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Starts out strong but runs out of content VERY quickly

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: January 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well to start with, I have a level 41 Paladin, and several other characters in the 30's, so that's where this point of view comes from.....now, on to the flaming.

When you first start playing this game, and the world is new, it really seems like the holy grail of online RPGs. The first 20 levels or so, new skills come fast, and the expierience treadmill is pretty easy to put up with. There are also an abundunce of quests to do pre level 20 that actually give decent rewards, especially if you're playing your first character and have no cash/items to twink with. The world looks nice, the character models aren't bad, not great, but not bad, all in all a pretty good looking game.

Now warp to post level 20 play and the shallow nature of the game, and inherant problems start to loom larger and larger.
Just because I like lists, I'll make one........

1. Quests/Kill tasks (good exp go find mob x and kill it sort of things) pretty much go away.

2. The level treadmill starts tilting at a steeper incline.

3. You begin to notice you don't get new abilites, just "version 2" of the spell or ability you got at level 5.

4. Hmmmmmmm by this time you've probably run the length of the "realm" you're in, and the world is starting to get smaller.

5. Content problems....there just aren't many places to go, and the places there are to go are small and overcrowded.

Now let's warp to post 35ish play, and what is touted as one of the big features of DaoC.....Realm vs. realm combat!!!!!

1. PvE content has become almost non existant...there is currently ONE dungeon you can go in, and everyone and their brother/sister is there. (Next patch is adding "Epic Zones"... so we'll see).

2. Realm vs realm (rvr from this point on) is HOPELESSLY imbalanced and just plain bugged. I won't go into detail but there are some HUGE game stopping issues that don't seem to be getting fixed. Also it's ENTIRELY based on level, and I mean that. A level 43 chimpanzee banging on the keyboard, will defeat a level 41 highly skilled PvP player. Level is EVERYTHING, and I mean everything in this game. Player "skill" is non existant. So ....back to the level treadmil...(see #1 and repeat this cycle).

So that's the short list.....The PvE content is almost non existant, and the RvR combat that you've worked so hard to level for turns out to be one of the worst implementations of PvP in gaming history........not so hot.

You'll love this game at first, I certainly did, but boy does it get old fast. VERY short shelf life on this one, will be a blip in online history 5 years from now.

You would never know EQ is that bad until you try DAoC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Like MMORPGs, but just couldn't find the right one? This game is the closest to perfect on the market with that EQ like of gameplay. But wait, it is nothing like EverQuest... the game is highly finished and there are very few known bugs/flaws in the game, unlike EQ was somewhere about 20% finished when it was released. Every aspect has been carefully considered and the game system is simply the best.

Note: Please be aware that this game is higly 3D graphic intensive, and you need at least a mid range system with a pretty good graphics card to run this game smoothly.

something for everyone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was able to resist the call of modern MMOG games like EQ until now. But this one pushed me to buy it. I bought the game in October just after their initial release and haven't stopped yet. Coming from the old text MUD world this is everything I hoped/expected.
Yes, the running from place to place can be slow at first (a pet peeve of mine also) but after a few levels you take horses everywhere or learn how to run faster.
The world is HUGE, with 3 realms (continents) with overlapping frontiers that allow for PlayerVsPlayer (realm vs realm) conflict, or stay in the safer zones within your continent where it's you against the monsters. Tired of killing monsters, there are dozens of quests at every level, including ongoing epic quests.
Tired of killing monsters and doing quests (there are more that I can imagine) then take a break and practice tradeskills like woodcarving, armmorcraft, herblore, weaponsmithing, etc...even siegcraft. Those skill will help you as you progress in the world.
Tired of that, switch to player versus player conflict, and join with your guildmembers and those in your alliance and try to take over another realms keep and secure their sacred relic for your side!
The Mythic team addresses all bugs quickly, and adds enhancements biweekly. They are preoccupied with keeping their customers happy and are doing a great job making this world more and more fun by the day.

