I played the WORST rated D&D Game on Steam | Daggerdale Review

Daggerdale is an RPG based on 4th edition DnD that fails on every conceivable metric: gameplay, graphics and even music.
Dungeons and Dragons video games have always been a mixed bag. While there are classics like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, there are also games like, well Daggerdale, by Bedlam Games.
This 2011 game is the lowest rated DnD game on Metacritic, so I dove in to understand why. I played Daggerdale on PC, your mileage may vary if you have an ancient X-box 360 or PS 3 copy.
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[@matttwigg9293]

I WORKED on this game and even I don't remember it...

[@Sh8dyLain]

Care to share more details about the production process?

[@TheEcoseht]

Impressive statement xD

[@tictacterminator]

@@Sh8dyLain he just said he can't remember!

[@matttwigg9293]

@@Sh8dyLain I was just a junior animator at the time. Not much to share, sorry.

[@justinkitchur1443]

@@matttwigg9293 I know you said you don't remember but do you have ANY fond memories? Or maybe even someone that you worked with and keep contact with?

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

"They're not selling you the game, they're selling you the words Dungeons & Dragons." Oh man, this is so often the problem that separates a great D&D video game from a shit one.

[@icarian553]

It's not only a problem with D&D. A lot of other licenced games suffer from it as well.

[@austin842]

They apparently did it before Disney and Amazon made it cool...

[@ImortalZeus13]

This also kind of a problem with non-video game DnD products

[@thebrokenmask8304]

True. I feel like only Larian is really trying to make sure quality meet the expectation.

[@redfiend]

@@thebrokenmask8304The Larian that pulled the same cheap move with their Baldur's Gate 3 game, that has absolutely nothing to do with Baldur's Gate series?

[@xionkuriyama5697]

This is one of those pieces of media that I call cursed--not in the usual meme sense of somewhat unsettling, but rather in the sense that the only way their existence and level of quality can only be explained if we assume that the developers crossed a spiteful wizard and were cursed for a thousand years.

[@WilliamSRD]

Thinking of studio execs as spiteful wizards actually seems to explain their behavior better than anything else I've heard!

[@darthXreven]

from the sound of it the devs just weren't good and made 2 failures and closed personally I'd rather have seen these devs make it big with something decent quality and I'd love a dev like Eutechynx to go tits up.....cus those fools now 40+ years in the games industry and not one chart topping hit to their name, just piles and piles of trash to their name....I still fail to see how these fools lasted this long when so many shit tier devs collapse in 1-3 games Eutechynx made SRS street racing Syndicate, some ASCAR games and Ride To Hell....there is not way they should remain a thing...someone with very deep pockets has to be funding em or if there is a cursed dev it's them.....cursed to make trash and remain a viable business..... one day I definitely wanna hear the biography of Eutechynx and learn how they stayed open so long....

[@mercster]

How is being "cursed" a meme thing?

[@judgeprime3730]

@@mercster click bait kids KZbinrs call everything cursed. Look it up, its awful

[@vxicepickxv]

@@darthXreven Maybe they're a money laundering front.

[@fandraxx]

If you want a real hellscape of a D&D video game experience, then 1998's Decent into Undermountain is the place to go. It was literally (no hyperbole) released unfinished and, boy, does it show.

[@WilliamSRD]

Oooh, it's going on the list! Thank you!

[@TheAdmantArchvile]

You know it was bad when they straight up said so in Fallout 2. You could get an easter egg magic 8 ball and one of the messages it gave you was "Yes, we know Undermountain was crap."

[@TheFatalT]

That game was the worst.

[@mundty3264]

Came to say this too. Daggerdale is cheap and forgettable and I never bothered doing a second playthrough with a different character, but I personally don't recall minding it too much until the final battle; I was okay with it enough to play it to the end. With Descent to Undermountain, I couldn't stomach dealing with it anymore past an hour or so and never returned. It's legit terrible, outside of its using what would later be the tavern music in Baldur's Gate. That's the one good thing I can recall about it.

