In the dense market of free MMOs coming to the US from Korea, we wouldn’t blame someone for feeling a little lost. But of this year’s upcoming MMOs, Dungeon Fighter Online, which overlooks the prominent RPG genre, and instead plays like a beat ‘em up of old, only in dungeons instead of the seedy streets of New York.
Editors Brett Elston and Chris Antista took some time last week to interview representatives from some of the biggest games Comic-Con 2009 had to offer.
Firefly Studios don’t seem overly keen on the word “dungeon”. If the title isn’t being partially obscured by an arc of blood, or fading into cavernous darkness, or harangued out of a URL through repetition (heroherohero.com), it’s being contradicted by the game’s setting, which isn’t dungeon-based.
The once-dominant dungeon-crawler hasn’t seen much love during the current, shooter-obsessed generation. But with plenty of high profile hack-and-slashers – Lord the Rings: War in the North, Diablo III, and Dungeon Siege III – on the horizon, the blacksmiths and barmaids could be enjoying brisk business once again. We recently got our hands on the latter title and came away impressed with its ability to blend classic looting-and-leveling gameplay with the sort of fast-action today’s frag-focused gamers have been brought up on...
As a franchise, Dungeon Siege has seen better days. Besides a fairly well-reviewed PSP spinoff, the PC-born RPG series has lain dormant since the second game hit in 2005. Oh yes, there was a “film” called In the Name of the King that emerged from the fetid orifice of one Dr. Uwe Boll, but we’re all better off trying to dis-remember that thing out of existence. So perhaps it comes as a bit of a surprise that Dungeon Siege is coming back – and under Square-Enix, of all publishers, making this the company’s very first Western-styled RPG. That might make fans uneasy, but what we’ve seen and heard about Dungeon Siege 3 should help put any of your concerns to rest...
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