Old games didn't have graphics to fall back on, they had to relie on game play. It's like comparing radio and tv. Radio has to have a good story because it can full back on 10 seconds of silence as someone does something benign.
This is honestly one of the best games ever made. Bullfrog were the masters of PC gaming, the worlds they created and the amount of detail they put in them is something developers struggle to be on par with even now.
Or possess an imp and attack your creatures for the sake of experience, grinding yourself to level 3 and gaining the speed ability. Or throw a bunch of guys in the barracks, possess one of them and lead the party to the victory - through the rivers and lava with no bridges, with no need for flags, additional money etc., etc.
It's so awesome to be able to wander through your own dungeon that you made. Plus I had to use it to beat some levels where the enemy cheated by rushing me before I even had beds so spamming screaming projectiles was my only option
he's got a great voice and utilizes it to it's full potential, which is like half of the joy of his videos. Second perhaps only to his obvious love for the subject matter.
I've never seen this game before, and I'm really impressed by the artwork. It's dated, sure, but it holds up today. This must have been incredible back in '97. The graphics are better than Starcraft.
I got it for free this way too. Currently I haven't installed it anywhere, but I've been meaning to see about getting it running on a ye-olde Transmeta Crusoe-based laptop, somehow.
Same here. Managed to get it working even on my phone (needs bluetooth keyboard/ mouse but still a thousand times better than that "official" mobile abomination.
That was tempting, but its to much hassle to carry extra stuff around, also wanted to get Theme hospital on it, there is a work around, but im lazy and dont really want a game that ill spend hours on for a game ill play on the toilet at work
Mike Dix get magic dosbox off the playstore its the best dosbox on android. it runs dungeon keeper quite well on my samsung galaxy note 3. there are videos here on youtube that show you how to setup the games to run magic dosbox just search its name
DK is my favorite game EVAAAr. I do have an FX version on my pc. The 2 last levels are epic and difficult and it takes hours to finish them. Too bad you touched on only the basics and showed the first 5-6 levels. Horny and his fits deserved a mention :) The expansion is the whole other level of difficult. And it's awesome. Regarding dark humor: I love to watch the animation when I slap the creatures, when they eat chickens. Most of them are unique animations. Also they look different when you grab them with your evil hand. Hellhound's constant need to urinate on the cemetery always cracks me up. But possess the creature is pretty awesome. When I was 10 it was like a dream come true. All other "god view" strategy games I had at the time never had that feature. And my 10 year old brain was imagining it and wanting it so bad. Flash forward to our day....damn, we've got all the techmologies but Nothing will replace DK in my heart. I still play through it once a year. Thanks for the review and an excuse for me to write this.
Populous, Syndicate , Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and another great Studio killed by EA "It's good to be bad" this a good slogan of Electronica Arts :/
budakbaong siah EA killed all od the best studiów :( They dont care about gamers only makes money. I never forgive destroy od Westwood and Bulfrog. Amaizing RTS series .. My favorite. I Hope that they will not buy CD PROJECT. They tried once already
They fucked over Westwood in the same way. Bioware games are the only EA products I buy. If they ever let Visceral make Dead Space 4 I'll buy that too. But really, I hope EA goes out of business. I really do.
CD Projekt RED gave BioWare and Bethesda a massive bitchslap. These companies are supposed to be veterans of the RPG genre and then here comes this (untill recently) small, relatively unknown company from Poland, and shows them how to make a great RPG, something BioWare and Bethesda have apparently forgotten how to do. What's even worse, as far as the business assholes are concerned, they do it while treating the players like adults and not treating their paying customers like criminals. There's a reason why CDPR is revered by gamers, and EA is loathed. For gamers, EA is practically a swear word. What pisses me off about buyouts is this: Ok, some company does well, they make good games and are successful, sales and reviews are good, so someone wants a piece of the action. Right, that's fine, I get it, so then a publisher buys the company. But then they cockblock the developer and try to tell them what to do, they step on the toes of the talented ccreative people that made them want to buy the company in the first place, and then they act surprised when the next game doesn't sell as well as expected. Well gee! I wonder why. Why the fuck could that be? It couldn't be the dumbass suit sitting in a boardroom that doesn't even play games who can only see the world through the lens of the latest focus group getting in the way of the people that actually know what the fuck their doing. Look at Dead Space 3, that's exactly what happened. What we got was not the DS3 Visceral wanted to make. EA basically forced them and then the sales underpreformed. Even from a business standpoint this doesn't make sense. Why bring on talented, knowledgable people if you aren't going to let them do their job? This isn't just a problem with EA. Activision is no better and neither is Ubisoft or Konami. The real problem is games have become big business. Now we have a bunch of stupid buisnessy rich fucks like Mitt Romney calling the shots instead of the passionate people. This is why CDPR is successful, they care about the games. They make good money and that's great, but they would still be doing this if they weren't making a lot, because it's what they love doing, it's not about the money. The money is just a nice bonus. That's how you know when someone is an artist, or a whore. It doesn't matter what it is, video games, acting, music, painting, writing, whatever, ANYTHING. If they're doing it for the money, they're a whore. If they genuinely love what they do and would still do it if they were poor, they're an artist. When money and big companies get involved in things, they suck all the life, passion, spirit and integrity out of it. I really hope CDPR resists attempts to get acquired, they are publically traded but they are still their own majority stockholder, and I hope EA and the rest of them take a good long look at what CDPR is doing right and what they are doing wrong.
