Hey guys, just want to say thanks for watching my video! I've been reading as many comments as I can and love the feedback. Whether you agree or disagree with my dream game concepts, or have completely different dream game ideas, its making my brain cogs turn and also want to try new games you guys have mentioned... except kingdom come deliverance lol. Jk, I WILL have to give it a shot at some point... I'm sure it's.. less boring than it looks.. right? Anyway, there's concepts I unfortunately had to cut for time, number 1 being a travel system, I legitimately want to hear ideas of how to create a functional AND fun way to get around in a BALLS type game. I'm not a huge fan of the overworld approach, I'd want to remain in third/first person most of the game and avoid being taken out of my character. BUT, how tf do you move around with 500 people lol. An idea I had would be a proxy system where you ride around the open world with 1-9+ of your highest ranking officers that each represent approximately 50 soldiers. This would keep that intimidation aspect in Bannerlord, seeing a large party ahead of you, and I also think it'd add to the dynamic relationships to your army: Traveling with your senior leaders like a fellowship, small combat instances like bandits in a dark forest can be taken care of with just this party, AND having soldiers that are under the command of each officer, be able to replace them one day. I think it'd be so sick to promote a solider after a companion dies and have him be able to say "I'm Timarious Moonright, I served under the command of Dregg Griddlebayne for four winters, God rest his soul, you honor me with his rank M'lord". What do you guys think of a travel system for BALLS?

Bannerlord is like the frame of a huge, gorgeous mansion, but there’s very little furniture. I love it, but they could do SO MUCH MORE with it

13:37 "you shouldn't have to choose where your cool scar lands, you should have to earn it" that line just sold me completely

Mans just literally described the best game to ever exist. If you are a company using this guys idea, don't be creative, don't change it, its already perfect.

As a developer, any one of us would love to work on a game like you describe. The problem is that publishers, the people who pay for it, usually just don't want to take the financial risk to budget something design heavy like that. Small indie studios usually do not have the means.

The fact you're a bannerlord fan without me realising until this video puts you at the top of my favourites now, Jack.

17:01 The first Mount & Blade was actually really good at interesting/dynamic dialogue exactly like this. People of interest would remember how they felt about you and specifics about your previous encounters with them (especially if they ever bested you in battle, you've defeated them, they ever took lands from you, and/or they're just getting tired of seeing your face). They genuinely remembered you and it varied a lot depending on who it was and your relationship with them. *Bannerlord still has A LOT of catching up to do with Warband* in many ways, this being one of them.

If you like For Honor's concept of multi-directional swinging then I would look into Kingdom Come: Deliverance's system. It's a bit difficult to get the hang of, but once you do it is fantastic. Being able to dictate the direction and placement of every swing and stab even in multi combat is SO satisfying.

I wish someone would make a mod that would let you build a camp that grows into a village, then a castle, then spreads out into a couple of villages, then the castle develops into a city and you can choose how its built and progressed every step of the way

Im shocked more people don't talk about mount and blade it's a very exclusive expirence nothing else satisfys

The plains maps are actually a feature, the battlefields you find yourself fighting on are actually a representation of where you were on the world map itself. So if you’re next to a bridge on the world map, you’ll be fighting on a bridge in the battle. You’re next to a big city on the world map, that city can be seen in the background of the battlefield.

The point of the bad graphics has always been that people with lesser computers can play it. Just let some games be less than 80gigs man

Games like SpiderHeck (literally spiders with lightsabers and guns) made me realize video games could be literally anything and still be awesome. So literally any of your ideas could work.

Honestly hair growth is one of the reasons red dead 2 is my favorite game. I’m not sure why survival games haven’t picked up on the fact that your characters features changing over time can give the player the feeling that their character has developed. It’s also just badass.

I love all the concepts you mentioned in this video, I wish one day we will see a game like this!

