Salute!
Just figure I would give a heads up as to what one does when no longer playing World of Warcraft.
For about 6 months now i've been playing a game called Mount and Blade, which was first developed by a Turkish couple some 2-3 years ago. Mount and Blade just recently got picked up by Paradox, and is scheduled for its 1.0 release shortly. The game itself is what I consider to be the model template of all successful RPG games to come: Action/Strategy/RPG. Think Dynasty Warriors, meets Romance of the Three Kingdoms, meets Rome: Total War. Heres some screens of the vanilla engine...
http://www.taleworlds.com/mb_ss.htmlThe gameplay itself is damn fun. Equip your character in any fashion you see fit; knight armor, ranged weapons, etc. Gain levels and assign attribute points and skill points, just as you would a normal RPG. Recruit soldiers for your army, and hire hero types you can level up in the manner in which your character levels. Capture castles, towns etc and develope them.
The source for the game is also publicized, which allows for heavy modifications to the base game. To that effect, I have become a mod director of a variant named "Legions Extended", that is staged around 272 B.C., and has to deal with the Roman Republic and many factions throughout the Mediterranean including the successor kingdoms. I've modded the map and made models for the overhead map icons such as towns castles etc. Without advertisement, the mod is fairly successful with over 1700 downloads for it;s beta in 6 days. Now that the community is aware of it, im anticipating those numbers to swell with the next release
.My forum can be found here (exclusivly for Kull and Sweet posts)..
http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/board,98.0.htmlIn addition to Legions Extended, there have been several successful mods released such as the Lord of the Rings mod "The Last Days", samurai mod "Onin no Ran" just to name a few. The game modability, is extremely flexible, and as such someone is working on a Battlestar Galactica mod. Good stuff.
You can download the trial of the game(you download the full game), which will allow you to gain level 8 before ending, at which point you can decide if you want to purchase the CD key.
Definitely something worth checking out on patch day, or to take a break from grinding WoW.
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