General Discussion

The folks at Darkfall have posted a collection of first impressions, both positive and negative, of the early stages of the Darkfall Beta.

Before the next wave of testers we thought it would be a good idea to post a representative sample of quotes from the current testers taken from an unsolicited first impressions thread in the beta forums. In doing so we cooperated with the testers in order to get a good balance of the good and the bad. I posted this update in the beta forums last night, and asked for help in order to make it a fair assessment of the experience so far. Everyone had the opportunity to pitch in and they seem to agree that the resulting preview accurately represents the sentiment of the testers.

Having said that, I have to mention that our tester sample so far is diverse. The testers range from our biggest fans to our biggest critics, and from near “carebears” to the most hardcore players out there.

Most of these comments are first reactions. Many of these have changed over the course, mostly for the better. There are many topics that haven’t been addressed enough to get a good sample of quotes on. We’ll post more when we feel we have a good balance of feedback. We’re also asking for feedback on specific topics to be used in subsequent updates. The lack of comments on some topics are due to the fact that the players are in the starting phases of their characters, and we wipe often so they haven't been able to advance enough to test advanced options. This is about to change soon.

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I can't trust this first impression.  1. its on the darkfall server.  2. they have a reputation of having people swarm forums talking about the game.  This could be a fake, its a Darkfall dev , it even says he's a dev.   How can you trust a first impression from someone who made the game?  How do we know these are quotes from real testers?   Before I trust a review about this game it would have to be done by a reputable game magazine or myself.  Now if IGN or Xplay did a first impression on the game then I'd trust it.  Until then I'll have to wait before I even get a little excited.

sounds like an Ad.

 It all seems completely genuine and believable to me, with  a fair amount of critique to boot.

All things considered though, it is generally sounding awesome, maybe not everyone's choice of gamestyle, but no game is. for people who want a game like darkfall was intended to be, it looks like they're gonna get it.

I can't wait.

I particularly look forward to the importance of fps skills and cunning tactics. This is gonna be something brand new...

Originally posted by Guintu

I can't trust this first impression.  1. its on the darkfall server.  2. they have a reputation of having people swarm forums talking about the game.  This could be a fake, its a Darkfall dev , it even says he's a dev.   How can you trust a first impression from someone who made the game?  How do we know these are quotes from real testers?   Before I trust a review about this game it would have to be done by a reputable game magazine or myself.  Now if IGN or Xplay did a first impression on the game then I'd trust it.  Until then I'll have to wait before I even get a little excited.

Ok I know people are saying this game is vapourware but do you honestly think they would string the fans along by making up a thread with different quotes?  I take it at face value and happy to see some good feedback but if its 'not' real and I am fool for believing it then so be it but if it is then it goes down as one of the biggest laughs.

If Darkfall comes out with what it promises I can see a huge amount of population from AoC, WAR and WOW migrating over.  On a personal level nearly all my friends are playing one game or another and there is one common theme going on.  Each one wants to play DF more than anything else and will dump their game 'if' it comes out. 

Finally some conformation that the beta is ongoing.  Sounds like the game is pretty stable.  That is excellent news.  And sorry Chryses, but this type of game will never see a huge population.  Most of those players from AoC, War and Wow will leave the first time their corpse gets looted.  It is a harsh world and most of those players will not put up with that.  That is ok, better to have it this way then the easy mode of those other games.

Originally posted by chryses

Originally posted by Guintu

I can't trust this first impression.  1. its on the darkfall server.  2. they have a reputation of having people swarm forums talking about the game.  This could be a fake, its a Darkfall dev , it even says he's a dev.   How can you trust a first impression from someone who made the game?  How do we know these are quotes from real testers?   Before I trust a review about this game it would have to be done by a reputable game magazine or myself.  Now if IGN or Xplay did a first impression on the game then I'd trust it.  Until then I'll have to wait before I even get a little excited.

 

Ok I know people are saying this game is vapourware but do you honestly think they would string the fans along by making up a thread with different quotes?  I take it at face value and happy to see some good feedback but if its 'not' real and I am fool for believing it then so be it but if it is then it goes down as one of the biggest laughs.

If Darkfall comes out with what it promises I can see a huge amount of population from AoC, WAR and WOW migrating over.  On a personal level nearly all my friends are playing one game or another and there is one common theme going on.  Each one wants to play DF more than anything else and will dump their game 'if' it comes out. 

Did I mention anything about me thinking its vaporware?  I don't think I said any such thing.  I just said a dev wrote the piece and said he quoted people from the beta which I don't trust.  Its like a commercial for a movie that lists out all the reviewers that liked the movie, only to find out that their were more reviewers that didn't.  This person could have picked and chose who said good things while leaving out all the bad.  Also he could have just made all of it up. This company does have a thing about sending out people to different mmo sites to make up things and then slam people for talking negative.  

I'm not saying the game isn't coming out.  I'm just saying until I read something from a reputable reviewer or unless I play it myself I don't trust it.  I'm like this with most games and movies, because I know people can get cought up in a game they really want to play and they'll back it even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes.  I've seen some videos and some that look like they might be game play videos, but no full battles, no major game play, no full scenes.  Its like watching a commercial on a movie and their a bunch of cut scenes of just the action.  Its hard for me to get excited about that.

I keep thinking of the game Dark and Light.  I wanted that game to be good for the longest time.  I watched videos and I heard what people were saying about it but in the end it just sucked.  I won't let myself get sucked in again, so until I read a real review, and see real game play or play the game myself I choose not to take what a dev writes about the game.

yeah it is hard to take this seriously since it was written by a Darkfall developer. He is nitpicking everything saying its all great (for example he says archery is great ...... but he didnt mention the other areas of combat). A regular player i dont think would do this. What i'm trying to say is that this impression is extremely biased.

Originally posted by tvalentine

yeah it is hard to take this seriously since it was written by a Darkfall developer. He is nitpicking everything saying its all great (for example he says archery is great ...... but he didnt mention the other areas of combat). A regular player i dont think would do this. What i'm trying to say is that this impression is extremely biased.

actually there were many complaints.. even about archery.. so im guessing you didnt read the whole thing