Your favorite subtle things about Mount & Blade

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bythorsbeard

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Hello all,

Just for fun, post your favorite things about this game that often go unnoticed, may be under-appreciated, or are otherwise just some of the subtle little reasons that you like this game enough to go to this forum and post on threads as irrelevant as this one.

Note that I don't mean things like: "BCUZ NORD HUSCARLS ****ING PWN ASS FUKCTARDS!!!" (even though they do).
Focus on the things that don't get all the attention already.

For example, a few of my favorites:

-The way that a mounted enemy slowly slides off his horse and rolls a few times on the ground when you plink him with an arrow at long distance.

-Those rare kills where, after slaughtering whole armies of whining, crying, screaming pansies, an enemy is man enough to die without a peep. Nothing like the satisfaction of hearing that nice, familiar slicing/bashing sound followed by the sound of a foe hitting the dirt without complaining about it. (Especially awesome in small fights, like nighttime muggings in town, where there is little background noise)

-That smug feeling of self satisfaction that you can only get from killing a large party of Khergits with only foot soldiers, regardless of how goddamned annoying, inefficient, or time consuming it is.
 
-The sound of board shields shattering after I hit them with my morningstar on full gallop.
-Going on a chain of those oh-so-fun charge n' hacks (where you knock the persons block or shield down and then put a ball of spikes through their face)
-The hail of arrows in sieges, and the hundreds (or thousands) of arrows sticking out of bodies, walls, and shields after the battle's over.
These are just some of the many amazing subtleties, I don't have the time or patience to list them all.
 
I like the food. Really, I always try to have all the sorts there is of foods in my inventory, and everytime I think about how nice it would be to be in my party I get a nice and warm cozy feeling inside : )

Helping out village farmers, no matter if they are friendly or not. 7-10 defenseless souls out there to try and sell some of their hard work, just to be attacked by mindless bandits. Oh how I love to waste those bandits.

And once, out of the blue, when I was attacking a party of Sea Raiders, a Nord Lord came and assisted me in battle! That's the only time I've ever seen it. On the pre battle screen it said "Lord XXXX has joined the battle on your side"! And I was a Vaegir Vassal. We were not in war with the Nords, but we were not allied either, as that is not possible, and I was not "Friends" with this lord either, he just came out of the blue to help out. I was like "Woah.. That was.. Really nice of you!"

I like the cozy parts of the game, cause there are not many things in this game that are cozy..

Erh.. Maybe someone misunderstands what I mean with cozy... I'm not sure I'm using the right word.. But I guess you get the idea : )
 
My favorite thing is that Lord Nelag (or something... He's with the Vagir kingdom.) is so old he's rotting but he's still able to chase down your horse and smack you upside the head.
 
Deathlordjaffar said:
-The sound of board shields shattering after I hit them with my morningstar on full gallop.
Nice! I usually fight with an axe for the shield smashing bonus. I think it's even better than the kills themselves frankly. Sometimes I'll just smash the shield and move on to the next guy, leaving the other one for the archers.
 
well, some of the things already mentioned:
sound of cracking shields;
how some people go down without a sound(seriously, can`t they fight without wasting so much air?);
the food(although what I personally like is going to a tavern and watching the steam rise from hot food :mrgreen:);
the way a person falls off slowly from a stationary horse when you kill them;

funny thing is that when barefoot, one still makes the same sound on the stones in a street as if they had boots on :shock:

I really find it funny how broken shields can roll and bounce indefinitely despite there being nothing that would cause them to do so :roll:
 
The moment before the throwing axe hits the archer's head just before hes about to let go of the cord and send that arrow into my own startlingly good-looking Nordic face.

The moment the great axe comes down on the archer's head just before hes about to let go of the cord and send that arrow into my own startlingly good-looking Nordic face.

The moment I raise my shield just before the archer lets go of the cord and sends that arrow towards my own startlingly good-looking Nordic face.


And having my inventory filled with nothing but various types of meat and ale! I'll be dead before I let a single cabbage be eaten by me and my lads!  :D

 
Kalnia said:
The moment before the throwing axe hits the archer's head just before hes about to let go of the cord and send that arrow into my own startlingly good-looking Nordic face.

The moment the great axe comes down on the archer's head just before hes about to let go of the cord and send that arrow into my own startlingly good-looking Nordic face.

The moment I raise my shield just before the archer lets go of the cord and sends that arrow towards my own startlingly good-looking Nordic face.


And having my inventory filled with nothing but various types of meat and ale! I'll be dead before I let a single cabbage be eaten by me and my lads!  :D
don`t you think you`re going a bit too far with this? I haven`t even mentioned anything related to archery in my post :|
 
Maybe its is going a little too far, but I always had a habit of not letting old dogs lie. Even so, I'll drop the whole 'whoes-better-then-who' for now then.
 
The layout of the towns. Every village is interesting and it makes me sad that so often it's just dead space. I wish I could just hang out in a village and get into trouble for a while.
 
Seeing a horse fly some 20 feet in the air after killing it.

Crazy M&B physics...
 
When I kill a horseman on foot while he is at full gallop.

H: IM GONA KI-
*THWACK*
H: AHHHH-*Crashes into tree/wall*
 
When you crouch down onto your horse with your shield in front of you as you do your best to dodge incoming arrows.
 
The fact that we are not disembodied heads with one or two floating appendages in first person mode, but people with limbs and torsos.
 
Wading waist deep in corpses in a town siege.

Arrow covered shields (mine and the enemy's)

Bloodstained right arm at the end of a battle.

Bloodstained everything at the end of a siege :D

Being able to give your companions equipment, and level them up to your own needs.

Having to buy food constantly to survive.

More to come later...
 
looking around at the end of the battle, seeing all the random crap and bodies lying around the place - broken shields, arrows, dead horses, weapons that have been dropped by dead foes. i remember having a 400+ man battle, the battlefield was littered with the bodies of both sides afterwards. Some things tend to strike me, like seeing 2 guys go mano a mano and dueling with each other far, far away from the main battle, and seeing the aftermath of a siege - i saw this one guy who had about 20 arrows on his shield and was littered with arrows on his body, but there was at least 3 dead men around him that had been killed by him.

there have been other things, like seeing a stonehenge like building in the battlefield and noticing a tree that had over 100 arrows in it for no apparent reason.
 
Another for me...

-The way that even the really low-level enemies can kill you if you aren't careful. There are too many games where you are simply invincible against lower level enemies after a while.
 
Zima said:
The fact that we are not disembodied heads with one or two floating appendages in first person mode, but people with limbs and torsos.
that too :mrgreen:

bythorsbeard said:
Another for me...

-The way that even the really low-level enemies can kill you if you aren't careful. There are too many games where you are simply invincible against lower level enemies after a while.
this is one of the main reasons I love this game so much :mrgreen:

the way NPCs turn at you when you bump in them, as if they`re waiting for you to talk.
 
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