I’ve been using the excuse “Oh, I’m just coming back from the bathroom” when she catches me.) I foresee many more near-sleepless nights to come because of this game, too. She’d kill me if she knew what time I was coming to bed. For the past few nights, I forcefully had to to stop myself from playing and go to bed sometime before 3:00 AM. I want to take a day off of work to do nothing but play it. Mount and Blade: Warband is a great game. I feel like I’m part of the “in” crowd now. I decided to give it an honest-to-god second try.

Then I got my hands on the full version of the Mount & Blade: Warband. Afterall, I had a kill ratio to keep up in Battlefield Bad Company 2 and I still had about 1,000,000 more colonels to assassinate in Just Cause 2. After a while, I just stopped thinking about the game. How am I not part of this ‘in’ crowd?” I found myself only able to sit with the game for 20 – 25 minutes at a time. I kept asking myself, “What the hell is the mass appeal of this game? Why are there so many rabid cultists following this title? I’m a gamer of almost 30 years. At first, I couldn't find anything redeeming in Mount and Blade: Warband.

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