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• • Aion like Lineage 2....a Grind Fest???

  • Well, when people talk about grinding, it's not usually all about the time it takes for one to level up by repeatedly bashing on enemies that give little to no exp for easy kills.

    It's all about interest.

    Thing is, the way I see it, grinding by means of quest gives the player a sense of reward, and if he notices a good reward from a quest, a sense that further quests will yield better and awesomer rewards. Thus, he continues to stay interested and deals with the grinding.

    In another case, grinding can be painful, especially with crap quests. The player, after hours and hours of grinding and getting only one level, will just pack up and leave. Thus, he has lost interest and quits.

     

    Please note that my "player" is a CASUAL gamer. Not a hardcore "Oh-my-god-I-Have-To-Win-This-MMO" gamer.

     

    So, essentially, quests, in my mind, are needed, and don't count as "Grinding" in my mind. The quests better be damn good though, and not "Kill 100 enemies for this crappy pair of -5 STR shoes".

     

  • Posted: 6/29/08 10:21 PM
    Aion
• • Beta Incoming!

  • The game seems pretty damn finished to me.

    I've actually played it at this years Gamesday, and it looked... peculiar. The gameplay was smooth and I liked the way they made the characters, but to tell you the truth, it seemed A LOT like WoW.

    The graphics resemble WoW a lot, as do a lot of things.

    Unfortunately, the 15 minute match we played at Gamesday ended up in the Destruction side getting their asses handed to them by the Order side. Oh well.

  • Posted: 6/18/08 11:03 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Seriously, what was the last successful MMO launch?

  • I personally think Guild Wars, City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, and Lord of the Rings Online have had successful launches and are still successful.

    Unfortunately, as everyone knows, WoW dominates the MMO market. I could go into a huge explanation as to why it dominates it, but I'm not up to that at the moment.

    The main thing is, the moment a company tries the untried and does the unexpected, a type of game nobody saw coming, with all the elements we have come to know in MMO history and with a couple of minor tweaks that radically changes the game itself, WoW is doomed.

  • Posted: 5/14/08 12:29 PM
    General Discussion