Have you heard of a MMORPG called
Darkfall Online, currently in closed beta but announced a long time ago? We have waited and waited and waited, but it' s not ready yet.
The game is expected to feature
unrestricted PvP with no peace zones,
full (i mean *full*) looting, a huge, dynamic game world that evolves in response to player actions. The majority of player capabilities are determined by the possession of
skills, which improve in response to in-game use.
Cities can be built, sieged, captured and destroyed by players;
all items are craftable; the weather (including directorion winds!) influences the play, and there are many more advanced features.
Gianna Masseti, the author of
TheNoobComic.com, was invited to preview the beta. I guess writing one of the best web comics .. has its advantages after all :-) Gianna is an experienced RPG player with a witty pen, so
her comments are interesting t
o read:
In 3rd person view the camera is pretty close to your character and it’s fixed, so you can’t mousewheel back until your character is tiny and you can see for twenty yards behind you. Your chance to spot other people is to actually turn and look. Period.
This is not all, though. If you happen to be a tall guy, like my ork, and you’re fighting someone shorter, like a goblin, you have to aim DOWN at the little fucker while he runs figure eights around you, which means that you have even less awareness of your surroundings.
You don’t get a big ass name on your head, so it’s quite possible to hide behind trees and rocks (not like in other games where some poor sap is trying to ambush you from behind a tree and you can see the end bits of his tag sticking on the sides.
Darkfall seems interesting, it seemed interesting from the first moment Pavlos told me about it. Make sure to check the site, they have a wonderful dragon and lots of impressive artwork.
Note: Aventurine SA, the producing company, is norwegian/greek (!), situated in Athens (!!), with
job openings (!!!).
In June,
Aventurine confirmed they had
signed with Greek company AudioVisual Enterprises to distribute Darkfall in Europe. On October 16th, 2008, Darkfall was publicly
presented at Athens Digital Week (i still cannt believe I missed that) and it was
mentioned on TV.
OK
Aventurine guys, where are you? Please please please invite us for a short visit to your HQ!!
