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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 😅

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

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

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

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. czcams.com/video/yb8mLBa3dcg/video.html czcams.com/video/MJBB8W_6xi0/video.html

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?

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

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.

Can’t wait for the next bollard video!!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

this would be lovely in VR.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

One of my favorite and most played games. I cannot stand to play it anymore. I did a nostalgia playthrough 2 years ago and decided that it was enough. Rounded the game atleast 25 times, both original, patched and fx version.

Oooooh! Pizza Tycoon! (Which wasn't really a Tycoon-game, but anyway.) I play it still every once in a while. It's one of those games with a strong personality I just love.

It's kinda surreal watching this as I'm eating my breakfast and getting ready to go to work as a bus driver. Granted, it's 2024 and the US, but those noises haven't changed much across decades and continents.

Dungeon Keeper content in 2024? We eating good tonight boys

Oh my god I had this exact bug! Some levels were okay, it'd be a 20% chance of getting a proper AI, but a lot of the time the AI was so passive! Never knew this was the case, but it definitely explains why KeeperFX is so much more difficult (and more fun tbh)

i am afraid you have to reload and redo your childhood

I played soo much Midtown Madness 2 as a child. I loved driving around London and San Francisco. It looked so real to 12 year old me. I love games that take you to real places.

I remember, back when i was a kid playing Dungeon Keeper, the possession spell blew my mind. Being able to explore my own dungeon in first person was so awesome.

I had/have the gold edition, and one of the better things about that is if you put the CD in a regular player, and skip track 1 (game data), you get several music tracks to enjoy.

Yes! I have the same problem with age of empires II! I played on the very original vanilla without patches or expansions!

I have 273 hours in ETS2, though I could swear that it is way more. It feels way more. And I have 50 in ATS. But driving through a desert isn't my type of thing.