Backed War for the Overworld and waited many years for it to release. What a gem that game has become in the spirit of DK, even down to RR doing the voice overs. I played many, many, maaaaaaaaaaany hours on DK/DK2.
My Favorite thing about this game was first person mode, and it wasn't as useless as you may think you just had to be creative. For example, you could use a minion to infiltrate the competitors base, while running a distraction with the AI controlled minions, exposing areas not seen before. If you use your highest leveled characters with long range weapon capability, you can handle any trouble you may encounter, avoiding many issues using first person line of sight.
Dungeon Keeper 1 is still an absolutely amazing game. Totally playable today. Also... dynamic lighting somehow still better realized than that of many modern games. Mindblowing at the time!
War for the Overworld is a Indie game. It released in pretty rough shape, since they were about to run out of money, but by now it is feature complete and works great buy.wftogame.com/
What can I say about this classic gem of GAMEPLAY? No matter what kind of video game genre you prefer, you have to play this one.. Like the corny saying of 100 movies or paintings or poems or whatever to see before you die, Dungeon Keeper is surely on top 10 of games to play before you die. It's the little subtle details that makes this a pure pleasure of experiencing. Like the different ways your creatures eat their chickens, or been tortured, or dislike other species, or how they sleep, how much are being paid,or even what are the first abilities they learn as they level up which clearly defines their character and work ethics. Take for instance the backbone of your dungeon. The imp. The blue collar worker of the century. I mean the way they prioritize their tasks is phenomenal (genius programming). First they dig you the gold. The more you slapped them (btw I never did..I respected them way too much) the faster they worked without getting angry or giving you the finger (Bile Demons on the other hand..) or even liking it (the Mistress..oh man.. in a group like the Vampires were unstoppable) So after delivering the traps, collecting prisoners, fortifying your walls, sending the corpses to the graveyard only then they could steal a tiny bit of time to replenish their energy by smoking(?) their pipe. And if your dungeon heart got attacked then they drop off any task in an instance and rush through your corridors to protect your core with their life. I mean come on.. If only I can steal an imp to sort out the bureaucracy of my life in general..haha. I can write pages about the philosophy and coehesion of this game. Bullfrog team under Peter Molyneux was a beast and this game is the perfect example. And as most things in life, it takes time to really appreciate it. Thank you Clint for the review. PS Dungeon Keeper 2 as a stand alone game was decent. But as the sequel of DK 1, it lacked on so many levels..
If you liked that game so much then check out Saga Realms, its a fusion of dungeon keeper and majesty the fantasy kingdom together into 1 game and with the control of a RTS.
I remember seeing this package when way back then and wondering what it was (my PC wasn't powerful enough to play it I guess). Ahh... the good memories shopping for games at a store. :-)
did that once by taking control over a dragon. Level 2. Second map of the frozen world, made it stealth like trough their dungeon heart. Destroyed it. 11/10 Would cheap out like this again
I really loved that too. It's pretty overpowered, but trying to finish a level by only possessing one minion is still a decent challenge. You can also get a sort of proto-Minecraft feel if you posses an imp. I bet Notch was a fan of DK. Oh, and you can posses chickens.
You could also take over the wasps and fly into areas that were covered by the fog-of-war and where you could not click. The wasps were fast and a sneaky way to checkout your opponent and find weaknesses in their defenses.
I had Dungeon Keeper 2 as a kid. I had never heard anything about it before and went into it totally blind. It turned out to be one of the most memorable PC gaming experiences of my childhood. It was one of those rare gaming moments where you take a risk on a random BestBuy bargaining bin game mostly because you're a 13 year old boy who only has 5 dollars and there's some boobies on the cover. And then the game turns out to be unexpectedly awesome.
Also, there is a steam indie game called War for the Overworld which is a spiritual successor to this game. While not AS GOOD as the Original, i highly recommend it.
If you liked that game so much then check out Saga Realms, its a fusion of dungeon keeper and majesty the fantasy kingdom together into 1 game and with the control of a RTS.
Dungeon Keeper 2 had some streamlining that made sense for the user experience, and multiplayer - namely the Call-to-Arms feature and constructing doors and traps, not to mention building rooms and picking up minions - but it lost some of the soul and ingenuity of the original. The original had a lot of interesting dynamics and options that allowed for a lot of sideways strategies (converting minions via the scavenger room, claiming territory with invisible imps, etcetera), whereas Dungeon Keeper 2 was built for the direct style of get-minions-level-minions-attack-with-minions. Both good in their own right, but there was nothing quite like the original, if you ask me. If you're interested in a modern taken on the game, take a look at War for the Overworld - it regularly goes on sale. Good video! Cheers!
