Sigh, why even start threads like this if you know it's just going to cause a flame war? I'm totally fine with OPs oppinion, because it's just that (however the title should be changed to "why I don't like Aion" instead, as your sole oppinion does not make the game bad). I just don't understand why threads like this need to be started when all you really need to do is say to yourself, "Well shoot, this isn't my cup of tea", uninstall the client, and get on with your life. Seriously, people are calling the ones who are defending the game a bunch of childish fanboys, but what do you expect from people who actually enjoy the game? Yes, there are people who genuinely like it. Is it really  that surprising?

Pretty much the same concept. Elyos vs. Asmodian. Well, technically Elyos vs. Asmodian vs. Balaur, lol.

I'm not going to bash people for not wanting to get ganked. By way of rifts, though, think of it this way: Suppose a rift were to open near your hunting ground and, indeed, the enemy faction happens to jump through it. If they are a bunch of equal level players (as rifts apparently open into equal lvl areas) you can't just assume that you're going to be the victim. I can pretty much bet you that you'll find an equal number of players on your own faction that are looking for a good skirmish just as the rift jumpers are. This is basically RvR afterall. This leaves you with a couple options. You could run while the people on your side are busy holding their attention or you could jump in and help them fend off the invaders, increasing the chance of success and quite possibly getting a little fun out of the situation. You never know.

As far as the abyss is concerned, I'd like to think that the same applies there as well. Again, it is basically RvR. If people of your faction are in the abyss with you, I'm pretty sure most of them will be gunning for PvP. Even if you arent in a legion or even in a party, it's not like they would just leave you for the wolves if they happened to be right next to you. Quite the opposite, actually. They would make a b-line straight for the enemy player/s in hopes to score some abyss points. Strength in numbers applies to solo players too sometimes.

Characters look like pussies in Aion, do they? The Character creator is so impressive that you can make a character look like yourself. Not just the face, but the body size as well (you wouldn't call yourself a pussy, would you?). I just have a hard time understanding people who deem games as such if the characters in them aren't ugly and their body size isn't proportionate to that of a silverback gorilla.

I think the real question is: Just how big was that dragon thing that killed it? Was it just really high up in the sky, or was it even bigger than the Colossus? If it was intended to be bigger, then that's pretty scary because the Colossus is the biggest (possible) raid boss I've ever seen in an mmo, and to have something that's even bigger, well, damn...

On a side note, I think it would be cool to have to take the Colossus down in collaborative stages. For example, having a large group of people distract him in order to keep the damage off of the people who are taking out his legs which would make him fall over in order to let yet another group attack a vulnerable spot that only appears after it has fallen. It would be pretty agrovating to organize a raid like that and get each group to do their part, but it would be a pretty sweet challenge to say the least.

The Tindremene race looks the most interesting to me. They remind me of the Roman Empire, which is cool. I'm also digging the Khurite, as they look like Mongols, and Mongols are cool, lol.

I'll be playing Aion for sure. I've been following it for a long time now, and everything that I've gathered about it thus far hasn't dissapointed me. DF, on the other hand, doesn't interest me in a big way TBH. But even so, I'm the type of person that has to try everything out for myself, so I'm still going to try out DF....if it ever releases....

Originally posted by Writh

You also realize that if a hero dies he loses a massive amount of abyss points. Everyone loses abyss points when they die and those points go to the killer.  The real question is how many of the top ranks, short of hero were present from the other side. Not to mention that with a hero on your side as long as you are there and part of that effort you gain from the defeat of the hero.

Indeed. I highly doubt that one person can constantly maintain hero status forever. Hell, when you enter the abyss, it notifies everyone that's in there of your presence. You might be able to take a whole party down by yourself, but if you get swamped by a couple of legions, I doubt you'll live through it. Not to mention that EACH SIDE has a hero, so it's not imbalanced. Sure, if you spend a lot of time pvping in the abyss, you might benefit more than someone who doesn't play as much. But if you spend a lot of time in there, you have an equal chance of racking up a lot of deaths as you do kills. If someone manages to spend a lot of time in the abyss and come off with huge kill amounts and maintain little deaths in doing so, then I think that person deserves hero status.

There is also DOMO and Holic, but they're only similar in looks. I can't say for certain that their playstyles are the same.

I'm not so sure the game will have only a small amount of lore. It might not seem like there's much available to us right now, but the game hasn't even been marketed over here yet, it has a main string of story driven quests kind of like FFXI (given this, I'm willing to assume that it has some sort of lore backing the story), and it's also a new IP, so it's not going to have 40+ years of lore already layed out for it to work with. If it becomes a "successful" enough franchise for the developers to want to work with it some more in the future, then they would obviously have the opportunity to build upon the lore that they've already created beforehand with this game. I'd kind of relate it to watching Star Wars: A New Hope for the first time. You don't know what your in for untill you go see the movie and experience it for yourself first hand (assuming you're old enough to have not known about Star Wars before seeing the first one). It didn't have the amount of lore it does to this day, but with time, it grew (and is still growing). Even if the lore of the story quests was translated and available to me, I'm not sure I'd want to be informed before I got to experience playing through the game first (at least the story quests).I'd liken it to (uh-oh, another analogy) knowing what happens in a novel before actually reading it. You just need enough information to get you interested in the game and try it out (the back of the book).

Not sure if anyone has an extra buddy pass left floating around, but I've always wanted to try this game out so I'd really appreciate it if someone would be willing to throw one my way.

TJMorris666@hotmail.com

Thanks.

