I was criticized for killing the game on bugs (patches did fix a lot of my issues with the Radeon 4870, though I can’t take that into account after the fact). I was criticized for hurting the game on its controls (“It’s supposed to be hard! It’s cavalry combat!”). I was criticized for not taking into account the game’s robust and dedicated modding community (admittedly one of the best I’ve seen, though a more casual gamer wouldn’t stick around to find out). Despite the fact that I enjoyed the game, I felt that these issues overrode things to the point where I had to give the game my below average rating, on the grounds that these issues would prevent a gamer outside the target demographic – namely, myself and people like me – from getting much out of it.įeedback was voracious, sustained, and about 90% negative. I heavily crtiticized the steep learning curve, ridiculously stacked odds against people starting out, and the bugs that were rampant in the early builds of the game. When I reviewed Mount & Blade, I was pretty hard on it.

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