[@early90smf90]

definitely a phenomenal piece of shit

[@AceWolf456]

Honestly, I don't blame the dev team for this. I think that, given how fast they closed after release, they probably did the best with the situation they were stuck in. For sure it's a bad game, but if the dev team had time to patch it, and the budget I assume, I think it would be a lot better.

[@WilliamSRD]

I'm with you for sure, the dev team did what they could, but I imagine they were rushed, understaffed and underfunded.

[@GeorgeMonet]

But that is just an assumption.

[@matttwigg9293]

@@WilliamSRD Correct on all 3 😆 Luckily, most of the people I know from Bedlam moved on to bigger and better things.

[@LJL85]

4:12 "To this aim, he has constructed the Tower of the void at the heart of this mine" Awful place for a tower. No need to enter the tower, Just undermine it. Half the work already done.

[@broadbandislife]

TBF D&D Excuse Plots and dungeon setups have never been famous for making overmuch sense.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

There is no time for lengthy explanation. Then immediately goes into a lengthy explanation.

[@broadbandislife]

@@Jordan-Ramses "Do as I preach, not as I do" :P

[@kolbydavenport4696]

Sure, just backstab the quest giver at the end, right in front of the party who helped defeat the guy you got instantly beaten by, and stand there in front of them to tell them that they will have to beat every one of you. I'm sure that they wont just start with you at that point, that will end well

[@broadbandislife]

Obligatory _sudden but inevitable betrayal_ memes - not that D&D badguy types were much noted for having invested in the Think This Through feat chain in general ofc

[@kolbydavenport4696]

@@broadbandislife immediately the party wipes her out too and theres no sequel xD

[@broadbandislife]

@@kolbydavenport4696 Eh, it's a vidyagaem cutscene. It doesn't have to worry about cynical players going "lol fuck that shit" on the unspoken agreement on letting villains finish their rants (and if need be promptly Exit Stage Left afterwards) :P

[@WilliamSRD]

You mad lads did it! Heroes of the Lance video will be coming in the next few weeks (assuming that I can get it running!) Stay tuned, because next week I'm set up to cover a DIFFERENT bad video game, specifically one meant to hurt the Warhammer 40k fans in my audience.

[@RogueBulb]

you should play DnD dark alliance 2021 I personally liked it but most people didnt I would wait for it to go on sale since like $40 is too much even for someone who likes the game

[@tipsycreations7290]

I'll be honest I subbed purely to see what 40k game you want to torture your audience with. There are SOOOOO manyyyy.

[@nicholasmorgan7609]

If you like 4e, check out "Revival: A Dungeons & Dragons Real-Play Podcast"

[@overlordsnow14]

do it!!!! hahaha

[@ruskerdax5547]

If you played this game 20+ years ago it would be a little dull, but perhaps not the worst game you'd play that year. 20 years ago (around a decade before the game was actually released) it might not even seem that bad. Heroes of the Lance? That shit is straight up not playable. It is barely a game. This is not hyperbole. If you think this is bad, you have no idea. My experience is with the NES version (which is very easy to get running on an emulator. I actually did have the cartridge as a kid, though.) The PC version is, from what I understand, only marginally better.

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

Honestly, 4th Edition should have been a Renaissance for D&D video game development. More than any other edition, its rules set and approach to turn based combat could have been translated 1:1 into any number of single player and multiplayer video games.

[@WilliamSRD]

Oh, exactly! It was THE edition for cRPGs! Such a WASTE!

[@oxybe]

@@WilliamSRD A large part of the problem with videogames in the 4e era of D&D (i would say 2008-2012/2013) was that the license for games was held by Atari (guess who published this game here) and they didn't really do anything with it, publishing stuff most likely just to prove they're maintaining the license. in 2009 Hasbro sued Atari to get the license back (Atari was also sublicencing it to Bandai Namco at the time I believe which was a contractual no-no if memory serves... it's been a few years) and only in late 2011 did they get it back. unsurprisingly, this game came out mid 2011, likely when the writing was on the wall that the license was going away.

