I ran back to Kroth after killing Gom and made all of my champions face the camera so in the save file thumbnail it would show them all looking heroic. Running all the way back to the beginning area would take hella long!
I did the same thing. When I killed the final boss he simply died and I looted him. I do'nt remember seein a cutscene or dialogue so I was just like.... what am I supposed to do now? Then my friend who introduced me to the game told me I had to go back to the farm lol
SOMEONE REMEMBERS DUNGEON SIEGE!!! Man, I knew the story was depressing, but damn... 1/14/2024 update In case anyone sees this comment, I want to inform people that new content is being made by the fans. There are several mods released in the last 3 years that are fantastic and worth looking into if you want more Dungeon Siege content. We've put a lot of effort into well crafted mods and campaigns - plus brand new content to further diversify items and monsters.
I wonder if he will do one on Sacred as well. Game vise I think it suffered a similar fate with the third one being a total flop. There even was a project called Unbended that was suppose to bring back Sacred to it's original roots but that died a few years ago.
Dungeon Siege 2 was a classic, my friends and I had soooo much fun local co-op’ing that back in the day. Conversely, Dungeon Siege 3 was one of the games that learned me the hard lesson to never, ever pre-order expensive, limited edition copies of a game based on pedigree alone. We were so disappointed. :(
DS3 had no Chris Taylor, that alone told me it would be jacked, and it was. I never played it until it was on sale for $2.99, and i still felt bad about the money afterwards.
I remember when my dad gave me dungeon siege 2 as my 11th birthday present, I've never been so happy to discover a sequel before, it's still my favorite game to this day
Best part about Dungeon Siege was, even if YOUR main character died. You can still continue the game. Hell you can dump your own character for someone else and the games gives no fucks. It's great.
I didn't even realise my main hero got left behind in one of the mine levels toward the start of the game. I ended up just dumping him leaving him there and finishing the game off without haha.
Dungeon Siege One was epic, and clearly the best in the series. The lesson here is to NOT listen to the LOUD minority because they will lead you away from what made you great. Had Gas Powered Games stuck with their original formula, I think they would have gone on to create a game nearly as good as the Baldur's Gate series. Sad...Dungeon Siege was one of my favorite games in that genre and played it for hours and hours.
Yeah, I'll be honest here - who cares about a story in an action rpg anyway? This is not what those games are for. This game slaps as it did back then. Buncha lord of the rings nerds I swear. All of that bullshit in cutscenes of DS2 was best being skipped anyway. If a story is not clever nor engaging it's useless and DS1 was designed as if they kept that in mind.
@@FafikGrapodol The best games in video game history have some of the best: music, sound effects, writing (story & characters), and gameplay. GPG absolutely should have tried harder to come up with better lore & stories.
"I wanted more Dungeon Siege... and whatever this is, (DS3) is NOT Dungeon Siege" ...Ross Scott, 2015. GearBox should have never listened to those "critics". All that they critized DS1 for, is what made it unique and great. I was a big fan of DS1 and its expansion "Legends of Arrrranna", DS2 felt a bit lackluster but it was fine even if not as good as the original. But DS3... is a trasvesti.
Dungeon Siege 1 felt so friggin ahead of it's time when it came out, and arguably has maintained it's playability through the years (even if modern systems hate running it)
I'm always excited for new videos from you guys! Editing, writing, and voice over are all excellently done as usual. Can't wait for the next deep dive!
If anyone from former GPG reads this: I loved your games like no others back in the day. My brother and I played through the campaigns, especially that of DS1, numerous times. Much respect for your work and I hope that you are doing well!
A few months ago Chris Taylor gave an interview with RTS youtuber Zade. The interview mostly focused on the Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander games, but Chris talks a bit about the studio and Dungeon Siege as well. Worth a look.
Supreme Commander!!! Edited: Thanks for this video I got to learn some more about Gas Powered Games and Chris Taylor. Never heard of Dungeon Siege until now.
i said on a steam forum that Supreme Commander was so innovative for its time! it was the first real game i enjoyed playing back all the first levels again and again never to get bored!
