So I saw a trailer for Darkfall. I must say that I am impressed. It looks like an awesome game. Whether or not it lives up to its own hype only time will tell. I hope it will though. I find myself increasingly dissatisfied with not just MMO's, but the entire gaming market in general. I think over saturation and high development costs are strangling innovation, imagination, and quality development.

SWG was the last MMO with the potential to be more than the sum of its parts. Unfortunately, it never made it out of the gate so to speak. I am hoping Darkfall doesn't suffer the same problem of over-expectation and unfulfilled promises that get lost in a vacuum of unrealized potential.

I started out playing EQ1, and it was amazing back in the day. I went on to SWG, played WoW, tried Eve Online, and currently disinterested with the lackluster LotR, Star Trek and WAR.

Everything nowadays primarily centers around mindless combat. Which is fine, but if that's the going to be the only thing worth doing in a game, why bother with all the pretty graphics? It seems to me that these amazing virtual worlds and in some cases, entire universes are drowned out by the driving force of mediocre, auto-attack inanity.

So, here's to hoping that we all don't get poo'ed on again by BSing, politician-esque developers blowing smoke up our collective asses by promising the next biggest thing with the carrot of game play or cinematic trailers that bear faint resemblance to the reality of yet another point-and-click, static, meandering, combat snooze-fest, where nothing is really mythical, or legendary. Where uber-leetness rules the day. Where nothing changes, and what you do really doesn't matter. And where you have no profound, lasting, or meaningful impact on the virtual world your living in.

Don't F it up Darkfall developers. Disillusioned MMO vets like me are counting on something new, creative, and honest in scope to wake us up from the bland, cookie-cutter game induced comas we have been put into.

The awesome part is that it's basically already done :) no worries of them cutting content or delivering a game that doesn't have the features they're touting.  They took the time to put their game together well, before even getting a publisher and server-provider.  This way they don't have a publisher demanding a product on a certain date with a development company unable to fulfill the request, then those devs being forced to eliminate content.  They've had this thing in closed beta for over a year now. They're basically giving us the beta for server-stress test purposes and to let people play it before they buy it (and hopefully get the word out on it more ).

The video was awesome! The parts with the mounts falling looked like something out of a movie! Haha, I watched te last five minutes of it like five times before deciding that was enough.