How many people on these forums have played Darkfall?  Just curious..

Bought 2 accounts but ebayed those. Played on friends account a few times but nothing over maybe 5hrs total tops. Enough to know I didnt like it. Not one of those people who gives products a long time to impress. Either it is or isnt for me and this is just a case of the company isnt more than the game.

Played it still playing it since beta, kept my attention the whole time shame that other than EVE UO Old Pre-CU SWG, has a game kept me playing and want to play it 24/7, shame that other fluff MMOs out there just fall in expectation to what they offer more of the same WOW-clone offerings, been a while since I have actually posted here so you know I'm enjoying the game .. so back to playing ;)

It's nothing amazing.. but it holds my attention enough.   Nothing out right now that seems like it'll be fun to play.. It feels more casual then many other games I've played.

Its a game for the PvPer. If thats not your thing, then this isnt your game. I played, but since moved on

i was waiting for this game since 2004. then it released. then it was a pain in the ass to get an account. then i couldnt be bothered trying to get one. than i forgot about this game. then i was just browsing the forums. then i got reminded of this game. then i posted in this thread. now i'll go watch anime.

Wasn't hard for me to get, played for a day and decided I liked it, but just didn't have the time for it. Extremely time consuming so it doesn't work well with having a job and wife, and a life outside of my office.

Originally posted by jojotheduck

Wasn't hard for me to get, played for a day and decided I liked it, but just didn't have the time for it. Extremely time consuming so it doesn't work well with having a job and wife, and a life outside of my office.

It's true.  At first I thought I could just pick it up, run around and kill things, but the more I play it the more time it seems to take up.  From going from one place to another (1.5 hours from yssem to the area I'm at now.. which isn't even half way across the map).  That's a long ways to go.. and if you die.. You're pretty much screwed..

The time it takes up to level skills is long.  Especially if you have a starter weapon.  No real point to playing if you only have a starter weapon.. at least not long periods of time.

Originally posted by Czzarre

Its a game for the PvPer. If thats not your thing, then this isnt your game. I played, but since moved on

from your review

"Darkfall has an ‘IT’ factor that is missing from most of the new MMO and expansions over the last 2 years. There is a true feeling of danger in this game."

Guess the 'IT' didn't last long?

Originally posted by Czzarre

Its a game for the PvPer. If thats not your thing, then this isnt your game.

This.

Darkfall is all about PVP. You can kill mobs and live as a gatherer/crafter, but you have to be able to fight on a daily basis. You will be killed often and lose all your stuff. People will trick you and loot the mobs you killed. Some parts of the game is so bad compared to other PVE mmo`s, I sometime cry blood in frustration.

The good part is pvp, full-loot, danger and politics. I hope they will improve some of the bad things like the chat, GUI and make new players level faster. And no matter what other people say, you will need a macro program. If you don`t you will lose you sanity pretty quick in Darkfall. I have probably spent 80% of my time in DF macroing lumber, mining just to try to improve my basic stats.

The Darkfall game comcept is a great one but it's being run by some inept people right now. I would probrobly try it out if Adventurine gets ahold of the rampant cheating, billing problems, duct tapes Taco's mouth, and the community police's itself.

Originally posted by Salio69

i was waiting for this game since 2004. then it released. then it was a pain in the ass to get an account. then i couldnt be bothered trying to get one. than i forgot about this game. then i was just browsing the forums. then i got reminded of this game. then i posted in this thread. now i'll go watch anime.

Yep same ere! (except the anime bit:-)

I gave up a few weeks ago got bored of trying to buy this game so I am now just concentrating on Beta testing a new Mad Max style game, great stuff so far, soz cant tell ya what the game is NDA etc etc

I tried to get the game a couple of times myself.  I ended up getting it .. like.. some time in early april.  It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's more fun then a lot of other stuff I've played.  It really feels like Vanguard in the start (You lose everything except your starter weapon when you die), and since I played on the PvP server for Vanguard, I still have that "be wary of everyone" over view.  I kind of wish there were character names because when people all look the same it's hard to figure out who the enemy is.  Worse yet, when you get attacked out of nowhere from a group of friendlies/non-friendlies, it's hard to fight back.

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Originally posted by Krayzjoel
The Darkfall game comcept is a great one but it's being run by some inept people right now. I would probrobly try it out if Adventurine gets ahold of the rampant cheating, billing problems, duct tapes Taco's mouth, and the community police's itself.

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Agree with the great concept. People fighting for fighting's sake and not for shinies only or retarded points or tokens. Good idea to have multiple factions and political drama.

I'll still wait for the NA version personally, but would like to see the game succeed being that a very small independent company released it. Hopefully it will entice larger corporations to fund or take chances on smaller labs in the future instead of just bankrolling the same 3 or 4 companies who churn out the same product.

Whether it fails or grows, I it would be refreshing to see other game makers will take note of the things it does right and put them into their future designs.

Originally posted by popinjay

 

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Originally posted by Krayzjoel
The Darkfall game comcept is a great one but it's being run by some inept people right now. I would probrobly try it out if Adventurine gets ahold of the rampant cheating, billing problems, duct tapes Taco's mouth, and the community police's itself.

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Agree with the great concept. People fighting for fighting's sake and not for shinies only or retarded points or tokens. Good idea to have multiple factions and political drama.

 

I'll still wait for the NA version personally, but would like to see the game succeed being that a very small independent company released it. Hopefully it will entice larger corporations to fund or take chances on smaller labs in the future instead of just bankrolling the same 3 or 4 companies who churn out the same product.

