LGR - Dungeon Keeper - DOS PC Game Review 

You mean "Bad"?

Old games didn't have graphics to fall back on, they had to relie on game play. It's like comparing radio and tv. Radio has to have a good story because it can full back on 10 seconds of silence as someone does something benign.

I was there. Quake and Unreal engine was the best. All others only third.

Why? Half of the greatest games of all time were made in the 90's

@@michaelluck5577 DK aged well

You're not alone there, man.

I'm sure you had a few mistresses.

Ben Sanders haha, that I did.

Osquar are you feeling alright buddy? Do you have a thing you want to share with us?

the only difference is that having a game costs less money

He is also the equally amazing narrator for the spiritual successor of Dungeon Keeper, War for the Overworld.

He also voiced War for the Overworld, a spiritual DK3.

Wolfebane42 Peppa Pig is quality. I watch it with my kids all the time.

Richard Ridings is the voice actor's name. I wish he'd do a DK-style gps narration thing.

The gap is mind blowing.

he's got a great voice and utilizes it to it's full potential, which is like half of the joy of his videos. Second perhaps only to his obvious love for the subject matter.

yeah, but his editing and production are on point too

You are pure quality.

Cynical Inquisition single tear rolls down my face

Well honestly speaking, there can be issues in his videos but since we are hypnotized by the nostalgia, we ignore them automatically :P

I was always sad they never made that superhero game they'd talked about throughout the 90s but never managed to bring together.

exactly.. I still play theme hospital and dungeon keeper 2 from time to time war for the overworld is pretty good too

EA ruins everything.

They wanted to add Bullfrog to their gelatinous mass.

bullfrog still exists they just make games for xbox now.

Tomb raider II

Diablo one love

Quake II

twas a golden age. i played several of those.

Fallout best game

Or possess an imp and attack your creatures for the sake of experience, grinding yourself to level 3 and gaining the speed ability. Or throw a bunch of guys in the barracks, possess one of them and lead the party to the victory - through the rivers and lava with no bridges, with no need for flags, additional money etc., etc.

Yeah, you can mine faster, and scout, also abuse corners

@@Ajoura you have to train imps in training room.

possess a chicken and get yourself eaten

It's so awesome to be able to wander through your own dungeon that you made. Plus I had to use it to beat some levels where the enemy cheated by rushing me before I even had beds so spamming screaming projectiles was my only option

I got it for free this way too. Currently I haven't installed it anywhere, but I've been meaning to see about getting it running on a ye-olde Transmeta Crusoe-based laptop, somehow.

Origin had it for free a couple months ago, which is where I snatched it from.

Same here. Managed to get it working even on my phone (needs bluetooth keyboard/ mouse but still a thousand times better than that "official" mobile abomination.

That was tempting, but its to much hassle to carry extra stuff around, also wanted to get Theme hospital on it, there is a work around, but im lazy and dont really want a game that ill spend hours on for a game ill play on the toilet at work

Mike Dix get magic dosbox off the playstore its the best dosbox on android. it runs dungeon keeper quite well on my samsung galaxy note 3. there are videos here on youtube that show you how to setup the games to run magic dosbox just search its name

That's what the multiplayer was-- One player would play the dungeon master, and the other would control the humans.

You can experience it in real life too! Just join a D&D group with a vengeful DM!

Reminds me of the quest to dodge 200 lightning bolts in Final Fantasy X...ugh.

@@StrayGuitarist no that's not how it worked.

Glad it didn't go unnoticed :)

MagikGimp good on you, sir (or madam) for writing "a lot" as two separate words :)

@@thiccest Most people separate a lot these days. alot was a 90's thing.

Definitely. I was thinking he must have had to play the full game through to record that shot before making the video. Nice work

Yeah, Dungeon keeper is my fav game as well, if you couldn't tell :)

Lepa EA killed EA. Damn, they were good. Just like Ubisoft, SE, and others....

budakbaong siah EA killed all od the best studiów :( They dont care about gamers only makes money. I never forgive destroy od Westwood and Bulfrog. Amaizing RTS series .. My favorite. I Hope that they will not buy CD PROJECT. They tried once already

They fucked over Westwood in the same way. Bioware games are the only EA products I buy. If they ever let Visceral make Dead Space 4 I'll buy that too. But really, I hope EA goes out of business. I really do.