I clicked on this from another old youtube video, thinking it must be some 2011 LGR review I had missed out on all these years :D really was happy to see the March 2017 date
Oooh, Dungeon Keeper. A great classic (with a great sequel). Got it years and years ago (unfortunately, one of the rereleases that never seem to come with the CD audio...) and loved it instantly. I do love these "management" type games, like this, Evil Genius and that. A quick question for you, Clint: Have you tried War for the Overworld? It's a pretty good... clone? remake? spiritual sequel? not sure what word to use but whatever. Not perfect, but no game is. Plus, they did get the narrator from Dungeon Keeper too.
Spiritual Sucessor i would call it. It changed and updated way too many things to still be considered a clone, and now a year later it is way better than before too!
I remember when I was 5 years old and my dad was playing dungeon keeper and he let me play and it was the best gaming experience of my life (at the time)
I never got around to getting this game back in the day but after looking at this review i think you more than talked me into it. Thanks for adding the info about the updated graphics stuff.
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I'm obsessed. as a 90s, 486DX4 100mhz gamer, the nostalgia is very real...very addictive, and very, well, nostalgic. I haven't found your Rise of the Triad review yet but I hope it's in here somewhere. That's the first fps shooter I ever played on a local network. Keep it up, man. I'm officially sold.
He explicitelly states that He likes pixelated dos nigthmares and You should sue him to change his mind, was still shocked that He did not use higher res in this case or was not aware of it, oh well.
5:36 Wait, was that a Lord of the Rings reference? It made me think of Sauromon (sp?) talking about how the dwarves "delve too greedily and too deep," or something along those lines. Maybe I'm just crazy, lol. I'll have to look it up, I guess.
Thank you so much Clint, I left work today and saw this on my push notifications and it made my day 100% better. I still play DK2 to this day, something so magical about these games.
Gameplay was/is really unique. Try sacrifcing a couple of chickens... :P Or (if you dared!) sacrifice Horny! >:) Or you could (after you had beaten the lvl ofc) slap him a couple of times and watch him slaughter e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g in sight!
Oh, the memories. I must have lost years of my life to this game, it was my favourite growing up. Thanks for the tip about both GOG and Keeper FX, I need to check them out. Also, fun thing, I heard GOG handed out free copies of this game for a while as compensation for the good press they had given the mobile game until its release.
radishdalek now thats an amazing title that i completely forgot about a whole bunch ofem in the early 2000's the one that let you make gator sharks and the one that put you in charge of haunting houses RTS needs a kick ass PC exclusive comeback !
Funny you bring up Peter Molyneux as @LarryBundyJr. makes fun of him in some videos. EDIT (5/6/2022): Most videos I should say. This comment is so old it makes me feel old.
Some? Isn't it most? :P It's nice to see that he wasn't always a punching bag. He did start to promise too much in his games and not deliver, but these were his good times.
Why wouldn't he? This is Peter's game and to be frank back in the day he was a prolific developer who could do no wrong. Turns out he could but yeah lmao.
The thing about molyneux is that hed over-promise like there was no tomorrow. Even if the game is pretty good, the hype train will still go off the rails. If he could just shut his mouth.
I LOVED this game when it first came out! This is the kind of game that I feel could go on forever. New villains. New hero’s. New traps etc etc . Updates or DLCs or whatever!
Dungeon Keeper 2 was my very first PC game given to me by my parents as a gift. It took me several weeks to understand what to do in game through trial and error but once I had all the game mechanics down, it was very satisfying. The more you progress in the game the more demanding of a dungeon is required to run. The narrator's voice is awesomely creepy and the cut scenes are hysterically funny.
When I was a kid I saw my dad play this and I eventually got into it when I was around 9 or 10. I almost completely forgot about it until I booted up my dad's old laptop and found it. So I downloaded onto my laptop and I'm filled with nostalgia.
Ohh man... Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!! This game and the subsequent sequel had consumed much of my childhood... Then later Black & White. I think I'm going to go download it now and play!
Epic review of a great game. My mum used to hate 2 games and always asked me to put the sound lower, that was Carmagaddon and this game, 'cause of the Mistress who liked the torture rooms so much.
I’ve only just watched this. But I have to say, it’s one of the funniest, most well-scripted videos I’ve ever seen on YT. Beautifully-written and very entertaining. 👍
I absolutely love Dungeon Keeper! Taking possession of a minion isn't completely useless. Many levels can be won quickly by taking a level 10 Mistress, Dragon, or Vampire with you to the next level and going right after the enemy heart after you decimate their meager band of thugs.
Hey LGR! I love your reviews! Always a good time (: Can you possibly do a review of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX? I've seen it sitting on your shelves in a few of your videos! Personally it's one of my all time greatest games with one of the best soundtracks to have been ever put in a video game! I'd love to hear your opinion about it!
I'm always baffled by how unbelievably good this game is for 1997
You mean "Bad"?
Old games didn't have graphics to fall back on, they had to relie on game play. It's like comparing radio and tv. Radio has to have a good story because it can full back on 10 seconds of silence as someone does something benign.
