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Aion

  • FrieChamp
  • September 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM
  • FrieChamp
    • September 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM
    • #1

    Aion has been released in the west after one year of its Korean release. Has anybody played the beta, or purchased the full game yet? Any details on what to expect? Opinions?

    [gametrailers]55871[/gametrailers]

  • dux
    • September 24, 2009 at 7:40 PM
    • #2

    My friends are addicted to it. They say its a much better version of WoW.

  • Nurb
    • September 24, 2009 at 8:20 PM
    • #3

    It's hardcore asian mmos meets accessable western mmos.

  • 2d-chris
    • September 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM
    • #4

    theres nothing hardcore about it

    I played the demo, it was fun, looked great and so on, however, it's basically WoW with a paintjob.

  • Taylor
    • September 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM
    • #5

    To be honest it has more in common with Lineage II or Dark Age of Camelot. I'm on Castor. Asmodian Assassin called Buster. I'm enjoying it so far but I'm trying not to play it too much... I'll probably have more to say when I get into the PvPvM Abyss.

  • Sentura
    • September 25, 2009 at 12:57 PM
    • #6

    dude no, the only thing it has in common with daoc is the class specialization. there are still only two sides, which means that pvp is still going to suck... which again means the game isn't worth playing.

  • -HP-
    • September 25, 2009 at 12:58 PM
    • #7

    And it's running on CryEngine1!

  • Skjalg
    • September 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM
    • #8

    I played a weekend long closed beta event not to far back and I wasnt impresssed. I couldn't for the life of me understand why people can even compare this to WoW, they've even managed to make the cry engine look bad.

  • Taylor
    • September 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM
    • #9

    It's more like RvR than the instanced, cross-server battlegrounds of WoW.

    I don't know what PvP is like and I would prefer three sides. But I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt for now, at the very least the classes and skills are better designed for PvP than most.

  • Skjalg
    • September 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM
    • #10

    I might have come off a bit negative there, dont get me wrong; its a game worthy of the 50$ i payed for it, its just not... as good as wow.

  • FrieChamp
    • September 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM
    • #11
    Quote from Skjalg

    I might have come off a bit negative there, dont get me wrong; its a game worthy of the 50$ i payed for it, its just not... as good as wow.

    hmm I'm not so convinced yet from what I've seen and read. Spending 50 € on this just to check it out seems a bit much, I'll wait for a trial, free weekend or something. Instead I picked up "Age of Conan" - now before you jump in and tell me what a waste of money this was, let me say that it's part of the green pepper budget title collection now and cost me "6,99 €", that includes 30 days of free playing. Can't go wrong with this, even if it sucks...costs about as much as a cinema ticket by now Who knows, from what I've read it had lots of potential at launch but was still rough in many aspects. Maybe all these updates I am downloading as I write this fixed some of that...

    Edit: 1,83 GB?? Oh come on....

  • Izuno
    • September 25, 2009 at 6:09 PM
    • #12

    I got to play the game in the final stages just before beta but I didn't get enough time to get to the flight part and was curious what people thought of that. Aside from attempting to be the "East meets West MMO" in-flight combat was supposed to one of the main hooks.

    So...anyone have anything to say about the flight aspect yet?

  • Rick_D
    • September 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM
    • #13
    Quote from FrieChamp

    hmm I'm not so convinced yet from what I've seen and read. Spending 50 € on this just to check it out seems a bit much, I'll wait for a trial, free weekend or something. Instead I picked up "Age of Conan" - now before you jump in and tell me what a waste of money this was, let me say that it's part of the green pepper budget title collection now and cost me "6,99 €", that includes 30 days of free playing. Can't go wrong with this, even if it sucks...costs about as much as a cinema ticket by now Who knows, from what I've read it had lots of potential at launch but was still rough in many aspects. Maybe all these updates I am downloading as I write this fixed some of that...

    Edit: 1,83 GB?? Oh come on....

    YES FRI YES

    me and a few buddies just started playing it again, come into our vent and let's fucking slay some boars.

    we have a healer, a tank, and a dps, so we are all set to go through the instances and dungeons without waiting around for fagets.

    we are on Fury, and currently we are all lvl 16 (not for long!)

    ventrilo-2.clanplanet.co.uk

    3793

  • Skjalg
    • September 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
    • #14

    hahaha AoC

    Im surprised aoc didnt sink the funcom ship.

  • Zyn
    • September 26, 2009 at 4:26 PM
    • #15

    [Blocked Image: http://pici.se/pictures/qTrIecILb.jpg]

    The game's alright actually. Flying's a breeze, but gliding is a bit trickier.

  • Freak
    • September 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM
    • #16

    seems like i´m the only one who really enjoys aion here

    I haven´t played very much yet because of my long work times but i like it so far, i´ma lvl 13 templar.

    And, imo, flying is awesome

    EDIT: I even have my custom graphic settings...

    [Blocked Image: http://www.abload.de/img/unbenannttoeq.jpg]

  • Grinwhrl
    • September 26, 2009 at 11:05 PM
    • #17

    Looks like fun playing a game with no graphic ability

  • Taylor
    • September 27, 2009 at 1:21 AM
    • #18

    Continuing the trend. Asmodian was here, Elyos is loser.

    [Blocked Image: http://i38.tinypic.com/21m9ptv.jpg]

    Did some accidental PvP today, a quest dumped me in Elyos' land up somewhere safe with the quest thinking I would teleport back. Instead I jumped off, glided down, landed in a circle of about 8 people, hit hide and ran away scared because they all said “??” as level. Then I realised they must all say that and looked for someone to hit. The guy I eventually opened on ran into mobs at my unexpected appearance on his spinal column but then, in true MMO style, I got clustered.

    Quote from Skjalg

    I might have come off a bit negative there, dont get me wrong; its a game worthy of the 50$ i payed for it, its just not... as good as wow.

    I hear in Cataclysm you'll be able to raid with 2 people and every NPC will have its own faction to get exalted with.

  • madgernader
    • September 27, 2009 at 5:27 AM
    • #19
    Quote from Freak

    EDIT: I even have my custom graphic settings...[Blocked Image: http://www.abload.de/img/unbenannttoeq.jpg]

    Yep, that's the cryengine 1 I remember from when I first bought FarCry and my graphics card wasn't up to snuff... Although I don't think mine was that bad, but different games

  • Freak
    • September 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM
    • #20
    Quote from madgernader

    Yep, that's the cryengine 1 I remember from when I first bought FarCry and my graphics card wasn't up to snuff... Although I don't think mine was that bad, but different games

    But I have that in every game ;D

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