Mount & Blade II: I cannot understand the hype
For regular players , this game is characterised by three things:
1. Extremely repetitive gameplay loop. You fight battles, get money and loot, recruit more soldiers, fight bigger battles, get more loot and maybe a castle, fight bigger battles, ad nauseam.
2. Bugged and broken like you've never seen. Literally I couldn't play this game for a straight hour without crashing (on a rig well above the recommended specs). Slightly improved in recent patches, but with old bugs gone more new bugs come.
3. Empty of any contents. The campaign and the quests in this game are an insult to gamer. They may as well just scratch it off completely. Don't tell me that questing is not the point of the game. For a 50$ game and if they put them in, they should at least have some standards, and this is just a slap in your face.
For deluded fanboys, this game is of course:
The best game ever created under the sun and anyone who cannot appreciate it is to be condemned to hell.
While I'm on it, the community of M&B is pretty toxic. Dare you say anything negative in the forum about the game or the dev, which you are totally entitled to for a near full price title, everybody is bashing you and throwing 'oH, iT's eArLY aCceSs, it's aLpHA, bEtA, gaMma, dELtA....' at you. Seriously, just wake up will ya?
It's astonishing how gaming industry has fallen to such states where people now have to PAY a full price tag to be a beta-tester, something which you would GET PAID to do not too long ago, and yet fanboys are defending this kind of malign business practices and pointing their fingers at any criticiser while giving all the good wills to the dev - 'Take your time. We can wait for another decade or two. That's fine' 'Charge me AAA price and deliver whatever you can. That's quite alright' 'Give me bug-ridden pre-Alpha stuff. We'll do the QA for you and pay you money'...
Demanding any quality or standard in an early access game is now 'being entitled' apparently. Imagine a future world where every game comes out as a messed up early access like this and a finished product is all but a luxury. Wouldn't that just be great, eh?
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