So to try to rectify the current state of affairs, even though years way too late, I have started compiling the remaining tutorial resources into one easily accessed and portable resource. Finally while this site holds some third party tutorials about modding DS2, others are located in rarely visited archive sites like Siegenetwork or or have simply been lost in the black ether of the Net. Some tutorials from Siege University 1 are still relevant to the game while others have been superseded by new features or made obsolete. While Siege University 2 still exists thanks to the way-back machine after nearly disappearing a year or so ago, a lot of information has been truncated and images lost. Still despite the missed opportunities with DS2 modding, there still are sporadic inquiries about modding the game with the main problem new players have little idea where to go for modding resources or help with modding. The last game in the series, Dungeon Siege III wasn't made by GPG and had little in common with its forebears. They then turned back to their roots with Supreme Commander and the rest is history. So once the Editor was finally released many gamers had either played DS2 and moved on or never even tried it in the first place.Ĭertainly by the time Broken World, the expansion to Dungeon Siege 2, was released a year later, GPG had themselves seemed to have given up on the series and didn't even attempt to support the features of the expansion in an update to the Editor as was done with the original game and Legends of Aranna expansion. However Dungeon Siege 2 had a lot more competition for gamer's attention than did DS1 with the ever increasing popularity of MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft and game consoles such as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 2. 4 months after the release of the game, GPG began releasing a series of tutorials for Dungeon Siege 2 in a similar vein to what was done for the original game with Siege University. We certainly can't be too hard on them as they had other commitments and obligations they needed to deal with and they also wanted to release an Editor with as much polish, user friendliness and stability as possible. Yet despite this and the release of a fully featured Map Editor, Dungeon Siege 2 never even remotely approached the popularity and amount of user created content of it's 3 year older sibling.Ĭertainly the delayed release of Siege Editor 2 didn't help, especially as GPG built up such high expectations and anticipation of the game before release. Dungeon Siege 2 is one of the most moddeable games ever made and even today, over 8 years since it was first released, the graphics and gameplay still hold up very well.
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