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How one bug changed my memories of Dungeon Keeper
I set out to play Dungeon Keeper and reminisce about it! Which went great until I found KeeperFX and it was... not what I remembered. Yes, it's one of those days where having nowhere good to record a video only ranks somewhere about #21 on the list of issues I have here.
Notable sins:
0:00 A dungeon of my own
1:22 Subversion and serendipity
2:50 Parental porkers
4:11 Clock speed woes and KeeperFX
5:31 Coveting the actions of smarter people
7:48 Making life difficult
10:00 Seven minutes is a lot of nothing to say
11:35 Welcoming the Age of Plastic
12:32 That bit with the dogs
13:45 Bad times for the Lord of the Land
15:02 Making sacrifices to see what happens
Stock footage from Pexels
Except the skiing, that is genuinely me being a dumbass on a mountain
"Peter Molyneux - Game Developers Conference 2010" by Official GCD (CC-BY 2.0)
CC-BY 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
KeeperFX project: keeperfx.net/
Bonus fact: Dungeon Keeper spent a long time in development, with trailers and prototypes from as early as 1995. While early in-game footage looks quite different, scenes from the game's pre-rendered intro appear in their final form in trailers from 1996.
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London in VGA: finding the real Sherlock Holmes behind The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel is a great game. But who was Sherlock Holmes? How much does his London overlap with the real London? Is this even slightly about video games any more? Yes, we've gone high-concept with a background of traffic noise as I attempt to master detect the master detective himself. Plus my studio is still out of action and I kind of wa...
What Simon the Sorcerer says about game design at point and click's creative peak
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I'm delving into my collection of adventure games, and in doing so find that Simon the Sorcerer tells us an awful lot about the genre in its heyday, and why that heyday was going to be a lot shorter than we expected in 1993. Or 1994 if we wanted Chris Barrie voicing the explanation of it. How did I find the adventures of He Who Sorcers? And why did vintage magazines claim this was possibly bett...
What were XMS, EMS and Conventional memory and why did the PC have them?
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What was all that talk of memory managers and AUTOEXEC.BAT boot menus about? How would an 8MB 486 fail to run a game which worked fine on a 1MB 286? Why was EMM386.EXE definitely not on Ultima 7's Christmas card list? And why does your friend have digitised sound on that game when you do not, even though you both have the same soundcard? It's #doscember , and so time to delve into one of those ...
Adding AI to my 26 year old QBASIC game | QBASIC Rescue
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"You're a moderately successful web developer, and yet you spend your evenings programming old QBASIC games," as a friend of mine said the other week. There's not much more to the video than that, really. I wrote a game AI for the first time, in the language I was using as a teenager. It kind of works. Mostly. Subroutines: 0:00 About time 0:58 Where's the blog post, then? 3:05 Improving physics...
I think The Need For Speed might be the great lost DSI Test Drive game
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Road & Track Presents: The Need For Speed straddles two epochs. One is obvious: it's the first title in a multi-decade series that's spawned countless classics, duds, and pioneering oddities. (Pun unintentional). But there's another, less obvious one: the swansong of the late '80s premier driving game codesmiths, recently acquired by a publishing behemoth but still carrying enough of their own ...
Revisiting the streets of my youth via Sierra's Police Quest
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It's time to go back to the streets I spent my childhood on. To answer that question, "can you go back again?" But which are the streets of my childhood? Are they suburban Surrey, or are they the EGA rendition of Lytton from the first Police Quest game as viewed through a vintage Amstrad? Yes, it's one of those inscrutably high-concept video ideas where I yet again avoid just showing a game for...
Is Flight Unlimited the first true modern flight sim... and should I have run it on a 486 DX2?
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Any question can be answered "yes" if you get to define your own parameters. Nevertheless, I would like to tell you about Flight Unlimited, why I think it does indeed deserve consideration for pioneering two vital tenets of the modern flight sim, and what it was like to play it on a 486 DX2/66, barely above the minimum spec. And what were we doing with a 486 that late in 1995 anyway? Plus, whil...
I am completely unable to review Derail Valley
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I've started playing Derail Valley and I love it to the point I need to tell you all about it. Which is a problem, because it turns out that the moment the cameras are rolling and I'm gathering gameplay footage I become completely unable to articulate just what it is that sets this aside from the usual pulling of a single lever and waiting for things to happen of supposedly more realistic simul...
I became captivated by this obscure German bus simulator.
