I actually pulled the game out a couple weeks back. Feels like you can hardly do anything without Henry getting all wobbly and useless from hunger or sleep deprivation or whatever else. The story seems fair, though.
I mean yeah, you have to sleep every once in awhile or eat, you can't expect to walk all the way across the map and just never needing to sleep, I know you can do that in stuff like Skyrim, but this is a full-blown RPG that's trying to be as realistic as possible.
Have to say, I really liked this game and it's combat...the only problem I had with the combat was the after a certain point EVERYONE, including piss ant bandits, was doing damn masterstrokes on every attack. That shit should be saved for enemies that are supposed to be tough, like knights.
I agree it's kinda strange, but at the same time..
1. We don't know whether those people trained to wield those weapons, odds are they did.
2. If these people were bandits in the first place, there's a high chance they've been in a fight or two before, especially if we're talking about the armored bandits.
The way it works is, every few (in-game hours) you do have to eat and sleep (and at some point wash yourself, in a trough or at the baths), but it takes awhile before you NEED to do those things.
Thankfully you can wash yourself, get full, and be well-rested by going to the bathhouse.
You've been talking to yourself for the last three posts
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If you're gonna pick up the DLC, the one I recommend has to be "From the Ashes", the only real DLC worth picking up at the moment, will update after I finally try Band of Bastards.
"Amourous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon" is dumb, don't spend money it, it adds a very short questline and doesn't really "add" anything more to the game and even once you do get it, you can very easily skip the whole entire DLC by just making the potion for Hans yourself instead of getting the Charlatan to do it for you, it's just pretty pointless.
From what I read, Band of Bastards DOES add new things, which I'm very happy about.