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190100
Advanced Member
Joined: 8/13/08
“Those who sacrifice Liberty for security deserve neither” -Benjamin Franklin |
8/16/08 1:13:28 PM#21
WoW sucks. HARD. Don't compare it to PW, it's insulting, kthx. PW Aion and L2 are the only games worth playing. PW's pve is pretty terrible though I must admit. I'm hoping Aion won't be lame like all the other faction games. Really wish they'd drop the faction crap... |
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8/16/08 6:43:42 PM#22
Ok guys, I am not going to bash Aion.. I just want ask. Please.. Don't link me FAQs and different sites with Aion.. I can find these without help.. I really want just simple answare. I am looking mainly for WAR.. and I found iteresting that Aion is faction based game what I like. I must admit I don't like Lineage 2 at all and basically, I don't like asian art style for character..not really fan of Anime...but I can live with it. Anyway, question is: What can Aion offer for guy like me what WAR can't? I am not saying I can play just one game but actually rumors floating around are that Aion is WAR but just with Asian art style (TBH, hard to belive that two companies would be making so similar games) |
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8/16/08 7:05:05 PM#23
Originally posted by ManiaCCC
I think WAR and Aion differ on many things, and are similar on many others. I must say though that we know the "ideas" of both games, the hard thing to foresee since these 2 games are in beta is how well do those ideas mesh with each other. For example, in WoW, battlegrounds pvp sounded awesome, what people didn't foresee is that those battlegrounds kill completely the open world pvp, and that's something you can only see with our actual perspective. It would require a heavy analysis of both games to make such a comparision, and Im afraid I havent researched that much about WAR to try and predict how well the features will mesh. I doubt anyone here will be able to give you a proper reply, now, if you know what WAR will be like once it's released, I can tell you what Aion will be like once it's released so you can make the comparision by yourself. It would also help knowing if you are missing something in Warhammer or if there's something you don't like there, so then we can tell you if Aion offers that or not. |
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8/16/08 7:08:13 PM#24
I want AION.... !!!!!!! omg... and badly.!!!!! i need it!!!!!! |
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8/16/08 7:10:13 PM#25
Originally posted by ManiaCCC
Aion offers aerial combat, along with a very in-depth character creator (The reason most of the characters might look "anime" is that they are being made by Korean players, I've seen people make various celebrities relevant to western culture eliminating that very "anime" look). When it comes to equipment you can transplant the stats of a one piece of gear to another if you don't like the newer gears look, over the stuff you are already wearing. Along with that there is a very well implemented dying system. Further more, some of the more advanced equipment have visual effects and animations that activate while in combat mode (a plus in my opinion because this means everyone in a city won't be glowing while on the battlefield you get to look like radiant badass). While WAR does have city siege, which I guess would parallel our fortress siege, I haven't seen any signs that you really assume control of a the city or gain any benefit from it in WAR. Meanwhile, in Aion a successful siege means your legion (guild) controls that fortress, they collect taxes from it and it allows your faction to purchase items unique to that fortress. The big "X-factor" of Aion is the Balaur, with their advanced AI, they represent a third NPC faction, they can either aid your faction in a struggle side against you or even go as far as to help you and then double cross you. The Balaur are always active in the abyss and will even seek to take control of fortresses for themselves, opting to lay siege to one whenever they please. WAR in my opinion has a nice idea with crafting but you can only really make two categories of item. Where as Aion does have a more traditional categorization of crafted items, reason I bring this up is it better allows for more diversity among players that are crafters. I would go on to list more but some of the other things like acquiring items of equal power from either raiders, or extensive pvp I'm only about 98% sure of, but I hope this helped. |
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8/16/08 7:16:17 PM#26
Thank you Ephimero for nice answare :) But I would like fix one thing you said.. WoW World PvP wasn't killed by battlegrounds but basically by zero purpose of world PvP. Well, I can't say what I miss in WAR. Yes, I am in WAR beta for 6 months and WAR is very fun.. IT's not perfect but in very good state. So I will try change my question and hopefully it could help.. I love PvP so... What is main goal of PvP in Aion? WAR main PvP goal is capture zones, open siege on capital city of opposing realm and sack it.. Edit: Yea Writh, it helped..even if you said few things similar to WAR, your post bring some new informations for me..Well, hope that "special effects" of armors wont be over the top, because when everything is glowing...it's pretty.. at least weird. But Aearial could be fun.. Also Aion Fortresses are very similar to WAR capitals (yea, in war realm can benefit from capturing capital, have access to more content, abilities, gear etc).. anyway, Aion could be interesting.. I think If I will keep one eye on Aion, it wont hurt. |
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8/16/08 7:30:00 PM#27
