I can see why this is most anticipated game. It is simple and easy: you just go in and kill few mobs, do few quests and you already know enough to enjoy and be above average, There is no hard work included, same old grinding. I dont say it is bad, especially when so many people are too stupid or ocuppied that they can play only few hours a day at most. It really doesnt have any new awesome features or something like that. Same old grinding, quest leveling... I wont be playing it (except if it is free or will have trial I will give it try a second try) but I still say: Good luck.
Bwahahahahaha.
So uninformed.
Just about which part exactly? Simple and easy: I tried and it was easy to get things, easy to level up, not like in DF or ryzom or FFXI or some other games.
Dont tell me there is no grinding/quest grinding. Personally for me quests was very boring and easy to do.
Game is suited for casual players: true, it wouldnt get so much attention otherwise. Look at other games which require brains and you will see that they dont have many players.
Bwahahaha. If you reply at least thrown in some arguements....
There isn't a single mmo on the market that requires any sorta of brainwork besides learning all there is in Eve Online. All you did was make yourself look a dumb and the person who quoted your orginal post. Also DF is an amazingly easy game and just requires you to spam left click faster than your enemy. FFXI wasn't at all hard to level it was just time consuming. Don't mix the two things up having to wait hours to get a group to level in FFXI doesn't not make the game harder it makes it more annoying. Got nothing to say about Ryzom. It isn't hard but its really different and one of the only good semi up to day sand boxes on the market.
Presently in OB, the game had a rough start with OB, but, it plays smoothly now. This shows how NcSoft stands behind their game and fixed the problems in OB, allowing for a smooth commercial release of the game.
Like any MMO, there is grind in the game. What makes the game fun for me is getting tnto the abysess. Once there the PvP is fun, fast, and furious! I personally didn't think the PvE was bad either.
Don't compare this game to WoW. It's not. It's been around in asia for a year with a huge fanbase. I think it well do well here too.
Nice article! Can hardly wait for the release of AION. I've played most of the CB's and am loving what the game has to offer. I have a feeling it's going to be quite successful. As for the trolls and naysayers- you should really waste your time trying to find a game you LIKE to play rather than posting negativities about a game many others DO like. Sad state of the world today... everyone just likes to complain. Go AION!
Oh so you only want your point of view displayed huh? Sorry to break your bubble, but a forum is a discussion of likes and dislikes. If you can't stand criticism go make your own board and only allow positive statements. Without criticism this really would be a very boring world!
I am glad some people like Aion, I did not find it much different than most of the other Wow clones. I probably won't bother playing it. The pvp could help this game. I thought the crafting was exactly like Wow, an afterthought.
While it is a very well designed game and has many fun aspects, it is not the the next coming. Still waiting for a decent game to break the EQ/Wow format. I think most of us are just tired of the same old design. Aion just does not differ much in that aspect.
I guess I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I've played in 3 betas now. The game is very pretty, but the "story" is crap, the quests are the same as you've seen a million times, the community isn't exactly top notch, etc.
Tbh you cant expect the community to be top notch, as the game is not yet released and the majority of the community are not in the game as a result of this. After its been released about a month you will start to see what type of a community is being built in the game.
TBH, the community doesn't much exist. A bunch of fanboi trolls from WoW and maroons who respond - sheep - BAH!!!! cows - Moo!!!
The game itself is fairly linear, go here, do this, get that, etc. Presentation is very nice - excellent graphics and smooth interface. There is a sense of humor [Saving Tutty is followed by saving Poppy... after what happens to Tutty, EVERYONE save Poppy ]. The areas are nicely balanced with good to very good xp for your level.
IMO, the game is not a grinder - not like LotRO trait quests for example - go kill 450 Guaredain for determination! XD or L2 where you have to kill 9000 of something to get that last mat for a 60% recipe.... that fails. I dunno about WoW, I never played it.
