Looks like a F2P game to me, sorta looks like Perfect World.

Originally posted by GENoverkill

cant wait. but expect to be disapointed again like all other NC soft titles, seriously they dont hold ur attention for long and content patches are few and very far between.   WoW sets a high bar and aoin is probably not going to hold up for long...  plus you have all the next gen MMO's on the horizon comon !!! blizz new intelectual property MMO (hopefully revealed in blizzcon).  FFIV / Star Wars: The Old Republic/ jump gate revolution / and a couple rediculously good looking asian titles. 

 

All in all call it what it is L2+graphics and wings... a nice amusing piece to hold u over till the good stuff. or at least till diablo3 ... for the Korean's starcraft 2 is going to be there new crack. OH BTW if u dont know already this games already 1+yr's old , it just takes god darn forever to port shit for North america.

Hmm, given that it was released last November in Korea, I fail to see how that makes it 1+ years old already.

Originally posted by Thradar

 This game looks gorgeous, but that's not enough anymore.  Puddle deep quests, poor translations, and the complete lack of backstory/lore, the annoying battle shouts...immediately turns me off from this game.

Ditto.  I rolled a female scout in beta, and though the graphics were nice, I couldn't get over the childish animations and sounds.  My toon would cry like a 10 yr old girl every time she attacked or got hit, and just fighting with my dagger would make animations akin to nuclear explosion.  WTF?  It's just a dagger stabbing a mob.

This is very typically Asian.  In Asian MMOs you have all this glitz and glamor, and all of that superficial eye candy is simply hiding uniteresting gameplay.

I was plesently suprised by Aion, I was expecting the typical Asian grind fest but I was confronted by a whole heap of quests, I have the sound off in the game as I listen to music or the Mrs instead but I liked the animations, better than a boring swipe etc. I wanted to see the pvp action but never got that far, as I was only playing the chinnese beta or something then my time ran out, but wat I saw was pretty good. I will try it out when its in open beta if it allows me :)

Originally posted by Oyjord

Originally posted by Thradar

 This game looks gorgeous, but that's not enough anymore.  Puddle deep quests, poor translations, and the complete lack of backstory/lore, the annoying battle shouts...immediately turns me off from this game.

 

Ditto.  I rolled a female scout in beta, and though the graphics were nice, I couldn't get over the childish animations and sounds.  My toon would cry like a 10 yr old girl every time she attacked or got hit, and just fighting with my dagger would make animations akin to nuclear explosion.  WTF?  It's just a dagger stabbing a mob.

 

This is very typically Asian.  In Asian MMOs you have all this glitz and glamor, and all of that superficial eye candy is simply hiding uniteresting gameplay.

Fortunately you have plenty of other "voice" options to choose for your character.  But seeing as you've already made your opinion on all Asian mmo's, it won't matter because you won't be playing it, which in itself is a benefit to those of us who will.

Originally posted by Oyjord

Originally posted by Thradar

 This game looks gorgeous, but that's not enough anymore.  Puddle deep quests, poor translations, and the complete lack of backstory/lore, the annoying battle shouts...immediately turns me off from this game.

 

Ditto.  I rolled a female scout in beta, and though the graphics were nice, I couldn't get over the childish animations and sounds.  My toon would cry like a 10 yr old girl every time she attacked or got hit, and just fighting with my dagger would make animations akin to nuclear explosion.  WTF?  It's just a dagger stabbing a mob.

 

This is very typically Asian.  In Asian MMOs you have all this glitz and glamor, and all of that superficial eye candy is simply hiding uniteresting gameplay.

I initially complained about this too. The voice-overs and las vegas weapon/interactions sounds. But the western localizations are not complete and will be available either in beta or launch. I hope they get it right because I'm looking forward to playing this game.

if you want to "betatest" aion, play Perfect World...Aion is basically a Perfect World clone with pint of Lineage2 mixed in the soup

Originally posted by Ephimero

[...]a 47 can outperform a level 50 easily, but a 42 might not have the same luck as the damage is heavily reduced.[...]

Does this mean that you are pretty much unable to damage much higher level characters regardless of stats and gear? I can understand this restriction for PvE in linear games, since it makes it easier to design a natural progression through areas, but for PvP it is silly. Higher level characters have enough advantages as it is without level differences reducing the damage further.
 

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Originally posted by Vegetta

pvp with flight sounds neat but I am no real fan of Asian MMOs.

I'll just wait for jumpgate or Black Prophecy to do all of my flying & PVP :P

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Is this you from another site?

If it is, you sure have a lot of waiting to do. :p

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Originally posted by NulnHighwayBoy ( VN WAR boards):

last night i patched to 35% said "This is to slow" and canceled the patch

Downloaded ddo beta and played that instead ......

I got great DL speed from turbine but mythic's patcher speed made me feel like I was on dial up....

meh ill get around to patching WAR eventually

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Was skipping around to check how LOTD was going, saw that and remember your sig. If so, did it ever load up for you?

Originally posted by kishe

if you want to "betatest" aion, play Perfect World...Aion is basically a Perfect World clone with pint of Lineage2 mixed in the soup

Having played Aion and Perfect World recently, I can only assume that you have not done either.  This statement is beyond ignorant.

Having played a bit in the previous beta weekend event, I found the game enjoyable but not too different from the "MMO standard" of gameplay. Then again I didn't get a chance to try out the flying elements yet. And to the author of the article, those are not talking ferrets...they are talking teddy bear hamster gohper thingees.

sounds pretty good ^^ But I gonna wait and see what happens I think,  I don't wanna buy a game to see it's a dissapointment and a waist of money. But if it is really good I might try it a few months after it will launch ^^

Originally posted by Miklos

I can't wait for Aion - hoping it will be a blast (never played a NCsoft product before as I didnt like GW and L1/L2).