[@mustangmckraken1150]

@Oxybe Atari also made games like Neverwinter Nights, which is fantastic imo, especially with all the expansions. The games weren't all bad. Note Neverwinter Nights, NOT Neverwinter, the latter is hot garbage when you compare it to how good DnD Online was.

[@oxybe]

@Mustang McKraken except NVN is very much pre 4e. Even NVN 2 was built off the 3.5 rules if memory serves and was released 2005 or 2006, a couple of years before D&D 4e came out. The only D&D game Atari published during the 4e era was Daggerdale. the shitty Neverwinter game came after Hasbro got the license back.

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@mustangmckraken1150 "how good DnD Online was" it's still good! Haha

[@WilliamSRD]

This is the only comment where BLLLAUAARGGHH

[@DerRotSpassvogel]

False, there is an additi BLLLLLAAAAUGGGHHH!!!

[@SimonAshworthWood]

@@DerRotSpassvogel 😀

[@scale9294]

You get a sub wizards gotta stick together and if you ever need a expert in necromancey email me

[@iceshenanigans17]

PoV you're walking along minding your own business somewhere in the world: *"Do Not Be Alarmed. I Am Lorin Aria."* 👁👄👁

[@johnnywhiteshoe]

when this came out, it was awesome! it was simple and co-op and ticked enough boxes to be fun for about 20 hours. for $15 bucks, that was a steal

[@richardhandcock]

Yeah I remember playing this years ago and thought it was ok, so I was kind of surprised to see this video. I may have even played it twice, but damn was it a long time ago now, over ten years I think.

[@psmitty840]

This game was so forgettable that when you mentioned how forgettable it was, I checked and found out that I also already own this game. I was apparently able to determine it was garbage in .4 hours.

[@ferrante2752]

I played DaggerDale multiple times growing up. I have so much nostalgia for this game and such fond memories, beating it with all classes. Hearing it was regarded as "The Worst DnD game" shocks me, this'll be a trip

[@ferrante2752]

To clarify, I own the CD

[@mustangmckraken1150]

It's not nearly the worst lol, the internet inflates it a lot. It's pretty mediocre though when you compare it to games like Neverwinter Nights and the Darksun SSI games.

[@nickmills8906]

On Console (Xbox 360) it actually did well (or as well as can be expected)

[@Str8reapin]

Same tbh me and my bestfriend played this alot haha

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@mustangmckraken1150 hard to compare many dnd games against NwN.

[@LootGoblinPenny]

Honestly, being rocketed skyward with the teleport was the most interesting mechanic this game had.

[@Tosnoob]

Woah, someone who doesn't just straight up shit on 4th edition when it's mentioned? Much appreciated, it's disheartening how a lot of people talk about my favourite edition of the game.

[@WilliamSRD]

It was a controversial statement, according to my comments section haha

[@broadbandislife]

@@WilliamSRD Fitting like a tee for a *decidedly* controversial edition, I should think.

[@marcush4741]

I had some fun with 4th. The campaign booklets were some of my favorites. Honestly, I think the only reason 4e failed was because it followed 3.5. There was SO much complexity in 3.5 (with basically every book adding new rules/spells/classes), and it really did have to get trimmed down to bring in newer players looking for an easy system to play. If 5e had followed 3.5, I think it would have been just as reviled as 4e.

[@broadbandislife]

@@marcush4741 (X) DOUBT

[@user-gj7lp5iz6k]

​@marcush4741 4e released half-cocked because it was meant for a VTT that was scrapped after the developer was murdered

[@OnTheRocksGamingShow]

I gotta be honest, the quality of this video had me thinking that you had at least a couple hundred thousand subscribers. I was quite surprised to see 5k. needless to say, I'm subbed now, and I expect that you will grow quite considerably in the next few months.

[@WilliamSRD]

Thank you so much! Quality comes from a year of content creation in obscurity, haha

[@sirmoth3955]

I got this game as a teen, and even poor judgment wasn't enough to get me to think it was worth finishing. Pretty sure I made it through the first act, got some magic armor that turned my whole character grey, and called it quits.

[@YemmieInc]

I honestly had a soft spot for this game! But it was also my first exposure to anything dnd related and got me interested !

