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Editorial Dungeon Lords teaches life lessons!

Saint_Proverbius

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Tags: Dungeon Lords; DW Bradley; Heuristic Park Inc.

<A href="http://www.gamerdad.com/">GamerDad</a> has a rather quirky <A href="http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=2612">article</a> about <A href="Http://www.dungeonlordsgame.com">Dungeon Lords</a> and the lasting impact it had on one of their staff members. Here's a bit of something close to the beginning:
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<blockquote>He was getting frantic. So I talked to him, and asked him what he was doing. When he told me, I asked ‘would you rather have a poorly made and unfinished but ‘done' comic book when you r brother comes home, or an excellent comic still in progress that you can work on together'. He knew what I was talking about – I had mentioned that phrase many times in reference to an ‘open letter' I had sent to the developers and publishers of the game.
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"That game hurt your feelings, didn't it Dad?"
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"Yes, I guess it did" </blockquote>
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There you have it, <b>D.W. Bradley</b> makes games that leave deep emotional scars.
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.ve3d.com">VoodooExtreme</A>
 

truekaiser

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i see alot of that with oblivion and just about any other major games in the works..
 

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i see alot of that with oblivion and just about any other major games in the works..
You see a lot of people mailing developers of unreleased games to tell them that their game hurt their feelings?

What emotional scars has Oblivion given to anyone? It's not even out yet.
 

truekaiser

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Sol Invictus said:
i see alot of that with oblivion and just about any other major games in the works..
You see a lot of people mailing developers of unreleased games to tell them that their game hurt their feelings?

What emotional scars has Oblivion given to anyone? It's not even out yet.
no over hyping and delivering only a fraction of what they promise.
 

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I don't know if you've played the piece of dreck known as Dung Lords, but I doubt the situation with Oblivion and "any other major games in the works" is anywhere near comparable.
 

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If there is a patch with all the fixes for Dungeon Lords out there, it must be bigger than the original game itself...
 

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Hey Shagnak - where's your list of shit games?

You must surely have 'Trespasser' in there - one of the most heavily bashed, yet enjoyable (often unintentionally) gems ever...
 

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truekaiser said:
Sol Invictus said:
i see alot of that with oblivion and just about any other major games in the works..
You see a lot of people mailing developers of unreleased games to tell them that their game hurt their feelings?

What emotional scars has Oblivion given to anyone? It's not even out yet.
no over hyping and delivering only a fraction of what they promise.

Way to go off topic. :roll:
Geez, some people will do anything to bring Oblivion into a thread that isn't even about it.
 

truekaiser

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Mech said:
truekaiser said:
Sol Invictus said:
i see alot of that with oblivion and just about any other major games in the works..
You see a lot of people mailing developers of unreleased games to tell them that their game hurt their feelings?

What emotional scars has Oblivion given to anyone? It's not even out yet.
no over hyping and delivering only a fraction of what they promise.

Way to go off topic. :roll:
Geez, some people will do anything to bring Oblivion into a thread that isn't even about it.

i was useing it as a example not as a way to hijack the thread.
 

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Shagnak said:
I don't know if you've played the piece of dreck known as Dung Lords, but I doubt the situation with Oblivion and "any other major games in the works" is anywhere near comparable.

I have played four times Dungeon Lords. The terrible thing is : Dungeon Lords is the best crpg of 2005 so far. Like it or not. The situation with Oblivion and any other major games in the works : they will more suck than Dungeon Lords, I assure you.
 

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theverybigslayer said:
Dungeon Lords is the best crpg of 2005 so far. Like it or not. The situation with Oblivion and any other major games in the works : they will more suck than Dungeon Lords, I assure you.

please, PLEASE stop smoking so much crack. if you actually believe DL was the best CRPG of 2005, proceed with sterilization and make a better world for future generations.

my god, i feel like exterminating all life after reading that comment. i wish i could vomit directly into your mouth.

if you know of anything that sucks more than DL, then the end is nigh. a black hole on the earth's surface will surely drag in the entire galaxy.
 

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One Wolf said:
theverybigslayer said:
Dungeon Lords is the best crpg of 2005 so far. Like it or not. The situation with Oblivion and any other major games in the works : they will more suck than Dungeon Lords, I assure you.

please, PLEASE stop smoking so much crack. if you actually believe DL was the best CRPG of 2005, proceed with sterilization and make a better world for future generations.

my god, i feel like exterminating all life after reading that comment. i wish i could vomit directly into your mouth.

if you know of anything that sucks more than DL, then the end is nigh. a black hole on the earth's surface will surely drag in the entire galaxy.

