So I Tried… Skyforge

Each edition of So I Tried… I will try a game that I have never tried before. Will I find something new to love? Will I find something new to despise? I'll take a full half hour, no matter how bad it gets or how badly I do, to see if this is the game for me. This time I went for the PC version of Skyforge.

What I thought it was

It’s definitely an F2P MMO, and appears to be on the side of Star Trek Online or Guild Wars 2, with wandering around stabbing things with a camera view behind or above the character. Whilst it downloaded the 10GB of game files, I had a few images that kept scrolling past, showing things that aren’t yet in the game, so I’m unsure how rideable ostriches, alien robots and an army with laser-powered metal swords fit into things.

What it actually is

It’s definitely along the same lines as Star Trek Online, but with random disconnects and swords. It’s the future and, after a mishap with some baddies, you wake up amongst your dead fellow soldiers. It turns out you are an immortal -- a growing selection of people who come back to life after dying. The gods, who are around to help people out or something, want to train you to take on the greater evils of the world. Which you do from a third-person perspective in a pretty good looking world. I didn’t get to experience a heck of a lot, due to being disconnected for no reason, but what I did see was well designed and lively, and quite full of characters.

Will I keep playing

I’ll give it another go on a different day, just in case the disconnects were a random occurrence and not exactly what happens every day. I’m interested in the story, and I did spend a few hours downloading 10GB over a P2P connection… I’m eager to see how the gods fit into the world, and some sort of explanation of the immortals.