CD Projekt RED gave BioWare and Bethesda a massive bitchslap. These companies are supposed to be veterans of the RPG genre and then here comes this (untill recently) small, relatively unknown company from Poland, and shows them how to make a great RPG, something BioWare and Bethesda have apparently forgotten how to do. What's even worse, as far as the business assholes are concerned, they do it while treating the players like adults and not treating their paying customers like criminals. There's a reason why CDPR is revered by gamers, and EA is loathed. For gamers, EA is practically a swear word. What pisses me off about buyouts is this: Ok, some company does well, they make good games and are successful, sales and reviews are good, so someone wants a piece of the action. Right, that's fine, I get it, so then a publisher buys the company. But then they cockblock the developer and try to tell them what to do, they step on the toes of the talented ccreative people that made them want to buy the company in the first place, and then they act surprised when the next game doesn't sell as well as expected. Well gee! I wonder why. Why the fuck could that be? It couldn't be the dumbass suit sitting in a boardroom that doesn't even play games who can only see the world through the lens of the latest focus group getting in the way of the people that actually know what the fuck their doing. Look at Dead Space 3, that's exactly what happened. What we got was not the DS3 Visceral wanted to make. EA basically forced them and then the sales underpreformed. Even from a business standpoint this doesn't make sense. Why bring on talented, knowledgable people if you aren't going to let them do their job? This isn't just a problem with EA. Activision is no better and neither is Ubisoft or Konami. The real problem is games have become big business. Now we have a bunch of stupid buisnessy rich fucks like Mitt Romney calling the shots instead of the passionate people. This is why CDPR is successful, they care about the games. They make good money and that's great, but they would still be doing this if they weren't making a lot, because it's what they love doing, it's not about the money. The money is just a nice bonus. That's how you know when someone is an artist, or a whore. It doesn't matter what it is, video games, acting, music, painting, writing, whatever, ANYTHING. If they're doing it for the money, they're a whore. If they genuinely love what they do and would still do it if they were poor, they're an artist. When money and big companies get involved in things, they suck all the life, passion, spirit and integrity out of it. I really hope CDPR resists attempts to get acquired, they are publically traded but they are still their own majority stockholder, and I hope EA and the rest of them take a good long look at what CDPR is doing right and what they are doing wrong.

irllcd13 well said man.

i skipped most of your post because Dungeon Keeper 2 is better.

If you liked that game so much then check out Saga Realms, its a fusion of dungeon keeper and majesty the fantasy kingdom together into 1 game and with the control of a RTS.

@@nagash303 no.

war for the overworld was canned just before bullfrog died off.

unless you are talking about a finished version of it that was recently made..

He's talking about a recent indie dungeon keeper clone.

War for the Overworld is a Indie game. It released in pretty rough shape, since they were about to run out of money, but by now it is feature complete and works great buy.wftogame.com/

It's also on Steam.

It's awesome in the sense that it kind of ruins the challenge and half of what makes the game appealing to me, but to each their own :P

did that once by taking control over a dragon. Level 2. Second map of the frozen world, made it stealth like trough their dungeon heart. Destroyed it. 11/10 Would cheap out like this again

I really loved that too. It's pretty overpowered, but trying to finish a level by only possessing one minion is still a decent challenge. You can also get a sort of proto-Minecraft feel if you posses an imp. I bet Notch was a fan of DK. Oh, and you can posses chickens.

Notch has stated that DK was one of many influences :) so you wouldn't be wrong in that assumption.

You could also take over the wasps and fly into areas that were covered by the fog-of-war and where you could not click. The wasps were fast and a sneaky way to checkout your opponent and find weaknesses in their defenses.

I clicked on this from another old youtube video, thinking it must be some 2011 LGR review I had missed out on all these years :D really was happy to see the March 2017 date

loving this.. almost made it through (yes very late to the table)

If you liked that game so much then check out Saga Realms, its a fusion of dungeon keeper and majesty the fantasy kingdom together into 1 game and with the control of a RTS.

Quite welcome!

its a pay day...

The gameplay never got beaten, even to this day.

TheSeanminator still holds a place from my childhood playing dungeon keeper, couldn't agree more.

Gameplay was/is really unique. Try sacrifcing a couple of chickens... :P Or (if you dared!) sacrifice Horny! >:) Or you could (after you had beaten the lvl ofc) slap him a couple of times and watch him slaughter e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g in sight!

