This game single handedly defined my love for dungeon crawlers back in 2006 and I remember playing the demo on my the family computer and since the demo only had the first 3 floors and you couldn't go any further I would just keep replaying it over and over again. I had heard about Diablo from my cousin who I also watched play RuneScape and Guild Wars which got me both into those games as well I was never able to get Diablo because of obvious southern mom reasons. When I'd go to my dads house he also had the Fate demo on his computer and he saw me playing it all the time and asked me how I was playing it if no one bought it for me and told him it was just a demo and not the whole game, he then proceeded to go to Walmart with me to see if we could find the CD and sure enough right next to all the pc games of the time there it was and man did I play the absolute hell out of it. I've went back to play it here and there, but I recently got really into Diablo 3 which was fun, but after getting kinda bored from it I decided to give Diablo 2 Resurrected a chance since I always wanted to try it, and man I've loved it so much and wish I would have been able to play it as a kid. Just really grateful for the game as a whole. Also side note while the random generated boss that you have to beat as the main "story" of the game is always a random uniquely named enemy depending on the difficulty you set the game on will determine how far down dungeon wise the final boss is, it does seem to vary though if you choose the same difficulty several times. Also summoning venomous wyverns are seen as one the best summons in the game, but where the real meat and potatoes are at is the defensive magic type getting skills like dervish, spectral armor, and a few more that I can't remember the name of it are insanely over powered and I believe most characters go this route as offensive magic spells from what I can remember weren't the best. One other thing I remember was that since Grove was so small they could use the rest of there assets on the dungeon part itself and it is in theory "an unlimited amount of dungeon floors" do the degree that you would never be able to go that far without the console commands, also if you were able to go that far down eventually it would make the dungeon floor into a negative number and if you know anything about how negative integers work in software programming, than you know you don't want to see it because the game is basically broken at that point. Anyways just love talking about this game as it was a big part of my childhood and I will always have a special place in my heart for it. Loved this video!
I'm in your boat played the demo on the family computer over and over . I was a broke kid so no diablo for me... I tried downloading games from online download a virus and mom locked the computer so I couldn't mess it up anymore 😢 only 1hr sessions after that
Oh my I played this when I was like 8 or 9 I’m 22 now and I just randomly thought about it. I found it in a thrift store along with a couple other pc games. It was one of the first games I ever played. I faintly remember it scaring me and I would always hesitate to go back in the dungeon. Such a old memory. Thanks for the nostalgia
So I had a Toshiba laptop back then that had a type of “games store” loaded on it, developed by wild tangent. You got a certain amount of tokens a day, and tokens let you play demos. I used my tokens ALOT on Fate, virtual villagers, Nancy drew games, and Diner Dash. Thank you for reminding me!
Lol today i learned Toshiba made laptops, had no clue they did! Yeah I wonder what deal WildTangent must have worked out to come preinstalled on these computers. I think a lot of the games were pretty threadbare but Fate is awesome! Thanks for the nice comment!!!
My grandfather had this game on his PC automatically but he played a ton of it and even bought the sequels. I played a ton and would make new characters every now and then but every time i logged on to the game id see my grandfather's character absolutely ROIDED AND DRIPPED OUT 😂😂 he always had the coolest items and was always such a high level. Actual legend. Love that guy. I come back to this game every now and then and always have a great time. Such a lovely game.
I used to play this as a kid ALL THE TIME!! Ive been looking for this for YEARS! thank you so much for doing a cover over it, your the only reason ive gotten to relive and re-see one of my fave games growing up :)
I remember playing the demo for hours as a kid and years later, my brother surprised me with a disc that has all 3 FATE games to install on your PC. I currently own all the FATE games on steam having hundreds of hours on them and with the recent announcement of FATE: Reawakened, I'm dying to relive all those memories from my childhood.
thank you for breaking down the concept of a "name"! heard the term tossed around here and there and never really understood it. too afraid to ask! hats off to you, my faithful snuggler! digging the cut of your jib!!!!
I've been playing this game on and off for years and just started hyperfixating on it again. It's like an old friend who reminds me of happier times when I was little.
Completely agree, I just booted it up the other night when I was stressed out and needed to unwind. Perfect metaphor! Classic WoW is much the same way for me, though that got a bit more toxic over time
We begged our mom for the $4/$6 to unlock the entire game. Almost 30 now and I’m still thankful she did. Just the sound track alone brings me back to a simpler time. I wish they would make this into an app even if you had to pay for it like GTA. I would love to go fishing while relaxing to the music and atmospheric sounds of the main town again.
I played this game so much. I asked my parents to buy it for me as a birthday gift. This game made me fall for dungeon crawlers. Following Fate and the sequels I turned to Champions of Norrath and its sequel, Champions: Return to Arms. Then was Dark Alliance, of course. Then Diablo.
