gamezig.com - 5/7/2009
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Ed Zitron over at Eurogamer.net was tasked with testing and reviewing Darkfall Online for the mega review site and proceeded to lay waste to everything that is Darkfall. While Ed obviously doesn’t like the game, he does do it an injustice in his extremely negative review - to the point ...
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Darkfall: Eurogamer Slams Game with 2/10 Review
warcry.com 5/6/2009 — Darkfall Online has been handed its keester in a review by Eurogamer. Reviewer Ed Zitron panned the game with a 2/10 review. Check out a bit of the review and a fiery comeback by lead developer Tasos Flambouras after the jump.
Some odd stories
commonsensegamer.com 5/6/2009 — In a not so surprising story, it seems that Eurogamer put up a review of Darkfall that was not so flattering:
Sadly, every little thing Darkfall does is tragic, but without a personality that might make you feel sorry for its developers, ...
Did Eurogamer Review Darkfall Without Playing It?
mmocrunch.com 5/6/2009 —
About a month ago I wrote my first impressions of Darkfall after about 2 hour of playing. Well it seems that Eurogamer.net wrote their review of the game with about the same amount of time as me, than gave the game a 2/10. Obviously ...
A word to bloggers about reviewing MMOs I play.
westkarana.com 5/7/2009 —
In the aftermath of the scandal surrounding Darkfall and its 2/10 Eurogamer review, I just have a couple of things to say.
You Darkfall players and those bloggers up in arms because they didn’t play it sufficiently enough to get a good ...
EuroGamer: Darkfall Agent Provocateur?
tagn.wordpress.com 5/8/2009 — By now you have certainly read about EuroGamer’s review of Darkfall which was riddled with hyperbole, inconsistencies, and factual errors. You may have also seen Adventurine’s response and how solidly EuroGamer stood up to it , pointing out that the reviewer wasn’t actually ...
Darkfail: Critic Response
killtenrats.com 5/6/2009 — The word “schadenfreude” referrs to the guilty pleasure of watching other people fail. It’s like watching the Angry Video Game Nerd play Superman 64.
Today’s dose of schadenfreude comes from reading Eurogamer’s ...
Darkfall's Tasos calls out Eurogamer on 2/10 review
massively.com 5/6/2009 —
Tasos Flambouras, Lead Developer for Darkfall , is not a happy bunny after seeing how low Eurogamer scored Aventurine SA's latest game. They gave it 2 out of 10, which according to their scoring policy , rates the game as 'less entertaining than ...
Eurogamer says Darkfall is as entertaining as the flu
keenandgraev.com 5/6/2009 — Doesn't that look fun?!
Well let me tell you, I have the flu and that statement is a bold-faced lie. The flu is far more… okay sorry I couldn’t resist.
I think I counted six people wanting me to comment on this whole Eurogamer and ...
The reason I don't rate games
tobolds.blogspot.com 5/8/2009 — There is a huge fight going on between Eurogamer and Aventurine, after Eurogamer rated Darkfall 2 out of 10 . In response chief developer Tasos Flambouras (I'm not kidding you, that is his real name!) from Aventurine posted a reply saying that the ...
The worlds most accurate DarkFall review!
syncaine.wordpress.com 5/6/2009 — First, go read this fine piece of gaming journalism .
Done?
Amazing right, I mean that guy has the game down to the minor details, everyone quit DarkFall NOW!!
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Oh now wait, it seems Tasos from Aventurine did a little digging , and ...
Darkfail: The Community
killtenrats.com 5/6/2009 — When I’m at work, supposedly working, I often read the Darkfall forums. I don’t play Darkfall, and I hope I never do, but I love their forums. I have a kind of sick sense of humor. I enjoy reading the cries of disappointed new ...
FreeRealms: Gay Simulator, 2/10 score after 20+ hours played.
syncaine.wordpress.com 5/8/2009 — I want to write a bit more about the whole Eurogamer ‘review’ of DarkFall, because I feel some people are missing exactly why this is not just ‘someone not liking your game’, but actually a much more damaging two pages of lies. It’s one thing to ...
How exactly do you review an MMO? —
Massively
Reviewing MMOs is a tricky business, as Eurogamer learnt this week when they published a review of Darkfall and gave it 2/10. Developer Tasos Flambouras wasn't happy about this and published a scathing forum post in retaliation at the low score. They accused reviewer Ed Zitron of playing ...
