One of my all-time favorite games. I, too, have had many replays. I love it for all of the reasons you mention. Also, the game has an excellent balance between maintenance and play. What I call "maintenance" in an ARPG is any time you have to pause the game and manually manage the members of the party. And that includes combat moves. I love that you choose an attack for each party member, and they are on auto-attack from that point on. I wish Microsoft would do a remaster of this game.
Microsoft could remake or make a new one game with 8 caracters playable, this would be the best game ever! with a little ajustments like speed travel and some class improvements like a skills tree something like that, less history and more action like the first DS!
I think it's great that we are starting to see more and more people feeling nostalgia for this game. It's been 22 years since the game was first announced.
I remeber playing the demo that I got on a game disk in the back of a magazine, than my parents bought me the actual game and I played it many times on my old tower, Its a great game
Same. Bought a magazine that had demos of age of wonders 2 and dungeon siege. Meanwhile, I lost it, and realized that i had forgotten the name of the game. I bought age of wonder 2 and became a fan of the franchise. But I never forgot about the forgotten game (the irony). Bought them all as bundle on a steam sale this month... Didn't regret it.
My neighbor borrowed me a magazine containing Kao the kangaroo as the full version of the game and demos of: Cultures 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, Sudden Strike 2, Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast
This was the exact same way I got to experience the game as a kid. Played the demo at least a dozen times and loved it, then I saw it on a supermarket shelf for cheap and asked my parents to buy it for me. After many playthroughs as a kid, I got the game and its expansion on Steam later on and replayed it a couple more times. Unfortunately, my attempted playthroughs of Dungeon Siege 2 never lasted more than a couple hours. I disliked the fact that you can "ruin" your character/build by putting points in the wrong/weak skills. That ruined the fluidity I've gotten used to in the first game.
@@sirarthurkingofbobland4159 DS1 and DS2 in this video's context is Dungeon Siege 1/2. Darksouls is almost entirely a different game category, like if Dungeon Siege 1/2 are like an apple and a pear...then Darksouls is like durian fruit.
Played it several times back in the days and never found any secrets besides some secret passages in some dungeons. Searched as a teenager so often for the useage of several obvious questitems.^^
G i just saw your comment. I haven't seen that clan name in ages. Its been so long. Do you remember the old "of agony of agony" spell or the old treasure map and/ treasure island map?
I remember playing this game with my friend on his dads pc and getting super scared in the catacombs so much I didn't want to play it anymore. Good old times
Wow, I searched DS on here as I felt like the only person who really liked the game. Really pleasantly surprised to see such a recent video from a fan! Thanks very much! Yes I loved the game and the atmosphere and scale of the world and its variety! I never got to grips with magic and would only use melee and rangers, though. Thanks for the vid!
My favorite aRPG of all time. I truly miss it, I wish I can go back to being a kid and get to experience it again for the first time like I did 20+ years ago. Now that the source code has been leaked. I hope someone takes it, modifies it and brings it to the modern age.
I loved playing this with my cousins many years ago, and despite the fact that I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it NOW, I had a blast with it back in the day. Mostly for how we would play through the various campaigns, trying new builds, attempting to beat each other's kill scores, and endlessly quoting "That still only counts as one!" any time one of us got the final hit on a boss.
Still my favorite all these years later. Probably the ONLY computer game I ever played that I loved as much by the end as I did at the start. (Usually I wind up love/hating or just hating a game partway through.) As a gamer I guess you could say I’m an “explorer.” I don’t really care about challenge or plot or role-play, I just want to immerse myself in rich environments and discover the cool things hidden in the world, and DS was fantastic for that. I played through DS and its expansions and all the mods I could find, of which there were dozens back in the day. (Mostly hard to find now.) Cool thing was, you could use a developer tool called DSmod (released to the public) to transfer your characters from one game to another, so you could play your favorite toons in world after world. After playing the game many times, and exhausting all the mods out there, I eventually got so homesick for DS that I started a DS-themed Dungeons and Dragons game on Roll20, which I’ve been running for years. Still getting my fix.
I was doing a search on this game because I wanted to see a replay or a video of someone having played Dungeon Siege and wow Protoxx I was so shocked to see you having done a review of this game. I mostly play Runescape now but before I even thought of Runescape there was Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights I remember trying to make a dude with melee and magic abilities or a ranger with magic combat and wow you hit it right on the nose. Loved Dung Siege 1 and 2. I always wanted to get the best and complete sets. Thank you man for sharing this beautiful review!
I actually liked having to walk manually all the way back somewhere if I wanted to go back to another town or something. Very handy is the dropped item near-permanence so you can leave your piles of gold somewhere, especially at the end of the game when you have loads of it. Many times when backtracking I found little potions and odd and ends that I had missed during the action of the first pass. Protip: KEEP THE STARTER KNIFE!
These are some fixes that took about three people all over the internet for like 2 years to find lol! (Most of this is for steam idk if it would work for the disk version) #1 You need to go to the games files and enter the configure menu and turn party shadows off and do the same in the launched game. #2 You may need to turn gamma all the way down to prevent the world from dancing (you'll know what I mean if it happens). #3 Go to your steam menu and right click on DS1 go to property's and click "set game launch options" and type in "zonematch=true" this will enable multiplayer. Do play it it's worth it.
The PVP also left a lasting impression. Editing save files, getting creative with the spellbook and the prefix & suffix buffs, even adding buffs to health potions. I know it wasn't intentional, but it made it unique as well.
Hey Eric I dont play this personally but i really wanted to support you doing what you love and branching into games other than rs so I dropped a like :)
This was also my first rpg game, then I played Ragnarok online, but thats another history, nothing compare with the DS1 game play and such imponent music, exploring the whole map searching for secreat chambers and a lot of stuff, Im actually playing on Steam, This game's just like a old wine.
Introduced to this game thanks to my father. From its release to his deathbed, he loved this game, and it'll always hold a place in my heart. I just wish he was still around...
