Dungeon Siege - How the hell was this ever popular?

[nikolokolus]

The only positive I can really remember about Dungeon Siege is that I was sort of impressed by a the seamless transitions between outdoor environments and indoor . . . *Thinks* . . . Yup, that's all I can think of.

 

[Reinhardt]

Dungeon Siege III should never have been in the same series seeing as how it's completely different, but it is a pretty fun action-game (with some minor RPG bits). Way more fun than the first two if you ask me.

Just kidding, right? Right?

 

[Starwars]

Hell naw.

 

[t]

Yeah, it was a pretty sweet game. Diablo-ing taken to the extreme. felipepepe how did you make it work on modern Windows?

 

[hello friend]

Dungeon siege let you use the decapitated limbs of your enemies as weapons.

At a certain age that carries a lot more weight than it should.

 

[felipepepe]

felipepepe how did you make it work on modern Windows?

I just loaded it from Steam, did absolutely nothing special. And I'm on Win 10.

 

[t]

felipepepe how did you make it work on modern Windows?

I just loaded it from Steam, did absolutely nothing special. And I'm on Win 10.

Huh. Didn't work for me, back in Win 7 times. Maybe it's magically fixed now, or maybe you were lucky.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Yeah, it was a pretty sweet game. Diablo-ing taken to the extreme. felipepepe how did you make it work on modern Windows?

Brother I got win 7 and it works fine, Lazarus and all.

 

[Renevent]

Man, I might have to bust out the old Dungeon Siege CD's after this thread...been a long time since I've played through it.

 

[Ludo Lense]

Dungeon Siege is one of the first games where I said "This is stupid" when I was little.

Game is objectively terrible in just about every way. It was only carried by Jeremy Soule's music and technical trickery that wooed the press.

 

[Kz3r0]

dungeon siege is great, fuck you

Dungeon Siege is the key to understanding shitty game journos and reviewers.

 

[Kz3r0]

After so many people confessed to like to play screen savers bashing Bethesda and Bioware becomes a very tall task.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Lol, DS still has better writing than they...





Somewhere.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

dungeon siege is great, fuck you

Not sure if joking (prior history suggests you are, but tentative brofist just in case), but I liked it as well! It was a fun little romp with lots of exciting loot in many disparate levels.

Now Dungeon Siege 2, that was boring as hell. Don't ask me why since it was essentially the same game and most people seem to prefer it. I wanted to like DS3, but ended up playing that the least of all three. I could no longer at that point continue to kid myself that I was having 'fun'.

felipepepe - why so many provocational posts lately? Are you trying to stir the pot?

 

[JarlFrank]

I enjoyed this game a lot back in the day. I was a teen, new to the RPG genre, and impressed by the graphics.

 

[Excidium II]

Younger me found it boring, I think I gave up around a snow village or something. I remember fooling in the mp by myself, you can be a skeleton! Did anyone ever play it with other people?

 

[Somberlain]

I bought it from a local game store about 10 years ago for 2 euros and I felt ripped off.

 

[Metro]

I guess some people wanted a party based Diablo. I sure didn't.

 

[Daedalos]

Still better than Undertail, right guyss?

 

[vonAchdorf]

It had pack mules.

 

[Lhynn]

Shit game, played it for two hours, then uninstalled.

 

[Jaesun]

The continuous streaming world thing was neat.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Because it was streamlined game with automated character developement and gameplay, that need little to no player involvement.
Thing is - it was almost two decades ago, when things like this were new concept (or not that popular/mandatory) like these days or last few years.
Yeah, it sounds cool and whatnot, enough time to get high notes.

I mostly played games that required either outsmarting enemies or high reflex (sometimes both) so getting something mindless was new for me. And since my PC get old p.fast with no infor of better games (time with no internet, sigh) I got only thing to play. Pity that Morrowind run like ass on my brick fueled Win98 infested garbage machine.

Still not as bad as Space Siege. Good god...
And Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony on PSP was a first DungSiege that contained actual gameplay. Yeah, I played it, finished. Only game on that handheld that I managed to finish (because it wasn't tactical RPG which need 100h to finish).

PS. don't do same mistake and don't use Combat Magic. It suxxx.

 

[Excidium II]

I think it just had a lot of marketing that got non-RPG people to try it, even here in the mall there were stations with huge cardboard cutout of the cover chick and a PC with the game playing. I had never seen anything like that before outside of a game rental/store.

 

[abnaxus]

Fucking terrible game(s).

Dungeon Siege III should never have been in the same series seeing as how it's completely different, but it is a pretty fun action-game (with some minor RPG bits). Way more fun than the first two if you ask me.