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Overlord Complete Pack on Steam for $8.75
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It's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
This looks like a really awesome weekend deal so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2464/
You get the enhanced edition of Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell (basically the enhanced edition) and Overlord 2 for the low low price of $8.75. Both games for under 10 bucks doesn't seem like a bad deal, who's getting it?
Oh yeah, also feel free to discuss the games here, it might help push some people over the edge.
I myself had always heard that it was a flawed but fun series that scratches an itch left in the chasm between Dungeon Keeper games. Even if we never get another one of those this is supposedly a decent alternative.
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Overlord is like Fable with a more humorous tone, and a focus on rudimentary troop management (akin to Sacrifice, or more recently, Brutal Legend). I personally did not enjoy the first game that much, mostly due to horrendous controls, but the sequel is supposedly improved, and you can't really go wrong at that price.
Dude, it's nine bucks for the whole pack, just get it again
The original wasn't that good, and my computer probably won't be able to play Overlord II.
Overlord is about as close a direct Pikmin-ripoff as you could hope to find, really. Makes you wonder what other genre-bending Nintendo games publishers have yet to copy!
Regarding the controls - anybody know if they're both 360-controller compatible? I kept on struggling with badly-ported KBaM controls, then just caved and bought a pad. I might feel like a traitor, but it's made console ports infinitely more bearable.
Yep. Just set it to gamepad in the options.
I'm a bit into the first game and some enemies absolutely slaughter my minions. Do I get upgrades for them at some point, other than them equipping random stuff?
If you liked Overlord and have a Wii, I'd recommend checking it out.
EDIT: Also, if your wondering, the game seems to be a prequel (though it isn't directly spelled out), following an earlier Overlord as he battles various characters from Fairy Tales, as well as the prerequisite Elves and Dwarves.
I might get the pack anyway, just to have them on Steam.
Raising Hell was DLC on the 360, too. It's not specific enhancements to anything, it's an expansion. So every version has Raising Hell.
Wireless controller, you'll need to buy an overpriced wireless adapter. At least where I live, it's cheaper to just buy a wired 360 controller - you get 3m of cable. Either way, you'll just need to install the official microsoft drivers and you're golden.
As for the 'Raising Hell' aspect, I think people were referring to the new things added into the original for the PS3 release - most crucially the minimap! Any word of whether those were included?
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Oh, I didn't know about that.
Yeah specifically an onscreen mini-map. Well I guess at this price it really doesn't matter.
Try setting it into XP compatibility mode.
I'd totally jump on the Crysis deal if I didn't already have Warhead. Though upon further investigation, you can buy either game for $15 instead of getting both through the weekend package. I think I'll get on that.
I don't think Steam lets you put games in compat modes.
Xtarath, I think there's something broken in your OS. First Mass Effect, now Overlord?
Edit: Lowering the resolution to 800 by 640 and the graphics quality to low actually gives me a decent framerate! I might get this.
(Not that I rent movies anymore really... Netflix killed that. But the last time I went to Blockbuster, I remembered the rentals costing somewhere in the range of $4.00, which really puts the cost of entertainment in perspective. Games will almost always beat that in terms of price to value.
8.75 is just too hard to resist
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Cons
-Kinda buggy. The game froze on me no less than 4 times in my playthrough. Like I had to unplug the Wii froze. Also there were several other glitches that, while didn't impact the game, did stand out (characters saying the wrong dialog, minions getting stuck, items that I had picked up already appearing in the spot they first appeared as a phantom object)
-Short: Not even a 10 hour game; and extremely linear with not a lot of side stuff to do
-It's definitely a lot simpler than the first Overlord. There's no evil/good(or evil/less evil) schism, there's no castle customization, all minions draw from the same pool of lifeforce.
-Easy as shit. I think there was only once where I lost all of my minions. Enemies aren't that hard to beat, and you get so much money you can fully upgrade yourself at whim, just as soon as you find the next forge.
Pros
-Minions a lot smarter now (they don't blindly follow you into water unless they're blues, for example)
-The control scheme is fantastic.
-The story is about on par with the first overlord.
So I take back my previous opinion; this is really only worth a rental unless you really, really like Overlord. It makes an excellent intro to the series though, and not just because it's a prequel!