[@liverpools]

Check out DnD stronghold if you haven't. I had it as a kid. DnD city builder typer game where you don't have direct control over anything and watch stuff play out. I still got the box and floppy disks.

[@Turbiales]

no, no, no, the worst DnD game of all time was "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor". Was so bad that at the time if you unninstalled it (Something you will do almost inmediately) damaged the operating system. And the combat was atroccious, so bad that was unplayable. At least daggerdale was playable, but boring.

[@honorableintent]

Do you mean Ruins of Myth Drannor? Attack was the module for tabletop, but they used the same art.

[@Turbiales]

@@honorableintent yeah. same one.

[@rpgcraftsman520]

Lol, I shared this before you mentioned the "300 likes" and I already gave it a thumbs-up. Totally subbing for that if it happens :D

[@WilliamSRD]

You're the best!

[@rpgcraftsman520]

@@WilliamSRD Wow thanks :D Hey, since you like that post so much, are you interested in looking at some RPG supplements? :P

[@WilliamSRD]

@@rpgcraftsman520 Sure! @ me with them on Twitter and I'll happily take a look! Can't guarantee I can cover them on the channel though, since I sort of move where the algorithm is giving me traction on any given week, and right now it's video games and 40k roleplaying stuff

[@DungeonDad]

300 likes. 6k+ likes later. You've got some work to do William.

[@WilliamSRD]

Run_Underpressure.exe

[@bobsheriff4756]

I played many hours of hero's of the lance. It was actual a very strategic game. You needed to use the characters in the correct order. After many attempts I finally recovered the relic lol. Pool of radiance was a really good game

[@XoriniteWisp]

I know (well, knew, it's been a while...) one of the developers behind this game. I remember he was so frustrated and upset with the poor reviews after launch, not because he thought the game was better than it really was, but because the entire team had worked SO HARD with the resources and the deadline they had. He said he was really proud of what they managed to deliver under the horrible circumstances.

[@TheVGMajor]

Just goes to show that you can work really hard and be passionate about something and itstill turns out to be be a pile of garbage anyways.

[@AcidGlow]

It seemed like a small group worked on this. I gave it a chance, enjoyed it a bit but then was disappointed with alot of its problems. It just wasn't as deep as it should've been. Limited spells and the point system was too short. After this I tried Dungeons n Dragons Heroes on Xbox Original which was a bit more enjoyable. Then I tried Lord of the Rings War in the North. Great game, really fun. But on xbox it has a corrupt save issue that occured after you beat the game once or twice (trying to go back for missing loot). And you would lose your save file and start all over. Fun game but that ruined it for me. Not sure if the Steam version has this issue though.

[@simpsonwizekid]

Oh man. I remember when I saw stuff for this and I was absolutely stoked. I always wanted to play D&D growing up, but I never could find anyone that wanted to play it. I thought this game could scratch the itch, and a friend of mine suggested that we convince another friend to get it so we could all play it together. I played the demo and saw immediately how trash the game was going to be, and told him not to waste his money on it.

[@kuhaku9587]

Look on reddit, games events, board game shops, etc around your area. You will find people to play with !

[@simpsonwizekid]

@@kuhaku9587 don't worry, mate. I have been able to play D&D since this time. I have been part of 2 campaigns, and currently running my own stuff for 2 different groups. I was even able to branch out to different systems like Call of Cthulhu and Stars Without Number. D&D 5e may have its drawbacks, but it really was the best system to get people into Table Top RPGs.

[@tallscreengabbo]

I was watching this thinking "wow that game looks bad" only to find out that I also already owned it and have logged 90 clearly forgettable minutes in it.

[@WilliamSRD]

This has been a surprisingly universal experience!

[@hicknopunk]

I spit out my beer when the lady in white got backstabbed 🤣🤣😂

[@Mortvent]

I have PTSD of sorts with this game.... I really tried to get into it... But the only take away was trying halfling wizards/sorcerers in my pnp games and loving it! Short lil spellcasters that are harder to hit, and had some decent racials (and not gnomes!)