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The man for whom the word "boring" apparently has no meaning finds a new question to ask: if truck simulators are the joke which came good, then what's a bus simulator - some kind of avant-garde artistic statement? The actual answer is a combination of charmingly homemade indie project, historical documentary, and a strange world of finding calm in the stress of having a million things to do in...
Bad Influence!, GamesMaster, and Digitiser: British gaming TV in the 90s and its return
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Bad Influence!, GamesMaster and Digitiser - three British gaming TV instutions, but where are they now? Join me and a whole host of other retro tech and gaming UA-cam people for memories, homages, modern interpretations and more. What was on your telly in the '90s, and did you ever successfully campaign to be allowed to watch people play Sonic instead of the continuing adventures of Harold Bish...
Screamer - Graffiti Software's PC answer to Ridge Racer
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The 3D arcade racer was the big hit of the mid '90s arcade - colourful, fast-moving, simple and yet also endlessly replayable. Then the Playstation brought them into the living room with a spectacularly faithful Ridge Racer conversion. As a PC owner, I was convinced a good 486 could do something just as impressive when it came to polygon-throwing. Screamer certainly looked like it'd be the game...
User Created Expansion Set: the free community-made expansion for Chris Saywer's RCT2 from 2003
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Did I ever tell you about the *other* early-2000s RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 expansion pack? Well, no, of course I didn't. That would be silly, because if I had this would just be making the same video again. But yes, alongside the disappointment of Wacky Worlds and Time Twister was a third expansion, full of satisfyingly challenging scenarios, new rides and scenery, and all linked together by two ...
Duke Nukem 3D, the Build engine, and my 1990s attempts at level creation
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Duke Nukem 3D is an all time classic. It's a shame I was only ever any good at making levels. And even for that I needed the help of a vintage guide. I recount why Duke was great, why including the Build editor was even more great, and take you through my vintage attempts to build a slice of suburbia and set a map inside an office, a type of building I had never even visited at the time. They'v...
Stunt Car Racer by Geoff Crammond: a tale of clever suspension modelling and PC port disappointment
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Stunt Car Racer is an Amiga and Atari ST classic, an unusual diversion of Geoff Crammond simulating a thing which does not exist in real life, and also the source of some disappointment for 9 year old me when I got the PC version home and discovered the importance of checking which format the screenshots on the box come from. But how does it handle all those jumps, twists and turns on a game th...
Revs: How Geoff Crammond squeezed a Formula 3 sim racer into just 32KB on the BBC Micro
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Revs: How Geoff Crammond squeezed a Formula 3 sim racer into just 32KB on the BBC Micro
Rescuing an old QBASIC game from 1996 and making it playable: Oval Racer gets revisited
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Rescuing an old QBASIC game from 1996 and making it playable: Oval Racer gets revisited
The History of QBASIC and my history with it
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The History of QBASIC and my history with it
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: not an instant Chris Sawyer classic?
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: not an instant Chris Sawyer classic?
The Incredible Destruction Physics of X-Com: Apocalypse
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The Incredible Destruction Physics of X-Com: Apocalypse
How Good Is Midtown Madness 2's London?
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How Good Is Midtown Madness 2's London?
Why aren't there more open-source recreations of classic games?
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Why aren't there more open-source recreations of classic games?
Remastered and Definitive Editions: The Sierra and LucasArts Way
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Remastered and Definitive Editions: The Sierra and LucasArts Way
Hard Drivin': From Arcade to ZX - all the versions I didn't cover.
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Hard Drivin': From Arcade to ZX - all the versions I didn't cover.
MegaDrive Hard Drivin': too clever for the console?
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MegaDrive Hard Drivin': too clever for the console?
Carmageddon 2 Had A Wild Mod Scene
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Carmageddon 2 Had A Wild Mod Scene
Viper Racing: Sierra's OTHER 1998 Racing Sim
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Viper Racing: Sierra's OTHER 1998 Racing Sim
The Forgotten Mods of Midtown Madness
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The Forgotten Mods of Midtown Madness
Mafia's Fairplay mission: a better racing game than Spirit Of Speed 1937?
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Mafia's Fairplay mission: a better racing game than Spirit Of Speed 1937?
Hardwar: The space trader the '90s forgot
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Hardwar: The space trader the '90s forgot

