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Darktide sends Darkfall to its death so hard that even the lifestone flinches!
Darktide pwns Darkfall.
There is no way in hell that Darkfall will ever even come close to giving us what Darktide did back in the day on Asheron's Call.
We "hope" Darkfall will deliver on even half of its promises.
We "hope" that Darkfall won't be buggy and choppy and slow and laggy.
We "hope" that Darkfall will be fun and won't fall flat on it's face.
But most of us who ever played on the Darktide server back in the days know just how good it was, especially for its time. For it's time, the graphics were amazing. I remember when I first logged into AC back in 1999 and was simply awe struck at how the clouds actually floated in the sky and how bad EQ looked by comparison.
But even then, it wasn't until I started experiencing all the newly imagined mobs that AC presented and its unique magic system with all the colored tapers and different components that I really started to fall for that game.
The community, even on the relentless Darktide server was awesome. Most of the RPKs on Darktide were actually pretty cool. And most of the good anti-pks as well were cool as hell.
The guild system, the unique random loot system. The seamless world, the hundreds of dungeons and quests that actually had deep lore were amazing for its time and still unmatched by any mmo out there.
There is no way that Darkfall will ever beat AC Darktide at it's own game. I don't even think Darkfall will present many similarities to be honest. First Darkfall would have to prove a lot and actually "work". And then I think Darkfall, if it does actually work, will be more of an FPS with swords than it will be comparable to worlds like Asherons Call.
And in the end, I have to be honest.. I hope Darkfall delivers. But even if it does deliver half what it promises and actually works when it launches, I don't think it will even dent everything that was so great about all we old timers experienced on Darktide back in AC's glory years.
Maybe some of you who played Darktide back in the day have something to say. Maybe some of you think that should Darkfall be successful that it will resemble Darktide much more then I think it will.
But in the end, Darktide DOES send Darkfall violently back to the lifestone with one bludgeoning hit for about 647 damage! Darktide launched not much earlier then I started hearing the hype about this unknown game called "Darkfall" just a year or later. Darktide was in it's peak years and fun as hell when I first heard of Darkfall the first time. And since then, Darkfall has been all hype, all undelivered promises all these years, while Darktide has actually delivered so many tens of thousands, perhaps millions of gamers hours of fun and action. Over 100 content additions have been added by Turbine in the same time that Darkfalls hype and promises have been talked about on forum boards.
In the end, I think we can clearly see who the winner is from the year 2000 to the year 2009. And I wouldn't bet a single pyreal that Darkfall will be any better then Darktide is after all these years and even considering it's low devoted player population. In fact, I'd bet that Darktide will still be hosting players on 2010 and 2011 and on... And I'd bet that Darkfall will be just a joke in 2011, if it has even released by then that is.
Yep, sorry DF fans. Darktide destroys Darkfall, period. I hope that Darkfall can launch and prove me wrong and blow Darktide even as I experienced it away. But then again, that sounds like fantasy world talk to me! Darktide is "real". {winks}
- Zaxx
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Untill Darkfall launch and people can compare all your logic on Darkfall vs other games can be used on every other game out there.
Sorry. I fail to see your point.
I always hope my best MMO experiences will lay in the future and not in the past. Would be really bad if the best was already done : (
I'm sorry but your post just failed for me in the beginning and it's actually pretty long... so how much people are you exactly, speaking with this WE in every sentence.. are you like the leader of the MMO gamers ? Thats just retarded dude... also why do you think everyone else agrees with you on everything YOU think is right? That's just your oppinion and if you just posted it normally from your point of view and not everyones, than maybe this threa wouldn't fail so much.
It does though
thank you, bye bye
I just want to understand where do people get all this information about Darkfall, that they are so confident in telling everyone how bad this game will be..................
Would you people stop comparing DF to other games, since no one actually played it yet?
The only way you can judge DF is from the design, which to me looks pretty awesome.
But apart from that, we ALL need to wait 1 month to see how well the design will be implemented.
I certainly don't see how can people can compare a game which is still on paper with an already launched game.
Explain me how this work.................
exactly
Op your stuck in the past, and its very sad to constantly see how to try hold on to game thats been released 9years ago.
That your a fan of ac-darktide i can undertsand and that you have amazing memorys also, but why you try keep telling others that Darkfall will never beat ac-darktide what you wanne proof here, its childish, e-peen attitude bah.
Have darkfall some how hurt your feelings?
So you rather have ac-darktide been only free for all pvp server continuing and new games must not see the light?
Darkfall is comming if you like it or not, pls stay at your beloved game if you think it still hold your attention we dont need you.
You become more and more a troll of some old game and affraid your toy been destroyed by new kid on the block.
