weakness, cause the tech and design it's still not quite there and it drags it a bit.
Still, the sequel is coming and I have very high hopes and expectations.
>Peasant man
>Beaten up for 20 Dinars and a sack of grain
>Dragged across Calradia until you manage to escape
>Trade some Wool across 40 miles for a 5 Dinar profit
>Repeat 50 times
>Hire some low level thieves and idiots
>Start clapping some bandits
>FFW 10 hours
>Join faction, start beseiging towns and wiping out armies
>Weaken a faction until they're pathetic
>Leave faction, attack weak faction, take it down
>Take over the world
<3
>Beaten up for 20 Dinars and a sack of grain
>Dragged across Calradia until you manage to escape
>Trade some Wool across 40 miles for a 5 Dinar profit
>Repeat 50 times
>Hire some low level thieves and idiots
>Start clapping some bandits
>FFW 10 hours
>Join faction, start beseiging towns and wiping out armies
>Weaken a faction until they're pathetic
>Leave faction, attack weak faction, take it down
>Take over the world
<3
My favorite memory is joining Swadia, taking out the entire Mongol faction, then taking those disgraced generals and my companions, founding an empire in the ruins of their last fort, and advancing all the way back to Swadia. Game is built to tell epic stories like that and for that it is amazing. Problems only really come from age.
Attempted to play this on PS4 since it was very cheap on sale but even the tutorial is barely playable with bad controls and hit detection and after I "failed" to hit arrows that I clearly hit and similar nonsense, I just quit out. I hear the warlord aspects of this game are brilliant, but the combat was trash at least on PS4 and that means I don't care about the strategy aspect.