Mount and Blade

[fishingdude]

I ran into this game a few weeks ago and haven't been able to put it down. It's a medieval rpg type game and was made by a Turkish couple over the years and it apparently has a good size following. The coolest part about the game is the combat system. You can actually fight from horse back. I know when I first read about it, that didn't sound that cool. I figured I would probably do the ground archer bit like I usually do. But as soon as I got on a horse, I never thought about being a ground archer again. It's hard to explain the sensation of running someone through with a lance at 30 mph riding on a horse. It's really cool and addictive. Have any of you played this game?

 

[Willfrey]

I can't say I have. Have you played Shadow of the Colossus? There are some pretty intense horse-back moments, and it features a beautiful modeled horse. That is one thing I can't get over on some games is how inaccurately horses are animated and modeled.

 

[Numbers]

Mount & Blade is a cool game. I've been playing it off and on for a year or two now (maybe the best 12? dollars i've spent.)

I usually play as a horse archer type with two handed weapons. If not that then a heavy armor wearer with a big ass sword or axe. ;p I got really good with the bow. Sometimes half of the other army would be dead before they got near my troops.

They used to have a lord of the rings mod for it I enjoyed, it seems they stopped making it though. ;(

 

[fishingdude]

I can't say I have. Have you played Shadow of the Colossus? There are some pretty intense horse-back moments, and it features a beautiful modeled horse. That is one thing I can't get over on some games is how inaccurately horses are animated and modeled.

Yes, I'd have to say the horses are well done in M&B. Shadow of the Colossus? It sounds familiar...Is it that game Adam Sandler was playing in the movie "Reign Over Me"?

 

[Ezion]

I've heard of Shadow of the Colussus, though I've never gotten the chance to play it (still want to play Ico).

M&B is a great game, though I can only play it for a couple weeks at a time. Too much of the same thing over and over, but the combat system is a lot of fun.

(As a random derail, there's an online game called Darkfall supposedly pending release that borrows much of M&Bs combat system.)