Comments on: A Hard Day’s Knight: Violent Trevor – Adventurer!

By: Ian Mcael

Ian Mcael — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:17:20 +0000

I had just been tagging along with my Sea Pirate buddies(Surrendered; they out number me 22/1) when I escaped; then I ran into a single river pirate that was dragging 28 men as prisioners… So I attacked him with my trusty 20 arrows bow, k the game is some what buggy when it comes to arrows and NPC seeing as 12 of my arrows passed right through him…and my character was at 100 of archery… but still a shot to the head and one on the shoulder…so I got a new party and we headed off to the sunset… only to find that one of the Norns Lord was out to get me…(Spent two days after him and killed the remaining army he had “5 Skirmishers LOL!”) Well he came back and with 87 men…Crap! Luckily the 30 day trial demo ended as he attacked me! LOL! AH! AH!

By: phil

phil — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:05:44 +0000

The groans, shouts and random crowd noise in a large battle are fantastic – I could swear a crossbow man bellowed “bastard” at me as I lanced him up – a satisfying moment.

By: Malagate

Malagate — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:28:40 +0000

Depends if Turkey is still doing that, wasn’t the whole ethnic cleansing thing in 1915? It’s still tense from what I understand though, even if they’re not doing anything bad now I doubt he’d want to support their government in any way, no matter how small.

Oh and I see the whole “seeking riches” bug as a gameplay feature, surely you’d be best motivated to seek riches by having nothing? Although it is perhaps a bit too hard if you start in the Kherjit area…

By: TwistyMcNoggins

TwistyMcNoggins — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:15:04 +0000

Although the taxes they pay on their earnings might.

By: Cian

Cian — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:59:36 +0000

That ‘publishing house’ is the people who make the game, a husband and wife who happen to be Turkish. I don’t see why that should be an issue, the profits almost definitely aren’t going to the Fund for Ethnic Cleansing.

By: Poc

Poc — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:05:16 +0000

If you don’t want to start your game with nothing at all, don’t pick the “seeking riches” motivation in the character development screen. It’s a bug, a rather ironic one at that.

By: a-scale

a-scale — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:05:06 +0000

Unfortunately as much as I like the game, I can’t purchase it from Talewords. That publishing house happens to be based out of Turkey, and as an Armenian I find purchasing Turkish products to be morally objectionable. No Mount and Blade for me, I’m afraid.

By: Nallen

Nallen — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:37:32 +0000

I was certain this was an MMO you know.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:12:04 +0000

Daniel, at low levels you want to keep your party speed high so you can escape from people. Keep to fighting looters at first, don’t try to tangle with bandits or deserters (especially Swadian or Khergit deserters!). Do ’safe’ missions like tax collecting or courier duty to start with, as well as ones from the guild masters like dealing with looters near the cities. Try to hire companions rather than NPC troops at first, although Mercenary Crossbowmen can be very useful against looters, who have no shields, ever.

By: BaconIsGood4You

BaconIsGood4You — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:47:54 +0000

I was nearing level 8 and really wasn’t doing to hot after losing my squad to a patrolling army who chased me from town to town. We had to surrender, we couldn’t have won it, and when I escaped a few days later I felt pretty guilty about leaving my men behind. But yeah, after seeing one of my allies loot a village I figured, what the heck, I’ll give it a shot. So me and my loyal Rhodock villager went for it. He died…real quick, and I had to finish it. Killing 45 peasants, well, I didn’t feel like a hero.

By: Daniel Rutter

Daniel Rutter — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:13:30 +0000

All right! I just picked some initial choices which I totally didn’t actually want, and behold, I then started with a horse and a sword and everything!

And I recruited some dudes, and I rode around a bit… and then the first bunch of miserable random bandit footsoldiers I met beat the crap out of my party and then dragged me around by the hair for a while. I know that the actual downside of that is not very large – kind of makes you wonder why NPCs in this game BOTHER taking prisoners, when all they get out of the deal is taking SOME of the prisoners’ money and then waiting for them to escape – but it’s nonetheless kind of dispiriting.

Still not really seeing the sexiness of this game.

By: Daniel Rutter

Daniel Rutter — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:26:30 +0000

OK, so which of the starting character-selection options do NOT start you off in your underpants without even a sharp stick? Because I’ve just played three damn games that started out that way, and am insufficiently 1337 to achieve very much then.

Honestly – the Guild Dude must just be a sadistic bastard. There he is, looking at a level-zero dimwit bearing the equipment he could afford with his starting money (one meat cleaver, one Van Halen T-shirt, one yarmulke, no food), and he says “Sure, man, I’ve got a job for you! Just kill those bandits that’ve been bothering us!”

What he didn’t tell me was that there were SIXTEEN bandits, and all of them had horses and swords. I put a few pretty nasty gashes in their horses before they beat me to a pulp, but c’mon, even on Easy this bug makes the game completely unapproachable.

The combat system really is fun – I did quite well in the Arena. But if the only weapon I can afford in the rest of the game is one that won’t even let me parry, there’s little fun to be had.