The story is crap... well, lol, it's still being written! Right now it is sufficient, Master's of their world, the sorcerors of old tampered with the roots of creation... for their arrogance, the world was split into light and dark with the Abyss between. So what more do you need? Those other guys, they're bad, go kill them in the Abyss.
Observations: seems like more Wowies wanna play the pretty Elyos... and then spam chat with how bad Aion is and like that. These people should be hunted down and killed. Personal observation, seems like Asmo *may* be attracting the hard core pvpers.
Oh ya, crafting is top notch, you can easily keep yourself in very good to excellent gear without too much effort. The AH is different, fixed prices instead of free bid, juries out on that. REALLY good gear is BOA which kills farmers [aww, that's just too f*ing bad]. And there are LOTS of quests designed to put $$$ in your pocket so you can get that rare thing you have your eye on.The quests are durational it seems. The Krall quests will have you spending a lot of time in a bad area - lol, take friends and a few rezs! The rewards for the long quests make it worthwhile.
Last thing is atmosphere. Aion has it, whether you are running to Sanctum to turn in the language quest or taking a transform potion to investigate the pirate wreck, you are DOING it. You refer to your map, oh good, you can fly here. You practice your glides and get better with those, you get attacked by something nasty while doing something innocent. The game draws you in. Your armor gets better and that translates into more damage! Ya - now lemme at em!
All in all?
Gameplay: 9
Graphics / audio: 10
Atmospere: 10 - immersive gameplay
Crafting: 9
Econ: 8
PVP: 9
Community: 4 - wow idjits trolling for abuse get old fast. nitwits that release before a healer can rez. failure to realize factional play YET
Overall: 8.6 - lol not terrible for a game that hasn't been launched yet!
Nice article! Can hardly wait for the release of AION. I've played most of the CB's and am loving what the game has to offer. I have a feeling it's going to be quite successful. As for the trolls and naysayers- you should really waste your time trying to find a game you LIKE to play rather than posting negativities about a game many others DO like. Sad state of the world today... everyone just likes to complain. Go AION!
Oh so you only want your point of view displayed huh? Sorry to break your bubble, but a forum is a discussion of likes and dislikes. If you can't stand criticism go make your own board and only allow positive statements. Without criticism this really would be a very boring world!
I am glad some people like Aion, I did not find it much different than most of the other Wow clones. I probably won't bother playing it. The pvp could help this game. I thought the crafting was exactly like Wow, an afterthought.
While it is a very well designed game and has many fun aspects, it is not the the next coming. Still waiting for a decent game to break the EQ/Wow format. I think most of us are just tired of the same old design. Aion just does not differ much in that aspect.
lol - the Messiah has not yet come, huh. LOL - that's the separator between the TRUE BELIEVERS and "them". The only real comment though was on the crafting. I found it integral to my [your experience may differ] play. I was able to craft excellent gear, both armor and weapons for my toon as I leveled and make some serious kinah at the same time. The right mats were in the right areas, the rare stuff was in places that you would expect rare stuff to be in. I can't compare it to Wow, I never played it, but I can compare to Lineage 2 [L2 crafting is total cr*p] and LotRO - which is nice but limited.
LOL, ok, last comment - when wow sets itself out to be all things to all people, finding a game that will break that mold may be a long wait! Aion does what it does and does it extremely well. Quibbles? ya, there are some but the GMs are still tweaking this and that. I have seen a DRASTIC improvement from Sunday [lag anyone with a sideorder of rubberbanding?] to last night. Is this the perfect game? LOL, I haven't played ALL games but I have played a lot [mostly single player, only this, L2 and LotRO online] and this game rocks... me
I can see why this is most anticipated game. It is simple and easy: you just go in and kill few mobs, do few quests and you already know enough to enjoy and be above average, There is no hard work included, same old grinding. I dont say it is bad, especially when so many people are too stupid or ocuppied that they can play only few hours a day at most. It really doesnt have any new awesome features or something like that. Same old grinding, quest leveling... I wont be playing it (except if it is free or will have trial I will give it try a second try) but I still say: Good luck.
