Should you buy Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord? Honest Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- After coming out in March 2020 in Early Access is Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord worth your money and time ?
Here is my honest review and take on the development process, the games current state and what the future will bring.
As always, If you have an opinion or a mod to share, do so in the comments below, just please be respectful.
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Despite how terrible the game is at the most basic things, the battles and the world are amazing. You're 100% right, this is a skeleton. More like playing DND alone.
Battles are definately breathtaking, haven't really experienced so much fun riding in with the cataphracts...
@@Oblivionplayer12345 the battles are so good they make Total War unplayable for me
I was playing warband with mods a lot. But i was taught early access is no go. I see that mods not even expanding the game but adding missing features. Thats sad
I was so hyped for this game, about 6 years ago. It is quite disappointing the game is in such a poor state after so many years. They just had remake warband to look good and expand its mechanics.
By all looks, they have failed and continued to fail.
i waited for this game for so long and i was also dissapointed, bought it at steam full price on release. there was a lot of content missing . 200000000 bugs and really not much to do. i was in love with MB vikings conquest and i still am today. bannerlord sucks donkey ass compared to the first game
I am guessing there will never be a mount and blade 3. This one ruined the magic that the first game gave us. I love the battles but literally everything else sucks. Even the character creator everything you make looks like a Turkish used cars salesman. No desire to own a kingdom or manage a castle it's so boring.
I have over 1,000 hrs on Warband, couldn't wait for this game to come out, and I just cant get into this one.
Thank you. I was new to the M&B universe with 2 came out. Played it for about 30/40 hours. Got bored and quit. Going to try to get back into it with your mod recommendations. Thank you for taking the time to think through this review.
Just so bad that consoles don't have access to all the mods.
ok so i see this is still JUST BATTLES, thats the only good thing, the rest is background stuff, much less developed that even Warband mods. This is insane! looks like the developers only wanted easy money, without ANY genuine heart for the fans.
Bannerlord after 3 years is stilll a FAILURE
What made me give up on this game, is that I first install the best mod (which is a long process of testing and ironing out incompatibility issues)
Then after everything works to perfection.. the actual devs release a goddamn update which includes a must-have feature.
So naturally now I have to uninstall all my mods, and wait for the modders to update their mods... Long story short, this is a repetitive cycle which breaks my desire to invest time into the game.
That is exactly what I was thinking of yesterday. The game is a skeleton for modders, a foundation.
I am in the late endgame of my first playthrough now and game feels really shallow and empty. Really nothing to do except constant repetitive sieges and battles.
It's such a disappointment, because the game is actually awesome, there's so much more possible to implement! I like battle system, location design, but it all feels shallow, unfortunately.
The game is yet to be released actually. The release was fake I think.
Nope. It's not fake. Check their homepage :(
I Am hesitant , I have ps4 , Should I play Mount & blade 1 or 2? ,since I got no mods It’s gonna be my first time playing , I don’t care about the Online , But something tells me My ps4 won’t handle mount & blade 2
EDIT : I bought warband because apparently Bannerlord isn’t Fit For ps4 especially normal , crashes blue screen etc , I won’t lie , I’m enjoying Warband Because I don’t care about graphics
Cries on console..
The game is fun and actually something pretty unique (except its predecessor)
But atm, the game is shelved, until we get proper dlcs.
As a normal player of Bannerlord I say you are correct about all of this and I like playing troop overhauls right now here are some if you want to go wild DeReMilitari if you want the units to be more accurate and most units are low tier units Calradia Expanded Kingdoms which adds alot more towns and Factions to the campaign map and Calradia Factiom Enhanced which over huaps all base game troops and make them really stand out you add this to the European Map and you got yourself Europe
My brother and I bought this and I'm shocked at how lame it is. I came to youtube to see if I'm missing something but it looks like I'm not, the game is just lame
Try some mods, helps give it some extra life.
I had 200 k gold, 4 full stack parties and clan tier lvl 6. I was ready to conquer my own castle andd found my kingdom. little did i know that i cant create a army and unite my parties. Not to mention the overall lack of content and diversity in the quests that exist Last game from talewords
Campaign plateaus when you can't get rid of factions permanently they just recruit more guys and the slog continues.
Mods will address some of the issues with diplomacy and battles, but no mods significantly address the lack of role-playing, immersion and world building. It is a terrible sandbox because it lacks the tools to write your own story.
i feel sorry for people who paid for this game, was NOT WORTH IT
Why?
I'm just glad the developers have allowed and supported mods to the point where it doesn't matter if the base game is terrible because you shore up the weakness with the mods you love
Yeah but they get all the money from the game and de the modders that actually finish it get nothing... The least they could do is bring in the mods to the game give a little payment to the guys that made the mods, but that's too much I guess. Keep all the money and don't even have to finish making the game imo.
There may be a state in the future where mods catch up- but as of today, the mods don't address the fundamental issues the game has.
