Having high-end graphics is great, but a smooth frame-rate is what makes a game actually playable!
It's soo pleasing to have a game that plays on an 'average' (no such thing I know, but you know what I mean hopefully) computer and still has great features
- 100's of troops on screen with individual armour and weapons,
- nice smooth frame-rate that's essential to this kind of real-time combat, where you have to see where you're aiming and moving.
I certainly can't afford to upgrade every time a slightly better graphics card comes out, and I'm glad that some games still take this into account. You don't want a game that looks great but is actually unplayable unless you have the kind of computer you can only get from , say, a Job in game industry/rich parents/selling soul to Devil.
Anyway, it's good Nastyvale has actually played the game and given a considered review . I saw a few reviews in Magazines which pretty much wrote the game off as on Oblivion clone - which means they probably didn't get a lot further than the character creation screen ..
I'd find it hard to go back to some other games now, any melee-based real-time RPG I can think of.
But, hmmnn.... could you give M&B a 10/10? In all honesty I find it unbalanced , basically needing a lot of tweaks which I had fun doing myself from The MageLord's guide here, but then that could be done by the developers in a patch, (didn't take me long and didn't break any save games) then we'd probably see some better reviews. The game doesn't feel there yet, on the other hand it aims at doing something complex and different, so if it doesn't fulfill its own ambitions entirely, at least it's trying