Dungeon Runners

By NC Soft · Monday, February 8th, 2010

Customer Rating: Rating 4.0 out of 5

(25 Reviews)

List Price: ~~$19.99~~
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Product information Brand: Nc Soft
Publisher: Ncsoft
Category: Video Games
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Format: Dvd-rom
Model: FG-XP-DR1ST-065

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Features

Adventure alone or form your own team of heroes to battle the menaces that plague the world
Mix and match from the ever-growing list of skills and powers to create your own custom class
Undertake hundreds missions and quests to rid the world of unspeakable horrors and legions of enemies
Gather in public meeting areas, then adventure in randomly generated dungeons at your own pace
Become a legend! Bask in the limelight as your powers, equipment and influence grow with each successful mission and every fallen foe

Editorial Reviews

Product Description: Something stirs in the darkness. A hot earthy smell wafts up from the dank depths. Nails scratch against limestone, dripping water echoes off cavern walls, ancient chains rattle in stagnant air . What lies in the eerie depths below? Dungeon Runners is an online role-playing game. As a brave hero, you'll explore dangerous dungeons, battle ferocious monsters and discover incredible weapons, artifacts and loot. Choose to play as Fighter, Mage or Ranger in a realm of terror, magic and adventure. Unlock powerful new skills as you gain experience on your journey into the unknown. Whether fighting evil hordes as a lone warrior or teaming up with online friends to carve a path of destruction through your foe, Dungeon Runners will quench your deepest dungeon-crawling thirst. Dungeon Runners is continually expanding to include new maps, new monsters, new powers and new features

Amazon.com: Slay the Monsters. Pwn some n00bs. Be the hero?

It's dark, it's dank, it smells awful down here and you just stepped in something squishy... Yup, you guessed it--it's Dungeon Runners--an online multiplayer action role-playing game that transports you to an exciting realm of magic, adventure, giant monsters, and icky things.

As a brave Dungeon Runner, be prepared to...

Explore dangerous dungeons (duh!)
Battle ferocious monsters like the Fire Mutant Puker (monsters that vomit - how cool!)
Discover incredible weapons, artifacts and loot! I mean, where ELSE are you going to battle with a giant turkey leg, find a Vorpal Pizza Cutter of Doom or the Laughing Brutalizer of the Two Dead Iguanas?
Whether fighting evil hordes as a lone idiot, um, I mean warrior, or teaming up with online friends to carve a path of destruction through your foes, Dungeon Runners will quench your deepest dungeon-crawling thirst. Game Details:
Game includes 6 Months of Premium Membership Access, which normally costs $5/month.
Access the new Bling Gnome sidekicks, that help you collect loot and `process' your gold. Available only with the boxed version of Dungeon Runners.
Throw off the yoke of other MMO's - mix & match from the ever-growing list of skills and powers to create your own custom class.
Undertake hundreds missions and quests to rid the world of bad guys and icky monster things.
Gather in public meeting areas, then adventure in randomly-generated dungeons at your own pace. Turtle or rocket through at breakneck speeds - hey, it's your neck!
Die a shameful death as a n00b in the kiddie dungeon. Or become a legend - basking in the limelight as your powers, equipment and influence grow.
Dungeon Runners is continually expanding to include new maps, new monsters, new powers and new features. Plus whatever else we come up with, Woohoo!
…oh and the Exteel client is included

Customer Reviews

Just Play It

by T. McPherson 2008-06-27, 11 people found this review helpful

I've been playing RPGs since before they were available on computers. I've been playing this one for just over a year. I love the complicated play and in depth storyline some RPGs offer, but sometimes I just want to get in there and whack things on the head. Dungeon Runners delivers the whackability.

Beat stuff over the head, or shoot it, or magic it if you prefer, until it dies (bloodlessly) (don't worry, the monsters are well compensated for their participation and always resurrect for another go.) Get experience points to move up levels and get fabulous loot for selling or using. Then go back and do it again. If the monsters get you instead, don't worry; you also have amazing regenerative powers and can jump back in there almost immediately.

Along with the whacking, you can entertain yourself with wacky quests provided for each of the many dungeons available as you progress. You have to experience the in game atmosphere to believe it. This is not a game that takes itself seriously. Trust me; you really need to check it out to see what I mean here. The description on the box here at Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg. And really, you can check it out for free, and NEVER pay if that's what you want. I, however, am happy to contribute the five bucks a month, and am getting the box for the bling, not the six months subscription.