@@mistersparkles1842 I would disagree here. Take a look at some mods such as Diplomacy, which as the name suggests adds a whole new element to interacting with factions which actually matter. Or My Little Warband which lets you fully customise base game troops if you feel that Khan's Guard is OP etc.
@@TheOnlySillySocks Absolutely, best case scenario the modders would be rewarded but still it's better then them having terrible mod support and noone is having fun then.
Sucks how every minor update breaks the mod options or your sandbox campaign save file, when that happens I need to take break from the game, come back in few weeks and update mods to play again.
Love your review lol, ever since I bought this game on ps5 I've been obsessed with it lol. But are very right, I watch ppl play it on TH-cam with mods and I can't help asking myself why wasn't this part of the game! Can we get these features in the future!? Smh still obsessed tho lol
Dont buy this on console smh. It will corrupt your console and stop playing all together
I saw someone say bannerlord is a jack of all trades but master of none I feel like that sums it up pretty well
It's literally the opposite, it's a master at medieval battle simulating- and literally has early alpha placeholder features everywhere else
Hey if somehow you take a minute or 2 for me I'd be glad! I've encountered this game pretty recently and thinking about buying it for console (ps4). I'm more of a roleplayer and strategic game player like Stellaris and Age Of Empire. It is pretty hard to annoy me generally and I couldn't care less about graphics (still playing ps1 and ps2 games regularly). I'd like crusader king 3 but it is unavailable on my current platform. Should I buy?
My brother played a lot of Warband on his PS4 so I got a glimpse of what the game is about, he told me about Bannerlord so I looked it up, not usually my type of game but seemed interesting so I bought it on Xbox on release. Played for a bit but needed to watch a lot of tutorials to grasp what I needed to do. Eventually stopped playing as other games took my interest. But recently got interested again amd started watching videos and was curious if they made big changes since release. Sadly my brother and I are console players so no mods for us.
Sad, a real missed opportunity.
If a game needs mods to become good, it's not a good game.
Bethesda hides.
@@GoldenLeafsMoviesI was going to say, paradox also probably hiding as well
Really good videos, can I ask about the music in the background? Is it yours? Really like it!
thanks. its when youre in the dark by smartface + Legions by jo wandrini
nice video bro keep it up. leaving a subb
I’m sure there is a mod by now and I’ll surely get into it. Once I understand the game more but a Lord of the ring inspired by the Lord two would be my absolute favorite game of all time.
Just asking does console have mod support
not that I know of, sorry.
If anyone has the same question about 2024 - the answer is yes. I spent there 100 hours, completing the company. I would definitely recomment.
It’s a really good game but like you said it’s missing some important elements. Diplomacy definitely needs a ton of work.
1. If you ton of casualties and more take fiefs than your enemy then it means that they should pay tribute right? Wrong. It goes by raiding. I suppose it makes little sense but not when compared to taking territory and inflicting casualties. How about having more prisoners than your enemy? Little impact.
Even if you do raid a village, some companions would dislike you which is very counterintuitive to what TaleWorlds encourage you to do.
At the end of it all, you may are forced to pay tribute to a faction that you beat senselessly.
2. Kingdoms declaring war on you constantly. I play as the Southern empire so I am spread a little thin having to focus on multiple fronts. The Khuzaits are a pain in the ass and I do a ton of work taking fiefs away from them as a vassal and then when we get them by the tail, my kingdom asks for peace, we pay tribute, then move on. Annoying part is you can’t finish them off as you have the upper hand in the war but whatever.
Then the Vlandians want to declare war. Cool, same process as last time, fight them, take fiefs. Only thing is the damn Khuzaits and Sturgia want to declare war on my kingdom as we are fighting the Vlandians and some of the territory that I conquered for the Southern Empire are gone within a game week. It’s a constant grind and frustrating process.
3. I don’t understand the thought process behind the vassals sometimes. They want to declare war on a faction twice our strength while we are at war with a evenly matched faction. Reason? “We pay too much tribute?” Logical enough if we were at peace and not at war with another kingdom. But to add salt to the wound, they typically do it to another kingdom that is far away from the front lines of the war.
4. You had enough of the damn enemy faction leaders harassing you once you capture them in battle. You ransom them or let them go, they come back again to have another round with you. When they see you, “(player name), it’s been a while.”
I think to myself, “do you want another asskicking?” Anyway after like five or six times, I get tired of their nonsense, so they meet my axe. Logical right? You let them live but you want to execute the enemy lords bc they try your patience. Well, not only do piss off the enemy faction, you piss off your faction vassals. Do you not see that I spared them time and time again?
5. Finally, once you take all the fiefs away from a faction, the faction should disappear and join another kingdom right? Nope. Guerrilla warfare. They don’t go away until you kill them, plain and simple.
I love this review mate. Brilliant
Finally an intelligent review.
Thank you very much.
