Skyforge 2-Hour Scorecard

19 July, 2015

Skyforge

I spent a few hours with Skyforge. I didn’t buy any of the founder’s packs or anything so this is the totally free-to-play experience.

Business casual is the way to go in Skyforge.

Character Creation: Okay
Lore: Meh
Dialog: Meh
Visuals: Good
Performance: Good
Sound: Okay
Music: Meh
Voice Acting: Okay
UI: Fantastic
Customization Settings: Minimal
Ads: Subtle, except for the launch window
Free-to-play disadvantages: Less “sparks” so I guess you advance slower
Classes: Okay (3 to pick from initially)
Combat Style: Action, Button Mashing
Difficulty: Surprisingly challenging for a game these days
Progression Style: Skill Tree, Gear Upgrades
Crafting: Unknown
Endgame: I doubt I’ll ever see it
World: Small zones and instances that you travel to from a hub, like Neverwinter
Costumes: Plentiful
Appearance: Change anything at will (only the first one is free)

Things that stood out:

You can select your running animation and idle stance in Skyforge’s character creation, that was pretty cool.
Because Skyforge locks you into mouselook mode, I couldn’t figure out how to activate a mouse pointer to minimize or hide general chat, or dismiss the help tooltips. (In other games it’s Alt or Z or something like that.)

Overall, Skyforge is fun in short bursts, but there’s not a lot of depth to it for an MMORPG. It’s more of a video game than a virtual world, if that makes sense-the kind of game you play, beat, and put away.

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