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so i have been watching this game for like 4 years and now it will be out soon but i seems kinda dated, how do you guys think it will compare to aion or WAR?

In all honesty it boils down to taste. I have no interest in War and little to non in Aion. Overall I realy like what DarkFall seems to have to offer. Secondly out of the 3 choices only DarkFall is a sandbox and I am very partial to sandbox MMO's lol.

DF is a completely different game than those WoW clones, can't really be compared.

Aion is an anime themed mmorpg with emo guys that look like girls and girls with big boobs for the teenagers. Pfft..

Warhammer is a decent game, but it's still the same old EQ/WOW spreadsheet game.

Originally posted by achellis

so i have been watching this game for like 4 years and now it will be out soon but i seems kinda dated, how do you guys think it will compare to aion or WAR?

I dont know about Darkfall, however i can vouch that WAR is alot of fun. As far as AION...i love the concepts they are putting in the game...and it looks really really really good.  I hope Aion does very well so i can play both WAR and AION ^_^

Since you've been following it for four years, I can assume that by "dated" you are not talking about the overall concept or gameplay style they are going for.  So, I'll assume you mean graphics...

Some useful comparisons

Darkfall:

http://www.darkfallonline.com/gallery/albums/visuals/ork_capital.jpg

http://dawn-online.net/ScreenShots/Darkfall/darkfallHuman1.jpg

War:

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/home/images/armiesofWAR/greenskins/BlackOrc05.jpg

I'll let you decided which is dated, if either.  All of those shots are .jpg, so all recieved some loss in compression and all will look better in game.  However, since all are .jpg, all should have recieved the same degree of loss.

I love sandbox mmorpg's that are set in a fantasy world, i loved early UO. Also really enjoy skill based games and pvp. Im hoping Darkfall can deliver.

Does it matter? As long as those 'kind' of people play DF and stay there (you know who you are...), I'm happy if they don't come to Aion, I rather'd have Ragnarok 2, but I'll settle for Aion atm.  As for WAR, neutral to me, just another game, seems like a mature looking kind of WoW (yea, this game style came first and WoW copied, blah blah, i know).

Me and my HD 4870x2 is going to have some graphic orgy in Aion when its out.

Originally posted by Printscreen

Does it matter? As long as those 'kind' of people play DF and stay there (you know who you are...), I'm happy if they don't come to Aion, I rather'd have Ragnarok 2, but I'll settle for Aion atm.  As for WAR, neutral to me, just another game, seems like a mature looking kind of WoW (yea, this game style came first and WoW copied, blah blah, i know).

Me and my HD 4870x2 is going to have some graphic orgy in Aion when its out.

Aion community still trolling the forums of a game they claim to have no intrest in and attempting to insult another community? lol

Actually, you should let Spellborn and Guildwars 2 into that poll. Spellborn is releasing before Aion and Darkfall and looks very promising and Guildwars 2 should be releasing sometimes next year and have at least as nice graphics as those 3 games.

WAR is not a bad game but I don'treally think it have enough of time sinks in it to last... The reason Wow has lasted so long is raiding, WAR will have RvR instead and I don't really think it's enough to hold most players interest for years... It will surely have a hardcore fan collection but I don't see millions of players. Too much of a nishe game to be really great. What gave wow 10 mils players is that there is lot for everyone in it.

Aion and Darkfall looks promising, but if I must guess I would say Aion because I never seen anything the DF team has made before and a video and a few screens ain't enough. I didn't vote though. And one of the devs seems to worked at Enron before, or at least someone said that in an earlier thread, not a good sign. Still I try to be open and hope for the best.

Spellborn seems a lot more intresting to me, I have seen a lot of videos and shots of it and read the forum, really cool new combat system and a complete different look than everthing I seen before.

And Guildwars 2 looks awesome and have the currently best dev team in the world, those guys are amazing with coding. No monthly fees, fantastic coding and awesome graphics together with an open world will make a fantastic game. :D

Whatever happens we should have an amazing game year ahead of us 2009 :D