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Originally posted by Ionik

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Originally posted by Ephimero

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Originally posted by Legato89

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Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

If something sounds too good to be true...

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I mean seriously. I remember hearing how amazing Darkfall was supposed to be.

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Darkfall always looked like an enormous turd, this trailer doesn't look like an enormous turd.

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I think mythbuster did a show on if you could shine a piece of turd.
didn't get busted.
so I wouldn't bash darkfall that much. Their slowly shining it lmfao.

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Great PR vid, but let's face the reality

Half of the features wont be implemented due to technical issues / money / time limitations / insertrandomexcusehere
The other 1/4 will be in p2p expansion
And the last 1/4 won't even work.

Life's a bitch, you know.

Regards

Yep, looks amazing.  Probably set to drop in 2012 shortly after the world is scheduled to end.

Hype hype hype!  If I had to guess, they put some of the art, models, mechanics into a single player beefed up version of itself just to record the damn video.

I've never played Aion and never will, but the video / forum hype crap has been done 200 times over from MMO companies who pushed out underpar games.  Hopefully, for the Aion fans anyway, I'm wrong.

Aion has a lot of flaws, but their developers didn't do one thing yet, promise something that they didn't deliver.

Originally posted by Xasapis

Aion has a lot of flaws, but their developers didn't do one thing yet, promise something that they didn't deliver.

...and none of the features in this PR vid are promised.

now all it needs is a cash-shop and it'll be perfect.

lmao.

Originally posted by Legato89

Originally posted by Ephimero

Originally posted by Legato89

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

If something sounds too good to be true...

 

I mean seriously. I remember hearing how amazing Darkfall was supposed to be.

 

Darkfall always looked like an enormous turd, this trailer doesn't look like an enormous turd.

 

Darkfall was in development for a very long time. There was a period where we had no visuals to go by.

That would make your previous comparision completely futile then. We have visuals to go by in this case, added to actual ingame experience to try and match what we're looking to along with what we already know for certain.

Thing is, if you've played Aion already, you most likely can figure out what to expect just by looking at the video:

Pets/mounts system, where you must defeat them before chasing a la pokemon.
Capital cities surrounding invasion.
Housing, which seems to be present in a pre-capital city war zone.
Weather affecting the enviroment.
Swimming, and underwater content.
New weapons, so far, the whip and Bayonet, maybe more that i've overlooked.
Hints at possible directional attacks like in Dota?
Changes in the entire lighting system along with other graphical improvements?
Heavy inspiration in devil may cry's motorcicle sword and demon hand :P
Hinting movements that can make you hurt a friend by being thrown towards him.
Mounted combat.
Hinted aerial attacks from dragons to fortresses?
Aerial mines (must be a kind of aerial trap I guess).

Take all those elements, use your game experience to try to figure out how it might be implemented in order to change the game enough, but without reinventing anything really, and you will understand exactly what the trailer means.

And, it made me rejoice, I'm already level 50 with good gear, so bring the new content on ^^

Originally posted by Legato89

Originally posted by Xasapis

Aion has a lot of flaws, but their developers didn't do one thing yet, promise something that they didn't deliver.

 

...and none of the features in this PR vid are promised.

They could publish a list of features or a bunch of screenshots. Other developers do just that for any future features. Instead NCsoft decided to post a video of the working game. If anything, that proves that the features are indeed in the game (although unknown at this time on whether they work properly and without bugs).

What more proof does one need of a feature than a video displaying that feature? The next step is the live game and this is obviously not ready for live. Remember that they could have just released a list, and it would have been equally binding to what we witness in this video.

I will admit that swimming with those giant guppies looked like fun. I miss Aquazone. What about a tropical fish based MMO?

The housing would probably pull a lot of players from WoW.

The coolest feature I saw was trainable mounts. I am very surprised WoW doesn't have this yet. Wait two months.

Enjoyed watching that video.The things shown are deffo nice to watch in   a TRAILER ...but I have very serious doubts as to wich it would actually work gameplay wise . Guess im a bit pesimistic with every new mmo trailer I watch ....never biting into hype ever again after the aoc/war/aion bot  fiascos   

 so what is this Aion hype 2.0? The fanbois already got me to get this game at launch and it was a huge waste of money. 

If i'm gonna play another korean grinder i'll choose TERA over Aion any day. NCsoft is probably one of the worst gaming companies out there, look at their track record... 

But honestly them implementing all this stuff just shows what a pos product they released at the start. 

Originally posted by battleaxe22

Enjoyed watching that video.The things shown are deffo nice to watch in   a TRAILER ...but I have very serious doubts as to wich it would actually work gameplay wise . Guess im a bit pesimistic with every new mmo trailer I watch ....never biting into hype ever again after the aoc/war/aion bot  fiascos   

AoC hype was fun though imo. ahah

Wtf?  It's like it's not even the same game from those videos, the difference is night and day.  That's more along the lines of what was promised and should have been delivered at release.  I was really interested in Aion until I played beta and saved myself the 50 bucks, but even this has my attention.  It will be interesting to see if they can pull it off to any degree of success.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

I will admit that swimming with those giant guppies looked like fun.

The housing would probably pull a lot of players from WoW.

The coolest feature I saw was trainable mounts. I am very surprised WoW doesn't have this yet. Wait two months.

If it's a good idea that's proven to work in another MMO, you can expect it to be bastardized (err "implemented") into WoW.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

I will admit that swimming with those giant guppies looked like fun.

The housing would probably pull a lot of players from WoW.

The coolest feature I saw was trainable mounts. I am very surprised WoW doesn't have this yet. Wait two months.

I agree with you on this, Blizzard will see that people are interested in this and it will be in a future update. Then the wonderful joy of hearing people say that Blizzard did it first and better then anyone else. Ok so I might be a little cynical. HAHA

Originally posted by Angorim

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

I will admit that swimming with those giant guppies looked like fun.

The housing would probably pull a lot of players from WoW.

The coolest feature I saw was trainable mounts. I am very surprised WoW doesn't have this yet. Wait two months.

 

If it's a good idea that's proven to work in another MMO, you can expect it to be bastardized (err "implemented") into WoW.

To be fair - they often do a better job with the feature than the original company. Witness siege content and queue from anywhere BGs they took from Warhammer.

I don't criticize Blizzard at all for copying good ideas. I would want any game I had put a lot of time into to use features that are good, whether they are original or not.

I enjoyed the trailer, but can't help think that the average computer can't handle a lot of that detail yet.  They might be targeting much of this content for several years down the road when the overall level of the gaming market has stronger computers.

I don't even like Aion, but this is awesome ._.;;;;

I also find it hilarious Blizzard, a company with MILLIONS up MILLIONS of dollars cannot upgrade their visuals at all in the 4+ years of WoW running ( I don't mean tiny ass little changes, but huge visual changes like this). I mean it doesn't have to be mandatory visuals, but players whose PC's can handle should have the option...

God,I wasted so much time on WoW....

Originally posted by Kyleran

I enjoyed the trailer, but can't help think that the average computer can't handle a lot of that detail yet.  They might be targeting much of this content for several years down the road when the overall level of the gaming market has stronger computers.

 

Absolutely. I was thinking the same thing.