As a fan of the game and someone who likes to get technical, I would like to point out that melee being overwhelmingly powerful and better than the other classes is both true and false. There are many reasons for this, I'll name a few major ones. If you are comparing same level characters, melee is the most tanky of them all, and it does do more damage than range type apart from a power spike range gets when unlocking crossbows. However, if you are playing with a friend, the amount of kiting, chasing, and healing that melee classes have to do over the other classes makes up for this difference. It is much easier for the other classes to do damage (thus getting exp) without dying in mobs. I would argue that mages are overwhelmingly powerful. If you use spells like nature magic's dancing zap or combat magic's explosive powder, you can bring a group of melee units close and decimate the entire group with just a couple spell casts. This is very micro-managing heavy though, and in a single player campaign game if you bring along a big group of 8 characters (which you've shown is what makes DS unique among its peers) you will find that it is probably too difficult to pull off to be worth it. So mages truly shine above and beyond when you play a solo or with your buddies, while melee is powerful with larger groups. This all changes once high levels come into play. Dancing zap caps at around level 25-30, and ice blast is the next best thing. You are absolutely right when saying that melee and magic hybrids are very strong. Death blast and haste for melee buffs combined with the right items are an extremely strong combination. And to follow up the brief mention of PvP, I haven't really done it much myself so I may be wrong, but I would think melee would be kited more easily in a 1v1. "Real" DS PvP is done by doing some easy edits on the character file to make the ring slots have shields equipped, giving all player characters a 100% chance to block melee and range attacks. That's just a sad truth for the non mage classes. Then again, that's just my take on it, and I realize the video wasn't aiming to be a technical discussion. I enjoyed watching.
Good point about magic! You are correct there, there are those AOE spells that can decimate groups of enemies (even at the high levels with storm spells, cyclone of fire etc) About PvP, yeah you can kite meleee and I didn't actually think about that but when I did it vs my siblings (who like to use either ranged and magic) I always seemed to get them down super quickly with melee (and the haste/regen spells) I have never used a non buffed melee character in PvP though :P
after 20 years i replayed this game and finished it on hard first time playing as a party, as a kid i went solo. was challenging keeping the mages alive in the boss fights, last boss they just melted after serving their healing purpose lol.i kinda wanted more in the end which is a good sign .
dude, i only ever played this then runescape, i love dungeon siege 1 and 2, theres a discord community Kingdom of Ehb and there are so many mods with updated textures + 4k that make it quite enjoyable now
One of the first games I ever remember playing and I've come back to it (as well as DS2) many times since; it still shows up in my dreams now and then. I used to never hear anyone else talk about it favourably (if at all) and thought I was the only one who liked it but I'm glad to see more people now giving this franchise the love that it deserves. You've probably seen it already but Ross Scott made a great, gleamingly positive review of it five years ago as well.
I loved this game and i also played it through a couple of times. Number 1 and 2. I liked the floating platform teleportation system. But my favorite feature of the game was the stat system for leveling. I felt it was incredibly vercitile. Also that you could bring your single player character into a multiplayer game. Stats and all.
2:17 I've, noticed as much. The first time around three years ago I tried the game and abandoned it after 1~ hour when I finally found companion but realised that I couldn't talk to em like with Obsidian companions. Yesterday I actually came back to this game, for completion sake and man is the gameplay slow, around 6 hours in and I finally got to the first large settlement and imho the game feels like a game a streamer would play while debating someone, no offence 😅. I'll still try to complete it for completion sake but I struggle mechanics are a bit confusing like the fact I want to make one of my companions lead the party and be the tank by when I try using formations it's always my main character taking the lead even though I build him as a dps 😅 5:30 Also idk how I missed your comment here 3 years ago, but omg It WAS Harry potter composer, his music is so hecking good, wish he did even more video game music 😢
First game i ever played online when i was about 14. Liked this game alot back then. I even made mods for it and thaught other people how to hack "of Collossus Ring of Collossus" To have twice the STR bonus by making the affix into a prefix aswell.
This is my all time favorite childhood game and it will always be. there is just nothing like it. And as you mentioned, it is indeed very linear and no fast traveling. BUT that is what i love about it, since no other game captures that pure feeling of immersive adventure. there is no game'y loading screens, fast travel nonsense. you just literally walk the entire way. and it also makes inventory managment actually interesting since you know that you can't just teleport back to town and sell everything. so you actually have to think about what you pick up and leave behind. and if you'll bring a pack mule to carry more gear that takes a spot on your team or not. I am right now school for video game programming so that I one day can recreate the magic that dungeon siege had for me and many others for the next generations and bring it into the moderns age.
I used to play this on my moms old dell PC, i worked at a fast food place near by my house. With my first pay check i walked down to wal mart to buy a new game and happened to pick this up. To this day i still have the steam version (with some mods to add in the dlc) on my PC.
I played this game back in 2002 and I had to say the multiplayer experience was almost WOW like. By 2004 the online server had so many bugs/exploits/hackers that I quit and moved on to other MMOs at that time. Great game, Still have my big box collection set.
I found dungeon siege in my nans bookcase back in 2000. She had an old beige desktop pc, it came as a free adddon. I had no idea what i was doing, but i was curious, then i discovered modding. This was my first ever game to mod. And it was glorious.
SO NOSTALGIC! thank you so much for this video... on this summer sale on steam i'm thinking into buying this digital copy just in case ... i miss long campaign games so much!
One of my favourite games of all time ... with Gothic1-2, Blade of Darkness, Legacy of Kain:Soul Reaver, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, Black&White 2 ... it's a shame that I don't find games like that anymore..
To be honest, Dungeon Siege is the only ARPG of its type I liked. I never could get into Diablo or POE. I don't know what it is, but this one game of its genre really captivated me. Probably helps that I'm a huge GPG fan thanks to Supreme Commander.
