Sweet, made it into the Preview Weekend for Warhammer.

I'm praying even a faction of the hype is true; I'm not asking for much from it really. Let it be a WoW clone, but with less emphasis on grind and more emphasis on PvP, namely the war effort. World of Warcraft felt like many things; a world at WAR was not one of them.

In the mean time, Mount & Blade has been a surprising game. I blame Arelos for introducing me to it. In a sick way, I'm glad Open Beta for Warhammer is way off, and my first introduction will only be a weekend. I just want to know if it'll be worth a damn in my book, and then I can go back to playing M&B as I wait.

For any readers who don't have a freaking clue:

Mount & Blade is a cool little indie RPG put out by a couple of Turkish Dudes who I think have all the right ideas in place. No spell slinging here, instead it's an open world where you do whatever the hell you want.

Well, it's an open-ended game. Any time in the "world" is broken up into small zones but it's the fact that it's the only game I can think of where you can travel from town to town doing odd jobs, raising reputation with the Lords of a kingdom, and do your own thing OR recruit a bunch of guys, pledge yourself to said kingdom and partake in some massive wars/sieges (like, actually fighting from horseback in FPS or over the shoulder mode). It's fun as hell, and it makes me happy knowing I can play this without the reliance of a net connection.

Found my old Stronghold: Crusader disc. Saw someone posted on GamerDNA looking for a challenger....while I probably won't stand up to it, I probably will reinstall this bad boy just to have some good ol' fashion crusades.