well WAR is more of an arcade shooter than a mmorpg.

darkfall is the real stuff. i played beta for more than a month and i must say its impressing, never seen a game like this.

WAR and AoC are instable bugfests with no game content, compared to darkfall.

i wouldnt say darkfall is the perfect game, but alot better than any other game out there for sure.

Originally posted by Laurann

Originally posted by Theocritus

Originally posted by Kyleran

Finally picked a winner....I got shot down on all the other awards so far....

Yeah, face it...everyone wants to know if this game can live up to its promise...even if they don't want to play.

 

 

     Go watch the vids on youtbue...If this game is anywhere near as bad as those vids it will go under in a year.......It looks like a poor mans Vanguard right now.......

 

I've watched them all, and have followed DFO since its shadowbane days. If those videos are any indication, if the devs, the screens, the phony "leaks" the recent gameplay footage, and the highly vague interviews/previews are indicative of whats supposedly in development, then I weep for ANYONE thinking this game is coming out in less than 10 days. I've seen the misdirection that is so typical of Adonis, Brannoc and Tasos, and I'm baffled why none of the fanbois here can see through the BS?

See the problem is folks, is that I know these "supposed' developers. I've worked with them before. I've alpha's development projects, and I've helped Dan (which is a thief in the truest sense of the word) leverage cash on a past project.

You fanbois that are trudging along with your fingers in your ears, while you sing "lalalalalalala" and the duct tape over your eyes, are going to get it ripped off while the 400 pound "I told ya so" gorilla is stomping your guts out. Oh, and Jon, why do you continue to keep this game on the list? Managing editor? You should be ashamed of yourself. Letting people waste their time here on a product that you KNOW is not coming out, for the sake of advertising dollars just screams lowlife. 

I know one of the programmers on the team named Dan A. Maybe you all should do some digging to see how much money he and the others that were with him ripped off while working from the great country of Romania before he packed up his tent stakes and ran... I'll give you a clue, it was a mmo game RIGHT before DNL.

I'm not going to debate this post, hopefully it will wake someone up long enough to pull yon head from dark, stinky hole, and get on with life...

 

-Cheers!

darkfall forum trolls spreading over to mmorpg.com...beware!

if darkfall is half as good as the community is badass, the game will rock bigtime

most anticipated game award very well deserved...altough there wasnt any advertising or hyping from aventurine

congrats aventurine. darkfall is TEH game 2009.

Originally posted by corpusc

they won't be bots (just think what a genius botwriter that would take to make a bot that was effective in battle against real players and knew the best things to do in their situations, choosing when to make bank runs (and best, most hidden routes), when to give up on fights, who to engage in fights with by past history with other players, etc).

and you will be able to kill them and take whatever they farmed.  basically, in this game they'll be no different than any other player, except their prime motivation for doing anything will be making money, and not simply trying to dominate people for fun. 

if they can make/keep enough gold to sell, they deserve it.

it doesnt take any genius botwriter at all for that. the only thing maybe is the bot wont be as good in pvp as a dedicated hardcore pvper. but i can imagine it killing alot of average players.

Originally posted by daarco

hmm, maybe thats the point with the NDA....to not talk about it?

But seriously, even the professional beta leakers havent seen anything like this for eight years. There are leaks, but nothing as any other MMO. Almost nothing. I have seen screens of charcter creation, login screen and som UI. Thats it.

"professional beta leaker" lol hilarious.

someone who leaks beta information isnt going to be in many betas. and there are plenty of darkfall leaks. i know games with absolutely no leaks at all.

mentioning our guild in the darkfall clan forums can get you banned, so beware! (im talking from experience)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=G5GTJXoDMLw

first promotional video

if youre no geek, dont bother to apply

Originally posted by jakojako

I was reading on the darkfall forums, and I stumbled upon this thread: http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=93973

I thought it was a kinda interesting thread, so I read through a few pages until I eventually got to a post from a darkfall moderator:

"This might help.

Quote:
http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/devjournals/darkfalljournals/3329-Darkfall-Developer-Journal-3-Artifical-Intelligence
"We've limited global chat channels compared to many other games, but guild chat is something we simply can not remove for many reasons, one of the more important being that we see it as an effort to level the playing field between people who use 3rd party communications, and those that don’t use them.

Guild and group chat are the only global chat channels we have. We also have single recipient /tell PMs.""

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Yes, this means NO local chat, NO regional chat, NO trade chat, NO yell chat, NO broadcast chat, NO chat at all EXCEPT Guild, Group, and PM.

Personally this is a HUGE turnoff. If this is actually true, my hype meter for this game went from a 30 of 10 to a 6 of 10.

