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Game News Dragon Wars, Stonekeep and Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader now available on Steam

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Tags: Black Isle Studios; Dragon Wars; Interplay; Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader; Reflexive Entertainment; Stonekeep

Back in September, we learned that Herve Caen was looking to sell Interplay's remaining intellectual properties. As far as I can tell, he's yet to find a buyer willing to pay for them all. That may have something to do with why over the past half year or so, Interplay has been releasing its games (the majority of which were longtime GOG-exclusives) on Steam. It may also be why they're being sold for a higher price than on GOG, which is total bullshit. Whatever the case, as of today all of Interplay's RPGs that they still own are available on Steam, which is worth a newspost.

That means 1990's unofficial Bard's Tale sequel Dragon Wars, 1995's live-action dungeon crawler Stonekeep, and 2003's famously disappointing historical fantasy RPG Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader. Of these three games, Dragon Wars is probably the only unambiguously good one, although it's also the least modern. All three cost $10 on Steam, as opposed to GOG's $6, which is...yeah (although Dragon Wars does have a 40% discount until next week because it was released today). In short, wait for a sale. Hopefully there'll be a decent one at some point. Herve doesn't seem to do them as often as he used to.
 
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DW and Stonekeep are both great. Lionheart is kinda shitty to be honest. If you have to play it just play through barcelona then delete it.
 

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Stonekeep is amusing, but not great by any measure. Terrible combat even for a RT blobber and the graphics have aged worse than Dragon Wars'
 

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"Interplay's unofficial sequel to the Bard's Tale trilogy that nobody played. An underrated game that combines Bard's Tale's first person exploration with the skill-based roleplaying of Wasteland."

I played Dragon Wars when it was released, but didn't get very far in it (got sidetracked by "life"). Guess I get to finally go back and revisit it.
 

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Stonekeep is absolutely great.
What's so great about it ? I was amazed back then that due to stereo you could hear from which direction the enemies were coming, and the graphics were mind-blowing. But the 'puzzles' were almost as retarded as the songs on the ice level and the game seemed to become worse and worse the closer you got to the end. Or is there some redeeming factor which would make it replay-worthy?
 

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Stonekeep was okay, but it occupied that weird-ass place in video games when they were becoming really big productions with video, lots of voice acting, and photorealistic graphics, while not exactly having the chops to pull it all off.

But the trailer! I remember watching this thing a million times, it came on my CD for the Lord of the Rings game that Interplay made in the mid 90s.

 
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The gold old days when you could murder half naked wombynz in rpg :bounce:
 

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The Fairy Level songs and interactions were the best... "Murph!"
 

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