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @superhakujin
    @superhakujin 2 дні тому

    Links and Mean Streets! That takes me back...

  • @-NezoF-
    @-NezoF- 5 днів тому

    I was patiently watching until the video suddenly ended and I realised a full 45 minutes had passed. Good job for making such a long and technical video feel so short and concise!

  • @thelippyserver58
    @thelippyserver58 6 днів тому

    Not your Wacky Worlds apologist, but I'll stick my neck out there for the poor boat hire.

  • @JL5419
    @JL5419 6 днів тому

    This was such a pleasant and informative way to learn about a complicated game. I had tried playing before but it was too intimidating, but now that I've watched this video I found the game approachable and fun. Thank you!

  • @thelippyserver58
    @thelippyserver58 6 днів тому

    Two years late, but this was a fun watch. That's one hell of a burger bar you made there friend.

  • @kuronyaa-san
    @kuronyaa-san 7 днів тому

    @13:50 ah... Reminds me of my nodded Marsec Mininuclear Launcher... The last alien in somewhere in the building. Screw door to door/floor to floor search. >:D

  • @RainedOnParade
    @RainedOnParade 7 днів тому

    how do you build a bridge

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 6 днів тому

      There should be a suspension bridge-looking icon in the road and rail toolbars, to build a bridge you select that, drag where you want the bridge to be, then it will pop a dialogue letting you choose what type of bridge to build. The start and end points need to be the same height (or some particular types of 1-level change), and there are some things you can't bridge over, but the game gives enough feedback you should be able to get there with a bit of experimentation.

  • @MRGAUNTLET8891
    @MRGAUNTLET8891 10 днів тому

    Timberwolf wonderfully outstandingly magnificent splendidly remarkably glorious

  • @commisar_________________7071
    @commisar_________________7071 11 днів тому

    You are one of two youtubers that I have notifications turned on for. I get them when the other one uploads but not you for some reason. I have just been watching your last few videos because I thought 'timberwolf hasn't uploaded in a while I should check out his channel' and lo and behold there were 3 videos I got no notification for... As always, love the videos. I will just have to manually check your channel more often for new uploads.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 10 днів тому

      Ah yes, the joy that since everybody asks you to subscribe and set notifications, UA-cam then assumes that you don't actually want notifications, so instead tries to generate them algorithmically with varying levels of success.

  • @tangentfox4677
    @tangentfox4677 11 днів тому

    I've been playing this game for years, and I never knew anything about how to decide how long of trains to use or which industries to connect to. xD

  • @haveaniceday4147
    @haveaniceday4147 13 днів тому

    How did you get the black to show up properly? I screamed at it for quite some time now, but it just didnt work for me

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 12 днів тому

      dgVoodoo, but that doesn't work out of the box - the game has some weird thing where it always tries to get the DirectX DLLs out of the Windows system directory. So I had to rename the dgVoodoo version of the DLL, then hex edit the game executable so it was looking for the new name and not DDRAW.DLL, at which point it started running through dgVoodoo and looking correct

  • @mikecantwell77
    @mikecantwell77 14 днів тому

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought "What have they done?!?!" when experiencing "new" tickle. I had no idea it was an AI bug.... one of the big draws for 'god' games for me was pottering rather than efficiency so I think I prefer it bugged 😅

  • @TheGozzeh
    @TheGozzeh 14 днів тому

    Nice. I should look through the old family PCs for my crappy basic games! I've still got my first experiments at 3D rendering and DirectX (from the late 90s) up on the web though :D

  • @Calilasseia
    @Calilasseia 14 днів тому

    That's a LOT of ingenuity packed into one game ...

  • @blueswales9990
    @blueswales9990 15 днів тому

    Good to hear you mention ADR. His Mopar stuff was incredible

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 14 днів тому

      I loved AdR's cars. Living in the UK, they were how I learnt about most of the Mopar cars.

  • @RikoWatashi
    @RikoWatashi 15 днів тому

    Digital illusions used to play music and play pinball at the same time over PC speaker in rather good quality in both Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Ilusions. ua-cam.com/video/yb8mLBa3dcg/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/MJBB8W_6xi0/v-deo.html

  • @maxheadroom22and26
    @maxheadroom22and26 15 днів тому

    Nice and interesting video! Maybe you could make a ranking video of games that portray real cities with your two categories? I'm also fascinated by games that take me to real places. If you are reading a script, could you find a better position for the teleprompter? It's irritating that you look next to the camera the whole time. And also one can see your eyes following the text very much. If there is no better way to do it then maybe it would be better to do it with voice over images/video?

