The crazyest part is that M&B is basically one of best games ever and was made originally by 3 turks in their basement.
It truly is one of the best games ever made... and I don't say that lightly.
1) Single-player: the fact that you can have battles that you lead with hundreds of bots on the field. I've not seen that done before M&B. And if I'm missing some game, was it done so well.
2) Multi-player: the same reason as above. Can fight on a battlefield with hundreds of real players. I'm not sure if there's many FPS mods out there that allow 100+ players. And to have it for a melee game... brilliant!
3) The open world, truly sandbox style of gameplay is something very few games have done (single-player, of course). The fact that you go around and recruit the guys in your army. The fact that they level up as well. You get companions! You can truly play the game in several different ways.
4) The combat!!! Ok, I'm going to say this here and now. M&B's combat was revolutionary... and still is! Certainly no game before offered such diverse, skill-based melee combat. And I think no game since. Can't say game like Skyrim have done so. People keep complaining that it's a dated combat system. Well... it is several years old now... but tell some game out there that has better, more diverse, and more skill-based melee combat than M&B. Including Warband & it's MODs... which leads me to #5.
5) The fact that the creators open this game up to the community. Brilliant of them! It's truly what has made a very, very good game... into an all-time great! You see so many companies being shit-heads... EA comes to mind with BF3.
All that to say... well done to the creators! Brilliant game that I've spent countless hours on... from playing the singleplayer game in beta in '08, through many singeplayer mods, to Warband, and eventually cRPG. Not many games offer both such a rich singe-player & multiplayer experience! Guess that's what happens when you create an amazing, revolutionary game... that you also open up to the community. Well done indeed!!!
To be honest, don't even compare chivalry with warband, then you will find yourself liking it a lot more. Think it as a completely different medieval game. It's a friendly and fun game that way.
Agreed. Yeah, that was hard for me to when I played this game. When I played Chivalry, I hadn't played cRPG in 8 months (since moving to a new city, started a new job). Basically just made me hunger for cRPG. I think if I would have played it, alongside playing cRPG, I would have appreciated it more. Of course, cRPG (and M&B altogether) certainly trumps Chivalry... in my book.
consider the time sink of crpg, thousands of hours wasted grinding for stats.
at least with wotr and chivalry you can play 15 minutes and feel satisfied.
playing warband is like revsiting an old nintendo game with 16 bit graphics.
You're the kind of person that makes me think... oh yeah, that's why the world sucks so much! Seriously... won't play the game cause the graphics are dated... and really not that dated. And your the kind of person who'd take 15 minutes of spastic, hyper gameplay... over a well-made, expansive game. I could never feel satisfied with any amount of time in WOTR. And while Chivalry is not a bad game... I can't be satisfied when I know cRPG is out there.
