Today we embark on a quest to conquer the world!
I'm a huge fan of the Mount & Blade games, and I've been wanting to really sink my teeth into Bannerlord for some time. I bought the game as soon as it was released, and then promptly got totally distracted with other things and put it down after playing for all of about 2 hours.
Now, because I've got like, I dunno - 11 TB of space on this machine... it's not uncommon for me to install a game, play it once, and then leave it sitting there for ages while I chew through other things. If it's a game I truly don't think I'll play again, eventually I purge it. If it's something that I know I just need the right amount of distraction-free time available to really get into though, I leave it installed and waiting for that perfect moment when I can really take a bit out of the game and enjoy it.
Listen, I know it's a mess but it's a functional mess okay?
Which is where I found myself a week ago. Sick as a dog with a second round of COVID that my kids had just recovered from, and which my wife didn't end up catching. I slept as much as I could the first two days, but even so... you can only sleep so much of the day away, and while I was awake and could kind of think, I definitely wasn't on the ball mentally enough to program or QA so I couldn't work. Thus I found myself staring at the games on my desktop, randomly clicking on them as I thought about what I might be able to do to occupy myself with enough to not totally hate everything as I suffered through COVID again.
And then, I found it. Bannerlord. Just sitting there, waiting for me to click it. I knew from past experience that the start of the game was a little grindy, but didn't require much thought, and that was perfect.
I created a new character, sat down with a big fuck-off sized glass of tea, and started grinding. It was, despite the sickness, an incredibly fun time. Before I knew it, over the course of my illness I'd managed to get decently far into the game. I'd completed the initial Big Storyline Quest, which takes a bit of time and was well onto the path of establishing my Clan as a dominant force in the world.
Which is when @lacking saw me playing via Steam and messaged me in Discord.
Never one to say no to a great idea, I agreed that I should indeed do that...
A new character is born!
This brings us to today. Today, we embark on the path of bloody conquest with a new hero - OblivionCubed of the clan Hive.
Today, we're a Tier 0 clan... but this is not our destiny to stay this way. Soon, we'll be leading armies, sacking cities, and destroying nations.
Oblivion is a member of the Hive, a rising new clan from the lands of the Vlandians. He has the reputation of being decent and kind.
But until we really start crushing other nations, we're going to lean into our reputation for being decent, and kind.
So come, join me on this quest. The road ahead is long and sure to be full of interesting stories.
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I liked this saga of games, I love games of this type, unfortunately they are scarce these days for computers with little capacity like mine :(, but I would love to try this game as well as I already tried the warband and managed to pass it several times, Greetings and have fun with this great game.
If you could run Warband you could probably run Bannerlord, I'm guessing. I have pretty much maxed all available settings, so if you set it up to be medium or low settings it'd probably run just as well as Warband did. It's a super fun game and I definitely recommend it.
Yes it is true but I don't have a graphic card to be able to play bannerlord, I already tried, I have neither the characteristics nor the necessary space for this entertaining game.
The Mount & Blade games seem pretty cool. I haven't tried them yet but my brother loves them. Those battles seem a bit chaotic :P
They can be quite chaotic! Wait until you see a siege! Holy shit it's amazing haha. Charging the walls while catapults rain firey death down on you... Amazing
I really enjoyed Mount & Blade 1 and 2. I have a saved Bannerlord game I planning to get back to eventually. But you know how it goes when life takes you in 20 directions at once, haha.
Hahah yep I definitely know exactly what you mean! The first time I tried playing, my second child was like 3 months old and we were still in the middle of trying to figure out work from home pandemic life so it didn't really have a chance lol.
I hope your life settles down enough to be able to enjoy some Bannerlord soon!