Well, 5 bucks seems nice for this little INdie game. I am downloading the demo, and I need to know if the game is as good as it sounds. Anyone here ever play it?

I bought it awhile ago on a Steam sale. I played the hell out of it for about two days, and haven't really touched it since. I might go back to it. It's worth five bucks.

I played one of the beta releases. It was a couple months before the release. When it started I had no idea what to do or where to go, but I finally found the town I was supposed to be in, and it was pretty fun after that because some quest giver guy gives you some direction.
You can run around and recruit people to join your band and then you and army can go kill people.
Unfortunately I didn't get to play after my character hit level 6 or something because I didn't pay for the game. I should pick it up if it's really $5.

$5 is a steal, I paid quite a bit more for that when I first bought it back in the beta. It's an enjoyable game and certainly worth it. The upcoming Warband expansion--which adds multiplayer, among other things--is shaping up nicely too.

Open worlds are nice, but it helps to have some direction at the very beginning.
Like I said in my earlier post, after the combat tutorial I didn't know what to do. Maybe they've improved that since the beta.

If you want quests, you can get them from various lords or regional rulers, town officers, village chiefs and the like. You can sign on with a lord to follow him in to war, you can sign on with someone who wants to usurp a throne, engage in combat competitions and so on. There are quests everywhere, you just have to look for them.
Also, where you recruit people from has a huge effect on how your army develops. Recruit villagers from the steppes and you'll have a load of horse mounted archers and troops. Recruit from the Nords and you'll have some rather well armored foot infantry. And so on.

Interesting game, but I personally did not like it that much. Others will love it.

Can't get it to run...maybe my graphics card just sucks.

The demo doesn't run at all ? What graphics card are you using ?
The requirements are fairly low, 512MB Ram, and 64MB graphics card...

IDK, I might reinstall it, couldn't get it to run...is the Gamershell file bad or something?

I have no idea.
Some alternative sources in case you decide to give it another try

I had a 34mb installer...might be a corrupted file. Thanks.

Can someone please tell me if it is DRM Free?
Thanks

It has DRM, but it's very light and does not use a driver or complain about your software; Themida concentrates on ensuring the encrypted files remain obfuscated when they are running in memory rather than sniffing about for "piracy" tools. The retail release comes on a CD but does not actually need it after installation (in fact you can just download the latest installer from the internet and forget about the CD altogether). As far as I know the Steam serial can be used with the normal, non-Steam installer.
Mount&Blade requires a one-time activation. This can be done from within the game or by using the offline activation feature (which allows you to activate on systems with no internet access). It doesn't "phone home" after activation, and you can make whatever hardware changes you like without needing to reactivate (unless you transplant the hard drive into a totally different system or something).
It also doesn't have a limited number of activations as with games using SecuROM activation; you are limited to two systems in any 60-day period, but there is no maximum number of systems so you don't need to deactivate before reinstalling Windows or whatever. You can also uninstall and reinstall the game as often as you like--including having multiple versions installed for compatibility with older mods--without any problems.

So, I'm downloading the 'game' from the site (Demo still.). Hopefully I can run this one since the other one never even started...ON a hardware term, does my computer need to be able to run current gen games or does it need a certain GHZ speed? I think mine is like 3000ghz.