Dude I have such fond memories of Champions of Norrath. Used to play that for hours with my brother and our friends as a kid. I remember thinking "this is the best game of all time" when I was like 9 hahaha. Definitely need to make a video on that eventually!
@@IAmTheSnuggler i did a playthrough of Champions 1 & 2 with a buddy of mine after we graduated some years ago. It was an absolute blast. Game was unbalanced as all hell and completely broken. However, it was more fun than when I was a kid tbh.
Fate was the best PVM game growing up. A lot of my now gone and forgotten childhood friends played runescape and WOW, i couldnt join em but my parents bought me this game and I enjoyed every ounce of it.
I played this for ages on my dad's old laptop years before i had even heard of Diablo. It was the only game like it that i knew of when i was a kid. Didnt play diablo till i was a teenager. For at least the first year of me playing it, i was too scared to enter the dungeon, so I just fished all day and explored the town. Somehow i never got bored of that. The mind of a child, man.😂
I kept thinking that I'd heard of this but no, I was just thinking of Torchlight. Which you mentioned at the end of the video and which made a lot of sense as to why I was considering it. I can see the design decisions that carried over, good stuff. Thanks for making this though, I wouldn't have heard about it myself otherwise.
Yeah! I've since played some Torchlight 2 and it really does feel like a more refined fate (it does seem to have less of the charm but I'm sure I'm biased to Fate).. Thanks for the comment and for watching!!!
@@IAmTheSnugglerImagine the next generation of kids playing torchlight, and eventually reflecting on how great the game is. Only that'll be much better than Fate. I'm also biased for Fate too.😊
Okay, this game genuinely has things in it that I wish were in modern Diablo clones lmao. Giving your full inventory to your pet to go to town for selling? More innovative than Steve Jobs. Glad there's RUclips vids about this game. You did a fantastic job covering it.
Very kind of you, thanks! And I know right? I was playing some d2 recently and was missed the pet so bad hahaha, wish you could give your inventory to companions or something
also, fate does kind of have ng+, when you retire your character you can pick one item to keep for your next character (the item gets a huge buff) and the game repeats, you can bring your characters to other fate games as well.
@@IAmTheSnuggler that's my head canon lol anyways thanks for the well written video i had to rewatch it again. you definitely did this classic justice. i subbed and noticed you mainly do horror type games. i dont really play horror games but i suggest checking out carrion. it's a reverse-horror game where you play as the monster. it's an intriguing concept to me but it's definitely not for everyone so maybe take a look at it and see if it's something you'd be interested in:) i got it on a pretty good sale that runs until the 4th and ive been enjoying playing it as well as Fate. thanks for the reply also. you deserve more views with this quality of content. it was great down to the description👌
Holy crap, I didn’t know they also made Polar Bowler lol. I could not remember what the game was called since I was like 5-6 when I played it. Thank you for bringing back that memory too
I remember my mom's computer having just the demo version so we couldn't go past level 3 of the dungeon or progress past level 6. My cousin realized that if you died, you could give some of your experience points to resurrect, allowing you to use collected points to upgrade your skills cuz once you hit level 6, you couldn't spend your points anymore. He was a "low-level" character with the skills of someone 10 levels higher basically.
I played this when I was a kid, I’m 22 now and I was watching a random RUclips video and I heard the word fate and then I remembered this lost memory lol
I've been looking for this game for years and I'm still not sure if this is the one I remember. What I remember is that it was something maybe similar, but the game over screen was different, like the grim reaper with a scythe, I'm not sure if it was this one because the one I remember scared me so much that I ran to tell my dad and he closed the game for me, maybe someone knows or it was just my young mind that saw it worse that it actually was?
I wish this game came to consoles. I loved this game during my teen hood and reminisced about turning my pet into a wolf permanently and spawn wolf summon spell a lot and decimate the caves.
Also if you start fishing and press h the screen will freeze but the exclamation point will still appear and just press h again and spam click and you will almost always catch the fish also when you start the game go to the bearded apron guy to your right and buy a fishing rod to fish for a rare item to sell for money
@@IAmTheSnuggler you actually made me download load to play it haha. I haven’t played it since I was in elementary school and I’m 28 now. I miss it so much
@@TheLinkinparklover2 it is a super fun nostalgia dose! honestly the game really holds up and I still play it when I'm stressed. I was replaying Diablo 2 recently and that game is obviously amazing but I honestly wish it had some of the features as Fate hahah
I remember playing this game on my dad's laptop it introduced me to rpg and I remember me and my little brother fishing and selling rare stuff then sell them, we were too scared to go to the dungeon especially at level 4 because the monsters and the ambitious music scared us especially at night 😂
In 2006 I remember playing around with the game and the cheats because I was too young to really get good at it but I was really taken aback by just how much you could do and I didnt mind the fishing mechanic either
I agree with most of what he's saying, other than what he said on the magic. There are plenty of buff spells and the amount of mana you have is based on how many points you put off into that category when you level up. He just didn't try to upgrade on magic enough to even try it out effectively. I'm even able to make a strong wizard build, as I'm doing now. There is only one type of wizard-based weapon in the game and that would be the staffs, but they're two-handed weapons. Making it to where I can't use a shield or an additional weapon. Even so, I'm still taking bosses and their army/hoards out with ease.