I was there. Quake and Unreal engine was the best. All others only third.
Why? Half of the greatest games of all time were made in the 90's
@@michaelluck5577 DK aged well
I had this and the sequel instead of a girlfriend when I grew up.
You're not alone there, man.
I'm sure you had a few mistresses.
Ben Sanders haha, that I did.
Osquar are you feeling alright buddy? Do you have a thing you want to share with us?
the only difference is that having a game costs less money
This is honestly one of the best games ever made. Bullfrog were the masters of PC gaming, the worlds they created and the amount of detail they put in them is something developers struggle to be on par with even now.
For the record, that amazing narrator? Went to look up what he's doing now. Turns out he plays the father of Peppa Pig.
Yes, really.
He is also the equally amazing narrator for the spiritual successor of Dungeon Keeper, War for the Overworld.
He also voiced War for the Overworld, a spiritual DK3.
Wolfebane42 Peppa Pig is quality. I watch it with my kids all the time.
Richard Ridings is the voice actor's name. I wish he'd do a DK-style gps narration thing.
The gap is mind blowing.
i miss bullfrog so much :(
I was always sad they never made that superhero game they'd talked about throughout the 90s but never managed to bring together.
exactly.. I still play theme hospital and dungeon keeper 2 from time to time
war for the overworld is pretty good too
EA ruins everything.
They wanted to add Bullfrog to their gelatinous mass.
bullfrog still exists they just make games for xbox now.
1997 :
Diablo
Fallout
Age of Empires
Final Fantasy VII
Carmageddon
GoldenEye 007
Gran Turismo
Tomb raider II
Diablo one love
Quake II
twas a golden age. i played several of those.
Fallout best game
First person view is invaluable addition. It's just so cool to possess a fly to scout around viewing the world with it's fragmented eyes.
Or possess an imp and attack your creatures for the sake of experience, grinding yourself to level 3 and gaining the speed ability.
Or throw a bunch of guys in the barracks, possess one of them and lead the party to the victory - through the rivers and lava with no bridges, with no need for flags, additional money etc., etc.
Yeah, you can mine faster, and scout, also abuse corners
@@Ajoura you have to train imps in training room.
possess a chicken and get yourself eaten
It's so awesome to be able to wander through your own dungeon that you made.
Plus I had to use it to beat some levels where the enemy cheated by rushing me before I even had beds so spamming screaming projectiles was my only option
Also, great touch with the overworld map progression. Appreciate that addition a lot Clint. :)
Glad it didn't go unnoticed :)
MagikGimp good on you, sir (or madam) for writing "a lot" as two separate words :)
@@thiccest Most people separate a lot these days.
alot was a 90's thing.
Definitely. I was thinking he must have had to play the full game through to record that shot before making the video. Nice work
LGR videos are pure quality from start to finish
he's got a great voice and utilizes it to it's full potential, which is like half of the joy of his videos. Second perhaps only to his obvious love for the subject matter.
yeah, but his editing and production are on point too
You are pure quality.
Cynical Inquisition single tear rolls down my face
Well honestly speaking, there can be issues in his videos but since we are hypnotized by the nostalgia, we ignore them automatically :P
I've never seen this game before, and I'm really impressed by the artwork. It's dated, sure, but it holds up today. This must have been incredible back in '97. The graphics are better than Starcraft.
Got it when GOG gave it away FOR FREE as an apology for the portable version, to bad DOS box is a bit cack on tablets
I got it for free this way too. Currently I haven't installed it anywhere, but I've been meaning to see about getting it running on a ye-olde Transmeta Crusoe-based laptop, somehow.
Origin had it for free a couple months ago, which is where I snatched it from.
Same here. Managed to get it working even on my phone (needs bluetooth keyboard/ mouse but still a thousand times better than that "official" mobile abomination.
That was tempting, but its to much hassle to carry extra stuff around, also wanted to get Theme hospital on it, there is a work around, but im lazy and dont really want a game that ill spend hours on for a game ill play on the toilet at work
Mike Dix get magic dosbox off the playstore its the best dosbox on android. it runs dungeon keeper quite well on my samsung galaxy note 3. there are videos here on youtube that show you how to setup the games to run magic dosbox just search its name
"It's like Populous knocked up Quake." Best LGR quote nominee.
DK is my favorite game EVAAAr.
I do have an FX version on my pc. The 2 last levels are epic and difficult and it takes hours to finish them. Too bad you touched on only the basics and showed the first 5-6 levels. Horny and his fits deserved a mention :) The expansion is the whole other level of difficult. And it's awesome.
Regarding dark humor: I love to watch the animation when I slap the creatures, when they eat chickens. Most of them are unique animations. Also they look different when you grab them with your evil hand. Hellhound's constant need to urinate on the cemetery always cracks me up.
But possess the creature is pretty awesome. When I was 10 it was like a dream come true. All other "god view" strategy games I had at the time never had that feature. And my 10 year old brain was imagining it and wanting it so bad. Flash forward to our day....damn, we've got all the techmologies but Nothing will replace DK in my heart. I still play through it once a year.
