A fascination with melee combat—how it feels, how it works, how it plays—drove the development of Mount and Blade
But in 2008, melee mouse control like these had never been done before—at least not in a way that was actually enjoyable. As far as I could find, 1998's Die By The Sword was the only game before Mount and Blade to attempt a combat system more in-depth than the click-click-click-click routine embraced by every game from Diablo to Oblivion.
Making the game open-ended, without a structured narrative, was a way to guide players toward growing their mastery of the combat."If you [have] an interesting mechanic like this, you need to make it replayable," Yavuz says."If you made a story-driven game where you expect the player to spend 10-15 hours, by the time they master the mechanic they've finished the game. The sandbox nature also gives the player more time to learn the combat and excel.
"As a last-ditch effort, we came up with the idea of getting funding from the players themselves," Yavuz said."We prepared a version of the game that worked but didn’t have a lot of content. We said, 'This is the game, it's not finished, but if you purchase it now, we'll be able to complete development.' We didn't have very high hopes, really.
Out of options and just a little red-faced, Yavuz posted a link to their online store to a couple of forums and left it at that. A day later, the forum post had grown into a thread five pages long. Players picked Mount and Blade up immediately and spread it around, funding development and building a fanbase and a community at the same time.
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