I loved!!!! Dungeon Siege 2... I still remember the first time i´ve played it. We had a LAN-Party, a friend and i had bought this game on the same day... We were round about 10 people and they played all kind of games, we both just played Dungeon Siege 2 for DAYS! All people around us played Counterstrike, Command and Conquer, Warcraft 3 etc., we didn´t care about this fact :D It was awesome and we can´t get enough of it... It´s a memory i never forget, sounds weird, but it´s the truth! It´s so many years ago, i am 37 years old right now and i remember these days like it was yesterday. Great game!
So much nostalgia for the OG Dungeon Siege. Actually installing it on my current PC with the old game discs as we speak! I haven't booted it up, let alone played it, in probably a decade and a half!!
Dungeon Siege has a special place in my heart. I first played the game when my uncle let me borrow the CD for it. Never parted with it since. RPG games I usually played was JRPG's of Final Fantasy, Shadow Madness for the PSX. But this easily takes the cake, no loading screens, the satisfying death sounds of enemies after hacking away at their health, and the seamless moving from boundaries and places, it was amazing ❤ Sad to hear it isn't as big as ot was before, but its legacy on how Dungeon Siege started will always shine out of its tine of existence.
I worked at Wargaming Seattle in the 3 years leading up to its final closure. It was my first studio and one of the best experiences of my life. We truly had a great game in development that was nearing release until everything was shutdown out of the blue for unknown reasons.
When I was 11 I wasn't allowed to get Diablo 2 since my dad played the first one and I'd watch, but because of the tone and all that jazz he didn't think it was suitable for someone my age at the time, so instead got me Dungeon Siege 1 as a way meet in the middle and I was hooked. Eventually I went on to Diablo 2, 3, Torchlight, T2, and now Path of Exile and Hero Siege, but I still fondly look back and still load up Dungeon Siege LoA and Dungeon Siege 2 every so often just to reminisce and play-through them again.
I still play DS with an old friend. Clunky as hell - we love it! Spells often have delay before casing, but I got used to it. Also managed to replay DS2 last year with a LAN party of three(couples mode). DS2 still holds up! Love the effort put into backtracking for better gear. We're currently playing Divinity original sin 2 and while it is amazing on almost all fields, I can't seem to shake off the feeling taht the world has moved on a lot since then, to a far less patient audience.
"If they had a little more financial levy, they would have pushed for a more rich experience..." What? That's BS, at that time it was popular to dumb-down everything for the consoles, which non-gamers bought more than ever before. Simplicity was forced throughout the industry, and that was helped/forced by the fact that big publishers now owned most the studios. Dungeon Siege 3 is a disgrace.
Dungeon siege 1 and 2 were by far my favorite games growing up. I still pick them up from time to time. Man, I wish things went differently. I really hope someone talented either reboots the series or decides to make a spiritual successor down the line.
I played the original all the way through, and the Legends of Aranna expansion. My most significant issue was the linearity of the game. It was "follow the yellow brick road." You couldn't return to an area and have monsters re-spawn, and there was really only one path through the game. I was hoping for something more open-world. Really, more like the old Ultima games I played in the eighties and nineties -- a world you could live in and learn to survive in and explore in a nonlinear way. I played Dungeon Siege 2 part way through, but found I couldn't get into it as much as I did with the first one. Haven't tried the third installment.
Everytime I watched this "The Rise and Fall" I feel sad :( I'd like to imagine some day a billionaire come and buy these *"dead"* games from the _cold hands of big companies_ Like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Square Enix.. They didn't do anything with these titles anyway
I have fond memories of playing this game when i was a kid. Came on a driver cd that came with my motherboard. My best friend and i would play online together. It was funny watching people be lvl 99999 spawning boss monsters in to the game . Also luring noobs to fight the fury boss was hilarious. That giant eyeball with tentacles that shot lasers killed many noobs
I gave Dungeon Siege 1 a try earlier this year. Still runs like clockwork, and is genuinely fun 20 years after its release (the criticisms aside). DS2 on the other hand, was a pain in the ass to get to work on a modern computer, and I had to apply hack upon hack just to get it to load (with A LOT of help from internet resources). Managed in the end though, and man it’s a great game! Beats Diablo 3 handily imo, and I have quite a few paragon levels under my belt.
