What would you say for description

[Despereaux]

I was just thinking about how I describe M&B to people who don't play it

I sorta say like it's a medieval CS mixed with a "World-of-Warcraft-like" thing
Than after trying to, uselessly, describe the game, i just say that its a totally freaking awesome game and that once its on the market, it'll leave everything else in the dust

So what about you?

 

[edyzmedieval]

I think it's useless to describe it unless you play it. 

 

[Despereaux]

Right but how do you get people to play it

 

[Ingolifs]

Parhaps sorta a bit like Mediaeval total war, except you get to play as a particular character.

 

[Lancer]

I tend to sell it to people I know as a medieval combat simulator.

Lancer

 

[phbbbt107]

Medieval mounted and unmounted combat simulator.

 

[Tarrak]

Medieval FPS was my first thought, but it is better as a 'Medieval simulator'.

 

[Andrei]

It revolves around mounted combat, and leading armies.  Those are the main draws.  'Medieval simulator', right now, is a bit of an exaggeration, as (in native) the game's not really that great outside the battlefield.  A medieval simulator would have smithying, farming, politics, church etc instead of just the fighting.

 

[weelillad]

I don't describe it. I let them watch me play it. Or I just ask them to download it and try. It's a rather small download for anybody with broadband.

 

[Hansundfranz]

Elite, just in a medivewal setting not science fiction space

 

[Despereaux]

huh, wonder what ppl would say if i went back in time with M&B and showed it to everyone in the middle age

 

[Andrei]

Technological comments aside (and picking their jaws off the floor...) - I'd guess they'd be very critical.  $1 billion says it's not very realistic by the standards of someone who'd lived there to know.

Next off might be a desire to have a go themselves, followed by much struggling with the controls, and then finally delight as they realise there's a quest where you can kill noblemen.

 

[Despereaux]

I always thought that maybe as soon as i pull out a compy, all of them knights will think its some kind of supernatural weapon, and they'll dogpile me and stik about 64 swords through me and than 3 volleys of arrows to make sure the "alien" is dead

 

[Sir Saladin]

huh, wonder what ppl would say if i went back in time with M&B and showed it to everyone in the middle age

You would be burned as a witch. I wouldn't say that you can lead armies though, maybe a large group or band or something like that.

 

[Despereaux]

YES i will be a witch
And this here computer is a artificial demon who i have incarcereated a whole WORLD in!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bacon]

huh, wonder what ppl would say if i went back in time with M&B and showed it to everyone in the middle age

i think that they would tell us we were wrong, and then show us some improvements to use.  we'd then say "but i dont know the proper codes to do that"  they would then proceed to show us, in basic gaming code, how to do stuff we thought was impossible.  after, they would show us a simple way to make it a online multiplayer game with no bugs.  then we'd all sit down for tea and crumpets.

 

[Janus]

huh, wonder what ppl would say if i went back in time with M&B and showed it to everyone in the middle age

They'd burn us as witches for our magical devil box.

 

[Merentha]

I wish I had a REAL magical devil box. 

 

[calandale]

Nah, it wouldn't work without electricity. Even a lap top would run out before you could get in too much trouble.

 

[LetterAfterZ]

Nah, it wouldn't work without electricity. Even a lap top would run out before you could get in too much trouble.

aww i was so about to go somewhere with that as the point...