Steam Sale Dom3 players might like.

[PsiSoldier]

Just thought I'd post this here since I'm sure some Dom3 players would be interested.

Steam has the game Mount and Blade on sale this weekend for 5 Dollars. Its sort of a 1st person Empire Simulator. Or at least the battles are 1st person. There are plenty of Mods for it as well including some that kind of make it a bit more Dom3 like by adding magic although Ive not tried any of those mods, I play with a Sword of Damocles Mod that adds invading Necromancers to the world after a set time.

Anyways considering the Game is normally 30 Dollars now is the time to get it at 5 Bucks. Do a search for Mount and Blade on Youtube to see if you might be interested since a ton of videos will come up some with the regular game and lots showing off mods.

The graphics are not exactly spectacular but its still fun as hell as testament to the fact that Ive logged about 80 hours in the game.

[Baalz]

Yeah, I played a beta of this ages ago and got way more than $5 of fun out of that, its got a very fun mounted combat mechanic....ah, riding down the pitchfork wielding peasants after you failed at stealing their cattle. Good times. Dunno that it's a $30 game, but $5 is a no brainer.

[Foodstamp]

Thanks for the heads up. I beta tested it as well when the game was still in very early development. Since then has undergone a ton of changes, mainly graphic so I have been thinking about picking it up since I had fun even when the graphics were terrible. It's downloading right now, can't wait to see what all they have done!

[Joelz]

Also don't forget that everyone who has the original M&B key gets to the M&B Warband beta too, which just went open.

Linky:
(will be posted some time after the m&b forums are up)

[PsiSoldier]

Originally Posted by Joelz

Also don't forget that everyone who has the original M&B key gets to the M&B Warband beta too, which just went open.

Linky:
(will be posted some time after the m&b forums are up)

Ah yeah I had read about the Warband beta a while back but I dont think it was open at the time. I may have to check it out.

It might be nice if they give a discount for Warband to players that own M&B too.. Dunno that they would do that, but its been done for other games like the new Stalker Call of Pripyat which is half price or so for people that own one of the first two games. So it is possible that Warband might be discounted for owners of the original. Steam doesnt even have any listed price for Warband yet though.

[Trumanator]

Now if only Steam would have a dominions sale. Oh wait....

[Ink]

niche and non-mainstream games, which a medieval-FPS-empire-building-game obviously is not, will never work in a digital distribution model.

the only way to get them to sell is to not do much of anything at all except advertise using slinky models and live in a delusional world in which you pretend that the manual is a form of piracy prevention.

also, I'd bet M&B is on sale because warband is slated for release next month; its a form of get the old out while you still can and get press for your new game at the same time.

but like I said, would never work for a game like dominions, not in a million years.

[vfb]

Oh, flashback! Anyone remember the 'secret decoder disk'? It was a cardboard wheel with holes in it, on top of another disk, and you had to align some runes and find the hidden copy protection code. Maybe in some SSI RPG or something?

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by vfb

Oh, flashback! Anyone remember the 'secret decoder disk'? It was a cardboard wheel with holes in it, on top of another disk, and you had to align some runes and find the hidden copy protection code. Maybe in some SSI RPG or something?

I do remember the disk but can't recall the game either. Might be google-able if you are lucky.
-ssj

[Joelz]

The posts can't be edited after a while?

Well, here's the link to the beta download post. Just click the link provided in the first post. If it ain't that, I don't know what it is:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.p...c,73663.0.html