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• • Lack of Peripheral Vision = Immersion?

  • I used to like third person better, but between mount and blade's first person (the best way to play the game I tell you, take a two hander and hold a nord battle line against a charge of knights in first person? I don't care who you are, that is immersion) and various shooters, and especially vanguard's well done first person view, I'm a convert now. Its just a more fun way to play, if the game is designed with it in mind.

  • Posted: 10/12/08 12:07 PM
    Darkfall
• • Darkfall combat, same as Mount&Blade!

  • Originally posted by Polarization
    

    Instead of arguing over what Darkfall does or does not have because we really only have this video to go on for the latest information and its far from definitive and far to open to subject interpretation.

    I’m just going to say again I really do hope Darkfall’s combat will be like M&B’s but from what I’ve seen in the video I don’t think it will be the same, hopefully similar but not the same in my opinion.

    To me it looks more like Savage, which is free to download and play online now that I recomend to anyone whos not tryed it, it even has city building and sieges, or perhapes Mods like Age of Chivarly / pirates,vikings and knights for HL2.

    And M&B does have power attacks, hold down the mouse button before releasing a swing and you will hear your avatar make a grunting sound, that is an attack with extra power, a “power attack”.
     

    And like I said, I've read all the Q&A's and interviews over the years, to me personally they dont indicate what the combat will actually be at launch, they are what the developers claimed or planned/ promised Darkfalls combat will be like, the video actually shows what its like, 4 months from launch.

     

     

    Well, yes and no. It is just that the speed of your swing is increased, and all of the damage done in M&B is tied into how fast you or your opponent are moving when they're hit. Holding it back does do more damage than tapping the attack button but in most cases you should always be holding it back anyway, tapping the attack button is good if you're surrounded and need to get a hit off quickly. You're right though, but I almost always hold my attacks, wouldn't really consider it a "power attack".

  • Posted: 9/01/08 12:57 PM
    Darkfall
• • Darkfall combat, same as Mount&Blade!

  • Polarization, the only thing on your list thats not true is that M&B does not have power attacks. But otherwise you're correct. While it does seem that DF lacks some of the combat features of M&B, I think it can make up for it in other ways. M&B is a game where the whole focus is on single player combat. So its a little disappointing to see that DF falls a little short of M&B on paper, but I'll wait to play it, it's probably still fun nontheless.

     

    If anyone is wanting to or considering trying Mount and Blade, I suggest you wait until the final version is out, in about two weeks.

  • Posted: 8/31/08 9:04 PM
    Darkfall
• • Darkfall combat, same as Mount&Blade!

  • I've been playing M&B for over 3 years . It can be kind of awkward at first but a large part of that is terrible animations, which are being addressed in the final version coming out in about 2 weeks. Its probably the longest time I've played any game, and I've played a few. Its one of those games that once you get into, you'll find yourself up way late, and you don't know how the time passed so quickly. It sure has its faults, but I've never gotten really bored of it (though I don't play it every single day). So basically, I hope very much that DF has a similar combat system, because the combat is the meat of M&B :)

  • Posted: 8/31/08 5:42 PM
    Darkfall
• • To All of the Graphics Whiners

  • Originally posted by micona
    

    Darkfall is the biggest joke ever , even single player rpg's look and play better than this .

    all these people want is your money !

     

    Prime example here of the kind of person littering these boards. Single player games almost always have better graphics than MMO's, you have not played this game, and you'll be able to try the game before you buy it. At least this is what the entire DF base is going off of.

  • Posted: 8/30/08 2:40 PM
    Darkfall