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Anyone here played the "new" Mount & Blade: Warband yet? I say "new" because I only just got it, but I think it's been out nearly a year.
At first it felt odd to play, as if it wasn't a huge departure from the original M&B, and it almost felt a touch boring going back to a native M&B game because I'd gotten so hooked on one of the very cool mods for the original M&B (Wedding Dance... anyone here played that?). I had hoped Warband's multi-player mode would be fun, but it's nothing more than tiny blood-baths that doesn't work for me due to the latency on my Internet connection. I had hoped it would be more like an MMORPG, that I could quest with friends and such, but this was my first try at a "multi-player" game, and of course it's just not the same thing.
Anyway! Turns out Warband has some interesting dynamics, even in native. It's set in the thirteenth century, so if you chose to be female you get a bunch more gyp from male nobles. It's more difficult to become a vassal. It's harder to find a guy willing to marry you, regardless (it seems) of your motives for marriage. I'm not complaining at all, of course. It's more realistic, and it's a nuance that's making the game more interesting.
At any rate, I was just curious if anyone else here plays M&B, and if any one has tried either Wedding Dance or Warband.
Oh, and if anyone is interested, I'm keeping a first-person, in character journal of a female character my husband and I are working on together (we're teaming up just because we want to see if the game is actually winnable, rather than just sand-boxy, and it'll require a ton of playtime to find that out, so we're splitting the 'workload'; also, all the journal writing I'm doing takes time, so I'm often blogging while he's killing, but I do my own fair share of slaughtering as well).
I've written a good ways ahead, so I think there'll be fairly regular updates. Readers welcome!
At first it felt odd to play, as if it wasn't a huge departure from the original M&B, and it almost felt a touch boring going back to a native M&B game because I'd gotten so hooked on one of the very cool mods for the original M&B (Wedding Dance... anyone here played that?). I had hoped Warband's multi-player mode would be fun, but it's nothing more than tiny blood-baths that doesn't work for me due to the latency on my Internet connection. I had hoped it would be more like an MMORPG, that I could quest with friends and such, but this was my first try at a "multi-player" game, and of course it's just not the same thing.
Anyway! Turns out Warband has some interesting dynamics, even in native. It's set in the thirteenth century, so if you chose to be female you get a bunch more gyp from male nobles. It's more difficult to become a vassal. It's harder to find a guy willing to marry you, regardless (it seems) of your motives for marriage. I'm not complaining at all, of course. It's more realistic, and it's a nuance that's making the game more interesting.
At any rate, I was just curious if anyone else here plays M&B, and if any one has tried either Wedding Dance or Warband.
Oh, and if anyone is interested, I'm keeping a first-person, in character journal of a female character my husband and I are working on together (we're teaming up just because we want to see if the game is actually winnable, rather than just sand-boxy, and it'll require a ton of playtime to find that out, so we're splitting the 'workload'; also, all the journal writing I'm doing takes time, so I'm often blogging while he's killing, but I do my own fair share of slaughtering as well).
I've written a good ways ahead, so I think there'll be fairly regular updates. Readers welcome!