are there any games where you can summon more minions than in the original diablo 2 for necromancer?

[sage40]

I remember before they nerved skel warriors/mages you could get 1 per level and something like 20 of each, putting together an army of 50 w/ revives.

I'd love to get busy like that on a map. Doesn't even need to be top-down diablo style I could be into it for FPS as well.

One game that sorta did that was the mobile game Necromancer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PrismaThunder.Necromancer but it wasn't particularly amazing in terms of graphics or complexity. Also it allows auto--play so inevitably i enable that for efficiency and don't feel pressured to be engaged.

I was also hoping for some non-combat mechanics that I could use with minions like have them build stuff or where terrain and scaling it is an issue. Maybe just watching Overlord and Death Knights crossing a bridge has me thinking about tactics.

[MinionJoe]

You called?

[MoonC A T]

gmod

[Devsman]

I guess it depends on what genre you're looking for.

I'm sure I've had more than 50 troops in the battle at once in Advance Wars Dual Strike, for example.

[The guy from Ace Attorney]

Pikmin

[Othobrithol]

Overlord and Overlord 2 are, I think, the quintessential minion experience

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Overlord 1±2. You can summon a literal army of little goofy buggers.

If I remember right, Path of Exile let's you summon a bunch depending on your build. Same goes for Torchlight 2 and 3, which you can automate you gear to summon, cast your own summons, and teach your pet to cast high level summons. You can go from 2 of you to 10 plus. And they are both diablo-esque.

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by Othobrithol:

Overlord and Overlord 2 are, I think, the quintessential minion experience

For some minions, maybe. I personally would never accept a job from an "evil overlord" that's operating within the restrictions imposed by a "T" ESRB.

[Electric Cupcake]

Skyrim mods that soup up conjuration and necromancy and let you have a whole platoon of zombies and summoned demons.

[sage40]

Originally posted by Othobrithol:

Overlord and Overlord 2 are, I think, the quintessential minion experience

I actually have those already but the goblins were a bit underwhelming, maybe you get bigger ones later and I should stick it out? Probably getting a controller helps.

The fire-chucking goblin things are kinda like skel mages though.

Originally posted by Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍:

Overlord 1±2. You can summon a literal army of little goofy buggers.

If I remember right, Path of Exile let's you summon a bunch depending on your build. Same goes for Torchlight 2 and 3, which you can automate you gear to summon, cast your own summons, and teach your pet to cast high level summons. You can go from 2 of you to 10 plus. And they are both diablo-esque.

I tried a zombie build in POE though it doesn't really get to d2necro levels in terms of quantity.

Didn't know torchlight could reach 10+, i remember in the demo getting a pet who could be taught a spell but didn't think it could be chained very far.

[Kamiyama]

You can do that in path of exile with a full stack of zombies and skeletons. But they're weak and I've never had luck with a necro in that game. Also the skeletons have a time limit. Zombies, spectres, and golems are permanent.

It's also really friggin hard. GGG has openly admitted they design end game content around the 5% to 10% of players who are only capable of doing it.

[sage40]

I remember initially installing it as a standalone because I was all "what if steam goes down then I can't play" but kinda regret it now, steam does make it easier to manage launchers. Not sure if I can carry over my gear.

POE seems flexible like D3 in that you can reassign, in this case you don't invest skill points but instead specialize gear.

I heard you can also do minions in guild wars?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Isn't there at least one Despicable Me videogame out there?
Summon minions should be part of the game(if it exists)

[Pieshaman]

I spammed so many imps from my hand in dungeon keeper once it gave me the blue screen in windows 95. I not remember how many but it was insane amount and I was trying to slap them all to work harder

[Angel]

I was thinking RTS games like Starcraft and Warcraft.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Originally posted by Angel:

I was thinking RTS games like Starcraft and Warcraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3wQFXAbWM