TaleWorlds Entertainment announced today that it will be revealing Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord for the first time at Gamescom 2015 in Cologne.
As the press release reads, media will be invited to attend private viewing sessions of live gameplay from the game in its current state.
Video and additional information about the game will be released to the general public concurrently, satiating some of the massive player demand for information on the new entry to the franchise.
In addition, TaleWorlds Entertainment announced that the original Mount & Blade and its spin-offs have accumulated over 6 million unit sales.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord will take place 200 years before Warband, however it will bring the series forward by greatly expanding gameplay in all areas and offering much improved visuals.
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I hate to be negative, but I have a gut feeling that it’s going to be out on consoles and the gameplay in the sequel will be dumbed down…
Your gut is right. They did announced that they’ll be bringing M&B 2 to current consoles.
I’m a bit torn between the powerful editor they shown after that and how dumbed down the game will be if they catered to the console crowd.
They didn’t announce Console version. It was translation error.
if they release it on consoles it will be another Witcher all over again.(among others). the series got it’s fame on PC and a sequel would sell like cupcake on any platform, but they will release it on consoles too and will think that it was thanks to consoles that they sold more.
I just saw a similar situation while browsing the Steam store last night. The flying/shooter multiplayer game, Strike Vector, will be launching an EX version exclusively for the PS4 and XB1. The game got good reviews but there wasn’t enough people playing the PC version. I wonder if the small group of Steam users that supported the game will be anxiously waiting for the EX version to be ported back to the PC or will some they bite the bullet and buy the console version(thus giving no incentive for the dev to port it back for the PC).
I wanted to support the game ever since it was featured on DSO last year but I’m not much of competitive online player(I think the dev later slipped in a solo mode a little bit too late and quiet for me to take notice). When they finally added the very feature-an actual singleplayer campaign- that would certainly make me throw money at them…they are gift wrapping it for console fans instead.
Like Elite Dangerous only they took the funding and made an XBox One version.
Elite will be coming out on the PS4 as well as soon as the timed exclusivity deal with MS is done.
Pathetic, a friend told me it’s not mouse friendly either, you can’t access the menus in the ship with the mouse and seems to be designed for joypads in mind.
Well, it’s a Space Sim which always played better with Joysticks. Star Citizen right now supports mouse well but due to that it doesn’t feel like “Sim” and a lot of people are upset that it plays like a Space Shooter. They are trying to find the right balance between two. They will obviously but just saying.
Consoles are always look to snatch an exclusive on a formerly PC game to push peasants to buy one just for that one game. But M&B is too sandbox for them to go that route imo
You arent being negative, you are being realist, if some enough kind DSOG reader here, can tell us which franquise becomes better leaving PC exclusive to come to consoles, be my guest.
Absolutely none.
Check their website. It is worthy successor to the original. Console versions if ever happened will be developed by 3rd party devs and it’ll be completely different game than the PC version.
On Facebook they stated that a console version was in the works, probably with mod support as well.
I have been waiting for a long time!
that “much improved visuals” i want to see for myself!
You are, those are screenshots directly above, there are tons more on the mount and blade bannerlord page.
And even after that they decided to spit on PC gamers and make M&B 2 for consoles
Yeah, no, that was a translation error. The developers are turkish. It isn’t coming out for consoles.
If it isn’t coming out on consoles, and it was a translation error, why he said the word “consoles” in the first place? There is no smoke without a fire.
I’m 100% sure that they at least looking in that direction, but things may be even worse, and they’re already developing it for consoles in mind.
Finally!
i sense this game gonna be ruined by consoles again. while i enjoyed witcher 3 but man that is a serious console game.
How is it gonna be ruined by consoles AGAIN? It hasn’t been ruined by them before and it isn’t going to be now.