Great idea. The sooner I get in bed, the sooner I can brew my morning cup of joe

They are teaching us to enjoy garbage, and right: it's in all media. NerdCubed sums up the whole Dungeon Keeper disaster in his review pretty well.

At least Overlord is safe... right guys? .....Guys?

I think my favorite thing about all this is seeing DK 1 and 2 climb the best-seller list on GOG. I'll be curious to see if Evil Genius makes an appearance there. It was never as good as Dungeon Keeper, but it did have potential, and there are some solid mods available for it.

awh my bad sorry i just assumed it was the original chopped down a little, sorry. should have investigated further before opening my mouth.

It's an honest mistake, the screen shots look a lot like the original.

thanks :) remind me to buy you a drink
oddly my first reaction was "ooo they've made it all shiny and new...now how much are they going to rip us off for for this shiny new experience" .... oh how things have changed!

Oh you were actually always fairly polite about telling people to get off your lawn :-P

Welcome to Evil Ge-

If you want to continue please buy 100EvilCoins, 20EvilCoins for free with your first purchase!
Ejem,

Welcome to Evil Genius!
Please, select an Evil Genius from these, remember, there is also a Very Evil Genius in sale on the inner shop for only 800ECoins!

Soo, here you are, on the desert, ready to make your evil base where you will evily take over the world. But wait, that it's not everything, you can ask your friends for help sending you minions, oh look, you got an archivement by clicking on start new game, why don't you publish it so your friends, family and NSA can see it?

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It sounds like a lot of fun.

The only saving grace to this scenario is that the developers actually seem to give a crap about a self-contained product in the long run. The POS mobile abortion masquerading as a real Dungeon Keeper game is nothing but them trying to ream people for money. No eye on a bigger prize, no giving a crap about people's desire for a real sequel to the first two, just them fisting Dungeon Keeper's corpse and trying to put on a ventriloquist's show with it.

Touche

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I concur. The funny thing is that microtransaction games don't tend to do well in the states. A lot of publishers try to attract a market from different countries. Facebook once had a real kick ass version of Uno that was pulled. I'm not sure what happened (the game never had any major bugs and was a lot of fun) but I'm guessing the publisher had no way to monetize it and then ended the beta for the game. There are so many Mafia Wars and Farmville clones on fb I'm surprised the people playing never scratch their heads and say "gee this game looks awfully the same...". When you monetize game elements there is a tendency to not balance the paid for material with the game. So either the user ends up with a useless paid for item or an item so powerful, there is really no point to playing.

I really should be self-medicating with alcohol but I don't have the energy.