I just picked these games up thanks to a sale on steam. Spent 3 dollars for all 3 of them. Glad to hear that these games are fun. Gonna check them out soon.
I played the DS1 demo in 2014. I bought the game two weeks ago. Now, I have played the full version. It has been so nostalgic, I am loving it. I haven't played "modern" RPG, so DS1 Iis pretty familiar to me. I used to play Runescspe and I play Tibia, sometimes.
Played the heck out of the demo, which took you up to Hovarts Folly (spelling?). I finally bought a used version of the game, and my friends and I played the campaign through the end. One of my all time favorites.
Thanks for this flashback. This was such an exciting time for RPGs. Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights both came out at this time. I remember meeting Chris Taylor at the Dungeon Siege promotion event (Metrotown Mall in Burnaby where he grew up). Still have the t-shirt, cloth map of Ehb, and box copy signed by Chris (in sparkly gold marker because his other marker ran out of ink). Such a friendly guy, and even his family was all there striking up conversations with all the fans. I'm glad they really pushed for no loading screens, as it made the whole world that much more immersive. Having no fast travel added to the immersion because it really felt like you were going on these long exciting journeys, and it meant that much more when you all of a sudden came across a small village after fighting your way through the wilderness seeing nobody friendly (except your party) for hours. Ok damn, time to go install the game again.
This game is a prime example of how doing things by the book isn't always a bad thing. It feels like every game now tries to be "Subversive" at the expense of actually being fun. Dungeon siege on the other hand is just a typical diablo style RPG with nothing weird or crazy in it, and it's a great experience to this day. It didn't need to follow any weird trends or include gimmicks, it just did what worked, and did it well.
I used to play it all the time between the ages of 10 and 12 (around 2005/2006) recently got a new gaming PC to play Eldenring etc. and for laughs and giggles I bought Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 as well again and man I am still loving this shit!
Man, I love this game, how I wish there were more games like this. I remember finally figuring out how to beat the Utrean Peninsula map for the first time as a kid and was absolutely floored by the amount of content hidden behind the multiplayer mode which I only had the ability to play offline.
Hey, my man! It's me again just checking in on you. How you've been, hope you and your family are healthy?! Sadly I've been really busy with my research for my thesis. But, next week I'm done (finally). Can't wait to get back into runescape again for like 2 months, hehe ye know me!
@@ProtoxxGaming Ah good to hear! Indeed, I haven't experienced it yet. My mate tells me it's pretty fun, though. He made some nice profits as well in the beginning, shame I missed out. Sadly, with the whole COVID-19 situation, my research project came under immense amounts of stress. My spare time was spend sleeping haha. Glad to hear all is still well with you, keep doing what you doing!
Back in the day I really enjoyed playing through DS1 and DS2. DS3 wasn't as original but it was still fun. If we are talking about ARPG, since then I have only played Diablo 3 and am still looking for something fresh that can excite me. Not sure if Diablo 4 will be that game. Chris Taylor is a genius game designer. He made my favourite game of all time, "Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance", and the community perfected it with "Forged Alliance Forever".
Dungeon Siege 1 is a masterpiece. I absolutely hate how ARPGS have decided that chugging potions is an outdated mechanic and now every game lets you heal basically on a cooldown.
I have been playing this game since I can remember! Its one of my favorite games of all time as its the only game we had when I was a child for many years. I have the game on GOG now and I'm sad to say it doesn't run and I can't seem to find out why that is. I'm just happy to see more people that know of an appreciate this game!
I recommend you all to try out the "Legendary Mod" for Dungeon Siege II. It contains a full recreation of the first Dungeon Siege Campaign, LoA and some other maps. Talking about the linear part of the first game, in the mod you have portals if you like it that way and monsters will respawn too. It contains the original music and voice lines too. Recruiting is a bit harder now because you have to pay 10.000 to unlock a slot for the fifth character in Stonebridge.
@@GoofsGuides I think it's good but a bit harder because some monsters do a lot of damage at first. But you can level as much as you need because they respawn all the time. The shops are pretty balanced, just some parts I miss from the first game but I saw some spells being there from the first too. The Armor is also not as same as in the first but I am ok with that.
@@GoofsGuides Both, I once saw a staff weapon in the shop which is from the first game. The staff that looks like a scythe or something like that with gems in it.
Ahh Dungeon Siege. The game where I joined a online server, and - being unawared at that time - some jackass instantly killed me the moment I joined and transmuted all my gear into gold. Good times...
i played this first time as a 12 year old. as a 28 year old, i am still playing this game. Right now, i did the game on solo melee, and i am trying to do the game solo combat mage, with healers next to me. So far, actually easier than melee
Played it as a kid and loved it. Didnt play as much online but my Dad did. Naw I'm replaing it, it's still one of my favorite things to do. didnt finish the campaign as a kid because my mom thoght we played to much and cut the CD in half. sad day.
I just remember this being one the games I played while waiting for WoW to come out. I do remember loving this game though. Pretty much combed through the entire world. Including that desert..
I used to watch my dad play this game when I was little. He would play with all archers/crossbows and beat the game like that. Eventually I went and played it myself and loved it too! I played with 2 sword and board’s, 1 two hand melee, 2 archers, and 2 mages (1 nature/1 combat). And I dragged my pack mule all the way to then end lol.
and yes, controlling 8 Characters was I guess the main reason, I started over so many many times, I wanted to check so many things like 2 melee, 4 ranged and 2 mages then like 1 melee, 4 ranged and 3 mages, or 3 melee 2 ranged 2 mages and so on.. :D or the intense battle as 1 and only melee fighter, so one man army..without companions ( which was a sad, awesome, lonely but great expierence as well) Guess I'll soon start over another Dungeon Siege 1 Run :D just pure nostalgia for this game
My late elder brother and i had at least 3 playthroughs of the 2nd game in multiplayer. Myself and his character and each had two pets iirc. So at least we had a party of 6. I've had at least 3 playthroughs of the 1st game as well. I remember watching my brother play it as a kid and then playing it myself years later. When i heard the music at 5:40 it really hit me hard, i miss those days, better times. Anybody know the name of this piece of music from the DS1 OST?
