Comments on: Retro: Evil Genius

By: Ibrin

Ibrin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:54:53 +0000

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By: Arca

Arca — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:02:22 +0000

On a sidenote, I’ve been playing Dungeon Keeper 2 again lately. Believe it or not, with the latest patch and a couple of compatability modes, it runs like a charm in Vista.

By: Arca

Arca — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:50:57 +0000

Modded conworkers/guards/etc. so that they always have weapons are a godsend for base security.

Soldiers showing up? Just flip to red alert status and watch as your minions EXTERMINATUS everything on the island that doesn’t belong to you.

One thing I hated was the useless sentry guns that wouldn’t fire on anyone untagged, even when being shot. You’d think they’d automatically go into self-defense mode. Maybe use stunners at 100-50% health, and switch to actual bullets when badly damaged?

The ability of investigators/etc. to use magical floor vents was also vexing, since you basically had no chance of protecting items in utterly inaccessible rooms.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:59:09 +0000

I liked Evil Genius but there were some Bad Things that it seemed almost impossible to properly plan for and some of it was far too fiddly.

I still love it, but not in a way that made me want to play it forever. I was a sad panda when my hopes of Evil Genius 2 were blown out of the water.

By: LEEDER KRENON

LEEDER KRENON — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:51:22 +0000

this game was fun for 3 hours.

By: GenericKen

GenericKen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:34:34 +0000

@Alec Meer
“Whenever I mourn the passing of the Dungeon Keeper games and their much-neglected sub-genre – ”
@Vitalis
“DK-esque flash game? Yeah I’d give it a shot for one, I think a fair few would- we played portal flash didn’t we! =p”

What are you guys talking about? Desktop Tower Defense and all of the Defense of the Ancients clones are essentially distilled Dungeon Keeper games.

If you’re looking for something similar theme-wise, Mastermind: World Conquerer isn’t far from a flash version of Evil Genius.

Mastermind: World Conquerer

By: Mr.President

Mr.President — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:23:25 +0000

The best faux-60s videogame soundtrack is without a doubt No One Lives Forever.

I’m not sure about that, Ragnar… I’m having trouble even remembering NOLF music, but the moment someone in this thread mentioned the EG theme, it popped up in my mind like I just played the game yesterday.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:20:42 +0000

I hated the bombs. But it was fun to upload one that was about to explode into your teleporter, and then drop it on one of those damn skarlac things or whatever they were.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:35:48 +0000

The combat in Startopia wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t good, sure, but it was better than, say, the combat in city building games like the Caesar or Settlers series. What was annoying were those damn bombs.

By: Mournful

Mournful — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:19:05 +0000

I thought I was the only one. I just moaned about there not being more games like Dungeon Keeper and Evil Genius, i.e. games where you are purposefully allowed to be evil. Killing lots of do-gooders is so much more fun, if simply for a change of pace from “save the galaxy/kingdom/girl/country/workd” that’s churned out daily.

I mean, I seriously would have loved enslaving the galaxy as Darth Vader, force-strangling slow workers(I only got a small taste of that in that misbegotten RTS offspring) and running the Death Star, while blowing up debris as it passes by and swinging in a leather hammock on the weekend.

Or an above-earth DK with castles for a change, or something like Sins Of a Solar Empire with a more sophisticated evil faction like the Advent, religiously enslaving and brainwashing peepz.
Seriously people, there’s a lot to be said playing the next Mel Gibson-Ron Hubbard-HitlerVaderGoldfinger-Esque Superdevil.
And to be quite frank – I wouldn’t mind living out whatever sinister fantasies lurk within after a agonizing workday in a more sophisticated fashion than games like Postal offer.

Either a good evil in strategy/tactical or properly gored up FPS or sim or Adventure or political something…there is just SO MUCH not being done due to fear of repercussions from both the industry and press and political correctness factions…it’s just sad.

There is evil within us, each of us.
I’d rather vent virtually than blow in real life, to be honest. Catharsis :)

By: Rob Merritt

Rob Merritt — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:07:08 +0000

Wasn’t Rebelion making Evil Genius 2? In 2007 they bought the IP and claimed they were going to do something with it.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:39:40 +0000

Odd; I remember the demo being quite well-done. Certainly compared to the Mercinaries 2 demo on the last PCG coverdisk, which was infuratingly lacking in explanation (and what explanation it did offer came all at once and required mapping symbols to keys that only appear in the out-of-game controls options). And lets not even mention the Just Cause demo.