
My first time in a 100+ person multiplayer siege was what hooked me. I’ve seen some slagging the graphics and while this is no AAA title by any stretch of the imagination, the Mount & Blade series has always been about epic gameplay. It doesn’t give away a ton but noticeable is that the graphics are improved by a lot. Sure, they aren’t the best, but they sure as hell give me a lot of hope.įirst up we have the trailer that they played at gamescom today.


Why? Because there hasn’t been a blog entry in about a year now from Taleworlds and while Warband is still great, the community is starting to wind down and only attracts new players during Steam sales and most of those players are trolls looking to be a dick in their new $2 game.īut finally the faithful were rewarded today at gamescom with a slew of new videos.

Needless to say there is a lot of anxiety behind Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It’s a great way to work through some frustrations and to keep my mind sharp. When I’m writing I tend to open up Mount & Blade: Warband and play a bit, die a bit, minimize and continue working for a while before tabbing back into playing some more. Most of these games are easy to understand, but Mount & Blade is kind of my go-to when it comes to multiplayer time killing. Right now I’m most looking forward to Shenmue III, Mass Effect Andromeda, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It takes a lot to get me into a game nowadays, with my most anticipated games being a mixed bag of weird genres and styles of games. So needless to say I never stopped playing them. I have these great memories of playing games like Legend of Zelda with him as a kid, each one of us taking turns at difficult bosses or figuring out puzzles. I used to get excited about the “TV games” that he’d bring home and eventually when I was old enough we’d play them together.

My dad played games and we always had consoles at home, it was kind of his way of winding down after work. Gaming is something that I’ve been doing since I was a kid, it comes natural to me.