My grandma had a laptop with wildtangent installed years ago.. didn't enjoy it at first .. but as I progressed to floor 10 or so... I ran out of free tries i felt a bit lost... just got it yesterday and I'm still having fun!
Soundtrack to this game is absolutely gorgeous and currently playing it on ear on piano but I want to find the sheet music so bad 😭 Dungeons always gave me and my little brother anxiety attacks especially with the giant spiders and the old man's voice always haunts me to this very day. 🥲 Thank you Grampa for the memories. ;)
is it just me, or was fate a little creepy sometimes? it 100% primed me to be scared of the twisting minecraft caves in the future, and the spider model was the creepiest thing I'd ever seen in the world of my child-safe video games. i know the words "liminal" and (god-forbid) "backrooms" have kinda become fancy trope buzzwords with no meaning, but THOSE dungeon ruins with the parapets and the smooth, rectangular holes/pools remind me of those now, and always have freaked me out. even now looking at them makes my skin crawl. it feels so uncanny to me, like those dreampools and similar liminal spaces do today. and jfc, the MIMIC CHESTS. i'm surprised you didn't mention the mimics. those were TERRIFYING, man. that or i was just a literal baby, lol
youre totally right! I'm sure if I played Fate by myself originally as a kid I'd find it a lot more scary but there is still something slightly creepy. Liminal is a good word. I would guess that's cause everything is under that very childish and friendly-seeming artistic style, so something you feel diverges from it in an unsettling way becomes twice as freaky. Lol I even realized that I should've talked about the mimics in the vid but forgot! TBH there is a lot I left out. Who knows maybe people are burnt out hearing about mimics cause of the dark souls series haha Thanks for the comment!
@@IAmTheSnuggler still a great video without the mention of that particular bit of childhood trauma! tbh i'm glad anyones talking about this game on yt at all, bc for a solid chunk of my life i almost thought it was a dream i had- growing up kinda poor in the 00's me and my older sister basically only had the demo loop for computer games that weren't edutainment, so we quickly became masters at it. well, my SISTER became a master at it, meanwhile i was too freaked out to play it alone much and would just start playing the polar bowler demo and random flash games instead lol
@@IAmTheSnuggler the core gameplay loop stays essentially the same in Fate: The Traitor Soul, but there is just more variety to the game as a whole. More loot, new gear slots 4 total races that have different starting stats and gear etc. It feels a lot better to play as well compared to the previous two.
This game was a huge part of my childhood i wish the final game they made had multiplayer i really wanted to play it with my brother. I checked out torchlight but its just not the same
Loved the review, FATE was also a very big game from my childhood. Will you be doing a review for the expansions as well (Undiscovered Realms, The Traitor Soul and The Cursed King)?
Thanks for watching and the kind comment! I'm considering reviewing them as well, do you think they're different enough from the main game to warrant a revisit? I'd probably do them all in one vid tbh!
This may have been the first PC game i ever bought. I grew up mostly on ps2 and the first xbox but when i went to my grandmothers i played the CRAP out of this game.
Had this game on the family laptop and ended up getting the sequals too. Had so much fun grinding this game out, until I discovered there was cheat codes and maxed out my character with all the craziest gear and the fun was now gone, nothing to work towards!
And here I thought torchlight had at least some good original ideas with the pet system. Seems they copied that aswell from this game. Great retrospective / review by the way. I guess I will give this oldie a try :)
Thanks man! Appreciate the kind words. Also, it's worth noting that many of the Torchlights devs were also the ones who worked on Fate (including the head dev Travis Baldree) so it's less copying somebody else's idea and more reusing their own idea :)
I have sank many hours into fate and let me just say it is a fantastic game also the deeper you go the best the enchants at the penguin get take a ring or necklace and enchant the hell out of it to give it to your next character since they can be put on immediately
This animation makes me thinks of “ Bones” the game that was old as hell on computer on a game company called “WildTengant” this was back then in 2005 and that same animation looks like it. The memories though never forget getting chanced by a swarm of locust’s, evil little bastards I swear.😂
Dude, yes. I can appreciate they were trying something new with the death system but it gets stale so quick. Plus why would you ever just not take the gold penalty and respawn? Awesome game tho!
I really enjoyed playing this game ("Fate" on Wild Tangent Games), it's quite the nice little dungeon-crawler RPG adventure game. I think this game should be ported to different consoles... I've recently downloaded a game called "Fate/GO" (created by Aniplex, Inc.) that reminds me of this older gem ("Fate" by WildStudios/WildTangent)... #FATE #WildTangent #WindowsGames #FATEGO #AniplexInc #AndroidBasedGames #FATEGame
I've almost forgotten about this I have no idea what made me remember it. Apparently there are sequels/expansions? I'm not entirely sure as I only played the original years and years ago and then forgot about it. I'm probably about to buy the steam bundle its like 20 bucks for all 3 lol.
