Dungeon Siege Collection

Dungeon Siege was never good and has only gotten worse over time. What Gas Powered Games did here was "streamline" the Diablo experience, that is, reduce it to growing stats and collecting loot. They also tried to make it party-based. The result is a ridiculously dull and monotonous experience where up to eight characters follow one ridiculously long and uninspired tunnel that drags on from where our peasant hero receives his call to adventure up until the very last boss. The developers got rid of almost anything that could make the game require any sort of skill. Read: they got rid of anything fun. Combat is heavily automated and ridiculously frantic. In the heat of battle almost the only thing you can and must do manually is tell our guys when to heal. The fact that there's formations and active pause suggests that the game is "tactical" but the mechanics and the behaviour of our characters make the game anything but. Enemies will walk right past our row of melee fighters towards our ranged fighters. Attempts to position individual characters sensibly will get overridden as the game automatically makes the group stick together. Also, we have up to eight characters, stores are very rare (and there's no town portals or anything like that) so every hour or so you will find yourself selling and equipping tons of items. If you care about sensible distribution of equipment it's a process that can easily take up 30+ minutes every time. If you're funny you will choose to take some mules instead of fighters, further increasing the size of your inventory and making the whole equip / sell process even more tiresome. Add the fact that the universe is the most generic D&D knockoff and the locations are the likes of "forest", "mine" and "cave" and you're left with an utterly unfulfilling painfully monotonous excuse for an ARPG. I would lament the fact that the expansion is not included as it is better in several ways but it does still not make Dungeon Siege a good game.

Bei der Installation Deutsch ausgewählt. Trotzdem ist das ganze Spiel in Englisch! MÜLL!

As I find DS I and II super archaic I will not consider them in my review. Dungeon Siege III is a mediocre game in every possible way. Plot is mediocre, gameplay is mediocre, RPG elements are extremely simplistic, game is 100% linear. At the same time, it is fun to play... kind of. Sometimes it's boring, sometimes not. General art style is enjoyable and unique I would say - only in this game you can see anime-styled ladies shoot Hindu gods with muskets. Somewhat enjoyable, somewhat not. DLC - more like Dull Lame Content.

This game is good, very good. I enjoyed playing it 10 years ago. But this release.. just read more review for details about this release... 5/5 for original game, 2/5 for this release

... I vastly prefer the originals, especially knowing they're complete. I'm not too familiar with Square Enix but I have played a few great console games by Square (or Squaresoft) and Enix before they merged. Games like Final Fantasy 1 for NES and Dragon Warrior 1 and 2. I was more of a Commodore Amiga player with games like the Pool of Radiance series, Ultima, Abandoned Places, ect. and didn't play consoles very often. DS 1 & 2 are two games that I most likely will play even when I hit 70 because they're the type of games that never get, "old" along with you, ha ha.