Review Dungeon Lords trashed at GameSpy

Muchos gracias

 

It may be that we see no AAA TB titles. However, take an oft-neglected turn-based Games Workshop license and you can pretty much guarantee your AAA sales.* One trend I find more distrurbing is the lack of party-based games. Many recent/upcoming titles--First Person and Solo. One thing I didn't like about NWN--it cried out for parties...and yet we were stuck with "teleport stone" hire thief *teleport well* unlock door *teleport stone* hire barbarian *teleport well* attack bad guy * get hurt * *teleport stone* hire cleric *heal* hire barbarian *teleport well* etc....


*Yes, I'm looking at you, WHFRP.

 

NWN cried out for parties because, at that time, BioWare had no idea how to do a single character CRPG with a large variety of professions. In fact, I'm not sure they know how to do it to this day. KotOR comes close to showing they have an idea how to do it, but it just seems a bit like they lack enough creativity and imagination to carry through with it.

 

Namco has Warhammer Fantasy rights at the moment. They said they planned on making PC specific titles as well as future next-gen console and handheld titles bearing the franchise. Right now they're supposedly working on a PC-only title, to show people that it isn't a port and they're serious about the PC. Along with publishing Hellgate.

Crafty asians.

 

"One thing I didn't like about NWN--it cried out for parties...and yet we were stuck with "teleport stone" hire thief *teleport well* unlock door *teleport stone* hire barbarian *teleport well* attack bad guy * get hurt * *teleport stone* hire cleric *heal* hire barbarian *teleport well* etc...."

Bullshit. If you did just this; it just proves youa re a fucking moron who doesn't have enough intelligence to play games. Better stop and play tiddly winks instead.

 

What a vague and completely aisine comback. Tsk, tsk.

 

Vague? It was pretty precise. Anyone who needs to port in then port out as well as constantly swap henchmen to complete NWN OC is just plain retarded. Period.

 

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Or...a solo game for a license that virtually invented party-based play is retarded. Take your pick.

Note: I actually enjoyed NWN despite some midgame boredom. I always wondered if Hasbro/WOTC split the license into two: one for solo play (ie nwn and the ps2 spinoffs) and one for party play (toee). It seemed like the solo play was forced on Bioware rather than a legitimate design decision.

 

Not nearly as retarded as anyone that tries to cram such an obviously team-oriented system as AD&D into a single character hack'n'slash diablo clone.