Overlord 1 & 2

[Daehawk]

Do you guys let the innocent folk live or is it better to kill at least some of them? Ive been letting them live..usually.

[Daehawk]

I forgot just how much fun this game is. Controlling minions is a blast and upgrading the tower is cool. I really wish it had a map though. I could really use one for the areas i need to go to. I cant figure out where to get what usually and Im just starting. Also Im playing a nice guy...well pretty much. Just now gave the town of Spree it's food back. they love me.

EDIT: Ok the damn game needs a SAVE ANYWHERE...sigh sigh sigh sigh

[Paingod]

I never did get around to beating this, but did get to a point where I had unlocked a ton of arena brawls and used those to re-equip my minions to get their fighting strength back up to a very high point before going out on missions.

It's a great game, and a lot of fun. I generally went with the "Nice Guy" route as well simply because conditioning in games has taught me over the years that being Good is generally rewarded better than being Bad.

[NickAragua]

I don't think it matters too much which way you go, but if you do decide to go one way or the other, you should go all the way. i.e. either kill none of the stupid peasants, or kill every single last one of the little dorks.

[Daehawk]

I've now found Rose and she has joined me at my tower. Like all women in my life though she is beautiful but pushy. I love how she talks about my minions.

[Daehawk]

Now im bugged in my forge room. I made a new set of armor and weps but it stuck on showing the forge wiggling. I can hear myself move and swing my wep off screen but it wont change views

FIXED...had to blind walk my way to the forge again and re use it.

[Daehawk]

I think I enjoy upgrading the keep more than the rest of it...though its all fun ....Adding stuff to the tower that i can see really makes it cooler.

[Daehawk]

How do i pick stuff up like bombs and plants? I cannot find the way.

[killbot737]

How do i pick stuff up like bombs and plants? I cannot find the way.

Your minions do it. You have to sorta circle them around the thing you want them to pick up. Then call them back (foghorn) to make them drop it someplace. You can choose just one minion to do it btw.

[Daehawk]

Tried that and it never worked. I was really needing them to work in this one area so i had to dig till i found it. You have to target the item with your target key then click to have him pick it up..you then keep the target key held down as you guide him where to go...then let go and he plants it and runs...sometimes not fast enough

[Daehawk]

Can you guys recommend the best spots to farm minions? I've run totally out of all of them thanks to making armor and weps...plus deaths in battle. Im farming the browns at the very first spot but getting 15 at a time is taking a while. Also im just now at the desert area..not explored it so will have to be before that area. Thanks.

[Daehawk]

Im bad stuck now. im on the desert map. I hate it wit ha passion. I was ready to quit it but Im now right at the end. I was going around gathering treasure before doing the final thing and leaving but as I was walking in a small sized area i came up one of those bone walls you cant break. I turn around to go back and my damn minions have followed me carrying that big ass gold elf statue and I cant get around it. I cant get them to move it back and i cant move forward. So I cant see the bloody exit but I cant move now. WTF. It looks like I have plenty of room to go around but it still wont let me between it and a house.

Had to just teleport back to the tower and then go back...t oa reset village and play over.

[Paingod]

Can you guys recommend the best spots to farm minions? I've run totally out of all of them thanks to making armor and weps...plus deaths in battle. Im farming the browns at the very first spot but getting 15 at a time is taking a while. Also im just now at the desert area..not explored it so will have to be before that area. Thanks.

Wow. That would be reaching back into the dusty archives.

I don't think there's a "good" place to farm anything except browns - the others are generally pretty rare.

I think I recall killing bugs of each variety in the arena for their souls (assuming Overlord I and not II). It's been so long ... the more I try to remember, the more I want to install the game again.

[Daehawk]

I really like this game except for the minion farming. In the beginning it was fun. I enjoyed getting souls for new minions. but here at the end game I find I spend over 30 min simply farming minion souls for the fights at the end. I am looking at at least an hour now for the final stuff. I've just gotten to where i fight the huge boss then have to get all the stuff back then finish it. So it will possibly take me more than twice as long as it should.

But Im looking forward to being done and starting pt 2

[Daehawk]

I've started Overlord 2 now. I've not played far...just to Sanctuary Cave but I think it's going to be better than the first one even. I kinda wish it had let me be a kid longer there in the beginning. Maybe causing havoc in town or sneaking and doing stuff.

[Lordnine]

I enjoyed both Overlord games but the second one has a couple incredibly tedious section right at the end. They are basically timed puzzles and if your timing is off even a little you have to start over and redo the whole section. Would still love to see a third game in the series though.

Interesting fact: The Overlord storyline and dialogue is written by Terry Pratchett’s (Discworld) daughter.