Dungeon Siege, legendary game start music, and with its expansion Legends of Aranna, deserves a remake. One of the best games I've ever played, and those "best" games are not many for me.
One of my most vivid childhood memories is playing Dungeon Siege with my brother and being spawn camped by mobs. I recently found the game on Steam for dirt cheap so I've been playing it again. It has just the right amount of bugs and bullshit to be interesting.
Yeah... I remember that game. It was fun for the first 10 minutes that I got it to run until it crashed and never started up again regardless of how many steps I went through to fix it. Good times. RIP
You forgot to mention Dungeon Siege 1 had massive but under-used Multiplayer with world-map even larger and non-linear but limited to only 1 character for each player.
I enjoyed Dungeon Siege III enough to play through it twice as a different character. I wanted to see how the story changed and there were real differences in dialogue and a few reactions, but the main path of the game was identical. Now I want to go play through it again.
honestly the best thing about DS was/is the great mods for it, the Ultima V Lazarus & Ultima 6 projects are both great total-conversion mods that use the DS engine to tell better stories and function as better games
The only latest game that I feel captures dungeon siege vibe is Dragon age Inquisition. Even though dragon age doesn’t feature a top down arpg camera, it just feels like I’m back in dungeon siege all over again
Bruhh I got this game in the mail for free back in 2000s😆 Legit played it ALL THE TIME! also the awesome free trial game! Axis and Allies.. Never was really in games like that but that was hella fun!!
Back when I owned a PS3 during my high school days, I was wondering whether or not I should buy Dungeon Siege 3 in 2011. I was focused on buying RPGS to fill the void like Dragon Age, Demon Souls, White Knight Chronicles and Oblivion and had a blast playing them way more than Final Fantasy 13. Plus I've heard a lot of negative things about the game like gameplay, story, writing and voice acting (even though big talented Voice Actors like Crispen Freeman, Laura Bailey, Gideon Emerys and Robin Downe Atkins are in it). So I skipped on it and brought a few Assassin's Creed games. But whenever I saw TH-cam Walkthroughs of Dungeon Siege 3, I felt like part of me should have brought the game and played it so I can have my own opinion of the game, but I owned a PS4 during my College years and it was too late.
Moral of the story: NEVER let Use Boll adapt your game series. It'll end your projects. That's what got the Bloodrayne games killed (that and Midway's closure).
Narrator sounds like the guy from the 'How it's made/Modern Marvels" series on TV. I felt like I was watching this in some future gaming museum amphitheater. ;-p
huu much of fans here! that`s really nice. This was never really something for me I think until Grim Dawn I never liked this genre but good to know. Also learend a lot in the video!
it would be a short video, but another great dark rpg that had issues is "Demonicon". It's currently still on steam, buy it and give it ago if you like dark rpg's or games like dragon age origins.
IF you havent played Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, give it a try, even after all those years there is nothing else out there! I remember my party.. man it was so OP! good times.
made me nostalgic. it was a really good game. it was just unlucky - in 2005 WoW hit EU andmost of rpg fans forgot about other games that were not WoW for many many years.
I didn't think the story was that lackluster in the first game. If you really paid attention and read the various books lying on the ground and talked to all the NPC's you can understand what is happening. Legends of Aranna did a better job at this than the Kingdom of Ehb campaign. DS2 definitely made it more immersive though. I think it should have been mentioned how fun the multiplayer aspects were of the first game during the era when gamespy was still up. The dedicated multiplayer Utraean Peninsula map and its many secrets, with all regions connected via a HUB; and the plethora of mods that came with it.