I play this game every xmas on parents old pc. The game is more party management than ARPG. At its time it had awesome graphics and you could pause in middle of combat and turn camera around, or give orders to party members. Also the pack mule mechanic was nice idea.
There actually was a dungeon siege for the psp called dungeon siege: throne of agony. It was an exclusive and not very popular I think but it was the best game I played on the psp. Have to play that one again.
Exactly my words. Dungeon Siege 1 was also so mystic, because you start the first 30 min all alone, on your farm, and you hack and slay through the forest, through a dungeon, until you meet ulora. I played this Game like 20 times through. the music was so on point and perfect. and I just loved checking every 2 min, how my stats slowly began to increase of my party members *-* Dungeon Siege 2 was nice as well, though not as mystical as dungeon siege 1 but it was also a lot of fun to play and I liked the Talent tree very very much. and nope, I'm not talking about the third game, that wants to be called dungeon siege 3, since they r*ped it and spit it out. So if there is somewhen in the future a Dungeon siege 4, I do hope, that they will bring the mystical beginning of a single Character starting this Game somewhere far away from a village back, and it would be all right if the Talent Tree from Dungeon Siege 2 is included but with the fighting style of auto attacking of dungeon siege 1 if you don't click on the enemies but standing close to them together with many many Companions.
Played through this about a year ago and had a good time. I'll be starting the second game soon, which in my opinion is the best in the franchise. Why did they have to do the third game dirty like that, they could have just had the other playable characters join in as permanent members to fight along side you.
gonna play dungeon siege, back when I had a psp I only play monster hunter and dungeon siege throne of agony, I wanted to play this but no PC available so yeah wish me luck on my first blind run on Dungeon Siege
it's me again :D lol that's truee, melee is the best choice kind of overall. Especially when you make a solo run. I tried once as an only ranged Char without companions...I had to stop that project somewhen after I killed the Goblins, since the bows dealt just like 40 dmg per shot and I was kind off sadly to weak to tank the dmg and it took soo long to kill the monsters after the goblins. the problem is in DS 1 your dexterty sadly is not counted to the damage, like they changed in dungeon siege 2 there the dexterty increases your ranged dmg as well. now, think about it, if they would have done it in dungeon siege 1 as well. a high DEX Character, that deals shit tons of damage because high DEX would have actually increased your damage like Strength did.
Back into its release date, that game was really a thing! I remeber watching on open TV on a selling channel this product, had to buy it thought phone call, and wait it come though the mail.... that was actually one of the first " online" purchases my family did.... that seems to hilarious to rethink as nowadays
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One of my all-time favorite games. I, too, have had many replays. I love it for all of the reasons you mention. Also, the game has an excellent balance between maintenance and play. What I call "maintenance" in an ARPG is any time you have to pause the game and manually manage the members of the party. And that includes combat moves. I love that you choose an attack for each party member, and they are on auto-attack from that point on. I wish Microsoft would do a remaster of this game.
Microsoft could remake or make a new one game with 8 caracters playable, this would be the best game ever! with a little ajustments like speed travel and some class improvements like a skills tree something like that, less history and more action like the first DS!
I think it's great that we are starting to see more and more people feeling nostalgia for this game. It's been 22 years since the game was first announced.
I wish they would make a remaster of the frst game, that'd be sick
I remeber playing the demo that I got on a game disk in the back of a magazine, than my parents bought me the actual game and I played it many times on my old tower, Its a great game
Demo cd in magazines! Wow! That is oldschool
Same. Bought a magazine that had demos of age of wonders 2 and dungeon siege. Meanwhile, I lost it, and realized that i had forgotten the name of the game. I bought age of wonder 2 and became a fan of the franchise. But I never forgot about the forgotten game (the irony). Bought them all as bundle on a steam sale this month... Didn't regret it.
My neighbor borrowed me a magazine containing Kao the kangaroo as the full version of the game and demos of: Cultures 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, Sudden Strike 2, Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast
This was the exact same way I got to experience the game as a kid. Played the demo at least a dozen times and loved it, then I saw it on a supermarket shelf for cheap and asked my parents to buy it for me. After many playthroughs as a kid, I got the game and its expansion on Steam later on and replayed it a couple more times.
Unfortunately, my attempted playthroughs of Dungeon Siege 2 never lasted more than a couple hours. I disliked the fact that you can "ruin" your character/build by putting points in the wrong/weak skills. That ruined the fluidity I've gotten used to in the first game.
You know you're old when you call your pc tower
I never played DS1, but I played through DS2 like 2-3 times. Truly a masterpiece of an ARPG game.
Darksouls 1 and Darksouls 2 are indeed good games.
@@sirarthurkingofbobland4159 DS1 and DS2 in this video's context is Dungeon Siege 1/2. Darksouls is almost entirely a different game category, like if Dungeon Siege 1/2 are like an apple and a pear...then Darksouls is like durian fruit.
Schh, dont destroy the irony. oh well, kinda late now.
So many secrets in that game! Chicken lvl, disco lvl, eastern island, etc. Probably the first game ive played in Lan with a friend
Played it several times back in the days and never found any secrets besides some secret passages in some dungeons. Searched as a teenager so often for the useage of several obvious questitems.^^
No loading screens back in 2002 and you only drink what you need from the health potions.
Good times
Holy nostalgia. I was part of the large modding community and one of the larger clans in DS1 back in the day... KRW / HKRW. The feels
So glad to see people like that around my channel! 🔥
G i just saw your comment. I haven't seen that clan name in ages. Its been so long. Do you remember the old "of agony of agony" spell or the old treasure map and/ treasure island map?
