Skyforge

 PlayStation 4
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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 46 Ratings

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  1. CraigEchols
    Jul 22, 2017
    4
    After looking for an MMORPG to pull me away from Neverwinter, I read up reviews on this and thought I would give it a try. I have to say I came away a bit......very disappointed with this game. After reading and reviewing the hype, I expected more.

    So to start, the game is very pretty. Not AAA quality pretty, but for a f2p, pretty enough to warrant your eyes. Especially the cutscenses    After looking for an MMORPG to pull me away from Neverwinter, I read up reviews on this and thought I would give it a try. I have to say I came away a bit......very disappointed with this game. After reading and reviewing the hype, I expected more.

    So to start, the game is very pretty. Not AAA quality pretty, but for a f2p, pretty enough to warrant your eyes. Especially the cutscenses and the areas. I also LOVED the customization I was allowed with this game. Despite being linked to a certain class, I really had the chance to distinguish myself from the cookie cutter looks of other players and I had a lot of fun with that. I could go classic, casual, sci-fi, and everything in between. However, the biggest draw of the game is without a doubt, the action system. Rather than simply have you hold down a button and select a spell like in most MMOs, Skyforge allows you to link together different attacks and combos for various damage depending on the type of encounter you come to regarding enemies. It is without a doubt different and quite fun.

    But soon after things start to go south.

    -So let me start by saying the game's quests are linear. And I mean LINEAR. You go from point A to point B with little to no variation in between. The "quests" are about as cut and dry as your average first person shooter mission. How is it that any RPG has linearity let alone this much?

    -The game also reminds you real quick that it is a f2p by only allowing you access to 3 classes out of a 13!!!! classes to start. Now granted, it does give you the ingenious move of allowing you to switch between all the classes if you so please (which is honestly pretty awesome), but you have to grind (and I mean grind) for an access to just 1 of the other ones that doesn't come with the download.

    -Speaking of the grinding and linearity, they don't really go well together. This game has various ways to acquire things, but it doesn't do a good job of explaining things. It goes out of its way to explain the action in the game, but does little to explain anything else. Hand holding isn't necessary, but what makes an MMORPG what it is is the vast amount of content. There needs to be some sort of explanation of how to do what and what things do.

    -Continuing along the lines of explaining things, this game lacks a text chat. While that may not seem like a huge deal....it is in this case. When you have a game that doesn't do a great job explaining things, option B is to look towards the community for answers. Skyforge really hinders itself in omission of a text chat because it makes the game appear very anti-social when there are probably many questions to be answered about it. Unless you are grouping up with people you already know, it makes it very hard to try randomly create a bond with anyone.

    -Finally, while the action is awesome and the combat system is fun, it can get repetitive quick. You have various combos, but you encounter the same type of enemies and enemy groups where it really limits the type of combat you can do because you have to attack them all the same way. Not to mention the bullet-sponge bosses that require you to constantly hack and slash with little variation in the strategy.

    I was really hoping for a lot more from Skyforge because the visuals alone drew me in and the action was fun in the beginning, but all the style wore off quick and showed very little substance. If you are looking for an f2p MMORPG, I'd recommend Neverwinter, waiting for TERA, or spending $8 on ESO on Groupon.    … Expand
  2. Janwulf
    Feb 11, 2021
    2
    Played handheld on the Switch. Apparently none of the people who ported the game did because it was terrible. Graphics looks like low def blurry big foot footage. For some reason I couldn’t use my usual screen name because of the language filter they have (unless “Janwulf” is some racial slur nobody told me about). Spent more time looking at a load screen than actually playing. Couldn’tPlayed handheld on the Switch. Apparently none of the people who ported the game did because it was terrible. Graphics looks like low def blurry big foot footage. For some reason I couldn’t use my usual screen name because of the language filter they have (unless “Janwulf” is some racial slur nobody told me about). Spent more time looking at a load screen than actually playing. Couldn’t even make it past the tutorial I wanted out so bad.… Expand
  3. Seethman
    May 3, 2017
    1
    I have spent about 12 hours playing Skyforge now.
    Edited on 5/3/17: 30 Hours. Absolutely never, nope, nuh-uh, stop.
    TL;DR: It's fun for about the first 6, if you can figure it out. I really wanted to like Skyforge. It was a cool idea, and I loved the notion of getting to play any class with my one character. That subtly shifts the paradigm of gameplay from "omg wasting my time on    I have spent about 12 hours playing Skyforge now.
    Edited on 5/3/17: 30 Hours. Absolutely never, nope, nuh-uh, stop.
    TL;DR: It's fun for about the first 6, if you can figure it out.

