"I'm already a master of nothing in my own life." -Ross Scott, KZfaq celebrity, creator of Freeman's Mind, gaming archaeologist, aspiring movie-maker, music saver, and all-around awesome guy

Ah, a new summer game dungeon, now things are starting to make sense. Hope everyone has a safe and fun summer!

Blobman actually used his entire mana bar on that attack that killed everything in Mordor, and he didn't want you to know that he needed to go regenerate for 15 minutes.

Loving this party composition of two leggy, amazonian models wearing what can be charitably called "armoured swimwear" being led by a surly little dwarf in 60 pounds of chainmail.

This actually reminds me of one of those DnD campaigns where you all make characters but in truth the DM just wants you to be witnesses to how aweseme and powerful this NPC that he came up with is, in this case blob guy.

What is it with Ross continuing to find RPGs that are nigh-unplayably hard and completely incomprehensible? Did he insult a witch and get cursed to manifest these games from the ether?

This game's story has the feel of a D&D campaign that's been going on for two years but you only just joined and too much has happened for the other players to possibly explain.

The fact that you credited each individual "Will It Blend?" episode instead of just putting them all under "Will It Blend?" is why you are the true master of the internet.

Sometimes it feels like Ross has more fun trying to get these busted ass games to run on his system than actually playing them.

A quarter of the way through the video, I quickly realized exactly what was happening. This isn't actually a singleplayer game. This is actually a CO-OP GAME. That's why you suffered through the first chapter as the dwarf, because the game expected you to have at least two players. If you played as any other class, you would've gotten the dwarf there and thus a little bit of extra damage. That's why your inventory is so stifling - everybody is expected to loot, not just one guy. That's why there's a lot of cooldowns - you were asking "Where's the army?" but just like in WoW, you're expected to have 2-5 other people playing with you. That's why your player character didn't speak until chapter 2 - again, they couldn't be sure you had the dwarf until after the murderhall chapter so they couldn't risk having any player characters speak. In fact, I wonder if the Dwarf had important exposition during the murderhall chapter ala the huntress' insane rambling at the beginning of the pyramid that you unintentionally skipped by playing as him? This game was never meant to be played singleplayer. This is a co-op game, and all the devs probably played co-op together during playtests, assuring that singleplayer became completely unbalanced.

This is from the early "brown and bloom" era of game design. Shiny new tools, can't resist using them.

I'm consistently impressed by the amount of effort that you put into finishing awful games.

I remember an ancient gamefaqs type guide for this. The unfortunate thing is even the ancient guide says "The dwarf is the hardest to play especially early on." As he's the ONLY character with the backwards rage bar/mana mechanic. What an introduction

33:10 The art director told the artist assigned to this character that he wanted a "happy merchant" and the artist just Googled it and drew the first result.

The Wendigos in Dusk are an example of invisible enemy I really like. They can't be seen directly, but they can be heard, the screen flickers when they appear, they leave a slight blood trail, and they collide with world objects. There's plenty of opportunities to notice them, but it requires you to pay attention to your surroundings, and that's difficult (though still doable) in a hectic firefight. They're durable and hard-hitting, but there's not many of them, and by the time you encounter them you'll have high-damage weapons to use against them.

9:14 I have tested Crysis 2 just walking past everything on the highest difficulty and without any suit upgrades: it is possible and very easy, barring the scripted shooting sequences where you need to kill a boss to trigger the level exit.

It seems like this game was designed to be played with other players in a LAN environment, like how Unreal Tournament was. The fact that multiplayer is the second option on the menu and the first you land on is indicative of this, as is the opening narrative about five heroes working together. A lot of the other decisions seem to reinforce this, like the insane amounts of loot, non-pausing dialogue interludes that would be difficult to sync across multiple computers were they to pause the action in the game, the barriers that need to be destroyed, the specialized enemy types and unfair numbers, and the weapon cooldowns. Like you were meant to cover for the other players while they recharged or destroyed obstacles as the dwarf, inflict status effects as the vampire, do the damage and direct enemies as the amazon, and draw attacks as the elf. A hybrid support/ranged, a full support, DPS, and tank. They even screwed up class balancing.

I miss the "Award time!" But really, big thanks for such big video! As always it's a great work!

This game actually has a connection to Another game from the Game Dungeon. That game being Hellgate: London! Both Hellgate & Mage Knight share some of the same devs.

So I've watched this video all the way through I think once, but I've started it and fallen asleep listening to it about 7 or 8 times now. Game Dungeon is one of the few things I can listen to that actually helps me sleep, and I mean that in the most positive possible way. I find Ross's delivery very relaxing and the whole vibe of GD very cozy.

