Nexon’s upcoming free to play title Dungeon Fighter Online isn’t quite like anything we’ve seen before — and at the same time, it’s a lot like things we’ve seen before. At first glance, DFO mimics old-school, style-arcade action-adventure games, the sort of thing you might have been pumping quarters into a decade ago.
Not so old-school, however, are the game’s MMO features: a persistent, shared world, character advancement, quests, and loot. These aren’t features we’d have ever thought of putting together, but we can assure you that the resulting low-rez adventure is fast-paced and fun. Best of all? You won’t need a pocket full of quarters to enjoy it.
NPCs do all the standard stuff: give quests, sell skills and additionally are quite colorful. DFO’s non-player characters are also designed to be fun and all have dialog. In fact, the English voice recording sessions for many of dfo gold begin next week. This colorful design philosophy translates to the levels as well, they’re all very beautiful.
Overall, the controls are designed to be simple and thus fast, it’s all about the action. You’re able to play solo, but being an online game the advantage is with party play and PvP. As for what to expect for PvP, think Street Fighter or Mortal Combat games — it’s all about the duel.
The world is highly instanced — all dungeons (four players max) are instanced. Towns and cities are open on the other hand. Every dungeon has four difficulty levels and the dungeons are modulated (i.e. Diablo, a little different each time you run them) At the end of a dungeon, players are ranked for buy dfo gold and rewarded based on their given score. Rewards are random and are based more or less on the level of the dungeon. This works by the game letting you pick a card, your reward is whatever loot lies behind the chosen card. Additionally, loot does drop from defeated monsters.
You can have up to 12 characters on your account. The design team haven’t decided what exactly will go in their item shop yet. Each character class has the same default look, but there are lots of outfits that you can customize your look with and nine costume slots total. As for guilds, since the game features a small party structure, guilds are very important for socialization.
