Dungeon Lords Steam Edition

[Metro]

Wizards and Warriors runs just fine on the NES.

 

[Electryon]

I'm pretty sure everyone here would howl in pleasure to have a working version of Wizards and Warriors instead, which may be one of the few (and maybe the ONLY) game in the entire history of the genre that I can't get to run on my computer, which is depressing since it's so wonderfully quirky and fun.

Wasn't it felipepepe who recently claimed that upgrading to Windows 10 enabled him to run W&W?

You can certainly run the game, after a fashion, but you are either forced to have the left side menu options be unusable due to massive mouse lag, or you are hit with a playable game with massive graphic glitches. There doesn't seem to be any way to alleviate both, and believe me, I've spent more hours on it than a person should, including trying to run it on virtual machines. No go.

 

[felipepepe]

The mouse lag isn't so bad, the game isn't menu heavy anyway. I installed it last week and just cleared the snake temple. Not a single issue besides the lag.

That re-re-re-released Dungeon Lords, on the other hand... crash tree times when I rolled a rogue.

 

[Electryon]

I played the first couple minutes of Dungeon Lords for the first time this evening. It's definitely a DW Bradley game, and all that entails. Almost want to say he's like the RPG world's Sam Raimi (in his Evil Dead phase, obviously). Goofy and utterly ridiculous, but likable despite it all. The listened to the opening cinematic and felt like even the narrator was speeding through it because it was so absurd. As far as I can tell a disliked ruler of a Kingdom lost his daughter to a noble knight (or was he gonna marry this girl, I honestly can't say even though I just watched it an hour ago) and also an undead or dark horde of some type is rising, and may actually be viewed as the good guys compared to the actual ruler. My synopsis of it makes no sense, but trust me, the opening cinematic doesn't make much more.

As for Wizards and Warriors, yes you can absolutely play it with the lag on the side panel, this is true. I honestly have never been much for keyboard shortcuts unless I need them, but hey, I'll suffer them to play this game if anyone has a list of them for all the menus and attack commands and such.

 

[Electryon]

I pulled my old Vista desktop out of a storage closet today and gave Wizards and Warriors a go. Lo and behold, I finally found a machine it works on. Much like Might and Magic IX, it seems to totally depend on the operating system and specific computer, it's basically a roll of the dice. But this is the absolute last game I couldn't get to run on any of my systems, nice to finally have it up and running.