Dungeon Siege
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Dungeon Siege
Customer Review: Dungeon Siege
Summary: 1 Stars
Sucky game. Really wasn't good.
OK that's all I was going to write, honestly, but I'll add this. Though no one will ever read it....
The game is titled Dungeon Siege very aptly. Like a real siege, it's drawn out and extremely dull involving cruel amounts of suffering without end and with no lapses or breaks at all.
Not to even consider the literal aspect of laying siege to a dungeon. What moron would ever lay siege to a dungeon?! its below ground, full of monsters, cramped, and dangerous. A simpler solution would be to roll a heavy stone in front of the hole and call it a day.
ALSO: in soviet russia, dungeon sieges you!
Now then, in practicality, I don't suggest the game. Seriously, I wish I had spent the time staring at a post.
Customer Review: outstanding classic role playing game
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though not a big fan of RPGs, I find Dungeon Siege absorbing and interesting in any sense.
You can play it over and over with different characters or alone. Since realizing that my fellow companions were hindering my progress through levels and getting killed easily, I decided to go alone despite being quite harder and requiring some time to hack your enemies.
The visual fields are just fantastic, whether raining or snowing, the thing I rather fear is the battles in the dungeons.
Maybe not perfect but for the price better than perfect. Only downside you get a sore hand from frequent mouse clicking.
Recommended 5 stars.
Customer Review: dungeon siege
Summary: 5 Stars
the game is great its action are a-1 the battle system is very good the characters are a-1 i will recomend ths game to anyone who likes rpg or someone who is new to rpg games is easy to learn even if you dont have alot of experence with rpg games on the pc top rated game from top to bottom. michael wilson
Customer Review: Never liked a game more.
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is six years old, an eternity in the world of computer games, but I would rather load up my old DS disk and play an hour or two of this than any other game that I've played since.
(BTW, for anyone who would still consider buying a game this old: there's no need to buy DS anymore, as the expansion Legends of Aranna includes the original DS as well as the expansion. So don't get DS, and don't get DS II, get Legends of Aranna. Anyway...)
One of the most common criticisms of this game is that it is too easy. That is absolutely correct. If you are a hardcore gamer who isn't happy unless you're pushed to the limits of your key-punching abilities, you'll hate this game. If you want your brain scrambled by mind-numbing puzzles, you'll hate this game.
Me, I push keys and scramble my brain all day at work. The last thing I want is to come home after a hard days work and face...more work. I want a non-challenging escape, and DS I is the best game I've ever found for delivering just that.
Here's why I love DS I:
It's beautiful. Proof that you don't need to fill the screen with eye-numbing detail to make a visually arresting game. (Wish they had understood this when they made the miserable DS II).
It's atmospheric. All of the many environments in the game are well done, each has a feel, the music is great, it draws you in.
It's intuitive. If you want a game that you don't need a manual for...this is it. If you think something is likely to work...chances are it will. If you bet a nickel that right-clicking on something will accomplish goal A, you'll make a nickel every time.
It's a game that doesn't revolve around mastering the interface. No need to repeat keystroke combinations ad infinitum until they are ingrained in muscle memory. You can play this with one hand on the mouse while sipping a daiquiri out of a coconut with the other. Really.
It's slick. Never had a hitch with this game. I'm no programmer, and my meager attempts at modding the game were very superficial, but it gave the feeling at least of having well-planned architecture and clean code.
It has simple charm out the wazoo. There's no way to describe or define this, it just is. (DS II, by the way, lacks charm to the same extent that DS I exudes it.)
Sadly, after five years and the dismal failure of DS II, which sucked and alienated most of the DS community, a lot of the user-generated content that used to be available online has disappeared. Used to be there was a good score or two of complete user-generated campaigns you could download. Some were as good as the original and can still be found.
About half of computer games I dislike right from the start and give up on after half an hour. The other half I like for a while until their flaws finally get to me and I wind up hating them. Dungeonsiege is the ONLY game that I like now in retrospect, years after playing it, as much as I liked it the first day I fired it up.
I have a dream...that some day the D&D franchise will be ripped from the cold dead hands of Atari and its genetic material mixed with that of Dungeonsiege I, resulting in the ultimate action-RPG.
Customer Review: AN EXCELLENT ACTION-cRPG!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an action cRPG that came out after DIABLO II and just before NEVERWINTER NIGHTS. And it blew both of them out of the water!
Not as deep as NWN, yet the story engaged you enough to make it more than a hack'n'slash. Not as dark as DIABLO II, yet blood fever will take hold of you once in battle. A number of innovative ideas made DUNGEON SIEGE a unique experience: the cinematic perspective, the original characters (machine-gun shooting medieval robots!), the fighting-back pack-mule...
At the same time, both the enemies' and your company members' AI is well above par.
Graphically, this is a 4 year game yet it plays much smoother and it has further horizons than most cRPGs today. Even if, to any true cRPG fun, graphics is not everything (otherwise DAWN OF MAGIC would have been considered a great game), DUNGEON SIEGE is found wanting in nothing when it comes to graphics. Not until TITAN QUEST got released could any cRPG hold a candle to DUNGEON SIEGE! Tress and grass move as you pass by, water ripples as you step into it and wakes as you walk through it. Everything worn or wielded appears on the character; whereas, magic spells are not shabby at all.
The game also sports a GREAT CAMERA PLACEMENT (zoom capable and totally customizable) and has one of the BEST SOUNDTRACKS - the theme music will stay with you as the appropriate theme for any epic battles in the future.
Those of you who were (rightfully) disappointed with the truly bad and much shorter DUNGEON SIEGE 2 (I still cannot fathom how they managed to botch that one!), keep in mind that it has only skin-deep similarities to its predecessor. This is the one to buy!
You will enjoy it more than most latest games!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!