@@A_Guy_Named_Naz lmao! and "of transcendence of transcendence"
Modding truly made this game one of the greatest of all time. Never since have I loved a game so much.
HR/LGC ~xHellRideRx ~
The modding and the editing is in my opinion what makes Dungeon Siege unique. 🧙♂🧑🔧👾🏗🚧⚙🧪
Ah... childhood. I remember never getting that far in the actual main campaign, but soloing the entire Utraean Peninsula campaign instead
I'm actually replaying this right now and it is still an amazing game to me!
Enjoy it :)
I remember playing this game with my friend on his dads pc and getting super scared in the catacombs so much I didn't want to play it anymore. Good old times
Man I relate so well to this! Good to see in the comments
Wow, I searched DS on here as I felt like the only person who really liked the game. Really pleasantly surprised to see such a recent video from a fan! Thanks very much! Yes I loved the game and the atmosphere and scale of the world and its variety! I never got to grips with magic and would only use melee and rangers, though. Thanks for the vid!
I'm replaying it now as a grown person/gamer and magic is super fun and cool.
My favorite aRPG of all time. I truly miss it, I wish I can go back to being a kid and get to experience it again for the first time like I did 20+ years ago. Now that the source code has been leaked. I hope someone takes it, modifies it and brings it to the modern age.
I loved playing this with my cousins many years ago, and despite the fact that I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it NOW, I had a blast with it back in the day. Mostly for how we would play through the various campaigns, trying new builds, attempting to beat each other's kill scores, and endlessly quoting "That still only counts as one!" any time one of us got the final hit on a boss.
Still my favorite all these years later. Probably the ONLY computer game I ever played that I loved as much by the end as I did at the start. (Usually I wind up love/hating or just hating a game partway through.) As a gamer I guess you could say I’m an “explorer.” I don’t really care about challenge or plot or role-play, I just want to immerse myself in rich environments and discover the cool things hidden in the world, and DS was fantastic for that. I played through DS and its expansions and all the mods I could find, of which there were dozens back in the day. (Mostly hard to find now.) Cool thing was, you could use a developer tool called DSmod (released to the public) to transfer your characters from one game to another, so you could play your favorite toons in world after world.
After playing the game many times, and exhausting all the mods out there, I eventually got so homesick for DS that I started a DS-themed Dungeons and Dragons game on Roll20, which I’ve been running for years. Still getting my fix.
I was doing a search on this game because I wanted to see a replay or a video of someone having played Dungeon Siege and wow Protoxx I was so shocked to see you having done a review of this game. I mostly play Runescape now but before I even thought of Runescape there was Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights I remember trying to make a dude with melee and magic abilities or a ranger with magic combat and wow you hit it right on the nose. Loved Dung Siege 1 and 2. I always wanted to get the best and complete sets. Thank you man for sharing this beautiful review!
Unexpected heh :P
A good unexpected.
I'm 48 Protoxx and can say that I have been a gamer for six decades now.
@@rolandocastaneda4429 I'm 22 so you have a lot more gaming experience than I have :p
@@ProtoxxGaming Still I respect your reviews. Thank you so much for sharing this.
5:40 The Grescal / Fortress Kroth theme is absolutely beautiful. I cried several times for real
I actually liked having to walk manually all the way back somewhere if I wanted to go back to another town or something. Very handy is the dropped item near-permanence so you can leave your piles of gold somewhere, especially at the end of the game when you have loads of it. Many times when backtracking I found little potions and odd and ends that I had missed during the action of the first pass.
Protip: KEEP THE STARTER KNIFE!
I had such a blast playing this game, the second one was great too, so I got super hyped when they announced a third one. Too bad it was garbage.
I know right!
These are some fixes that took about three people all over the internet for like 2 years to find lol! (Most of this is for steam idk if it would work for the disk version)
#1 You need to go to the games files and enter the configure menu and turn party shadows off and do the same in the launched game. #2 You may need to turn gamma all the way down to prevent the world from dancing (you'll know what I mean if it happens). #3 Go to your steam menu and right click on DS1 go to property's and click "set game launch options" and type in "zonematch=true" this will enable multiplayer.
Do play it it's worth it.
The PVP also left a lasting impression. Editing save files, getting creative with the spellbook and the prefix & suffix buffs, even adding buffs to health potions. I know it wasn't intentional, but it made it unique as well.
Hey Eric I dont play this personally but i really wanted to support you doing what you love and branching into games other than rs so I dropped a like :)
Thanks mate! Even if you don't watch, that like helps a lot :D
Always enjoyed this game...one of the games that i normally install in any pc that i have because i keep coming back to play it...
This is what I do too :p
Awesome :p
I remember this game as the first and best game I’ve ever played. I wish they did a remaster of this game.
I always played this game as a kid too ❤️
This was also my first rpg game, then I played Ragnarok online, but thats another history, nothing compare with the DS1 game play and such imponent music, exploring the whole map searching for secreat chambers and a lot of stuff, Im actually playing on Steam, This game's just like a old wine.
Introduced to this game thanks to my father.
From its release to his deathbed, he loved this game, and it'll always hold a place in my heart.
I just wish he was still around...
Would love to see a revival, remaster, whatever for DS1. It was pretty much the only PC game I played in my childhood.
Same!
As a fan of the game and someone who likes to get technical, I would like to point out that melee being overwhelmingly powerful and better than the other classes is both true and false. There are many reasons for this, I'll name a few major ones.
If you are comparing same level characters, melee is the most tanky of them all, and it does do more damage than range type apart from a power spike range gets when unlocking crossbows. However, if you are playing with a friend, the amount of kiting, chasing, and healing that melee classes have to do over the other classes makes up for this difference. It is much easier for the other classes to do damage (thus getting exp) without dying in mobs.
