I bought it April, on his recommendation, and was really looking forward to it. I didn't realize it would be in Early Access for SO long. Now i am going to wait at least a year or more for it to be finished.
@@sgtrock62836 months is nothing for early access. For comparison, Baldurs Gate took nearly 3 years, DayZ took 5 years, Star Citizen is 11 years in (an entire decade overdue) and will probably never be fully released, and Project Zomboid is over 13 years and counting with no end in sight. That doesn’t mean Manor Lords is perfect as it is now, but it’s certainly premature to act like its development is taking too long.
i was aware of the current state of the game and bought it. why? The developer has always communicated everything openly and I was of the opinion that a developer who spends years building something so beautiful should get supported. i'd rather give my money to such a developer than to ubisoft or bethesda. Where is the ingame store?
Manor Lords is the best medieval city builder I've ever played. But that's just the base game. In terms of content, the game is still very incomplete. But the developers got the hardest part right, which is the base, the mechanics and the UI. It remains to be seen if they'll be able to get the 'easy' part right, with more buildings, more combat options, more units, ETC.
Its not overhyped, its exactly what it is; a great game I disappear into it every 3-6months for a long session and I love it We have forgotten what games are imo. We've forgotten that all games are not the same. That they don't all have to update every month with groundbreaking content. They don't have to provide something fresh to put on a youtuber's thumbnail. They don't have to be on top of the new cycle. Some games do need to drip feed content, like Helldivers. And we don't all have to be party to oscillating between crowdrage and overhype.
It's great that you enjoy the game, but you have to remember that this game received hundreds of hours of hype from dozens of major youtubers with millions of collective subscribers. It's probably the most hyped game in recent memory. For $40 you are guaranteed at least 15-20h of playtime. That's about how long it takes to start with nothing and conquer the entire map, with multiple developed regions. That's a fairly steep ask even for an early access title, and especially steep when you consider that this early access title was so aggressively promoted.
@@Brasseurdecave That's not remotely a "steep ask", because the reply ability of the game can get you 100 hours easy. Then on top of that, each new update, and new mechanic they add, will have you coming back to try that out for another session. Through the next 2 years you can rack up another 100-200 hours easy. That's not a steep ask at all. As for how "Aggressively promoted" it was... it really wasn't. Not by the developer at any rate.. What the idiot YTBers who were all on the hype train were saying isn't the fault of the developer. In-fact, the developer attempted multiple times to try to derail that hype train by keeping peoples expectations in check, and reminidng people that the game is not remotely close to being finished yet, and there was still a long list of things not yet ready.. The developer didn't even really want to release it yet, but people kept hyping up and begging for a playable version, so he finally did.
@@Cramblit Replay value is subjective. Honestly, if you can get 100h of replay value out of the game that's fairly impressive. From my point of view, the town management systems are extremely bare bones and not very engaging. Combat is repetitive and the AI is, as Resonant points out, lacking. I have no doubt that some people will spend time puttering around building a town just because it's pretty. That's great, but the game itself is rather shallow at this stage. It is a steep ask, because there are dozens of games out there, in this same genre no less, that retail for $40 or less that will offer you 100h+ of content on the first playthrough, and perhaps 400-500+ hours of replay value. Many of those games are fully released and still less expensive than ML. The fact that the dev is expecting people to spend $40 for a game that has barely 15h of first pass content is the very definition of a steep ask. I would say nothing if the price were $25-30. That would be totally reasonable. As far as hype is concerned, really doesn't matter if the Dev tried to hype the game or not. The game was overhyped by the community, and the developer making one blog post at the end of development trying to clarify that ML is not Total War is not exactly a thorough effort at derailing the hype train. I don't blame him much for the high expectations, but let's not pretend like he spent years attempting to control them, either. The most hilarious aspect of all is the fact that there is a dedicated community of sycophants who will defend the game to the death no matter how valid some of the criticism is. It's not a shit game, it's not a great game, it's just another, questionably priced early access title. That level of mediocrity is clearly too much for some to accept, and that's no doubt a function of how many months and years were spent by "idiot youtubers" blowing up expectations.
@@Brasseurdecave You have to be fair in the judgement though.. that "mediocrity" as you say, is done by 1 person, and in the scope of games lately, it's done quite well despite still being Early Access, and can still give plenty of value in a medieval town builder. The amount of hundreds of disappointing games in the past 7 years developed by hundreds or htousands of people with millions of dollars, makes it quite nice that a single developer with passion has made such a good down to earth game. The game isn't perfect, no game is, but scoffing that its "mediocre at best" when its one man doing it alone, is actually quite impressive. ------------ As for "spending years to quell the hype train" argument, that's not his job. It isn't his fault for the hype. It's not like NMS where it was the developer constantly hyping up and over stating the product. He only ever said what it was, and how it was. It was everyone else extrapolating the statements, and blowing them up into something that wasn't said. One message prior to release, stating what the game is and isn't, and correcting that hype is all it takes.. If people still went in with over hyped expectations, that's on them. 100%
No, the problem is that dumbass youtubers sang it praises to no end, and the dumbass gamers love a good underdog story to throw their money at. But the game is fukin boring and you run out of shit to do in a few hours.