Without the chat options that they're leaving out, the game will likely feel like a single player. I likely will never hear from that one kid I pk'd, i'll never hear people selling items, i'll never hear random idiot spammers.

While some of those things may be annoying at times, they're (IMO) a crucial part to the MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER aspect of an MMORPG.

Just curious to hear your thoughts on this.

you got it all wrong. absence of global chat(except guild and group chat) just means that guild and group chat is the only way to communicate with somone globally. of course there will be local chats, like your immediate surroundings, and i strongly suspect there will be a chat channel for a city, or at least for city districts. local chat is different to global chat. in wow you had for example a global looking for group channel, in aoc global kingdom chats (whole cimmeria f.x.) you wont have something like this in darkfall.

so your conclusion that there will be no local chat or no yell chat is simply wrong.

you dont have to spam old news on a message board only because you forgot. make a desktop wallpaper with this info for yourself.

anyway, you forgot what darkfall dont have in common with all those games you mentioned...darkfall doesnt try to be a world of warcraft clone.

go play your soulbound themepark grinds, let us play in our ffa-sandbox.

i agree, im one of those long term followers who cant await this game coming out.

finally, not even 3 weeks left.

darkfall has a few unique features never before seen in any mmorpg, but the one point why so many people are looking forward to this game is the combination of (not really unique) features like full loot, open pvp, city building/sieging, housing, skillsystem and a sandbox world. there is no other game with this feature combination, except maybe UO pre trammel. but UO pre trammel doesnt exist anymore officially.

also the effort of the developing team in making this game almost bugfree upon launch (7 years development) is unseen in todays mmorpgs, just look at recent releases, all rushed out with mega-marketing to sell alot of preorders, but in the end you had a lack of promised features on release, alot of bugs and 90% of all players didnt play past the free month.

there wont be preorders for darkfall, there wont be a big advertising campaign, and there wont be a lack of promised game content at release. also, there will be alot less bugs than in most other mmorpg releases (closed beta impression).

all in all, people know why they look forward to darkfall, and darkfall beeing number one, the most hyped mmorpg pre-release, is totally right.

lol thats really hilarious...

...makes me laugh to see what desperate measures the kids from today make just to get some item ingame, only because they lack the skill to do this themselves ingame.

ZU online is a big bad joke. i had a level 180 moonmaiden( named Nheme) with level 6 epic gear, noone was even close to beeing a match to me. i stopped playing eventually since theres no fun in killing anything with 1 hit.

i heard after about 1 1/2 years after i reached max level, they raised the level cap (we are talking about a game in beta here), without adding any content to the game, or adding any higher level items. now after they have added lvl 240 for many months now ( i dont actually know when they added that) they release proper equipment for that level...so everyone is buying tokens in the item mall to get that gear....oh i forgot to mention, this game is all about the item mall...the more you buy the better you are. i was lucky i had an admirer who bought me all the top items in item mall so i could compete with others/ was actually unbeatable by anyone in this game.

funny game, really. if i would really care about  beating anyone in a game without having to fear of getting killed...i would still play. but honestly, its just boring stupid nonsense.

btw, characters from beta will be converted over to retail servers, when the game releases. so if you start to play on a completely new server, there will already be level 300 characters on your server. have fun.

edit: i hope i  made it clear you can obtain the best items in game ONLY by item mall, theres no way whatsoever to get items even remotely close as good as the items mall items by playing this game. you have to spend real life money. if that is the definition of f2p games...im really throwing up.

thanks to private servers, tabula rasa will never really die. it might even get popular if there arent any retail servers anymore

the company is called Aventurine, not Adventurine, and the game is called Darkfall, not Dark Fall, thats a completely different game.

actually, all dungeons in darkfall are instanced. theres just only 1 instance of each dungeon open, and there will never be more than 1 instance open, regardless how many people are in this instance.

lineage 2 had no instanced dungeons either, a large guild on my server locked the high end dungeon up for other players.

i agree with dropp, neocron was very fps like and pvp oriented, even had factions like darkfall. darkfall isnt inventing anything new there.

neocron was really a great game just suffered from low population issues,  maybe due to lack of marketing?

free trial could just mean open beta for everyone

there is no mob tagging in darkfall. anyone can loot a mob thats been killed.

Originally posted by Samuraisword

Nevermind, just realized this thread is a year old.

and you need 4 consecutive posts to realize that?

also the resource gathering in swg was amazing...it was nowhere near boring and repeptitive, it was always exiting what new resources you might find...then setting up your own shop in your own city with fully customizeable vendors and fully unique weapons....well i havent seen this kind of complexity and immersion in any mmo up to date

Originally posted by Sixfeetunder

old SWG ..because a lot items

agree, old swg was pure ownage