Siege Engines: A Dungeon Siege Retrospective

@Buzzkill said:

Please please don't do this. I just subscribed and now you're going to pander to a bigger POS than DNF? /sigh

Dungeon Siege has always been second rate at everything and started its life as a Diablo clone and never evolved beyond that. For everything that was poor about DNF, at least it was an original IP.

So what you're saying is they shouldn't pander to things you don't like?

damn vinny's got a lot of games on steam....

The first few hours of Dungeon Siege are really fun. As it progresses you realize how utterly boring the gameplay becomes.

@Buzzkill said:

Please please don't do this. I just subscribed and now you're going to pander to a bigger POS than DNF? /sigh

Dungeon Siege has always been second rate at everything and started its life as a Diablo clone and never evolved beyond that. For everything that was poor about DNF, at least it was an original IP.

Jeese, did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? I happened to enjoy the original 2 DS games, and I am having a fine time with DS3. Just because you do not like a franchise does not mean a whole website has to cater to your...selfish desires.

These things are pretty awesome.

Please please don't do this. I just subscribed and now you're going to pander to a bigger POS than DNF? /sigh

Dungeon Siege has always been second rate at everything and started its life as a Diablo clone and never evolved beyond that. For everything that was poor about DNF, at least it was an original IP.

An hour of Dungeon Siege? I'm intrigued!

I pre-ordered DSIII for the previous two games, and was... not impressed the games at all, at least the way they were handled on Steam. DS1 has no expansions, no multiplayer, and apparently even the ending video was removed. The combat in DS1 was awful too, in the sense of 'hitting something with a bad weapon is necessary as you slowly level up from hitting enemies, because actually killing things means you get no weapon experience'. That left enough of a bad taste in my mouth to not try DS2 because it seemed to be the same situation (no multiplayer, no expansions, bad gameplay design). Then DS3 came out, and... yeah.

Would love to see this become a more regular feature.

That Dungeon Siege 1 one was painful, with Vinny at the controls....
 
"Where do I go?" as he wanders around the cleared area and ignores the large amounts of black unexplored area on the map

@Nomin: Any excuse for Vinny and Ryan to make a near hour long video is a good enough excuse for me!

Ha, fucking 'Horatio Sans'. I love these games but this is a fun look at them anyway.

Already better produced than anything Uwe Boll has been connected with.

Dungeon Siege 2 is one of my favourite games of all time. At some point it was my all-time favourite game. I love it. I have sunk like 300 hours in it.

Retrospectives would be a cool feature to do more going forward. Just sayin'.