Nope ,all the total war youtuber where overselling the game. Thing I discovered while I was playing: only one map, city level locked due to access, broken diplomacy All the mercenary where bought indefinitely by the AI in my first game, so I cannot get mercenaries,but my military is capped because I only have one town, but to get a new town I need to conquer a new one. I did not ask a refund because the guy was alone, but I lost all faith in all the youtuber overselling the game.
@@bnjmndrf1055 ye exactly what i meant, if you looked at youtubers like the renosant or other long term rts youtubers they all talked about it to not expect too much its lovely and great but i wish to not see another small company get crushed by too much at once
I'll be honest here, mate. You were the one who overhyped it. Developers warned us to not do so, and the blame does not go on them. Manor Lords isn't worth the current price, it's good for couple of days only, IT WAS overhyped without a doubt (thanks to RUclipsrs).
Currently, it just doesn't have enough meat on the bone. I get very quickly bored and I play many different medieval building games. I hope more things are added to it like more castle-building elements.
The game has all the potential. The base is there it just needs the toppings. I don’t get bored yet even though I have 60 hours. I have fun finding new designs and what the best starts are aswell as admiring the realism just walking around.
I’m sorry but this whole video is unfair. For starters you helped “over hype” this game, so to make a video blasting it for that said reason is so short sighted. And straight up insulting to the developer. It’s early access, they’ve been transparent about the reality of the game and that it’ll take a long time to get it in that right state. And tbh it has the potential to be a truly outstanding game. Just give them time, looking forward to your “manor lords is the best game this year” video in 2026!!
I've always been fortunate enough to feel like I got my money's worth from where it was when it first was purchasable and playable. Every update that comes out is icing on the cake for me.
Worst thing they did was release it to RUclipsrs 2 weeks before they released it to the public. Everyone lost the excitement they had because they already knew everything that was in the game without getting to experience any of it themselves.
And it won't be a trading simulator.... it's a city (town) building game. I think the presenter has not been reading what the developer says it is and is just making a wish fulfilment vid.
The game is fun, but I just really wish there was more to building the manors. I am fine with having to pay for it, because i was still able to get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Just to me there is no repeatability really until there is a bit more to the town management. I know its all on me, but I was very much expecting something closer to Final Frontiers in terms of what to do with the city management aspects.
The marketplace mechanic is awful. I wish there was an option to turn it off and just magically put required resources into houses as they need them. I have an overdraft of 200 food sitting in my “stockpile” while a literal fourth of my village starves to death because they cannot for the life of them figure out how to move the food to “available” market space. I hate how punishing corpses are, I fight a battle to defend my village against brigands and get a -45 approval punishment INSTANTLY because my three church families and burial pit family cannot burry 45 total bodies instantly. On top of the mentioned ale mechanic that is so punishing that you have mentioned, half of my town leaves before the end of the day and results in complete economic and infrastructural collapse. The game is fun for awhile, don’t get me wrong, but my god does mid to late game feel like pulling your teeth out. The game punishes you for trying to expand and bring more people into your town, but you need a ridiculously large work force just to MAKE all the things that make the game fun within a reasonable time frame that feels good and not as boring as watching paint dry. The market system needs to be overhauled or just straight up removed as it completely breaks on higher populations like 150-200
I'm tired of games who look too good but they're no where close to the final product. Most of those games can be potential but they fade away with the lack of content, slow pace updates. And when you realize you don't know where this game goes, if it's worth the time and money, because it will repeat again. Another game coming from nowhere with huge promises and in the end it doesn't deliver what people expected it to be. "Total War Killer"💀 To be fair, we're going to easy on this game, it didn't have a well thought foundation for a game it promised to people in trailers to be, like, the army battles are very cheap, copy paste of other games, it's really simple, you can't do much, there is a lack of cavalry armies, weapons, medieval equipments, forts, camps, all of the strategic planning tools to better utilize the warriors, it wasn't never there... No foundation, just a fragile copy of something way better. The building aspect is bad, you have to do everything by yourself, this is awful and lame, dud you have to decide when the villagers has to upgrade wtf this gaming feature is lame asf, why AI don't decide what's best themselves, why army don't do army stuff by themselves, the generals, the commanders, where are they? they need clicking to drag instructions, they don't hide in structures for m map, from behind trees, rocks, houses or whatever...lame asf Also, when you spent crazy time building your land, you have to claim a now empty land and restart again 🤡 this is lame, is that the "Total War" killer experience 🤡 you have to do it over and over again, you have no variation to buildings, most of things are the same, you as a lord you are stuck, there's no political mechanics into the game, royals replacements through time, new lords, family, the important characters in your kingdom, you can't interact with them, so lame, they are there in the village and you can't do anything, imagine that type of interaction from Crusader Kings in Manor Lords with quality mechanics for war operations, monarchy political affairs, corruption, betrayal, plagues, church and more stuff, the game has a small map, you can't have fun, have a huge map, with divisions, lands not empty but full of cities, forts, kingdoms, life, history, not just grass...no AI only modes, invite your friends, take a land territory, faction, culture, royal lines, historical events and make it fun, you have a bigger map, you can choose a place in the land, that place will load, but anything around it it's real time events, players in other regions will participate in big events, conquer, fight, deal with political affairs, rule the throne. Be the king in the next line. Most powerful kingdom whatever... This is how you become a "Total War" killer.. this is how you do it.
