Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by shamall

Manbirdpig flu...... awesome

At least it wasn't Manbearpig....then we would all be screwed.

lol I thought it said that too.

Originally posted by n25philly

hopefully 13 won't be the steaming pile of you know what 12 was

12 was better than 10 imo, I thought 10 was the steaming pile of the franchise. I liked that FF12 story because it was about war and politics which was a refreshing change than another teenage puppy love story.

I like both but find my self playing consoles more often because they have more exclusive games I like and also because all my friends are console gamers.

I think its the chance of you making a critical hit. Maybe it does raise the damage a bit im not sure.

I must have spent about 40k on death experience through out lvls 1-16.  Lifes hard for an assassin trying to solo as much as possible.

Originally posted by MarkJW

Region 2 Aza went down at 2:00, don't know when it'll be back.

Yep, thats where im at.  Thanks for the info.

Because its not letting me log in to character select. 

Originally posted by jefaw82

Originally posted by Rokchant

Heh, I think this delay is a good thing. It is for almost any MMO.. even though Aion is a more complete MMO. But, have you played the Chinese beta? It is very asian in the way it looks and feels. I would prefer it too have a more western tone to it. If you are a fan of folk lore, lotr, or warcraft.. then having the western look makes games a lot better. I hope they give more options in the different hair styles for example and perhaps make the armor look more western. Just a few examples but theres a lot more they can do.

 

Plenty of good games should come out before then to hold you over.

 

The above bold statement is so wrong I won't even go there. besides:

 

"From the drawing board, Aion was designed to appeal to a global audience--the development team looked closely at games from all across the world and did extensive research on what worked and what didn't. What they decided to do was combine the epic beauty and intricate details of Asian games with the deep storytelling, quest-based systems familiar to Western MMOs."

(link to interview )

 

Aww.... there not changing the graphics? Damn, sorry dude.... I was rooting for you! **NOT**

I cant believe hes actualy complaining about not enough hair styles, is he serious?  There are like 50 different styles for females and like 30 for male characters, thats a lot.  The western mmos he put in his post doesnt have near as much in hair or in any of the other customization in physical characteristics. 
 

I am having the same problem too and its because the servers are in china so there is a slight delay when making some actions because data is taking longer to go back and forth.

im looking for a english speaking guild in the Azariel server of the north region. 

Originally posted by Umbral

Originally posted by Ilvaldyr

Nope, I'm tipping SW:TOR as the next big thing.

Aion is looking good, but TOR has the advantage of a killer IP and one of the best development houses in the business.

I'm not enamoured of NCSoft. Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa don't instill much confidence.

 

Star Wars is not a killer IP.

For younger players Star Wars is geek and nerdy.

For older players Star Wars is childish.

The IP is not expressive today even in movie business, Lord of The Rings and Matrix trilogy outshined the newer SW trilogy showing SW is not popular as it used to be.

CD projekt showed even newer companies can outshine Bioware using the same engine Bioware uses for its games with The Witcher.

I think games and MMOS need new, unique and exclusive IPs and not recycled IPs from pop and mass culure like Star Wars.

 

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CD projekt did not outshine bioware, are you realy comparing witcher to mass effect and kotor? Witcher was an average rpg imo.

Asmodian because I like their side of the story more and they look badass.

After Raziel comes back to life he looks more like a Forsaken from Warcraft, even his animations.

Originally posted by Gameloading

This:

www.youtube.com/watch

I was so addicted to that game when I first played it. 

I like the world of Final Fantasy 6, 7, and 13.  Also Xenogears, although this is mostly science fiction.  Basicly they all have some sort of magical force in them whether its explained or not in the story with exotic environments and weird creatures plus a lot of advanced technology mixed with it.

I cant stand the basic high fantasy like elves and stuff anymore like Lord of the Rings or Dungeons and Dragons. 

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Actually on Aionsource.com they have an updated system requirements posted by the moderator there.

Updated System Requirements as of 16/12/2008

Minimum:

Pentium 4 2.8GHz, AMD Athlon 2800
1 GB RAM
GeForce 6600, Radeon X1550
Hard Drive 30GB
DirectX 9.0c(2008,6)

Recommended:

Pentium Dual Core, AMD Athlon 64 X2
2 GB RAM
GeForce 7600, Radeon X2600
Hard Drive 30GB
DirectX 9.0c(2008,6)
 

 

Source: www.aionsource.com/forum/general-discussion/6174-aion-closed-beta-system-requirements.html

Thats good to know, im still way above those requirements.  I hope later after release of NA Aion they put in some DX10 features like AoC.

I am gonna play this when it comes out to NA and play it till TOR comes out.

Originally posted by stawr

Originally posted by rav3n2

I dunno what ppl are doing but if you played Aion point and click then you are doing something wrong to begin with, direction and movement is very important in combat and you just cant do that with just point and click, its good for when you wanna scratch your ass while moving about but thats about it.

 

I disagree.  As far as I can tell, you can't run around and dodge a monster. Hell, even if I'm running past a mob and it aggros me from a distance, I still get hit.

Separately, I'm most disappointed with the amount of time you can stay in flight. I was really excited about PvP or at least combat while flying, but if you can only stay up for a minute or so, what's the point? I'm only level 17 so maybe the time limit grows when you get to a higher level? The amount of cut-scenes for quest objectives I think are annoying also. If the quest states what I'm supposed to kill/collect, I don't really need a mini-movie to show me what it looks like as well, unless it's about scouting out a specific location or something to that degree.

Hes talking about the fact that you get stat buff depending on which way you move while in combat like moving back would raise your defense, moving forward would raise attack, and left and right would raise evasion rate.

go to one of those gold seller sites and they can hook you up with an account for a price.

Is this still coming out for 360?