Long time M&B:er but rare poster here.
Must express how I don't get some of the luke warm or downright negative comments on the gamescom content.
I'm seeing core M&B with great graphics, animations, varied combat, huge cities, hitboxes, etc. One of the demo players uploading content show a scene where he nails an attacker with a javelin in the chest. I've never been a throwing weapon-guy, but how the target jolted back and collapsed to the ground was just brilliantly pulled of in my opinon. So smooth and brutal. Add more depth in tactics and formations, the skill system, dialouge, campaign map size, new varied siege options etc, plus things we haven't seen yet, and I'm excited for sure.
Now of course the delay of the game and non transparent communication about that has been frustrating. But let's distinguish between that and the quality level of what has been shown of the game.