I would argue that mages are overwhelmingly powerful. If you use spells like nature magic's dancing zap or combat magic's explosive powder, you can bring a group of melee units close and decimate the entire group with just a couple spell casts. This is very micro-managing heavy though, and in a single player campaign game if you bring along a big group of 8 characters (which you've shown is what makes DS unique among its peers) you will find that it is probably too difficult to pull off to be worth it. So mages truly shine above and beyond when you play a solo or with your buddies, while melee is powerful with larger groups.
This all changes once high levels come into play. Dancing zap caps at around level 25-30, and ice blast is the next best thing. You are absolutely right when saying that melee and magic hybrids are very strong. Death blast and haste for melee buffs combined with the right items are an extremely strong combination.
And to follow up the brief mention of PvP, I haven't really done it much myself so I may be wrong, but I would think melee would be kited more easily in a 1v1. "Real" DS PvP is done by doing some easy edits on the character file to make the ring slots have shields equipped, giving all player characters a 100% chance to block melee and range attacks. That's just a sad truth for the non mage classes.
Then again, that's just my take on it, and I realize the video wasn't aiming to be a technical discussion. I enjoyed watching.
Good point about magic! You are correct there, there are those AOE spells that can decimate groups of enemies (even at the high levels with storm spells, cyclone of fire etc)
About PvP, yeah you can kite meleee and I didn't actually think about that but when I did it vs my siblings (who like to use either ranged and magic) I always seemed to get them down super quickly with melee (and the haste/regen spells) I have never used a non buffed melee character in PvP though :P
You can pull off big moves in single player by pausing the game and then setting your plan up.
after 20 years i replayed this game and finished it on hard first time playing as a party, as a kid i went solo. was challenging keeping the mages alive in the boss fights, last boss they just melted after serving their healing purpose lol.i kinda wanted more in the end which is a good sign .
dude, i only ever played this then runescape, i love dungeon siege 1 and 2, theres a discord community Kingdom of Ehb and there are so many mods with updated textures + 4k that make it quite enjoyable now
Updated textures mod? Sounds good woah
@@ProtoxxGaming How do i get into this group?
oh man... the mod support for this game was awesome. Circle of Lorent was my personal favorite. amazing if you haven't checked it out already.
One of the first games I ever remember playing and I've come back to it (as well as DS2) many times since; it still shows up in my dreams now and then.
I used to never hear anyone else talk about it favourably (if at all) and thought I was the only one who liked it but I'm glad to see more people now giving this franchise the love that it deserves. You've probably seen it already but Ross Scott made a great, gleamingly positive review of it five years ago as well.
Played it many times years ago and it still holds first place in my memories along with games like Battlezone and Civilizations.
I loved this game and i also played it through a couple of times. Number 1 and 2. I liked the floating platform teleportation system. But my favorite feature of the game was the stat system for leveling. I felt it was incredibly vercitile. Also that you could bring your single player character into a multiplayer game. Stats and all.
I just started a new play coop with my wife. For me it has been around 15 years ago since I last played it. But it's still great fun 😎
:D
We're you apart of the modding community?
One of my first PC rpgs. Played around the same time I did never winter nights
2:17 I've, noticed as much. The first time around three years ago I tried the game and abandoned it after 1~ hour when I finally found companion but realised that I couldn't talk to em like with Obsidian companions. Yesterday I actually came back to this game, for completion sake and man is the gameplay slow, around 6 hours in and I finally got to the first large settlement and imho the game feels like a game a streamer would play while debating someone, no offence 😅.
I'll still try to complete it for completion sake but I struggle mechanics are a bit confusing like the fact I want to make one of my companions lead the party and be the tank by when I try using formations it's always my main character taking the lead even though I build him as a dps 😅
5:30 Also idk how I missed your comment here 3 years ago, but omg It WAS Harry potter composer, his music is so hecking good, wish he did even more video game music 😢
First game i ever played online when i was about 14. Liked this game alot back then. I even made mods for it and thaught other people how to hack "of Collossus Ring of Collossus" To have twice the STR bonus by making the affix into a prefix aswell.
This is my all time favorite childhood game and it will always be. there is just nothing like it. And as you mentioned, it is indeed very linear and no fast traveling.
BUT that is what i love about it, since no other game captures that pure feeling of immersive adventure. there is no game'y loading screens, fast travel nonsense. you just literally walk the entire way. and it also makes inventory managment actually interesting since you know that you can't just teleport back to town and sell everything. so you actually have to think about what you pick up and leave behind. and if you'll bring a pack mule to carry more gear that takes a spot on your team or not.
I am right now school for video game programming so that I one day can recreate the magic that dungeon siege had for me and many others for the next generations and bring it into the moderns age.
I used to play this on my moms old dell PC, i worked at a fast food place near by my house. With my first pay check i walked down to wal mart to buy a new game and happened to pick this up. To this day i still have the steam version (with some mods to add in the dlc) on my PC.
I was always proud of knowing the way through the pit of despair, just through trial and error and practice
I played this game back in 2002 and I had to say the multiplayer experience was almost WOW like. By 2004 the online server had so many bugs/exploits/hackers that I quit and moved on to other MMOs at that time. Great game, Still have my big box collection set.
It's been 19 years since I first played this game. And I'm here again in 2023 :D
I found dungeon siege in my nans bookcase back in 2000. She had an old beige desktop pc, it came as a free adddon.
I had no idea what i was doing, but i was curious, then i discovered modding. This was my first ever game to mod. And it was glorious.
Remember playing this game on my uncles computer back in the day, the nostalgia is unreal :')
SO NOSTALGIC! thank you so much for this video... on this summer sale on steam i'm thinking into buying this digital copy just in case ... i miss long campaign games so much!
One of my favourite games of all time ... with Gothic1-2, Blade of Darkness, Legacy of Kain:Soul Reaver, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, Black&White 2 ... it's a shame that I don't find games like that anymore..
To be honest, Dungeon Siege is the only ARPG of its type I liked. I never could get into Diablo or POE. I don't know what it is, but this one game of its genre really captivated me. Probably helps that I'm a huge GPG fan thanks to Supreme Commander.