I can agree that it is a half, or more than a half-empty game. But you missed the point about "Total War Killer". Developers and publishers never stated this game would be a Total War Killer. RUclipsrs did that, for the hype and likes. Manor Lords is a city-builder game. You said how upgrading villagers manually is lame... well, in many city builder games you do that, like in Anno 1800. You said it's lame because you start from zero in a new region... yes, like in any other city-builder game lol. This is not a Total War game, nor a grand strategy game, but a city-builder game, with additions of battles and politics. Currently, it only has basic features, and I'm bored as well. I want more around fortifications, more politics and rival lords, some relationship with the church and the king, and bigger cities. Maybe even becoming a count and each city is your vassal lord?
When I buy it I think it would be finished way faster but it takes very long time. I know this are my speciations and the developer always say what it was really but right now we have a city builder and a bare minimum of fighting. This makes the game very boring after you build 1-2 city’s. If someone asks me “would you buy it again” I would say no!
This game is very boring. I regret buying it. Where are the AI Lords? Where is the politics and so on? It’s just a lame city builder which looks good. It’s always the same! After Total War Three Kingdoms there was never a good Strategie game like that.
This game needs way too long to bring on new content. Who tf needs cavalry? Where are the AI Lords? The politics? and so on This game should not be a lame city builder!
The entre point of a strategy game is to have a fun game loop. It can take 10-20 hours to learn a strategy game well and THEN you can have some real fun. A strategy game where the only fun part is the learning period is not a strategy game at all in my opinion.
If you don’t have fertile soil then that’s the challenge that keeps the game interesting, do I expand to 2nd town early and farm for barley to import? Get trade perks and import off map? Okay how am i gonna afford that, what resources do I have and what will I sell to get the cash…. If you take the challenge out the game then we’re just on a train track
I think its worth every penny. Still needs development. But its still one of the best RTS/city builder games available. Hopefully the niggles will be fixed, but it still beats age of mythology at £50 by a mile
Here is an honest Critique of your channel. When I see your videos are slighly over 10 minutes i know your video will be an uninspired slog so i avoid. (until now to post this critique)
I enjoyed a solid 15 hours, but it felt like I was playing a demo, and that's kind of what it is. A demo. It reminds me of a more advanced version of 'the settlers: rise of an empire' back in 2007.
It didn't disappoint me to be honest, it lacks a lot of content that's why gamers already stopped playing, but they will come back when more interesting contents are already added, me personally, I am waiting for AI lords to be implemented, it gets boring when the baron is off map and you can't see his settlements, all you are doing is defending.
It's not the dev's fault if people overhyped this game. But the game is amazing with high potential but only made by one guy. Just come back every so often when their are large updates or wait till it is eventually done if you are disappointed with how far it is. Im just waiting until it is closer to being done.
You can cover everything in the game pretty quickly. There's no enough content and the game doesn't scale properly in terms of difficulty. End game for manor lords is dull, the AI battles become easy mid game. It's just a dull grind
"The ai is a little lack luster... at this point in time." Man, I love the game, I am really impressed with the developer. Its a great game. But unfortunately, that lack luster ai is probably there to stay... who's gonna rebuild it? The developer is busy finishing the game. Think of total war... the battle ai hasn't changed in more than a decade... so I th8nk manor lords is pretty much not gonna get any better, just that it will fill in the current feature blanks
It's pretty fabulous for a while and then.....why bother? It'd be nice to have some progress, technological, whatever, and move through some epochs. Huge amounts of work in that though if we take what we have as Epoch1, say. Otherwise the game just drifts into repetition and rather quickly too.
Manor Lords is a classic case of a game that got way too much hype. If the gameplay design had received as much attention as the visual elements of the game, it would be a 200+ hour title. As it stands, it's mostly a toy. Considering how beautiful the game is, it's disappointing. I had high hopes that, when fully developed, the game might be a modern take on the Stronghold series of games. I can't imagine that being the case, even if the developer continues for years. The game does not need new maps, new buildings or cavalry. Several of its core systems need major overhauls or design revisions. The gameplay loops have just not been given enough thought and attention, and the game feels hollow as a result. It's very pretty, but that's about it and will always be the case unless Slavic Magic can work out how to improve the core mechanics and make the management aspect of the game feel more engaging for the player.
