As someone who enjoys playing video games even more than I do writing about them, I am sympathetic to the plight of the newbie. After all, I’ve played enough of other games to have gotten a good feel for Darkfall when it released a few years ago, but I understand that there are plenty of … Continue reading “Darkfall’s New Player Experience: Safe Zones”
Whenever the topic turns to a free for all PvP MMO, I often bring up the subject of what I refer to as “Trammeling.” It is also known as “pulling an NGE,” and occurs when a developer makes dramatic changes to underlying fundamentals of a game in order to achieve what they believe will appeal … Continue reading “Darkfall: Down The Path of Trammel”
Whenever the topic turns to Darkfall 2.0, I can’t help but think back to how Jagex moved Runescape to Runescape 2 (now just referred to as Runescape) and the huge amount of changes the game went under just during that initial transition. So seeing this quote from Aventurine, I can’t help but hold high hopes … Continue reading “Darkfall 2.0 News: Aventurine Stalls On Wipe Announcement”
Hellgate Global is an interesting concept: Take the dungeon crawling of Diablo, combined with the random item combination drops of Diablo, throw in some role playing elements, toss in guns, and place it in the setting of post-apocalypse battle against hell. If the box price and subscription fee was a bit too unnerving when Hellgate … Continue reading “Why Aren’t You Playing: HellGate Global”
Hellgate Global is an interesting concept: Take the dungeon crawling of Diablo, combined with the random item combination drops of Diablo, throw in some role playing elements, toss in guns, and place it in the setting of post-apocalypse battle against hell. If the box price and subscription fee was a bit too unnerving when Hellgate … Continue reading “Why Aren't You Playing: HellGate Global”
Noted Darkfall eccentric Tasos Flambouras updated the Epic Blog today with a rather short post: In two weeks, every Darkfall account will be reactivated to participate in a free weekend with accelerated skilling and great loot. Turn your speculate-o-meters to ten, folks. Is there going to be more news on the elusive Darkfall 2.0? Is … Continue reading “Darkfall Free Weekend Coming”
Thanks to World of Warcraft’s seven day welcome back week, I have something to hold my attention for seven days, at least until the little girl from The Ring comes through my television set to murder me (the joke’s on her, I’ll be playing The Room on a second television. Try and brave that to … Continue reading “Week In Review: Why Hath WoW Forsaken Me?”
By now, you may be slightly familiar with the name Stephen Calender, ex-programmer for NetDevil. A few weeks ago, I brought up his blog post in a Week in Review, that went into detail starting at the acquisition of Lego Universe by Lego (and subsequent layoffs) to the relationship between Gazillion and NetDevil and even … Continue reading “Stephen Calender Talks:”
A rather humorous poster once said “My rule on wiping in-game is the same as in real life. If someone else does it for me, I feel violated.” The month of August starts in 16 days, and in that month we are expected to receive more information regarding Darkfall 2.0, aka Darkfall 2010. To those … Continue reading “Darkfall: Projecting Dave Georgeson On Wipes”
One week ago, I put my money on the table that Darkfall 2.0, a relaunch of the game, would bring free to play to the game. There is still no information as to whether or not the game will indeed go free to play, so let’s focus on another avenue of the Darkfall 2.0 launch: … Continue reading “Darkfall Suicidal: Character Wipes Not Off The Table”
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