One thing I wish Bannerlord had is proper diplomacy, not just at war or at peace. A more expansive diplomacy system where you can actually forge alliances, maybe demand tribute, there could be instances where you and another kingdom have fought so many times it turns into a feud of sorts

I'm craving this game youre describing for 5 years. I cant wait anymore

I’ve put hundreds of hours into this game since the day one of early access. I’ve loved it so much. Been a huge Mount and blade fan since the original. It makes me so happy seeing other people talk about bannerlord

The reason why your troops leave their posts is because during sieges your troops are automatically set to delegate command , so just remember to turn it off

Let me be honest with you, a For Honor combat system for M&B sounds like a really bad idea. For Honor's combat works with its focus on melee-combat and one on one duels but trying to implement that in mass combat with hundreds of units like in M&B sounds like an absolute nightmare. In addition to that, you would have to factor in cavalry, ranged units, formations, strategy, and much more. I do not see any scenario in which a For Honor combat system could work in M&B unless you severely gimp the strategy and NPC count. There is a reason why For Honor only has a max of 8 players in a game. And For Honor is a game where locking on to your enemies is important to combat, how are you going to do that with HUNDREDS of units?

If this game doesn't get made, I have lost all hope in humanity. This literally sums up everything I have ever wanted in a game for literally my entire life.

Warbands is one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. The highs and lows as I conquered Calradia felt like they'd make an amazing TV series. It's not a perfect game, and it really does look rough, but sticking with it was completely worth it.

I have no idea why scar systems are super rare in games. It'd bring so much immersion with such a small visual change, and I imagine it wouldn't be SUPER hard to implement such a system. btw also love the point about not being able to direct where the scar lands, you would have to live with it

If you haven't yet, you should DEFINITELY try Kenshi. Like Mount&Blade, it's not easy on the eyes but it's an open sandbox world that does NOT care about your existence. Kenshi is one of the most brutal unforgiving open worlds. And Beep is greatest. If you know, you know. Love the ideas! We need more BALLS games!

For anyone wondering, the castle he featured in the video was the Castillo de San Marcos located in St. Augustine FL! It’s the oldest masonry fort in the United States, and was built out of essentially seashell bricks :)

This guy has no idea how difficult and time consuming it is to do all of these ambitious things especially for a game as large as bannerlord

Pleasantly surprised to see you cover this! I played Bannerlord on release and it really carried me through the early lockdowns Im hoping after the LOTR mod is done it'll finally catch up to warband for me

Just to add a GameDev POV. For the last question. About Coop. Why do they not do it? Making something multiplayer requires a lot of groundwork you don't see in the final product. And everything you make in the game afterwards becomes 3-4x harder to implement with functional multiplayer than it would in singleplayer. 4x as much potential for something to break, or get out of sync, etc. So that is why often they won't bother with it. It's just takes 4x as long to do all that work

I love your point about co-op. It is so slept on. I can't imagine the number of extra hours and potentially even money for extra content I would have put into games knowing I could enjoy it with my friends with some carefully crafted PVE. Elden ring was a blast for me for this reason. I would also say Bioware is a good candidate for your dream game developer.

Summary of the dream game: 1. 11:55 Bannerlord base 2. 12:22 Low fantasy Game of Thrones setting and gritty art style. 3. 12:58 Aging system like RDR2/Witcher 3 (my input: maybe succession systems like in CK3?) 4. 13:38 Sandbox type story 5. 13:57 For Honour combat style and executions, with RDR2 ragdolling and death animations (my input: Hellish Quart has some excellent swordplay and small injuries like cutting off a hand can end a fight - as it should) 6. 13:57 Tonnes of gear/armour variety - but realistically medieval 7. 15:53 Character relationships and development similar to the Nemsis system in Shadow of Mordor 8. 18:08 Co-op play with close friends (NOT servers etc.) 9. 19:09 Developed by Rockstar - for their skill at making open-worlds 10. 20:16 Bringing the BALLS format to other cool IP e.g. LOTR, Dune, Star Wars, GoT Besides fleshing out the aging system by adding a succession/political marriage system similar to CK3, and some of the realism from Hellish Quart, I think it would be cool to have a few units in your retinue who accompany you as you move around the world (like the party systems in Dragon Age etc.). Also, if your army moves out of your castle, they should exist in the open world e.g. have them set up camp, and have to move to the site of a battle or raid the countryside etc. Moving your army into the field should increase gold upkeep for supplies, and you could have a supply system like in HOI4 that applies negative penalties to strategic blunders like overextending/being encircled. It would add some strategic depth - you'd have to choose the terrain carefully and manage supplies, appoint a quartermaster and guard your supply lines. etc.

