DFUW takes place in a huge, zone-less world that is at the same time rich in content and sparsely populated by “monsters.” Think Everquest without the zone boundaries. The first thing to mention is the setting. I’ll spend the rest of this post outlining some of those differences that I think are most innovative. As soon as you start actually playing, though, it very quickly becomes evident that the developers took DFUW in an entirely different direction. The implication that roles are flexible, for example, or the way skill points are handled. Sure, there are some signs that things might be different. You create a character, set up his or her attributes and appearance, and get dumped into a starter area. The setting is familiar to anyone who has read a fantasy novel, seen The Hobbit, or played games like Everquest, World of Warcraft, Dark Age of Camelot, or, well, 99% of all the role playing games ever conceived.Īt the very start of playing DFUW there is little that hints at any departure from the norms set by those earlier, ground-breaking titles. The world in DFUW’s case is fantasy-based, and contains the usual elemental themes that you find in any sword and sandals epic: castles, dungeons, monsters, etc. That is, you log in and create a character with certain attributes that is then placed into a large virtual world where you explore, fight, loot, and generally act like you never could in real life. The basic premise of DFUW is that of most MMO RPGs.
Many people carry the comparison further, and state that DFUW resembles Eve in a lot of ways, and that’s probably fair.
Both the original and it’s successor were developed by Aventurine SA, a small Greek game developer that bears a lot of at least superficial resemblance to CCP, the Icelandic developer of Eve Online. DFUW, as it is known among players, is the successor to a previous title named Darkfall Online that was pretty popular among hardcore PVP fantasy gamers. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been spending some of my spare time playing a massively-multiplayer PVP-oriented RPG named Darkfall: Unholy Wars.
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