Not really. When you play a game for the first time and for many hours after unless you specifically go and turn game music off ofc, you enter a new space in the game and the music starts playing. It's not something you need to physically go and seek out to experience it.same thing you can say about music. If you want music just go on youtube and find the 1,000,000s songs out there and play them while you play the game.
Soundtracks will play upon loading a new area, entering battle, entering a story area, fighting in the arena. Endless other places.
The player doesn't need to interact with it for it to become a part of the experience.
However if you cared so much about "immersion" you would agree that audio and music specifically is the key in video games and entertainment in general to making the player/viewer feel something for the environment they are in.
Personally I never listen to outside sources of music when I play a game, but that would probably be just me. Bannerlord music for the most part is great anyway.
I don't know how much you played the game, but after 1000 hours "controlling armies" becomes quite old... game definitely needs more stuff.
Well Bannerlord is a fighting game. If fighting gets old then you take a break and play something else until that itch needs scratching again.
If you need your boardgame itch scratched so much there are PLENTY of games out there to do so. However a medieval fighting game with depth? There are a handful at best. So I would say why water down THIS game with boardgames. It's not important for the vision of Bannerlord it's just a little extra thing they put in to taverns to give it a bit of life. It was never meant to be anything more than that.
Anyway, this post is about what you personally want to see in the game in order to get back to it.
Precisely. And we all know the pace that Bannerlord is progressing is not as fast as we would like. So surely you can understand why other users on the forum get frustrated when with so much of the CORE of this game is broken and features are missing that when asked "What is the ONE thing you are waiting for before doing another SERIOUS play through of bannerlord?" that someone puts bOaRdGaMeZzz... bOaRdGaMeZzZ for iMmeRsiOn. Wut!?
Forgive us for not taking it seriously lol.