[@Ninosai]

Daggerdale was reminding me of something and when I saw the character selection screen, it brought back the memory of the console Daggerdale game that I had bought and played so long ago! And I realized that it was definitely made for console game, not for computer game with internet co-op. Being able to play together on the same screen is how this game is supposed to be played. It is still a bad game but at least it's a bad game you can have fun with a friend or more.

[@bakomusha]

That was the general state of the PC scene at the time. For about ten years unless it was an MMO, the PC version was always an AWFUL port. I had to learn to edit coding files just to get some AAA games to run back in the day. It was hell.

[@saverofthehumens]

You know it won't be DnD in the slightest when character choices are: Human human, Hairier human, Taller human and Short human.

[@Tkokat]

I just found the channel, but yeah... I love video games summaries/Reviews. Specially when they suck

[@WilliamSRD]

Well, there's more coming now that I see that I like making 'em and the internet likes watching 'em!

[@Tkokat]

@@WilliamSRD I guess that you must know them by now, but the Divinity 2 series has a really cool DND thing going on... and the old Kotor games have a DND system of sorts. You might want to check them out.

[@corsaircarl9582]

I love when in RPGs they use the word "Adventurer" to mean "Globetrotting Murderhobo"

[@richardhockey8442]

'Noble adventurer' -> 'mercanary whackjob whose in it for the violence, the gold is a side benefit'

[@justinmcgough3958]

This is the most game of all games ever.

[@Predalien195]

Honestly didn't mind Daggerdale that much... Coming from playing the old A-RPG D&D games like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and such it felt pretty similar overall. It was clearly intended to be a multi part game and it shows where it was rushed on production, but still a good time waster for a short bit. Definitely not the worst D&D game but certainly not the greatest either.

[@drowningin]

Temple of elemental evil at launch at least was completely unplayable. Not sure if they fixed it. I spent an hour to try to get past the first screen of bugs, crashing, ui glitching

[@CrowePerch]

That purple jumpsuit your halfling is wearing the whole game is just incredible 🤣🤣

[@WilliamSRD]

It's called fashion, Crowe. LOOK IT UP

[@AlVainactual]

Spoilers for the ending and the sequel bait that never came to be I guess for some closure: Yeah stuff didn't work out for the Zhents worshipping Cyric. Bane returned after dying, ousted the people worshipping Cyric and stayed on top.

[@Some_Really_Random_Dude.]

This looks like a terrible, absolutely godawful version of Kingdoms of Amalur, and I personally rather liked Kingdoms of Amalur.

[@GenuineNPC]

I, uh... Think you've reached that 300 like metric. Side note cheers and thank you for the lovely content, here's an obligatory engagement comment for the Algorithm.

[@lunaredgrave]

Holy crap. As soon as I saw the hero characters I was like HOLY CRAP WAIT I PLAYED THIS GAME!! I usually never forget the games I play. But this was soooo boring that I completely removed it from my brain. And sad part is this was my first time going into D&D in highschool and I didn't touch it for a long time until a friend of mine showed me Neverwinter.

[@WilliamSRD]

I have a working theory that EVERYONE played this game, and we've just collectively forgotten due to some unknown trauma

[@lunaredgrave]

@@WilliamSRD Absolutely true. Because I was just watching your video out of curiosity and then as soon as I saw the heroes all of my repressed memories just came back to me 🤣

[@richardhockey8442]

@@WilliamSRD there's a spell woven into the code/user interface of the game that erases the memories of anyone who plays it

[@Shadowsign]

I fucking bought this game at Walmart for like 20 bucks. It never ran. It just created repeatedly. Fuck this game lol

[@Acidonia150reborn]

It felt like to me they wanted to make a 3D version of Capcoms Arcade games but missed the point badly.

[@KrusherMike]

When you throw a hammer at a barrel, it makes a pretty satisfying "clunk" noise. I got nothin' outside of that. 😅

[@litlclutch]

What kind of dev goes Elven Rogue and Halfling Wizard... those seem reversed to anybody else?