All good and Beautiful, in my opinion, BUT this darn Map, gives the impression of just a blunt and boring "arena"...! I would prefer a European Huge Map, like in Crusader Kings scale, or deferent Maps of the world like Middle European, being able to form the HRE, or England, France or the Byzantine Empire etc.
4:29 Had the same problem a few times cause my food stalls all cramp in a cosy corner and the rest is filed with other things I would love a Mechanic to Manuel pick some stalls and place them on an other market
You ignore that the trailers and teaser showed cavalry and expanded city specialization that were not anywhere to be seen. I was surprised how barebones it actually released.
Those things are still coming. The game isn't complete, nor was it stated that it was complete. in -fact, ALPHA is plastered EVERYWHERE In it.. How are you surprised at all? It seems like the problem is you.
@@Cramblit the content I saw made me believe there was cavalary & all the City specilizations.. I didn't get the info you could only have like 5 points of specilizations.
@@RonPaulBot1234 You got the info that things are still a work in progress, and still early in its stages. You need to go in with the expectation that things are not finished. You went in with the expectation that things were. Don't lie to yourself. Did you go in with "Lets see what the game has at the moment" mentality, or "Lets go in with the expectation the game has this and this already" ? Be honest with yourself.
@@Cramblit Your comment makes absolutely no sense though. If Slavic Magic stated that Cavalry and more specializes were planned for the game, but that they werent ready yet and therefore wont be there on release than you would have a point. The issue is that that wasnt what was done. Cavalry and expanded specializations was explicitly shown to be in the game, therefore it makes sense to assume that they would be in the game when you bought it. There was nothing that stated that those two features wouldnt be in the game, despite being shown in the trailers. You cannot make the idiotic claim that Ron is being unfair when all he's doing is taking what was shown in the official trailers and saying that those features shown arent in the game despite being shown in the trailer, and despite not being told that they were a work in progress. Basically you need to stop shilling for the game, because your argument is wildly asinine.
The most disappointing release of an early access game with potential in a while. Rushed to release with no content update plan or schedule. What's there is great, but banished is currently a more complete experience - which costs a lot less.
is everyone forgetting that this game is not released yet but is in Early Access?? Event his video says "released" in the beginning. Manor Lords is not released!
For me it's the lack of the RTS combat for me. When I first heard of it I was hoping to compete against total war, and seeing the combat turned what it into is sad. I was hoping for mods, etc. It seems very.. Close but not enough
THe Dev behind Maor Lords said plenty of times that it wasn't and will never compete with Total War or any RTS strategy game, it's not the focus of the game. You need not fantasize stuff.
The problem is that people just ignored the dev, he said it will not a game like this, youtubers over hyped it, other people did it and after buying it they where disappointed for no reason, they are disappointed and miss things that where never ment to be in this game the way the thought it would be and the dev said it like that and he said that this game will not nearly finished. People are just dumb and did not listen at all.
Oh man, it's funny when the consequences of your own choices come back to haunt you reasonant. YOU were the main person over-hyping the game
I remember developers post warning people, that they overhype it way too much.
Yeah bro… remember when YOU overhyped it 😂
He was the MAIN guy🤣🤣
I bought it April, on his recommendation, and was really looking forward to it. I didn't realize it would be in Early Access for SO long. Now i am going to wait at least a year or more for it to be finished.
I was thinking the same thing 😂 dude, you overhyped it and made people buy it!
Lol yeah
@@sgtrock62836 months is nothing for early access. For comparison, Baldurs Gate took nearly 3 years, DayZ took 5 years, Star Citizen is 11 years in (an entire decade overdue) and will probably never be fully released, and Project Zomboid is over 13 years and counting with no end in sight. That doesn’t mean Manor Lords is perfect as it is now, but it’s certainly premature to act like its development is taking too long.
i was aware of the current state of the game and bought it. why? The developer has always communicated everything openly and I was of the opinion that a developer who spends years building something so beautiful should get supported. i'd rather give my money to such a developer than to ubisoft or bethesda. Where is the ingame store?
Manor Lords is the best medieval city builder I've ever played. But that's just the base game. In terms of content, the game is still very incomplete. But the developers got the hardest part right, which is the base, the mechanics and the UI. It remains to be seen if they'll be able to get the 'easy' part right, with more buildings, more combat options, more units, ETC.
Its not overhyped, its exactly what it is; a great game
I disappear into it every 3-6months for a long session and I love it
We have forgotten what games are imo.
We've forgotten that all games are not the same.
That they don't all have to update every month with groundbreaking content.
They don't have to provide something fresh to put on a youtuber's thumbnail.