I'm not following. So is Dungeon Lords a good game or not?
 

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Dungeon Lords is FUCKED. i have never played a game so totally fucked. i could attempt to describe the many facets of its sucktitude, but my hands would fall off. let me just name a few:

the manual has typos, some of which list abilities for classes that don't actually get them.

half (i'm not kidding) of the spells are just not included. half! one magic type has about 5 spells total. who the fuck knows why this happened.

playing over the internet is kinda like playing russian roulette, except you find yourself wishing you were dead regardless of the outcome. occasionally you might actually manage to connect to someone, but you can never tell how long you've got before the lag kicks in. not just a little lag. game ending lag.

the largest town in the entire game consists of about 8 NPCs. and hell, they didn't even bother to include furniture in the houses (no chairs, no tables, every building is just bare).

there is NO npc interaction aside from the quests (which only add classes to your char). NONE.

several necassary quests (actually all the quests you get are necessary, there is not even one sidequest in the entire game) are bugged so you just can't complete the game unless you reload old saves far enough back and you light candles and pray to god for forgiveness and write a thank you letter to your grandmother for your birthday present and donate all your organs to needy children with leukemia and swear never to masterbate again ever and become a memeber of the capuchin monks. and then only maybe you get to move on.

even the motherfuckin BOX lies. explore many different types of "terrain" "snow covered mountians" and "caves". actually no. there are none of these. at all.

i could keep going for like forever, but i find myself getting so pissed that i have to go shoot a massive amount of dope or else track down DW Bradley and put screws under his fingernails while tearing his teeth out with a pair of vice-grips.

i hope Heuristic Park is sentenced to the lowest level of the inferno.
 

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Stop being so ambiguous. If you really don't like the game, just COME OUT AND SAY IT.
 

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my god, i feel like exterminating all life after reading that comment. i wish i could vomit directly into your mouth.

You would probably commit suicide if you've read most of his stuff..

Such as the 'Dungeon Lords showed me that turn-based games suck' thingy.

The best thing about Dungeon Lords is that you must equip the ring to beat the last boss, for serious.
 

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Crazy Tuvok said:
I'm not following. So is Dungeon Lords a good game or not?
Wrong question.
There is no better in this year so far for me. I am waiting for Oblivion. But I have no high hopes, I remember the total boredom of Morrowind.
 

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LlamaGod said:
[Such as the 'Dungeon Lords showed me that turn-based games suck' thingy.
I said that because the action combat system in Dungeon Lords is very good. But you can't see it because you are very busy looking for the tables in the houses.
 

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One Wolf said:
[if you know of anything that sucks more than DL, then the end is nigh. a black hole on the earth's surface will surely drag in the entire galaxy.

The games suck more in this year:
Fable (ALERT! console shit!)
Sudeki (ALERT! console shit!)
Dungeon Siege 2 (newest screensaver)
Metalheart (no comment)
X-men legends 2 (ALERT! console shit!)
Bards Tale (ALERT! console shit!)
Kotor 2 (boring)
and many many more
 

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(ALERT! console shit!)

Nevermind the fact that Dungeon Lords was being created with an Xbox port in mind.

X-Men Legends 2 kicks the shit out of it.
 

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LlamaGod said:
(ALERT! console shit!)

Nevermind the fact that Dungeon Lords was being created with an Xbox port in mind.

X-Men Legends 2 kicks the shit out of it.

But Dungeon Lords is a pc game like Oblivion, not a console shit.
You know what I mean when I say console shit. For example you have to collect xp points from the ground after killing a monster.

One more year and you will be playing Super Mario as rpg. Congratulation! I hope Jeff Vogel won't read your comment about x-men.
 

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theverybigslayer said:
LlamaGod said:
(ALERT! console shit!)

Nevermind the fact that Dungeon Lords was being created with an Xbox port in mind.

X-Men Legends 2 kicks the shit out of it.

But Dungeon Lords is a pc game like Oblivion, not a console shit.
You know what I mean when I say console shit. For example you have to collect xp points from the ground after killing a monster.

One more year and you will be playing Super Mario as rpg. Congratulation! I hope Jeff Vogel won't read your comment about x-men.

Collect experience from the ground? that is pretty funny.
 

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When you kill a monster, it drops experience points, little shiny balls. The balls are rolling on, you have to catch them in time, because they disapper. :lol: crpg revolution :lol:
 

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