I've been enjoying it so far, I remember always playing on the easiest setting so this time around I went with legendary. It's been great lol and just as mindlessly fun as I remember it. Probably won't touch the sequels until I'm thoroughly satisfied with the OG replay, even though I went ahead and got them too.@@IAmTheSnuggler
I came across this somehow in 2005 in middle school, and I was talking to my friend about how good it was and he was a Diablo 2 gamer. He told me "That sounds like a diablo 2 knockoff" and i looked up diablo 2 later that day and then i thought to myself "nah, this fate game has way better graphics obviously diablo 2 sucks" lol
How did torchlight not get sued by fate? I get it’s the same guy behind it but he left the studio the make a carbon copy of the game in a new studio, with all the major features there (and I vaguely remember before torchlights release they acted like it was ground breaking). I always find the “Diablo clone” moniker funny. Frankly given the way ppl talk about Diablo (which barely any part wasn’t done before 96), Diablo is no Diablo. It can’t live up to the hype (rose tinted glasses), but to be fair they did have the unique and complex story or heaven vs hell with the mortal realm as the battlefield, just how did they come up with that…. But this? It’s the same game reskinned, surely the original studio held rights, at least at the time if not still.
Yeah man, honestly I have no clue and that's a good point. From what I can tell, it's very weird a studio like Wild Tangent made a game like Fate in the first place. Maybe by the time Torchlight came out they weren't even concerned with making games like that anymore they just let it go. TL was popular but it's not like it was some runaway success. I have no clue how these things work behind the scenes. I was very shocked when I was in a bookstore recently and saw this very odd-looking Fantasy themed romance book and recognized the author's name. It was Travis Baldree
This game single handedly defined my love for dungeon crawlers back in 2006 and I remember playing the demo on my the family computer and since the demo only had the first 3 floors and you couldn't go any further I would just keep replaying it over and over again. I had heard about Diablo from my cousin who I also watched play RuneScape and Guild Wars which got me both into those games as well I was never able to get Diablo because of obvious southern mom reasons. When I'd go to my dads house he also had the Fate demo on his computer and he saw me playing it all the time and asked me how I was playing it if no one bought it for me and told him it was just a demo and not the whole game, he then proceeded to go to Walmart with me to see if we could find the CD and sure enough right next to all the pc games of the time there it was and man did I play the absolute hell out of it. I've went back to play it here and there, but I recently got really into Diablo 3 which was fun, but after getting kinda bored from it I decided to give Diablo 2 Resurrected a chance since I always wanted to try it, and man I've loved it so much and wish I would have been able to play it as a kid. Just really grateful for the game as a whole.
Also side note while the random generated boss that you have to beat as the main "story" of the game is always a random uniquely named enemy depending on the difficulty you set the game on will determine how far down dungeon wise the final boss is, it does seem to vary though if you choose the same difficulty several times. Also summoning venomous wyverns are seen as one the best summons in the game, but where the real meat and potatoes are at is the defensive magic type getting skills like dervish, spectral armor, and a few more that I can't remember the name of it are insanely over powered and I believe most characters go this route as offensive magic spells from what I can remember weren't the best. One other thing I remember was that since Grove was so small they could use the rest of there assets on the dungeon part itself and it is in theory "an unlimited amount of dungeon floors" do the degree that you would never be able to go that far without the console commands, also if you were able to go that far down eventually it would make the dungeon floor into a negative number and if you know anything about how negative integers work in software programming, than you know you don't want to see it because the game is basically broken at that point. Anyways just love talking about this game as it was a big part of my childhood and I will always have a special place in my heart for it. Loved this video!
Thanks for sharing your memories! Glad you liked the video!
I'm in your boat played the demo on the family computer over and over . I was a broke kid so no diablo for me... I tried downloading games from online download a virus and mom locked the computer so I couldn't mess it up anymore 😢 only 1hr sessions after that
Oh my I played this when I was like 8 or 9 I’m 22 now and I just randomly thought about it. I found it in a thrift store along with a couple other pc games. It was one of the first games I ever played. I faintly remember it scaring me and I would always hesitate to go back in the dungeon. Such a old memory. Thanks for the nostalgia
I also remember having age of empires and a pirate game that I wish I could remember the name of lol
Hell yeah man! I'm glad you said that cause i didn't even realize it was sold physically in stores hahah
I’m not a game player, but I love seeing and hearing about playing Fate. It helps me understand why so many people enjoy playing video games.
Thank you Ms Catlin!
So I had a Toshiba laptop back then that had a type of “games store” loaded on it, developed by wild tangent. You got a certain amount of tokens a day, and tokens let you play demos. I used my tokens ALOT on Fate, virtual villagers, Nancy drew games, and Diner Dash. Thank you for reminding me!
