Originally posted by Aknos

It's not the PvP which am worried about, it's the people doing it and constantly complaining. let's say you go to watch the greatest movie ever created, and throughout the best scenes you get kids yelling and crying because their favorite character died..It would ruin it, no matter how good a movie it was.

In the case you're speaking of, the only annoying thing is having to listen to them, if they were mute and they had to write their crying in a blackboard I wouldn't give a damn about it, that's how it works in games.

Hate to say it, but as a former hardcore WAR fan (and yes I own not 1 but 2 tabletop Warhammer armies), I've been having more fun with AOC nowadays. There seems to be a decent community at all levels of AOC, while coming back to WAR most areas out of T4 are dead. This is a big problem as the game really is RVR focused and not much fun if you're soloing.

AION beats War and Age of Conan in every possible way.  I've played all three to high levels. WAR was a huge disappointment because I will silly enough to believe it would be DAoC2. Age of Conan was just hype and lies. It will never take off or get past the starting line because it is wholly dependent on small area instants.

Aion end-game is basically pvp. Plus to that - that its a korean game and you get a result of adult kids smack/trashtalking and ganking as lifestyle. The game has multiplayer pvp mode but like Lineage2 it turns in Western market into that that the legions/clans will be full of fights and people legion climb to get the Abyss pvp set. Dont get flamed from this - its just my perspective after being in the top #1 european legion that I quitted after the forums turned into smacktalk.

However, if the game comes with the "payperhour" system I might consider of buying 300hours (in korea its about 15$) and enjoy the juicy graphics once a while.

Originally posted by Aknos

Hello Everyone,

I'm about to play WAR, AoC, and AION tonight, just to see which one is worth playing. About how much time would you suggest I should play each one to get a real feel of the game? Is there one of them you'd label as not worth trying?

 

Thanks for your opinions =]

Play each one for as long as you want and then decide which one is the most fun for you.

Whats fun for others might not be fun for you.

First of all I like to remind you that Aion is still in beta stage in western market... their servers might not work or some quest definitions might be illogical. So - I recommend not to play Aion at all at this point and even after release wait for 6 months for the game to get rid of bugs.

I hate being stressed from too early published games (Chronicles of Spellborn and Vanguard being the worst).

If you want to be best in everything and learn pvp as soon as possible to beat others I warn you that there are individuals who learn to play top level class better in few days than others in a year.... So its not a competition who starts first... This competition started already early in genealogy of humanity and MMO culture...

chill out, wait out, and you cant lose

WAR is fail, AoC is a good game now, and is growing in subs once again. But Aion is a league above those 2...

All 3 are pretty PvP based, WAR is just kind of a fancy version of WoW PvP, and the forts feel no different than one of the new BG's in WoW. AoC is similar style to Lineage 2 with open PvP/Pk, and Aion is probably what you would compare to DAoC style PvP, but its pretty personal/guild based as well kind of like L2, just with factions.

Each are probably equal to each other in terms of grind, none are really more harsh than the other, but Aion I think has the best quest system with as few tedious quests or time spent running from point A to B of them all.

Originally posted by Calind0r

WAR is fail, AoC is a good game now, and is growing in subs once again. But Aion is a league above those 2...

All 3 are pretty PvP based, WAR is just kind of a fancy version of WoW PvP, and the forts feel no different than one of the new BG's in WoW. AoC is similar style to Lineage 2 with open PvP/Pk, and Aion is probably what you would compare to DAoC style PvP, but its pretty personal/guild based as well kind of like L2, just with factions.

 

Each are probably equal to each other in terms of grind, none are really more harsh than the other, but Aion I think has the best quest system with as few tedious quests or time spent running from point A to B of them all.

Aion has the worst quests of the three by far. A few story quests interspersed in between monotony does not equate a good quest system. Aion's quests are derivative and tedious with boring fetch quests and kill quests. I'd say AoC has the best quests of the three, even after Tortage (1-20 area is the best I've seen in any game). The quests actually follow a story(usually) or they have you do something that is related to an NPC and helps your character form a relationship with that npc (Read: lots of chain quests). I still hate how it's so instanced though. WAR has good public quests and each area has some semblance of a story but the quests and environment just aren't cohesive and there isn't enough customization.

Am i the only one that finds it hard to give aion a chance... I like pvp but the avatars of aion is such a big turn off for me... Its just something wierd about blue men and the whole wing thing... Maybe its just me though, maybe when the NA version comes out ill try to get around the avatar thing.

AION probably figured if people are willing to run around as cows, ogres, trolls, and little green things...they wouldn't mind being big smurfs ;)