General Discussion

Last week NCsoft had a presence at the G-Star games conference in Seoul, South Korea, where they showed off their games, including Aion. They have since shared a selection of concept art and renders from Aion: Tower of Eternity and we are now pleased to share these images with you.

See the rest of the images here.

You know this looks like a really sweet game.   :)

I like the pictures, it would be neat to know if the character images are in game. Although, I suppose they are too in depth to be real in game character images —but i guess they will be the basis of what character will look like in Aion.

The Demons (Bad guys/Evil people/Whatever) Look really, really awesome.

Is this another rigid class structure game? 

Originally posted by Torn07

The Demons (Bad guys/Evil people/Whatever) Look really, really awesome.

The world of Aion is divided into Dark and Light. But it's not Evil and Good.

I'd like to know if the game play is fun myself and what about character customization and development.   Will this game be anything like Lineage II in regards to that?  Not many selections in Lineage II and not much in the way of character development - its all gear and item driven.

There is supposed to be more character customization then there is in lineage 2, but to what extent I'm unsure. Also I believe reading you can wear any armor graphic you like on your character. Sort of like the EQ2 appearance tab.

I'm not to certain how class structure will work out and it's level of customization, because they have very little information regarding that atm.

Oh and one more thing they said the grind or leveling will be very similar to western style mmos. They are trying to cater to a world market on this one.

It amazes me that such low polycount graphics look like games with way more.  I mean look at this....this is awesome.    Korean graphics artist are so far ahead of western graphics artist it isn't even funny.   This picture has lots going on(very busy) and yet I bet this game runs smoother then most NA MMORPG's that are made in the states.

Well I would have to say that Korean MMO artists are definitely ahead, but there are plenty of Western games with excellent scenery on a low poly budget.

The engine that NCSoft is using for Aion is the CryEngine which should be much better then using the Unreal 2 Engine like they did with Lineage 2. The reason why I say this is because the CryEngine seems to be built ground up for large exterior maps. While the Unreal Engine excels at interior zoned out maps.