Comments on: I’ve Been Playing: Overlord

By: Delboy

Delboy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:27:47 +0000

Available this weekend (14th/15th November) on Steam for a massive £1.50 – for those that are interested :)

By: mejobloggs

mejobloggs — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:03:06 +0000

I got it for $10 off Steam. The first 30 minutes was a joy to play, but after that I gave up since there didn’t seem to be any challenge in the game

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:46:37 +0000

Thanks for the review – the completionist (completist?) in me trembles at the idea of yet another game I am tempted to buy in a weekend-Steam sale when I hardly have enough time for everything else.

I mean, there’s this Left4Dead demo crying out to me here…

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:24:43 +0000

Yeah I played through half the game and then stopped. It was good, but it just didn’t hook me.

Anymore I find that unless a game grabs me with full force from the get go it gets abandond real fast.

For shame, I used to be the very definition of a completionist too.

By: Gnarl

Gnarl — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:48:31 +0000

I’d recommend pushing on throught to end, to any having toruble, as it has one the better ones and it doesn’t take that long. And it owes more to Fury of the Furries in my opinion.

Oooh, and which voice work was hated? One the people I knew at Uni did one of the main characters, so I wonder if it was them.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:05:53 +0000

yes you bloody can kick the gits, face them+melee, it can even screw you up (when all your ranged units are lying down after a kick they are less deadly).

By: Kast

Kast — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:37:23 +0000

I tried the demo a while back and, while the idea of rebuilding the entire tower appealed to me, I couldn’t bear the idea of being a goody-two-shoes sort of bad guy :S It’s like a boy scout went goth and doesn’t quite know how to do it. You can’t even kick your gremlins, come on! How is an evil mastermind supposed to keep the troops inline without being able to kick their staff into a bloody pulp?

By: Masked Dave

Masked Dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:59:53 +0000

I very, very nearly gave up on Overlord and didn’t return.

But the smashing was just too compelling.

Also you need to get to the end to realise why they made the plot they did, rather than the one you wish they’d made. (Although it still would have been better if they’d done the one you want.)

By: Shon

Shon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:06:56 +0000

@Hermes

I still play Evil Genuis on occasion. There was a fansite who made a patch for it that really helps. I remember reading that Hotels were completely broken and it was pointless to make one. Other than that, I enjoy it. I found that setting aside 10 percent of your base to be corridors filled with locked doors and traps off to the side catches enemy troops like fly paper. As long as it connects back to your main base, the enemy AI will spend forever trying to get through it before giving up.

I like Evil Genius but it can be slow with long gaps of you watching the base waiting for something to happen. Overlord sounds far more active.

By: Cigol

Cigol — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:56:46 +0000

This reminds me, whatever happened to that RETRO GAMING ARCHIVE you were building?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/03/24/the-rpschive-week-one/

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:55:19 +0000

I’m going to ask the inevitable question now we’ve mentioned DK, where’s DK3?

With the follow up question of, who owns the rights to make DK3?

With the further follow up question of, how much do they want for it?

By: Acosta

Acosta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:44:23 +0000

I really like Overlord for itself -but, of course, if I drops the Dungeon Keeper card, this game suffers a lot, it’s more gentle compare it with something like Pikmin-. The story is charming and have some neat moments (good work of Rhianna Patchett), some of the sarcastic takes on traditional high fantasy figures are genuinely funny and the games gains some deepness once you start having different minions, each one with different habilities, so there are some fancy tactics and some ok puzles.

I think is a good idea in a competent game, I would recommend it to anyone.