Bwahahahahaha.
So uninformed.
Just about which part exactly? Simple and easy: I tried and it was easy to get things, easy to level up, not like in DF or ryzom or FFXI or some other games.
Dont tell me there is no grinding/quest grinding. Personally for me quests was very boring and easy to do.
Game is suited for casual players: true, it wouldnt get so much attention otherwise. Look at other games which require brains and you will see that they dont have many players.
Bwahahaha. If you reply at least thrown in some arguements....
LOL - in a world devoted to the search for the easy button, you say that like it's a bad thing. In a world where many people are working two or more jobs to make ends meet, you say casual player like it's a bad thing. So, go find a hard, complex game that takes 12+ hours / day to get ahead in. Make it open pvp with scores for ganking noobs. LOL, let us know how that works out for you. And how long that game lasts before it can't pay it's billls!
A while back I stated what I didn't like about Aion. Some of the things I didn't like a couple months ago seemed to have been fixed and tuned since then. When I played in Closed Beta for 20 minutes, I felt the character models looked very good, but the terrain such as the trees, water, and landscape looked worse than WoW's.. This really turned me off from the game. I guess the graphics I saw in closed beta must have been in low settings as they are in most mmo game in beta testing.
After redownloading the game for open beta, I take back ALL my negativie comments. After creating a character and cranking up the graphics, I appeared in a forest and took a few moments to take everything in. The graphics are by far the BEST I've ever seen in ANY mmorpg on the market now. Player models are so polished and detailed the newbie armor/weapons look better than WoW's end game epic gear. The detail is just so amazing. As I began to look for mobs to fight, I couldn't help left clicking and holding down my mouse to scan the insanely gorgeous landscape. How the sun beams down through the perfectly detailed trees is just mesmerizing. I enjoy the combat system. The spells and animations are nice. The UI is similar to most mmo's like EQ2, Vanguard, WoW, etc. The experience I'm receiving is similar to hwo I felt the first time I logged into the original Everquest 10 years ago!
Now I'm glad I pre ordered Aion! Can't wait until the 20th.
Those that haven't checked it out already should really look into trying to open beta. You have nothing to lose but the time it takes to download. :P
Rallithon Oakthornn (Retired Heirophant of the 60th season)
Being a person who plays several MMOs at once, I would have to say Aion is up there on my list of games to pick up. I will be playing it alongside Champions Online atm as the two cannot really be compared. I would also say that this game can't really be compared to WoW. There is the typical cookie cutter MMO styling, yes, but it has been done in hundreds of MMOs so I don't see how this can be used as a detractor. The story is decent, but then so is WoW and any other MMO I've played.
What makes this game stand out would have to be the graphics and the general ideas and world the game present. These are the two fundaments (IMO) that seperate MMOs today. That being said, people who like the game either: Have awesome computers (like myself) that can take full advantage of the graphics the game offers or like the overall graphic and character design, or 2: Like the idea of being able to fly in a world which has an apparent light, dark and mysterious kill everything in its path, enemy. I happen to like this game for both of the above reasons. Good vs Evil vs Evil (+) is intriguing. Not really black and white but somewhat of a gray area.
So unless anyone can really say otherwise, those are the only legitimate reasons I can see for liking/disliking Aion or any MMO made this way (cookie cutter). Both of those things are really the opinion of the player. If you are a fanboy of some other MMO and just want to detract from what other people are playing, then you are clearly wasting valuable time you could be using playing the game you like and collecting all that thirteen thirty-seven gear you crave. If you cannot be objective about a game, with facts, and not "this game is better than this game because I said so" then I can only come to 2 conclusions: One is that you are 12 and maybe do not understand objectivity yet, or you are retarded.
All I'm saying here is that one person may like the graphics and idea the game presents more than another which makes it fun to him/her. I can still like aion, and WoW at the same time, I don't have to put one down to have a good time.