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 15 днів тому

      This is quite old and I switched to using a proper Pepper's Ghost teleprompter some time in... probably mid-2023? I tend to leave the old stuff up apart from a few bad ideas and anything with catastrophically poor production quality as there is still hopefully some entertainment value to be derived from it, and perhaps as proof that it's possible to slowly learn this stuff by trial and (mostly) error.

  • @supercellex4D
    @supercellex4D 15 днів тому

    Good video except for one problem XENIX IS NOT LINUX. Xenix is a sublicensed version of AT&T Unix because AT&T was under antitrust limitations. Linux is a kernel licensed under GPLv2. actually i think it was pronounciation, he did say Xenix it just sounded like Linux

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 15 днів тому

      I thought I clearly pronounced Unix at 10:01 and the subtitles also show "Unix variant", where did you get Linux from?

    • @supercellex4D
      @supercellex4D 15 днів тому

      @@TimberwolfK "A version of Microsoft's own Unix variant, Linux" Microsoft never touched the Linux kernel in the 80s, that's because it didn't exist. MS only got involved in Linux today with Azure, WSL and various projects within FreeDesktop.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 15 днів тому

      Hmm, I definitely hear that as "Xenix" (and it's in the subtitles). ETA: ah, I see you've noticed the same. Unfortunate with all those OS names not a million miles from each other!

  • @CommissarMitch
    @CommissarMitch 15 днів тому

    So I love Dungeon Keeper 2 for 2 main reasons. 1: It is by itself a really solid game that has stood the test of time. 2: It is the only non-swedish game where I think the Swedish translation is better.

  • @lpil
    @lpil 15 днів тому

    Can’t wait for the next bollard video!!

  • @TheGreatSteve
    @TheGreatSteve 16 днів тому

    My shop bought copy of R-type repeats level seven twice instead of playing level eight due to a copy protection bug. Technically, I still haven't beaten the game.

  • @duccie
    @duccie 16 днів тому

    about a year ago i made a modern program for windows that can play 16-bit wav files on the pc speaker using the click approach where at every sample time youd invert play a click if value of the sample was higher than some threshold it technically works, sometimes pretty well, but anything complex comes out as a garbled mess ill defo try the oneshot mode with some pwm; thanks for the inspiration

  • @stevemcguigan8359
    @stevemcguigan8359 16 днів тому

    love your channel. Found it searching for videos about qbasic and stayed for the rest

  • @EvenstarGW
    @EvenstarGW 16 днів тому

    I did not know about KeeperFX and now I want to play DK again. Thanks for the video.

  • @Ph33NIXx
    @Ph33NIXx 16 днів тому

    Maybe I should give Dungoen Keeper a swing.. I remember playing it on Windows XP - which did not like to run it... And I got halfway through the game before it just didnt want to run anymore.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 16 днів тому

      Ah yes, I didn't go anywhere near Keeper95 - those early "we'll give you both a DOS executable and a Windows one" never seemed to like running on anything more modern. (I think The Need For Speed SE even gives up if you have too modern a DirectX on Windows 98! At least, I had some weird DirectX-related issue preventing me from running it)

  • @weeaboobaguette3943
    @weeaboobaguette3943 16 днів тому

    The only thing i got from this video was "go reinstall Black & White".

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 16 днів тому

      The fan patches make it run pretty well on Windows 10/11, too!

  • @wingnutmcmoomoo494
    @wingnutmcmoomoo494 17 днів тому

    Honestly this is something i've seen happen over and over and over again, people not realizing they are playing very bugged games because we were kids. There are alot of great classic games like this that have versions that are terrible broken or have one or two very major bugs and we just all never realized at the time lol

  • @RAFMnBgaming
    @RAFMnBgaming 17 днів тому

    this would be lovely in VR.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 16 днів тому

      Definitely. I wouldn't mind being able to get out of the bus and have a wander around during those long waits on stand for the next timetable...

  • @SamMcDonald83
    @SamMcDonald83 17 днів тому

    I tried to play Dugeon Keeper as a kid but found it too difficult to make much progress. I wonder if I'd had the bugged version would I have enjoyed it more? Maybe it was a feature rather than a bug

  • @sziklamester1244
    @sziklamester1244 17 днів тому

    Still one of my fave games of all time. In the top 100 it is in the top 20.

  • @anonym1984
    @anonym1984 17 днів тому

    How can you call the threathening printer messages a BAD idea?! Its absolutely hilarious and needs to be implemented in more games.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 17 днів тому

      It perhaps needed some way of detecting if the game was being run at EA corporate...