Keep in mind that the original Mount&Blade was actually made by just a husband and wife :D And they slowly expanded into Warband and now into Bannerlord, they are adding and growing features all the time, but by all marks they are just an indie studio, and I am very much sure if they ever make a 3rd game it will look a lot like you invisioned :)

Not gonna lie you described my dream game as well. I've always wanted a game that was an rpg/rts game, basically skyrim mixed with stronghold 2 (castle rts similar to age of empires.) with a character combat system similar to shadow of Mordor. I'm currently looking into unreal as well to try to make this. we'll see if it ever gets made.

I'm so glad so many of my friends are also into Battle Simulator Army Management Large Scale Land Grab Strategy Games.

I forget where I found it but there was this mod that was being developed where ai is used to generate dialogue. From what I remember they've only developed it for those randoms at the little towns. You can ask about different cities and empires and people using custom text inserts, and the villager will reply talking about whats going on in the world and will only know what that villager would know. This could very obviously go very far.

No joke, you have literally spot on described every single point that my friends and I have for years. We have been so invested in this idea we've started writing our own lore to go with it.

thank you for making this video, ive come back to it several times over the past year, and i love this type of commentary, and id like to make something similar for my "dream game". thank you for being you and editing in a unique way too. I loved when you key framed the wall and sat in the room while the b roll happened around you. similar to what ive seen with general sam, but much more you

Dude…YES!!! New sub. Really enjoy what your putting out for our viewing pleasure. Keep it up brotha

Warband and Bannerlord are among the greatest games ever made and I wish we’d see more sandbox style games like them

I love that your perfect game is basically just a combination of civilization and chivalry

Bro the relationship aspect you're talking about is basically what Crusader Kings 3 has to offer. It's a strategy game in a similar vein.

15:51 I couldn't have said it better. When I play a game, I want to be able to create my character and to give him his own unique story. I want NPCs to have an actual opinion on my character, and to remember our last encounter. In Bannerlord, -100 relations just means they'll ban you from their castles and be slightly moody while talking to you. For me, -100 relations should be a sign that you did something that would make an NPC absolutely despise you (like slaughtering their family). I want that NPC to actively seek revenge, and to have an emotional breakdown when they next encounter my character. I want them to challenge me to a duel to the death. I just want better and more immersive interactions with the NPCs to make them seem more human, whether they're a farmer, a soldier or a king.

This sounds like the kind of game that's awesome to brainstorm ideas for, would be a nightmare to develop once feature creep really kicks in, and then would die very quick once it launched cause it took so long to make that the hype just couldn't last So bannerlord+

I’m a huge Mount and Blade fan and love the nemesis system. I’ve been dreaming of a game exactly as you described for a long time. My favorite games growing up were always ones where you weren’t the main character, just another archer in the army or something along those lines. Would be amazing

man your videos are just such fun to watch

Man this content is surprisingly good. Its like watching a tv show documentary.

Yo we gotta save my boy from getting hacked

The thing that makes Mount and Blade is that there are simply no other games like it. Nothing else can scratch the itch of this game, but I do hope that it gets some competitors because it's needed.

Suggesting a company should adapt a new engine is like asking them to basically reverse a decade of work.

just newly i found you, and i loved you man, with your all sincerity and realness, such good content you provide

New video about the benefits of two factor authentication coming soon?

I think that the concept of eating, sleeping/resting or just sitting on a chair should be implemented in a game like this,sometimes I just want to sit with my boys in a tavern drinking mead and listening to a bard singing our epic adventures !

I've had Bannerlord on my Wishlist for a while now. This video has convinced me to pick it up and give it a go.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video; you made me laugh while speaking about a game that I have fallen in love with. I can't WAIT to play it with mods on PC!

The man got hacked. Hope he gets it back soon.

As Indie game developer (4 years unity expierience) i want to cry xd, add this add that, 100+ armors, co-op, 4k hd, advanced battle AI, 1000+ dialoges, top notch space figher animations with motion capture. Like yeah, there is a reason why we can't have it all ,simply time is the enemy here, even for big studios But hell yeah i would play your game all day long :D great vid

There's actually a GOT mod for Bannerlord called Trial of the Seven Kingdoms and they did a pretty good job as far as implementing the map and adding a bunch of different items like the reddish Lannister armor and new horse armor etc.

Haha this was great. Subbed my dude!

