Talk:Darkest of Days

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There is insufficient material here and on the 8monkey Labs pages to need both. We need to merge and redirect in one direction or another - I don't mind which! But please let's not keep two stubs separate when they could usefully add to one another. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 14:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Very poorly written. Please tag as so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.255.250.254 (talk) 17:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I made a few edits to the content to more accurately reflect how the game actually plays. What is currently there is quite deceiving, implying that there's a wide range of time periods in which you get to play, as well as a liberal allotment of modern weapons. In reality you really only play in the civil war and world war II, the level are insanely generic and repetitive, and you pretty much exclusively use period weapons (I just targeted the blue aura guys to steal Opposition weapons and to speed the levels along). The AI is also about as good as AI from 1998 and weapon ballistics are ridiculously inaccurate (using a musket to headshot an enemy from 1000 feet away?). What's written now would describe a 7/10 game....this game is really more like 2 or 3 / 10. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.135.114.65 (talk) 21:54, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Horrible reviews

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/controller-freak/dont-play-this-game/article1279513/

The Globe & Mail's blog entitled 'Controler Freak' has given this game a horrible review. Can we reflect this in the entry? --Wjserson (talk) 18:36, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Ive never heard of Globe and mail but It got a good review from PC gamer UK which is probably a more respectable video game reviewer.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.187.75.101 (talk) 00:05, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Note: Globe & Mail = Canada's most popular national newspaper. Do you have a link to this review on PC Gamer? --Wjserson (talk) 03:23, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Getting a MetaCritic score on here and a chart of what other publications gave it would be good... I don't normally do it, and I'm a bit uncomfortable just copy/paste/replacing from other entries, or I'd do it myself. Boter (talk) 05:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

"Future game" tag

I removed this tag in accordance with the guidelines at Template:Future game:

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Equazcion (talk) 23:33, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm probably the poor writter,but I was wondering if someone who is good at the grammas could correct the text mistakes?

No one is adding information to this site anymore but me but im not good at english so please dont delete it, just try to fix it I want as much text information at this game as possible, Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imonoz (talk • contribs) 00:01, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I salvaged and rewrote what I could, but a lot of the stuff you added wasn't really "encyclopedia material". Your feelings while you were watching the trailer, for instance, don't really belong here. There was some good information though, and I rewrote that as best I could. Equazcion (talk)

Okey, thank you very much, and also could you or someone else add a game picture or two? This will give more life to it I think. I been trying to do that but havnt succeded.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imonoz (talk • contribs) 00:34, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Can someone else who's played the demo who rem,embers what the throwing stun-blue-aura-people item is called? It's misleading to say nonlethal shots are the only way to disable the "important" blue-aura enemies - there's a special weapon you can use that's much more convenient. I don't remember what htey're called, but they're in the demo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.16.250.139 (talk) 11:49, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Game Concept

You have to save people important to the continuity of history by killing hundreds of people (inevitable in an FPS)? Huh?

"In eerily accurate detail..." if you consider that no one has ever witnessed the events that took place. So, apparently, everyone looked like exact copies of themselves in the past...and said things like "grippin' gravel" -- this game has a lot of Native American stereotypes, as well as carbon-copy character models. They also chose one of the most stereotypical battles to portray the accepted stereotypical "Western" version of history -- aka the battle of Little Big Horn, instead of taking a balanced historical view which would have included the Wounded Knee Massacre. 98.111.199.195 (talk) 02:30, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

You obviously dont understand the plot... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.187.75.101 (talk) 20:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah Mr. 98.111.199.195, you're missing the entire point here...It's not about the geopolitics of 1800s America. The Little Big Horn thing is just the intro. It just a specific place in time while in the shoes of a specific person. I wouldn't look too much into it...it's a damn video game. SoulBrotherKab (talk) 18:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Steam Link Wrong

The link to Steam should bring the viewer to the gaming program Steam, and not actual steam as a substance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.101.55.96 (talk) 04:35, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Historical Accuracy

I edited out the reference to a supposed inaccuracy about Custer's Last Stand not taking place on a hill, because in fact Custer's last stand DID take place on a hill, which is to this day called "Last Stand Hill," or alternatively, "Custer's Hill."

"Since the premise of Darkest of Days leans heavily on the historical aspect of its story, the developers focused on making the battles as historically accurate as possible." Really? Is that why they added the Pickelhaube-spike to the German 1916 steel helmet? This is just one of many issues with historical accuracy in the game. It's *not* historically accurate at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:120B:2C3F:DEE1:9492:F680:751A:49D0 (talk) 12:46, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Viacom?

I am reasonably certain the time-traveling organization in this game is not called "Viacom," which is an American media conglomerate. I'm pretty sure the name was given in the demo as "ChronoTek" or something like that. I'll look it up to confirm, however. Atypicaloracle (talk) 09:43, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Website

The link at the bottom of the page to darkestofdays.com is no longer to a Web Page which has anything to do with the game, should this be fixed? 212.129.81.117 (talk) 19:32, 25 January 2022 (UTC)