Lol today i learned Toshiba made laptops, had no clue they did! Yeah I wonder what deal WildTangent must have worked out to come preinstalled on these computers. I think a lot of the games were pretty threadbare but Fate is awesome! Thanks for the nice comment!!!
That's exactly how I found fate lol, I used to play a lot of different demos with my tokens but fate was always top priority
Same exact one as a kid, those games were awesome
I am glad to find that there are more people who have had this experience
Yess omg the free token
My grandfather had this game on his PC automatically but he played a ton of it and even bought the sequels. I played a ton and would make new characters every now and then but every time i logged on to the game id see my grandfather's character absolutely ROIDED AND DRIPPED OUT 😂😂 he always had the coolest items and was always such a high level. Actual legend. Love that guy. I come back to this game every now and then and always have a great time. Such a lovely game.
Fuck, I loved Fate. The soundtrack even now makes me feel happy.
Agreed! Such perfect cozy fantasy music
This man made me nostalgic for a game I've never even played before. Can't wait to see the next video!
Thank you! subscribe to stay tuned!
I used to play this as a kid ALL THE TIME!! Ive been looking for this for YEARS! thank you so much for doing a cover over it, your the only reason ive gotten to relive and re-see one of my fave games growing up :)
So glad to hear that you liked the vid and it brought up some good memories! It was such an important game in my childhood as well
I remember playing the demo for hours as a kid and years later, my brother surprised me with a disc that has all 3 FATE games to install on your PC. I currently own all the FATE games on steam having hundreds of hours on them and with the recent announcement of FATE: Reawakened, I'm dying to relive all those memories from my childhood.
this is your sign!
Which of the 3 (4?) Fate games is the best? My instinct is that the original will still be king.
Your pet is fleeing
Hahahaha
thank you for breaking down the concept of a "name"! heard the term tossed around here and there and never really understood it. too afraid to ask! hats off to you, my faithful snuggler! digging the cut of your jib!!!!
Thank you! If you stay subscribed there's many more concepts like this I can explain to you in future installments
I've been playing this game on and off for years and just started hyperfixating on it again.
It's like an old friend who reminds me of happier times when I was little.
Completely agree, I just booted it up the other night when I was stressed out and needed to unwind. Perfect metaphor! Classic WoW is much the same way for me, though that got a bit more toxic over time
We begged our mom for the $4/$6 to unlock the entire game. Almost 30 now and I’m still thankful she did. Just the sound track alone brings me back to a simpler time. I wish they would make this into an app even if you had to pay for it like GTA. I would love to go fishing while relaxing to the music and atmospheric sounds of the main town again.
@@zearr0 it’s on steam now dog. Take the plunge and step back in time, even if for only a minute
I played this game so much. I asked my parents to buy it for me as a birthday gift. This game made me fall for dungeon crawlers. Following Fate and the sequels I turned to Champions of Norrath and its sequel, Champions: Return to Arms. Then was Dark Alliance, of course. Then Diablo.
Dude I have such fond memories of Champions of Norrath. Used to play that for hours with my brother and our friends as a kid. I remember thinking "this is the best game of all time" when I was like 9 hahaha. Definitely need to make a video on that eventually!
@@IAmTheSnuggler i did a playthrough of Champions 1 & 2 with a buddy of mine after we graduated some years ago. It was an absolute blast. Game was unbalanced as all hell and completely broken. However, it was more fun than when I was a kid tbh.
@@TheForbiddenLean nice! and yeah, makes sense it didnt age too well. Did you emulate it? Or have an OG ps2?
@@IAmTheSnuggler og PS2 baby
Fate was the best PVM game growing up. A lot of my now gone and forgotten childhood friends played runescape and WOW, i couldnt join em but my parents bought me this game and I enjoyed every ounce of it.
thanks for running through the mechanics, i’m a bit disappointed it isn’t a bit more nuanced but i’ll finish my run and have fun :D
If you finish and want more I'd highly recommend playing the Torchlight games if you haven't already, it's literally just fate with way more mechanics
@@IAmTheSnuggler ohhhh thank you i’ll check it out
Omori profile pic on a fate video? Amazing combo
99% of fate players quit fishing right before a rare loot drop
@@Shiftyspace 😂😂😂
Great review Mr. Snuggler! I love the detail and your own personal perspective on the game is very insightful! Looking forward to more content
Why thank you Mr. McDunn!
Man I love this game so much, I used to play the fuck out of it in like 2008. Wish I could find actual play throughs of it on RUclips
You should pick it up on steam!
Great video! I had never heard about this game but now i really want to check it out! Cant wait for the next video!
Thanks so much Mr. Bosawea!
The nostalgia! Till this day I still randomly say “CHOOSE YOUR FATE”
Right??? 😆 soooo nostalgic!
My fav is “you feel refreshed”
this was one of those fever dream games that i forgot about for over a decade until now
We need a live gameplay stream from you!