[Little Raven]

If you're talking Overlord 1, farm at the arena. Just queue up the appropriate bug type for the minion you want, and take in nothing but greens and blues. Then put all the minions on guard position in away from the bugs, and let the greens get big. Then just kite groups of bugs in a few at a time.

You can easily farm a couple hundred souls in 15 or 20 minutes this way.

[Daehawk]

Never did think of the arena thing.

Pt 2 is still a lot of fun. It feels a little as if my minions are a tad more stupid this time. A lot of times Ill send them in but they'll fail to destroy baskets and boxes that are right in front of them and Ill have to walk over and do it. Also they fail to go in houses sometimes.

[Paingod]

Never did think of the arena thing.

I'd also use the arena to equip my minions. Kill a boatload of halflings and take their gear. Kill a few cooks and take their hats and knives. Kill some ogres and steal their noserings. Kill a lot of zombies and use their arms as clubs.

[Daehawk]

I enjoyed both Overlord games but the second one has a couple incredibly tedious section right at the end. They are basically timed puzzles and if your timing is off even a little you have to start over and redo the whole section. Would still love to see a third game in the series though.

Interesting fact: The Overlord storyline and dialogue is written by Terry Pratchett’s (Discworld) daughter.

Ive now found one of those annoying parts. Its getting the blues. I got way into..doing puzzle after puzzle..only to die and it starts me bacjk outside as if ive done none of it..after 30 minutes of work. got so mad i just shut it down. Isn't like I dont have better things to do. I need a save anywhere..or a better checkpoint system. at least save where i died and let me start there or close to it.

[Daehawk]

I've lost my first mistress. Was it Kelda? The redhead. I replaced her with juno for a bit but I wanted to switch back and buy some tower upgrades for each. but when I go to my room where they should both be standing only Juno is there walking back and forth. I can't find the other anywhere in that whole area.

[Lordnine]

It’s been a while but if I recall there is a jail cell/tower somewhere in your fortress not far away. You should be able to find her there.

[Daehawk]

Ya fixed that. i could see in there and nothing was there and the gate never opened. I reloaded the game and it worked.

But now i killed the Fay queen by accident. i wanted her alive. Is there a way to redo that part? I exited without saving but I think it auto saved. My last personal save was a VERY long time ago.

[Daehawk]

I dont see myself completing O2. It's not as good a game as the first one. The minions control is worse, they dont work well, the timed puzzles are lame, the puzzles are bad anyways, theres no save points where they should be, and when an area has many pieces of it blocked off and you have to wait till a enemy tosses a bomb at you tyhen run it to the right spot to get through is bad enough but then to clear those enemies only to find you missed a wall and are stuck and have to retstart the whole area...NO THNX.

[Daehawk]

I thought I started a new thread for my replay of this but guess I didn't.

Ive been playing for over a week off and on. Having a great time now that its been a few years since my first try.

I am trying to take over the first town by controlling the citizens. They will work and make me a lot of life essence for minions. But Im stuck at 81 of 100 people and theres a small area of town I cant get into. Theres a gate on each side and I can see a turn wheel inside to open them but I cant for the life of me figure how to get to it. Ive been thinking I need the blue minions cause I have the other 3 and it hasn't helped. But Im far into the game now and thinking I should already have that dang town because I have the 2nd town to to start controlling.

Any idea how to get that last part of the first town open? Those dang hippy elves will be mine!

[Daehawk]

Thanks to those sewers under the arena I think Im done with games that dont allow save anywhere.

[Daehawk]

Ok just fuck Overlord 2. They just had to put a near impossible section it to piss people off it seems. It takes about 30 minutes of work to get to a part where I die every time. maybe in 20 or 30 more tries I MIGHT be able to have enough mana or health or minions to get past it but Im not doing that shit. I guess this is the spot I deleted on all those years ago. I remember all the other sections but have no memory of anything past this spot so guess thats it again and forever for it.

[killbot737]

I think I remember the spot you are at, is it related to doing something at a big castle? I remember that sewers part too, if that's the where you were looking for the blue minion house. That was a PITA.

[Daehawk]

Yes it was before the arena getting the blue hive.

[Daehawk]

I always thought I finished the first game but reading this thread and watching the end online I dont remember it at all. May reload O1 to play some again.

[Daehawk]

I get stuck and have to delete so many games these days. Now Im stuck with the fat ass halfling. I enter his area and my minions start dancing to a guy playing a violin. As they dance they get killed off. I cant fight enough to stop it , it wont let me kill the musician, and it wont give me a hint as what to do. Each time Im forced to walk all the way back to try again and die again. Makes me so mad.