I hope you guys enjoyed the video! Been watching the series for a while and it was a joy to edit for! Well, for the most part. Even I felt some of the game’s soul-sucking effects in the editing room :)

Awards time! First award: Doesn't Respect Your Time. Self-explanatory, really. When you need to cheat to not have a soul-sucking experience, the game is wrong. Second award: Nerf Guns. There's guns in this game and they do piddly-ass damage AND they have a cooldown meter. And the final award: Napping In Class. Even when you're paying attention, the game just says things that mean nothing to you and expects you to be able to react to plot revelations that have no setup whatsoever.

At this point I kind of want to make a game that involves a compilation of every mechanic Ross says is the worst he's seen in his life.

Ross's girlfriend shows off her new lingerie: "This is not good orc fighting gear."

I just had the most exhausting week of my life, sitting through this unbelievable heat and I finish the day by finding a new Game Dungeon by Ross! *YEEEESSS!!!!*

Re: invisible enemies, there's a couple of times in the MGS series where they're used to pretty good effect. My favourite is in the first game, when you're in an elevator and realize there's 4 guys with cloaking devices in there with you, and so you have to flail around in a panic attacking the air

34:18 I thought the assassins in Half-Life were pretty fun to play against on hard mode. Also, there’s a free mod for HL2 called Hidden Source or something, where a bunch of players with guns fight against a single invisible player with a melee weapon that can instantly kill people from behind, that was insanely fun. And finally, there’s some aliens in the Halo series that are invisible, although if you pay close attention you can barely see their cloak texture and identify them, but the best invisible enemy segment from Halo would be the new Infinite game in the tower where you have to use a tracking device to identify a completely invisible enemy when they’re within its range. Lot of examples I could give but these are my favorite

Ross really communicates well the horrid gameplay and incompetence almost every game featured exudes, not a lot of game shows make me feel grateful for the developers that include incredibly advanced Quality Of Life features such as making the game actually beatable.

I can't believe it. This is set in the same universe as Mage Knight, er, the wargame. I've never played the minis game, but my brothers adored the board game which was like flying a fighter jet. Cool in theory, but a whole lot of technical jargon and very detailed instructions to follow. Sadly, the boardgame also had no gunpowder toting dwarves, which is probably why I don't like it. I find it surreal that a game as freakishly complex as Mage Knight where even the "warrior" characters are fully magic users,, can have a hack 'n slash tie-in that rewards you for being a non-mage. The Dragon appears to be the major connecting character, he sucks in the boardgame too.

Jesus, I'm not the one who had to play through this and I don't think I'm even beginning to feel the iceberg of tedious boredom you had to go through. Hopefully the next one is going to be gentler on you, Ross.

this game is PAINFULLY world of warcraft and you can tell it was made by a group of friends who played it and had their own expectations of the game and their own personal headcanons. the night elf warrior wanted to be a paladin so bad, the human hunter wanted to get rid of their pet, the undead rogue wanted to be a vampire, the troll mage picked troll because its the closest he could get to being a dragon, and the dwarf hunter wanted to main being an engineer. its like a lens into the chokehold wow had on fantasy games at the time and it was weirdly wistful to watch some of this stuff

There is an invisible enemy I really enjoyed fighting, the Replica Assassins from FEAR 1. The atmosphere of the game and the precedent that the enemies are intelligent (even though as it turns out it's basically smoke and mirrors) gave them way more fear factor, pun intended. Them not being 100% invisible but shimmering faintly against your flashlight was also a great touch.

Jesus I remember Mage Knight from middle school. It was this gateway miniature game you play right before getting into Warhammer. It tried to be huge too, it had comics, expansions packs and apparently videogames. Man, it was such a 2000' thing If I remember correctly, it was about a magical world on the cusp of industrial revolution and the major conflict was between the old mages of a dispotic Atlantis and a coalition of nature magicians and non magic wielding creatures utilizing the newfound power of GUNS to overthrow the old order.

The reason the story is so convoluted is because it's based on a collectible prepainted miniatures game with turn-able bases that tracked stats and abilities as you take damage. Each new set added a little bit to the lore and advanced the story, and at one point they were even doing a kind of weekly in world diary of one of the human seers the Solonavi allied with to expand on ongoing plotlines/wars and give background to new expansions. I think it still has potential as a setting, but I doubt they'll do much with it now even though I understand the board game is popular. Oh, Mageknight is supposed to be like the player's title as the leader of the armies you collected if I remember right. Wizkids made a number of games based on the dial base gimmick and Heroclix is the only one that survived.