Ac is old, its good new fresh games are developed if you dont undertsand this thats fine its your loss, but comming to forums of games that are in same catagory as yours and try convince us your baby is better then ours is pathetic.
Have fun with your ac let us have fun with Darkfall i dont go over to ac forums to tell you ac fans you game sucks so dont come here that darkfall wont beat yours that childish behavior.
You have just made your self a ac-darktide fool your topic fail comepletely, now go back to your beloved game, let us have ours.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Well his point is just that. Darkfall hasnt launched even though there has been talk about it for 7 years, when AC DT was at its peak.
And Darkfall has all this time promised what AC DT delivered and is still delivering. So right now, and for the last 7 years, Darkfall is just empty talk.
To be honest Darkfall reminds me alot of Mourning. A huge list of amazing features developed by a small company and the end result was such a disaster that it became the joke of MMORPGs.
I hope Darkfall wont be like that, since even though AC DT was a great game its time has passed. But Darkfall devs with their talk and no-show attitute remind me alot of Mourning devs.
If something sound too good to be true then it usually is...
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Yes, and pre-trammel UO too. But you don't have a friggin time machine to go back to it now do ya?
Yeah, and i don't have a time machine to go forward to January 22-th... 2010 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Well his point is just that. Darkfall hasnt launched even though there has been talk about it for 7 years, when AC DT was at its peak.
And Darkfall has all this time promised what AC DT delivered and is still delivering. So right now, and for the last 7 years, Darkfall is just empty talk.
To be honest Darkfall reminds me alot of Mourning. A huge list of amazing features developed by a small company and the end result was such a disaster that it became the joke of MMORPGs.
I hope Darkfall wont be like that, since even though AC DT was a great game its time has passed. But Darkfall devs with their talk and no-show attitute remind me alot of Mourning devs.
If something sound too good to be true then it usually is...
They just have showed what darkfall will be they never hyped or promise anything you eather like it and follow it or not they dont force you to follow darkfall.
They even said play before you pay, so whats problem here they give you a chance to play it and if you dont like it you dont buy it simple as that.
And Darkfall surtenly dont have to proof anything its a game developed for hardcore sandbox skill based free for all full loot pvp, you eather play it or not its simple as that.
Or you guys want ac-darktide be only game for ever with 1k players max and no new game been developed in fantasy genre?
I dont undertsand hostillity towards Darkfall?
You wanne be stuck in past and dont want new games been developed?
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
They just have showed what darkfall will be they never hyped or promise anything you eather like it and follow it or not they dont force you to follow darkfall.
They even said play before you pay, so whats problem here they give you a chance to play it and if you dont like it you dont buy it simple as that.
And Darkfall surtenly dont have to proof anything its a game developed for hardcore sandbox skill based free for all full loot pvp, you eather play it or not its simple as that.
Or you guys want ac-darktide be only game for ever with 1k players max and no new game been developed in fantasy genre?
I dont undertsand hostillity towards Darkfall?
You wanne be stuck in past and dont want new games been developed?
They havent showed anything except for what they want us to see, which is excactly what DnL and Mourning did. Unless an unbiased reviewer gets their hand on Darkfall and give it a fair run for its money then this game is all about what the devs are saying. They have said that you can pay before you play, until that option is actually put on the table then it is another addition to the stuff that the devs had said but havent delivered.
And I dont understand your reasoning that just because it is said to be hardcore sandbox skill based free for all full loot pvp then it doesnt have to prove anything? In these time of MMORPG inflation then every MMORPG has to prove something before people will buy it. This is even more so because of the constant misinformation and overhypeness that MMORPG devs keep pouring out. AoC anyone? Mourning anyone? DnL anyone? VSOH anyone?
Devs want to have our money? Then they need to prove and convince us that they are delivering the next gen of MMORPG, not just say that they are.
So far the Darkfall devs hasnt done any of that and just claim it is because they dont have a marketing budget. Yeah, releasing an MMORPG these days without a good marketing strategy? Yeah good luck with that.
The existance of so many critics of this game is no others fault than the devs. They could squash all these doubts with a good marketing strategy and more openness about a game to be released in a month. They choose not to do so and this is the result.
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yeah whatevah!
AC1 was a pve game with pvp TACKED on, which was blatent to see when you logged into the darktide server.
AC1 was fun though, just as a PvE game.
When Darkfall launches, Will this site die? What new, unreleased game will they bash? Where will the trolls go? Back to Darktide? Nope they be playing Darkfall! I think trolls are like CLOSET DARKFALL WORSHIPERS!
comparing a server to a game?
They just have showed what darkfall will be they never hyped or promise anything you eather like it and follow it or not they dont force you to follow darkfall.