There are a lot of mods for Bannerlord which improve it drastically, including ones you have named, like the chopping of limbs dismemberment mod and etc. But yeah Ive dreamt of a game almost identical to the you've described. Yet i fear it will be a long tome coming if at all.

Jack, these videos are a fantastic twist on the video essay formula. You have something special here, I can tell you're on the precipice of something huge. Keep at it!!!

I laughed my ducking ass off, it's been a while since I enjoyed a long video like this. Subscribed!

Your video activated some old memories of me playing this game. Good times.

My dream game would probably be completely different but somehow you've managed to make your dream game more appealing than anything I've managed to think up so far so congrats I'm on board. Please Saudi Oil Prince, buy out a AAA game studio and have them create this game for us.

Bannerlord with a co-op story. You can start a town by doing what Medieval Dynasty does with building. You can gain influence and bring people to your town and build a prospering settlement just like Medieval Dynasty. Your prisoners in the towns could be recruited as villagers. You can still raid towns and declare wars on factions as well just like normal Bannerlord gameplay. This would be the perfect game

Awesome video, dream game aquired, also couldnt help but think about how messed up it would be if someone just ran up and stole your camera because of how far away you are.

The oblivion music is very appreciated!

Hope you get your account back bro

Jack your Channel got hacked, there is a video about a mod menu posted

bro went to st augustine to make a video out of this, DEDICATION! luv it

This video made me give the game a second shot. Had 1,000 hours in Warband but couldn't get into Bannerlord when it released. I hear they added a lot since then. Bannerlord really needs a Napoleonic Wars mod though.

Nooo please don't tell me the channel got hacked. That new video with the comments turned off is worrying. If it is hacked i hope that you can get it back for how much effort you've put in it.

This is exactly what I think of when I play Bannerlord. It's an amazing game but the limitless potential that it has, that it'll never meet, is what bums me out. It has a potential that it could never reach but hopefully one day a game like you described is made. Great vid man

I'd love a game like this and after seeing M&B gameplay and eventually playing it I had a similar dream game concept, but specifically about riding with my forces in characters. I always loved riding with the forces in the battles and just wish there was more of that, and you would come across other armies in character maybe even accidently if you were unlucky or bad at scouting out.

Banner lord has been my favourite strat game to date. Mixing the conquer aspect with large scale battles like dynasty was amazing and reasonibly well done here. There is alot of room from improvement of course. I found the learning curve to be a big one but reasonable unlike other conquer the map games. I can only imagine if there was a banner lords 3 🤩 it would be massive! so long as they don't stray to far from the parts that work well and improve and innovate other and new ideas. Which as sequels go it seems very hard to achieve without releasing the "same game improved"

Jack's videos are rewatchable because there's so many quips and little details you might miss. And damn that fire in post was dope.

My boy Jack is hacked 😔😔

Hey man, new viewer but thought this was absolutely awesome and will defo watch more. Had me laughing hard at points.

great video Jack, it got me excited even though your game does not exist & now I am sad it doesnt!!

Been loving your videos for ages my man. I'm super glad to know I'm not the only one who sounds like this when trying and failing to convince most of my friends to play Bannerlord. When I play it, I see everything you're talking about. And when I log off I look out my window and say "One day..." Great video(s). Can see all the work you put in it!

Are we not going to talk about how his channel got completely hacked

loose formation (scatter) is very useful when you want to disperse troops to cover more ground. it is very helpful to surround enemy lines or to swamp enemy troops into a meat grinder. it can also be used after successfully stopping a cavalry charge in shield wall formation, to bring the surviving enemy cavalry behind your lines for slaughter. it can also be used to help your cavalry get through lines of infantry easier

If you added something similar to Medieval Dynasty into this BALLS game, then you’d improve even further on your own character immersion as well as your friends and family. Plus building your own castle or town and then being able to actually rule over your people would be pretty sick.

My man got HACKED

You earned my sub with the " the game can just be our lives" comment lmfao im dyin

Damn you for restarting my addiction! Great video though, I feel very similarly as you do about it.

I was just watching Did you know gaming, and it seems there was a mass hack with them and a few other KZfaqrs. It seems Jack might have been one of them.

