So I tried this hardcore game called Drakfall

My RL friends are playing Darkfall for about a month or two. Si I logged on a fresh account that was just bought by one of them and tried it last night.

The player models and textures are kinda ugly, the interface is kinda clunky, but the world is awesome. Huge, open and very, very beautiful. I's a nice change of pace after this whole loading tiered mess that we have in WAR (god, I miss DAoC open world frontiers).

I wish they made this game less combat oriented. It would be a heaven for RPs given all the freedom and crafting they have there. The game politics are cool also. Clan-based, with players cities everywhere. Being unguilded at DF is like playing WAR without having a realm - you are pretty much screwed. =P

I will take some screenshots and post here later.

I haven't heard of it Pulitzer, perhaps I'll look for some youtube footage. :) I did however on an impulse buy a preorder for Aion...Although the angel wing thing is kinda tacky in my opinion, but the world and graphics kinda remind me of Final Fanasty (my inner nerd liked some of those games growing up.) That and two other girls in WAR I know spoke highly of the beta and so I looked Aion footage up on youtube. Damn those pretty graphics. Almost 'too' pretty after playing WAR, but...I'll give it a shot. It's not out til late September and I do plan on keeping my WAR account because the PvP is too good in WAR. Aion will be my PvE account (no pvp until level 25 in that game). Okay now that I hijacked your thread Pulitzer into an Aion thread, so I'll look at the Drakfall youtube footage now. Hrm, yeah, Drakfall reminds me a bit of Doom. Not sure why. Don't think it's for me. WAR is gritty enough for me, and I actually DO like the Instanced Battles (SCs) we have here. If you go to Drakfall Pulitzer, I can't follow you, and I'll be sad. You'd better keep your WAR account too Mr.! Or I'm getting a ticket to Brazil.... xD

I've taken a look at both Darkfall and Aion - and neither seem up my gaming alley - I have a friend in Darkfall who loves it though - but he is a fickle gamer. He's also the one that talked me into WAR and then he bugged out a few weeks after I started - I jumped servers when he left and came to PT - and found this family - best gaming decision I've made in a long time. I'm still waiting to check out FallenEarth which releases Sept. 9th. Playing a game set in the "real" world - "real" being defined as post apocalyptic Earth has a certain facsination for me. Also following SWTOR which is a ways out and A Secret World - but have no idea how far out it is. I say....whatever you do...Have Fun - or it isn't a game. Safe Journ

I will continue to have fun in WAR. :) I looked up footage of FallenEarth too, scary! I'll have to tell my brother about that one, he may like it. :D The more games I look up, the more I find out about MMOs I didn't even know about. There sure are a lot to chose from! EQ look what you started!!! ><

OMG seriously...Looking up more footage of that FallenEarth...The trailers alone give me Nightmares!! You're made of tougher stuff than I Morigana! o.O

I was following Darkfall's development just before I went to WAR. I didn't know that game was already out. But the gameplay footage that I saw of a naval siege was interesting. Funny, I was listening to Pomona and BlueDream (I think that was her name) talk about Aion during our last raid in T4. I ended up pre-ordering it the next day. I wasn't even going to buy this but nobody's going to Champions Online (I guess nobody's in to comics here). Like Ainwe, I'm still going to keep my WAR account. This is the only MMORPG that held my attention for more than 4 months. As for Fallen Earth, I've been checking that out too. Good to know there's another post-apocalyptic aficionado in our guild. But I'm going to skip that game. Because my time barely affords to play one game, let alone two.

Well, Darkfall is indeed hardcore and gritty, but I kinda like that. And I like the whole my clan is my kingdom thingy. I'm also looking for Aion, Mortal Online and waiting for Guild Wars 2. But I will play WAR untill I get bored. Sometimes I am, like when I'm playing in pugs. But most of the time I'm having tons of fun playing SCs in alliance pre-mades and doing that crazy Ben's ORVR maneuvers. hehehe. So, I'm good for now. =)

By the way.. I mispelled the game on the title... lol. Way to go!