No… the game is still in alpha
Hahahahaha feels like it doesn't it? Check again.
@@TheOnlySillySocks I've played enough of the previous titles as a teenager and Bannerlord since it's release in 2020 to say it's still in alpha in my opinion. Campaign AI is awful most times braindead and you cannot snowball from defeating large armies with a campaign on the enemy lasting a couple of days with leaders leaving one by one to get attacked separately oh and spears generally being useless on foot is quite annoying. Maybe I'm too long in the tooth to enjoy it as a fresh experience.
i get your point but our opinions dont matter. the studio fully released it officially. the fact it feels like its still in development dosent matter. if anything it stains the reputation of the studio that does it. every player may have different perspective, some might even say its perfect and they love the finished product. the fact is it was released, wrongly imo, and therefore i can judged it on the fact they released it. do i think the game is finished, f no. but it dosent matter.
Is this game good for me? I'm looking for just establishing my clan, having battles and overall focusing on storytelling.
If the story telling is done by you then yeah. get it in a good promotion. That's really it, the game gives you the basis do make your own game basically. You can add mods to spice it up and make it more interesting and immersive.
A lot of those things you complained about weren’t in the game are actually in the game they are justthere’s not implemented the way you wanted them to be
like?
Is the game worth it if im only going to play for the custom battles
I wouldn't but its up to you. maybe create a dollar value in your head of how much you think they are worth and then wait for a sale or something. To me personally the game is worth around 30 dollars and the mods make it double that. but it's really up to you.
I was JUST about to buy this. Thank you for talking me out of it! I know there are several good features in this. But I haven´t got the time to play an "ok" game. I´ll just get Baldurs Gate 3 instead
hmm should I buy this game??
Did they fix the braindead siege AI?
Should I buy banner lord or warband cause I don't really know
Well if you value graphics, get this one. But if you never played either, maybe get warband really cheap, go mad with all the mods for it and explore all of it, not just the base game, then get bannerlord. It will be a while until full conversion mods are ready so you have time.
I'm guessing theres no mods on console?😢
Not yet i dont think but might be wrong.
Aren’t mods broke with updates
Well depending on the update but yeah when they update, there are always mods that break and need to be updated by the modder.
Is it worth getting on a sale for someone that plays this really casually as like a cool rpg adventure? I have played Warband from the PS Plus catalogue and liked it a lot don't really care for mods or anything
Yeah in a good sale it should give you enough bang for your buck.
@@TheOnlySillySocks I'm able to get it for 25 bucks rn was just wondering if there's anything this game does better than Warband or if it's just a prettier game with larger battles and no other improvements 😅
In my opinion it's worth the upgrade at that price. In general as a casual RPG yeah you can have a lot of fun playing it. Check my live streams of it a few weeks ago where I was kinda roleplaying it a little . I was using only improved garrisons and caravan trade xp so you can see for yourself as for the rest of it.
I got the game when it came out. I thought this game died and total conversion mods like Prophecy of Pendor etc just weren't going to happen.
What changed to make you hopeful?
Just to be clear, I am still in the "unfinished game" setting regarding the base game. I'm hopeful the total conversion mods are going to take it back up. And there are still a lot of them being updated an developed. check mod dB or nexus for yourself. Some are already in a pretty cool playable state, plus when you check all the mods for vanilla, you can make the game much much better. Maybe taleworlds will actually finish the game someday, like they promised us, but, with the mods and near 20k thousand concurrent players, it's doing much better than most games out there.
Bro leave a substitle
just rewatched it to be sure and the youtube generated ones are pretty good. Turn them on in your language and it should work fine.
BS, the game is amazing
If you chose to ignore the issues, good for you. But people that are wondering if they should buy it or not deserve to know exactly what they are getting into...
@@TheOnlySillySocks Well that's just it, you focus on bashing the game and that's about it. If I watched your review I would not buy the game, I have just started playing it and I know, it's a great game - The steam reviews paint another pitcher ...
I know you just started... When you get to 1k hours let me know. I have been playing since it came out and played every update... Around 5k hours in every game in the M&B series... My little summer child...
im so confused man. i stumbled upon a video of this game by a youtuber and it got me excited and made me bought it. Currently waiting for the game to finish downloading. But this review made me regret buying it and not excited to play anymore.😅
Since you already have it, then just make the best of it. I made this review to balance out the pole scrubbing hype generating reviews by telling folks what it was really like to be a fan from the start with the good the bad and horrendous... In the end, as with everything, it's up to you, but at least now you and others know that this studio can make some decision in the future that could make your brain break, like they have done to most of their fan base, me included. xD
my personal problem with the game is that it took as long as RDR2 to be developed yet we received a barebone game that looked like it was released by a 3-man dev team, basically a graphical upgrade with extremely minor fresh features from M&B warband
i bought it on release date, and as of today i have a little over 30 hours but I'm going back based on your mod recommendation :)