Well, I don't know if it was the lvl grind that got to a lot of legit players, but the gear grind that really broke their spirits. I played L2 since prelude to around the end of C5, and I made it to 70, but I was still in B grade gear, and I was lucky to be in B grade at all, because my friend decided to set up an afk shop with a helmet saying it was an unsealed dark crystal helm while he was asleep, not thinking it would work, but low and behold, someone bought it and he gave me half of the money. Given the situation and as desperate as I was at the time, I didn't feel guilty taking it. I just convinced myself that the dude who fell for it was an ebayer. This isn't anything but speculation on my part, but that's what the game did to me. Even though I refused to buy adena for rl cash, I still sought out unconventional means (by a legit players standpoint) to get ahead (well, technically my friend did, but I guess I could be considered just as guilty). Maybe this was a sort of Robin Hood mentality that made me ok with the act in the end, but upon retrospect, maybe that guy earned his 75 mill legit, maybe by taking risks and overenchanting dark screamers all day or something. Sigh, I don't really know where I was going with this...

Well, if it makes you feel better, you can get different types of wings that both look different and give bonuses like increased flight time. How you get them is a question I don't have an answer to, though.

Originally posted by Cereberus

here is an idea a hack and slash (golden axe) inspired MMO based on the themes, art, music and writing of Heavy metal - if anyone remembers the classic movie or the amazing soundtrack or have happen too be ancient and recall the days off the magazine with all that lovely art. of course all of this mixed with RPG ieas like levelling.

 

Basically the premise is simple you create a character and go into a world that is all about Blood, sex, violence, music and MORE MUSIC.

 

war, soldiers, guts and limbs flying, tits on foreheads, lesbians - homosexuals,furry?, SWRODS AND SORCERY, demons, witches, time travel, freaks and zombies with guns....and everything else you can think off.

 

 

You forgot cocaine...

That alone makes me wish I was subscribed to TR, lol.

Originally posted by toddze

Originally posted by Sharajat

PvP is always group oriented, even in FPS games.  5 people > 1, simple fact.  

 

that depends on who the 1 person is

It would also depend on who the 5 other players were.

I'm waiting for Aion. I'll try Darkfall if it does come out, but to be honest, I'm not into the art direction at all. Granted that gameplay is key, but even so, the art direction and overall design of a game can be another form of immersion. For me personally, I have a hard time enjoying a game when I don't like what I see (visually). Some people don't like games that have a more Asian design like Aion, but for me, I just cant get into the uninspiring generic fantasy setting that I've seen time and time again.

Originally posted by kingbarth

Originally posted by Korvenus

Aion's Korean open beta is now boasting concurrent user numbers of 150,000.
Since launching the service at 6am on the 11th, 150,000 players managed their way into Atreia by 11pm the same day. Aion is now operating with a total of 25 servers, with each server exceeding the 5000 player target NCsoft had set out for their servers.

Upon login, players are finding most servers on the list marked as 'full'. Taking into account all the users in queue for the servers, the number of concurrent users could possibly be seen as closer to 200,000. Considering that the launch was done on a weekday, the numbers are expected to go up as many more attempt to join over the weekend.

(ETnews reports that this is a record for a Korean developed MMO opening in Korea. The past record holders have been Lineage2 and Ragnarok 2 but even they were only able to reach 100k after a month of open beta testing. No mention of how WoW did in comparison, but WoW had over 150k concurrent users at its peak during its Korean open beta according to an interview with Mike Morhaine.)

NCsoft is now dealing with the happy dilemma of handling a much greater level of interest than they'd anticipated. Having already added 7 more servers than originally planned, continuing to add to that pool is only one way of handling the situation. The first change implemented immediately was to cut down on the scale of the promotions that were planned to begin on the 13th. This decision was made so that Aion's user base grew in increments that they could actually handle.

Unsurprisingly, many players are venting their frustration at the situation. Players that used the pre-beta services to reserve their spots had it easier, but those that didn't were having to wait in long queues just to create their characters. (note: Many of these players were sitting in netcafes as well, so you can imagine the added pressure.)

 

haha dang i cant wait for the us open beta :p

Preview event...

 If someone doesn't want their character to look "girly", it's as simple as making your character the way you like instead of how others have made theirs, such as the ones shown in a lot of the videos. I also doubt that everyone is going to churn out that kind of character, but if someone does, that's their own business. I don't think that it's just the basic appearance of the characters, though, but also things like movement. Attack animations, emotes, etc. They do have a sort of asian inspired feel to them, I wouldn't dissagree there. If that's the big problem, then I wouldn't know what to tell you, because I doubt they'll change uppon NA/EU release. Honestly, though. Would it kill people to have more of an open mind about other cultures?

On a side note, the male Elyos dance emote is totally a white mans dance. 

Originally posted by stayontarget

Originally posted by tkreep

I hope that the game does a good job at presenting the story and have enough PvE content thats actualy more than just go kill x number of these or bring me these type quest tier after tier till max level.  I know theres going to be those type of quest but I just hope theres enough interesting quests to make the grind quests seem less of a grind.

I see that the beginning of the game has cutscenes, lets hope theres more cutscenes later on because this is a better way to tell a story than reading a text box.

I think a few of the quests also have cut-scenes woven into them. There will also be hidden quest ( quest that are dropped from mobs ).

One of these hidden quest has you going deep into the woods looking for an axe stuck in a tree. when you get near it, It will go into a cut-scene.....you pull the axe out....it flies from your hands and lands in a river.....A ghost of an old man appears above the water holding the axe and says to you.........End, "I won't spoil it for you."

Now that's entertainment!

But seriously, the fact that they have character intro cinematics should at least be a bit of a sign that story is a big part of this game. None of that "make a character and then just get plopped into the world without explanation" stuff.