I bought this day one of early access becuase of how much I love this series, but it's not the best in the series... But damnit it's so close.

It's good, I think the combat feels more fluid and impact heavy than Warband, shield bashing, bracing, couching, and all the directional swings and their tying animations look great. Sieges are also a large improvement over the first game, no longer will you only have one ladder that you're pushed off of constantly, now they're action packed and awesome affairs. This game is basically a visually refined Warband, most features are retained, some new ones are added. if you enjoyed Warband, you'll enjoy this. But... Early game and late game suck. The middle game is the only fun part, as early game has few too little ways to earn money and renown so you'll find yourself grinding the same four quests or doing hundreds of tournaments. And the late game really breaks down the AI. Sadly the modding community for this game isn't as expansive as Warband's.

For now, if you want a modding scene, stay with Warband as this has yet to have any full big total conversions release, (although there are some EA Warhammer, Samurai, and Rome ones, but not nearly as complete as warbands). It is a good game, just could be better.

Compared to the first time I played, it has improved a lot, but there are still many shortcomings. After a while, it just becomes about gathering troops, fighting, gathering troops, and capturing castles. It would have been better if we could make more political and strategic decisions. It's been years since it was released, but there are still very few good mods.

İlk oynadığım haline göre bayağı iyi olmuş, ama hâlâ birçok eksik var. Bir yerden sonra sadece adam toplamak, savaşmak, adam toplamak ve kale ele geçirmekten ibaret hale geliyor. Daha fazla siyaset ve politika kararı alabilseydik, daha güzel olurdu. Çıktığından beri kaç yıl geçti, ama düzgün modlar hâlâ çok az.

I found the game's concept really interesting, but unfortunately, it feels incomplete even though it's supposed to be complete.

The tutorial made it seem like there would be a linear story, which I was looking forward to, but that's not the case. Once you finish the tutorial, you're free to do whatever you want, and for me, playing a game that gives me no direction is really difficult. I wish the game had a main storyline or at least a little more direction.

Apart from the lack of direction, everything else was pretty fun. Fighting other small groups of enemies was enjoyable, and my favorite thing to do was joining the tournaments.

I stopped playing the game after 6 hours. I'm sure that if the game had better questing, I would have probably stuck around for at least 20 hours.

Bethesda should buy this studio and then incorporate into the next TES, only dressed up in fancier art and production values. Now that would be a 5/5 game.

The progression systems are fantastic and immersive and the possibility space is dazzling. Where it falls short is repetitive quests/tasks and presentation -- the stuff that big studios are good at, i.e. dressing up the world with gorgeous assets and countless voiced lines for the characters.

You can go from being a petty peasant into a full-time warlord and emperor. And every step of the way the game stays challenging and engrossing, revealing ever more of its depth. It is seriously just a bump up in production values -- and some combat tweaks -- away from a 5/5.

Bannerlord is ever so slightly more than the sum of its parts - clunky inventory management, Chivalry-adjacent combat, and a dynamic open map combine to make something pretty special. I can't overlook the shortcomings in each element of the whole game, but the potential for emergent storytelling seems there. Almost 40 hrs in and I haven't even completed a campaign, I feel like the core loop of the game wears a little thin after this long. Still, I had fun with the time I spent with it, but I am not sure I want to keep scraping to find more to love.

- bac à sable de jeux de guerre/stratégie médiéval, faut s'immerger de facon rp dedans sinon ça devient très vite redondant.

- La sensation grisante de mener la charge d'une armée et foncer dans la mélée

- Des bugs d'ia qui softlock les batailles.

Bannerlord as a concept is one of the best sandbox game of the decades. Played it since the early access that lasted a very long time wich was not a good sign at all but the game is so addictive that you forget about it. Now there is some unacceptable things that you can't forget and it's pretty much the fact that this is unstable as hell. Since the very beginning untill now!! The game itself is good but lacks of so so much material that you've quickly seen everything. That is why the game lives pretty much through the mod community. TaleWorlds know that for sure but the game is still very unstable despite tons and tons of patchs wich is just saddening.