When I first started playing video games, Dungeon Seige 1 was on top of my list. I played this game for hours. Those were fun times. Anything after is trash
Recently just started 2, and the impression I got was that while the first game didn't have enough features, the 2nd had too many. Enchantment sounded like a good concept on paper, but in reality the finished product is still far inferior to some of the fixed drops from bosses or chests Weapon and armor shops are even more barebone compared to the first game, half the time you end up finding superior equipment instead of buying them There were a lot of quests too, much of it requires backtracking to specific points in previous areas that you might not remember where they were (like finding all the ghosts)
After beating this game, I literally traveled back all the way to the farm where I started. Seamless and no loading screens
Yes! I did it too! It was so great..
You played on hard mode? So few ppl do that, and the game gets so chalenging when u do
Holy shit if I knew this was possible back then...
I ran back to Kroth after killing Gom and made all of my champions face the camera so in the save file thumbnail it would show them all looking heroic. Running all the way back to the beginning area would take hella long!
I did the same thing. When I killed the final boss he simply died and I looted him. I do'nt remember seein a cutscene or dialogue so I was just like.... what am I supposed to do now? Then my friend who introduced me to the game told me I had to go back to the farm lol
dungeon siege 1 owed a lot of its success to jeremy soule's outstanding soundtracks
So true, every game with his music has unforgettable atmosphere. Skyrim wouldn't be half as good as it is without his soundtrack.
Didnt realise it was his music!
The first track on the farm was a true masterpiece and the one when you were nearing fortress kroth.
@@ilovebiscuits7771 agreed
SOMEONE REMEMBERS DUNGEON SIEGE!!!
Man, I knew the story was depressing, but damn...
1/14/2024 update
In case anyone sees this comment, I want to inform people that new content is being made by the fans. There are several mods released in the last 3 years that are fantastic and worth looking into if you want more Dungeon Siege content.
We've put a lot of effort into well crafted mods and campaigns - plus brand new content to further diversify items and monsters.
I wonder if he will do one on Sacred as well. Game vise I think it suffered a similar fate with the third one being a total flop. There even was a project called Unbended that was suppose to bring back Sacred to it's original roots but that died a few years ago.
Yeah, everything I hear about Dungeon Siege is just really unfortunate. DS1 and DS2 were really fun.
I suggest RFoss's game dungeon on the series as well!
Can you point me in the right direction for these?
Dungeon Siege 2 was a classic, my friends and I had soooo much fun local co-op’ing that back in the day.
Conversely, Dungeon Siege 3 was one of the games that learned me the hard lesson to never, ever pre-order expensive, limited edition copies of a game based on pedigree alone. We were so disappointed. :(
yes my experience is identical to yours
Ive also had second thought about DS3.The first and second Dungeon Siege loved them to the core. But luckely about the reviews, ive didnt buy DS3.
Hard way not to oreorder? Ds3 is epic
DS3 had no Chris Taylor, that alone told me it would be jacked, and it was.
I never played it until it was on sale for $2.99, and i still felt bad about the money afterwards.
Consoles destroy PC franchises.
I remember when my dad gave me dungeon siege 2 as my 11th birthday present, I've never been so happy to discover a sequel before, it's still my favorite game to this day
Best part about Dungeon Siege was, even if YOUR main character died. You can still continue the game. Hell you can dump your own character for someone else and the games gives no fucks. It's great.
& you can revive them anytime
I didn't even realise my main hero got left behind in one of the mine levels toward the start of the game. I ended up just dumping him leaving him there and finishing the game off without haha.
LOL that's great.
Exactly. Their leader fell in combat but the trusted companions continue the fight! I love that.
they saved the land in memory of their founder, the first(?) one to take a stand, fight back and rally the people. his death was not in vain. XD
Dungeon Siege One was epic, and clearly the best in the series. The lesson here is to NOT listen to the LOUD minority because they will lead you away from what made you great. Had Gas Powered Games stuck with their original formula, I think they would have gone on to create a game nearly as good as the Baldur's Gate series. Sad...Dungeon Siege was one of my favorite games in that genre and played it for hours and hours.