    I really wanted to like Skyforge. It was a cool idea, and I loved the notion of getting to play any class with my one character. That subtly shifts the paradigm of gameplay from "omg wasting my time on this one, I want to try that one".
    Unfortunately, 14 of 17 classes require by my math, 2-3 weeks solid play before you get to open one. It's not a progression the way they promise, it's just raw money, whether it's in-game or RL--though obviously spending dollars speeds you along, that's where you encounter the next problem.
    After 12 hours, I'm bored already. I opened up all of the tree of each of my 3 classes, and not without a lot of frustration. There are numerous bugs, and the "tutorial" is ridiculously pointless, but worst of all is how unintuitive the whole thing is. Why is my map screen the only way to see what I need to do? And if it is, why did you bury it in the middle of my menu? (And then there's that bug that won't let me back out of it again....)
    I like giving money to games I enjoy. But the entire time I played this, I sat on the fence of "is it worth it". The most compelling thing for me is levelling up and discovering neat new combinations in classes and abilities, and you don't get that here at all. Each class has a pretty straight line of abilities that doesn't allow for any customization. You'll find your combos, you'll use them, and la! you're done.
    But hey, it's free to play. If you want to put your time into it, it's pretty enough. I haven't played with others yet, so maybe that's a huge element of the game that I'm missing. If it is, I'll come back and edit my review to include the amazing shift that happens at that point.

    Edited 5-3-17: I spent about 30 hours total on the game. Dropped the score from 5 to 1. Don't do it. It's an unforgivably boring ride. You have no access to any of their vaunted classes, "how to play" is an absolute joke, and the game is a mockery of an MMO. Why? You do everything yourself. THe few times I joined up with groups to do an instance, it was this insane race to get it done with no communication between players, and absolutely no need for any playstyle other than damage. I deleted this hideous game from my PS4 and have felt better for it.    … Expand
  4. Ecresis
    Apr 13, 2017
    1
    Don't bother downloading this on PS4. It is a complete joke. The positive reviews are probably from the developers, wanking each other off by finding their own reviews helpful. Here's what helpful : trust me, don't download this.

    Ugly characters, boring quests, awful combat system, bad voice acting, nothing new, it's another classic mmorpg, and it's a bad one. I'm not sure they even    Don't bother downloading this on PS4. It is a complete joke. The positive reviews are probably from the developers, wanking each other off by finding their own reviews helpful. Here's what helpful : trust me, don't download this.

    Ugly characters, boring quests, awful combat system, bad voice acting, nothing new, it's another classic mmorpg, and it's a bad one.

    I'm not sure they even tried doing something good with this game. I really tried and had to abandon after 1 hour playing, it is totally empty, and the player base will also be empty. I don't see the point making a game like this. There are other, better mmorpg's out there, also free.    … Expand
  5. banc11
    Apr 12, 2017
    4
    Just played this for 5 minutes and deleted it after seeing how **** the combat is... very boring, not for me. But hey its free so you cant really go wrong there
  6. Kamarr
    Oct 30, 2017
    3
    This game tries so hard to fit with the rest of the MMO games and with all the other free to play games out there the amount of time you put into this game you feel robbed. Now when I say robbed you may ask what do I mean, what I mean is when you grind lets say a day or 2 maybe even a week to a month if you have a life outside of gaming as a new comer for a new class good luck hell evenThis game tries so hard to fit with the rest of the MMO games and with all the other free to play games out there the amount of time you put into this game you feel robbed. Now when I say robbed you may ask what do I mean, what I mean is when you grind lets say a day or 2 maybe even a week to a month if you have a life outside of gaming as a new comer for a new class good luck hell even after the campaign you'd think you'd get a class or two NOPE think again lol. They have changed there class gaining models 4 times and now they made it even worse than what it was in the past. Like there is so many great things about this game that is flawed by lazy developers that just want your money. Either spend 12-15$ a class or spend a week to a month grinding to get 1 of the 13 classes DISGUSTING.

