Like M&B & medieval combat? Try Joan of Arc too...

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Zeno

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If you are a fan of M&B and want to try some more medieval, vaguely historical, RPG 3D combat then give Joan of Arc a try http://www.enlight.com/joa/joa_english/ I even put a plug for Mount and Blade in their forums to try and get some new players. It can get a bit fantasy what with the healing potions and gems n'all but there is plenty of sword swinging and even the JoA version of horseback combat. Also you get to batter castles with siege artillery like trebuchets, cannons, catapults, battering rams and the like. Great concept, but knackered by bad AI, awful dialogue and speech acting and the fact that you can actually kill all enemy at range with a bow and don't even need to see the whites of their eyes. Even with all of the minuses I thought it was brave try at programming 3D RPG medieval warfare and still play it occasionally. Anyone else on here tried it ??
 
OOPs :roll: Cannot seem to move it - only edit the text - how do I relegate it to off-topic.............waits for Pavlovs mighty sword to hack his post to oblivion............
 
Zeno said:
If you are a fan of M&B and want to try some more medieval, vaguely historical, RPG 3D combat then give Joan of Arc a try http://www.enlight.com/joa/joa_english/ I even put a plug for Mount and Blade in their forums to try and get some new players. It can get a bit fantasy what with the healing potions and gems n'all but there is plenty of sword swinging and even the JoA version of horseback combat. Also you get to batter castles with siege artillery like trebuchets, cannons, catapults, battering rams and the like. Great concept, but knackered by bad AI, awful dialogue and speech acting and the fact that you can actually kill all enemy at range with a bow and don't even need to see the whites of their eyes. Even with all of the minuses I thought it was brave try at programming 3D RPG medieval warfare and still play it occasionally. Anyone else on here tried it ??

I'm glad you mentioned it. :smile: I will take a look at it - the reviews were generally not favorable but as you say (and as I suspect) there's still some entertainment value there.

In any case, I've been thinking of getting some other PC games with elements of M&B gameplay regardless of the game's success: I want to identify for myself, what they did wrong and what they did right.

So far reviews for games like Blade & Sword, Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc, Gladiator, Gladiators of Rome, etc. mention how great the graphics are or how professional the sound is - and then they add "too bad the gameplay is weak". So I imagine their reviews are the opposite of M&B: right now, the actual M&B combat gameplay is extremely strong; while the content is less so.

I wish more suggestions would come in...
 
I;'m downloading the thing now.

2%

6.0 of 342.5MB 5.2KBPS 17:41:57 remain

Im guess i will be able to play it when i wake up, that IF its compatible with my computer.....

Ian
 
I had a lot of fun with Joan of Arc. I wasn't expecting much and had a blast. It is on the light side with games like Enclave and Rune.

My favorite melee game though, is Blade of Darkness (or Severance for those outside North America). If you can spend a half hour getting used to the controls, that game is really fantastic.
 
Gladiators of Rome is certainly worth the five or ten bucks you'll pay for it, but it is VERY short, and there aren't any chariots! :mad: Still fun, though. :wink:
 
Stonewall382 said:
Gladiators of Rome is certainly worth the five or ten bucks you'll pay for it, but it is VERY short, and there aren't any chariots! :mad: Still fun, though. :wink:

GoGamer.com has it for $2 so it's worth a whirl. :smile:
 
Joan of Arc was a brave attempt, but in most respects it failed, unfortunately. AI was a bit crap (you could stand out of range and pepper them with crossbow bolts and they wouldn't react) and combat a bit one-dimensional. Also, mounted combat was particularly bad.

The strategy side was also a bit boring, so... :razz:
 
Effidian said:
I had a lot of fun with Joan of Arc. I wasn't expecting much and had a blast. It is on the light side with games like Enclave and Rune.

My favorite melee game though, is Blade of Darkness (or Severance for those outside North America). If you can spend a half hour getting used to the controls, that game is really fantastic.

YES. :grin: Blade of Darkness is an excellent game. In addition to having some of the best melee combat in any game ever, it had a lighting system that was WAY ahead of its time. It was doing dynamic realtime shadows long before the "big boys" were. :wink:
 
Pavlov's sword shall remain sheathed. I guess this is fine where it is, don't worry about it. It's relavent to M&B. So in the words of Mills Lane "I'll allow it" :grin:

Moving on to Joan of Arc, I respectfully have to say... it's... really... bad... I purchased it when it first came out with my gf's hard earned money, and was OHHH so disappointed. Even if I don't poke at the historical inaccuracies (Joan of Ark is like Joan de Ali with her sword) it was still bad. All so repetitive and painful. It was like watching all your past failed relationships in slow motion or something (not that I do that).

As someone said above, it was a good attempt, but as they say... close only counts in grenades and horse shoes.
 
ugh, biggest waste of 17 hours. The game just doesnt do it for me, its too complicated, and games that are to comlicated tend to be just a waste of time. and what are you talkin about this game bieng like M&B in the combat! you just swing, it just doesnt cut it, 17 hours of downloading and 30 mins into the game and i still barely know anything.

I'll stick with M&B

P.s. that was my nice version, now here is my completly truthful response Complete Crap.
 
Ok, after giving it another chance, its kind of fun, especially when you just feel like hacking someone to pieces.

took me awhile yo get used to the contols, but its basiclly a hack n slash game.

Great graphis too

Ian
 
While we're discussing other combat-esque games, I heard somebody mention Enclave. I never did play that - my machine at the time couldn't handle it - but it did look pretty, and I liked Rune a lot.

Should I look into finding it somewhere?
 
It is really difficult to find a medieval combat game that does not involve some element of fantasy like bashing dragons, goblins, orcs and the like. Personally I just want something that represents, as close as possible in a game, some hard gritty medieval combat with plenty of combat choices and equipment, quests, trading, open-ended gameplay and a huge map to explore. So far, Mount and Blade seems to be the only game that truly offers that. While JoA was fun the first time round it is not really re-playable due to the heavily scripted storyline and utterly abysmal AI. I am still waiting for the perfect medieval RPG though, maybe M&B will become that if it develops further - I hope so.
 
Ravenlock said:
While we're discussing other combat-esque games, I heard somebody mention Enclave. I never did play that - my machine at the time couldn't handle it - but it did look pretty, and I liked Rune a lot.

Should I look into finding it somewhere?

You could always try out the demo. http://www.enclavegame.com/
 
I really don't like it. Maybe it's because my computer can't handle the graphics well. It's kind of boring compared to mount&blade combat.
 
im currently downloading the joan arc game, from what i se on the pics from it looks scaringly much like a game im currently making, castle sieging nd all, though these use cannons and healing portions and that kind =/ and didnt excactly get good creds from reviewers and medieval gamers ^^
my game will be a bit like m&b but still different enough to not have them pose a threat to eachother (which mine would ofcourse win... freeware vs commercial ^^ ) but yea, m&b really looks like a great game tobad the free part ends at lvl 6 =/ btw, u really need to get somthing done about that lighting ingame (one of the mot commen problems when made by indys which you are as far as i can se)
btw sorry for mixing so much together but dont have enough time to post the stuff in dif topics, cya
m&b rocks
 
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