Pros:
A-dict-ive
absolutely HI-larious
on the whole, a nice community of players
can play alone or in a group
simple gameplay, but cleverness factor adds depth
new content added often enough to keep me going for a year and counting

Cons:
if you have to have a developed plot, then this is not the game for you
if you don't like dungeon crawlers, then this is not the game for you
current level cap is 100 (OTOH, it provides a goal instead of endless wandering)
people with no sense of humor will not be amused

Seriously, just play it :)

EDIT: Unfortunately this game site is closing down at the end of the year and I don't think any new memberships are being accepted. RIP DR.

For the Adult in all of us

by Blair F. Edmiston 2008-10-06, 5 people found this review helpful

Avenge the deaths of the Polluteers.

Find a mad dogs stolen chew toy.

Talk to the scantily clad amazonian women that sells great items at a discount and buys items for the best price in townston.

Pwn some noobies at PVP

All this and much more comes with this game.

With this box you get a 6 month subscription to dungeon runners. A gnome that craps gold and items. Exteel (another wonderful game buy NCsoft).

This game has got to be seen to be believed. It makes fun of everything and anything. It is like playing fallout except third person (extremely adjustable camera by the way) role playing game(RPG).

Not meant for the immature though. Don't buy this game for your kids unless #1 they are already playing it. #2 You don't mind them being immersed in adult humor.

This game is updated about 1 time a month or so. So there is always new content coming in. New weapons , armor , quests , dungeons and miscellaneous great features.

It will also run on pretty much any computer that has windows XP or Vista installed on it. The minimum requirements are just that low and keeping getting lower as they fine tune the game.

Notes about the subscription:
You keep the gnome and can still have him as your traveling buddy even after you subscription has ran out.
It adds on to any existing subscription or account and can be used on a totally new account too.

20$ well spent

by M. Slesinski 2008-07-02, 4 people found this review helpful

for the 20$ you can pick this up for in any store you get TONS of value. it is an awesome fallback game! kind of like civ 4 or audio surf in the fact that some days you don't feel like dedicating hours to grinding out the same things you have done before. so you load up dungeon runners and get a healthy dose of madness.

one of the best things about this game over most others is you are not locked into being 1 archetype, you can be a bow wielding mage or a mage with a huge shield that tanks and spanks, or you can go for the classic mage that is in fact a mage its up to you!

the silliness is strong in this one, who needs a plot when you have comedy? and this game has it in spades, poking fun at its contemporaries through yes repetitive quests, and insanely funny weapon names. even the monster names are funny and the bling gnome... is just off the wall.

this game is a throwback to classic dungeon crawlers for the Genesis and tg-16, the more you hit the dungeon the better your loot gets, add to that the ability to ramp up the difficulty to increase the drop rates and you end up with something more challenging for greater rewards! i have played this game on and off for a long time now and have to say, most months i used to leave the sub on even if i wasnt playing. now with this box all the more reason.

i see some merchants selling this for over 20$. they should be banned or beheaded, this is intended to be a 20$ box packed with tons of value! once you remove the 20$ part the value spirals downward until you may as well just be playing it for free or pay them through the games web site.

So much value for the price!

by M. Hammock 2008-06-28, 3 people found this review helpful

It's amazing how much you get for the price of the retail box. The bling gnome is a massive time saver, the two free months is icing on the cake.

You also get trial codes for the other NCSOFT titles if you're curious on their other games.

You boys in Austin did good! I just want a way to outfit my bling gnome to make him look different, or a way to summon a girl bling gnome that has some other kind of roll in the game. Keep up the good work! Well worth the pice!!!

The Mother of all RPGs it is

by Michael Adams 2008-06-27, 3 people found this review helpful

I have been playing this game for a few months now and it is awesome IMHO. It is a great game that is a great dose of pure fun in this day of age of hardcore wow grind raid crap games. It is nothing more than a joyous dungeon romp that is not low on humor and has some very original ideas. where else do you have pooping gnomes and abba labbas that steal candy form willy wanka??? The best part is the membership is optional but defiantly worth the measly 5 dollars a month. You know you spend more on your daily crapbucks latte so put 5 bucks into this wonderful game.

