DanaDark
Recruit
Hello everybody, I'd like to start off by stating the simple: Im new. Yes, brand spanking new to these here forums, and would like to share what I have experienced so far in Mount and Blade.
A long long time ago... well, a few days ago anyway... I was bored at work and decided to look up game reviews at PCGamer. I am always looking for new and interesting games to play, especially more free-form ones that break the mold. I found a review for Mount and Blade (which someone said there arent really any...) and decided to read it.
To my surprise, I found out that Paradox Interactive was publishing it, one of my favorite all time publishers... (again, someone said they aren't known...) so immediately I checked the paradox interactive forums and looked around, eventually finding the main website and these forums.
After I got home, I downloaded the game v0.96 and installed it... very quickly too. Upon trying it out... the graphics were not impressive. Actually, they kinda sucked. A lot. But, I have crappy graphics games that are fun, so I decided to give it a shot. I made my character and customized my appearance... which with all accounts every which way I could make a character, he/she was ugly no matter what (Yay medieval realism for sure!). So, upon accepting the fact that perhaps not everyone in the 1200s looked like Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, I took what I could get, hit accept, and appeared in the game.
So... Im in a field... on a horse. Thats it. Wow. Talk about being dropped in. But hey, I have a horse! So, I saw the training field and went there. Once there I decided to put the difficulty up to normal and have the smartest AI possible. Figured it'd be like most other games where at lvl 1 I could defeat entire armies (while not being able to even glance meanly at a merchant)... I beat 2 novice fighters handily... and then got beat down by a shirtless and nearly pantless man with a stick.
Imagine my utter consternation that somehow... I was defeated. By a novice. Me... of all people... never once having touched a blade, being defeated by a fighter in training. My goodness. Welp, I chopped it up to realism, and kinda liked the idea that I am not exactly Athena on steroids. So now I look the part of a 1200s person and fight with the ability expected of someone starting out in a life of violence.
I could not, for the life of me, get past the second wave after the novice fighters. So, I stopped and decided to go out in the big ol' world myself. Back to the field. With a horse. No clue what I am doing or where I am going. So I sought out some looters. Defeated them and felt good. was a whole 4 of them. Go me! Eventually found the big towns and found out about buying goods and selling them at other places. Eventually went to villages and recruited people as well... although they were about as affective as a cup cake in battle.
I spent most of my time running around trading, trying to pick fights I had decent chances of winning, participating in tournaments, being ambushed in city streets late at night, and exploring the map.
So far, I am very addicted even with the poop poor graphics and the revelation that I cannot be a supermodel in magical armor that can eat dragons for breakfast immediately at level 1.
I am loving the more realistic feel I am getting in the game, especially with weapon choices and the knowledge the game will only get better. Heck, I am surprised that I can play the full game up to lvl 6 or so for free, even before the game is out. And then, I looked up the mod section here and my goodness... the game isnt even out yet and there's mods... I love it! And several of the mods fix the graphics quite a bit from the screenshots I seen, so Im definately going to try those out. I surely hope the modders keep it coming even after V1.0.
I am just hoping I manage to become more than a lonely trader roaming the open fields... not due to game mechanics... but due to my own risk vs reward assessment. I can lose a lot if I lose an armed battle!
A long long time ago... well, a few days ago anyway... I was bored at work and decided to look up game reviews at PCGamer. I am always looking for new and interesting games to play, especially more free-form ones that break the mold. I found a review for Mount and Blade (which someone said there arent really any...) and decided to read it.
To my surprise, I found out that Paradox Interactive was publishing it, one of my favorite all time publishers... (again, someone said they aren't known...) so immediately I checked the paradox interactive forums and looked around, eventually finding the main website and these forums.
After I got home, I downloaded the game v0.96 and installed it... very quickly too. Upon trying it out... the graphics were not impressive. Actually, they kinda sucked. A lot. But, I have crappy graphics games that are fun, so I decided to give it a shot. I made my character and customized my appearance... which with all accounts every which way I could make a character, he/she was ugly no matter what (Yay medieval realism for sure!). So, upon accepting the fact that perhaps not everyone in the 1200s looked like Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, I took what I could get, hit accept, and appeared in the game.
So... Im in a field... on a horse. Thats it. Wow. Talk about being dropped in. But hey, I have a horse! So, I saw the training field and went there. Once there I decided to put the difficulty up to normal and have the smartest AI possible. Figured it'd be like most other games where at lvl 1 I could defeat entire armies (while not being able to even glance meanly at a merchant)... I beat 2 novice fighters handily... and then got beat down by a shirtless and nearly pantless man with a stick.
Imagine my utter consternation that somehow... I was defeated. By a novice. Me... of all people... never once having touched a blade, being defeated by a fighter in training. My goodness. Welp, I chopped it up to realism, and kinda liked the idea that I am not exactly Athena on steroids. So now I look the part of a 1200s person and fight with the ability expected of someone starting out in a life of violence.
I could not, for the life of me, get past the second wave after the novice fighters. So, I stopped and decided to go out in the big ol' world myself. Back to the field. With a horse. No clue what I am doing or where I am going. So I sought out some looters. Defeated them and felt good. was a whole 4 of them. Go me! Eventually found the big towns and found out about buying goods and selling them at other places. Eventually went to villages and recruited people as well... although they were about as affective as a cup cake in battle.
I spent most of my time running around trading, trying to pick fights I had decent chances of winning, participating in tournaments, being ambushed in city streets late at night, and exploring the map.
So far, I am very addicted even with the poop poor graphics and the revelation that I cannot be a supermodel in magical armor that can eat dragons for breakfast immediately at level 1.
I am loving the more realistic feel I am getting in the game, especially with weapon choices and the knowledge the game will only get better. Heck, I am surprised that I can play the full game up to lvl 6 or so for free, even before the game is out. And then, I looked up the mod section here and my goodness... the game isnt even out yet and there's mods... I love it! And several of the mods fix the graphics quite a bit from the screenshots I seen, so Im definately going to try those out. I surely hope the modders keep it coming even after V1.0.
I am just hoping I manage to become more than a lonely trader roaming the open fields... not due to game mechanics... but due to my own risk vs reward assessment. I can lose a lot if I lose an armed battle!
and very into the game >.>
