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There is a thriving online community of fans who have made the game even more enjoyable. This is truly a classic RPG with loads of game play. The graphics may be outdated, but the storyline and action are timeless. By changing the way you structure your characters you can get hours more game time from it. If you haven't tried any of the Dungeon Siege games, you're missing out.
Fun game,Inventory managment is a little much though. No problems installing and ran pretty smooth. Good hack and slash rpg.
(DS II, by the way, lacks charm to the same extent that DS I exudes it. The other half I like for a while until their flaws finally get to me and I wind up hating them. One of the most common criticisms of this game is that it is too easy. (Wish they had understood this when they made the miserable DS II).It's atmospheric. Never had a hitch with this game. It's a game that doesn't revolve around mastering the interface.
LoA has less than DS but lots more than DS II).Sadly, after five years and the dismal failure of DS II, which sucked and alienated most of the DS community, a lot of the user-generated content that used to be available online has disappeared. There's no way to describe or define this, it just is. All that having been said, my review below focuses on original DS, as anyone who buys LoA at this late date is probably going to get it mainly for the original game.DS/LoA is five years old, an eternity in the world of computer games, but I would rather load up my old DS disk and play an hour or two of this than any other game that I've played since. Used to be there was a good score or two of complete user-generated campaigns you could download. No need to repeat keystroke combinations ad infinitum until they are ingrained in muscle memory. I'm no programmer, and my meager attempts at modding the game were very superficial, but it gave the feeling at least of having well-planned architecture and clean code. All of the many environments in the game are well done, each has a feel, the music is great, it draws you in.It's intuitive. Me, I push keys and scramble my brain all day at work.
If you are a hardcore gamer who isn't happy unless you're pushed to the limits of your key-punching abilities, you'll hate this game. First things first.the LoA expansion includes the original DS game, so even if you don't like the expansion (and I agree it's not as good as the original) so what. If you want your brain scrambled by mind-numbing puzzles, you'll hate this game. It has simple charm out the wazoo.
With LoA you get the original game, improved by the various interface and game play improvements that come with LoA. Dungeonsiege is the ONLY game that I like now in retrospect, years after playing it, as much as I like it the first day I fired it up.I have a dream.that some day the D&D franchise will be ripped from the cold dead hands of Atari and its genetic material mixed with that of Dungeonsiege I, resulting in the ultimate action-RPG. You can play this with one hand on the mouse while sipping a daiquiri out of a coconut with the other. That is absolutely correct. Proof that you don't need to fill the screen with eye-numbing detail to make a visually arresting game. I want a non-challenging escape, and DS I is the best game I've ever found for delivering just that.Here's why I love DS I:It's beautiful.
Really.It's slick. If you want a game that you don't need a manual for.this is it. The last thing I want is to come home after a hard days work and face.more work. If you think something is likely to work.chances are it will. Some were as good as the original and can still be found.About half of computer games I dislike right from the start and give up on after half an hour.
Not until TITAN QUEST got released could any cRPG hold a candle to DUNGEON SIEGE. Tress and grass move as you pass by, water ripples as you step into it and wakes as you walk through it. This is an action cRPG that came out after DIABLO II and just before NEVERWINTER NIGHTS. And it blew both of them out of the water.Not as deep as NWN, yet the story engaged you enough to make it more than a hack'n'slash.
Everything worn or wielded appears on the character; whereas, magic spells are not shabby at all.The game also sports a GREAT CAMERA PLACEMENT (zoom capable and totally customizable) and has one of the BEST SOUNDTRACKS - the theme music will stay with you as the appropriate theme for any epic battles in the future.Those of you who were (rightfully) disappointed with the truly bad and much shorter DUNGEON SIEGE 2 (I still cannot fathom how they managed to botch that one)., keep in mind that it has only skin-deep similarities to its predecessor. This is the one to buy.Combined with its expansion, this comes out.more expensive than buying them separately in jewel-cases - so, I would recommend shopping around first. A number of innovative ideas made DUNGEON SIEGE a unique experience: the cinematic perspective, the original characters (who thought up.machine-gun shooting medieval robots)., the fighting-back pack-mule.At the same time, both the enemies' and your company members' AI is well above par.Graphically, this is a 4 year game yet it plays much smoother and it has further horizons than most cRPGs today. Not as dark as DIABLO II, yet blood fever will take hold of you once in battle.
Even if, to any true cRPG fun, graphics is not everything (otherwise DAWN OF MAGIC would have been considered a great game), DUNGEON SIEGE is found wanting in nothing when it comes to graphics. Nevertheless, you will enjoy it more than most latest games.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
I like this game in old version as more violence. For this violence reduction version, i still like it but less joy such as explode the enemy dead body into pieces by explosive powder combat magic.
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