Mount&Blade

[DrSpike]

That's better logic, but what about Civ4?

[Sandman]

It's fun, although it crashes often and hard. I'll probably wait for it to be finished.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by DrSpike
That's better logic, but what about Civ4?

Well you can play Civ 4 while you wait for it to download.

[Cyclotron]

In Civ4, you've got to let others do the dirty work. In this game you can do it yourself.

[Skanky Burns]

One glaring flaw in the Civ 4 combat mechanism is that you don't see javelins sticking out of the recently deceased enemy. Mount & Blade addresses this very important concern.

[DrSpike]

I'm sure work on a gore mod is underway.

[Skanky Burns]

But does the mod forum have 3 or more suggestion topics asking for more gore at any one time?
I thought not.

[DrSpike]

Start some.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
One glaring flaw in the Civ 4 combat mechanism is that you don't see javelins sticking out of the recently deceased enemy. Mount & Blade addresses this very important concern.

Well I'm writing off Civ 4 then.
One of my absolute must-haves in a strategy game is that when my heavy bombers smash an enemy surface battlegroup the shattered burning hulks should have javelins sticking out of them damnit!


Much as I may like the idea behind paying less to sign up during a beta, and may like the game itself, I'm not really motivated enough to buy it before it's finished ...

[Cyclotron]

You can play the demo, then - it's free, and it's the full game, up to level 6.

And it's not just javelins - arrows, daggers, bolts, throwing axes...

[Skanky Burns]

And you can suicide-jump your horses to death!

IF you run to the top of a hill and then get your horse to jump, it goes *splat* in the most spectacular way!

Of course, it is much better if you do this to someone else's horse.

[Cyclotron]

Personally, I enjoy point-blank throwing axes to the face while galloping towards an enemy; the screen goes entirely red if you're close enough.

[C0ckney]

i'm very scared that playing this game will eat up far too much of my increasingly limited free time, but it does look very tempting...

[DrSpike]

Yeah, if you are butcher by the sounds of it.

[Cyclotron]

Nah, we're making it sound more gory than it is. 90% of the time, I don't see any blood - this is because I usually gallop past people too fast to see the immediate results of doing a medieval drive-by.

The blood is not actually that much, apart from head shots - certainly nothing worse than your average FPS - and you can turn it off easily if you wish.

Look at it this way, C0ckney - you don't have to play this one every day like Ogame.