They even said play before you pay, so whats problem here they give you a chance to play it and if you dont like it you dont buy it simple as that.
And Darkfall surtenly dont have to proof anything its a game developed for hardcore sandbox skill based free for all full loot pvp, you eather play it or not its simple as that.
Or you guys want ac-darktide be only game for ever with 1k players max and no new game been developed in fantasy genre?
I dont undertsand hostillity towards Darkfall?
You wanne be stuck in past and dont want new games been developed?
They havent showed anything except for what they want us to see, which is excactly what DnL and Mourning did. Unless an unbiased reviewer gets their hand on Darkfall and give it a fair run for its money then this game is all about what the devs are saying. They have said that you can pay before you play, until that option is actually put on the table then it is another addition to the stuff that the devs had said but havent delivered.
And I dont understand your reasoning that just because it is said to be hardcore sandbox skill based free for all full loot pvp then it doesnt have to prove anything? In these time of MMORPG inflation then every MMORPG has to prove something before people will buy it. This is even more so because of the constant misinformation and overhypeness that MMORPG devs keep pouring out. AoC anyone? Mourning anyone? DnL anyone? VSOH anyone?
Devs want to have our money? Then they need to prove and convince us that they are delivering the next gen of MMORPG, not just say that they are.
So far the Darkfall devs hasnt done any of that and just claim it is because they dont have a marketing budget. Yeah, releasing an MMORPG these days without a good marketing strategy? Yeah good luck with that.
The existance of so many critics of this game is no others fault than the devs. They could squash all these doubts with a good marketing strategy and more openness about a game to be released in a month. They choose not to do so and this is the result.
Why you so unsecure why you so affraid of something?
Do they force you to follow this game put a gun agains your head?
If you dont like how aventurine do bussines go play some other game again you failed miserable beyond any doub.
Darkfall will release many hardcore will play it and dont give a damn what you trolls say about it, now go back to your themepark you waste your time make troll replys:P
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Darkfall fans dont go to other forums and bash those games thats what you guys do hate darkfall for no reason and hope it fail, prolly becouse you all been affraid it succeed and and more sandbox pvp games will be developed, so you cry more.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
I do as well but so far time has proved otherwise.
its too bad you cant say anything about Darkfall, since only a very small group of beta testers and a couple of reviewers have actually played it. So you have no idea what the game is really like.
Yes, the devs could probably get rid of any trolls/critics easily, but they dont CARE. they already have a solid base of over 200k members on forums alone, with many more awaiting the game and not registered on forums. If you're so easily put off a game because some guys are running around screaming "VAPOURWARE", then good, go away. The lack of info released is what the devs want to do. They will release a game on January 22nd, 09, now that they have finally announced a release, and im sure many people, including myself, an avid darkfall fan, will get the free trial first, just to make sure our "dream game/rebirth of UO" is really there.
DARKFALL 09!
Apparently 08 didn't make it
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Yea man what a weirdo..... This site is full of DF haters...i suggest every1 should just chill out and take a break from bashing this game over xmas.
To the OP "You guys can compare it to whatever you like come January, till then just enjoy the festive season and relax and dream of the young innocent days when you were running along Green pastures and hills in the darktide server chasing the level 5 unique mobs that you had just discovered with the multicoloured tapered magic skills....
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You know there is a big possibility that they will not release the game on Jan 22nd (IMO)... you have to swallow your words in pain. Why do you put so much trust and belief in this game / devs and holy mighty Tasos, not that they have proven something, but cheap words, promises, yada yada...
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Darktide? Ok, AC had its moments, but it was still a farcry from the glory that UO used to be.
Anyway, stupid thread is stupid.
Well said, this probably sums up every entire discussion started about darkfall and games from the past.
Very well said, Kudos!
The fact that the OP is touting AC as anything more than a decent pve mmo plainly disqualifies his opinion concerning anything related to pvp and Darkfall.
You are pitting an apple against not an orange, but a turd. They are not trying to compete with your niche game, but rather provide pvp elements that have never been seen in any game, as well as a few that have that need to be implemented. Of all the games that Darkfall has sampled pvp ideas from, AC would be on the bottom of the list if it would even be on the list at all.
This is a confused straw dummy argument. Further responses are unmerited.
So... because Darkfall MIGHT not be as good as AC-Darktide/UO pre-trammel, we should either give up on MMOs forever or go play WoW?
Right. Even if Darkfall is only 50% as good as the old school sandbox MMOs, that's still 50% more fun I'd be having than playing any MMO currently on the market.
Most of what you say was stuff about Asheron's Call, not Darktide. Darktide was just a FFA PvP add on where people who could best abuse the rampant bugs in the game got ahead.
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