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[Preview] Skyforge: Eyes on the New MMORPG at GDC
SBFord
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This week at GDC, a new MMO made an unexpected debut to join the ranks of new and upcoming games. Skyforge will take your character on a journey from immortality to godliness as you ascend slowly into godhood. This MMO has a lot of interesting new features and we will begin to highlight a few here. The team who made Allods Online has joined with Obsidian Entertainment to create Skyforge which will run as a free to play MMO with a huge world on a single server, and a strong action combat play-style that changes with each class you choose.
Read more of Garrett Fuller's Skyforge - Eyes on the New MMORPG at GDC.
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meh.
just saw a trailer and the toon dropped a greatsword triple the size of him- and i logged out.
Logged out of the trailer?
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This is the second news feature about Skyforge in 2 days !
Must be really significant...
Really? In WoW you can dual wield 2h, and you "log out" when you see a retractable tech sword? You need to play more mmos before starting to criticize this kind of stuff...
Now back on topic, the game looks promising. they are still developing it and soon an Alpha will be available.
Personally, I see it quite unique. Mixing ancient/classical fantasy with futuristic/sci-fi, would normally be weird using swords and magic with high end technology but somehow it looks good here.
I'll look forward to it, and if it is just another mmo then i'll still play it for the lore and looks. There isn't anything else to play so, I'd at least play a game made with original ideas. I was getting tired of seeing elves and orcs everywhere. And who did not want a retractable sword once?
Some observations:
1) Zones. Not seamless?
2) PVP done in PVP areas (instances?). No open world PVP.
3) Teleport nodes used to travel.
4) Single player MMORPG, ever person becomes a god.
Correct me if I was wrong. It was what I read in the article.
It seems like the timing is bad though, to start developing a AAA themepark, when big companies are steering toward sandbox style games. Skyforge doesn't look like an inexpensive game either that can gamble on just another ho-hum themepark.
The artwork looks really intricate (OK the sword halfway through the trailer was just silly). Lets hope it has a really really good soundtrack to help bundle it all up.
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Recognize the voice? Yep sounds like Penny Arcade's Extra Credits.
Each to their own of course, yet it's a rather shallow critique of a game considering it means nothing to game-play.
As was asked already how does one log out of a trailer?
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
My interest in this title was piqued when I saw it listed under the "News" header, along with the fact that it was being shown at GDC.
Then I read through the article and saw that it was a collaborative effort with the ALLODS Team, and it was another "free to play" title, and I lost all interest.
ALLODS - while impressive in its development - was a shameless clone of World of Warcraft, which in itself I could forgive. Most MMOs these days mimic each other in countless ways.
What I don't forgive was the blatant greed of the RMT Cash Shop and its blatant attempt to offer an undeniable "pay to win" scenario.
Gpotato was greed, not the Allods team.
If allods was a WoW clone is this supposed to be an Aion clone?
The setting seems very fresh and the fact that Obsidian is involved also appeals to me. Action oriented combat is a plus too if it's done well.
However, I'm somewhat wary of the Allods guys, on one hand that game wasn't bad at all but they done fucked it up real good with their cash shop bullshit.
I'm also wondering just how open world this will be. Allowing multiple starting points for the players might be a good idea, but it somewhat sounds like they're making instanced zones with a "theme". Still, could turn out to be very interesting.
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Could not care less for 1. - 3, for 4., if game is not soloable UP to END GAME, will not play. Have a lot things to do in life and only ONE (even if important) of them is gaming. If would be eternal student, jobless, ... etc... then this would not be important.
Will play if quality will be decent, mouse instead WASD, .... will see.
Or they paid MMORPG a nice sum of money to keep it in the headlines.