Um, I haven't said that.Splintert said:Now now Ringwraith, you cannot say you've never resorted to name calling.
That's probably the most logical thing I've heard here all day.Suspicious Pilgrim said:Which is 375.5 days! The game starts in autumn! A year and 10 days from now is October! Therefore, the release date is October 2013!
Ringwraith #5 said:It's an anagram, a play on words. We've been over this. Pay more attention next time.
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once;
So it's a flawed one to make the new name sound cool. *shrug* Or maybe it's just coincidence, though I find that hard to believe.Orion said:It's not an anagram. All of the original letters aren't used, Skyrim lacks an "r."
Exactly, "or something like that". Alternatively, it could be a lord who rules over bits of colored cloth. Or maybe it's a forum moderator who's a bit too overzealous with the banhammer (he bans, so he's a banner). Your interpretation relies on prior knowledge of M&B. And while a lot of players of M&B2 will be coming from M&B1, I think it's fair to say they'd buy M&B2 regardless of what it was called. The point of the name is therefore to catch the eye of new players, and IMO a nonsense word like this isn't the best way to do that.I can't say I'm thrilled with their chosen name, but it could have been a lot worse, and at least it's not hard to puzzle out what "Bannerlord" means, at least in the context of Mount & Blade. If you're a lord in Calradia, you have the right to colors. Knights are historically considered minor nobility, and you can get knights in M&B, but they don't have their own coats of arms. So, if you're a bannerlord (which can be inferred to mean a noble worthy of a banner), that means you're above the status of a knight, putting you above the most minor of the nobility.
Or something like that. Welcome to the English language, where you can interpret the meaning of new words/compounds by their constituent parts.
Ringwraith #5 said:Exactly, "or something like that". Alternatively, it could be a lord who rules over bits of colored cloth. Or maybe it's a forum moderator who's a bit too overzealous with the banhammer (he bans, so he's a banner). Your interpretation relies on prior knowledge of M&B. And while a lot of players of M&B2 will be coming from M&B1, I think it's fair to say they'd buy M&B2 regardless of what it was called. The point of the name is therefore to catch the eye of new players, and IMO a nonsense word like this isn't the best way to do that.
I'd really love to know who's responsible for naming stuff at TW, though. "Warrider"? "Warband"? "Bannerlord?" Who comes up with these? It's like they just take two random medieval-y sounding words and stick them together.
Yes. Definitely a bad title .Ringwraith #5 said:I tried searching on Google, but after five or so pages of nothing but M&B links [snip]