You know what, I've asked around the forums, I've done my research, I played the game myself, and I am quite certain this game is not only the best MMO for me of 2009, but will also have a substantially large community. I am quite excited about, and look forward to seeing people when it comes live.
This game may look good but graphics do not make it good. I played the beta found the game way too linear. Grind after grind The flying is a novelty thet wears off really fast when you realize its very limited in flight time and where you can actually fly. But the game will have alot of people buying it at launch question is will they be able to keep them. Personally i dont think they will the game will get old and boring really fast. For me it took 20 levels. Also the forced PVP is not my thing getting ganked for no reason by a bunch of morons isn't fun for me. So this is a pass for me. Personally i was looking for a new game this deff isnt it. Going to stick with WOW until something else comes out.
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Bwahahahahaha.
So uninformed.
Just about which part exactly? Simple and easy: I tried and it was easy to get things, easy to level up, not like in DF or ryzom or FFXI or some other games.
Dont tell me there is no grinding/quest grinding. Personally for me quests was very boring and easy to do.
Game is suited for casual players: true, it wouldnt get so much attention otherwise. Look at other games which require brains and you will see that they dont have many players.
Bwahahaha. If you reply at least thrown in some arguements....
There isn't a single mmo on the market that requires any sorta of brainwork besides learning all there is in Eve Online. All you did was make yourself look a dumb and the person who quoted your orginal post. Also DF is an amazingly easy game and just requires you to spam left click faster than your enemy. FFXI wasn't at all hard to level it was just time consuming. Don't mix the two things up having to wait hours to get a group to level in FFXI doesn't not make the game harder it makes it more annoying. Got nothing to say about Ryzom. It isn't hard but its really different and one of the only good semi up to day sand boxes on the market.
Presently in OB, the game had a rough start with OB, but, it plays smoothly now. This shows how NcSoft stands behind their game and fixed the problems in OB, allowing for a smooth commercial release of the game.
Like any MMO, there is grind in the game. What makes the game fun for me is getting tnto the abysess. Once there the PvP is fun, fast, and furious! I personally didn't think the PvE was bad either.
Don't compare this game to WoW. It's not. It's been around in asia for a year with a huge fanbase. I think it well do well here too.
Oh so you only want your point of view displayed huh? Sorry to break your bubble, but a forum is a discussion of likes and dislikes. If you can't stand criticism go make your own board and only allow positive statements. Without criticism this really would be a very boring world!
I am glad some people like Aion, I did not find it much different than most of the other Wow clones. I probably won't bother playing it. The pvp could help this game. I thought the crafting was exactly like Wow, an afterthought.
While it is a very well designed game and has many fun aspects, it is not the the next coming. Still waiting for a decent game to break the EQ/Wow format. I think most of us are just tired of the same old design. Aion just does not differ much in that aspect.
Tbh you cant expect the community to be top notch, as the game is not yet released and the majority of the community are not in the game as a result of this. After its been released about a month you will start to see what type of a community is being built in the game.
TBH, the community doesn't much exist. A bunch of fanboi trolls from WoW and maroons who respond - sheep - BAH!!!! cows - Moo!!!
The game itself is fairly linear, go here, do this, get that, etc. Presentation is very nice - excellent graphics and smooth interface. There is a sense of humor [Saving Tutty is followed by saving Poppy... after what happens to Tutty, EVERYONE save Poppy
]. The areas are nicely balanced with good to very good xp for your level.
IMO, the game is not a grinder - not like LotRO trait quests for example - go kill 450 Guaredain for determination! XD or L2 where you have to kill 9000 of something to get that last mat for a 60% recipe.... that fails. I dunno about WoW, I never played it.
The story is crap... well, lol, it's still being written! Right now it is sufficient, Master's of their world, the sorcerors of old tampered with the roots of creation... for their arrogance, the world was split into light and dark with the Abyss between. So what more do you need? Those other guys, they're bad, go kill them in the Abyss.