[@FifteenSecsToSummer1]

I finished this game like 14 times according to my parents, but Ive never remembered this game.

[@GnosticAtheist]

A D&D game that does not allow you to make your own character? Where do I not sign up?

[@leandromafe]

Congratulations on beating the algorithm boss man! Your vid blew up! Hope the views continue to roll in 😁

[@mattiasfaust2746]

Asks for 300 likes within 2 weeks, gets almost 4,000 in 6 days. Best get that video.

[@StarfallShadow]

I remember being this pretty fun on Xbox back in the day. My friends and I did multiple co-op runs with us trying out each class. And then we moved over to Sword Coast Legends which was significantly better.

[@Houtont]

It really captured that early 4e feeling of enemies taking forever to bring down.

[@sambas9257]

Some games are so mediocre that they don't even deserve to be remembered or reviewed in a KZbin video as one of the worst games. The worst games doesn't deserve to be on a podium whatsoever. This is one of them

[@ThiVasss]

Strangely this game reminds me a lot of Kingdom of Amalur reckoning

[@dominicferronato4806]

Glad this came up on my recommended, may the algorithm be in your favour 🤙

[@VoltiXHD2]

1:55 start of vid

[@SimonAshworthWood]

What’s so bad about Rezlus? He’s powerful, he’s loyal - to the lord of darkness, and we all need darkness, so we can sleep and have low light for romantic candle-lit dinners… not at the same time… well I guess you could… maybe that’s your thing. Nevertheless, I’m still yet to hear what’s so bad about Rezlus. He doesn’t sound so bad. I’m assuming Rezlus is a he. Ah! Maybe that woman in the opening cut scene is an ex of Rezlus and has a grudge against him… maybe THAT explains why she wants the murder hobos to defeat Rezlus (who’s not such a bad guy, going by the info we’ve been given). Oh, Rezlus has constructed an army to conquer Daggerdale, she says… so you must kill them? Hypocritical murder hobos!

[@autobotstarscream765]

So Rezlus is a Lawful Based Warlock?

[@MorbiusTheMenace]

The "big year for them" had me laughing out loud haha

[@clint4951]

Ah yes, Daggerdale. Along with Daggerdan and Daggerdave, part of the infamous D&D Weird Uncle trilogy.

[@broadbandislife]

Tragically the dissipated, alcoholic one of the trio too.

[@Atreas40000]

It doesn’t look that bad. You are exaggerating.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

Doug Daggerdome? Owner of the Daggerdale Daggerdome?

[@austinhadley6086]

I played and beat this game with my brother, multiple times on our 360 when I was a teenager and then never thought about it again until today

[@johnnii]

An 800 year old roleplaying game? Why haven't I heard about this before?

[@WilliamSRD]

Cause the algorithm hates those vids, haha, but in any case, here ya go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqiphmyOn9-iqM0

[@blacknapalm2131]

*It WAS fun co op* Wish someone would mod it to get the co op back out of the purgatory of Games for Windows Live

[@Woodsie_Lord]

There is local co-op in the game, meaning you can play it with someone else on the same machine... Then there is "Steam Remote Play" which allows your friends to join your local game that you would stream to them.

[@AssassinatorScout1]

I thought the gameboy one was the worst?

[@moonasha]

lol I feel like they shouldn't have hired a british person to say "daggerdale" in the cutscene. They just sound like they're saying "dagaday"

[@garethhughes4437]

Wow I didn't even know this game existed! I'm usually partial to a D&D computer game, so I'm surprised I missed this one. By the sounds of it, I didn't miss much!

[@Naruga]

Would still rather play it again than the new dark alliance game [not the re-release]

[@TheDaxter11]

As someone who's into the world and lore of D&D, but not so much the turn based, dice throwing mechanics that its video games tend to throw in there (which makes sense of course) seeing a game based on D&D like this flop sucks. The only D&D games I know of are Baldurs Gate and Divinity Original Sin 2, and both have gameplay that doesn't appeal to me.

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

Yeah, I'm a guy who has quite a robust library of table-top RPG books, not just D&D but I've never actually played a tabletop game. I'm really into the world and lore more than the gameplay. Most of these books are a genuinely compelling read.

