Mount And Blade 2 being built specifically for consoles

http://n4g.com/news/1691831/mount-and-blade-2-bannerlord-is-coming-for-consoles

Mount & Blade's upcoming sequel Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is coming for consoles. Developer TaleWorlds Entertainment says they are proud to announce the fourth installment of Mount & Blade series jumps on consoles, at the same time with PC.

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During our interview with Co-Founder and Lead Designer of TaleWorlds Entertainment, Armagan Yavuz, he said Bannerlord is being worked on precisely for consoles. With Bannerlord, quite a lot things will change for Mount & Blade. TaleWorlds published some developer diaries for Bannerlord and it can be seen that the whole graphic engine is changed. Probably they are working on Bannerlord more to make it huge on consoles.

Unfortunately, Yavuz told nothing more than this and preffered to zip his mouth to anything related to Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. It is still a thing, isn't it? Your beloved medieval RPG's sequel is approaching full in glory! (Mount & Blade, Mount & Blade II:

actual link

http://www.turunculevye.com/haberler/goster/mount-blade-2-bannerlord-is-coming-for-consoles-8933

Op, you do know "precisely" and "specifically" are two different things, right?

I know one sounds better as clickbait but they really aren't interchangeable.

Will be dumbed down now. Meh, there goes my hype.

I read that as "the PC version is basically done, so now we're focussing precisely on the console version".

Dammit.

Oh well, rthere is always the ability to return to Warband. Unless the PC version is untouched by this, this is very bad news.

Great. Press X to have everything done for you.

Geez people, way to overreact.

What would you know about consolization ? You people spend your time gawking at Uncharted's scripted set-pieces and call the game "perfect".

If you been paying attention to this game even a little, then you would know that it's going be a worthy follow up to the original. The developers consider modding to be one of the primary factors for the sequel. It's definitely not "consolized."

What I am worried about resources going into the wrong areas.

Console version doesnt instantly mean the game will be shit. But it is a questionable choice, and they have still not shown off the combat. I am not paying 30 or 60 bucks for Mount and Blade: facelift edition.

on pc: 1000 players at once. on consoles: 8v8 NEXT GEN SO REAAAAL.

Working on precisely = tweaking, maybe?

That phrasing is weird. Sounds like untampered sloppy translation to me. Nice clickbait though.

Wow, I was planning on buying this day one too. Sucks to be Taleworlds, I doubt console gamers would be interested in it and if its consolised they will really disappoint their fan base on PC.

hopefully its a matter of poor translation. Theirs just no way they've been developing this for years on the PC to turn around and say its being made for consoles.

I dont even know what to say about this...this could have a great impact on the game's combat system.

'dis.

Way to to disappoint their established fan base.

I highly doubt they are building the game just for consoles with the PC as an afterthought. Would make no sense at all. Sounds like a translation error to me.

If they want to port it to the consoles they'll have to spend a bunch of time making controller specific changes. Mount and Blade was never the most elegant game to play with a mouse and keyboard and I can't imagine it translated well to a console.

As for the rest of the "interview", those things were known. From the dev blog posts and periodic updates they've made, they've bascially redone the entire engine and have a lot of different gameplay elements in. The game is not going to feel like a sequel to Mount and Blade as much as it's going to feel like a completely new experience reminiscent of the original.

The game could use some tweaking.

I still have hopes for it....not gonna be a Negative Nancy about it.

On the site that shall not be named, some turks have already confirmed that to be the case. What we are reading is a very botched translation.

Well it's good they are trying to expand into the console space however they need to essentialy do what blizzard did with diablo 3 on consoles and make it work well. Do not dumb it down I find that more insulting, we don't need another civ revolution.

That's a really bad line for Taleworlds to take. they have a strong but very niche market and a complex and extremely modifiable game and that's what their core fans like is the complexity and modifiability.

Mount and Blade is not a console game and Joe average console gamer wouldn't give it a second glance because it's not a AAA budget title. We all know that unless a game costs at least $20 million to make and has a $50 million marketing budget, it's not a good game. Also did I say it's complex? Joe average doesn't like complex, they want plug in and shoot or press X to win.

It'll sell terribly on consoles and now it'll likely sell terribly on PC now, especially if it's dumbed down.

This has gone from "day one purchase, no questions asked" to "I'll wait for professional and user reviews, thanks"

Got to wonder how they're going to get this on console though? Especially the details on what they want from the game in the minute

1. Translation error
2. I've been following the game for awhile now and I doubt this will impact PC version much
3. As always, you don't judge games before it's out.
4. uninspiredcrap thread.