Very Pretty Rogue/Diablo/Dungeon Diver; Repetitive and Laggy

by Autodidact 2008-07-25, 7 people found this review helpful

Dungeon Runners is a massively multiplayer online game where you can choose one of three character classes (ranger, mage or warrior) and explore dungeons fighting monsters and collecting gold and useful items. It's very pretty to look at, and it's a nice zen exercise. Your dungeon diving is driven by quests given by non-player characters; the voice acting of the NPCs is fun, and the quest descriptions can be entertaining. The community is generally friendly, although it seems to be younger on average than the World of Warcraft crowd and mostly male.

Dungeon Runners can be played for free by downloading the game. Premium members pay a monthly subscription fee of $5 a month, and those who purchase the software in the box (rather than downloading it) get 6 months of premium membership and the much-coveted "bling gnome", which follows its owner around converting found items to gold and saving the player the effort of carrying it back to a merchant to sell. Premium members also gain experience faster than those who play for free, get more bank space, and can use the higher level items.

Game play is repetitive, however. There is no room for player initiative or imagination. There is not much world to explore -- there's one little town; the rest is dungeons. Every quest involves killing a particular monster, killing a number of monsters, recovering something that monsters randomly drop when killed, or locating a place in the dungeon. What is particularly painful is that progress in a dungeon is not saved -- once you log off the game, the next time you play you will have the option to enter the dungeon at the level where you last were, but the entire dungeon will once more be unmapped and populated with monsters. As the quests send players to different levels of the dungeon, this means clearing the same dungeon level again -- and again -- and again. You will find yourself continuing to play long after you want to quit, just because you want to relocate your character on another level rather than quit and have to clear the current level yet again.

Then there is the problem of lag. The servers are quite laggy and lag death is common; oddly, the amount of lag seems unrelated to server load. Players are forgiving because game play is cheap or free, but it can still get quite frustrating.

A very fun way to spend $5 for a month. I doubt my interest will last that long.

Game Over

by T. Etherington 2009-10-12, 2 people found this review helpful

Just letting everyone know that the game will end on Jan 10, 2010. Any and all new subscriptions are terminated and will not allow game access. Furthermore, since the server is shutting down on the above mentioned date, it doesn't make any sense to buy a 6 month extension to play it.

Great for the money

by * Ice Angel * Snow Flake * 2008-08-26, 2 people found this review helpful

I wanted a game I could walk away from. This game allows it really well, for little money. It seems to keep track well. And, you can use some way point scroll where you are, go back to a town. Time stands still in the towns. You can do a lot on your own, or join groups. I found you can join groups letting them know you will drop out at any given moment (family life, real life takes precedent) and there are groups that go for that. It means I can play, and get up and do what I need to, and get out and about, without worrying about it.

It also means I can limit my play without concern. I never tried a different online game. This one is cheap, and I have family members who either play the paid or free versions, so can group up with them when online. There is a way to do headsets and actually talk with them while playing, even though we all live thousands of miles apart. Kinda neat. Especially when we accidently discover each other playing in the social list.

It is a little repetitive in ways. But, I heard much the same about World of Warcraft, and it costs 3x as much to play.

Great Deal and the Bling Gnome too!

by MercedMike 2008-07-19, 2 people found this review helpful

The Retail Box for Dungeon Runners, the hottest MMORPG going, is a great deal. You get the game CD, a set of way cool loading instructions, and a code for 6 months of Premium Membership, which is worth more than the price of the box! And the best thing is that this is the ONLY way to get the famous Bling Gnome who runs around picking up treasure for you! This is a great game for beginning gamers all the way up to old timers bored with the same old stuff in other games.

Dungeon Runners rocks!

by Kurt Reinhardt 2008-06-27, 2 people found this review helpful

If you like Diabloesque hack-and-slash, dig phat lewtz and have anything resembling a sense of humor then this is the game for you! Dungeon Runners is fun, fast-paced and rife with jokes, parodies and pop culture references. What other game gives you a quest chain that spoofs American Idol and lets you kill a mom named "Sanjyna"?!?

/goodtimes

Dungeon Runners

Just Play It

For the Adult in all of us

20$ well spent

So much value for the price!

The Mother of all RPGs it is

Very Pretty Rogue/Diablo/Dungeon Diver; Repetitive and Laggy

Game Over

Great for the money

Great Deal and the Bling Gnome too!

Dungeon Runners rocks!

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