Aion

[FrieChamp]

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?

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[dux]

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

[Nurb]

It's hardcore asian mmos meets accessable western mmos.

[2d-chris]

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]

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]

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.

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And it's running on CryEngine1!

[Skjalg]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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....

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!)

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[Skjalg]

hahaha AoC

Im surprised aoc didnt sink the funcom ship.

[Zyn]

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