I just picked these games up thanks to a sale on steam. Spent 3 dollars for all 3 of them. Glad to hear that these games are fun. Gonna check them out soon.
I played the DS1 demo in 2014. I bought the game two weeks ago. Now, I have played the full version. It has been so nostalgic, I am loving it. I haven't played "modern" RPG, so DS1 Iis pretty familiar to me. I used to play Runescspe and I play Tibia, sometimes.
Great game Dungeon Siege! Played it a lot when I was younger. Even had a terrible film adaption by Uwe Boll: In Name Of The King.
Yeah I've seen those movies 😂😂
Played the heck out of the demo, which took you up to Hovarts Folly (spelling?). I finally bought a used version of the game, and my friends and I played the campaign through the end. One of my all time favorites.
Man I can feel your nostalgia through the screen haha :D
DS2 is a forgotten masterpice. Dungeon Siege 3 have gameplay problems, but the story is more than ok.
Thanks for this flashback. This was such an exciting time for RPGs. Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights both came out at this time. I remember meeting Chris Taylor at the Dungeon Siege promotion event (Metrotown Mall in Burnaby where he grew up). Still have the t-shirt, cloth map of Ehb, and box copy signed by Chris (in sparkly gold marker because his other marker ran out of ink). Such a friendly guy, and even his family was all there striking up conversations with all the fans. I'm glad they really pushed for no loading screens, as it made the whole world that much more immersive. Having no fast travel added to the immersion because it really felt like you were going on these long exciting journeys, and it meant that much more when you all of a sudden came across a small village after fighting your way through the wilderness seeing nobody friendly (except your party) for hours. Ok damn, time to go install the game again.
I appreciate you sharing that story! Signed stuff is sick
So many beautiful serene memories :)
This game is a prime example of how doing things by the book isn't always a bad thing. It feels like every game now tries to be "Subversive" at the expense of actually being fun. Dungeon siege on the other hand is just a typical diablo style RPG with nothing weird or crazy in it, and it's a great experience to this day. It didn't need to follow any weird trends or include gimmicks, it just did what worked, and did it well.
I used to play it all the time between the ages of 10 and 12 (around 2005/2006) recently got a new gaming PC to play Eldenring etc. and for laughs and giggles I bought Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 as well again and man I am still loving this shit!
My first ever game! Turned me into still enjoy gaming in my 30s on my free time! How many memories this brought its crazyyyyy!
Not a sub but I love this game man so I was searching to see if anyone is still making reviews and let's plays of it. Nice video!
Man, I love this game, how I wish there were more games like this. I remember finally figuring out how to beat the Utrean Peninsula map for the first time as a kid and was absolutely floored by the amount of content hidden behind the multiplayer mode which I only had the ability to play offline.
Hope it gets reworked some day 😥
Hey, my man! It's me again just checking in on you. How you've been, hope you and your family are healthy?!
Sadly I've been really busy with my research for my thesis. But, next week I'm done (finally). Can't wait to get back into runescape again for like 2 months, hehe ye know me!
Hiya Atlas,
i'm healthy and so is my family, for now at least no corona.
So you have yet to try archaeology?
@@ProtoxxGaming Ah good to hear! Indeed, I haven't experienced it yet. My mate tells me it's pretty fun, though. He made some nice profits as well in the beginning, shame I missed out. Sadly, with the whole COVID-19 situation, my research project came under immense amounts of stress. My spare time was spend sleeping haha.
Glad to hear all is still well with you, keep doing what you doing!
Back in the day I really enjoyed playing through DS1 and DS2. DS3 wasn't as original but it was still fun. If we are talking about ARPG, since then I have only played Diablo 3 and am still looking for something fresh that can excite me. Not sure if Diablo 4 will be that game. Chris Taylor is a genius game designer. He made my favourite game of all time, "Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance", and the community perfected it with "Forged Alliance Forever".
Loved that game, have done that 10 times to the end.
Every now and then I play the soundtrack
Dungeon Siege 1 is a masterpiece. I absolutely hate how ARPGS have decided that chugging potions is an outdated mechanic and now every game lets you heal basically on a cooldown.
I have been playing this game since I can remember! Its one of my favorite games of all time as its the only game we had when I was a child for many years. I have the game on GOG now and I'm sad to say it doesn't run and I can't seem to find out why that is. I'm just happy to see more people that know of an appreciate this game!
Maybe try the steam version instead?
I'm trying out a very balanced build with all 4 skills the same level. Not optimal, but fun variety
I recommend you all to try out the "Legendary Mod" for Dungeon Siege II. It contains a full recreation of the first Dungeon Siege Campaign, LoA and some other maps. Talking about the linear part of the first game, in the mod you have portals if you like it that way and monsters will respawn too. It contains the original music and voice lines too. Recruiting is a bit harder now because you have to pay 10.000 to unlock a slot for the fifth character in Stonebridge.
Does the XP scale well for the difficulty of the game? And are the drops/shops well balanced? If so I'll definitely check it out. I love both games.
@@GoofsGuides I think it's good but a bit harder because some monsters do a lot of damage at first. But you can level as much as you need because they respawn all the time. The shops are pretty balanced, just some parts I miss from the first game but I saw some spells being there from the first too. The Armor is also not as same as in the first but I am ok with that.
@@CultOfSol777 oh nice! Are the items/drops from DS1 or DS2?
@@GoofsGuides Both, I once saw a staff weapon in the shop which is from the first game. The staff that looks like a scythe or something like that with gems in it.
@@CultOfSol777 oh okay, do you know if LAN multiplayer will work on it?
I played the crap out of this game back in the day. I still miss playing online, some of my best times gaming.
Ahh Dungeon Siege. The game where I joined a online server, and - being unawared at that time - some jackass instantly killed me the moment I joined and transmuted all my gear into gold.