It was nice how Morrowind allowed you to dispose of corpses. That would be a nice fix for the overlapping body hitbox issue.

58:50 So I don't know if this was visible anywhere else, but this was certainly the first point I noticed: The Dwarf doesn't actually have a beard. He has the world's longest moustache instead. Like, you can plainly see there's not even a texture to make it kinda look like the beard's attached properly, his chin is totally bare. It's just like a fabric model strapped to his face.

Despite this game's problems, I think we can all agree those Dwarvish tanks are badass looking.

I played the collectible miniature game at a high level, almost won the nationals championship and I didn't know this stuff existed. Amazing.

I had this amazing sense of excitement when I was 40 minutes in to this episode and I had another half of the episode to enjoy

Who else is watching old Game Dungeons in anticipation for the next "Halloween Game Dungeon"?

"I'm already a master of nothing in my real life!" Man, I felt that.

I think Resident Evil 4 actually handled invisible enemies well. But a large reason is that those weren't truly "invisible". They had a distortion effect where they were and if you kept your eye out and spotted them you could just shoot them. It also helped that they spit acid and have a pretty metal game over where they will melt Leon's face off.

This is the kind of story-telling I like to call "Noun Soup", which makes up like 98% of fantasy games. (And Doom Eternal) Everyone is constantly referring to people, things, and places with dumb names like " Queen Ruthgold lead the charge In The Battle for the Cinthamon Crown in the The Woodlands of Garthok" and they're made out to be super important and a big part of the world and plot, but it's never really evident from your perspective as to why and the game doesn't care to write something that would explain it.

I hope that your computer is alright after the Faustian bargain you made for this episode. As far as the design for looting everything, maybe the developers were really forgetful and wanted to make a realistic "where did I leave my car keys?" simulator, right down to the wanton manslaughter so that they could search not just their own pockets, but everyone else's too.

In the darkest moments, our hero presents his finest of works! Thank you Ross for your videos!

Ross: "Are you ready for Mage Knight Apocalypse?" Me: "I hope, so" Ross: "I'm not" Me: "Oh, this will be an instant Ross classic video"

The full phrase is “a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” It was a compliment

When you said 'Gatling gun that only fires in bursts' my brain recalled Starcraft's Terran Marines. Those guys would take the time to line up a burst, then go back to rest position between bursts the exact same way.

3:14 That swedish chef made me laugh harder than I care to admit.

Mage Knight the board game is phenomenal. I had no idea there was a video game, which appears to be... less than phenomenal. Awesome to see some a new Game Dungeon!

Near the end of the video, it occurred to me that I'd heard the title "Mage Knight" before. It's a collectable miniatures game/board game made by WizKids. With Mage Knight: Apocalypse being a video game tie in, along with a game for the Nintendo DS called Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier. That is, if Wikipedia is any indication. So if it seems like there's a lot of Lore that's being thrown at the player at once, it's probably because it's an existing property. Still doesn't excuse how terribly the story is told.

The lizardman's backstory is hilarious. He's fated to have this Cassandra-style life where he'll be present at all sorts of world-changing events, but powerless to stop them. In the Greek myth, it was a curse to Cassandra because she could foresee what was going to happen but everyone thought she was full of shit until the big day, but here? No, everyone believes Lizardman's fate - but it's just as bad for him, because no one wants to get caught in the blast radius when the whatever-it-is eventually happens.

I had this back in the day and found that the vampire was the best class, she has both a health drain and a mana drain ability both of which can be trained early on to super high levels and carry you through the whole game.

In terms of invisible enemies: The only one that I've enjoyed has been the Wendigos in Dusk, mainly because you get sounds and bloody tracks to tell where they're at, then they become visible once attacked.

I’m not sure if you count them, because you can see the shimmer, but any of the active camo encounters in the original Halo trilogy are pretty fun.