Whether it fails or grows, I it would be refreshing to see other game makers will take note of the things it does right and put them into their future designs.
 

I agree with your points.  I don't think we should throw our money at every independant developer though.   We do need something to break the mega giant WoW game model, but giving our money to somebody who pretty much copies everything that's been done in the past??

Darkfall has the potential to be great.  It has a huge varied world, they just need more reasons to fight over things.  In AC, you'd figure over a dungeon beause the xp was good, or the loot was good.. or .. for something valid.  In Darkfall, it's all about pride, and for people like me who don't care about pride in a video game..?? Resources are everywhere, making that little plot of land nothing more than a fluff item.  There are enough towns with banks close.. I could see if they implemented a lot of the features they planned on implementing (guard towers for player towns, or at least NPCs) but until then.. whatever power struggle there is.. is only a struggle because the people make it that way.

Originally posted by Random_mage

Originally posted by jojotheduck

Wasn't hard for me to get, played for a day and decided I liked it, but just didn't have the time for it. Extremely time consuming so it doesn't work well with having a job and wife, and a life outside of my office.

It's true.  At first I thought I could just pick it up, run around and kill things, but the more I play it the more time it seems to take up.  From going from one place to another (1.5 hours from yssem to the area I'm at now.. which isn't even half way across the map).  That's a long ways to go.. and if you die.. You're pretty much screwed..

The time it takes up to level skills is long.  Especially if you have a starter weapon.  No real point to playing if you only have a starter weapon.. at least not long periods of time.

I have a wife, a job, and a 3month-old son. i highly recommend macroing the dull stuff while you do RL stuff so you can do the fun stuff with the time leftover. TBH, like EVE, solo play is for the dedicated, for the majority the game is 100x better once you get into a clan, especially one that owns a city/hamlet. then the real fun starts.

i feel sorry for those who play the game for < 10 hours without getting into the larger clan-v-clan game.

as for me, played since beta. love it. dislike some of the rough edges but the core game is awesome (unlike most other MMOs IMO), and the frills and polish will come.

Originally posted by Random_mage

Darkfall has the potential to be great.  It has a huge varied world, they just need more reasons to fight over things.  In AC, you'd figure over a dungeon beause the xp was good, or the loot was good.. or .. for something valid.  In Darkfall, it's all about pride, and for people like me who don't care about pride in a video game..?? Resources are everywhere, making that little plot of land nothing more than a fluff item.  There are enough towns with banks close.. I could see if they implemented a lot of the features they planned on implementing (guard towers for player towns, or at least NPCs) but until then.. whatever power struggle there is.. is only a struggle because the people make it that way.

dude... more reason to fight over stuff? what about flighting over cities/hamlets? our hamlet gets raided on average 5 times a week. that's not counting the big alliance sieges we also participate in. the resource control metagame could be better but then i don't think we've even discovered all the resources yet. in DF, the 'resources' are really *mobs*, not just trees/rocks.

it seams a lot of games really only become interesting 6 months to a year after they are first released . i d pretty much written off age of conan because i had a horrible experiance with it when it was first released . i ve recently returned finding it vastly improved . but the nice thing with conan is because its for sale in shops and on ebay you can get it relativly cheaply now to try it out because darkfall is download only i d imagine even in several months it wont be something you can get at a budget price. so the only way i would try it would be on a free trial . untill then i m not gonna waste my money .

Originally posted by javac

Originally posted by Random_mage

Originally posted by jojotheduck

Wasn't hard for me to get, played for a day and decided I liked it, but just didn't have the time for it. Extremely time consuming so it doesn't work well with having a job and wife, and a life outside of my office.

It's true.  At first I thought I could just pick it up, run around and kill things, but the more I play it the more time it seems to take up.  From going from one place to another (1.5 hours from yssem to the area I'm at now.. which isn't even half way across the map).  That's a long ways to go.. and if you die.. You're pretty much screwed..

The time it takes up to level skills is long.  Especially if you have a starter weapon.  No real point to playing if you only have a starter weapon.. at least not long periods of time.

 

I have a wife, a job, and a 3month-old son. i highly recommend macroing the dull stuff while you do RL stuff so you can do the fun stuff with the time leftover. TBH, like EVE, solo play is for the dedicated, for the majority the game is 100x better once you get into a clan, especially one that owns a city/hamlet. then the real fun starts.

 

i feel sorry for those who play the game for < 10 hours without getting into the larger clan-v-clan game.

 

as for me, played since beta. love it. dislike some of the rough edges but the core game is awesome (unlike most other MMOs IMO), and the frills and polish will come.

 

I am in a clan.  The thing is, they gave out the pre-order link on our forums, and I wasn't ready to pre-order darkfall. iw anted them to work out the bugs first.   But, my clan didn't.  so, the majority of them are out fighting high level stuff, have mounts and tons of gear.  I don't like things handed to me, so I told them I'd work up to that point.

I also don't like macroing.. and with the starter weapon fix, it makes is sort of impractical, although I could just go into part of our city and do it.. I guess that wouldn't be so bad..

Played the game, enjoyed it , then realized that was it. What I m saying is it got boring extremly fast. Played with a good group of people only 3 are left playing, we all had that been there done that feeling with SB. Only thing is we found SB WAY better. In the end we all sold our accounts :) To each their own, it was just meh to me and most of my long time guild mates.