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10/20/09 10:33:17 AM#341
Originally posted by reanor
Can you name several games that had more before their first expansion? Seems to me that I can't recall a game that had more per level or 2? |
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10/20/09 10:40:30 AM#342
Originally posted by Sovrath
1 instance for every 5 levels... And you're saying thats fun? :) Come on... Asian developers - nothing else needs to be added.
Can you name several games that had more before their first expansion? Seems to me that I can't recall a game that had more per level or 2?
You raise a good point but then so does the poster that you are replying to. On one hand I can't recall too many games that had a ton of instances before they put out an expansion. On the other hand you would expect more from a game that is competing in today's environment. I'd expect a new game coming into the scene to already have thought ahead and created several instances even before their first expansion. |
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10/20/09 10:50:07 AM#343
Originally posted by reanor
Considering it's only been out for a year, yes as do a few other that find it fun enough. Flight combat is a creative design and so is so is the gathering of aether, then there are the unique transformations in game, and the title uses with stats imbedded. Don't think either company would have done better than it is now, fun is still subjective to each and every person out there and only they can say what is fun and what is not, so far all the servers seem to have a healthy population of players and no major decreases in population yet.  |
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10/20/09 11:41:40 AM#344
I don't mind that there's a steep leveling curve tbh. I try to view a game as a game rather than as a job to do. I'll just continue to play casually and enjoy it while I do it. |
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10/20/09 5:20:46 PM#345
Originally posted by mmaize
The point is not that other review sites gave it good reviews at times. The point is that this site gave it the best review it has ever given an MMO. And this MMO is quite simply not even close to that good.
For instance: RPGFan gave Aion a 90. They gave World of Warcraft a 95. IGN gave Aion an 85. They gave EQ2 an 85. They gave 9+ for WoW and expasions. They gave LotRO an 8.6. They gave Guild Wars a 9. They gave WAR a 9.
Metacritic ended up with an 8.1 overall for Aion. They gave EQ2 an 8.3. They gave LotRO an 8.6. WoW is over 9. Guild Wars 8.9.
You can go to every single site and do this. And you can find more games on these sites that are above Aion. This site is the only one that is saying that Aion is the best MMO ever made through it's overall "official" score. And it's embarrassing. Unless of course they come out and say that Aion is the finest MMO to ever be produced. But then they would lose even more credibility.
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10/20/09 5:24:34 PM#346
Originally posted by colddog
The point is not that other review sites gave it good reviews at times. The point is that this site gave it the best review it has ever given an MMO. And this MMO is quite simply not even close to that good.
For instance: RPGFan gave Aion a 90. They gave World of Warcraft a 95. IGN gave Aion an 85. They gave EQ2 an 85. They gave 9+ for WoW and expasions. They gave LotRO an 8.6. They gave Guild Wars a 9. They gave WAR a 9.
Metacritic ended up with an 8.1 overall for Aion. They gave EQ2 an 8.3. They gave LotRO an 8.6. WoW is over 9. Guild Wars 8.9.
You can go to every single site and do this. And you can find more games on these sites that are above Aion. This site is the only one that is saying that Aion is the best MMO ever made through it's overall "official" score. And it's embarrassing. Unless of course they come out and say that Aion is the finest MMO to ever be produced. But then they would lose even more credibility.
No this site is saying that aion had one of the best polished launches. MMORPG.com review a game when it's launched it's probably if they made a re-review of wow and lotro with their new expansions the rate would be higher but here the rating means most how was the game launched when released. |
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10/20/09 5:28:56 PM#347
Originally posted by bloodaxes No this site is saying that aion had one of the best polished launches. MMORPG.com review a game when it's launched it's probably if they made a re-review of wow and lotro with their new expansions the rate would be higher but here the rating means most how was the game launched when released. A smooth launch is all it takes to be tops?
You are not thinking clearly. |
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10/20/09 5:37:12 PM#348
Originally posted by colddog A smooth launch is all it takes to be tops?
You are not thinking clearly. Aion had a smooth launch and what it promised was already there working, yes there were small stuff here and there to fix and they still need to fix bots and gold spam problem but you could play normally if you could get pass the queue time. While some other games (better not name them or some could QQ) didn't work well and took weeks to fix before people could play the game well. For me if you can launch a game that has very few bugs/glitches at launch it already deserves a higher rate then one that took weeks or a month to fix before it could be playable.
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10/20/09 5:52:48 PM#349
Originally posted by bloodaxes Aion had a smooth launch and what it promised was already there working, yes there were small stuff here and there to fix and they still need to fix bots and gold spam problem but you could play normally if you could get pass the queue time. While some other games (better not name them or some could QQ) didn't work well and took weeks to fix before people could play the game well. For me if you can launch a game that has very few bugs/glitches at launch it already deserves a higher rate then one that took weeks or a month to fix before it could be playable.