[@TheDaxter11]

@@etinarcadiaego7424 I wouldn't mind having a go of the table top game, but when it comes to video games I want an action based combat system game for D&D. I get why a lot of the games make it turn based, but I'd love a third and/or first person action game akin to The Witcher or Skyrim because I'd love to actually feel like I'm playing a character in the world, not having a gods eye view of what feels like fancy chess.

[@forcedintofemininity]

It's wild how much this looks like Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance

[@VITAS874]

this is his older brother.

[@piedpiper1185]

6:45 - Rezlus looks like a bootleg Steven Tyler

[@mikelowery6732]

The TSR branded D&D games from the 90s and early 2000s were frequently awful with terrible interfaces, game play, and story lines. I can remember returning at least 3 of them for being terrible.

[@sladewilson9741]

You're nuts. They were awesome. D&D converted directly to the PC. Now maybe they don't survive the test of time, but... No.

[@Wenzel368]

Yo I remember I played this entire game...

[@cryzz0n]

Honestly, 4th Edition should have been a Renaissance for D&D video game development. More than any other edition, its rules set and approach to turn based combat could have been translated 1:1 into any number of single player and multiplayer video games.

[@autobotstarscream765]

At least we got Neverwinter Online, right?

[@mustangmckraken1150]

@Autobot Starscream That game is worse than this game by far, every class plays the same and it's way to easy and boring in some parts.

[@cosmicmuse2195]

I feel like some mod love would actually make this a fun game. Pseudo-multiplayer modded servers and some audio mixing could really step this up. Along with some stability patches of course.

[@rebelwithoutaclue9387]

This game is stunningly visually similar to Kingdom of Amalur! The UI looks almost identical!

[@mattm7798]

I'm quite surprised by the lack of great DnD video games as a whole. The whole series lends itself to it so well. Still also puzzled why there are very few Game of Thrones video games but that might have to do with that IP not being sold much apart from HBO.

[@broadbandislife]

D&D isn't a "series" ya know, it's a _system_ with like roughly bajillion and half settings. Also over four decades old so both the mechanics and the assorted lores have been overhauled (or in the latter case blatantly and usually arbitrarily retconned) many times over - it's on its freaking 5th edition now. (4th ed was particularly, uh, 'launched to mixed receptions' because lmfao tabletop WoW p much)

[@Sidewalkpeace]

Me and my buddy did this co-op on the sofa with controllers on the 360 and had a blast. We got to the end and max level. Was so sad to hear the studio shut down before part 2 came out.

[@jesfest]

Are you sure there is no co-op left? Far as I can tell with a bit of searching, this game should have 2 player offline play on PC. If you really want to stretch it, you can play online with remote play together as well... And parsec, if that's still around. If you feel like confirming it, might help boost the game beyond "glorified paperweight", even if not by much.

[@mustangmckraken1150]

I have it and it doesn't have local play at all on Xbox. Not sure about PC, but there's not much to the campaign and with the multiplayer dead there's not a whole lot of a reason to play it lol

[@A-Wild-Frost]

300 likes you say...

[@WilliamSRD]

Things have rather escalated beyond my expectations, haha

[@Someonehahaha]

This does not look like sword coast legends.

[@blockmasterscott]

Oh.......DAGGERDALE! I kept thinking to myself, "What is he talking about, DaggerFALL is Bethesda!" 🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, I'm dumb LOL!!!!!!!!

[@wanderingpaws3111]

Wait. There was a Gamma World game?

[@WilliamSRD]

Yep! I can't find much about it other than that it came out just after Daggerdale. I assume it was similarly abandoned on launch, and since it didn't have the name 'Dungeons and Dragons' to trickle in sales over the years, Atari probably took it down from stores.

[@wanderingpaws3111]

@@WilliamSRD Sadge. Damn. A Gamma World sounds good now. Except... you know... Done well by people who know what they are doing. Oh great video btw!

[@HowtoRPG]

lol. I played this game briefly. You sound like me going on a rant for good reason.

