I still can't find the perfect game for me...

[Mahelk]

I've played 3 games that I really love: Mount & Blade, Dragon Age, and Skyrim. However, none of them had everything I want.

I love the feeling Mont & Blade gives me, it feels so realistic! When I ride a horse, I really feel like I'm riding one, I find the animation is so good, the noise of it too. I like the look of those medieval people, they really look like people who live hard times, not particularly handsome. The fights are really good, too. However, I wish the world could be like in Skyrim. I mean, not a schematic map with places you can travel to only by clicking on them, but a real big map, with places to explore everywhere, with wild animals that you can hunt or that might attack you... I really like the maximum freedom in a game, I want to go where I want to and do whatever I feel like doing. I don't like too much when the game is structured with missions. I want to choose if I want to serve a lord or a king, be a criminal, or try to become king or queen myself. I wish I also had more choices... What If I wanted to be a villager, an artisan, a sailor?

Skyrim give me quite some freedom, but I find that the horses and their animations are horrible. It really looks FAKE. Plus, I'm not particularly fond of monsters hidden everywhere, I prefer realistic, medieval stuff.

Both Skyrim and Dragon Age had spoken dialogs, which I really liked. I miss this in Mount & Blade. Plus, the thing I loved in Dragon Age, was that fact that you could build relationships with other characters, and even have sex with them.

I also wish to be able to play the game in multiplayer online (for free!), not just to fight with them, but maybe also build relationships, etc.

 

So... Can anybody help me find a good game for me? Or a good mod of a good game...

I've seen they are making Mount & Blade 2, the graphics look awsome, the scenes much larger, but I doubt that it will have all the features I would like anyway...

[billyro]

You might want to keep an eye out for Dragon Age: Inquisition which comes out in about 3 weeks from now. It will have large open-world places on the map with exploration, good story elements, romance-able companions, horses and other mounts, etc.

 

And yeah, Mount and Blade II looks wicked from what I've seen so far (also extensive mod support).

[Mahelk]

Thanks for the tip. I just checked some videos on Youtube about Dragon Age: Inquisition. It doesn't seem bad, but there is something about it that doesn't make it feel like a real world... I don't know if it's the lights, the music, the sound effects, the fantasy part, or a mix of all these.

 

Mount and Blade II just seem so much better to me... I was looking to this picture last night:

 

 

So the guy on the right is how characters are going to look. For me, it's amazing. This guy is just... Any guy, somebody you would meet on the street, while the characters in other videogames could all be Hollywood actors: good looking, with a cool hairstyle and a ton of make up and improbable clothing:

 

http://www.overclockersclub.com/vimages/news/news35331_11302-bioware_releasing_dragon_age_inquisition_character_kits_starting_with_morrigan.jpg

 

Anyway, it seems like I finally have the right terminology for the kind of games I like: open-world sandbox RPG-action realistic medieval games.

[billyro]

What you need to look out for is Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It will be a massive open world sandbox RPG with skill-based combat, set in a medieval world influenced by real history. That game, when it comes out, will be your precious. :yes:

 

Also, keep and eye out for The Witcher 3 - it's dark fantasy (more realistic and grounded than traditional fantasy) and I am confident it will be spectacular. And if you haven't played The Witcher 2 yet, you should probably get that as well. :smile:

 

I agree that Dragon Age Inquisition looks a bit... moist? I think that's an appropriate word for it. It looks moist. However, I know I'll love it so I don't care. :smile: Plus, there will also probably be mods that fix it sometime soon after its release (and if I can figure it out, I'll probably be reducing the specularity of the characters myself).

Edited November 4, 2014 by billyro

[brokenergy]

To be fair on DA side of the court, there has to be some difference in art direction to give the series visual identity with other medieval style media products. Everyone knows what GoT costumes look like because they stylised to the point where it looks pratical but is visually distinct to Meriln or any other medieval movie/tv series out there, but if you put Mount and Blade with The Witcher 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance and state which game's which, people who are not hardcore fans will have a hard time knowing the difference or identifying if they were from games or digital art. As for the technical stuff, unless you motion capture everything and change the fundemental combat of Skyrim, The Witcher, and DA, you will not have a realistic game because there is a fine line between realism and game becoming too tedious to play and unfeasable to fund (motion capturing everything is not cheap). Besides OP, I put up my hair in the bun all the time, it is not "hollywood actor style" at all and takes only 3 min to make it right. :dry:

 

As for you OP, I doubt that there is a game out there that will tick all the boxes for you. If you want more realistic stuff, then do not go to games like Skyrim or DA because they will stick with rule of cool and that's okay because there is nothing wrong with stylised realism and I actually prefer it to photorealism at times because of visual identity that I spoke earlier. The Witcher 3 maybe, but the combat and story will not be realistic and grounded (the whole premise of the game is to save your girlfriend, find your adopted kid and stop a invastion of genocidal, fanatical, mystical elves. That's as power fantasy as you can get). I guess you need to wait for Mount and Blade 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance to come out and even then Mount and Blade 2 is more on my radar than the other game. :smile:

 

So, sorry about that bleak assessment. Maybe you can try Dark Souls instead for the time being, it's mostly realistic.

[Beriallord]

I'm skipping Dragon Age: Inquisition. It seems like its gonna be Dragon Age 2.5 from the research I've done about the game so far. And I'm not a huge fan of bioware here lately. I skipped Mass Effect 3, and have no plans to ever play the game, period. Same goes for DAI.

 

Witcher 3 on the other hand looks very good, and I'm definitely gonna get that.

 

Mount and Blade is a good game, but it has serious issues with stability for me. I've updated to the latest update, and the game still crashes periodically and with no mods. The game has been unplayable for me because of crashing. If I can't sit down and play for 30 minutes without the game crashing on me then that is my definition of unplayable.

Edited November 5, 2014 by Beriallord

[brokenergy]

Have you tried Hellraid OP? Imagine Heretic and Hexen and it is sort of realistic medieval setting that you are looking for.

 

 

http://hellraid.com/

 

I'm sorry there aren't any more games that are out there.

 

Edit: There was also this but development is stalled

 

 

And Sui generis but I assume that you do not like iso type games

 

Edited November 5, 2014 by brokenergy