Review Submitted By: Kai
Author Status: Player
Started on Dark Risings: Today
Submission Date: Oct 12, 2005
TMC Listing: Dark Risings
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Kai]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Once in a while, I check out who holds the #1 Ranking
spot on TMC Top Ten. As of this morning, when I checked
the site, Dark Risings was #1, so I said 'What the heck,
I'll give it a go.'
Upon FINALLY connecting, after three or four times of being
rejected and finding nothing wrong with my OWN connection
to the 'Net, I'm asked to create a character. Alright, no
biggie. I created my character with ease, pretty much, and
logged in.
Now, I have a pretty high definition of what should be
'Number One' in my book, and I must say that nothing about this
game was above anything but average. After running through the
'school' for training and basic equipment, I sat and watched
for a while. For a RP-based game, I found it quite fishy that
they have an 'IC' Channel. Right, because where you can't
find television and dress in cloaks and leather breeches
and pay in gold and silver pieces, every character is
still connected to eachother.
The conversation on this channel went something like this:
Player 1: I say, jolly old chap. Does anybody want to meet up and
slaughter frogs in the swamp?
Player 2: I'd like to come too, friend.
Player 1: The more merrier, I say.
Player 1: The more the merrier, I say.
Player 2: Where shall we meet?
And then, there was silence. I wandered about and killed
frogs and lizards and boars and foxes, and then did a look over
my equipment. Generic, nothing special. I still can't shake the
fact that my weapon was 'a file sharpened on a river rock', and
you still can't find television or cellular phones, yet everyone's
connected on the 'IC' channel. To me, that's not very in character
at all.
Although I didn't see anything going on with abusive staff,
I've read the reviews here already, and I don't see the sense in
having this game as #1, except for the fact that on the startup
screen AND the logout screen, they're practically BEGGING for you
to vote for them. My guess? Players looking for something special
and exploring finally got tired of seeing the begging and pleading
of the Dark Rising's staff, and voted, hopefully thinking this will
make them shut up about the whole thing.
Ten thumbs down.