Thanks for the review and an excuse for me to write this.
Yeah, Dungeon keeper is my fav game as well, if you couldn't tell :)
Populous, Syndicate , Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and another great Studio killed by EA "It's good to be bad" this a good slogan of Electronica Arts :/
Lepa EA killed EA. Damn, they were good. Just like Ubisoft, SE, and others....
budakbaong siah EA killed all od the best studiów :( They dont care about gamers only makes money. I never forgive destroy od Westwood and Bulfrog. Amaizing RTS series .. My favorite. I Hope that they will not buy CD PROJECT. They tried once already
They fucked over Westwood in the same way. Bioware games are the only EA products I buy. If they ever let Visceral make Dead Space 4 I'll buy that too. But really, I hope EA goes out of business. I really do.
CD Projekt RED gave BioWare and Bethesda a massive bitchslap. These companies are supposed to be veterans of the RPG genre and then here comes this (untill recently) small, relatively unknown company from Poland, and shows them how to make a great RPG, something BioWare and Bethesda have apparently forgotten how to do. What's even worse, as far as the business assholes are concerned, they do it while treating the players like adults and not treating their paying customers like criminals. There's a reason why CDPR is revered by gamers, and EA is loathed. For gamers, EA is practically a swear word.
What pisses me off about buyouts is this: Ok, some company does well, they make good games and are successful, sales and reviews are good, so someone wants a piece of the action. Right, that's fine, I get it, so then a publisher buys the company. But then they cockblock the developer and try to tell them what to do, they step on the toes of the talented ccreative people that made them want to buy the company in the first place, and then they act surprised when the next game doesn't sell as well as expected. Well gee! I wonder why. Why the fuck could that be? It couldn't be the dumbass suit sitting in a boardroom that doesn't even play games who can only see the world through the lens of the latest focus group getting in the way of the people that actually know what the fuck their doing. Look at Dead Space 3, that's exactly what happened. What we got was not the DS3 Visceral wanted to make. EA basically forced them and then the sales underpreformed.
Even from a business standpoint this doesn't make sense. Why bring on talented, knowledgable people if you aren't going to let them do their job? This isn't just a problem with EA. Activision is no better and neither is Ubisoft or Konami. The real problem is games have become big business. Now we have a bunch of stupid buisnessy rich fucks like Mitt Romney calling the shots instead of the passionate people. This is why CDPR is successful, they care about the games. They make good money and that's great, but they would still be doing this if they weren't making a lot, because it's what they love doing, it's not about the money. The money is just a nice bonus. That's how you know when someone is an artist, or a whore. It doesn't matter what it is, video games, acting, music, painting, writing, whatever, ANYTHING. If they're doing it for the money, they're a whore. If they genuinely love what they do and would still do it if they were poor, they're an artist. When money and big companies get involved in things, they suck all the life, passion, spirit and integrity out of it.
I really hope CDPR resists attempts to get acquired, they are publically traded but they are still their own majority stockholder, and I hope EA and the rest of them take a good long look at what CDPR is doing right and what they are doing wrong.
irllcd13 well said man.
This is definately in my top 3 best games of all time. Such a flawless classic!
Backed War for the Overworld and waited many years for it to release. What a gem that game has become in the spirit of DK, even down to RR doing the voice overs. I played many, many, maaaaaaaaaaany hours on DK/DK2.
My Favorite thing about this game was first person mode, and it wasn't as useless as you may think you just had to be creative. For example, you could use a minion to infiltrate the competitors base, while running a distraction with the AI controlled minions, exposing areas not seen before. If you use your highest leveled characters with long range weapon capability, you can handle any trouble you may encounter, avoiding many issues using first person line of sight.
Dungeon Keeper 1 is still an absolutely amazing game. Totally playable today.
Also... dynamic lighting somehow still better realized than that of many modern games. Mindblowing at the time!
Man, can you imagine being the human in this game? "WHY IS THERE RANDOM LIGHTNING?! OH MY GOD THIS GAME IS IMPOSSIBLE."
That's what the multiplayer was-- One player would play the dungeon master, and the other would control the humans.
You can experience it in real life too! Just join a D&D group with a vengeful DM!
Reminds me of the quest to dodge 200 lightning bolts in Final Fantasy X...ugh.
@@StrayGuitarist no that's not how it worked.
fyi, war for the overworld is an indie game thats pretty much a royalty free sequel to this game, they even got richard ridings! :D
war for the overworld was canned just before bullfrog died off.
unless you are talking about a finished version of it that was recently made..
He's talking about a recent indie dungeon keeper clone.
War for the Overworld is a Indie game. It released in pretty rough shape, since they were about to run out of money, but by now it is feature complete and works great buy.wftogame.com/
It's also on Steam.
What can I say about this classic gem of GAMEPLAY? No matter what kind of video game genre you prefer, you have to play this one.. Like the corny saying of 100 movies or paintings or poems or whatever to see before you die, Dungeon Keeper is surely on top 10 of games to play before you die.