[@kez963]

300 likes? Yikes xP

[@grumpyolddude439]

Bought this game at Best BUY when it came out, because i was jonesing for a DnD game. Got miffed when I got it home, and found that I had bought a STEAM key, not a physical media. So this, was my 1st ever STEAM game. Then I had to make a Gamespy account. Went thru all that, only to find...what you talked about above. 23 minutes...thats my total playtime.

[@ther0n1nnamed47]

The game was a product of a failing dev team it shows. Just like Turok Evolution before it, they rushed it, I KNOW it was supposed to be longer or have multiple parts to it. I personally enjoyed it for what it was, but I definitely have played better D&D games, and worse.

[@Lezduit1]

I actually like this game lol.

[@Gemmalady]

I played this game on PS3…I agree it was boring but, somehow I had 250 invested in it. “The real heroes are…” players who have as many hours as I did and don’t know why. 🤣

[@Kenshiro3rd]

The PC port of Heroes of the Lance isn’t a fan made port. It’s a legit commercial port… and one of the better versions. The DOS, Atari ST, & the Amiga version are basically the best versions. If you’re gonna play it I recommend playing one of those. Avoid the others, ESP the NES version… it’s the shittiest most broken version of the bunch… even worse than Tiertex’s port on the Master System.

[@citystatemanticore]

idk, I think I'd have to put my lot in with Advanced DnD: Iron and Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft being the worst DnD related game. It's a fighting game with super crippled controls and it just looks like ass.

[@durma6924]

This was sold as an arcade game on the 360, weird to compare it to full games instead of Doritos crash course

[@mustangmckraken1150]

Exactly

[@mustangmckraken1150]

Exactly

[@thedungeondelver]

That's OK man, 4e is effectively removed from how the tabletop version of D&D works, too, so you've got that going for you.

[@francez123456789]

i think i remember renting daggerdale from blockbuster for the xbox. i knew it was a D&D branded game. me being a dumb kid didnt really know much about D&D outside the name and the fact that it was sword and sorcery. i thought it was okay... but i also didnt have much of a frame of reference edit: oh 2011... may have been something else then... D&D heroes maybe?

[@Chimly_Stonefoot]

A good multiplayer game would balance the gameplay so it’s fun alone with any class and even more fun with friends and all four classes working together. It wouldn’t do what this game does and just, assume you’re going to rope three friends to play it with you (not that that’s even possible anymore) by giving the enemies huge health bars that don’t scale to the number of players and making it so that each class needs the other three in order to function is just bad game design that can be fixed by giving the other classes skills that allow them to survive on their own. Maybe make the wizard able to put down a double as a distraction or have the rogue go invisible or have the fighter have a dodge roll in addition to the guard, they’re not really DnD stuff but it would have made the game more, able to play xD So I agree with you it’s not forgivable game design, you shouldn’t design your multiplayer just assuming all your classes will be in play at any time (it’s not a DnD game so it’s not a fair comparison but Deep Rock Galactic does a great job of making all the classes fun and viable to play alone but way more fun with all four working together, if you’re designing a game that has four class multiplayer I would look at that game and see the experimentation they went through to arrive what makes it work so well)

[@OldGamerStuff]

The game on PC supports 2 player local co-op (which you can use Remote Play Together to play online). Bit of a dishonest review

[@vakistania]

Me and my friends bought this game and on Xbox and had fun for some hours. Then we lost all of our unlocked skill because of a bug, breaking the game. This never got fixed. Thank you Matt Twigg! As a side note, me and the same friends also bought Cube World.

[@GM_Darius]

As some one that's played this game to completion so many years ago, the best thing to come out of it was the dragonborn grabbing the dwarf and just point blank firebreathing his face off.

[@magnithorson6568]

Holy shit I forgot I actually have this game

[@WilliamSRD]

The best part of this video is seeing JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE have completely forgotten they own this game!

[@LegalKimchi]

Dnd nft... loved that line

[@WilliamSRD]

Honestly, the biggest thing NFT's have done for the world is to make jokes REALLY easy