Rusty Hearts Alternative [DFO]

[Heavenly Demon]

Hey all,

In light of the current state of Rusty Hearts, I felt that it would be appropriate to bring into light the revival of Dungeon Fighter Online! For those of you who have never heard of this game, its very much like Rusty Hearts - it's a side scroller beat em up game and has pretty much the same mechanics as Rusty Hearts.

The game as switched owners from Nexon to Neople. For those of you who want to give it a try, and who want a more "secure" game, heres the link: http://dnf.neople.com/

And as a note, I'm not posting this to drive people out of Rusty Hearts. I'm posting this more as a back up game for those players who feel hesitant putting time into Rusty Hearts with it having such low player population and also being that even the Japanese version is shutting down.

Cheers

[Phoenix (yes, another one)]

I'm pretty sure Rusty Hearts and other multiplayer online brawler RPGs bear similarities to DFO as DFO came first (2005 or 2006 I think), enjoyed some surprising success, then other companies made their own versions of it (Rusty Hearts was released there in 2011 I think).

Neople is, and always was the developer of DFO, NEXON is just essentially owning company of Neople, and a publishing company. Neople just arranged to self publish the game outside of the areas NEXON still is.

The Japanese version of Rusty Hearts isn't shutting down, it has been shut down, for over a month now (went down on March 27, 2014).

Aside from DFO there's various other multiplayer online brawler RPGs both out over here, and elsewhere. Elsword is the only other 2D, or 2Dish one, C9, Dragon Nest, and Vindictus are 3D. Dark Blood is another 2Dish one, and may be coming back over here from the looks of the developer's site. Outside of North America and Europe there's games like Kritika, Closers Online, Soul Worker, and Mystic Fighter which have been released, or are in the process of being released in Korea, then may come out over here eventually.

[Heavenly Demon]

Originally posted by Phoenix (yes, another one):

I'm pretty sure Rusty Hearts and other multiplayer online brawler RPGs bear similarities to DFO as DFO came first (2005 or 2006 I think), enjoyed some surprising success, then other companies made their own versions of it (Rusty Hearts was released there in 2011 I think).

Neople is, and always was the developer of DFO, NEXON is just essentially owning company of Neople, and a publishing company. Neople just arranged to self publish the game outside of the areas NEXON still is.

The Japanese version of Rusty Hearts isn't shutting down, it has been shut down, for over a month now (went down on March 27, 2014).

Aside from DFO there's various other multiplayer online brawler RPGs both out over here, and elsewhere. Elsword is the only other 2D, or 2Dish one, C9, Dragon Nest, and Vindictus are 3D. Dark Blood is another 2Dish one, and may be coming back over here from the looks of the developer's site. Outside of North America and Europe there's games like Kritika, Closers Online, Soul Worker, and Mystic Fighter which have been released, or are in the process of being released in Korea, then may come out over here eventually.

Wow thanks for the great info! Didn't know some of the facts you listed - you learn something new everday :D

You list a few decent games, but imo, none of them come close to Rusty Hearts or DFO. And player population wise, I feel that only Dragon Nest/Vindictus come close to being anywhere remotely "popuar." As for Elsword and C9, I feel that their gameplay is a bit clunky...thoughts?

But back on topic though, it would be great if people could check out DFO to make it a lasting game.

[Phoenix (yes, another one)]

Originally posted by Insomnia:

And player population wise, I feel that only Dragon Nest/Vindictus come close to being anywhere remotely "popuar." As for Elsword and C9, I feel that their gameplay is a bit clunky...thoughts?

It's always hard to gauge how many are playing games like these since you only see the people in your party when actually playing the meat of the game, then there's multiple channels when in town. Also too many of the characters running around in Dragon Nest for instance are bots, peer to peer games like these are bad for botting, hacks, and such.

Except for skills meant to have delays, which DFO has too, all of these games thrive on their fast paced combat, including C9, and Elsword, C9 can be very fluid, and enjoyable for instance. One of the things that always tickeded me off about DFO, and was what really made me say "arg, I quit!" then wander off to the likes of Rusty Hearts, C9, and Dark Blood back in the day was how the item pick up key was locked to the basic attack key, and you couldn't change that. That's one thing these others all didn't copy, they may have had it by default like Rusty Hearts did, but either let you change that, or gave it its own command for you to set. That right there is a terrible, or clunky mechanic when playing a melee character, I got cheap shotted, or killed far too many times because of it when playing DFO.

Right now the new DFO release is in an alpha test phase, while one complaint people are having is that there's too many trying to play, and not enough channels, so they may not even be able to get in. Like with any reasonably popular online game release, the population at launch is always high, it's trying to get people to stick with it when there's so many others to choose from that is a problem.

[GD]

I cant play it anymore :(

[GD]

Can I still play?

[Lowash]

DFO is awesome!

[hexenfree]

Is this avalible to EU people like me? I never got to play DFO. And never played Rusty Hearts

[Heavenly Demon]

Yes! dnf.neople.com!

[Zabuu]

You know over all rusty heart is a good game ( I am not saying who ran it did a good job), but I like the game a lot. I just wished that NA game got more updates because the gameplay is just awesome. Sorry I wanted to say something positive about the dead game.

[latorre]

no one is playing from steam, got stuck on 99.1%

[darklord5555]

DFO IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT TEARS IN MY EYES. THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I EVER HEARD (and screw nexon)

[Heavenly Demon]

YES I KNOW!!! ITS AMAZING