And in terms of PVP - unless you state that EVE Online is the best PVP MMO game to ever launch, you are misinformed.

UO PvP was a lot better then EVE ever was/will be. Fact.

I did say, straight up, that I didn't actually get to try the PVP. That is why I didn't review it. This was a first look - what the game looked like at first!

Unless I get to do some PVP, I won't be the reporter who writes the review.

The people I've talked to from the beta assure me that PVP is not an afterthought, and that the class balancing was done using PVP fights as the standard, not PVE fights. And certainly what I saw of the interface and the anti-exploit stuff, it seems to be true.

Originally posted by madeux

Originally posted by Oyjord

Originally posted by Thradar

 This game looks gorgeous, but that's not enough anymore.  Puddle deep quests, poor translations, and the complete lack of backstory/lore, the annoying battle shouts...immediately turns me off from this game.

 

Ditto.  I rolled a female scout in beta, and though the graphics were nice, I couldn't get over the childish animations and sounds.  My toon would cry like a 10 yr old girl every time she attacked or got hit, and just fighting with my dagger would make animations akin to nuclear explosion.  WTF?  It's just a dagger stabbing a mob.

 

This is very typically Asian.  In Asian MMOs you have all this glitz and glamor, and all of that superficial eye candy is simply hiding uniteresting gameplay.

 

Fortunately you have plenty of other "voice" options to choose for your character.  But seeing as you've already made your opinion on all Asian mmo's, it won't matter because you won't be playing it, which in itself is a benefit to those of us who will.

Its hard not to make up your mind if all (or most) Asian MMOs follow the same style.

Originally posted by madeux

Originally posted by kishe

if you want to "betatest" aion, play Perfect World...Aion is basically a Perfect World clone with pint of Lineage2 mixed in the soup

 

Having played Aion and Perfect World recently, I can only assume that you have not done either.  This statement is beyond ignorant.

Couldn't have agreed more!

I actually think I agree with everything in the preview... that pretty much somes up all the important aspects.. with maybe a slight meniton about combat and how movment is important. Anyway I'm excited.

Originally posted by Waterlily

Originally posted by velimirius

NCsoft had brought pvp to the west with Lineage and GW.

 

That was Ultime Online, not Lineage, an American company. UO had PVP before Lineage was even a pipe-dream.

So go back and play UO then... Fact is that East is making best pvp games.

Originally posted by Raknar

Dunno on what it reminds you but you are wrong,cuz western pvp always was crap in compare with eastern.

NCsoft had brought pvp to the west with Lineage and GW.

 

UO, AC1 Darktide...both harder core PvP than anything in Lineage or GW. Especially GW, just a bunch of arena matches. And they were both around before anything Asian.

Arena match is player vs plyer isnt it?  thats PvP isnt it? stfu then.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Aion is the next best thing wether people want to admit it or not. People just love to be anti-NcSoft and be on that Blizzard bandwagon. I'll say it again, WOW was/is good for gaming but we can do better, Aion is better.

well said

I'm optimistic about this game. Havn't played it yet, mind you...but from what I hear, as long as I can stomach another quest grind (and that remains to be seen) I will enjoy most of the other aspects of Aion.

Anyway, OP...thanks for the information....well written...has us looking forward to trying it.

Originally posted by Oyjord

Originally posted by Thradar

 This game looks gorgeous, but that's not enough anymore.  Puddle deep quests, poor translations, and the complete lack of backstory/lore, the annoying battle shouts...immediately turns me off from this game.

 

Ditto.  I rolled a female scout in beta, and though the graphics were nice, I couldn't get over the childish animations and sounds.  My toon would cry like a 10 yr old girl every time she attacked or got hit, and just fighting with my dagger would make animations akin to nuclear explosion.  WTF?  It's just a dagger stabbing a mob.

 

This is very typically Asian.  In Asian MMOs you have all this glitz and glamor, and all of that superficial eye candy is simply hiding uniteresting gameplay.

In the upcoming patch 1.3 you can disable battle cries... so that shouldn't be an issue.

And I don't get why people hate the exaggerated battle animations... makes you feel so much more badass than Western MMos, in which most battle animations look like glitches...

The dialogue the writer spoke about, "well written" he says. Yes, that scene had such riveting lines such as "Whoa! It's ____".

As usual, a waste of time reading this.

Only thing that worries me about what could go wrong with this game is how NcSoft handles the bot/farmer-24/7 issue that ruined Lineage 2 and they didnt bother much to handle.

If they can handle that, cant see how this game can fail in any region they release.

Originally posted by N1ghtsta1ker

Originally posted by Oyjord

Originally posted by Thradar

 This game looks gorgeous, but that's not enough anymore.  Puddle deep quests, poor translations, and the complete lack of backstory/lore, the annoying battle shouts...immediately turns me off from this game.

 

Ditto.  I rolled a female scout in beta, and though the graphics were nice, I couldn't get over the childish animations and sounds.  My toon would cry like a 10 yr old girl every time she attacked or got hit, and just fighting with my dagger would make animations akin to nuclear explosion.  WTF?  It's just a dagger stabbing a mob.

 

This is very typically Asian.  In Asian MMOs you have all this glitz and glamor, and all of that superficial eye candy is simply hiding uniteresting gameplay.

In the upcoming patch 1.3 you can disable battle cries... so that shouldn't be an issue.

 

And I don't get why people hate the exaggerated battle animations... makes you feel so much more badass than Western MMos, in which most battle animations look like glitches...

You can disable them already and 1.3 isn't even out on the test server.