War of the Roses anyone?

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I want to get into some medieval multi-player battles!

War of the Roses came out today, and I believe another such game is coming out pretty soon called Chivalry.

I’ve played some of the War of the Roses Beta, unfortunately I was having some issues with the graphics so I didn’t play long. Hopefully the Release straightened that out. Has anyone played it yet? IS there any interest?
War of The Roses and Chivalry, BTW are both multi-player games where you perform great deeds of arms against the pernicious foe with sword, mace, spear, and bow. It’s a medieval battle royale in the style of Mount and Blade - only with better graphics. The main difference between the two lies probably in the mechanics of the game and the character development system.

Ye olde War of the Roses Trailer: War of the Roses Release Trailer - YouTube

Ye olde Chivalry Trailer: Chivalry Medieval Warfare GDC Trailer 2012 - YouTube

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Is War of the Roses by the Mount & Blade people? I’m not big on multiplayer, but I could go for another M&B(-like) game.

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Not quite. War of the Roses looks like a Paradox Interactive in-house project, while Mount & Blade is developed by Taleworlds but published by Paradox. It’s definitely the same flavor, though. For me the turn-off is that it’s multiplayer only.

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I’m not sure why I thought War of the Roses was by Taleworlds. If the game is only multiplayer, I think I’ll pass. Chivalry looks like it might be worth picking up if it has a single-player mode.

Incidentally, Talewords is working on Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. Hopefully it will take the franchise back to Calradia (or a similar setting), and have a robust single-player experience.

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I completely agree, I just hope it’s not good enough that I spend another 500+ hours on it.

That said, I’d like to try War of the Roses, especially if the single-player campaign that got cut during production shows up at some point.

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I got into the Beta for War of the Roses, but never got it to run. I think my computer is too slow.

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You’re not feeding the hamsters enough sugar.

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I played the beta. It was kind of disappointing. I liked the customization functionality, but the combat was pretty clunky overall.

If they put out a demo to showcase the finished engine, I’ll give it a shot but I won’t otherwise be buying it.

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Don’t know why either, but I thought the exact same thing upon hearing about the game and looking a little into it.
And yeah, multiplayer only, Battlefield-esque experience ? Count me out. The graphic engine looks shiny nice though, do wake me if someone makes a mod to implement it in *Warband *or something :slight_smile: