I'll go over my impressions really fast. I'm not here to write a review, I'm not qualified to do that and I won't pretend to be, I'm just going to point out issues which bother me a lot and eventually disappointed me.

I didn't expect the game to be great, but it I didn't expect it to be bad either, I was wrong, it's really not a very impressive game.

positive:

*game runs very well

*interface is nice to use

*music is quite good

*graphics are ok, much less good than Aion trailers, but still not bad

negative

*Very standard MMO....... kills 10 of X, collect 4 of Y

*No goal or reason to be there......, you feel like you're dropped into a world where you don't belong

* text is mediocre at best.........., it's definitely translated by people not used to MMO, the language and terminology used isn't impressive

*Combat is very boring........... for the first 10 levels, you get very few abilities

*Game is a grind............, maybe I've played too many MMO, but <target mob> <kill mob> <target mob> <kill mob>..is what you'll be doing for about 4 hours non-stop to get to level 10

*NPC's did not speak to me (sound)................, maybe they will fix this, I don't know

*Players are mostly just soloing,........... no real incentive to group, maybe this will change in later levels, I don't know

*Places you start in are way too small,......... too many players all dumped into starting places, you feel like a person trapped in a box

*No real story..........., almost no lore, I felt lost? and it felt a bit pointless to be there

*There's something wrong with the game's horizontal vision,..... imagine looking through a camera and missing a good part of the side view of the world, that's what it's like when playing Aion, they restrict vision to the left and right

If I had to give it a score? Shrug, I guess 4/10. Anyway, I hope this helps, yes it's a very negative review, but that's how I felt about the game.

uh i thought you guys were under an nda? not?

haha yea silently removed everything pointing to eu beta, you will have to remove any translation and sound comments too though, else you're still giving yourself away...

Originally posted by zarzu

uh i thought you guys were under an nda? not?

I never signed an NDA, so I'm not.

Originally posted by zarzu

uh i thought you guys were under an nda? not?

What point is there to an NDA on a game that's already been released? The only difference is the English translation ( which apparently sucks like most asian to english translated mmos ). You really need an NDA for that? LOL

did you hit level 3?

I am pretty much same mindset at you the game isn't bad and seems quite stable.lBut its much of the same WoW,WAR like game play/interface nothing special here if you have played one of em you have played em all.

Yes, the biggest problem is that its just another WoW or WoW type game with different skins, you just grow wings instead of having flying mount. I have done this a million times before and i am not doing it again. YOU CAN FETCH 10 BUNNY TAILS BY YOURSELF DAMNIT!!

I couldn't agree more... It's just WOW in Manga world... :(

Originally posted by 0guz

did you hit level 3?

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*Game is a grind............, maybe I've played too many MMO, but <target mob> <kill mob> <target mob> <kill mob>..is what you'll be doing for about 4 hours non-stop to get to level 10

What do you think, Einstein?

Its an asian GRINDING ORGY like any other - what do you expected ?

Obviously it's come to the point where everyone expects to receive a Handjob upon entering the playing realm of a new game. Aion never said it was innovative, it takes the features of the current genre and improves on them. WoW wasn't intuitive either, and it's done quite well.

Also, judging and MMO on the first 10 levels? Smart. I'm sure you enjoyed Heroic Striking your way through level 10 and Sinister Striking your way through level 10 as well, much more action packed.

And to top it off, I hit lvl 20 in China live without grinding once, so I don't know where you are pulling your info from.

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Originally posted by Waterlily

 

I'll go over my impressions really fast. I'm not here to write a review, I'm not qualified to do that and I won't pretend to be, I'm just goint to point out issues which bother me a lot and eventually disappointed me.
I didn't expect the game to be great, but it I didn't expect it to be bad either, I was wrong, it's really not a very impressive game.
 
positive:
*game runs very well
*interface is nice to use
*music is quite good
*graphics are ok, much less good than Aion trailers, but still not bad
 
negative
*Very standard MMO....... kills 10 of X, collect 4 of Y
*No goal or reason to be there......, you feel like you're dropped into a world where you don't belong
* vocals are mediocre at best.........., it's definately translated by people not used to MMO, the language and terminology used isn't impressive
*Combat is very boring........... for the first 10 levels, you get very few abilities
*Game is a grind............, maybe I've played too many MMO, but <target mob> <kill mob> <target mob> <kill mob>..is what you'll be doing for about 4 hours non-stop to get to level 10
*NPC's did not speak to me (sound)................, maybe they will fix this, I don't know
*Players are mostly just soloing,........... no real incentive to group, maybe this will change in later levels, I don't know
*Places you start in are way too small,......... too many players all dumped into starting places, you feel like a person trapped in a box

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Ok, same old mmo.... but it's the most polished of them all (world is even more alive than lotro and wow. It's also the only game since Wow that is able to show footprints on relevant surfaces - this should tell a lot about the world polish ;) ).

... but then there's also the sad immersion breaking zoning.

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Originally posted by Waterlily
*No real story..........., almost no lore, I felt lost? and it felt a bit pointless to be there

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There is a lot of lore and story. Are you sure you got to level 10? Because the main story line unravels nicely, you are sent back into your lost memories (something like AoC, but interactive in some scenes) with cut-scenes, npcs telling you more and more about the Abyss and the other races, etc...

... at least on the Chinese version.

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Originally posted by Waterlily
*There's something wrong with the game's horizontal vision,..... imagine looking through camera and missing a good part of the side view of the world, that's what it's like when playing Aion, they restrict vision to the left and right

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I don't have this problem here, I am playing on widescreen fullhd in 1920x1080.

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Originally posted by Waterlily
If I had to give it a score? Shrug, I guess 4/10. Anyway, I hope this helps, yes it's a very negative review, but I that's how I felt about the game.

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Sorry, as much as I can agree with some of your above points, this is just plain nonsense. You are entitled to your opinion of course, but it rather looks like you barely played the game...
 

Originally posted by Jimmydean

Obviously it's come to the point where everyone expects to receive a Handjob upon entering the playing realm of a new game. Aion never said it was innovative, it takes the features of the current genre and improves on them. WoW wasn't intuitive either, and it's done quite well.

 

Also, judging and MMO on the first 10 levels? Smart. I'm sure you enjoyed Heroic Striking your way through level 10 and Sinister Striking your way through level 10 as well, much more action packed.

 

And to top it off, I hit lvl 20 in China live without grinding once, so I don't know where you are pulling your info from.

Couldn't agree with the entire post more.

I went from 1-10 in under 2 hours, easy, with quests still to complete. I seriously question if I play the same game as half these people. I thought the story line was actually pretty decent, nothing spectacular, but works fine for an MMO. 1400x900 widescreen resolution looked fine, didn't feel like I was missing part of the picture? No reason to group? The areas are too small with too many people? They're channeled, it's populated like that because it's a preview weekend, lol.

Originally posted by Waterlily

I'll go over my impressions really fast. I'm not here to write a review, I'm not qualified to do that and I won't pretend to be, I'm just goint to point out issues which bother me a lot and eventually disappointed me.

I didn't expect the game to be great, but it I didn't expect it to be bad either, I was wrong, it's really not a very impressive game.

 

positive:

*game runs very well

*interface is nice to use

*music is quite good

*graphics are ok, much less good than Aion trailers, but still not bad

 

negative

*Very standard MMO....... kills 10 of X, collect 4 of Y

*No goal or reason to be there......, you feel like you're dropped into a world where you don't belong

* text is mediocre at best.........., it's definately translated by people not used to MMO, the language and terminology used isn't impressive

*Combat is very boring........... for the first 10 levels, you get very few abilities

*Game is a grind............, maybe I've played too many MMO, but <target mob> <kill mob> <target mob> <kill mob>..is what you'll be doing for about 4 hours non-stop to get to level 10

*NPC's did not speak to me (sound)................, maybe they will fix this, I don't know

*Players are mostly just soloing,........... no real incentive to group, maybe this will change in later levels, I don't know

*Places you start in are way too small,......... too many players all dumped into starting places, you feel like a person trapped in a box

*No real story..........., almost no lore, I felt lost? and it felt a bit pointless to be there

*There's something wrong with the game's horizontal vision,..... imagine looking through camera and missing a good part of the side view of the world, that's what it's like when playing Aion, they restrict vision to the left and right

 

If I had to give it a score? Shrug, I guess 4/10. Anyway, I hope this helps, yes it's a very negative review, but I that's how I felt about the game.

