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So the people who want the game to rise from the sulfurous flames of development hell are "the annoying release date squad" now? It... It feels so good to be a part of something.

Speaking of which.

I hope what assistant designer Maneet Chauhan is doing that kept them away from the Q and A was writing the release date for the game on a big sign and having photos taken so they can be posted soon.

ARD Squad, hold positions!

Just when I had finally about managed to stop myself from being excited about Bannerlord.

Why must I have a major rager for so many neverware projects? Bannerlord, City of Titans. I guess I am just a glutton for being led on fruitlessly - explains my early attempts at romantic relationships. Better though to spend years in development hell than No-Man's-Skying out I suppose, but my underpinnings are turning terribly blue over here.

My deep sapphire nether regions aside, the search function is going to be a nice feature, sorely needed. I remember trying to find things in the Warband equivalent of the encyclopedia with some irritation, especially when half of the character names seemed to be indistinguishable, unmemorable letter-soups of consonants with nary a vowel to be found. "Was that Vrksjsk of Yplmnht that attacked me a few turns back or was it Mkjhtr of Dwbghgj?" Hopefully the latter problem has been somewhat addressed as well, so the external characters are now slightly more memorable / variable than grains of sand on a big beach.

This is clearly one of those release date foreshadowing blogs. There are EIGHT banners in total, and THREE of them are exactly the same.

The similarity of the Empire banners clearly demarcates them as being "separate" from the rest of the pack, which would hint at subtraction.

Eight minus three is five, ergo Bannerlord will be released at some point within the next five years. That does still however leave the THREE all off by itself, what could... What... Could...

My god.

HALF.

LIFE.

THREE.

CONFIRMED.

...See you goochers next week.

At this point, I have already mentally played Bannerlord (it was an excellent immersive medieval warfare simulator) and am awaiting the community's release of a slew of excellent mods utilizing the game's impressive new modding capabilities. Particularly looking forward to the Warhammer one (which has to be better optimized than Warhammer Total War, amirite?), the Game of Thrones one (the north will remember), and the numerous Lord of the Rings ones (interested to see how those will play out).

Also looking forward to the feudal Japan one (though hopefully it's a bit more forgiving than the current feudal Japan one insofar as resource management) and the one that adds age of sail era firearms. Oh, and the one with the vikings. Would also love to see a Rome era one which I believe someone has planned.

I'm going to start off with: Don't get me wrong, I approve of this feature. Anything to add immersion, even if it's something small like this, helps. But it seems like this could easily have been a smaller part of a larger animation-based blog, rather than having to be its own blog. It just seems such a minute feature to be worthy of its own entire blog. While it's a nice little thing to have in the game, certainly, in the grand scheme, it's practically nothing, especially considering the increasing hunger of we wolves in a seemingly endless wait for a video game to sit down and play.

Whether the actual intended purpose of these blogs is to create hype or not is irrelevant - you may as well be walking through a Turkish prison pushing a cart with a 7 course meal cooked in a five star restaurant, plates bare for the prisoners to see, smells wafting, saying, "The purpose of this food is not to make any of you want to eat the food." It's the closest thing to Bannerlord we may ever have - we - some of us at least - are holding onto it for hope.

All of that said, this blog, while again about a feature that I do approve of, is, as some have said, disappointing, and really sort of insulting to someone who just bloody wants to play Bannerlord, and I know that's not just me. It seems like absolute filler, a stalling tactic, a covert, perhaps unintended admittance of, "Really, we've got nothing."

It doesn't help that, from the information gleaned from these blogs, much of the game sounds woefully unfinished. There's apparently no main storyline some 6 years post-announcement , for example - you'd figure there'd be something on paper somewhere if we've decided we're bothering to actually have a story this time "here's what it's going to be". Like we've got detailed histories of some of these factions spanning hundreds of years of game time, but we're not sure what our core narrative is yet. Now, I like story in my games, bur frankly Bannerlord could ship without it and I wouldn't care. Mount and Blade never had a story. Warband sometimes pretended to have a story, but it didn't have a story either. They didn't need them. They were fun anyway. It's more the thought of, yes we're going to have a core narrative, but we have no idea what it's going to be despite conceptualizing for 6 years that I can't wrap my head around.

Point is, at least for me, this blog wasn't just disappointing, it really made me lose a lot of hope in regards to ever actually playing Bannerlord; not that I wouldn't buy it - immediately - if it were available, but that it may never see the light of day for me to do so. The longer this goes on, the more 3dRealms the whole thing smells, and I'm sure there's a Mount and Blade: Forever joke in there somewhere, but it's feeling less like a joke every time another Thursday passes, especially so with this particular Thursday.

I dearly hope that I am wrong, because I would love to play what this game has promised to be, but in this dark hour I am deeply doubtful, and saddened.

"Whatcha thinkin' 'bout?"

"Oh, I dunno... Just quest stuff I guess."