Mount & Blade

[Llyranor]

I remember playing this a while ago (the shareware, anyway), and combat was loads of fun. Mounted combat done right

 

In any case, I've heard you can raise armies and have castle sieges. That certainly sounds cool. Combat aside, how's the rest of the game? In terms of exploration, questing and so on. I haven't heard anything about story/writing, so I'll assume that's not the draw of the game. I'm trying to figure whether the rest of the game is enough to shell out some money for it.

[karka]

Story will be introduced in further versions.

 

It's a sandbox type game. Think Pirates!. In fact they are very similar.You can take missions(capturing nobleman, rescueing girl, killing raiders, etc..), you can trade goods, you can sell prisoner, you can raise your rank by doing missions...

 

But sorry, no dancing mini-game...

[Llyranor]

Is the sandbox part actually compelling, though?

[baby arm]

"Story will be introduced in further versions."

 

Actually no. He gave up on the idea of adding a story. You'll have to rely on the mods for that.

[LoneWolf16]

I absolutely hated the handling of combat...felt way too sluggish and just......god I hated it.

[Llyranor]

Oh, I love the combat. Been messing around in the arena in the last while. What I'm intrigued about is the rest of the game - the 'sandbox' part. I'm wondering whether it's compelling enough in the gameplay sense, or if it might just end up portraying a sense of pointlessness.