Dungeon Siege II Busts Out Trailer

Thanks to RPGDot for pointing out there's a trailer for Microsoft/Gas Powered Games' Dungeon Siege II available from the official DSII site, as well as via Gamers Hell, showcasing a lush cinematic-style teaser (using the in-game engine) for this PC RPG sequel, which is simply listed as "coming 2004". The original Dungeon Siege was largely well-received, but sparked some complaints about repetitiveness/linearity, so it'll be interesting to see how the sequel develops the gameplay.

Comments

Will I have to actually play this one.

[darkmayo]

Dungeon Siege was pretty fricking boring.. looked great ran well, easy to play... wait no I didn't really have to play it.. the toons played the game itself. Other than a few special abilites it felt like the game was on auto pilot.

Way to linear as well, follow the path kill monsters get stronger follow path monsters get harder kill monsters..

Lets hope the 2nd incarnation will add some meat to this potato.

The Return of the Mule based combat system?!?

[JANYAtty.]

Best thing about DS was the mule. Setup you party with the ranged weapons and hit stop. Then send in the mule! Monsters chase the mule, so just run it back to your charachters and watch the monsters get mowed. Other then that it was boring as crap, and despite the many interesting names the magic items had each seemed completely interchangeable. Other great parts: spending an hour at the stores trying to optimize your charachters, and having two charachters die at a time so you then had to figure out who had each item. A tremendous waste of time. Technically competent but uterly boring.