I absolutely do not share the rose-tinted glasses and nostalgia many here seem to have for Warband. Don't get me wrong, I really liked M&B and Warband, but there was always a massive "potential"-carrot dangling in front of me.
Even with mods the games were clunky. The games were burdened by loading screen upon loading screen. Interfaces mostly consisted of weirdly constructed dialogue trees that were awful to navigate. The simplest actions were three layers deep in cluttered menus or it was a clickfest. And the games really weren't all that complex, when it came down to it.
But what if the foundation the game built could be used to make me feel like an actual mercenary-turned-King in a (when modded) fantasy-ish medieval world? What if, at some point, I could sit around and dynamically react to the political happenings around my lands, engage in diplomacy or intrigue with characters I cared about, build my custom (!) army, meanwhile managing my resources and fiefs wisely (not just click "build" on everything while waiting 50 hours), with the possibility of conquering the world, but also enough engaging mechanics that simulated the realities of the court of a feudal lord, so that world conquest wasn't the end-all be-all? A peasant seeking audience with me for a change, rather than running around, asking people if I could please herd their cows for them? How about settling disputes of my lords? The possibilities for a medieval sandbox, especially one that did the combat as well as M&B were endless.
Quite frankly, neither vanilla nor modded Warband achieved this for me. In the end, vanilla was too shallow and most of the mods tried to do something of the sort, at least in part, but were massively hindered by what I assume were the technical possibilities of the game or engine, making management a chore, more often than not.
So, no, sorry, I really wouldn't just want a remastered Warband. From my perspective, even with some features missing, and some other features that were named in this thread included, Bannerlord feels like a remastered Warband to me. With some very, very important improvements in terms of UI (by now), but I still look at the game and simply imagine the "what if", rather than feeling satisfied with the possibilities in the now.
This doesn't mean that I'm massively disappointed. I didn't have any unrealistic expectations to begin with. I'm fairly certain that most would have looked at the potential of the game in the same way at some point, including TW, and those are some big shoes to fill.
But what if TW work on it some more.... what if...?
