Thoughts on Mount and Blade?

Im about to play the demo for this game it looks pretty cool and ive heard some great things about it and some not so great thingsi just wanted to hear what Gamespot members think of this game thanks in advance Thoughts on Mount and Blade?
It's really fun at the start, but after about 25hours of play, I don't know what to do. It takes about 60days to build anything in villages/cities. I've already captured a city (fights for cities are awesome) and 2 castles. The game is quite good though. It's not very often that a game will suprise you 25hours in (I ran into some bandits raiding my village and you get to fight em). I also captured a king. There are tons of maps (multiple village, castle, and city layouts. All of which you can walk through). The RPG elements are lighter than oblivion. It remindeds me of Deus Ex and Medieval 2 Total War. The only way they could make this game better would be to add more commands for your troops and have a morale system so you can rout enemy units. Thoughts on Mount and Blade?
Graphics are pretty poor, even by 2001 standards. The game is really, really rough around the edges, and its not worth $50.Despite that, its a fairly fun game. But you'll either really, really like it, or completely hate it. It does mounted combat better than any other game i've seen. It is a bit repetative and you aren't likely to pick it up once you complete it (which could take several weeks or months to beat).The mod community for it is fairly active, but the frequet release of new versions makes it hard to find compatible mods for any version of the game.It hard to say more about the game than ''its not for everyone.'' It manages some aspects really well, and in othes it falls completely flat.
[QUOTE=''Swiftstrike5'']It's really fun at the start, but after about 25hours of play, I don't know what to do. [/QUOTE]

Go help one of the people who want to claim a faction's throne. (find them through the travelers in taverns).



I love the game, well worth my $25. Probably the only single player game that can keep me interested currently.
I got it for 15 bucks on Steam when they had a sale and I put many hours into it. It was well worth the money. Pretty fun game, I'm commanding a king and his army around currently and taking castles and stuff.
Firstly, the game costs 30$ USD. Second the graphics are good, they might not be at a level of games of 2007/2008 but the game still looks good and definetly is better looking than games in 2001. There is be an expansion soon that will improve the graphics. Also my 4 year old computer can not run the game at full graphical setting. (7800 GTX 256b, 2 gigs ram, 2.4 AMD Athlon 64). This game was made by few people, started only by 2. Indi game with a low budget.The game itself is definitely not for everyone. I have been playing the game since beta version 0.894 and still playing it, puting over 100 hours into the game. Currently I am playing a mod which makes the game much harder. I played crysis demo didnt like it and havent played the full version (I ran the demo at 25-30 fps on med settings). But I didnt hesitate to buy this game. This game is fun and the game does not need amazing graphics to be fun. Thats the problem with current games, too much work goes into creating eye poping graphics that the developers have little time to work on anything else. Overall, great game, fun, has a huge modding community.
Excellent game. One of the best games released this generation.
Great game. I've been playing Beta for years. It's a game that you will really enjoy for the style of combat. A lot of replayable - I pick it up every fews months or so and feel like I've played it for the first time. Graphics are not technically great but there still nice detail to the modules and equipment. The developers are working on an expansion that will upgrade the engine and improve graphics. Technically, it's a sandbox game. While there are plenty of quests and things to do, even some trade and commerce, there's really no true central story. You basically play it how you want to and make your own goals and stories. However, there is a huge modding community that's been in existence for years. A lot of mods add more features and storylines to the game incuding things like LOTR, historical based scenarios, star wars, western - you name it.
Great Game.. It does tend to be a bit boring after your done heaps like I have.. I Think im in the 200-300 day stage..
It's one of those games that's amazing and addictive for a bit then all of a sudden it just dies on you. Like others have said once you reach a certain point then the game really becomes somewhat dull and repetitive, but you'll get 20-30 hours before that feeling starts to kick in. Quite a few mods around to help alleviate that feeling too, Native Expansion and Hegemony are some of the better ones around.