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The history of Dungeons and Dragons video games

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Published on Mar 5, 2016

**Table of Contents below** [Note: some corrections done via annotations!]
I'm open to criticism, but BEFORE YOU COMMENT, read this (1-5):
1.The video was edited in parts during a 3 week time period, so I apologize if the sound editing is all over the place. I generally used 60% volume on my PC with headphones on when editing the video, so those are the settings this video is "optimized" for in the later parts.

2. Except for the major titles, most of the footage was captured from early areas in most games. There were many games I played for the first time(&quite briefly) for this project, so unfortunately this video doesn't offer any major insight on the more obscure&forgotten games. I also had to cut some newer games from this list (didn't wan't to spend money on games that I could predict being utter garbage and I couldn't capture footage from some games), but atleast I tried to cover all of the older games.

3. I was originally supposed to get this video out before January, but for various reasons (Vegas problems, procrastination, RL obligations, Hadriex's schedule etc) I couldn't start working on it untill later on. So by the time I had rendered the last parts, I didn't have time to fix some visual glitches (like how the picture is stretched out of bounds at 2:00:00&2:02:34, it certainly wasn't that way in the Vegas preview window! ), as I had to make room for my hard drive and delete much of the footage that had been cluttering it up for the past few months. Epescially the last few chapters are hastily put together.
Also worth noting that some of my old footage from games like Pool of Radiance and Planescape: Torment is more blurry/pixelated, and there's nothing I could do about it beyond going back and replaying the game to re-capture footage.

4. There are some minor flaws here and there in the voice over like accidentally skipping over some words, leaving out the plural etc. Since patching the audio usually sounds jarring, I patched in missing words with text in spots where it was neccessary. There's some background noise here and there that I couldn't get rid of, but if you'll check the credits, you'll see that Hadriex did his best to try and record the voice over in the most optimal conditions. The script was just so long that he had to do it in parts.

5. I wasn't as thorough about fact checking when making this video, and made some claims based on my memory on games that I played 1-3 years ago. So if I state something that's factually incorrect, feel free to correct me and I'll add an annotation to the video.

And as always, I'm not that great when it comes to presentation/polish/using Vegas efficiently, so the video retains my amateurish style. But I like to think that as a part of my rustic charm.

***Table of Contents***
Chapter 0: Introduction
Introduction&the early history of RPGs 0:06
PLATO games 6:57

Chapter 1: Intellivision games
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Cloudy Mountain) (1982) 11:55
Treasure of Tarmin (1983) 12:56

Chapter 2: Goldbox 13:58
Pool of Radiance (1988) 15:50
The Order of the Griffon (1992) 36:09

Chapter 3: Action RPGs 37:26
Heroes of the Lance 1988&Dragons of Flame (1989) 37:46
Hillsfar (1989) 38:08
War of the Lance (1989) 39:19
DragonStrike (1990) 39:49
Shadow sorcerer (1991) 40:39

Chapter 4: Real time dungeon crawlers
Eye of the Beholder (1990) 41:50
Dungeon Hack (1993) 44:34
Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (1994)&Stone Prophet (1994)/Menzoberranzan (1994) 45:25
Al-qadim: Genie's curse (1994) 47:16
Slayer (1994)&DeathKeep (1995) 48:06

Chapter 5: Dark Sun 49:32
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993) [ Longer review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxqcQ... ]
Dark Sun Online: Crimson Sands (1996) 52:50

Chapter 6: Fighting games/beat em ups 53:21
Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (1996)
Tower of Doom (1993)&Shadow over Mystara (1996) 53:37

Chapter 7: Strategy Games 57:38
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace (1992) 58:00
Fantasy Empires (1993) 58:51
Stronghold (1993)&Blood & Magic (1996) 59:22
Birthright: The Gorgon's alliance (1997) 1:00:15

Chapter 8: Infinity Engine 1:02:04
Baldur's Gate (1998)&Descent to Undermountain (1997)
Baldur's Gate 2 (2000) 1:04:49
Planescape: Torment (1999) 1:25:55
Icewind Dale (2000)&Icewind Dale 2 (2002) 1:41:30

Chapter 9: Temple of Elemental Evil 1:45:53
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001)
Temple of Elemental Evil (2003) 1:46:48

Chapter 10: Knights of the Chalice 1:55:44
Knights of the Chalice (2009)

Chapter 11: Rest 2:00:11
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001)&Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 (2004)
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes (2003)
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone (2004)
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (2005)
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (2006)
Dungeons & Dragons Tactics (2007)
Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (2011)
Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War (2013)
Lords of Waterdeep (2014)
Sword Coast Legends (2015)

Neverwinter Nights (2002)&Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006) 2:02:24

Chapter 12: Closing thoughts 2:03:20

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