Someone hacked his channel REPORT THE LAST VIDEO

My additions on top of yours would be in depth, slow, brick by brick base building. Imagine how incredible would it be to go from a hill fort, scrounged together just in the nick of time, to an imperial city, a bulwark against those who dare challenge you. Going from wood forts full of strategical oversights, blind spots, and mistakes, that you learn from as you grow, to fortresses forged from bloody, brutal experience. Like how every solider you have, was hired face to face, every wall protecting you, was put there with the help of your hands, seeing your defences hold back the hordes, filling you with the same pride as you winning a battle without a single casualty, and every wall that crumbles holds that same sting of loss, your blood, sweat, and tears not enough to protect you. Hundreds of story hooks, like a messenger riding in on horseback, with urgent news, your shipment cant get through a bandits toll, you need this iron, so you set off to handle these matters personally, and make these highwaymen suffer for their mistake of halting your progress, for putting your people at risk, and for just being witless dicks. Plague on your people, blight in the fields, and enemies marching towards the gates, what will you do in the face of these challenges. A great feast, but there is little time for merriment, you have one night to make allys, forge alliances, gain favour, or, to attempt a coup. Which lords and ladys will you focus on, what will you say to entice them, to gain their support, or what will you say that offends them deeply. Will they challenge you to a duel? Declare war? Secretly plot your downfall? Or will you manage to save face, quelling their wrath... for the time being. As well as hard dilemmas cropping up on occasion, you are on the march to counter a besieging army, when an urgent request for aid comes to you. Will you change course, and hope the castle can hold out just a few days longer, unsure if you will arrive to the fortification captured and defended by your enemy? Do you ignore the pleas for aid, and lose reputation with the other lords as a coward who leaves the innocent for dead in the name of their conquest? Do you split your war band, hoping to deal with both at the same time, risking defeat on two fronts? Decisions and opportunities to elevate you from a lord, to a legend. Basically just, the ability to create more in depth play-throughs, each one you come across new landscapes to analyze for the best placement for a town, the most advantageous spot for a defensive fortress, or the most profitable location for a tavern. The opportunity to prove yourself as a true leader, not through combat, but through leading the common folk through trying times without losing their favour, the rewards being extra renown, increased production, or special rewards, like a new title, a holiday in your honour, or a citywide favour that can be used to, rally every able body person to fight with you, or to raise taxes temporarily, or forgiveness for failing to provide when famine strikes, or fire burns their homes. (Would also be pretty neat if you could like, install yourself as the owner of the tavern, or any building, and just run a business for a while, get some related story hooks, etc.)

never knew i loved the Balls genre the most until today

I had hundreds of hours in this game before I realized you can click and drag when placing troop formations to have more control over how deep or how wide the formation is. Really helped me with deployments and in battles as well.

Thank you for mentioning the use of the function keys for giving commands, because I have had a handful of occasions where I'm winning a battle despite the enemy outnumbering me and having better troops, but then - while holding down ALT to see where my enemies are - I give the command to engage... ALT + F4...

great video haha love bannerlord

They done hacked my boy Jack 😢

Currently, if you want more from Mount and Blade and you've only played Bannerlord, take a look into Warband's modding scene. Three years out it's still the superior experience

I can't agree more with every reference you said about "for honor"

Good choice in venue. Love going to the fort.

I am so glad that I am not alone in my dream game of a Rockstar-caliber Star Wars GTA. It would be such a simple transition -- you'd be a bounty hunter hunting down contracts, go into seedy alien bars, and fly around/steal various vehicles. A man can dream. Love the recent vids!

I just got back into Bannerlord recently after playing it at release. It seems like they made some nice improvements but as you point out, the game could and possibly should be more polished at this time. Also, fantastic video, great point about AI, and your game sounds great.

i literally had this idea of fusing the combat system of For Honor with Mount and Blade since forever, but you took it to the next level with all the other ideas. It's perfect!

Damn what a great video. I wouldn't play your game probably, but just because I don't play single player games. I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to experience what was prepared for me. I treasure emergent gameplay and fun and I get this in multiplayer games. I'm not talking about MMO's here like WoW or ESO, but rather fully immersive games like Sea of Thieves or Dark and Darker. I bought Bannerlord just for the multiplayer mods like Persistent Empires.. There is a huge potential there. I'd love to see the game expanded in this direction.

dont let this distract you from the fact that Jack is a vampire that lures his victims in with his eyes