Or you may choose to proclaim yourself a ruler in your own right.
If you encounter a pretender to one of the six thrones, you may decide to aid them in their cause to win a crown. Once you gain enough prominence, you may offer your sword or even be offered a vassalage by one of Calradia’s monarchs.
Trading is also a lucrative prospect – traveling between towns and seeking goods to buy and sell as prices fluctuate. You could gather a band of stout lads and run your own mercenary troop, hiring out your services to whichever kingdom you fancy. Mayhaps you play the rogue – recruiting a dastardly band of cutthroats and deserters to pillage villages, sack caravans, harass the common folk, and sell captives as slaves to enrich yourself. Once you’ve begun, there are a number of ways to make your way through the game. Do you come from noble blood, or are you of more humble stock? Were you sent to school, or did you perhaps find an apprenticeship or serve as a squire? Before coming to Calradia, a land of opportunity for you, were you a tradesman, or a scholar, or a soldier? And why did you leave? Your answers have a very minute impact upon the rest of the game the real purpose is to flesh out your character for your own purposes. In my opinion, however, the extreme sandboxy nature of M&B:W captures the spirit of a true, oldschool RPG much more adeptly than something like Baldur’s Gate or Final Fantasy.Īt the start of the game, you are allowed to customize the appearance and gender of your character, and then presented with a number of questions about your background. Some of the more traditional among us may not even consider it a “game” as such, since there don’t appear to be any defined winning or losing conditions. Though it’s branded as a strategy, simulation, action RPG, I’m not sure many roleplaying fans would actually consider it an RPG. I bring this up because I’ve been playing a lot of Mount & Blade: Warband lately. Anything with experience and leveling seems to now be considered to possess “RPG elements.” Still, I do sometimes ponder the oddity of how video games are classified these days. Hell, there have been discussions on what qualifies as a “game.” I’m not going to dive too deeply into that right now, but suffice it to say I’m a lot more open to a wide and broadly-encompassing acceptance of either classification than some of my more wise and experienced peers. There have been some interesting conversations on social media and throughout the blogosphere on what exactly an “RPG” is.
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