I see the pros :-)

[vossi]

just started playing and so far the game works fine for me.
It was released too early, but hopefully the patching will come along.
The controls are well done. All important keys can be accessed quickly.

The Fighting is fun for me, too.

Graphics and sound are ok, not awesome, but far away from ugly!

The voice acting is fine, too.

Questing and story, do not know yet...

Looking forward for a good dungeon crawl in the old style.

Btw are there secret doors, puzzles, riddles???

Thumbs up

[Thanakar]

Btw are there secret doors, puzzles, riddles???

Thumbs up

Few and far between

[Mefi]

I see a blinking screen.

[hammermd]

Hrm...something tells me this guy isn't out of the first dungeon yet...the sewers were fun...

[Xyyth]

Yeah, he's about to find out what needs to be patched in.

[NFLed]

It remains fun throughout at least a large part of the game. I'm glad you saw through the naysayers and bought the game. I fear that many won't do that (they'll see the hate-bois on here and just forget about buying the game thus killing the PC rpg industry for good after a few more titles of this sort of hating).

There seems to be a focus around here on "what is in the manual and interface" compared to "what is in the game" and that's not what's important to me. The game is well done and every game (especially rpg) has things we would like to see improved, not just DL. It's not in the least way an unfinished or buggy game in my view despite not having an automap (the only outstanding issue I particularly care about).

An unfinished or buggy game to me is one in which you are given major quests and they have consistently no way to finish, the game crashes completely to desktop when you go to a certain area or intermittently, or the game doesn't work on particular popular video cards and these don't describe Dungeon Lords.

[vossi]

still in the sewers (1. dungeon) and it is fun - I really like the graphics and gameplay. Some traditional lockpicking - fun :-)

And that **** goblin behind the javelin launcher - got that one ;-)

Improvements are welcome - but that game is not as bad as many people write here.

No crashes! Runs fine on my machine! Nice character development.

I believe there is more to find in DL :-)

[Drene]

I bought the game last Sunday without ever reading a review or anything about it.
So far I really like it (I'm in the Trial of Elders, luckily I saved outside the room with the fire blasting mage so I'm not having the "bug" problem I've seen written about).
I will say the 2 things I really don't care for:
1. Melee is iffy at best. You really can't aim very well and when you're being attacked by a pack of enemies, it can get very difficult. (wolves so far have been the worst, but I downloaded the patch and they no longer "gang" attacked in 2-3 spawnings at the same time, which helped a lot).
2. Some enemies you have to use ranged attack on. I'm at lev. 9 and have 4 in my ranged weapons skill but it takes forever to kill the enemies that you have to attack with ranged/magical weapons. I suggest(strongly)that you invest in several fireball and magic missle charges as well as dropping points into the intelligence stats so they charge up faster(I think that effects it?)or just because that helps lower the cost of upgrading your magical stats.

I've been playing RPG's since Atari(lol -anyone remember Dungeons and Dragons on that one???)and this one seems to be pretty good. But then I've not really encountered any bugs that have ticked me off- lol:)

[Fang]

I enjoyed most of the game.. Didn't like the slow swing on my 2h fighter and all the Fire Knockback creatures i could hardly get close enough to swing at. Insect swarm was a pain too.. I really wanted duel wield but couldn't go that route with my knight class.

Last couple dungeons were some good fights .. witch actually killed me.. the vines hold way too long IMO.. can't do anything till i'm dead .. not even heal or run. Luckily only the witch can cast that :D