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Anyone playing this is under direct orders to relay all information via Eurogamer so i can evaluate the games prospects. Anyone caught not doing this will be ill thought of, shunned, and driven out of the village.

Darkfall sees troubled, delayed lunch.

It was pretty hilarious, in the last few years, to read MMO forums about Darkfall, with some regarding it as the great saviour of the MMO genre, and others seeing it as vapourware from an obscure developer, only meant to take the pre-order money and run. It will be interesting to see how this pans out...

After reading about it, it sounds a bit like Eve with elves and dwarves. Colour me interested.

I'll give 12 months.

/shocked

I was in Beta for two weeks prior to today's launch. After the first day of trying to acclimatise myself to a very different style of sandbox MMO I'm really enjoying DF. The client was rock steady; I had no CTD, only the server going down sometimes without warning. It’s a totally huge world, very open to exploration with lots of danger & discovery for those that like to travel. And by no means do we have another one of those cloned, theme park mmos.

By far the best AI mobs I have encountered in any MMO, and don’t listen to what others have said about the world being empty, it’s not & I’ve done a lot of exploring. But don’t expect to see mobs everywhere overlapping each other...they are spread out, but if you can see them in the distance, when they look your way they can see you and they will attack, or call for re-enforcements. They will fight you with an assortment of tactics that at times even rivals that of human players.

PvP is harsh and cruel but it’s also cool and fun...outside of the safety of the city walls you wouldn’t want to travel alone.

Didn’t have enough time to get into crafting much however, due to exploring/adventuring, that’s something I’ll be looking at now once the launch settles down.

Graphics are more than fine, pictures and videos don’t do the game justice...it looks so much better in game.

I’d place my bet on DF as being one of those surprise hits that come out of nowhere by an Indi-underdog developer who puts more heart into creating a game they love and taking the time to make it so.

Meh. I think it'll be a niche game at best. The graphics and no-holds-barred PvP will drive away most people.

The graphics themselves arent awful, the engine has to be quite robust to accomodate all it appears to promise. Its the Art direction, quite frankly its just ugly. In tha same way Morrowind was ugly but certainly graphically capable considering what it promised at the time.

Adventurine probably just settled for a slightly capable concept artist who had a wealth of other skills and after all who can blame them? A very ambitious project, why hire a dedicated concept artist(or 2) if you can get a 3d modeler guy who dabbles in a bit of character art.

Simply put they should of hired me, and then Darkfall would have been the most majestic and sexy MMO of all time.

/blowsowntrumpet

Ha ha ha ha ha.

TRUMPETS!