They don't have to be on top of the new cycle.
Some games do need to drip feed content, like Helldivers.
And we don't all have to be party to oscillating between crowdrage and overhype.
It's great that you enjoy the game, but you have to remember that this game received hundreds of hours of hype from dozens of major youtubers with millions of collective subscribers. It's probably the most hyped game in recent memory. For $40 you are guaranteed at least 15-20h of playtime. That's about how long it takes to start with nothing and conquer the entire map, with multiple developed regions. That's a fairly steep ask even for an early access title, and especially steep when you consider that this early access title was so aggressively promoted.
bruh its an decent game, you have done everything in about 10 hours in this game so not worth the price at all.
@@Brasseurdecave That's not remotely a "steep ask", because the reply ability of the game can get you 100 hours easy.
Then on top of that, each new update, and new mechanic they add, will have you coming back to try that out for another session. Through the next 2 years you can rack up another 100-200 hours easy.
That's not a steep ask at all.
As for how "Aggressively promoted" it was... it really wasn't. Not by the developer at any rate.. What the idiot YTBers who were all on the hype train were saying isn't the fault of the developer. In-fact, the developer attempted multiple times to try to derail that hype train by keeping peoples expectations in check, and reminidng people that the game is not remotely close to being finished yet, and there was still a long list of things not yet ready.. The developer didn't even really want to release it yet, but people kept hyping up and begging for a playable version, so he finally did.
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Replay value is subjective. Honestly, if you can get 100h of replay value out of the game that's fairly impressive. From my point of view, the town management systems are extremely bare bones and not very engaging. Combat is repetitive and the AI is, as Resonant points out, lacking. I have no doubt that some people will spend time puttering around building a town just because it's pretty. That's great, but the game itself is rather shallow at this stage. It is a steep ask, because there are dozens of games out there, in this same genre no less, that retail for $40 or less that will offer you 100h+ of content on the first playthrough, and perhaps 400-500+ hours of replay value. Many of those games are fully released and still less expensive than ML. The fact that the dev is expecting people to spend $40 for a game that has barely 15h of first pass content is the very definition of a steep ask. I would say nothing if the price were $25-30. That would be totally reasonable.
As far as hype is concerned, really doesn't matter if the Dev tried to hype the game or not. The game was overhyped by the community, and the developer making one blog post at the end of development trying to clarify that ML is not Total War is not exactly a thorough effort at derailing the hype train. I don't blame him much for the high expectations, but let's not pretend like he spent years attempting to control them, either.
The most hilarious aspect of all is the fact that there is a dedicated community of sycophants who will defend the game to the death no matter how valid some of the criticism is. It's not a shit game, it's not a great game, it's just another, questionably priced early access title. That level of mediocrity is clearly too much for some to accept, and that's no doubt a function of how many months and years were spent by "idiot youtubers" blowing up expectations.
@@Brasseurdecave You have to be fair in the judgement though.. that "mediocrity" as you say, is done by 1 person, and in the scope of games lately, it's done quite well despite still being Early Access, and can still give plenty of value in a medieval town builder.
The amount of hundreds of disappointing games in the past 7 years developed by hundreds or htousands of people with millions of dollars, makes it quite nice that a single developer with passion has made such a good down to earth game.
The game isn't perfect, no game is, but scoffing that its "mediocre at best" when its one man doing it alone, is actually quite impressive.
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As for "spending years to quell the hype train" argument, that's not his job. It isn't his fault for the hype. It's not like NMS where it was the developer constantly hyping up and over stating the product. He only ever said what it was, and how it was. It was everyone else extrapolating the statements, and blowing them up into something that wasn't said.
One message prior to release, stating what the game is and isn't, and correcting that hype is all it takes.. If people still went in with over hyped expectations, that's on them. 100%
whell, the creator said, he was doing it alone, he didnt overpromise, so its the people who wanted to play it who are their own problem
No, the problem is that dumbass youtubers sang it praises to no end, and the dumbass gamers love a good underdog story to throw their money at.
But the game is fukin boring and you run out of shit to do in a few hours.
Nope ,all the total war youtuber where overselling the game. Thing I discovered while I was playing: only one map, city level locked due to access, broken diplomacy
All the mercenary where bought indefinitely by the AI in my first game, so I cannot get mercenaries,but my military is capped because I only have one town, but to get a new town I need to conquer a new one.
I did not ask a refund because the guy was alone, but I lost all faith in all the youtuber overselling the game.
@@bnjmndrf1055 ye exactly what i meant, if you looked at youtubers like the renosant or other long term rts youtubers they all talked about it to not expect too much its lovely and great but i wish to not see another small company get crushed by too much at once
Damn u rlly just farming anything for content.
I'll be honest here, mate. You were the one who overhyped it. Developers warned us to not do so, and the blame does not go on them. Manor Lords isn't worth the current price, it's good for couple of days only, IT WAS overhyped without a doubt (thanks to RUclipsrs).