Yeah, I'll be honest here - who cares about a story in an action rpg anyway? This is not what those games are for. This game slaps as it did back then. Buncha lord of the rings nerds I swear. All of that bullshit in cutscenes of DS2 was best being skipped anyway. If a story is not clever nor engaging it's useless and DS1 was designed as if they kept that in mind.
@@FafikGrapodol The best games in video game history have some of the best: music, sound effects, writing (story & characters), and gameplay. GPG absolutely should have tried harder to come up with better lore & stories.
I actually like that the characters tend to play themselves. It made them feel more alive.
@@FafikGrapodol the fuck are you moaning about. Action games to very good with stories. Action rugs too. And the story is the best part. Of any game
@@themasterninja110 sure a story as compelling as the best of them would be amazing. But I loved DS because of its gameplay and world and nothing more
"I wanted more Dungeon Siege... and whatever this is, (DS3) is NOT Dungeon Siege" ...Ross Scott, 2015.
GearBox should have never listened to those "critics". All that they critized DS1 for, is what made it unique and great. I was a big fan of DS1 and its expansion "Legends of Arrrranna", DS2 felt a bit lackluster but it was fine even if not as good as the original. But DS3... is a trasvesti.
Dungeon Siege 1 felt so friggin ahead of it's time when it came out, and arguably has maintained it's playability through the years (even if modern systems hate running it)
What a fantastic video! These long length documentaries on games in general are such a treat to watch and listen to!
Man it doesn't matter what game it is you make it entertaining keep up the good work
This Is the first game i've ever completed. And possible the only one. Loved that game!!!
I'm always excited for new videos from you guys! Editing, writing, and voice over are all excellently done as usual. Can't wait for the next deep dive!
No bs hiding in the cleaning room at work watching this next to a mop bucket. 😂😂
Where do you work
Yea...can you get me a job there? 😂
I believe it lol
Boss only hears the muffled noise of the narrator.
You rule 😄
Dungeon Siege II was one of the best games I've ever played. Such a pitty we never got a Dungeon Siege III like that.
Dungeon Siege 3 was not a dungeon siege game, but a game I immensely enjoyed
it was terrible. DS3 was a mess.
If anyone from former GPG reads this: I loved your games like no others back in the day. My brother and I played through the campaigns, especially that of DS1, numerous times.
Much respect for your work and I hope that you are doing well!
A few months ago Chris Taylor gave an interview with RTS youtuber Zade. The interview mostly focused on the Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander games, but Chris talks a bit about the studio and Dungeon Siege as well. Worth a look.
Supreme Commander!!! Edited: Thanks for this video I got to learn some more about Gas Powered Games and Chris Taylor. Never heard of Dungeon Siege until now.
i said on a steam forum that Supreme Commander was so innovative for its time! it was the first real game i enjoyed playing back all the first levels again and again never to get bored!
I loved!!!! Dungeon Siege 2... I still remember the first time i´ve played it. We had a LAN-Party, a friend and i had bought this game on the same day... We were round about 10 people and they played all kind of games, we both just played Dungeon Siege 2 for DAYS! All people around us played Counterstrike, Command and Conquer, Warcraft 3 etc., we didn´t care about this fact :D
It was awesome and we can´t get enough of it... It´s a memory i never forget, sounds weird, but it´s the truth! It´s so many years ago, i am 37 years old right now and i remember these days like it was yesterday. Great game!
So much nostalgia for the OG Dungeon Siege. Actually installing it on my current PC with the old game discs as we speak! I haven't booted it up, let alone played it, in probably a decade and a half!!
