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Before buying that game you need to ask yourself this: "What is being a hero - the main character worth if it was just given to you by the developer? If you've never worked for it?" This game offers you a chance to become the hero yourself. As you appear on the vast plains of what once was the mighty Caleradian Empire you find yourself in a world that truly lives. Wars are fought, trade is made, people and born and die, kings and queens come and YOU have nothing to do with it. In a typical RPG it's: "Oh, brave hero, the realm needs you! Save us from the goblin hordes!" Here it's more like: "Who the f*ck do you think you are, you measly pathetic peasent?! Get you dirty ordinary ass out of here before the thought of me talking to a commoner such as yourself compells me to order my men to impale you on a pike and use your rotting corpse for a banner!" The world of bannerlord is an incredibly logical, beautiful place where every achievement feels real and deserved, because it is. Not only that, but as you make your way to those achievements, you generate the most real and fascinating story of YOUR choosing. It can be a tale of a brigand who at first robbed peasents that accidentally wandered too far from the village and now roams the Eastern steppes robbing most well protected caravans with a band of the most infamous ransackers of the realm. It can be a girl, who built her fortune in trade and now produces 70% of all ale on the continent or a tale of a brave general, who gained the trust and respect of a kingdom's royalty and nobility and leads the vast armies in the name of the king himself. It can even be a tale of a cunning usurper, who betrays his liege lord and siezes his lands and then perhaps even becomes king himself and leads the new realm to expansion and prosperity.... or plunges it into darkness. Whatever legacy you build, if you manage to have a child, when your character dies, you will play as that child. This game has increadibly beautiful realistic battles and locations. Overall 10/10, game of the decade.

I've been playing this for 2 years. I have seen the face of war... Every night when I close my eyes I can hear the screams of my fallen comrades, I can smell the dirt and blood of the trenches and feel the explosion waves. Thousands of lives I saw taken, some of them I took myself... When the officer screams in voice chat "Advance!" and you rip yourself out of the comfort of your little crator half-filled with a mix of blood and water and run toward machine gun fire, when the person to your left gets shot through the head and the person to your right turned to pink paste by an artillery shell you will know.... You will all know... There is no victory. There is no glory. There is only the next point. The next position. The next step AND EACH ONE OF THOSE MAY WELL BECOME YOUR LAST! This is no Battlefield or Call of Duty. You are no hero and no superman, you are a piece of meat that has only two possible states of existence - 1) Lying on the ground and crying at the sight of death and horror and 2) lying on the ground in smaller pieces of meat. Either way the ground is your best friend. Keep close to it and you might just live to see that next point. Tell you what, if you can play this game for a week and not develop a heavy case of PTSD you should become a certified psychiatrist.

P.S. Pro tip: Yes, that’s a tank, not a bush and no, it’s too late.
Strongly recommended.

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Nice game