Worth Every Penny!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After my first month playing Dark Age of Camelot, I feel this MMORPG is worth every penny I put into it!
The graphics in the game are amazing. I play in Midgard, and, when I travel to other regions, I am still astounded at how stunning the landscape is.
You have many options as to how you wish to play...if you are a monster-killer, you can gain experience from that. If you prefer role-playing and quests, you can choose to do these as well. If you love solo play, you can do that with any class. And, the frontier areas packed with monster enemies and enemies from other realms adds an incredible amount of excitement to the game. In fact, the keep areas and frontier areas (realm v realm) adds a whole new element to the game, keeping it exciting.
Spell and character graphics are also wonderful, as are the main function controls. This is the first MMORPG that I have tried, and it was extremely easy for me to catch on to how to play.
I have seen Everquest (I own it now, in fact) and Ultima Online, and this is by far my favorite out of all of them. If you hate chasing all over the place to find your corpse when you die, you will adore this game's system for dying... loss of experience (you can earn some back by praying at your grave) and loss of constitution points (you can buy these back from a healer NPC). I will remain a loyal player of Dark Age of Camelot!

Dark Age of Camelot delivers fun gameplay and a leveling tre

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Although I no longer play this game, when I did, I enjoyed it. It is a great game if you have Unlimited time to kill. As many other reviews here say, it improves upon the MMPORPG genre. If you must play an online game and burn many, many real time days away this is a great choice. I no longer play this game only because of the vast time requirements to compete and enjoy this game. It is not really for the casual gamer who wants to play 10 or fewer hours a week because then you miss out on the online guilds and friendships.

The game has great replay value because of the 3 realms and different classes. Expect a 4th realm and better graphics in an expansion. The gameplay was good but as a veteran gamer it left something out, possibly that OOO.. and AAAWWW.. feeling when I first played Ultima Onine or EverQuest. Those games had a little extra content that was unnecessary but added more flavor to their universes. In DAoC you don't feel like you're in an alternate world but rather in a massive First Person Shooter. There is little conversation that is game related (except tactics) and very few players role-play in any way.

I give it 4 stars because it improves upon previous games in the genre and should provide countless hours of entertainment (maybe too many? There are lots of good games these days.)

Quit Whining...This Game Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: April 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...quit whining people, its not like your gonna be at level 50 in one day, it takes some effort.

Secondly people keep calling the PvP horrible...in every guild ive been in on this game there have been at least 30 individuals dedicated to the RvR aspect of this game, and there are more than 100 active guilds per server. And with 4 different battlegrounds and The Frontier where you can attempt to take the keeps and magical relics which benefit the entire realm by boosting stats, saying that the PvP is bogus....is well....bogus.

Other people have complained about the repetition of the game....Well what do you expect? you get new spells/combat styles almost every level, and you can specialize in different categories on your character type, for example a Runemaster on the realm of Midgard can spec. in either Darkness, Suppression or Runecarving - each of these has its ups and downs, and effectively creates many different 'styles' of runemasters. It is the same for every class.

Theres also the HUMOUNGOUS selection/combination of armor and weapons you could have, as well as specialize in, and the little perks like cloaks, hats, and dyes for your armor give the user a more friendly expirience.

If you get bored you can craft. This means you can adopt a profession that allows you to make a certain kind of product (EX. Tailors can make leather and cloth armor, as well as have a small skill in weaponcrafting). There are dedicated individuals in this aspect of the game as well, crafting godly weapons and armors like its nothing.

In closing i would like to say that you should give the game some time, and quit complaining about the diffuculty of the beginning levels. With 1000-2000+ people on each of the numerous servers, and 3 different realms, its not like your going to be bored.

Serf discovers class war means more than hating the rich

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While you may envision Camelot as being a white-washed castle of delight, I discovered my gaming experience to be more typical of the serf whos arch enemy is the contents of the bed pans that villagers carelessly toss out their windows. I started this game with a bright future, one in which any number of swashbuckling careers involving exciting adventures with maidens to rescue filled my imagination. I quickly found my true Camelot existance to be filled with wrestling rats and other vermin for modest scraps of bread. Not only that, I was forced to avoid the wrath of the various wealthy warriors and priests that would stomp by while insulting me for my lack of suitable clothing. Let me explain, with Winter approaching in this terribly cold country (camelot on TV always looked like it was an eternal spring, I cry false advertising), I had to get the easiest obtainable clothing item to warm me, which was a nice cotton midwife dress I found in an alley. Well let me tell you, that was obviously the wrong thing to do. The people were more judgemental than a Southern Baptist convention and I quickly discovered that even poor sods like me were subject to brutal gossip. I heard frequent jeers like, "look at the little girl, she's covered in urine, is that the best perfume your mother could give you" followed by frequent laughter. The other poor fellows like me weren't much help either as they tended just to mindlessly follow me around, but never seemed interested in helping me kill vermin or find scraps of food.