It's the little subtle details that makes this a pure pleasure of experiencing. Like the different ways your creatures eat their chickens, or been tortured, or dislike other species, or how they sleep, how much are being paid,or even what are the first abilities they learn as they level up which clearly defines their character and work ethics.
Take for instance the backbone of your dungeon. The imp. The blue collar worker of the century. I mean the way they prioritize their tasks is phenomenal (genius programming). First they dig you the gold. The more you slapped them (btw I never did..I respected them way too much) the faster they worked without getting angry or giving you the finger (Bile Demons on the other hand..) or even liking it (the Mistress..oh man.. in a group like the Vampires were unstoppable)
So after delivering the traps, collecting prisoners, fortifying your walls, sending the corpses to the graveyard only then they could steal a tiny bit of time to replenish their energy by smoking(?) their pipe. And if your dungeon heart got attacked then they drop off any task in an instance and rush through your corridors to protect your core with their life. I mean come on.. If only I can steal an imp to sort out the bureaucracy of my life in general..haha.
I can write pages about the philosophy and coehesion of this game. Bullfrog team under Peter Molyneux was a beast and this game is the perfect example. And as most things in life, it takes time to really appreciate it.
Thank you Clint for the review.
PS Dungeon Keeper 2 as a stand alone game was decent. But as the sequel of DK 1, it lacked on so many levels..
i skipped most of your post because Dungeon Keeper 2 is better.
If you liked that game so much then check out Saga Realms, its a fusion of dungeon keeper and majesty the fantasy kingdom together into 1 game and with the control of a RTS.
@@nagash303 no.
This game was just brilliant, so dense and multifaceted. So far ahead of its time, plus such a great sense of dark humour.
I remember seeing this package when way back then and wondering what it was (my PC wasn't powerful enough to play it I guess). Ahh... the good memories shopping for games at a store. :-)
This is one of my favourite games of all time. So immersive :) thanks for the review clint.
the direct control tool was awesome, take control of a lvl 10 mistress and run her to the opponents heart and kill it as soon as the map started.
It's awesome in the sense that it kind of ruins the challenge and half of what makes the game appealing to me, but to each their own :P
did that once by taking control over a dragon. Level 2. Second map of the frozen world, made it stealth like trough their dungeon heart. Destroyed it. 11/10 Would cheap out like this again
I really loved that too. It's pretty overpowered, but trying to finish a level by only possessing one minion is still a decent challenge. You can also get a sort of proto-Minecraft feel if you posses an imp. I bet Notch was a fan of DK. Oh, and you can posses chickens.
Notch has stated that DK was one of many influences :) so you wouldn't be wrong in that assumption.
You could also take over the wasps and fly into areas that were covered by the fog-of-war and where you could not click. The wasps were fast and a sneaky way to checkout your opponent and find weaknesses in their defenses.
I had Dungeon Keeper 2 as a kid. I had never heard anything about it before and went into it totally blind.
It turned out to be one of the most memorable PC gaming experiences of my childhood. It was one of those rare gaming moments where you take a risk on a random BestBuy bargaining bin game mostly because you're a 13 year old boy who only has 5 dollars and there's some boobies on the cover.
And then the game turns out to be unexpectedly awesome.
Also, there is a steam indie game called War for the Overworld which is a spiritual successor to this game. While not AS GOOD as the Original, i highly recommend it.
loving this.. almost made it through (yes very late to the table)
If you liked that game so much then check out Saga Realms, its a fusion of dungeon keeper and majesty the fantasy kingdom together into 1 game and with the control of a RTS.
Dungeon Keeper 2 had some streamlining that made sense for the user experience, and multiplayer - namely the Call-to-Arms feature and constructing doors and traps, not to mention building rooms and picking up minions - but it lost some of the soul and ingenuity of the original. The original had a lot of interesting dynamics and options that allowed for a lot of sideways strategies (converting minions via the scavenger room, claiming territory with invisible imps, etcetera), whereas Dungeon Keeper 2 was built for the direct style of get-minions-level-minions-attack-with-minions. Both good in their own right, but there was nothing quite like the original, if you ask me. If you're interested in a modern taken on the game, take a look at War for the Overworld - it regularly goes on sale.
Good video! Cheers!
Finally a Dungeon Keeper review by LGR! I was waiting for this day a long time :)
I clicked on this from another old youtube video, thinking it must be some 2011 LGR review I had missed out on all these years :D really was happy to see the March 2017 date
People work harder if you slap them
I LOVE this game. It was actually really good.
Remains one of my all time favs. I loved its excellent mix of sprite and 3D graphics, it still looks good today
This looks like fun. I had to check this game out since I found the awesome story of Dungeon Life. Never heard of Dungeon Keeper until now.
This is one of my favourite games of all time! Good to see you finally cover it =D
Oooh, Dungeon Keeper. A great classic (with a great sequel). Got it years and years ago (unfortunately, one of the rereleases that never seem to come with the CD audio...) and loved it instantly. I do love these "management" type games, like this, Evil Genius and that. A quick question for you, Clint: Have you tried War for the Overworld? It's a pretty good... clone? remake? spiritual sequel? not sure what word to use but whatever. Not perfect, but no game is. Plus, they did get the narrator from Dungeon Keeper too.