  • @ronnylackey5841
    @ronnylackey5841 17 днів тому

    I never had a problem with Tickle, but I followed the "cheat" strategy. First, don't click out of the previous level until I get a level 10 reaper/mistress/dragon. Transfer said creature with a special. Possess said creature to absolutely wreck the opposing keeper. Transfer said creature to the next level. Basically, turn a management sim into an FPS for many levels. That's the ticket.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 16 днів тому

      I love that they did this - there's a straight-up way to play the levels but you often have a "cheese" strategy (like grabbing the hellhounds and attacking Blue's dungeon heart immediately) or the option to explore the previous level thoroughly and bring across a strong creature to help turn the odds in your favour.

  • @AFnord
    @AFnord 17 днів тому

    I'm kind of glad to hear that I wasn't the only one who did the whole "2 players playing one 3D game" thing back then. I did not do that with dungeon keeper (I just did not possess creatures), but did that with Magic Carpet. I don't understand how I was able to remain friends with the person I played with because we were awful at communicating!

  • @DrEnzyme
    @DrEnzyme 17 днів тому

    Nothing earns a sub from me faster than a joke about Peter Molyneux's living arrangements.

  • @WildFungus
    @WildFungus 18 днів тому

    No I bought the Gold Version on GOG years ago and the enemy AI does play the game I played the no enemy competition version too.

  • @Somniostatic
    @Somniostatic 18 днів тому

    "being exiled to his home office --" lollll god.

  • @TwinComet
    @TwinComet 18 днів тому

    You touched on having memories of the original flawed version of the game. This is why video game preservation is so important but complex. Even for the games that we can archive, which version is correct? People's nostalgic experience of a game is tied to the patch version they played on, not just the game itself.

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 16 днів тому

      Yep - I understand fully that GOG et al. just want to host a ready-wrapped version that the vast majority of users can just install and play without needing too much technical knowledge, but I'd love it if they could host images of the original CDs and patch disks for people who're able to emulate (or even have the correct physical) appropriate hardware and get the full 'original' experience. Of course, there's always the option of eXo and Internet Archive once you've bought your copy.

  • @RAFMnBgaming
    @RAFMnBgaming 18 днів тому

    There's a couple projects I'm following working on source porting old games but because of how certain companies can be with C&Ds, even without legal precedent, they're keeping it on the DL. I wouldn't be surprised that there's more open source projects being worked on than we're aware about.

  • @informitas0117
    @informitas0117 18 днів тому

    I completely adored Black & White as a small child. I didn't mind the clunkieness as it was all so mysterious and magical, and I had a big evil cow. I could name the people after my bullies and feed them to my cow.

  • @RAFMnBgaming
    @RAFMnBgaming 18 днів тому

    I do love video games set in places that I've visited IRL, and I had the pleasure to visit Chicago a couple years ago. Maybe it's a little silly but it was a lot of fun recognising where I know the Five Guys I ate at before going home was as you went past it on the way to jump the river.

  • @RAFMnBgaming
    @RAFMnBgaming 18 днів тому

    Had a look at the UK map for ETS and... wow, there's not even the M20. If you had to reduce the UK down to the single most relevant road for HGVs tcoming in from europe, it would have to be the M20. I know because I live near it and Operation Brock causes problems for anyone living around here on a seasonal basis. Did the people who made this map even visit this country FFS?

    • @TimberwolfK
      @TimberwolfK 16 днів тому

      It's the curse of reusing old assets; the UK map dates from an era when truck sims were destined to sit on a spinner rack with a load of other "attractively priced" shovelware and all the maps were pretty much, "pick a few roads on a map, trace them with standard assets, and move on to the next project". It's noticeably jarring now the SCS team are able to do on-site research trips. What I really miss from the map is all the bits of UK driving where you're taking lorries around roads in towns and cities that are too small for them and one awkward traffic car can make your life an absolute pain. Promods does this well, and gives a lot of "UK-feeling" situations, like bits of South London which go from massive multi-lane roundabout to narrow single carriageway and back again within a few hundred metres, or the bleak feeling of stopping at a junction in Scotland and seeing nothing but road stretching into the distance in both directions.

