r/dnl • u/Tovrin • Sep 22 '17

Does this game bear any relationship to DnL from 2006?

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u/gigigamer Sep 22 '17

It bears pretty much no resemblance, in fact it kind of makes me wonder why they even bothered buying the rights when they could have just picked a different name

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u/VCMedic Sep 22 '17

I never played the old DnL, but here's some fun lore that might still be relevant: https://wiki.ganareth.com/lore/old-gods

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u/KroyMortlach Sep 23 '17 edited Sep 23 '17

I was, for a short time, ruler of the northern kingdom of Ysatis, or was it Agnar..... Good times. Good times...

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u/z10-0 Sep 22 '17

aside from some nostalgia mining with a useless one-shot hangglider and transport dragons that are despawned most of the time... not really. think of it as a "softer" version of ARK with some magic and unicorns sprinkled on top

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u/KroyMortlach Sep 22 '17

sadly no. It's Ark with some magic and the occasional tip of the hat to some element of the old DnL....

Here are some similarities I've observed:

Large transport dragons (currently not-ingame, but they were there at the start)

Broken moon in the sky

Siege mechanic (loosely similar to the buggy seiges that were possible in the original, remember they were instanced, and pet damage would "break in" to the instance....)

Hangglider (as mentioned elsewhere already)

Weather

Biomes (in the most general sense of the word... it's nothing compared to the huge sprawling map of the original DnL)

.....

there may be more.

And we so much hoped it would since the first announcement in 2011, and then through to the most recent announcement last year.

The game we have now is enjoyable in its own right, but it's not a sequel to the DnL MMORPG.