Review Dungeon Lords hammered by Action Trip

Tags: Dungeon Lords

<a href="http://www.actiontrip.com/">Action Trip</A>, one of those sites that loves action, has written <a href="http://www.actiontrip.com/reviews/dungeonlords.phtml">a review</A> of <a href="http://www.dungeonlordsgame.com">Dungeon Lords</a>. They hated it like most other people. In fact, the final score is a <b>Don't Bother/10</b>. Ouch. Here's a clip:
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<blockquote>I did manage to reach the town in the end by catching a few "lucky" breaks. Oh, yes… The enemy AI is so stupid that you can easily trick them into killing their buddies by simply making sure the melee fighters chasing you are in the way of the spell casters who are trying to fry your ass. Or you could lure them to a door and then activate the door lock; like sliding doors in shopping malls, the wooden doors will keep trying to close and at the same time, keep slamming into the unfortunate enemies trying to get through. The whole scene looks utterly stupid, but it's fun in a way. Often, the enemy would get stuck on doorframes too, at which point I would switch to my bow and arrow and stick arrows in them until they were dead. Priceless AI.</blockquote>
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Actually, I'm pretty sure that door squishing thing was intentional and is a feature. <b>D.W. Bradley</b> must have played <A href="http://dmweb.free.fr/">Dungeon Master</a>!
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Thanks, <b>space captain</b>!

 

Is that meant to be a "Don't Bother out of 10"?
Or "'Don't Bother' or 10"

Checked:
As I originally posted over here, the score is 10 out of 100.

as all ActionTrip's scores are out of 100:
http://www.actiontrip.com/index/reviews.phtml

 

Damn, it was funnier when I thought it was "Don't Bother out of 10".

 

I wonder what DW Bradley's up to now...

 

Two flops and counting.

 

Innovating.

 

Begging his publisher to give him a second, or maybe third, or fourth chance to 'make things right'. Dreamcatcher, being a bunch of softies, will probably give him another chance, and he'll release a second Dungeon Lords game that apologizes for the first. Instead of listening to him talk about how Dungeon Lords was the amalgamation of 20 years of RPG research and development, he'll be more likely to admit that Dungeon Lords was a 'flawed, if not brilliantly conceived game that never reached fruition due to a variety of issues' in a no doubt upcoming GameSutra 'post mortem' feature and how Dungeon Lords 2 plans to take everything good from the first game and make the game that they truly wanted to make.

Or some such.

 

it was supposed to be his last game - but its questionable if he would go out on a note like this, tho

he probably needs to cut his losses - his last 2 games were both complete garbage

 

What was before DL?

 

Wizards & Warriors. It was pretty awful. It was basically a wizardry clone done poorly.

 

kinda funny how Wiz8 was pretty cool without his ass

a bit too much combat tho

 

Wizards and Warriors was very good RPG. Not as good as previous works from DW Bradley like Wzardry 6 and 7, but still very good.

Oh and it can't be finished in 2 hours like Fallout...

 

Yeah, it just drags on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...

And come on people, what's with all the Wizardry 6 and 7 worship? They sucked, they weren't good RPGs, and they were barely adequate dungeon crawls. Wizardry 8 is infinitely better than anything Bradley ever conceieved of.

 

Yeah, I agree. I was pretty miffed when SirTech finally made the ultimate party-first-person game and then promptly folded.

I still think Wizardry 7 was a good game though. However, Wizardry Gold sullies/insults my memories of it somewhat - all that tarting it up with very crappy voice overs and sound fx just ruined it. Dumbasses.

As for Wizards and Warriors, well i've already made my opinion known in posts over the years. It is certainly not upper echelon stuff, but no way is it as bad as people like to make out.
In terms of flops, no way is it in the league of Dung Lords.
After a bit of perserverance (and it required some - initial impressions were not at all favourable) I found myself quite enjoying it.