Thank you! If people wanted to see me do one i'd be down!
I played this for ages on my dad's old laptop years before i had even heard of Diablo. It was the only game like it that i knew of when i was a kid. Didnt play diablo till i was a teenager. For at least the first year of me playing it, i was too scared to enter the dungeon, so I just fished all day and explored the town. Somehow i never got bored of that. The mind of a child, man.😂
I kept thinking that I'd heard of this but no, I was just thinking of Torchlight. Which you mentioned at the end of the video and which made a lot of sense as to why I was considering it. I can see the design decisions that carried over, good stuff. Thanks for making this though, I wouldn't have heard about it myself otherwise.
Yeah! I've since played some Torchlight 2 and it really does feel like a more refined fate (it does seem to have less of the charm but I'm sure I'm biased to Fate).. Thanks for the comment and for watching!!!
@@IAmTheSnugglerImagine the next generation of kids playing torchlight, and eventually reflecting on how great the game is. Only that'll be much better than Fate. I'm also biased for Fate too.😊
The people who made Fate also made torchlight.
Can’t wait for more content 😫😫
Okay, this game genuinely has things in it that I wish were in modern Diablo clones lmao. Giving your full inventory to your pet to go to town for selling? More innovative than Steve Jobs. Glad there's RUclips vids about this game. You did a fantastic job covering it.
Very kind of you, thanks! And I know right? I was playing some d2 recently and was missed the pet so bad hahaha, wish you could give your inventory to companions or something
absolutely adore this game, thanks for the video.
also, fate does kind of have ng+, when you retire your character you can pick one item to keep for your next character (the item gets a huge buff) and the game repeats, you can bring your characters to other fate games as well.
@@hadesnk9980 Hey thanks for the kind words! This game is a gem.
Man I miss the days of playing this game endlessly...and I'm here after the remaster trailer
I used to play this game all the time as a kid. Had a dream about it randomly the other day and now I wish I had the time to play it again😅
This is a huge nostalgia hit for me! I also loved Tradewinds
Glad I brought you back some nostalgia!
the way i made sense of the two burly bald beared guys is that they're twin brothers who decided to live across the street from one another
Lmao I love that! And you know what whos to say you weren't right and they actually are twins???
@@IAmTheSnuggler that's my head canon lol anyways thanks for the well written video i had to rewatch it again. you definitely did this classic justice. i subbed and noticed you mainly do horror type games. i dont really play horror games but i suggest checking out carrion. it's a reverse-horror game where you play as the monster. it's an intriguing concept to me but it's definitely not for everyone so maybe take a look at it and see if it's something you'd be interested in:) i got it on a pretty good sale that runs until the 4th and ive been enjoying playing it as well as Fate. thanks for the reply also. you deserve more views with this quality of content. it was great down to the description👌
This is my first ARPG game I play and torchlight 1
Nice! I need to play torchlight and the Fate sequels
My grandma had a game launcher back in the day on her pc that had this game on it. So much nostalgia
I remember hearing about this game watching G4 network back in the day when i was like 7 or 8, played a lot of this game back in the day
This my first rpg and still my favorite game of all time
Holy crap, I didn’t know they also made Polar Bowler lol. I could not remember what the game was called since I was like 5-6 when I played it. Thank you for bringing back that memory too
I had phase when I got my first computer of being completely addicted to that game haha
This is awesome!! I can’t wait to see more videos 🎉🎉🎉
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I remember my mom's computer having just the demo version so we couldn't go past level 3 of the dungeon or progress past level 6. My cousin realized that if you died, you could give some of your experience points to resurrect, allowing you to use collected points to upgrade your skills cuz once you hit level 6, you couldn't spend your points anymore. He was a "low-level" character with the skills of someone 10 levels higher basically.
I played this when I was a kid, I’m 22 now and I was watching a random RUclips video and I heard the word fate and then I remembered this lost memory lol
Nice! Hope you liked the vid!
Oh my gosh I used to play this in 2009 when I was 7 all the time
I played this via Yahoo! games back in teh day
This guys narration is what I need in my life lol it's like LevelCap crosses with the fat Electrician😂
I've been looking for this game for years and I'm still not sure if this is the one I remember. What I remember is that it was something maybe similar, but the game over screen was different, like the grim reaper with a scythe, I'm not sure if it was this one because the one I remember scared me so much that I ran to tell my dad and he closed the game for me, maybe someone knows or it was just my young mind that saw it worse that it actually was?
I wish this game came to consoles. I loved this game during my teen hood and reminisced about turning my pet into a wolf permanently and spawn wolf summon spell a lot and decimate the caves.