Yay Arcatus, they got to you too! (Pomona and Bluedream). Their discussion is what finally put me over the edge in favor of Aion also. I'm glad you'll be there too. :)

how is crafting in Aion? If anyone gets a free trial ID I would like to try it. I don't buy any MMO now that I can't try ahead of time. That policy started due to AC2

Ainwe... Doubt that I'm made of tougher stuff than you - but I grew up on Bella Lagosi playing Dracula nad Lon Chaney, Jr. playing The Werewolve - instead of a Barbi doll I had replicas of those two by my bed (ok...I als had Barbi Dolls and read Veronica comic books....but the point is - horror flicks have fascinated me since I was 10....not to mention reading H.P. Lovecraft....vampires and demons and zombies... oh my... Then came Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness and I was hooked forever... Give me a good zombie or mutant attack any day.... I have to see how FallenEarth plays out....it dosn't have a huge following which may be very good...they ahve taken like 5 years to develop it...seemless world....you start with nothing but what you can scavenge in the way of weapons - tire iron, baseball bat...revolver...and then keep scavenging until you can make better weapons. This aspect has me excited - if they have done it right - it is also skill based - no tanks - no healers - no dps classes - you decide what you want to be. Of course people will migrate to them - but for a true hybrid player - it is a dream come true. I try most games that come out that have any appeal what so ever to me.... I'm retired - I need at least 3 games going to keep me from being bored with the game. I will be in WAR for quite a while.

I just thought I should mention - I love Bruce Campbell - really love him. I also found Bella (sp. either Bella or Bela - although one "L" is his birth name) Lagosi quite sensual.... in a wierd way....I need help.....

Drakfell sounds like the spiritual successor to Shadowbane(which despite it's god awful interface I loved madly) so I may check it out, but I'll keep my war account...;)

It's the spiritual successor of UO, since it has no levels and it's skill based / full pvp with corpse loot. But yes, the clan / politic system does remind Shadowbane as far as I know.

read up on both Aion and Darkfall, definately going with Darkfall, I love the idea of a hardcore PVP system...Just wondering if others on here played it and on what servers/races? The fact that you only get one character could suck, but as long as I have good people to play with i'll be happy.

I don't think that there is anyone from here playing Darkfall. I have some friends there, but I'm not sure if I will buy it yet. They arep laying at EU servers and NA servers just opened last weekend.

I actualy got it, just because I love the idea of player created cities and sieges...but I have been so far, HORRIBLY turned off by the clunky interface...Maybe it will grow on me(I have only played for 1 hour) but so far I'm thinking I may cancel the subscription and let the fact that I just wasted bucks sink in...There's a reason this game doesn't have a trial, no one would buy it with it's current interface. That said, hoping to grind through it another 4 hours at least before I give up on it. Looting is so slow for me right now I nearly always pull an extra fight just trying to loot the previous one. To move around and such, you have to right click to swithch between windows modes, where you can mess with your backpack and equipment and such, and movement mode where you can walk around. Also to attack/loot you have to press "r" which is sheath/unsheath your weapon. If you sheath your weapon the view is forced into 1st person on you. You cannot "unzoom" from your character in any view, but when using melee weapons it gives you a close 3rd person view at least. If the interface was better, I'd say this would be a keeper, it seems to have alot of depth otherwise, and the crafting system is superb. I'll give a more balanced view of things after messing around with it a bit more, maybe moving some stuff around will make the interface usable to some degree...

Yeah, it's pretty hardcore. It's meant to be hard. I missed the 3rd person also, but they said that it's this way so you can't see the ganker coming from behind, hehehe. I got used to the interface and played like 5 hours. Had some fun, but not THAT much. You don't play Darkfall unless you have joined a guild. Do that and if you still dont like it, cancel.