Comments on: Imp-ortant News: Overlord II Demoified

By: Clubbin wit seals

Clubbin wit seals — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:35:06 +0000

@Ben

i have the same problem, no clue why. hoping i can find out soon. btw i downloaded the demo via Steam

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:26:03 +0000

Is the assertion failure part of the messed up download?

I get that error every time I try to run the game.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:19:12 +0000

I just picked up the original for cheap, and am enjoying it with a Logitech gamepad. It’s very funny, and really not quite as evil as it pretends to be (so far I’m doing the same fetch and kill quests that I would do as a hero in a normal action game). It’s very restrictive, and the art style is also is like Fable. I can see myself getting tired of it if it doesn’t pick up steam soon, but I love these little minions.

By: Henrik J

Henrik J — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:36:09 +0000

Anyone know of a way to change the controls? I hate WSAD

By: JKjoker

JKjoker — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:39:55 +0000

@grimskin: you mean selecting only blues and send 1 “homing” in the direction of the body ?, never tried it, well it sounds better than the area thing but it only works if they are dying 1 at a time and you risk having the blue engage the enemy with their puny melee attack and their minuscule hit points

By: DSX

DSX — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:35:30 +0000

a demo! For MEEEEE!

By: grimskin

grimskin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:09:19 +0000

2JKjoker – you can also send them to the corpses to do their job, without setting them a marker. no micro needed this way :)

By: JKjoker

JKjoker — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:03:09 +0000

@Olix : they would if the AI worked right, if you leave them in “follow” mode most of the time they wont resurrect allies (i would say *never* but i’ve seen them do it once or twice), for them to actively do their job you need to set them into an area and that’s really annoying micro with the crappy controls, they are also so weak that they keep getting killed all the freaking time (the reds at least try to stay alive), so you are forced to leave them behind (more annoying micro), you will lose less guys if you have more fighters than if you waste part of your army slots on blues, if they didn’t have the two puzzle based traits “walk on water + only ones able to harm magic enemies” i wouldn’t even use them

By: Howard

Howard — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:59:24 +0000

While Overlord nicked a few basic concepts from Pikmin. saying it is a Pikmin clone is unwarranted. Pikmin is a damned fine game while Codies cheap imitation lacked anything to make it endearing.
Poor controls, awful boss fights and the most constrictive, linear path I’ve ever seen in a game made it a very poor package all round.

Can’t see this new one being any different either, particularly as Codies have continued to get worse and worse in recent years.

By: Raisinhat

Raisinhat — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:03:22 +0000

Feels just like overlord 1, only shinier and with more interesting things to do.

Which is a very good thing – I loved the first one despite its flaws because it was charming and well written and if this can do the same then I’ll definately be purchasing.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:17:49 +0000

The mouse and keyboard controls get complaints because they were less dynamic than the pad controls. For no good reason you couldn’t fight freely and guide minions as you could with a pad.

By: Wacky

Wacky — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:45:57 +0000

Why do people complain of Overlord 1/2’s Mouse and Keyboard controls?If you’ve been using them for a while these games should be a breeze.I’ve finished the first just fine with them.

The demo is pretty short and underwhelming,but then again so was the demo for the first game.I am really glad they finally added a minimap though.