Skyforge 2-Hour Scorecard

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.

• 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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