Darkfall Strikes Back! —
Kill Ten Rats
For Darkfall fans, I’m probably not their favorite blogger. Twice I’ve titled articles with the word “DarkFail” in it. But grumblings about me are nothing compared to the whirlwind the Eurogamer review has created. In the Darkfall general discussion forum today, 13 of ...
That awesome DF review? It gets better! —
Hardcore Casual
Continuing to dig the hole a bit deeper, the fine folks at Eurogamer posted this response to their award-winning journalism.
Tasos responds here .
Aventurine 2, trash website 0.
I can’t imaging what Eurogamer is going to do with their second review. Either it’s going to be ...
The Scandalicious Darkfall Rview —
Ardwulf's Lair
Tipa responds today about the Darkfall community’s response to Eurogamer’s 2/10 review.
Now, my position is that the review sounds unfair, and the reviewer sounds like he’s engaging in some axe-grinding. It seems fairly clear that he didn’t like the game, which is ...
Journalistic Credentials —
Kill Ten Rats
A response came back from Aventurine. They said we played two hours, but No! we played nine . To see everything. To be everywhere. We stand behind Zitron, firm, but then… To be careful we will re-review it by Gillen. Nine is still enough for us to care. We do not like Darkfall, ...
The Sad State of Game Journalism —
Stropp's World
I was reading a post by Syncaine over at Hardcore Casual about the Worlds Most Accurate Darkfall Review . He is referring to a fine piece of game journalism, a review of Darkfall conducted by a contributing writer (one Ed Zitron) and fully supported by the editorial staff at Eurogamer.
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Building a virtual padded cell —
Tobold's MMORPG Blog
With Aventurine now refusing to have their game re-reviewed, Darkfall fans declaring war on Eurogamer via YouTube, and the Eurogamer reviewer receiving death threats, neither side is coming out very well from this conflict. To most people it looks like a fight of unprofessional game reviewer vs. ...
By Request, This Week’s Darkfall Post! —
Broken Toys
Eurogamer reviews Darkfall , gives it a 2/10.
While playing for a few hours of reasonably solid combat only netted me a few increases in sword handling, a kindly fellow informed me that it would only take me “about six or eight hours to get good”. On further questioning, this was ...
Darkfall Team ignores conventional wisdom —
Kill Ten Rats
Lets be honest, Aventurine have not been ones to heed conventional wisdom when it comes to Darkfall. Lets look at how they differ.
1. If a bad review comes out, don’t post about it on your forums. The added attention will just get people who are already on your forums to read a ...
Final word on the Eurogamer slander piece. —
Hardcore Casual
Game. Set. Match.
Well played Aventurine. Good luck to that hack Ed Zitron in pursuing his career as a writer, and good luck to Eurogamer, your name and site now being the punch line of a joke among gamers. Hope the short traffic spike was worth your reputations and credibility being reduced ...
The Downfall of Darkfall - A Fan’s Perspective —
GameZig
Darkfall Online has potential - a lot of potential. But in the end the game for the most part seems to have failed, to keep my attention anyway. I kept holding out and holding out and honestly for the lack of anything better right now I’ll probably hold out another month more. But when ...
Games I actually play (DarkFall) update. —
Hardcore Casual
Out of all the easy criticism a ForumFaller might make against DarkFall, why are so many people getting so worked up about the game not being on sale 24/7? If you know DarkFall is not the game for you (and lets face it, it’s fairly obvious to ALMOST anyone whether it is or not), why are you so ...
The straight facts about the Eurogamer slander piece. —
Hardcore Casual
One would think the basic facts of a story would be simple to comprehend by people, and the discussion would revolve around the implications of the errors made within, but as Tobold and other commentators have made very clear, sometimes this is simply not the case.
I had originally written a ...
DarkFall: Giving the skill system some direction —
Hardcore Casual
The skill system in DarkFall is one of the more hotly debated topics among players actually playing the game (and not just playing ForumFall). Some believe it’s too long a grind (oh nooz, you are not maxed out in two months!), others dislike its general confusion (does archery go up faster if ...
A "carebear" perspective on embracing Darkfall —
Massively
Darkfall Online has a deserved reputation for being a hardcore PvP-centric massively multiplayer online game. The aggressive nature of the game tends to make some gamers shy away from the title, particularly gamers whose comfort zone is in the PvE that other titles on the market offer. So ...
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