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It’s no great secret really, that despite its many shortcomings the MMO business is doing quite well. As far as making a few bucks go they really hit the sweet spot with this one; design a game that never ends, and charge people by the month to play it. It’s ingenious.
The problem though (that is, with ingenious ideas) is that everybody wants a piece of the action. Design a game that makes millions, and millions will begin re-designing your game. Of course, those millions are more often than not Korean, and as Koreans are about as good at emulating the success of World of Warcraft as a sock is a condom, things tend to turn south fairly quickly.
Skip ahead a few years and you’ve got an industry made up almost entirely of these ‘WoW clones’, and enough unsatisfied gamers to fill a small European country staring blankly at each other and wondering “what the fuck just happened?”. And then, there was Darkfall.
DARKFALL?
I’m not surprised that you haven’t heard of it. If you had, it would most likely have been from me anyway, foaming at the mouth over the Internets these past few weeks spitting details to anyone that would listen; most of them too quickly for the average human to comprehend.
So then, what is Darkfall? Put simply, Darkfall is different, and to quote the developers “In Darkfall, you are free”. And for the most part, you really are. It’s hard to compare it to anything else, as in the MMO world it basically stands alone, but if I had to compare it to anything it would The Elder Scrolls series; looking a lot like an updated version of Morrowind, but playing more like Oblivion.
You wouldn’t know it from the beginning, as it starts out pretty much the same way as every other MMORPG in history—asking you to create a character that will no doubt receive more attention that your beloved girlfriend/wife/other will in the coming years—and then placing you smack bang in the centre of your races’ respective starting zone. But the cliché MMORPG experience pretty much ends here as you quickly begin to realise that there’s no one holding your hand this time around, and that for the most part, you’re on your own.
Check out the full review HERE in Pixel Hunt, your free online gaming magazine!
Tags: Neramaar Cody Hargreaves Darkfall MMO
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