Dungeon Siege has a special place in my heart. I first played the game when my uncle let me borrow the CD for it. Never parted with it since. RPG games I usually played was JRPG's of Final Fantasy, Shadow Madness for the PSX. But this easily takes the cake, no loading screens, the satisfying death sounds of enemies after hacking away at their health, and the seamless moving from boundaries and places, it was amazing ❤
Sad to hear it isn't as big as ot was before, but its legacy on how Dungeon Siege started will always shine out of its tine of existence.
I worked at Wargaming Seattle in the 3 years leading up to its final closure. It was my first studio and one of the best experiences of my life. We truly had a great game in development that was nearing release until everything was shutdown out of the blue for unknown reasons.
Great memories, 1 & 2. Having that party, outfitting two with bows, one caster, and one tank, managing it all, fighting your way thru.
DS1 is my all-time favorite game! For my money, nothing has ever come close.
When I was 11 I wasn't allowed to get Diablo 2 since my dad played the first one and I'd watch, but because of the tone and all that jazz he didn't think it was suitable for someone my age at the time, so instead got me Dungeon Siege 1 as a way meet in the middle and I was hooked. Eventually I went on to Diablo 2, 3, Torchlight, T2, and now Path of Exile and Hero Siege, but I still fondly look back and still load up Dungeon Siege LoA and Dungeon Siege 2 every so often just to reminisce and play-through them again.
I still play DS with an old friend. Clunky as hell - we love it! Spells often have delay before casing, but I got used to it.
Also managed to replay DS2 last year with a LAN party of three(couples mode). DS2 still holds up!
Love the effort put into backtracking for better gear.
We're currently playing Divinity original sin 2 and while it is amazing on almost all fields, I can't seem to shake off the feeling taht the world has moved on a lot since then, to a far less patient audience.
Supreme commander still rocks in 2019! thanks for FAF (Forget Alliance Forever) project!
Dungeon Siege II is one of my favourite games of all time.
"If they had a little more financial levy, they would have pushed for a more rich experience..."
What? That's BS, at that time it was popular to dumb-down everything for the consoles, which non-gamers bought more than ever before. Simplicity was forced throughout the industry, and that was helped/forced by the fact that big publishers now owned most the studios.
Dungeon Siege 3 is a disgrace.
Please make a documentary on the chromehound game and its amazing community. Love your videos!
Dungeon siege 1 and 2 were by far my favorite games growing up. I still pick them up from time to time. Man, I wish things went differently. I really hope someone talented either reboots the series or decides to make a spiritual successor down the line.
Dungeon Siege 1 and the expansion was my favorite game when I was a teenager
"Obsidian" and "Bland story" are truly words that I never expected to hear in the same sentence before
Play neverwinter nights 2.
I remember playing the 10% demo, was instantly hooked
same here in Aus, got on a PCpower magazine.
@@warmage247 think I got mine from PCFormat whay back when, good times
I’m glad I saw this video. I’ve had this game stuck in my head for months and I could never remember the name.
I played the original all the way through, and the Legends of Aranna expansion. My most significant issue was the linearity of the game. It was "follow the yellow brick road." You couldn't return to an area and have monsters re-spawn, and there was really only one path through the game. I was hoping for something more open-world. Really, more like the old Ultima games I played in the eighties and nineties -- a world you could live in and learn to survive in and explore in a nonlinear way. I played Dungeon Siege 2 part way through, but found I couldn't get into it as much as I did with the first one. Haven't tried the third installment.
Dungeons Siege eternally in my heart, thank you!! All the memories and good times... I'll treasured them for ever.
can chris taylor get any more impressive? I just knew him for Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.
I loved this game. It defined my youth and contributed to the man I am today. Thank you. Thank you for covering it and thanks to the creators.
Even after watching almost all videos on this channel, I still can’t get over the awesome voice of that guy 😁
I would love an episode on Lands of Lore. I sorely miss this series!
Good choice, good choice. Fun Games from a different era.
Everytime I watched this "The Rise and Fall" I feel sad :(
I'd like to imagine some day a billionaire come and buy these *"dead"* games from the _cold hands of big companies_
Like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Square Enix..
