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Article #697879Re: free Free FREE Mount and Blade! on GoG!
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 13:53
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 13:53
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On Sat, 20 May 2017 10:12:15 +0300, Rudi <ru...@iki.fi> wrote: >On Fri, 19 May 2017 18:54:27 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com> >wrote: > >>>Git r done: >>>https://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade >> >>I already have this game in my account, but thanks for the post anyway >>rms. Keep them coming. ;) > >It was already a free giveaway not long ago. Got it then. >Appreciate your effort anyway, thnx It's been an on-again, off-again freebie for years. I picked it up for free on GOG back in 2014. The original "Mount and Blade" is a very rough classic and, honestly, if you want to best experience the game I really recommend you get the "Warband" expansion (sadly not free but worth the $5). It smooths off a lot of the rough corners and makes the game a lot more enjoyable. Or you could just wait for the soon-to-be-released "Mount & Blade 2", which looks to be to "Warband" what "Warband" was to the original. I rather enjoyed the Mount & Blade games. The sandbox was interesting, even if it did all feel very generic and repetive after a while, but the scale and complexity were intriguing. It reminded me a lot of the 1992 classic RPG, "Darklands" in that neither game really had a story but instead the goal of the game was just to make a name for yourself. But the real star of the game was the huge battles and with a modern machine you can edit various config files and have some truly impressive conflicts with hundreds of soldiers. It is similar in scale to a "Total War" game except you are actually down there in the trenches with the soldiers instead of looking on from on-high. Thundering down a hill with 60 other heavily armed knights towards a thicket of spearmen is a lot of fun and gives you an idea as to how absolutely insane those guys in the medieval ages must have been ;-)
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