    • @RAFMnBgaming
      @RAFMnBgaming 16 днів тому

      @@TimberwolfK Yeah, it's one of those things that's so normal it's really uncanny visiting countries with sane road networks. Definitely gotta throw in a couple of major connecting roads that for some reason go through a housing estate that's been street-parked down to 1 lane. The sheer terror of realising that someone's also started driving down the street from the other direction. There are way too many roads like that near me.

  • @somedude5951
    @somedude5951 18 днів тому

    I experienced Tickle already not easy in the original game, but I installed the patch downloaded from the web a few months already after buying the game. I still play Dungeon Keeper often, but always in the dosbox version. KeeperFX made to many changes to my taste, and I know the game so well, that I coded my own interface to play it in Deeper Dungeons. Not that hard, I just have typed in the maps I want to play into the *.lif files in de LEVELS directory. I don't want to say anything negative about KeeperFX, I think it's a great achievement. I just don't like the fact that original maps there were changed, the way the AI is changed, and how many of the keyboard shortcuts are changed. These are the main reasons I prefer Dosbox.

  • @Hndshks
    @Hndshks 18 днів тому

    I went through this same surprise with the difficulty spike after the last Steam sale and trying KeeperFX for the first time.

  • @KestalDoern
    @KestalDoern 18 днів тому

    I know it's truism by this point but I really miss the times, when developers just went full ham with creativity and created these weird titles that actually felt innovative.

  • @Parker8752
    @Parker8752 18 днів тому

    I still remember late nights of being told to go to bed in Dungeon Keeper 2.

  • @Broockle
    @Broockle 19 днів тому

    huh... I had a similar experience when I played KeeperFX the other day. AI is surprisingly competent 😆 They constantly killed my imps, I was running out of money so bad.

  • @cpconstantine
    @cpconstantine 19 днів тому

    just installed DungeonFX. and got "Happy Birthday, Thomas Lisz". I don't think I ever saw any of the original birthday easter eggs when I played it on release.

  • @fallenswan1670
    @fallenswan1670 19 днів тому

    X-Com: Apocalypse is my favourite X-Com/XCOM game (I spell XCOM as "KSOM", since it is clearly one word, while X-Com is not). Although I never played first one, and very little about second one. XCOM...well, I played it through once, and was trying with expansion to play again, but felt that it is so inferior for X-Com: Apocalypse, that I stopped playing it. I do not like idea, that every agent can have only one grenade, or healing item, or so... I loved to think what I want for that agent to carry on mission, etc. Some of them armed on their teeth, while others having less equipment (so that they can actually move too, and have actions). Also, I like more sci-fi element of Apoc, and that there is multiple levels in map, and it is important part of missions go to vertical buildings, and clean them out. And of course the demolition part (although I never had intentions destroy parts! (says some one who gave autocannons with explosive ammos for those who's accuracy was poor, and normal ammo for those who had good accuracy (but it works mate! It works!!))). But I never played with real-time mode...for simple reason: I panic more than my agents when they see first-time aliens, if I play with real time. I like my apocalypse nice and calm; easy to control! I also won the game in one of first tries. Didn't see problems with technology, or end game invasions (opposite, mid game were helluva laser show on top of the city, destroying lot of things, but in end game, I think enemy were destroyed quite fast?). But I saw my friend play the game before I did, and got some tips and ideas which were great help. I also believe that I was quite lucky: no other corpos were hostile than Cult of Sirius, and I "eliminated" Sirius in early game, so they were not really other enemies than the aliens. I would like to play the Apoc again, but mouse issue and voice issue were last time quite game breaking things (well, I think voice issue was fixed last time I tried, but mouse issue still existed). I hope OpenApoc could fix that. But more than that, I kind of wish there would be "remake" by some indie company... which take all good elements from the game, and alternate those mediocre parts of the game (like the end game, which I didn't like at all... I mean the alien world... Equally bad with Half-Life's end...). PS. Do you know that feeling, when you first time buy the biggest, most expensive missile and use it first time against aliens, you launch the missile and look it in map view how it comes closer and closer to enemy ship...and in last moment, enemy ship make 90'decree manoeuvrer, and avoid hit, and the biggest skyscraper in the who city got the missile...and will collapse from it. And after battle, you see the bill from the skyscraper, look how much you have money (not enough), take load game, and never again use that missile type..? I know that feeling.

  • @perrymeril
    @perrymeril 19 днів тому

    Ahh yes... the glory days of magic carpet....

  • @chrisbecke2793
    @chrisbecke2793 19 днів тому

    What are you doing? The training room is built facing the water where blue comes from. Then iIt doubles as a guard post.