To me, in order to hold the #1 spot anywhere you need to have a lot more than a smooth launch. Actually, a smooth launch should in my opinion have absolutely nothing to do with the rating on a game.
Even if a reviewer was giving a review and wanted to include LAUNCH as one of his categories, the other categories would bring the overall number down. There really is nothing #1 about this game at all. Not even graphics.
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10/20/09 6:47:54 PM#350
kind of surprised by the rating, 8.7 seems pretty high for this game. Felt more like a 7 to me, the graphics are great, the classes are kind of interesting but the grinding later on is a huge detraction for me. Its basically the cap that I hit and then stop playing because grinding on mobs is dull without some kind of shade of questing. |
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10/21/09 3:24:12 AM#351
Originally posted by Demz2
Got that right |
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10/21/09 3:28:11 AM#352
A smooth launch is rather easy when the game was already out for a year in the east. :) I wonder if anyone could tell us how well the original launch went? |
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10/21/09 3:33:55 AM#353
Edit: Typos, those poor bastards. |
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10/21/09 9:10:54 AM#354
"It seems like customer support in the game is pretty awful." I'd go from 'prety awful' to near non existant. The forums are irrelevant as no one from NCsoft ever posts there, new posts in a thread dont bump the thread to the top, and the only moderation is in the form of deleted posts. They have either no GMs in-game or they have the worst GMs ever. My sub is frozen now and will remain so until the company gets its act togther. |
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10/22/09 2:55:57 AM#355
New posts do not bump threads and the only moderation is deleting threads? That is just taking the piss. |
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12/17/09 2:28:45 PM#356
Service is pretty horrible. but thats NCsoft period. all of there games i've played were like that. if you don't like games crashing, either stop playing brand new ones, or learn to fix the stuff yourself. as far as score goes. it's a review. if you don't agree with the reviewers thoughts and score, write your own goddamn review. bunch of f---ing whiners who have to follow the herd. as far as the game goes, it's alright. graphics are nice, plays smooth. i have the liberty of having a system built for maya and the likes. my FPS spike like crazy sometimes, between 60-200, but i haven't decided if thats just my comp, or the game. could that new windows 7 bull too. the animation is all done very smooth, but not really "real". can't put my finger on why, but something about it.... as far as gameplay goes. it's basic. almost a little too basic for someone who has played a mmo before... so sfor some experienced players, it probably will be "fast food". that depends on the end game tho, i haven't made it anywhere near that far. it has a monotonous feel to it, but the game originally came from korea. to all the people complaining about grinding, i repeat. THE GAME CAME FROM KOREA! if you don't like grind games, don't play anything that even remotely hints to the idea of a korean origin. or asian (no offense intended to anyone). The character builder is set up very nicely. a good mix of "preset" and "sliders". some hair length options would be nice tho, give it a bit more depth.
all in all it is a decent game. they obviously spent more time and effort on looks than they did content, but thats what patches are for. how many content patches has wow added? kinda like comparing a stock car to a tuned one.... |
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1/01/10 10:10:05 AM#357
I bought this game and played it for a month and was sorely dissappointed by the game play and what I had to do to reach the pvp content of the game. I was so fed up with trying to get to level 25 and enter the abyss that I actually gave up at level 23 because I was trying to solo, died tons, leveled sooo slow and actually got tendonitis in my wrist from playing this game. I am an avid EVE player and have tried almost every game on the market. But this game really needs to figure out there first 25 levels so they don't lose people like me, because from what I could see it's WoW with wings and thats it. |
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5/08/10 2:55:30 AM#358
Aion, needs work, I basically look at it right now as a pay-to-play beta. The grind was never the problem for me, its was the crap customer service and gold spammers. Lag was another factor in why I decided to leave, I run a pretty high-end system here, found out NCsofts current servers dont handle high-population pvp very well. Try conquering a fortress where the lag practically makes little better than a slide-show or server crashes right in the middle of the fight. Also, found it rather interesting and somewhat funny how my character could fly but not swim, just walk along the bottom as if he was made out of lead and drown. Plus, there was disturbing news that some of the higher end quests weren't even translated....how the HELL am I suppose to read it?
The Verdict Save your money, its simply not worth paying hard earned cash to play at this time. |
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6/28/10 5:14:51 PM#359
Two questions... is Aion a solo-ability game or group ability game or both? How far can you solo? Thanks. MMO's Played: UO, EQ, SWG, CoX, DAoC, WoW, Champions Online, AION, SWTOR, RIFT..... |
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6/28/10 5:18:32 PM#360
Originally posted by Tokken Though I did group from time to time and though there are a few quests/areas that require a group, I can pretty much say I mostly soloed to lvl 46. I am fairly confident that one could solo to cap. The problem is that you are going to have to be resourceful because if you go into the abyss you might run into the enemy en masse. |
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