DarkFall - Guild Member Visit - write up

[Signe]

Was it the lead guy from this game that started avoiding you, or was that Dark and Light?  I like it when they run.   

[waylander]

As always DF sounds interesting, but like others have said.....any dev studio worth its salt can cook up a set of premium game videos to market to the outside world. I could name a few games around here that we talk about frequently that have done the same thing, but I won't.

Anyway, DF is friggin 7+ years in the making. Its a phantom game that may eventually see the light of day, but few people are taking this game seriously until they actually launch a bona fide beta with real people we know who are gaming in it and writing player beta journals.

Until then I'll keep it in the back of my mind, wring my hands in frustration at the current crop of WOW clones that support a dash of PVP, and wonder how much longer I'll bother with playing MMORPG's.

[CharlieMopps]

From the few screenshots I've seen of this game, it looks like it's 10 years old. We're talking about the first unreal ungine quality... They should just scrap the project, there's no way anyones going to play it.

[BigBlack]

From the few screenshots I've seen of this game, it looks like it's 10 years old. We're talking about the first unreal ungine quality... They should just scrap the project, there's no way anyones going to play it.

PvP'ers are not graphics whores.  In fact, many PvP MMO'ers turn down their graphics settings to bare minimum for maximum performance in large battles and the like.  Plenty of people play PvP-oriented games in other genres with crap (by today's standards) graphics, for example Gunz: The Duel.  Darkfall still has plenty of ways to fail, but I'm not sure this is one of them.  If by some crazy chance it does succeed, I could only imagine it doing so through word of mouth like EVE, not through in-store box sales to 'casuals' (for lack of a better term) drawn in by pretty pictures.

[Arthur_Parker]

Crap graphics aren't a good thing.  I used to laugh at people that followed vaporware games like Darkfall, now they annoy the hell out of me. 

It's like when feature X is dropped from a future game, the fanboys jump in with "that just means they have more time to work on features Y & Z".  No it doesn't, it just means they finally realised they had already fucked up, months ago during planning.

Stop making excuses until you play it, I'm sure it won't be long, right?

[BigBlack]

I'm not an apologist by any stretch - I don't really follow Darkfall and I agree the odds of it ever getting released are low.

But really, there are disadvantages to high-end graphics.  For instance, they tend to make large-scale battles far less playable.  It's not an unambiguous positive if a PvP game is graphically impressive.

[Arthur_Parker]

I'm not an apologist by any stretch...

But...

Do you know what else causes less playable large scale battles?  Never reaching beta.

[shiznitz]

I agree the odds of it ever getting released are low.

Stop exaggerating. There is zero chance this game ever launches. "odds are low" is too optimistic by a billion.

I hate myself for perpetuating this pointless thread.

[LC]

Haven't you heard? It was announced that they have decided on a beta date, but haven't decided on when to announce it. They did promise to announce the date for beta 5 years from now SOON. It must be real!

[Signe]

Haven't you heard? It was announced that they have decided on a beta date, but haven't decided on when to announce it. They did promise to announce the date for beta 5 years from now SOON. It must be real!

Hey... I just looked this up and LC is right! They actually did say something like that.  I lollered.

[Azaroth]

Haven't you heard? It was announced that they have decided on a beta date, but haven't decided on when to announce it. They did promise to announce the date for beta 5 years from now SOON. It must be real!

They already announced beta. It was Summer '03.