The main purpose for Aion's pvp is progression, there are different kinds of progression in this game though, there's the individual progression, your legion's progression and your faction's progression. For individual progression, we will have rewards in Aion, there are certain features and equipment which can be acquired exclusively with Abyss points (which are some kind of pvpve points). We also have the hero system, which makes someone every week (per class and per faction) a 1 man army, and someone to be taken down as your death would mean huge rewards for the ones who slay you. Then we have the legion's progression. You would be interested in getting a fortress for your legion due to the huge rewards obtained out of them, your legion will be getting taxes, access to exclusive vendors and access to exclusive zones by having a fortress. Then we also have pvp for raid bosses, you are hunting in the abyss and see in the horizon how your enemies are killing a raid boss, you call your legion, organize up, gather next to them and kill them all, the raid boss is for your legion. Also, there are certain epic bosses which will be slightly camped, those bosses will close the doors once they spawn, but before they do, mayhem will happen in order to control the zone. Then we also have the faction's progression. Your faction gets profits if any of your legions control a fortress, since the different islands of the Abyss are filled with mobs and hunting zones, if your faction controls the fortress, the zones around it will be better in terms of XP and drops. We also have the fight for artifacts, which will help your faction with buffs every time you activate them, or screw your enemies by activating a massive debuff affecting the area. There are some more factors improving the PvP in this game, rifts will be there to offer some casual pvp from time to time, and you will want to do it, cause the mobs on your enemy's land have better rewards, you will also want to go through rifts for certain quests, and to kill important NPCs of the oppossite faction (killing a quest-giver might make a huge impact on your enemy's progression, and thus I tend to think there will be a point where certain NPCs will be defended, leading to epic battles). And let's not forget about organized groups going through rifts invading the enemy's main cities, just to get Abyss points. There are, however, many more features to be revealed during this year, since the Korean open beta will be showcasing the final levels and all the abyss content there will be at release, so I'd look forward to it also to complete the list of features Aion's PvP might have. Also, don't forget about the third faction acting as a balance factor, just in case some faction becomes quite powerful, the Balaur will hit them harder than ever if something like that happens.
About WoW battlegrounds, I tend to think that dividing the pvp isnt a good idea, I also think that people are more akin to pvp under their rules, instead of pvping under the game's rules, meaning people will always take scheduled pvp over spontaneous one, even if the spontaneous one is funnier in the long term. |
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8/17/08 1:58:05 AM#28
WAR got lotsa nice rewards in PVP not just for the ones doing the PVP. Cant say more about it but trust me its nice allmost like Necron1 rewards (old guys know what i am talking bout)
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8/21/08 2:52:12 AM#29
lol i hope its not like perfect world. i played it 5 minutes and then quitted cause there are way to much icons on the screen. i bet 70% of them have no use xD |
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8/21/08 3:29:42 AM#30
PW is f2p game. Aion p2p. i tell you that there is allot of diffrence between the games. story, graphics, the movements [no laggy movements or lagg in game, realistic movements], persons that ask themselves these kinda questions "Aion, other perfect world?" just didnt play enough p2p/fp2 games to come on a decent conclusion themselves.
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8/21/08 3:35:50 PM#31
People compare PW with AION because PW have fly... but with out the PW fly... PW is just one of the bunch... AION is much more than just fly I am sure lol |
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8/23/08 10:13:44 PM#32
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/282/view/screens/display/9477 aion http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/253/view/screens/display/12554 is not very knowledgeable on mmorpgs but it doesn't seem from theses screenshots there is such a big diffrence (btw i have not looked into this at all but im not really interested enough to any ways u have to admit that grahic wise PW comes closer than and other ftp i have seen yet) |
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8/24/08 7:58:10 AM#33
Originally posted by baka247
I agree that at glance the two are visually comparable. I think most people just don't want the game they are waiting for compared to an F2P for fear of it turning out like one. Honestly, I've very much so waiting for Aion but hell if I didn't know the names of the games I would have thought PW was the original and Aion was the sequel, from some shots. Granted both games have things that the other doesn't, and I personally believe Aion will be a million times better then PW could ever want to be, both visually and in terms of game play. Aion 1 (PW): www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/282/view/screens/display/9474 Aion 2 (Aion): www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/253/view/screens/display/7027 Looks like the same couple meeting up in both games, long time fans of the series haha. But seriously don't you ever compare Aion to some crappy free to play grindfest again...... |
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8/24/08 1:25:09 PM#34
Originally posted by baka247
Ugh. Those pics are over 2 years old. I'd like to see low budget FTP games try and dish out these:
"When you're born you're naked, when you die you're naked again, and in-between all we do is work, eat, and play MMOs." |
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Lasair
Apprentice Member
Joined: 8/16/08
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. |
8/24/08 3:00:29 PM#35
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8/24/08 10:14:34 PM#36
I think AoC has the best graphics out there for an MMO atm.
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8/24/08 10:54:29 PM#37
... how does anyone compare aion and PW? the only way you can compare the two is the fact that the one race in PW has wings and can fly thats it nothing else. Aion has an ass load of more content. and there graphics are not even close to being the same. |
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8/25/08 12:31:55 PM#38
Originally posted by blackhand231
Tottally agree, ppl just don't know anything.,, pw is like the LOWEST game ever
Kenshin |
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8/29/08 7:47:09 PM#39
"pw is like the LOWEST game ever"
www.runescape.com 'Nuff said. |
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9/03/08 5:14:05 PM#40
Originally posted by Durillien
hahahaha so true. |
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