Also if you start fishing and press h the screen will freeze but the exclamation point will still appear and just press h again and spam click and you will almost always catch the fish also when you start the game go to the bearded apron guy to your right and buy a fishing rod to fish for a rare item to sell for money
This was the best game ever. I miss it so much
It is indeed a gem of a game/
@@IAmTheSnuggler you actually made me download load to play it haha. I haven’t played it since I was in elementary school and I’m 28 now. I miss it so much
@@TheLinkinparklover2 it is a super fun nostalgia dose! honestly the game really holds up and I still play it when I'm stressed. I was replaying Diablo 2 recently and that game is obviously amazing but I honestly wish it had some of the features as Fate hahah
Man, I miss being a kid and playing this game when I was five and now I’m going to college in a few days…
I remember playing this game on my dad's laptop it introduced me to rpg and I remember me and my little brother fishing and selling rare stuff then sell them, we were too scared to go to the dungeon especially at level 4 because the monsters and the ambitious music scared us especially at night 😂
lmaoo the fishing mechanic is truly so fun and addicting
In 2006 I remember playing around with the game and the cheats because I was too young to really get good at it but I was really taken aback by just how much you could do and I didnt mind the fishing mechanic either
Also I would definitely play a 2024 multiplayer fate game, I feel like it had its charm.
I agree with most of what he's saying, other than what he said on the magic. There are plenty of buff spells and the amount of mana you have is based on how many points you put off into that category when you level up. He just didn't try to upgrade on magic enough to even try it out effectively. I'm even able to make a strong wizard build, as I'm doing now. There is only one type of wizard-based weapon in the game and that would be the staffs, but they're two-handed weapons. Making it to where I can't use a shield or an additional weapon. Even so, I'm still taking bosses and their army/hoards out with ease.
I loved how you could change you're pet
Im playing through this on my phone with a pc emulator. Its just as much fun as i remember when i was a kid.
My grandma had a laptop with wildtangent installed years ago.. didn't enjoy it at first .. but as I progressed to floor 10 or so... I ran out of free tries i felt a bit lost... just got it yesterday and I'm still having fun!
Soundtrack to this game is absolutely gorgeous and currently playing it on ear on piano but I want to find the sheet music so bad 😭 Dungeons always gave me and my little brother anxiety attacks especially with the giant spiders and the old man's voice always haunts me to this very day. 🥲 Thank you Grampa for the memories. ;)
is it just me, or was fate a little creepy sometimes? it 100% primed me to be scared of the twisting minecraft caves in the future, and the spider model was the creepiest thing I'd ever seen in the world of my child-safe video games.
i know the words "liminal" and (god-forbid) "backrooms" have kinda become fancy trope buzzwords with no meaning, but THOSE dungeon ruins with the parapets and the smooth, rectangular holes/pools remind me of those now, and always have freaked me out.
even now looking at them makes my skin crawl. it feels so uncanny to me, like those dreampools and similar liminal spaces do today.
and jfc, the MIMIC CHESTS.
i'm surprised you didn't mention the mimics. those were TERRIFYING, man.
that or i was just a literal baby, lol
youre totally right! I'm sure if I played Fate by myself originally as a kid I'd find it a lot more scary but there is still something slightly creepy. Liminal is a good word. I would guess that's cause everything is under that very childish and friendly-seeming artistic style, so something you feel diverges from it in an unsettling way becomes twice as freaky.
Lol I even realized that I should've talked about the mimics in the vid but forgot! TBH there is a lot I left out. Who knows maybe people are burnt out hearing about mimics cause of the dark souls series haha
Thanks for the comment!
@@IAmTheSnuggler still a great video without the mention of that particular bit of childhood trauma! tbh i'm glad anyones talking about this game on yt at all, bc for a solid chunk of my life i almost thought it was a dream i had-
growing up kinda poor in the 00's me and my older sister basically only had the demo loop for computer games that weren't edutainment, so we quickly became masters at it.
well, my SISTER became a master at it, meanwhile i was too freaked out to play it alone much and would just start playing the polar bowler demo and random flash games instead lol
@@god-rj5wf the polar bowler demo had an amazing vibe tho!
First rpg I played became my favorite genre
I didn't just play the game, I had hours and hours sunk into the 3rd one in the series.
How is the third one?
@@IAmTheSnuggler the core gameplay loop stays essentially the same in Fate: The Traitor Soul, but there is just more variety to the game as a whole. More loot, new gear slots 4 total races that have different starting stats and gear etc. It feels a lot better to play as well compared to the previous two.
YES! what an amazing game and the music is so fucking good
This game was a huge part of my childhood i wish the final game they made had multiplayer i really wanted to play it with my brother. I checked out torchlight but its just not the same
Loved the review, FATE was also a very big game from my childhood. Will you be doing a review for the expansions as well (Undiscovered Realms, The Traitor Soul and The Cursed King)?
Thanks for watching and the kind comment! I'm considering reviewing them as well, do you think they're different enough from the main game to warrant a revisit? I'd probably do them all in one vid tbh!
i played this on my moms computer i fell in love with the game and many years later i find it aguain
4:55 yo I need that hat fr
you and me both, if you get it ill be rocking it in spirit with you!
