So day three in the game.  I really played alot tonight, maybe 5 hours.  I learned several new things today.  I found out that when you die, you lose everything, except your "noob" weapon.  I had a crap knife.  And also you don't get skill points for using the noob weapon.  So really, its a last ditch item incase you lose everything and at least you can kill a goblin and get some gold to get out of the homeless shelter.   It happened to me.   I wanted to try out some magic, so I discovered (from asking in chat) that I need a staff to perform magic.  I went to the Walmart greeter guy when you pop in the world and he was able to swap the noob knife for a noob staff for a friendly tip of 20 gold.  Pretty nice, cause I get a free self heal spell that came in handy.  Gold really piles up quick and I had enough to buy whatever was at the vendors.   The vendors sell you usual stuff.  All weapon types, potions, crafting materials and so on.    I did all the chain quests at the starter city, and that was pretty much giving you the tour of crafting, which was interesting, and alot of Goblin killing.   You can gather or craft whatever.  Crafting is your usual MMO stuff, as well as material gathering.  Nothing new here, but it seems to have alot of depth to it.  I got a quest to fish and cook a salmon.  Well I couldn't find a lake to fish in, but after running for about 15 minutes, i did find a river that had lots of fish in it.  I caught at least 5 different fish in about 15 minutes.  Which in turn I made into nice tasty snacks at the local city oven.  I don't know what effect you get from eating food, but you can do it. 

Pretty soon I was handling the goblins pretty well, 2 or 3 at a time.  Its amazing how fast the skills level up and make you stronger.   Just yesterday they were really beating me down.    I like the levelling system, it makes sense if you just play the game.  Unfortunately, there were many, and I mean many, players just macroing Bow and magic to  power level their characters.  Bow and lesser magic, you just have to use it, you can use it on a wall and get skill points.  I am not sure what the cap is, but thre were alot of "afkers".  Once again I didn't get ganked at all.  I did join a guild and talked with them in Vent a bit.  I was advised to level up at the starter city before venturing out to our guild city.  Sounded like they were having fun, PVP and ganking.  I can't wait to get some skills and meet up wtih them.  I don't know how many skills I need to leave the starter city.  I will ask next game session.  I am still having fun and I look forward to the next session.  My last quest takes me to know kill Trolls, which I am told are far more nastier than goblins. 

On a side note.  I did get too cocky on the Goblins, and about 4 of them took me down.  I was really rushing back to my gravestone, because I had a lot of loot on my corpse.  Way more than I should be carrying around.  Well when I got back, this nasty orc character was looting my gravestone.   I got there in time to salvage a few items ike my skinning knife.   I wanted to call him an ass, but I can't figure out how the chat works for just a local conversation.  Maybe next time I will just kill him for his lowly deed.

u won't kill that guy 'cause this is probably what u'll do if u find someon's tombstone. it's a jungle out there in darkfall :)

/msg firstname lastname

or

/tell firstname lastname

hf!

I don't understand why people keep writing about thier first impressions of this game.
I've never seen people do this to such an extent in any of the other forums here.

Game can give a good impression, but most of the people tend to not come back a couple weeks or month later to write about why they don't play the game anymore.  People don't usually like putting thier foot in thier mouths.

It's an MMO.
A good first impression is great, but it's gotta keep you having fun for more then a week or two.

Anyone else noticed the lack of 2+ month reviews?
I guess you don't really need them if you're doing the exact same thing 60 days in that you were doing 1 day in.

Originally posted by Fariic

I don't understand why people keep writing about thier first impressions of this game.
I've never seen people do this to such an extent in any of the other forums here.

Game can give a good impression, but most of the people tend to not come back a couple weeks or month later to write about why they don't play the game anymore.  People don't usually like putting thier foot in thier mouths.

It's an MMO.
A good first impression is great, but it's gotta keep you having fun for more then a week or two.

Anyone else noticed the lack of 2+ month reviews?
I guess you don't really need them if you're doing the exact same thing 60 days in that you were doing 1 day in.

World of warcraft had the oppostie effect on me. I found it boring early levels and I did not feel like playing. But once I got near max level I found myself having more fun.

Originally posted by Fariic

I don't understand why people keep writing about thier first impressions of this game.
I've never seen people do this to such an extent in any of the other forums here.

Game can give a good impression, but most of the people tend to not come back a couple weeks or month later to write about why they don't play the game anymore.  People don't usually like putting thier foot in thier mouths.

It's an MMO.
A good first impression is great, but it's gotta keep you having fun for more then a week or two.

Anyone else noticed the lack of 2+ month reviews?
I guess you don't really need them if you're doing the exact same thing 60 days in that you were doing 1 day in.

I'm sure it's because the game has not actually been properly "released" yet, so there are still people who have been waiting and waiting to try the game, for them it is like a brand new game that just "released", even though this game has never released.  Thankfully, this small population of people that wanted to try the game so bad is dwindling away now.

Originally posted by Gekko101

Originally posted by Fariic

I don't understand why people keep writing about thier first impressions of this game.
I've never seen people do this to such an extent in any of the other forums here.

Game can give a good impression, but most of the people tend to not come back a couple weeks or month later to write about why they don't play the game anymore.  People don't usually like putting thier foot in thier mouths.

It's an MMO.
A good first impression is great, but it's gotta keep you having fun for more then a week or two.

Anyone else noticed the lack of 2+ month reviews?
I guess you don't really need them if you're doing the exact same thing 60 days in that you were doing 1 day in.

 

World of warcraft had the oppostie effect on me. I found it boring early levels and I did not feel like playing. But once I got near max level I found myself having more fun.

That's funny.
I like the leveling in WoW.  Can't stand the end game.