mrgrimm
05-20-2007, 08:59 PM
First off, I apologize for the long post.
I bought Silverfall based on the review in PC gamer and my love of another game in the same vein. It stated that the interface was bad and I have to say I agree 100% with that. In fact I think the interface is horrible. The game itself is decent and I would normally say I could bypass the interface problems and still justify my expenditure of funds. But, then comes the freakin' horrible camera that has killed my character and my fun many MANY times (over 20). That really needs to be corrected in the next patch! I mean REALLY needs to be corrected! Having an option to lock on to your character would be great. To have it constantly follow your character from behind at a certain angle or even to have it snap to behind your character when the character moves would be helpful.
I was going to attempt to figure that out with the editor, but with all the horror stories I have read about the editor I think I will just stay away from that.
As for the interface. On the UK based forums there are links to pictures with a completely different interface. My question, as his was, and is Are the pictures fake and if not why didn't they go with that MUCH BETTER interface. Keyboard shortcuts would be a great addition to the game! As an example having a hot key set to allow you to switch from melee to ranged to magic by pressing it each time would be awesome! (Ex: pressing the Backspace key once would switch from melee to ranged. Pressing it again would switch it to magic. Pressing it once more would switch it back to melee.) Being able to hotkey several things around your movement keys will make it easier to play without lifting your hands to find keys elsewhere. I am left handed and my right is on the numpad, with any other game I am able to reset the keys to everything around the numpad, hence making it easier to play and quicker to react.
http://files.filefront.com/Silverfal.../fileinfo.html
I got the previous link from the following post (Don't want you to think I am taking credit for this.)
http://forum.deepsilver.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25677
Now I will go on with my other minor issues with the game. Tombstones are annoying at best. Do NOT die is what it tells me. The fact that you appear back at a city with no clothes on sucks. That was never the case with other games of the same vein. I do realize there is "insurance" and supposedly that allows for you to keep your equipment in some way. I just have yet to figure out how insurance works since I haven't been able to get it. I've died way too much to be able to figure it out. My first character got to 11th level and I still haven't been able to get insurance nor a chest (need to find another chest to be able to open my chest). I have yet been able to find a chest. The map needs a direction pointer on it. It is slightly annoying to open the map and just see a dot without a direction arrow noting which way we are facing.
I realize I may just suck at this game and that is very much a possibility, but I shouldn't be penalized for not being able to play it as well as the developers, who have gotten used to the game the way it is. Just my opinion.
With all that being said I would also like to say that not everything in this game is horrible. There is a definite fun potential if these issues with the camera and the interface are corrected. At least the camera issue. the interface ugliness and lack of use can be ignored at least it can for me. The fact you can play goblin is a plus. I love goblins. Even though I have yet to play one in this game yet. My personal rule Always play a Billy BadA$$ character (ala troll) first to see the difficulty of the game. I have played a troll and an Elf as of now. With all my issues with this game you would think I hate it but I don't. I like it and I want to love it. I just can't get past these glaring issues. The graphics for this game are unique and adds to the character of the game. the Nature or Technology branches also make the game interesting and well worth playing. The good physics help as well.
So to sum up. This game is REAL close to being a classic. If the developers see fit to listen to the community and fix the "problems" with this game they will have a sure fire hit on their hands and us fans may even see a sequel! Yippee!
Thanks for reading this long post.
Mr. Grimm
I bought Silverfall based on the review in PC gamer and my love of another game in the same vein. It stated that the interface was bad and I have to say I agree 100% with that. In fact I think the interface is horrible. The game itself is decent and I would normally say I could bypass the interface problems and still justify my expenditure of funds. But, then comes the freakin' horrible camera that has killed my character and my fun many MANY times (over 20). That really needs to be corrected in the next patch! I mean REALLY needs to be corrected! Having an option to lock on to your character would be great. To have it constantly follow your character from behind at a certain angle or even to have it snap to behind your character when the character moves would be helpful.
I was going to attempt to figure that out with the editor, but with all the horror stories I have read about the editor I think I will just stay away from that.
As for the interface. On the UK based forums there are links to pictures with a completely different interface. My question, as his was, and is Are the pictures fake and if not why didn't they go with that MUCH BETTER interface. Keyboard shortcuts would be a great addition to the game! As an example having a hot key set to allow you to switch from melee to ranged to magic by pressing it each time would be awesome! (Ex: pressing the Backspace key once would switch from melee to ranged. Pressing it again would switch it to magic. Pressing it once more would switch it back to melee.) Being able to hotkey several things around your movement keys will make it easier to play without lifting your hands to find keys elsewhere. I am left handed and my right is on the numpad, with any other game I am able to reset the keys to everything around the numpad, hence making it easier to play and quicker to react.
http://files.filefront.com/Silverfal.../fileinfo.html
I got the previous link from the following post (Don't want you to think I am taking credit for this.)
http://forum.deepsilver.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25677
Now I will go on with my other minor issues with the game. Tombstones are annoying at best. Do NOT die is what it tells me. The fact that you appear back at a city with no clothes on sucks. That was never the case with other games of the same vein. I do realize there is "insurance" and supposedly that allows for you to keep your equipment in some way. I just have yet to figure out how insurance works since I haven't been able to get it. I've died way too much to be able to figure it out. My first character got to 11th level and I still haven't been able to get insurance nor a chest (need to find another chest to be able to open my chest). I have yet been able to find a chest. The map needs a direction pointer on it. It is slightly annoying to open the map and just see a dot without a direction arrow noting which way we are facing.
I realize I may just suck at this game and that is very much a possibility, but I shouldn't be penalized for not being able to play it as well as the developers, who have gotten used to the game the way it is. Just my opinion.
With all that being said I would also like to say that not everything in this game is horrible. There is a definite fun potential if these issues with the camera and the interface are corrected. At least the camera issue. the interface ugliness and lack of use can be ignored at least it can for me. The fact you can play goblin is a plus. I love goblins. Even though I have yet to play one in this game yet. My personal rule Always play a Billy BadA$$ character (ala troll) first to see the difficulty of the game. I have played a troll and an Elf as of now. With all my issues with this game you would think I hate it but I don't. I like it and I want to love it. I just can't get past these glaring issues. The graphics for this game are unique and adds to the character of the game. the Nature or Technology branches also make the game interesting and well worth playing. The good physics help as well.
So to sum up. This game is REAL close to being a classic. If the developers see fit to listen to the community and fix the "problems" with this game they will have a sure fire hit on their hands and us fans may even see a sequel! Yippee!
Thanks for reading this long post.
Mr. Grimm