I still have a big love affair with this game, I don't know why, but it feels like you really are 'living it' so to speak. The feel of a game is so much more important than the look of it IMHO. (not that MTW is all that shabby anyway!)

Maybe i'm getting old and rambling, but i've never had more of a challenge when the masses of the horde arrive on my doorstep, or the pope excommunicates me and my erstwhile allies start crusading against me. On top of that you battle on with an heir that would make your guardsmen blush; drinker, unhinged loon, secret perversion, hoping that that if you weather the storm brighter times are ahead. (Usually a civil war ;)

For a game to still be so discussed five years on, I believe, is testament to that. Now, where to invade next...