Manor Lords is exactly what it advertised.
Currently, it just doesn't have enough meat on the bone. I get very quickly bored and I play many different medieval building games. I hope more things are added to it like more castle-building elements.
+1
The game has all the potential. The base is there it just needs the toppings. I don’t get bored yet even though I have 60 hours. I have fun finding new designs and what the best starts are aswell as admiring the realism just walking around.
I’m sorry but this whole video is unfair. For starters you helped “over hype” this game, so to make a video blasting it for that said reason is so short sighted. And straight up insulting to the developer. It’s early access, they’ve been transparent about the reality of the game and that it’ll take a long time to get it in that right state. And tbh it has the potential to be a truly outstanding game. Just give them time, looking forward to your “manor lords is the best game this year” video in 2026!!
Bro used to post one video a week singing praises of the game months before it was out, now shocked at the fact the game is overhyped
I've always been fortunate enough to feel like I got my money's worth from where it was when it first was purchasable and playable. Every update that comes out is icing on the cake for me.
Last I remember you made like 50 videos overhyping it
Anything for content. Just block him. Just makes vids for money.
Worst thing they did was release it to RUclipsrs 2 weeks before they released it to the public. Everyone lost the excitement they had because they already knew everything that was in the game without getting to experience any of it themselves.
the ''game'' is just a dame demo at this point. the dude got rich and called it a day.
It already met my expectations. It is still in early access.... full release will be like a big dlc.
And it won't be a trading simulator.... it's a city (town) building game. I think the presenter has not been reading what the developer says it is and is just making a wish fulfilment vid.
The game is fun, but I just really wish there was more to building the manors. I am fine with having to pay for it, because i was still able to get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Just to me there is no repeatability really until there is a bit more to the town management. I know its all on me, but I was very much expecting something closer to Final Frontiers in terms of what to do with the city management aspects.
This game has a strong foundation and I really enjoyed my time. I'll come back when it gets bigger. My wishlist is to have a Nordic viking theme
Overhyped? I literally know about this game from you!
Manor Lords is a demo not a game...
The marketplace mechanic is awful. I wish there was an option to turn it off and just magically put required resources into houses as they need them. I have an overdraft of 200 food sitting in my “stockpile” while a literal fourth of my village starves to death because they cannot for the life of them figure out how to move the food to “available” market space. I hate how punishing corpses are, I fight a battle to defend my village against brigands and get a -45 approval punishment INSTANTLY because my three church families and burial pit family cannot burry 45 total bodies instantly. On top of the mentioned ale mechanic that is so punishing that you have mentioned, half of my town leaves before the end of the day and results in complete economic and infrastructural collapse. The game is fun for awhile, don’t get me wrong, but my god does mid to late game feel like pulling your teeth out. The game punishes you for trying to expand and bring more people into your town, but you need a ridiculously large work force just to MAKE all the things that make the game fun within a reasonable time frame that feels good and not as boring as watching paint dry. The market system needs to be overhauled or just straight up removed as it completely breaks on higher populations like 150-200
The game met my expectations and is a solid addition for me, i play it regularly
I'm tired of games who look too good but they're no where close to the final product. Most of those games can be potential but they fade away with the lack of content, slow pace updates. And when you realize you don't know where this game goes, if it's worth the time and money, because it will repeat again. Another game coming from nowhere with huge promises and in the end it doesn't deliver what people expected it to be. "Total War Killer"💀
To be fair, we're going to easy on this game, it didn't have a well thought foundation for a game it promised to people in trailers to be, like, the army battles are very cheap, copy paste of other games, it's really simple, you can't do much, there is a lack of cavalry armies, weapons, medieval equipments, forts, camps, all of the strategic planning tools to better utilize the warriors, it wasn't never there... No foundation, just a fragile copy of something way better.
The building aspect is bad, you have to do everything by yourself, this is awful and lame, dud you have to decide when the villagers has to upgrade wtf this gaming feature is lame asf, why AI don't decide what's best themselves, why army don't do army stuff by themselves, the generals, the commanders, where are they? they need clicking to drag instructions, they don't hide in structures for m map, from behind trees, rocks, houses or whatever...lame asf
Also, when you spent crazy time building your land, you have to claim a now empty land and restart again 🤡 this is lame, is that the "Total War" killer experience 🤡 you have to do it over and over again, you have no variation to buildings, most of things are the same, you as a lord you are stuck, there's no political mechanics into the game, royals replacements through time, new lords, family, the important characters in your kingdom, you can't interact with them, so lame, they are there in the village and you can't do anything, imagine that type of interaction from Crusader Kings in Manor Lords with quality mechanics for war operations, monarchy political affairs, corruption, betrayal, plagues, church and more stuff, the game has a small map, you can't have fun, have a huge map, with divisions, lands not empty but full of cities, forts, kingdoms, life, history, not just grass...no AI only modes, invite your friends, take a land territory, faction, culture, royal lines, historical events and make it fun, you have a bigger map, you can choose a place in the land, that place will load, but anything around it it's real time events, players in other regions will participate in big events, conquer, fight, deal with political affairs, rule the throne. Be the king in the next line. Most powerful kingdom whatever... This is how you become a "Total War" killer.. this is how you do it.