The game is advertised as "the DARK age of Camelot" and they weren't kidding. I found the average traveler to be ignorant of most cultural things, and the libraries there were to be abhorred! Even though I had a nice dress, I was filthy and despite my attempts at begging, I couldn't find anyone to let me use their bathroom facilities to clean up! If you are of noble birth and can dress in the latest plate mail fashions, you'll fit right in. If you're cursed to be a poor man like me looking for a chance in the world, then you're better off in Gaul.

my review of the first part of the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first thing that struck me was that this was a massively multiplayer game that ACTUALLY WORKED RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. I installed it, downloaded the update, made a character, and began playing. My character was level 5 by the end of the night. I played EQ a little, but not very much because I found it boring. This game has been very exciting...during class I've been wishing I could run back to my dorm to play it a little while longer. There is a very comfortable learning curve as well. I didn't have any problems learning how the interface worked and how to control my character. It may appear at first that there aren't many options for making a character (only 4 races per kingdom, and 4 classes) but actually, once a character reaches level 5, they can choose a more specific class to expand to (from Viking to Berserker, Thane, Warrior, or Skald, for example) which bestows new and special powers to develop over time. This game is a lot of fun, and I reccommend it to fans of games like Everquest.

Best MMORPG release in past 3 years!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DAoC's developers worked closely with their beta testers to ensure a smooth release earlier this month. Whilst there are still minor bugs, these are generally sorted out as quickly as possible. Mythic appear eager to not only listen to their customers, but to act on that information as well.

The game itself is based on Arthurian legend and provides for a NON-pvp, as well as pvp Realm wars. So everyone can choose how much involvement they wish to make to the game. If you like PvP, then build up your level to 15, and go fight for your Realm. If you prefer PvM and crafting, then stay in your Realm and support the fighters, and enjoy the numerous quests and tasks that can be had from many NPCs.

Mythic has provided 2 role playing servers, as well as numerous *normal* play ones. Their rules for the RP servers differ slightly from the normal servers, so make sure you are aware of what is allowed or not.

This is definitely a game worth buying. The only drawback so far, is that Mythic has agreed for a French company to hold the rights for three European servers. If you've got the US CD - then you cannot use it to play on the European servers - and vice versa. For those with friends world-wide, this restricts them in their choice of servers.

I'm lucky to have got my US CD despatched by Amazon to my UK residence, before they changed their policy. Alas, my friends here have now been told they cannot buy from Amazon - a great pity, as they also wanted to play with their American friends.

It's a game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a piece of software, which means that some people won't be able to run it successfully and others will have problems caused. Black & White trashed my system but it got rave reviews from most people who played.

Who buys a game without checking the official web page? It's an online game and the vast majority of them charge a monthly fee. DAoC does as well but you get to play for free for the first 30 days. You don't even need to provide a credit card number "that won't be charged" until the time is up. This ensures you won't be billed if you decide you don't want to play further.

The game itself is pretty decent, it's right after King Arthur's death and his realm has split into three factions. You choose a server (a cluster of powerful PCs) to play on and each is a separate world. What goes on in the world of Lancelot, doesn't affect anything in the world of Percival. There are some servers dedicated to role-playing, don't talk about your car or make up funky stupid names on these.

You choose which server to play on, then your realm. Realms are divided into elves and fairies (Hibernia), Brits (Albion) and the Norse / Vikings (Midgard). Each has the same types of broad classes, in other words, each has fighters, spell casters, etc. Each realm is just a bit different from the others though in how they work.

There are three ways of approaching the game in the long run and you can mix and match how much you want to do of each. The first thing you can do is adventure. Go and bash beasties and hethen monsters for loot and fame. Next, you can form loose armies with other members of your realm and go invade the other realms. You can only go so far so don't expect raiders to come after you while you're low level. Finally, you can become a craftman, making weapons, armor, bows, etc. It is possible for a very low level character to be a very high level weaponsmith and have a ton of money.

Most of the characters seem to complain about how underpowered they are and that usually means they are well balanced. Underpowered in complaints usually means "I can't kill it in two hits". The game is fairly new at this point but they have been responsive with patches and there are people from Mythic active in keeping the gaming community up to date.

All in all, it's a pretty good game. I don't know how long it will keep my interest but it is doing it so far and with the first month free, you're only spending the money for the game.

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