I dont know how many of you played Shadowbane but if you did is this game similar to it

Overall nothing like Shadowbane if you ask me. Maybe little similarities like teritorrial control and looting enemy players, but just that. If you liked Shadowbane you probably liked to some great extend for the awesome customisation it had. Darkfall does not have customisation, everyone is the same.

No. Pther then open world pvp this game shares nothing with Shadowbane. And its a damn shame..

totally like it

DF is an fps game with open world pvp, full loot, conquest.

I personally hated shadowbane, that game was so broken.

I think that it is a hell of a lot funner than shadowbane in every way besides the class balance but its much harder but I only played it on the emulator so I havent seen the glory days.

In Darkfall you are either a mage of everything or specialize in melee/archery.

Ways to customize are choosing what melee/archery specs (+damage vs mage, +resist vs magic, etc), offensive spell specs (jumpshot, longer range, faster, etc.), race, gear (enchants), and 2-hd weapon type (almost everyone uses both 2hd melee and 1hd melee only for parrying or mounted combat). There is no limit to how many spells, etc. you can have unless you unlock the most powerful archery/melee specs which block magic. Much more to come with Darkfall 2.0 whenever that comes out.

Shadowbane's combat is very primitive compared to Darkfall because its tab-targeting auto-attack but it has more diversity. In Darkfall theres sieges, mounted combat, naval combat, bunny-hopping, and weapons of mass destruction (flamethrower, cannon, etc.).

No doubt in my mind that Darkfall is currently the best PVP game if you are a gamer because it provides an adrenaline rush that other games cannot match. I am pretty sure that everyone who has played it felt their heart pounding more than any other game out there because its hard, fast-paced, PVP is not as often as no-risk games, sometimes startling, while the winner takes all.

Originally posted by eddieg50

I dont know how many of you played Shadowbane but if you did is this game similar to it

I played SB ages ago, still miss it!:(

being a open world full pvp with player run cities, DF has similarities with SB

but SB was very bugged, had unbalanced classes and movement and combat were awful

DF combat is frenzy at work, mages are powerful, archery is good and melee rather sucks

I dream to see centaurs and flying men as playable races in DF, but don't think it will happen

Originally posted by Realbigdeal

DF is an fps game with open world pvp, full loot, conquest.

 

I personally hated shadowbane, that game was so broken.

The engine was broken not the game concept itself.  I would die for a game that had open loot (even if it was only inventory like SB), full world pvp, conquest of enemy cities, realm control, fast leveling, target based, ability to manuplate land and build cities the way you wanted them (some island fortresses made by players in SB were sick), with tons of options for 30 different class's to make endless combinations of characters (Great Axe Scout 4TW). 

Darkfall will never get close to what Shadowbane could of been if the Shadowbane developers had not used OpenGL in their engine and commodor 64's as their server cluster.  Powered by hamsters.

Edit: My thoughts on why Shadowbane failed, with Kudo's to Darkfall developers:

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/4516514/thread/330281#4516514