I can agree that it is a half, or more than a half-empty game. But you missed the point about "Total War Killer". Developers and publishers never stated this game would be a Total War Killer. RUclipsrs did that, for the hype and likes. Manor Lords is a city-builder game. You said how upgrading villagers manually is lame... well, in many city builder games you do that, like in Anno 1800. You said it's lame because you start from zero in a new region... yes, like in any other city-builder game lol. This is not a Total War game, nor a grand strategy game, but a city-builder game, with additions of battles and politics. Currently, it only has basic features, and I'm bored as well. I want more around fortifications, more politics and rival lords, some relationship with the church and the king, and bigger cities. Maybe even becoming a count and each city is your vassal lord?
When I buy it I think it would be finished way faster but it takes very long time.
I know this are my speciations and the developer always say what it was really but right now we have a city builder and a bare minimum of fighting.
This makes the game very boring after you build 1-2 city’s.
If someone asks me “would you buy it again” I would say no!
This game is very boring. I regret buying it. Where are the AI Lords? Where is the politics and so on? It’s just a lame city builder which looks good.
It’s always the same!
After Total War Three Kingdoms there was never a good Strategie game like that.
I would not buy it again. It’s just a lame city builder. There are strategy games which are way better and way older!
This game needs way too long to bring on new content.
Who tf needs cavalry?
Where are the AI Lords?
The politics?
and so on
This game should not be a lame city builder!
The entre point of a strategy game is to have a fun game loop. It can take 10-20 hours to learn a strategy game well and THEN you can have some real fun. A strategy game where the only fun part is the learning period is not a strategy game at all in my opinion.
If you don’t have fertile soil then that’s the challenge that keeps the game interesting, do I expand to 2nd town early and farm for barley to import? Get trade perks and import off map? Okay how am i gonna afford that, what resources do I have and what will I sell to get the cash…. If you take the challenge out the game then we’re just on a train track
I think its worth every penny. Still needs development. But its still one of the best RTS/city builder games available. Hopefully the niggles will be fixed, but it still beats age of mythology at £50 by a mile
Here is an honest Critique of your channel. When I see your videos are slighly over 10 minutes i know your video will be an uninspired slog so i avoid. (until now to post this critique)
I enjoyed a solid 15 hours, but it felt like I was playing a demo, and that's kind of what it is. A demo. It reminds me of a more advanced version of 'the settlers: rise of an empire' back in 2007.
Yeah it's over hyped still not enjoying it 😭
Dude I like the review, yet give it time my time my friend 😊
People complaining about total war pharaoh dynasty while over hyping manorlord lost lot of credibility.
I don’t know how you ran out of content. I’m still trying to push 10k population with 60h of play time.
in fact this game how it is, was developed by one single person ! ONE PERSON! not even big studios can create a game like this :D
No doubt over hyped, but not from the devs part, RUclipsrs are tje guilty ones.
YOU overhyped it 😂
It didn't disappoint me to be honest, it lacks a lot of content that's why gamers already stopped playing, but they will come back when more interesting contents are already added, me personally, I am waiting for AI lords to be implemented, it gets boring when the baron is off map and you can't see his settlements, all you are doing is defending.
It's not the dev's fault if people overhyped this game. But the game is amazing with high potential but only made by one guy. Just come back every so often when their are large updates or wait till it is eventually done if you are disappointed with how far it is. Im just waiting until it is closer to being done.
Wait, this game is $40?? Not worth it at all... should be $25 at most.
You can cover everything in the game pretty quickly. There's no enough content and the game doesn't scale properly in terms of difficulty.
End game for manor lords is dull, the AI battles become easy mid game. It's just a dull grind
"The ai is a little lack luster... at this point in time." Man, I love the game, I am really impressed with the developer. Its a great game. But unfortunately, that lack luster ai is probably there to stay... who's gonna rebuild it? The developer is busy finishing the game. Think of total war... the battle ai hasn't changed in more than a decade... so I th8nk manor lords is pretty much not gonna get any better, just that it will fill in the current feature blanks
THIS IS SHOCKING NEWS FOR MANOR LORDS IN 2024
It's pretty fabulous for a while and then.....why bother? It'd be nice to have some progress, technological, whatever, and move through some epochs. Huge amounts of work in that though if we take what we have as Epoch1, say. Otherwise the game just drifts into repetition and rather quickly too.
