NoNewTaleToTell: You're welcome! GamersGate has a demo that gives you a good impression of the early parts of the game.
On that note, Salvation Prophecy should be here as well...
Ixamyakxim: Mount and Blade is a fantastic game that I've been playing in one way or another for over a decade (wow, has it been that long! I feel like the freeware / beta release was some time in '01 - '03) Great game and the true definition of a "sandbox" - I remember the first time I fired it up and thought "How the hell am I EVER going to be able to afford ONE piece of armor, let alone outfit a retinue!"
And thanks for the reminder of Salvation Prophecy! I missed grabbing it on a discount from Amazon last year, noticed about a week or two ago that it was 5 bucks again... and never picked it up! I hope I grab it this time... though my newly burgeoning (spelling?) backlog thanks to Summer Sale might interfere with that!
Mount and Blade has been out for a while now that I think about it haha. I first heard of the series about six years ago, it would have melted my laptop at the time so I never was able to play it until I tried the demo last year and bought Warband earlier this year, I've already put a hundred hours or so into it. I haven't even gotten around to trying mods out either.
If you're still interested in Salvation Prophecy, I'll go ahead and say that it's worth its full price ($19.99 usually, I believe). I don't know how often it goes on sale, but I managed to catch it on Steam's summer sale and it's the best $5.00 I've spent on a game this year.