Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

Every bit as good as I remember, loved losing hours just playing through the campaign!

It's one of the few RTS set in the D&D rules and settings. Some characters memorable, and your party has a good character design; you care for them and their story. It could be easily discarded if not for the fact it is one of the few D&D RTS that somehow hold it all together. Otherwise OK in the average of RTS of it's time.

Dragonshard > Kohan, War(star)craft, AoE, Warhammer, etc. RPG elements make sense in an RTS, most people are too stupid to play this game. The concept that you have to build a party & explore the world, dungeons & all, as opposed to blindly raping the land of resources in an ignorant zergfest, is refreshing. Dragonshard has elements that most MOBA do not yet comprehend, namely control over all units. I am SO sick of sending endless pawns to sacrifice their lives so I can win; how evil can you force someone to be? Why is every MOBA hero EVIL?? Here you get full control, even the lowliest units can turn the tide when well placed, making it well balanced with 100s of hours of replay. Most of the people whom rated this game low wanted an RTS, RPG, or MOBA, & not everything at once. D&D Dragonshard was ahead of its time and still is. If you* Hate* MOBA like I do, this might be a better fit. The sense of helplessness & impending peon doom are gone, & the player is left with a much more enjoyable experience. I know that's odd, but this game is closer to "Earth 2160" or "Total Annihilation" than any fantasy game. It's everything Kohan II wanted to be but couldn't achieve and LOOK at their 87% metacritic score! The high expectations of other D&D games hurt Dragonshard. For me it is definitely a 90%+ quality game. Don't let the Baldur's haters get ya, Their fingers don't move fast enough for real time action. /Agannazar’s Scorcher burn~

Great mechanics, a lot of fun, but very poor storyline.

Concept is good, idea is good, game is fun and action. Graphics are good and well polished. Music is OK but get repetitive, they should have added more soundtracks. Also the soundtrack reminds me Predator movie music A LOT. At the end of the day its a good game BUT its an unfinished game in my opinion it needs more content and it needs better modding capabilities. It also needs an high score table and a scoring system. Could have been much better.