It boggles the mind that they'd have the gall to remaster (read: money-grab) one of the worst games of the era.
Just writing down things as they come to mind. It's not as hard as some might say once you dispell the desire to have a master-of-all-types character. Class archetypes (with lock-picking and hacking high on every char) is what gets you through the game. And depending on which route you take in that regard, the game might be quite different. Coupling this with a few different endings, it has replayability. The worldbuilding is great, the setting tone and humor consistent. This offsets the somewhat basic and at times annoying combat. It has game-speed controls (so long as you're not encumbered) to speed up traversing maps, which is nice. The game is a lot longer than I first anticipated. I thought it'd just be a small hard Fallout 1-2-like, but it's quite it's own game and it unfolds pretty well - nothing spectacularly original, but it doesn't have to be. Why make a table of moss or hard cheese because it hasn't been done before, when you know good old fashioned wood is the tried and true material that works. Anyway, good game. One of the best I've played in a handful of years.
It was not the game I played the most, nor the game I remember the best. But it was the first to truly enchant me. Though Hack & Slash games were never my big thing, Nox I could (and can still) play for hours. There's something about it, even to this day, and I can not put my finger on what it is, but it's there.
Great characters Good story Many playstyles (I personally found the stealth-gameplay very fun) A lot of content Johnny Silverhands sometimes buts in during side-gigs, gigs and even NCPD-tasks -- Ramble here: Only bug I've encountered in my 100 hours of play, was River Ward's pathing messing up and him driving into things and in circles around the destination. But honestly there was something humorous about it, so I'm not mad about it My only complaint really lies in the somehow-genius "tough guy" women (women that are on one hand ostensibly super competent and skilled in their field, yet does nothing but impotently whine, moan and throw tantrums) They ruin immersion - Panam and Judy especially.
It has its problems, it feels very generic at times, but it is a pretty great experience all around. The story of Larian's games has never been interesting to me, so the fact that the story is watered down beer in this game, is fine with me.
And still they manage to rush-release it. This game is unfinished, they gave up. Get the classic M&B Warband instead, if you do not have it already. It, at least, is a complete game for the fraction of the price of Bannerlord, and it has a wealth of cool mods available for it as well.
Very ambitious game that, with time, passion and care become what it deserved to be and was meant to be. And it continues to evolve.