I got this one for $10 a couple years after it came out. I played through with all 5 characters, and actually bothered to chart how to optimize the characters. Different abilities increase different stats when used, and by different amounts depending on the character. The lizard and dwarf were glass cannons - good damage, but it was best to engage from a distance and kite. The elf paladin was a reasonably solid choice, decent tankage and could self heal. The ladies were the two that actually shined. Thong girl has a drain life attack at range, which has fairly low damage relative to other attacks, but using it grows her maximum health heavily, which meant she actually got the highest health pool of my playthroughs, making for an interesting ranged tank build. The huntress was broken powerful. She has a lot of passive abilities across her skill trees. Spend a little time with her ranged attacks and you can unlock a bonus to criticals and accuracy. Spend some time with her bear aspect (I think that was what it was called) and you can gain some passive for health an armor bonus. But my favorite was that she had a dual wield tree, meaning the offensive gains were applied twice, and there were ways to increase your damage (and attack speed if I remember correctly). In summary, play the dwarf or lizard if you want to do some decent ranged damage and are okay with hit and run game play. Play the elf fighter if you want to be a cleric using healing spells. Play "thong girl" if you want to be a beastly tank with relatively weak offence. Play huntress if you want to mow down mobs of enemies with two weapons while laughing maniacally. I will give the game that the mechanic around "mana" was unique to each character (the dwarf had heat instead, for example) but it was broken in terms.s of gameplay design. The part that frustrated me is that the multi-player (which was the only way to export your character and play them again) stopped working when they shut down the servers. Even the LAN mode won't work - for any multi-player mode, it has to find the central server or you can't continue. A minor oversight that actually became a huge pain to me - again, it was the closest to "new game +" this title offered if I ran a LAN game with just me.

Game: "It was almost the end..." Ross: "Oh No!" Good start so far.

Mage Knight Apocalypse sounds like an anime.

At times like this, I like to think about how Steam surfaces achievement statistics, sometimes allowing you to track just how far in to a game most players get. And if you look, most players who start any given game never even make it 25% through the content before giving up. It is almost guaranteed that on a game like Mage Knight Apocalypse that Ross is among the 0.1% of players to ever make it this far. Depending on how well it sold, he could be among ten people on earth to see that Zombie Queen boss. Or less!

The Big Lebowski is probably one of the best movies ever made.

34:00 Stalker has the bloodsuckers. Definitely the best implementation of invisible enemies in any game.

Dude, if the Mage Knight Apocalypse involves a kickass rave with a bunch of lizard people, hell YEAH I'm ready for it.

One thing Ross either forgot to mention or is not aware of is that in WoW if you run around and kill 50 murlocs, and they all have loot, you can pick up the majority of it but right clinking a single murloc. And if you hold shift when you right click, it autoloots all of it. It’s based on how close together they are, but you can loot dozens of mobs at once it with one click. The only thing you can’t do is skin multiple at the same time (Unless you’re doing legacy content and can using the throwing skinning knife)

I can only imagine the amount of pain and frustration you go through when you play games like this for our entertainment. Thank you Ross but maybe every now and again, play a game that is fun to make a video from as a reward to yourself for all the hard work you put in :)

About 3 days ago I checked the channel and thought to myself “Damn, hasn’t been a new Game Dungeon in awhile…” Seeing the length of this’un it’s no wonder it took so long! Excited to dive in.

27:05 - Without taking any responsibility here. If most of the "virus" results are "generic" and "game hack", then you can pretty much dismiss these as being false positives that just boil down to RAM hooking.

I love this channel so much. It actually makes me happy. Thank you, Ross.

Never stop being you, this is the one channel that makes me smile every time I watch

Oh this game... I don't think I've ever met someone else that actually knew it existed before. I remember being mesmerized by how bad this game was back in the day, and playing through all of it despite myself. I played through it as the dragon mage, and distinctly remember three bugs: Your companions break if they die, and stop being able to use any abilities. Only fixed by reloading/restarting. The game is soooo much easier when they go into the full lightshow that is all companions spamming abilities. I played through more than half the game before I noticed... One of the mage fire abilities does not require line of sight and is instant cast. The AI does NOT handle this well. I cheesed through a lot of the game with this. Oh, and alchemy ingredients do not stack on pickup. Fun times.

I find myself just cracking up multiple times an episode with Game Dungeon. In my opinion it's some of the funniest stuff on the internet

If I could choose only one channel/type of video to watch for the rest of my life, it'd be Ross's Game Dungeon episodes. Even at the leisurely pace in which they grace my eyes, I could be entirely satisfied by these videos and nothing more. Thanks again for another entertaining trip through a game I've never played, but looks like many I tried or passed on when I was a kid.

this game scratches an itch i never knew i had, who knew singleplayer world of warcraft could look so fun,

31:15 I think I know why this music ending abruptly. If you watched hardware company logos, you can notice that game presents one of the sound systems. It appears the game was too much hard coded into that now likely gone sound card, or something. Sadly we'll never know. Who knows, if there are a more soundtracks. Sadly, the soundtrack is in the encrypted file system, so we won't know.

real talk, after learning so much about how game development works, it's blatantly obvious that this was *meant* to be a solid diablo-like rpg and had a lot of effort put into it, but all the hard work in the world can't save a project with bad direction, and something clearly went terribly wrong with this project's direction and the end result wound up being a sonic 06-level chaotic mess

I read a review and it turns out the developers expect you to die. You immediately respawn nearby and can just go back in.