Spiritual Sucessor i would call it. It changed and updated way too many things to still be considered a clone, and now a year later it is way better than before too!
One of my favorites from back in the day. I can still hear the keepers Voice in my head... "Your creatures are under attack...."
its a pay day...
"Army of LARP'ers" lol
This is my most nostalgia-inducing game; a fave to play and I love the soundtrack. Was waiting for you to cover this one for yonks! Thank you!
I remember when I was 5 years old and my dad was playing dungeon keeper and he let me play and it was the best gaming experience of my life (at the time)
I never got around to getting this game back in the day but after looking at this review i think you more than talked me into it. Thanks for adding the info about the updated graphics stuff.
Greatest game ever !! bought it when it came out, it is now 2017 and still play it at least once a month
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I'm obsessed. as a 90s, 486DX4 100mhz gamer, the nostalgia is very real...very addictive, and very, well, nostalgic. I haven't found your Rise of the Triad review yet but I hope it's in here somewhere. That's the first fps shooter I ever played on a local network. Keep it up, man. I'm officially sold.
Why not use ALT+R to run the game in high resolution mode? It will look a lot better :P
He explicitelly states that He likes pixelated dos nigthmares and You should sue him to change his mind, was still shocked that He did not use higher res in this case or was not aware of it, oh well.
I enjoy your *boxed* PC game reviews so much! Almost nobody does that these days! Great narrative and documentation! Phat PC boxes rulz
This channel makes me want to buy an old Crt Pc monitor just to play 800x600 game like God almighty dictates.
_DO IT._
I still have mine in the attic , because I have been to lazy for the past 12 years to throw them out :D
Gabriele Riva im playing fallout 1.
800x600? Bah, we had a Mac with Thousands of colors in 640x480!
Too high. Mode 13h, Mode X or SVGA 640x480 is where it's at ;-)
This was my first PC game back in 1997 and it has firmly remained one of my favourite games ever since. Thanks for the childhood memories :)
5:36 Wait, was that a Lord of the Rings reference?
It made me think of Sauromon (sp?) talking about how the dwarves "delve too greedily and too deep," or something along those lines. Maybe I'm just crazy, lol. I'll have to look it up, I guess.
Loser's Club you bet! Mines of moria iirc.
Thank you so much Clint, I left work today and saw this on my push notifications and it made my day 100% better. I still play DK2 to this day, something so magical about these games.
I'm a modern PC gamer....but my god I love this game.
The gameplay never got beaten, even to this day.
TheSeanminator still holds a place from my childhood playing dungeon keeper, couldn't agree more.
Gameplay was/is really unique.
Try sacrifcing a couple of chickens... :P
Or (if you dared!) sacrifice Horny! >:) Or you could (after you had beaten the lvl ofc) slap him a couple of times and watch him slaughter e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g in sight!
been waiting for this video for ages, thank you for this amazing review LGR!
Quite welcome!
review nocturne and heavy metal FAKK 2... i see it on your shelf displayed proudly so you must enjoy the game yes?
The 2nd version, Dungeon Keeper 2, still remains one of my favorite game of all time.
Thanks for reviewimg the first. I've never played it.
Am I the only person who misses the days of huge, beefy manuals?
Fun game, I remember playing it back as a kid. Now that I'm seeing it again I can see the kind of gameplay games like Dwarf Fortress was inspired by!
I love how DOS graphics are so timeless that it still looks great today.
(Speaking as someone who wasn't yet born when this game was released)
Pixel art at its finest
I miss this game so much, this was one of the best games I have ever played and spent tons of time playing it over and over.
aha here it is
my dad still plays this
he likes to mess about on the deeper dungeon levels
on one level he managed to get over 100 skeletons
Lol that's awesome
Oh, the memories. I must have lost years of my life to this game, it was my favourite growing up. Thanks for the tip about both GOG and Keeper FX, I need to check them out.
Also, fun thing, I heard GOG handed out free copies of this game for a while as compensation for the good press they had given the mobile game until its release.
War for the Overworld! It bears mention, man! It's the DK team getting back together to give us more magic.
Babbleplay it had a bad start but they were struggling with cash flow so it was released in a buggy state. They patched it and is good now.
Babbleplay Yep! It has been refined and is now pretty much as good as the original DK.
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Oh man, I intend to do a playthrugh run for it.
Halala Hululu I'd suggest giving it another shot. They added another campaign and fixed a lot of issues they had on release.
I started with the sequel and played it throughout my entire childhood. I'm glad to see this series come up again. Fantastic video!
"meh, you win some you lose some. we all die in the end"
Still one of my favorites to this day in 2022. Besides how awesome is that title riff!
I'm happy you called the mobile game an abomination. It's DISGUSTING how price gouging it is.
Your rendition of "The more you know" jingle was priceless.
Can you imagine how cool it would be to have a "Build-your-own-dungeon" DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?!
