Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:14:00
Playing a little Overlord
Anyone else playing this? I’m having enough fun to keep playing, but man...there’s some obvious stuff wrong with this game. Like the controls. I’m standing in front of three pits to spawn the little minions. You have to face one, pull the left trigger to highlight it and then press another button - either B to spawn or right trigger to make them jump back in - but it’s almost impossible to select the one you want when you want it. Oh, you can select either the first or last of a line of three, but it will take you an hour to select the middle one. OK, not an hour, but still. Sloppy targeting is everywhere, in the combat, in the sweeping of minions...it’s frustrating.
Also, there’s no map. NO MAP! This is essentially a third-person RTS with a large geographic area that you have to walk. Now, I get not showing me the parts I haven’t traveled yet, but why the frigging frig can’t I have a map of, you know, where I have already been? Very frustrating. You end up doing some aimless wandering around, looking for some sign of where to go next or what to do. It’s the single most obviousl and glaring flaw in the game, and I don’t know what the hell Codemasters was thinking when they decided that there wouldn’t be a map.
But...the writing is cute and fun, and the segments are fun and interesting. Once you know where you are supposed to be going and what you’re supposed to be doing, the game essentially breaks up into dozens of little mini-adventures, each of which is fun, except for that awkward control/aiming problem.
In summary - worth renting, but maybe too annoying to buy it. Oh, and lastly, I am playing it as completely and totally evil. You get to choose. I slaughter villagers every chance I get, steal their food and money, the whole bit. If you’re gonna play a game like this, why wouldn’t you go all-out evil?
Posted by JimK at 01:14 PM on September 26, 2007
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#2 Posted by Buzzion 
on 09/26 at 04:12 PM -
there’s some obvious stuff wrong with this game. Like the controls. I’m standing in front of three pits to spawn the little minions. You have to face one, pull the left trigger to highlight it and then press another button - either B to spawn or right trigger to make them jump back in - but it’s almost impossible to select the one you want when you want it. Oh, you can select either the first or last of a line of three, but it will take you an hour to select the middle one. OK, not an hour, but still
Is it possible that its like this because its a port from a PC game? I would imagine that on the pc version its a lot easier to select a pit.
#3 Posted by JimK on 09/26 at 08:06 PM -
Rann: Yeah...well, you can hang back and order the minions to do all the pillaging and slaughtering, or you can actively kill, but it’s pretty thuggish in the beginning. As you earn more spells and so forth it gets more Sith Lord-like.
Buzzion: I think you might be exactly right.
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Alas, no 360. But I really really really wanna play that one, I’ve loved the entire concept since I heard of it.
I just hope that with being an evil overlord, they let you be an evil overlord with some CLASS. I mean, it seems like every game that comes out where you have an option to be evil, it equates to the same choice as “common thug”. I mean, I love KotOR, going evil is pretty fun in those, but the evil choice way too often falls closer to “fifteen-year-old gangbanger mugger” than “mighty Sith Lord”.