God bless you and your family Ross, been watching your content since I was a kid. Was 13 eating cough drops when I was sick and watched freemans mind and got hyped for every episode. Im 24 and a cowboy now and I do A.I, I can't say enough how much I appreciate your content and as I grew as a person your videos were always a treat. Still waiting for you to make your movie, but I'll wait as long as it takes, "When it's done". Thanks for everything Ross, good vibes. 👍

10/10 introduction. Everything I love about Ross distilled down to a perfect ten seconds.

"I am already a master of nothing in my real life!" Many quotes from Freeman's Mind were fighting in my head for the title of the Ultimate Quote, and now they all got annihilated by this unexpected newcomer.

The Game Dungeon is fascinating to me because of how timeless it is. I can watch any Game Dungeon video and I will have 0 idea when it was made.

when Ross gonna play a game he actually enjoy

Unexpected Zeno Clash reference was appreciated my dude

The invisible enemies in FEAR 1 are great. They add creatly to the atmosphere and you can still handle them well.

I like how you always try your very best to play through the game, even if it is almost impossible.

The fabled Ross Scott has blessed us with another episode of game dungeon!

Civvie, Mandalore AND Ross in a short span? What a glorious week But we're missing Sseth...

Gotta drop everything Ross uploaded

SOMETIMES I can see bikini armor for like, rogue type characters. If your marginally smaller than your enemies on average, metal armor is more likely to just be a hindrance. Less ability to move/less range to strike + if you get your armor crushed, it's going to stay indented. But still its like just wear normal ass leather, your gonna get hella bug bites.

I swear, WoW seized all progress in the RPG genre for like 10 years straight.

man, games just like this remind me of early PC gaming days, they're like pulling teeth singleplayer, the devs SO want you to play MP they just completely forget to balance the game for SP

The shooter Dusk had a good invisible enemy. You'd be alerted to its presence by its heavy breathing and footsteps, it's pretty freaky when you notice it.

I Love the way he describes these janky games he truly suffers for us and it always entertains me throughout ily ross

Ross going through all this effort to use a likely malware-infested trainer when he could've just used the generic Cheat Engine speedhack.

This, along with some other Game Dungeon episodes, really makes me realize just how many strange half-baked fantasy RPGs trying to ride the WoW wave there were. And nearly all of them fail to realize how pointless cooldowns and recharge timers are outside of MMOs.

Yes, Ross, you were missing something. Four somethings, in fact. This game is made to be played with 5 people, and the singleplayer is literally just the multiplayer levels unchanged but for the AI helper characters of which you get one for each chapter out of 6 (barring the first one of course.) Ironically, this means that the last chapter where you have all 4 AI characters with you is actually the most balanced out of all the singleplayer chapters, because the devs designed the levels as though you have all 5 players right from the start, but for some reason only give you the AI characters one at a time. It's really dumb. In co-op, you have people to sit in the frontline tanking arrow shots while your whole squad hits them from range, and it's also why there are so many unavoidable "big attacks" and stuns that are single target. (With only a few exceptions like the ice boss.) Hence the huge amount of loot also the ability to revive endlessly in singleplayer without punishment, and why there are so many damn enemies. Unfortunately, the game was still pretty buggy, something made worse by 2006 era net-code for multiplayer, so there were plenty of crashes and restarts required to get through a full run anyway.

43:00 Is such a masterclass in subtle joke writing. Props for the perfect comedic timing and tone.

The amount of effort you put into your work is godlike, Ross. Thank you so much for bringing attention to all of these games that we likely would never have seen. I'm old and have been playing games since I was a child and you constantly surprise me with new material. Especially shit that I'd quit early on as well but you make it entertaining and explore the whole clusterfuck. Appreciate it so much you are a true gem and I want to collect you. And keep you in my bag of gems. Yes I know that sounds weird. I'm on a list now aren't I?

lmao Merchant at 32:54 rubbing his hands together with a giant shekel above his head. Art truly imitates life.

To be fair, stripperiffic dark Elf assassins are a common thing in Warhammer.

You have no idea how excited I get when I see that you've uploaded. Thanks so much for all the content over the years :)

Didn't expect to see Haunted Castle 3 being used as an example to anything, but here we are. xD Great vid Ross!