They didn't do anything with these titles anyway
I have fond memories of playing this game when i was a kid. Came on a driver cd that came with my motherboard. My best friend and i would play online together. It was funny watching people be lvl 99999 spawning boss monsters in to the game . Also luring noobs to fight the fury boss was hilarious. That giant eyeball with tentacles that shot lasers killed many noobs
I gave Dungeon Siege 1 a try earlier this year. Still runs like clockwork, and is genuinely fun 20 years after its release (the criticisms aside).
DS2 on the other hand, was a pain in the ass to get to work on a modern computer, and I had to apply hack upon hack just to get it to load (with A LOT of help from internet resources). Managed in the end though, and man it’s a great game!
Beats Diablo 3 handily imo, and I have quite a few paragon levels under my belt.
Dungeon Siege, legendary game start music, and with its expansion Legends of Aranna, deserves a remake. One of the best games I've ever played, and those "best" games are not many for me.
That main theme still gives me shivers. Good memories.
I played the crap out of DS1 back in the day. So many memories and loved the music. Great vid. New subscriber
thanks to all the patrons for helping to make this great channel possible.
I wanna see a video on Sacred. Dungeon Siege and Sacred were my favorite games back then, and I think they had very similar fates.
This was the first RPG that I ever played. Man the memories! I loved this game!
Thank you very much for this great and insightful documentary.
The 1st one is a classic as far as I am concerned. Skyrim I feel is very similar in style and I love both of them.
one of my fav games during my childhood
One of my most vivid childhood memories is playing Dungeon Siege with my brother and being spawn camped by mobs. I recently found the game on Steam for dirt cheap so I've been playing it again. It has just the right amount of bugs and bullshit to be interesting.
Yeah... I remember that game. It was fun for the first 10 minutes that I got it to run until it crashed and never started up again regardless of how many steps I went through to fix it.
Good times. RIP
remember playing this when I was a teenager. amazing game!
the first dungeon siege will always be one of my favourite ARPGs of all time.
Just when I was hoping someone was secretly remastering DS 1 & 2 into HD versions... :( Man I loved those games!
Oh man that would be awesome!
You forgot to mention Dungeon Siege 1 had massive but under-used Multiplayer with world-map even larger and non-linear but limited to only 1 character for each player.
Had a pretty nice modding community back in the day to keep the longevity. Still got all of that shit backed up in storage.
Thank you Mr. Jeremy Soule for making my childhood awesome.
I loved the music from Dungeon Siege 1
I enjoyed Dungeon Siege III enough to play through it twice as a different character. I wanted to see how the story changed and there were real differences in dialogue and a few reactions, but the main path of the game was identical. Now I want to go play through it again.
Rise and fall of *Splinter Cell* next?
A New Splinter Cell is on development...
As per the latest news, for a mobile / VR system, if that's not indicative of a far fall for a franchise i don't know what is.
What i really never forget is a god damn song! Its so emotional every time i hear it! Its like a Dawn!
honestly the best thing about DS was/is the great mods for it, the Ultima V Lazarus & Ultima 6 projects are both great total-conversion mods that use the DS engine to tell better stories and function as better games
Dungeon siege series was amazing, its combat and camera system is what nwn2 should have had to make it great
DS1 and 2 was the best and most memorable RPGs I've ever played. Taylor should have kept building it.
i really liked this game, was really fun with room mates over LAN connection, especially the expansion and mods etc
I love this game series. I still hope for a worthy sequel in the franchise one day
The only latest game that I feel captures dungeon siege vibe is Dragon age Inquisition. Even though dragon age doesn’t feature a top down arpg camera, it just feels like I’m back in dungeon siege all over again
Used to spend ages on this baby back in the day, basically Diablo, Dungeon Siege and Command & Conquer
Bruhh I got this game in the mail for free back in 2000s😆 Legit played it ALL THE TIME! also the awesome free trial game! Axis and Allies.. Never was really in games like that but that was hella fun!!