    I tell you what I did I spent 13$ on a game called Elder Scrolls Online:Gold used even though its not the best game it beats the **** outta this. Even though you grind in ESO for gear it's not as mind numbing boring as Skyforge and at least that has a class system where your not gonna be blind sided by hours of grinding just to realize your short and have to farm more for 10+ hours.

    Also don't even let me get into an event they had where they charged people loads of money for an in game P2W item from an event that increased dmg by 44 **** percent then as the community got together about how broken that is they waited till the end of the event to drop the item down to 2.2% just so they can get as much money as they can.

    I played this game for about 40 hours maxed out the first 3 classes and beat the campaign 10/10 would not ever do it again and will NEVER suggest a friend to play this crud even with it being free there class presentation sales leave that most disgusting taste in my mouth.

    Heres the quick run down on the game itself. Overused enemy models about every fight is the same bosses seem to be a massive let down as most of them are just sponges with a factor of dodging there aoe to avoid being 1 shot. The pvp oh wait there is no PvP because nobody does it and when they are its just a spam fest. The story is very liner and you can guess whats gonna happen every quest is the same. The game builds up so much to there awesome combat system you can't even try out all the classes unless you spend money or play this game for a full year or 2 straight and even then idk.

    If your on PSN go play Neverwinter the graphics may not be amazing but least you can get your moneys worth if you decided to drop 10$ or not.    … Expand
  7. lurch
    Apr 17, 2017
    1
    A really awful game. Even free it's overpriced as you waste electricity downloading this game. I played about 15 minutes before uninstalling as its total garbage. From the rancid combat system that has awful lag and the clunky movement to the commander or whatever bleating orders at you over your controllers speaker (even when I am wearing headphones to be quiet) this game is absolute pus.
  8. Borsalino
    Apr 30, 2017
    2
    Это жалкое пародие на Dragon Nest, вот как можно описать данную игру.
    Графика, меню создания персонажа,да и кад сцены довольно хороши для ММО, но это все, что есть в данной игре.
    Бои тут представляют собой выбор локации, но в отличие от того же Dragon nest, боевая систему тут унылая и однообразная, если в гнезде дракона у вас есть огромный выбор навыков даже в 1ом классе, и все навыки не    Это жалкое пародие на Dragon Nest, вот как можно описать данную игру.
    Графика, меню создания персонажа,да и кад сцены довольно хороши для ММО, но это все, что есть в данной игре.
    Бои тут представляют собой выбор локации, но в отличие от того же Dragon nest, боевая систему тут унылая и однообразная, если в гнезде дракона у вас есть огромный выбор навыков даже в 1ом классе, и все навыки не умещались даже на 2ух панелях быстрых клавиш, то тут всего 2 удара , 2 навыка и 2 добивания(которые появляются только в определенный момент), в снаряжение только 2 предмета, которые можно улучшить, это оружие и артефакт, еще можно поставить бижутерию, но на этом улучшение персонажа заканчивается. Когда я пробовал играть в Dragon Nest я успел прокачать 3 персонажа до макс уровня, прежде чем она мне надоела. тут же игра надоедает на 2 локации, боевая система кривая и ты не чувствуешь ударов, место нормальных цифр урона 1-1000, с самого начала игры вы наносите урон за которым сложно уследить, а топы в этой игре 1 ударом наносят несколько миллионов, что делает панель урона мусором, почему нельзя начать с простых цифр, а закончить десятками тысяч? Это наверно сделано для школьников, которые хотят с самого начала ощущать себя убийцами.
    Короче, это пустая игра в красивой обертке.    … Expand