A nice touch would be the age slider is hidden when creating a character for that mode and it gets progressively further to the right, so you can judge how much time you have left just by looking @ your face.

I would love it if he also went all “dwarf fortress” on us and subsequent plays included some hints of your past adventures, like if you had conquered a lot of land but you were a ruthless, bad, dishonest King, your next play would play out in a nation divided by civil wars with selfish lords wishing to take power for themselves. Regardless of how good or bad you were, the townfolk and guild masters could have stories to tell about past kings, rebels or heroes with your past character names and such.

I really hope the couple developing the game decide to do an expansion at some point, rather than go for a direct sequel right away (which would take too long if they tried to make it up to par with big budget titles, I want more Mount&Blade stuff ASAP!!!!!!!) or even a different project altogether once they patch this version up a little.

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I hope they add some form of morale at some stage- mowing down routing foemen was what the cavalry was all about, surely?

And am I the only one who invariably ends up unleashing his initial charge-with-massive-couched-damage from his finest Balanced Pike onto the poorest, most badly-equipped peasant recruit the other side has to offer? Whenever I’m in a good position to do some skewering it’s always the fodder getting in the way- I almost feel sorry for them…

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That’s exactly my point. Well, half of it. One half is that the MMOs are invariably hamfisted grindfests. The other is that playing online means playing with all the stupidest, dullest and most mean-spirited people in the world. I’d rather play with bots, frankly. At least when they act like morons you know they’re not moroning around in the real world, making life slightly less pleasant for everyone they meet.

The combat is the game as far as I’m concerned. The whole point of playing it is just to set up as many interesting and challenging or simply fun battles as possible. The strategy gubbins is just a means to that end, I can take it or leave it.

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\o/

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>An MMO would be … well, an MMO (read: terrible).
Don’t think MMO, think “M&B with other people”
>But a simple deathmatch (with optional bots) mode could
> be brilliant.
Yes and no… fun as the battles are, for me what kept me going was how you started off as a small cog in the machine of the warring NPC factions and eventually could grow powerful enough to compete with them in power. The only thing that could improve the formula would be having other players to compete against. That would be the ultimate sandbox MMO.

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Darkfall might be close.

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I bought a couple copies and keep them on my travel machines. For… you know, those times… oh, shoot, all right. I play it every waking second when I’m in the right mood.

God, I love that game. If M&B’s system / attention requirements were as low, M&B would probably replace it. Instead it just supersedes it.

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Mount and Blade rocks. It’s exactly the game I’ve been searching for ever since the original Pirates!. It’s really not that hard, so far, either…I did die when facing my first big band of sea raiders, but I was able to take them down solo the next time I met them (never mind that it took me twenty minutes)

Looking forward to the party component :D

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It’s more a Pirates! style of game. Totally open gameworld, without plot and without game over screen (but there is a Retire option), you are just an adventurer having fights, trading, doing some quests, taking prisioners, assaulting forts, buying equipment, recruiting more crew to your party, etc.

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