Darkfall "Released"

[Signe]

I just looked.  Some horrendous looking naked characters (what's up with that?) running around fighting, using some of the most awful animations I've seen in years.  When they run - I won't bother going into what they look like, it's been critiqued to death already - it doesn't look like they're running over the terrain, it looks like the ground is being pulled away from under them.  Terrible.  Nothing moves and there's NO ONE in the game.  Barely any players, one NPC, two or three mobs... it's not even as if someone's come and pk'd them all.  There's like four gravestones lying around.  THIS makes you want to play the game more?  If Vanguard had been made with crayons, I think this is what it would have looked like.  It has the same empty, dead feel to it, too.

Are you sure this is a recent video and that it's not from years ago or something.  Although the terrible character models and awkward animations look pretty much the same as some other videos touted as being recent. 

[kildorn]

The world dudes and art dudes were pussies, and were PK'd early on in the development process. Bitches.

[Signe]

I looked at one of the other videos there, the scenic one, and it looks a bit better.  They just can't seem to make characters or NPCs.  They could get away with making some sort of strange travelogues, though.  Maybe.  I guess all their videos are mostly done in the dark or nearly dark?  I guess they look better like that or something.

[Engels]

Darkfall: Don't turn on the night stand light, she looks better in the dark

[Malakili]

Quite frankly, the animations are forgivable if they game is fun and actually delivers on even 25% of what it promises.

Oh yeah, and if the game actually ever comes out.

[ashrik]

I guess I'm just have a more forgivable attitude towards it, seeing as how I expected absolute unworkable shit to begin with. Plus I've been playing Crawl and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic recently.

Anyways, I'd like to see the game run when there's more than 3 people per every square kilometer at the same time.

[Signe]

Unless you just don't care where you plop your $$, you absolutely have to see this game work in a G v G type scenario.  If it's a slide show, what's the point?  Same would be true of any game that advocates large scale PvP.  This one advertises it all happening with everyone on one server, too.  How likely is that? 

Personally, I think there's a good chance that Aventurine is a dodgy company.  After all that Tasos guy's drivel about no one putting up their money before they give the game a go and implying that companies who allow pre-orders are dishonest, he's indicated there will be pre-orders.  Of course there will.  How else can they make any money if he's run out of naive business investors?  After missing their January release date, they have one for this month now - just three weeks away.  I wonder if they want people who buy the game to sign some sort of surreal NDA.  And those bizarre beta leaks seem pretty contrived, just as all that Noob comic stuff does. 

[Draegan]

I wouldn't trust this company with my CC info.

[Signe]

Me either.

[Malakili]

Yeah, as much as I do love the idea of the game, thats pretty much all I love.  There is 0% change of me buying or playing this game, if for no other reason than that the company is handling things so poorly right now. 

There are far better places I can invest my gaming dollars, and ones that I already know I'm having fun with.

[Nija]

I don't trust anyone with my credit card number. I've been using virtual credit card numbers for years. I think everyone should be using them.

[Righ]

By virtual credit card numbers, you mean ones stolen from retailers with bad security, right?

[Nija]

No, really. I think most places offer them now. You log on to your CC provider and have a one time use CC# issued. It's tied to your real CC#, but works exactly once and then explodes.

[Signe]

The last few years I've started paying for everything via debit or PayPal attached to my bank.  I want to ditch our CC debt before we leave the US again.  From what I've read, so far only Citi, Discover, MBNA and some other one offer it.  I don't know what happened to the PayPal one.  Maybe they do it, too. 

[Zzulo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY7Uv063o4

Some PvP video

[Hawkbit]

That movie makes it official:

Sliced Bread > Darkfall

[NiX]

... I fucking HATE circle strafe run fights. I'd rather have my character be quadriplegic than endure that shit.

[K9]

Worst inventory system ever?

[waffel]

wow. that video is 

5 minutes of running around trying to kill a guy and 2 minutes of standing around to loot his body.

and a nerdy guy talking over the whole video.

[sidereal]

Ugh.  Player-chase-player.

[Goreschach]

Worst inventory system ever?

How is that possible when they lifted it straight out of UO?

[Venkman]

No, really. I think most places offer them now. You log on to your CC provider and have a one time use CC# issued. It's tied to your real CC#, but works exactly once and then explodes.

Hmm. So do you do that once a month for recurring subs or do you not really have recurring subs? I'd probably give this a shot for the questionable titles, because to date, I've never given CC info to games I thought wouldn't know a good billing system like a bad one. So there's no chance in hell I'm giving my credit info to this one.

[DLRiley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY7Uv063o4

Some PvP video

Its everything I dreamed of

[Nija]

Hmm. So do you do that once a month for recurring subs or do you not really have recurring subs? I'd probably give this a shot for the questionable titles, because to date, I've never given CC info to games I thought wouldn't know a good billing system like a bad one. So there's no chance in hell I'm giving my credit info to this one.

I usually do time cards if I am playing something for more than a month. Otherwise yeah you'd have to generate a new one and visit the account management page monthly, which would be a PITA. I figure I can see as much DF as one needs with a single purchase.

[Triforcer]

Sometimes, I think the whole industry just exists to entertain us here at F13    Those videos are pure magic. 

Again, if I could somehow pay for a month for this without my CC info going to Aventurine, I would. 

[Nerf]

Sometimes, I think the whole industry just exists to entertain us here at F13    Those videos are pure magic. 

Again, if I could somehow pay for a month for this without my CC info going to Aventurine, I would. 

Just use a visa gift card, you can buy them everywhere now; 7-11, wal-mart, walgreens, etc.

[UnSub]

The big problem with the running animation is that the legs move but no other impact of running on the body can be seen - the hips don't move, the back is fixed, etc.

It was also nice to see in that video that the gank squad is still the default tactic.

[sidereal]

The big problem with the running animation is that the legs move but no other impact of running on the body can be seen

Clearly you are not looking at the buttocks.  And how could you not look at those steel-firm globes?

[ashrik]

Yeah, what's with that? It's like I'm looking at some alien dual-assed bipedal running creature instead of a human. His foreign biology both intrigues and frightens me.

[Nebu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY7Uv063o4

Some PvP video

2000 called and wants its MMO back. 

Wow, that's just terrible. 

[Signe]

I think we talked about asses AGES ago in this thread.  There's another dozen or so thread around here somewhere all about tits, too.

[Triforcer]

Yeah, what's with that? It's like I'm looking at some alien dual-assed bipedal running creature

Well, at the very least, Darkfall has gotten farther than Caeron 3000.  Ah, what was old is new again 

[Modern Angel]

The tears will be awesome. The forums will be awesome. THIS IS AWESOME!

When's it out again? Does anyone really know?

[Nija]

Again, if I could somehow pay for a month for this without my CC info going to Aventurine, I would. 

Just use a visa gift card, you can buy them everywhere now; 7-11, wal-mart, walgreens, etc.

Do you fuckers have me on ignore or what?

[SnakeCharmer]

What?

Is someone talking?