Absolute Banger
i feel like playing this game again but something inseide dont want it. LOve the video man .
Thanks man!
This may have been the first PC game i ever bought. I grew up mostly on ps2 and the first xbox but when i went to my grandmothers i played the CRAP out of this game.
Had this game on the family laptop and ended up getting the sequals too. Had so much fun grinding this game out, until I discovered there was cheat codes and maxed out my character with all the craziest gear and the fun was now gone, nothing to work towards!
nice vid keep it up 👍
And here I thought torchlight had at least some good original ideas with the pet system. Seems they copied that aswell from this game.
Great retrospective / review by the way. I guess I will give this oldie a try :)
Thanks man! Appreciate the kind words. Also, it's worth noting that many of the Torchlights devs were also the ones who worked on Fate (including the head dev Travis Baldree) so it's less copying somebody else's idea and more reusing their own idea :)
I have sank many hours into fate and let me just say it is a fantastic game also the deeper you go the best the enchants at the penguin get take a ring or necklace and enchant the hell out of it to give it to your next character since they can be put on immediately
Child hood memory unlocked
This animation makes me thinks of “ Bones” the game that was old as hell on computer on a game company called “WildTengant” this was back then in 2005 and that same animation looks like it.
The memories though never forget getting chanced by a swarm of locust’s, evil little bastards I swear.😂
I love this game bro but the shit I hate was the death penalty and how repetitive it is overall it a A tier game
Dude, yes. I can appreciate they were trying something new with the death system but it gets stale so quick. Plus why would you ever just not take the gold penalty and respawn? Awesome game tho!
I've been praying for a mobile version for years 😭😭😭
*Your pack is full.*
*You are overburdened.*
*You cannot carry any more.*
I really enjoyed playing this game ("Fate" on Wild Tangent Games), it's quite the nice little dungeon-crawler RPG adventure game. I think this game should be ported to different consoles... I've recently downloaded a game called "Fate/GO" (created by Aniplex, Inc.) that reminds me of this older gem ("Fate" by WildStudios/WildTangent)... #FATE #WildTangent #WindowsGames #FATEGO #AniplexInc #AndroidBasedGames #FATEGame
I've almost forgotten about this I have no idea what made me remember it. Apparently there are sequels/expansions? I'm not entirely sure as I only played the original years and years ago and then forgot about it. I'm probably about to buy the steam bundle its like 20 bucks for all 3 lol.
Yeah I’ve been meaning to check out the sequels but haven’t… tbh when I want that Fate fix I’d rather just play the OG
I've been enjoying it so far, I remember always playing on the easiest setting so this time around I went with legendary. It's been great lol and just as mindlessly fun as I remember it. Probably won't touch the sequels until I'm thoroughly satisfied with the OG replay, even though I went ahead and got them too.@@IAmTheSnuggler
i bought this game for 2 dollars on sale and have 30 hr sunk in this fishing game now
Lmao are u fr my brother? The fishing game is amazing tho so I wouldnt be surprised tbh
Can we play together?!?!
omg thank you for commenting im such a big fan of your content! #lanaaarmy
It’s 2024 an Xbox just announced a remaster for Fate
strange... I can't hear anything from my phone, lol.
oh no sorry bro :/ maybe you can watch on the computer?
I came across this somehow in 2005 in middle school, and I was talking to my friend about how good it was and he was a Diablo 2 gamer. He told me "That sounds like a diablo 2 knockoff" and i looked up diablo 2 later that day and then i thought to myself "nah, this fate game has way better graphics obviously diablo 2 sucks" lol
A, it has 3 sequels.
B, they're remastering it.
How did torchlight not get sued by fate? I get it’s the same guy behind it but he left the studio the make a carbon copy of the game in a new studio, with all the major features there (and I vaguely remember before torchlights release they acted like it was ground breaking).
I always find the “Diablo clone” moniker funny. Frankly given the way ppl talk about Diablo (which barely any part wasn’t done before 96), Diablo is no Diablo. It can’t live up to the hype (rose tinted glasses), but to be fair they did have the unique and complex story or heaven vs hell with the mortal realm as the battlefield, just how did they come up with that….
But this? It’s the same game reskinned, surely the original studio held rights, at least at the time if not still.
Yeah man, honestly I have no clue and that's a good point. From what I can tell, it's very weird a studio like Wild Tangent made a game like Fate in the first place. Maybe by the time Torchlight came out they weren't even concerned with making games like that anymore they just let it go. TL was popular but it's not like it was some runaway success. I have no clue how these things work behind the scenes. I was very shocked when I was in a bookstore recently and saw this very odd-looking Fantasy themed romance book and recognized the author's name. It was Travis Baldree
This game kinda reminds me of Zelda
Yeah I can really see that. The art style reminds me a lot of Fable and Overlord too.
A dont know but fate has things taken from warcraft 3 and they all look like kids.