Suddenly consolites like Mount and Blade and will hype it to the heavens

@uninspiredcup said:

@KHAndAnime said:

Op, you do know "precisely" and "specifically" are two different things, right?

I know one sounds better as clickbait but they really aren't interchangeable.

That's not the context you used it in. Your title is implying some sort of exclusivity. I think you're getting confused by the language barrier. The title of this thread completely misrepresents what the article is saying.

In proper context, all they said is they are giving the console version its own attention and it's not going to be a direct PC Port. You're trying to make it sound like they are putting they're putting more effort into the console version than PC version.

@KHAndAnime said:

@uninspiredcup said:

@KHAndAnime said:

Op, you do know "precisely" and "specifically" are two different things, right?

I know one sounds better as clickbait but they really aren't interchangeable.

You didn't use it in the context of #2 dingus, you used #1. L2english

Awfully bitter. Not use to being wrong.

To be fair, your'e not used to making sense, but that doesn't stop you does it?

• Clickbait
• Translation error
• Time to lock and forget

Wow this thread has annoyed me, i have friends who game on ps4 who would love to play this game, but according to you guys the game is far too complex for them?... you are actually insane, and i mean that.

Your friends aren't stupid to play this game but it's true that some games don't work well with controller, unless dumbed down. This is not something new. PC gamers are used to it. I can't even count how many times games were dumbed down after going multiplat. FACT.

the problem are the controls, which would not work well for controllers.

You would have to map,

kicking, jumping, interracting, swapping left hand weapon, swapping right hand weapon, alternative wepaon mode (couging, using thrown weapons as melee weapons), attacking, giving out commands, open the command screen, drop weapon, zoom in and out, switch between first and third person perspective. Directional swings would be particulary awkward on console.

Here is some official word from the developers,

http://games.on.net/2015/03/mount-blade-2-bannerlord-says-they-have-a-console-release-in-mind/

“It is a little too early to talk about the possibility of a console release right now. It is something that we have in our minds and the project is not confirmed.”

speaking of official word,

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/12

This trade UI looks rather Civ 5 Esque if you ask me.

The beauty of pcgaming these days is that if a company screws over their fanbase so much you can be sure quickly somebody else will step in to fill the void.

If I were TalesWorld I wouldn't risk it. A lot of smaller devs produced good add-ons and spin-offs to M&B and Warband. They understand how those games work and how to make them. THey never could compete solely because thy had little money (so games were rushed) and community prefered Talesworld worls. If Bannerlord gets consolised it will be rejected and then those companies will have no trouble finding a publisher willing to pump enough money into their projects to make a true successor to Mount & Blade.

Heck, considering TalesWorlds split with Paradox you can be sure Paradox is only waiting for Bannerlord to slip, so they can take over.

Makes sense, Mount and blade was one of the bigger third party games published games under their belt. And Paradox are history buffs.

So this is why they no longer serve Paradox anymore

That's true but I still miss some devs and publishers from 2000s that either went out of business or were bought by crap companies (Bioware, Sierra, Massive Entertainment, Grim, Monolith etc).

Well, that's good news then. Hype Returns!!!

@Maroxad said:

Here is some official word from the developers,

http://games.on.net/2015/03/mount-blade-2-bannerlord-says-they-have-a-console-release-in-mind/

“It is a little too early to talk about the possibility of a console release right now. It is something that we have in our minds and the project is not confirmed.”

speaking of official word,

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/12

This trade UI looks rather Civ 5 Esque if you ask me.

my god that looks awesome
i'm hyped again.

Does this mean that Bannerlord will be released for Xbox One consuls

Yeah, I doubt it'll be changed much, if at all, for the PC version. We've already seen nearly finished footage of battles. I doubt they'd go back and change it if it's close to finished.

EDIT: NVM. Necro...

Just like every game that matters.

nice necro

Damn, what happened to Huggles, Naz, Lawless, and Jango?

System wars seems so empty now :/

Even though the forum is dead and about to rot, it's heartwarming to know random bump guy will always be around.

These are awesome news!

I have Warband for PS4, but despite beong a terrible port, i love it. Bannerlord is a day one for me.

@GarGx1: The arrogance is strong in this thread!

Games like Elite Dangerous, Pillars of Eternity, Cities Skylines, Divinity OS, Wasteland 2, etc already got flawless console ports. Not only they look great on consoles, but also all the controls and options are there.

As a fan of Warband, Bannerlord will be a day one for me on PS4. Hope my fun doesn't kill yours...