Manor Lords is a classic case of a game that got way too much hype. If the gameplay design had received as much attention as the visual elements of the game, it would be a 200+ hour title. As it stands, it's mostly a toy. Considering how beautiful the game is, it's disappointing. I had high hopes that, when fully developed, the game might be a modern take on the Stronghold series of games. I can't imagine that being the case, even if the developer continues for years.
The game does not need new maps, new buildings or cavalry. Several of its core systems need major overhauls or design revisions. The gameplay loops have just not been given enough thought and attention, and the game feels hollow as a result. It's very pretty, but that's about it and will always be the case unless Slavic Magic can work out how to improve the core mechanics and make the management aspect of the game feel more engaging for the player.
For me the battle is just a side thing i have to do.. i never speed up the game i love to just see the life progress
All good and Beautiful, in my opinion, BUT this darn Map, gives the impression of just a blunt and boring "arena"...!
I would prefer a European Huge Map, like in Crusader Kings scale, or deferent Maps of the world like Middle European, being able to form the HRE, or England, France or the Byzantine Empire etc.
to me that one man thing ended when microsoft got involved
I can't wait for other games to do away with the grid system, going to lead to some really organic city builders
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Had the same problem a few times cause my food stalls all cramp in a cosy corner and the rest is filed with other things
I would love a Mechanic to Manuel pick some stalls and place them on an other market
You ignore that the trailers and teaser showed cavalry and expanded city specialization that were not anywhere to be seen. I was surprised how barebones it actually released.
Those things are still coming. The game isn't complete, nor was it stated that it was complete. in -fact, ALPHA is plastered EVERYWHERE In it..
How are you surprised at all? It seems like the problem is you.
@@Cramblit the content I saw made me believe there was cavalary & all the City specilizations.. I didn't get the info you could only have like 5 points of specilizations.
@@RonPaulBot1234 You got the info that things are still a work in progress, and still early in its stages.
You need to go in with the expectation that things are not finished. You went in with the expectation that things were. Don't lie to yourself.
Did you go in with "Lets see what the game has at the moment" mentality, or "Lets go in with the expectation the game has this and this already" ? Be honest with yourself.
@@Cramblit Your comment makes absolutely no sense though. If Slavic Magic stated that Cavalry and more specializes were planned for the game, but that they werent ready yet and therefore wont be there on release than you would have a point. The issue is that that wasnt what was done. Cavalry and expanded specializations was explicitly shown to be in the game, therefore it makes sense to assume that they would be in the game when you bought it. There was nothing that stated that those two features wouldnt be in the game, despite being shown in the trailers.
You cannot make the idiotic claim that Ron is being unfair when all he's doing is taking what was shown in the official trailers and saying that those features shown arent in the game despite being shown in the trailer, and despite not being told that they were a work in progress. Basically you need to stop shilling for the game, because your argument is wildly asinine.
The most disappointing release of an early access game with potential in a while.
Rushed to release with no content update plan or schedule.
What's there is great, but banished is currently a more complete experience - which costs a lot less.
Best city builder to date in terms of mechanics and it looks amazing in ue5 with rtx in 4k
can you do a vid about the best games youve ever reviewed?
I disagree. There are several outstanding modders that have dramatically changed the game for the better. It is unplayable without them.
Casle and horse that will be cool
"Fleshed upon" 😬
Its ok for a few days
WTF are you even saying?
Yeah he was rambling in this one.
All games are overhyped and sheep still pre order them.
39.99 is a Joke tbh
Haven't touched the game in months
resonant was the biggest shill of this game LMAO!
is everyone forgetting that this game is not released yet but is in Early Access?? Event his video says "released" in the beginning. Manor Lords is not released!
Yeah bro are you struggling for video ideas? This is so low hanging bait tbh, you're better than this
Still waiting for Xbox release😴
No wonder this channel is dying hard
For me it's the lack of the RTS combat for me. When I first heard of it I was hoping to compete against total war, and seeing the combat turned what it into is sad. I was hoping for mods, etc. It seems very.. Close but not enough
THe Dev behind Maor Lords said plenty of times that it wasn't and will never compete with Total War or any RTS strategy game, it's not the focus of the game. You need not fantasize stuff.
WHERES THE XBOX RELEASE
overhyped
yes
Looks boring af... Js
Damn 53 seconds ago!
I wrote here months ago, that without castles and sieges the game would fall short
Game doesn't fall short, it only falls short with your over inflated expectations.
The problem is that people just ignored the dev, he said it will not a game like this, youtubers over hyped it, other people did it and after buying it they where disappointed for no reason, they are disappointed and miss things that where never ment to be in this game the way the thought it would be and the dev said it like that and he said that this game will not nearly finished. People are just dumb and did not listen at all.
Play song of syx instead
blah.
dsa
Bro enough manor lords 😭😭😭😭
Guys use nvidia filters - puls100% gameplay.
Literally one if the worst shills on youtube