Even once you can eventually afford the very expensive top-level full plate armour, a stray lance from someone going full speed on their horse can knock you on your ass. Accidentally running into a huge Lannister army or an unbelievably large group of forest bandits (I don’t know whether these are a bug or feature in the mod) can send you straight back to square one. Ever wonder what the lives of the background characters - the random soldiers and peasants - are like? Buddy, you can live it.Įven after you get powerful enough to strike out on your own, your wealth and power are fragile.
You WILL end up being held captive by the enemy, who will steal your horse (which was expensive by the way). You WILL be forced to fight battles you will almost certainly lose.
You WILL spend a lot of time doing nothing. Somehow, this is incredibly fun.Īll of a sudden, you are living and dying at the whims of an NPC who will be at times not that concerned about your wellbeing. Played on the recommended difficulty settings, the game truly reflects what it’s like to be a nameless, useless A Song of Ice and Fire character who sucks at everything and gets their ass kicked a bunch. I gave it a bash last week because I had a sick day and had been watching the show and now, a week later, I have played roughly one billion hours of the mod. You are dropped on the map with nothing but a few shitty possessions and a few suggestions for quests that you can start out with - other than that you are left to your own devices. Much like regular Mount and Blade: Warband, it is largely directionless.
It’s a bit janky, the graphics aren’t particularly spectacular, and some of the ways in which you interact with the world are sometimes obscure and often tedious, but it is tremendously rewarding to play as the scale of the game increases and the ways in which you can interact with the world around you get more and more impactful.Ī Clash of Kings, now in its sixth version, transplants the original game to Westeros and Essos, allowing you to join in on the endless conflict between the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities. If you’re not familiar, Mount and Blade: Warband is a 2009 pseudo-medieval roleplaying game in which you start out as some random dude with a shitty sword and gradually (theoretically) work your way up to a position of power through political intrigue and beating people the hell up.
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