This and Theme Hospital are just the most fun games I've played during my teenage years. They are true masterpieces!
mark healey looks like Daryl form TWD
One of the greatest games of all time! My friends and I have played dk2 multiplayer. Thank you for reviewing it LGR.
Have you played Evil Genius?
radishdalek now thats an amazing title that i completely forgot about a whole bunch ofem in the early 2000's the one that let you make gator sharks and the one that put you in charge of haunting houses RTS needs a kick ass PC exclusive comeback !
Now THAT needs a review. Evil Genius is one of the titles that I make an effort to go back to because its just FUN.
I wish Evil Genius was better. Really enjoyed it but flawed as hell.
I loved this game and never remembered what it was called. so glad I seen this channel
Oh my, I've been waiting for this review. Yet another sad victim of EA.
VuRkka EA being EA
I'd love to see you do a review of Dune for MS-DOS from the early '90s. Love all the videos you make though!
wait, this game was rated M? Seriously?
This one is on my all-time best list. So much creativity and innovation there.
I want lgr to be my replacement daddy... :(
REALLY 1997?? man, this was a blast; i was so captivated by the atmosphere that the soundtrack generated
Funny you bring up Peter Molyneux as @LarryBundyJr. makes fun of him in some videos.
EDIT (5/6/2022): Most videos I should say. This comment is so old it makes me feel old.
Some? Isn't it most? :P It's nice to see that he wasn't always a punching bag. He did start to promise too much in his games and not deliver, but these were his good times.
Why wouldn't he? This is Peter's game and to be frank back in the day he was a prolific developer who could do no wrong. Turns out he could but yeah lmao.
As someone who was extremely excited for Black and White, all I can say is that the criticism is probably warranted.
Larry manages to include a Peter joke in EVERY video. He must really hate him.
The thing about molyneux is that hed over-promise like there was no tomorrow. Even if the game is pretty good, the hype train will still go off the rails. If he could just shut his mouth.
Totally favorite game from my Young. Thanks for the nostalgia tribute Clint.
Not gonna lie, hearing those chickens stirred intense memories of playing back in the day.
That voiceover is the ultimate thing that personally i think has made every Dungeonkeeper clone fail at being equally as awesome.
I LOVED this game when it first came out! This is the kind of game that I feel could go on forever. New villains. New hero’s. New traps etc etc . Updates or DLCs or whatever!
Dungeon Keeper 2 was my very first PC game given to me by my parents as a gift. It took me several weeks to understand what to do in game through trial and error but once I had all the game mechanics down, it was very satisfying. The more you progress in the game the more demanding of a dungeon is required to run. The narrator's voice is awesomely creepy and the cut scenes are hysterically funny.
Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper ate my childhood nights. Great to see it covered by someone as interesting as you Clint!
I only ever played DK2 as a kid but man that narrator is something else.
I'm gonna install DK2 when I get home now.
When I was a kid I saw my dad play this and I eventually got into it when I was around 9 or 10. I almost completely forgot about it until I booted up my dad's old laptop and found it. So I downloaded onto my laptop and I'm filled with nostalgia.
Ohh man... Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!! This game and the subsequent sequel had consumed much of my childhood... Then later Black & White. I think I'm going to go download it now and play!
"It's like Populous knocked up Quake" lol, that's so briliant.
Epic review of a great game. My mum used to hate 2 games and always asked me to put the sound lower, that was Carmagaddon and this game, 'cause of the Mistress who liked the torture rooms so much.
I’ve only just watched this. But I have to say, it’s one of the funniest, most well-scripted videos I’ve ever seen on YT. Beautifully-written and very entertaining. 👍
This game is amazing. I love the fact that she would have to sacrifice a bunch of your minions to attract the horned reaper.
I absolutely love Dungeon Keeper! Taking possession of a minion isn't completely useless. Many levels can be won quickly by taking a level 10 Mistress, Dragon, or Vampire with you to the next level and going right after the enemy heart after you decimate their meager band of thugs.
Wow! Never knew about this one. Love these types of games. Gonna try it. Nice review man!
Hey LGR! I love your reviews! Always a good time (: Can you possibly do a review of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX? I've seen it sitting on your shelves in a few of your videos! Personally it's one of my all time greatest games with one of the best soundtracks to have been ever put in a video game! I'd love to hear your opinion about it!
Thanks! This was one of first few pc games that I played during my childhood! What a game!
Yes!!! Dungeon Keeper! Fantastic game, loved playing it all the time! I'll definitely check it out on GOG!
Blizzard had best manuals back in day. Like in diablo 1/2 and warcraft 1/2/3. I loved that they included concept art in them.
Love dungeon keeper! I remember playing it when I was about 4/5, thanks to a dad who wasn't fussed what games I played. It was great! So many memories
I miss this game so much, I was obsessed with it as a child! Ahh, the computer show memories are flooding back (-:
Oh man! I remember this box really standing out on the shelf as a kid!
Everything you said in this video got me interested! This game looks gorgeous for a DOS game. 10/10 for the game and the review!