He explicitelly states that He likes pixelated dos nigthmares and You should sue him to change his mind, was still shocked that He did not use higher res in this case or was not aware of it, oh well.

_DO IT._

I still have mine in the attic , because I have been to lazy for the past 12 years to throw them out :D

Gabriele Riva im playing fallout 1.

800x600? Bah, we had a Mac with Thousands of colors in 640x480!

Too high. Mode 13h, Mode X or SVGA 640x480 is where it's at ;-)

Pixel art at its finest

Spiritual Sucessor i would call it. It changed and updated way too many things to still be considered a clone, and now a year later it is way better than before too!

Loser's Club you bet! Mines of moria iirc.

Babbleplay it had a bad start but they were struggling with cash flow so it was released in a buggy state. They patched it and is good now.

Babbleplay Yep! It has been refined and is now pretty much as good as the original DK.

Anthony Micari Oh man, I intend to do a playthrugh run for it.

Halala Hululu I'd suggest giving it another shot. They added another campaign and fixed a lot of issues they had on release.

Lol that's awesome

radishdalek now thats an amazing title that i completely forgot about a whole bunch ofem in the early 2000's the one that let you make gator sharks and the one that put you in charge of haunting houses RTS needs a kick ass PC exclusive comeback !

Now THAT needs a review. Evil Genius is one of the titles that I make an effort to go back to because its just FUN.

I wish Evil Genius was better. Really enjoyed it but flawed as hell.

Newer player here, it actually handles pretty well, all things considered. I don't recall ever being confused as to what something did or what was happening where (though sometimes a single imp will go far afield and get himself killed with no prior warning and before I can check the map), and it uses a straightforward point-and-click scheme, with the usual optional hotkeys. And unlike X-Com, buttons do what they look like they do (Book means Library, Egg means Chicken Farm, Nest means Barracks, and so on). And like Clint said, combat is largely hands-off, unlike the micro-management of X-Com, so you won't be coddling each and every minion with split-second decision making. Don't get me wrong, X-Com is a great game, but I get stressed out after a half hour of experimenting with it, so I understand where you're coming from.

nope. I was 6 when I first played it. UI is intuitive as fuck. Good tutorials comes with it. You won't have any problem at all.

I grew up in this era and we pirated most of our games because we were poor schoolkids... Without manual we managed fine (and this was mostly pre internet so no quick online pfds)

I'd say the UI is not an issue here; all the icons have tooltip texts (as far as I recall), and the tutorial levels do explain the most important bits. If anything can be annoying, it's the voiceover announcements. It's not quite Navi, but, well: "YOUR CREATURES ARE UNDER ATTACK." "YOUR CREATURES ARE WINNING A BATTLE." "YOUR CREATURES ARE FALLING IN BATTLE." "YOUR CREATURES ARE WINNING A BATTLE." "YOUR CREATURES ARE FALLING IN BATTLE." "YOUR CREATURES ARE WINNING A BATTLE." "YOUR CREATURES ARE FALLING IN BATTLE." "YOUR CREATURES ARE EATING CANDY."

Thx guys, i totally forgot that it has tutorial-levels and tooltips. O.o I just downloaded it from GOG. ^^

VuRkka EA being EA

Some? Isn't it most? :P It's nice to see that he wasn't always a punching bag. He did start to promise too much in his games and not deliver, but these were his good times.

Why wouldn't he? This is Peter's game and to be frank back in the day he was a prolific developer who could do no wrong. Turns out he could but yeah lmao.

As someone who was extremely excited for Black and White, all I can say is that the criticism is probably warranted.

Larry manages to include a Peter joke in EVERY video. He must really hate him.

The thing about molyneux is that hed over-promise like there was no tomorrow. Even if the game is pretty good, the hype train will still go off the rails. If he could just shut his mouth.

But why? I`m not familiar with DK1-2, so i`d like to know the difference.

No, DK2 was shit compared to the original. The fast combat, slow RTS approach gameplay was perfect. All the little details you don't find in any other games ever made.

I liked both but DK2 was better, I remember playing multiplayer with my friends for hours

I love DK1 a lot. I never really got the change to play DK2 much.

You might be interested in this: keeperklan.com/threads/5435-Why-DK1-is-better-than-DK2