Dungeon Keeper Lite

[AccountingDrone]

I just loaded the app version on my tablet [OK along with some zombie vs gardener one, and bejeweled blitz. *sigh* I can't believe I am sunk so low as to try to play on a tablet. Boredom sucks.]

Well, it is interesting, and totally screwed up - they want micropayments to buy gems to do pretty much anything - I am the totally wrong target user for these micro payment extortionists - I will happily play for hours and never make a single micropayment, I have been playing games for so long that if it gets slow, I will read while sitting for something to respawn/finish digging/manufacturing. I am probably the only person I know that will grab my phone and start reading a book if I need to wait something out. [One monster I needed for my holy watersprinkler in EQ1 had a 45 day respawn timer. Took me almost a year to finally get the damned mob. I more or less lived on the spawn point and just chatted until he spawned and I managed to get enough guildies in game to get him.]

Anybody else playing? My toon is named Socrates Myers.

[EricKei]

The reviews pushed me away from it (don't have a table anyway ) The main thing the reviews all focussed on was the incessant microtransactions basically suckin gmuch of the fun out of it x.x which sucks, as the original on PC was brilliant.

[lordlundar]

The reviews pushed me away from it (don't have a table anyway ) The main thing the reviews all focussed on was the incessant microtransactions basically suckin gmuch of the fun out of it x.x which sucks, as the original on PC was brilliant.

Well of course the reviews focused on that. That's all the App is! Well, that and the borderline illegal method of padding their rating score.

[Geek King]

I tried it, but there are much better games out there, frankly. I play Puzzlecraft and Valkyrie Crusade mostly, these days. I'm Ogredjinn on VC, if anyone's looking for just a fun guild rather than competitive. I just like to collect the pretty cards

[Kheldarson]

I played the original two on the PC. Won't be getting the App. I'd rather pay for a full game without microtransactions for a higher cost than a game with microtransactions for a lower cost. Just ignore my Candy Crush addiction though.

[EricKei]

Heck, the original on GOG or a similar service is probably cheaper than this one by now

Luv that narrator.

[lordlundar]

Heck, the original on GOG or a similar service is probably cheaper than this one by now

Luv that narrator.

10 minutes in the original game and the sequel on GoG are cheaper than that drek.

[Kheldarson]

Heck, the original on GOG or a similar service is probably cheaper than this one by now

Luv that narrator.

GOG?

And <3 the narrator

[AccountingDrone]

GOG.com is an almost-abandonware site that sells really fun ancient games for next to nothing, I picked up Dungeon Keeper 1 for $4.99, and got some bundle of 4 or 5 other ancient games at the same time, and it is already hooked into an ancient WIN3 emulator so you don't have to screw around trying to get it running on a new computer.

[Kal]

holy watersprinkler

Just to chip in, I remember being told once at a museum that they called maces (with or without spikes) those back in the middle ages. Priests weren't allowed to carry swords but would occasionally carry a mace for self-defence.

Also agree with the old Dungeon Keeper games - the humour, character and randomness were the main draw of them to me, and the new app didn't manage to keep any of those.

[Pimento]

I played it for quite a bit. I did end up purchasing gems (I do in most games anyways. I'm not a patient man lol) but I haven't even looked at it in weeks lol. Though I am downloading dungeon keeper 2 from gog.com. I can't believe I've never heard of that.

[lordlundar]

And for those of you looking for a modern graphics option, There's a Dungeon Keeper like game in development called War for the Overworld (which was the planned subtitle for DK3). Endorsed peter Molyneux (the head of Bullfrog before the EA buyout), it's shaping up to be Dungeon Keeper game for the next generation.

[AccountingDrone]

Just to chip in, I remember being told once at a museum that they called maces (with or without spikes) those back in the middle ages. Priests weren't allowed to carry swords but would occasionally carry a mace for self-defence.

Also agree with the old Dungeon Keeper games - the humour, character and randomness were the main draw of them to me, and the new app didn't manage to keep any of those.

I had heard that I really have enjoyed DK1 - I played it all the way through when I originally bought it back in 1997 or 8, whenever it originally came out. The added levels came with the GOG issue of it, the 'Deeper Dungeons' and when I get to the end of the regular ones, I will do those.

I played it for quite a bit. I did end up purchasing gems (I do in most games anyways. I'm not a patient man lol) but I haven't even looked at it in weeks lol. Though I am downloading dungeon keeper 2 from gog.com. I can't believe I've never heard of that.

Still refusing to buy gems. I counted up the wall segments to be removed all the way back to null, and it will take me until next April to get them all - so I am really not in any great hurry. I will amuse myself upgrading all the rooms and doing the middle button raids. I might do some PVP, not sure yet.

[Kal]

I had heard that I really have enjoyed DK1 - I played it all the way through when I originally bought it back in 1997 or 8, whenever it originally came out. The added levels came with the GOG issue of it, the 'Deeper Dungeons' and when I get to the end of the regular ones, I will do those.

I'm not sure if it was DK1 or 2, but there were two messages that occasionally popped up that I really liked. Normally the messages were "You are under attack" or "Your creatures need a larger lair" or the like, but these two were "Your dungeon is on an incline, angry creatures cannot play marbles" and "Your dungeon has too many mistresses. There's a word for keepers like you.". Possibly different wording, but I remember they had a few funny ones like that although those two always made me laugh.

[EricKei]

I seem to recall that wonderfully grim narrator making a comment when I started one of the "secret"/hidden levels. Something about encouraging hordes of cute little bunny rabbits to come into your region so that you could do horrible things to them later on. The glee in his voice was almost palpable, and yet he still sounded for all the world like Vincent Price reading Poe.