 

Very odd, There is a story and a questline explaining why you're there and your place in it......

In the CNOB the dialogue and the story were very well written, of course I was using a patch for english that was more than likely NOT written by the NC soft people so it may be completely different.... which is a shame.

As far as crowding the Starter areas had different instances in order to prevent what you're describing. Hope they didn't cut that.
 

From your statement about Graphics, not looking like the trailers and Horizontal vision problems, It seems like either a Personal Vid card issue or they've made a HUGE change in the client.  The fact that NPCs don't speak to you???? makes me think it may be the second more than your own Video card.

Combat and Grinding are pretty much personal views so I can't really comment on that. I can say this though, It should pretty much only take about 2 hrs to reach 10 if you're doing the quests.  Grinding the Mobs doesn't give the same xp as doing the quests, but it will net you other things.  And of course you should always move when fighting to get the benefits of +evasion,+def or + atkpower.

I'd like to hear from others who may have also played either the Chinese or Korean Versions (the Korean version actually has more than the Chinese beta did, including Voiceovers) 

Other than that, Can I have your acct if you aren't going to play it?

Originally posted by Jimmydean

Obviously it's come to the point where everyone expects to receive a Handjob upon entering the playing realm of a new game. Aion never said it was innovative, it takes the features of the current genre and improves on them. WoW wasn't intuitive either, and it's done quite well.

 

Also, judging and MMO on the first 10 levels? Smart. I'm sure you enjoyed Heroic Striking your way through level 10 and Sinister Striking your way through level 10 as well, much more action packed.

 

And to top it off, I hit lvl 20 in China live without grinding once, so I don't know where you are pulling your info from.

I agree, i also played on china servers and hit level 25 without grinding at all. and this was with a million bots in some areas where i couldnt even do the quest. there is TONS of quest to do if thats the way you like to level.

yeah there isnt a ton of skills at first but later on there is plenty, your skills bars start to fill up quick in the later levels.

as far as the quest being go kill X amount of mobs or go pick up X amount of bags off the ground, what do you expect from a MMO these days? you can thank warcraft for the mindless quest that make people run around and feel like a UPS delivery guy. seems all the new games have adopted that style.

you want real quest try Asherons Call.

Originally posted by beauxaj

 

I'd like to hear from others who may have also played either the Chinese or Korean Versions (the Korean version actually has more than the Chinese beta did, including Voiceovers) 

 

So would I. Sounds possible that the NA/EU version might have been stripped down compared to the China/Korean versions.

Because so far everyone attacking the review are doing so from the Chinese/Korean game perspective, it seems.

Glad I decided not to download beta.

As I see its nothing new from LOTRO or  WOW. Except different graphic. And few  gimmicks.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Glad I decided not to download beta.

As I see its nothing new from LOTRO or  WOW. Except different graphic. And few  gimmicks.

 

 

no one said there was something new about it, jsut well made polished mmorpg.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Glad I decided not to download beta.

As I see its nothing new from LOTRO or  WOW. Except different graphic. And few  gimmicks.

 

 

depends how you look at it, Lotro and wow pvp is the most horrible thing i have ever whitnessed in my life. so if you like some pvp then Aion blows it away.  If you like to just raid and pve then stick with lotro and wow because Aion as much as i saw didnt really have much of that.

but i only made it to 25 so i dunno if there are big raids at later levels.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Glad I decided not to download beta.

As I see its nothing new from LOTRO or  WOW. Except different graphic. And few  gimmicks.

Yes, apart from a world even more polished and alive than lotro and wow and a 3rd NPC faction, its the same old mmo.

Aion is without doubt one of the top mmos, but if you are  bored with this type of game play it's not much different.

But I'd still encourage you to get the beta to take a look. It's not every day that developers manage to release a polished and finished game... when was the last time this happened? 2 years ago with Lotro?