Back when I owned a PS3 during my high school days, I was wondering whether or not I should buy Dungeon Siege 3 in 2011. I was focused on buying RPGS to fill the void like Dragon Age, Demon Souls, White Knight Chronicles and Oblivion and had a blast playing them way more than Final Fantasy 13. Plus I've heard a lot of negative things about the game like gameplay, story, writing and voice acting (even though big talented Voice Actors like Crispen Freeman, Laura Bailey, Gideon Emerys and Robin Downe Atkins are in it). So I skipped on it and brought a few Assassin's Creed games. But whenever I saw TH-cam Walkthroughs of Dungeon Siege 3, I felt like part of me should have brought the game and played it so I can have my own opinion of the game, but I owned a PS4 during my College years and it was too late.
DAMN the music still gives me chills
I actually still like the concept of "Local farmer literally too angry to plow".
I remember what I played this game on the demo when I was so young.
Is it me or is DS1 and DS2's soundtrack much more memorable than any other Dungeon Crawler out there?
The soundtracks were made by Jeremy Soule.
If we talk about Chris Taylor, what about Rise an fall of Total Annihilation? Another good brand, which lies down with no chance for proper sequel.
Moral of the story: NEVER let Use Boll adapt your game series. It'll end your projects. That's what got the Bloodrayne games killed (that and Midway's closure).
Narrator sounds like the guy from the 'How it's made/Modern Marvels" series on TV. I felt like I was watching this in some future gaming museum amphitheater. ;-p
This is exactly what i missing ARPG with 6-8 character in party and action gameplay, not tactical gameplay (Dragon age etc.)
Funny I literally just found the CD while cleaning out my junk drawer lol. might install it for kicks.
DS1 along with neverwinter nights are my childhood.
huu much of fans here! that`s really nice. This was never really something for me I think until Grim Dawn I never liked this genre but good to know. Also learend a lot in the video!
it would be a short video, but another great dark rpg that had issues is "Demonicon". It's currently still on steam, buy it and give it ago if you like dark rpg's or games like dragon age origins.
IF you havent played Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, give it a try, even after all those years there is nothing else out there! I remember my party.. man it was so OP! good times.
made me nostalgic. it was a really good game. it was just unlucky - in 2005 WoW hit EU andmost of rpg fans forgot about other games that were not WoW for many many years.
I didn't think the story was that lackluster in the first game. If you really paid attention and read the various books lying on the ground and talked to all the NPC's you can understand what is happening. Legends of Aranna did a better job at this than the Kingdom of Ehb campaign. DS2 definitely made it more immersive though. I think it should have been mentioned how fun the multiplayer aspects were of the first game during the era when gamespy was still up. The dedicated multiplayer Utraean Peninsula map and its many secrets, with all regions connected via a HUB; and the plethora of mods that came with it.
i loved dungeon siege and still play it today
Dungeon Siege seemed like such a good dungeon crawler series
I love this game a multiplayer of up to 8 KRW for life we made so many mods for this game i miss my old clan
Flexebility in the first game was amazing
DS 2 was such a great game, replayed it like 5 times
DS1 soundtrack is burned in my memory forever.
When I first started playing video games, Dungeon Seige 1 was on top of my list. I played this game for hours. Those were fun times. Anything after is trash
I played DS2 and Exp. like 20 times over and I have no regrets
Recently just started 2, and the impression I got was that while the first game didn't have enough features, the 2nd had too many. Enchantment sounded like a good concept on paper, but in reality the finished product is still far inferior to some of the fixed drops from bosses or chests
Weapon and armor shops are even more barebone compared to the first game, half the time you end up finding superior equipment instead of buying them
There were a lot of quests too, much of it requires backtracking to specific points in previous areas that you might not remember where they were (like finding all the ghosts)
Would love to see The "Rise & Fall of Sacred"
I freaking loved this game and would love to see, something like it in today's technology.