And yes, playing it again was as much of a chore as I remembered and there are probably lots of people that would tell me that I could use the twelve hours I needed to play through the game doing other things, but I wanted a kind of closure with the title. Years before, I borrowed the game, got to the third chapter, and dropped it since it was so dull.
I really only played the first “Dungeon Siege” again after years of simply ignoring the game because I did not want to feel beaten by it. My second ever videogame article on this blog was about “ Dungeon Siege“, a game that I found ugly, boring, and questionably designed from the viewpoint of the 2020s.