Aventurine has released an extensive Darkfall Online gameplay trailer which shows a multitude of Darkfall's unique features in action. The trailer consists of 100% in-game footage and features real-time massive naval and land combat, battle tactics, city sieges, mounts, siege weapons, vehicles, adventure areas, clan cities, spell mechanics, highlights of the grand scale of the Darkfall world, and much more.

Also, for those who might be interested, Darkfall has opened its beta registration. You can sign up here.

Please remove this the game is horrible.

Originally posted by PapaLazarou

Please remove this the game is horrible.

Well, since you are personally the judge of all things good or bad, I'll take that into consideration...

Very outdated graphics but what a gameplay! Simply and purely amazing!

Originally posted by PapaLazarou

Please remove this the game is horrible.

Have you played the game?  Ah, no, you haven't.  Mmm...

I do you feel for you.  You have obviously been abused by other game companies and now, in your blinding anger at them, you lash out at Darkfall.

Originally posted by PapaLazarou

Please remove this the game is horrible.

the hell with you, what could be wrong about an fps based combat mmorpg with fleet fight, city building, no levels skill system (yay eve online) and full looting and crafting systems.

you must be a tool if you can't see fun staring right in your face.

it's like medevil eve-online! huzzah!

and it might actully stop being vaporware!

get this shit on the front page.

Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by PapaLazarou

Please remove this the game is horrible.

Well, since you are personally the judge of all things good or bad, I'll take that into consideration...

Well done Stradden.

To PapaLazarou, none of us know how the game will be. That's the great thing about the free trial Adventurine is proposing. Worst case scenario: you give it a shot and uninstall, no money spent.

I will say that DF looks AWESOME as far as gameplay, not so much graphics and the animations seemed rough, but animations are easy to fix and graphics aren't the most important thing. Also, I think some of the animations looked worse than they are, did the footage speed seem altered to anyone else?

Again, like my parents always told me, try it, you might like it but you won't be any worse for trying.

I hope the really negative people can just look at this as a new experience for MMO's and I'm not sure what their problem is with a game that promises so much. We'll have to wait and see if it delivers but isn't it worth being optimistic that Aventurine has done something great here. Very childish to bash a game that has taken it's time to be developed properly.  Very childish people on both sides if the fence about this game. We'll have to wait and see what happens.

The full length trailer rocks and the game looks like it's going to be hella fun! Definately get news of the game on the front page.

A game without any instancing and it has a significant death penalty. It's about freakin time. I can't wait.

EQ1 Graphics

Staged machinima style excitement.

People are so easily fooled.

When I see real people playing, and hear real peoples opinions, then vaporware will not come to mind here.

Originally posted by openedge1

EQ1 Graphics

Staged machinima style excitement.

People are so easily fooled.

When I see real people playing, and hear real peoples opinions, then vaporware will not come to mind here.

The graphics look good to me and I enjoyed EQ graphics when I played it back in the day so I don't see why I wouldn't like them now. Gameplay is always more important and Darkfall will be a seamless world without any instancing, partly because they aren't focusing on the highest graphical settings. A lot of people should be able to run Darkfall on older machines and still get good FPS. Emphasis on gameplay.
 

Criticize the game all you want. But for people to call the graphics EQ1 is utterly lame and stupid. Did you all even play EQ1? Believe me, the two don't compare.

I cannot wait to play this game myself.

Looks like alot of fun.

I personally don't give a damn what the graphics look like as long as the gameplay, and especially the PvP are great!

Ive been waiting a long time for a fantasy based game to rival the PvP experience of AC1  This may just do it!

 Wow warfares awesome stuff. Great sound, decent Grafics, Masterful effects and A.I. This badboys gonna lag like there's no tomorrow.I'm in love If its a open world with no boundries.

im happy the dev team decided to show some footage. the gameplay seems quite amazing, though cant know for sure without hands on experience. it is not easy to make a mmorpg with a small dev team with basically no funding other then free time. it may have taken this game many years to get where it is at now but lets just hope they can pull through and get the game to the gamers.

Underwhelming.  I'm sure the game exists, but it will fail because the play mechanics (sieges, naval combat, etc) relies on a large population that I don't think this game will ever have.

While I too think the graphics are not as cutting edge as say LOTRO or CoD4, I think that the elements shown from a gameplay perspective look pretty good. In fact, I would say that too many people a focused on how "pretty" a game looks over how well it plays. If a game looks great but plays horribly then it is going to fail. On the other hand, a game that plays very well and looks just decent has a very good chance to succeed.

With that said, I am still a bit of a DF doubter only because the developement company is saying they are not (at this time) going to have any North American servers. While I think a game like DF can survive on Europe alone I think they are short changing their potential. And IF they are willing to so short change that potential, can they really be a serious contenter?

darkfall is going to be an even bigger "steaming pile" than conan was at release...

As I said before, gameplay and content will trump graphics anytime.  Graphics are fine in this game if they provide the expected gameplay.

As to the Beta, well don't hold your breath.  Chances of it happening this year are slim and none.  You can argue all you want, but Adventurine has shown to move very slowly and past history is a pretty good indicator that this is at best a 2009 title.

Hopefully they will use that time to enchance the game and remove bugs.