Good times...
i played this first time as a 12 year old.
as a 28 year old, i am still playing this game. Right now, i did the game on solo melee, and i am trying to do the game solo combat mage, with healers next to me. So far, actually easier than melee
Played it as a kid and loved it. Didnt play as much online but my Dad did. Naw I'm replaing it, it's still one of my favorite things to do. didnt finish the campaign as a kid because my mom thoght we played to much and cut the CD in half. sad day.
Finishing the campaign is satisfying, don't forget to check out the utrean pelinsula after. Gl
Been a fan of the game for nearly 20 years now.
I just remember trolling with the chicken and summoning mods and PvP
I just remember this being one the games I played while waiting for WoW to come out. I do remember loving this game though. Pretty much combed through the entire world. Including that desert..
I loved this game and this was before I discovered RS. I still have this game plus legends of arana and now I want to play it again lol
Do it :D
I used to watch my dad play this game when I was little. He would play with all archers/crossbows and beat the game like that. Eventually I went and played it myself and loved it too! I played with 2 sword and board’s, 1 two hand melee, 2 archers, and 2 mages (1 nature/1 combat). And I dragged my pack mule all the way to then end lol.
My dad does that too, must be a dad thing. XD
and yes, controlling 8 Characters was I guess the main reason, I started over so many many times, I wanted to check so many things
like 2 melee, 4 ranged and 2 mages
then like 1 melee, 4 ranged and 3 mages, or 3 melee 2 ranged 2 mages and so on.. :D
or the intense battle as 1 and only melee fighter, so one man army..without companions ( which was a sad, awesome, lonely but great expierence as well)
Guess I'll soon start over another Dungeon Siege 1 Run :D just pure nostalgia for this game
My late elder brother and i had at least 3 playthroughs of the 2nd game in multiplayer. Myself and his character and each had two pets iirc. So at least we had a party of 6. I've had at least 3 playthroughs of the 1st game as well. I remember watching my brother play it as a kid and then playing it myself years later.
When i heard the music at 5:40 it really hit me hard, i miss those days, better times.
Anybody know the name of this piece of music from the DS1 OST?
never played it but it looks fun keep up all amazing videos man
I still play this game and i describe it as a old school dragon age
This game taught me how to use mods back when I was 8 classic so many good memories favorite was when found put about the buster sword mod.
Id love to see a playthrough of this game, especially if the content creator really enjoys the game. *wink wink*
I wouldn't mind doing that, however I don't really do lets plays on this channel :c
I play this game every xmas on parents old pc. The game is more party management than ARPG. At its time it had awesome graphics and you could pause in middle of combat and turn camera around, or give orders to party members. Also the pack mule mechanic was nice idea.
My favorite Rs3 youtuber also played Dungeon Siege Pog!!!
There actually was a dungeon siege for the psp called dungeon siege: throne of agony. It was an exclusive and not very popular I think but it was the best game I played on the psp. Have to play that one again.
20 years down the line I have tens of thousands of hours in action-rpgs. Thanks Gas powered games!
My dad showed me it when I was very young, I used to call it “bad guy lady” because of the lady on the cover of the game lmao
Protoxx have you ever played Neverwinter Nights 1 or 2? They are both good and I think if you like DS you will like them as well
Does it have similar gameplay? Cause ive never heard of it. I'd be interested if it does
Man i loved that game when i was younger, I put so many hrs into multiplayer
DS2 is my favorite game ever.
Exactly my words.
Dungeon Siege 1 was also so mystic, because you start the first 30 min all alone, on your farm, and you hack and slay through the forest, through a dungeon, until you meet ulora. I played this Game like 20 times through. the music was so on point and perfect. and I just loved checking every 2 min, how my stats slowly began to increase of my party members *-*
Dungeon Siege 2 was nice as well, though not as mystical as dungeon siege 1 but it was also a lot of fun to play and I liked the Talent tree very very much.
and nope, I'm not talking about the third game, that wants to be called dungeon siege 3, since they r*ped it and spit it out.
So if there is somewhen in the future a Dungeon siege 4, I do hope, that they will bring the mystical beginning of a single Character starting this Game somewhere far away from a village back, and it would be all right if the Talent Tree from Dungeon Siege 2 is included but with the fighting style of auto attacking of dungeon siege 1 if you don't click on the enemies but standing close to them together with many many Companions.
I love this game makes me happy to play.. and the music draws you in....also the game is a challenge...
Awesome video!
Played through this about a year ago and had a good time.
I'll be starting the second game soon, which in my opinion is the best in the franchise.
Why did they have to do the third game dirty like that, they could have just had the other playable characters join in as permanent members to fight along side you.
ikr :( they ruined the series with ds3
The soundtrack 5:39 I will never forget
gonna play dungeon siege, back when I had a psp I only play monster hunter and dungeon siege throne of agony, I wanted to play this but no PC available so yeah wish me luck on my first blind run on Dungeon Siege
Goodluck!!
One of my favorite games ever! I still have the original cd's.
it's me again :D lol that's truee, melee is the best choice kind of overall. Especially when you make a solo run. I tried once as an only ranged Char without companions...I had to stop that project somewhen after I killed the Goblins, since the bows dealt just like 40 dmg per shot and I was kind off sadly to weak to tank the dmg and it took soo long to kill the monsters after the goblins. the problem is in DS 1 your dexterty sadly is not counted to the damage, like they changed in dungeon siege 2 there the dexterty increases your ranged dmg as well. now, think about it, if they would have done it in dungeon siege 1 as well. a high DEX Character, that deals shit tons of damage because high DEX would have actually increased your damage like Strength did.
Back into its release date, that game was really a thing! I remeber watching on open TV on a selling channel this product, had to buy it thought phone call, and wait it come though the mail.... that was actually one of the first " online" purchases my family did.... that seems to hilarious to rethink as nowadays
Thats amazing! I bought it from a game store haha
Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 along with Divine Divinity are literally the best arpgs ever made