These Are My Original Dungeon Siege Screenshots From 2005

I have finally kickstarted the RPG review on the website with the Immortal Darkness game. Since my next one will be for Dungeon Siege, I figure I'll present to you the only screenshots I have from my early gaming days. Somehow a pack of 120 old-school Dungeon Siege 1 screenshots survived through the ages and through various hard drives and made it to the current era. Can you believe that?! 264 MBs of .bmp images made it to 2023! From 2005!

Naturally, I had to transform them into .jpgs otherwise they would have made this page load too slowly. Also on the matter, consider that 120 images would have been too many to peruse. So I pruned them a little and cut them down. But, don't worry, what I cut was irrelevant.

Anyway, it was quite the mental exercise to see how I played back then. You can see from them that I wanted to record what items, stats, and gold I got. Somehow I don't have the final screens for my main character, the one with the best items and stats. Huh! How the hell did I miss that?!

The Need to Document Everything

I used to write on pieces of paper at the end of any RPG I played through all the items I had at the end; the class, stats, and specs. It was all written down! Too bad I don't have them anymore. That would have made for some amazing nostalgic notes. Still, this has not waned on me. You can see at the end of my gameplay videos, on my new solo runs, that I record just that. You can see a snippet here for Dungeon Siege since we're talking about it. So, in a way, I started doing this a very long time ago.

Getting back to the point...

I remember my close friend Boogie when seeing these screenshots back in the day, and, him saying 'Wow this looks like something that should be in a gaming magazine'. It felt nice! 😊Well, they made it on this Paladin/gaming-oriented article, so that's something!

These screens will also probably blow your mind when you'll realize I have forced every recruited party member to use bows. Regardless of their class! That meant they had some catching up to do, naturally. But I made sure they all had the best items. And any new upgrade on my main character would trickle down a domino effect of upgrades on all the rest. That's because the current item my main had would go to my second-best character. And so on and so forth. Fun times! I played it on easy that first time around, mind you. So that's why the huge amounts of gold at the end.

Lastly, it's laughable to see that with the gear I put on them they looked like such doofuses and goofs. 😂 So, please enjoy these 2005 Dungeon Siege Screenshots in their fabulous 1024x768 pixels resolution.