Observations: seems like more Wowies wanna play the pretty Elyos... and then spam chat with how bad Aion is and like that. These people should be hunted down and killed. Personal observation, seems like Asmo *may* be attracting the hard core pvpers.
Oh ya, crafting is top notch, you can easily keep yourself in very good to excellent gear without too much effort. The AH is different, fixed prices instead of free bid, juries out on that. REALLY good gear is BOA which kills farmers [aww, that's just too f*ing bad]. And there are LOTS of quests designed to put $$$ in your pocket so you can get that rare thing you have your eye on.The quests are durational it seems. The Krall quests will have you spending a lot of time in a bad area - lol, take friends and a few rezs! The rewards for the long quests make it worthwhile.
Last thing is atmosphere. Aion has it, whether you are running to Sanctum to turn in the language quest or taking a transform potion to investigate the pirate wreck, you are DOING it. You refer to your map, oh good, you can fly here. You practice your glides and get better with those, you get attacked by something nasty while doing something innocent. The game draws you in. Your armor gets better and that translates into more damage! Ya - now lemme at em!
All in all?
Gameplay: 9
Graphics / audio: 10
Atmospere: 10 - immersive gameplay
Crafting: 9
Econ: 8
PVP: 9
Community: 4 - wow idjits trolling for abuse get old fast. nitwits that release before a healer can rez. failure to realize factional play YET
Overall: 8.6 - lol not terrible for a game that hasn't been launched yet!
Urantia, BG
FIREBIRDS
Elyos, Israphel
Oh so you only want your point of view displayed huh? Sorry to break your bubble, but a forum is a discussion of likes and dislikes. If you can't stand criticism go make your own board and only allow positive statements. Without criticism this really would be a very boring world!
I am glad some people like Aion, I did not find it much different than most of the other Wow clones. I probably won't bother playing it. The pvp could help this game. I thought the crafting was exactly like Wow, an afterthought.
While it is a very well designed game and has many fun aspects, it is not the the next coming. Still waiting for a decent game to break the EQ/Wow format. I think most of us are just tired of the same old design. Aion just does not differ much in that aspect.
lol - the Messiah has not yet come, huh. LOL - that's the separator between the TRUE BELIEVERS and "them".
The only real comment though was on the crafting. I found it integral to my [your experience may differ] play. I was able to craft excellent gear, both armor and weapons for my toon as I leveled and make some serious kinah at the same time. The right mats were in the right areas, the rare stuff was in places that you would expect rare stuff to be in. I can't compare it to Wow, I never played it, but I can compare to Lineage 2 [L2 crafting is total cr*p] and LotRO - which is nice but limited.
LOL, ok, last comment - when wow sets itself out to be all things to all people, finding a game that will break that mold may be a long wait! Aion does what it does and does it extremely well. Quibbles? ya, there are some but the GMs are still tweaking this and that. I have seen a DRASTIC improvement from Sunday [lag anyone with a sideorder of rubberbanding?] to last night. Is this the perfect game? LOL, I haven't played ALL games but I have played a lot [mostly single player, only this, L2 and LotRO online] and this game rocks... me
Urantia, BG
FIREBIRDS
Elyos, Israphel
Bwahahahahaha.
So uninformed.
Just about which part exactly? Simple and easy: I tried and it was easy to get things, easy to level up, not like in DF or ryzom or FFXI or some other games.
Dont tell me there is no grinding/quest grinding. Personally for me quests was very boring and easy to do.
Game is suited for casual players: true, it wouldnt get so much attention otherwise. Look at other games which require brains and you will see that they dont have many players.
Bwahahaha. If you reply at least thrown in some arguements....
LOL - in a world devoted to the search for the easy button, you say that like it's a bad thing. In a world where many people are working two or more jobs to make ends meet, you say casual player like it's a bad thing. So, go find a hard, complex game that takes 12+ hours / day to get ahead in. Make it open pvp with scores for ganking noobs. LOL, let us know how that works out for you. And how long that game lasts before it can't pay it's billls!
Urantia
A while back I stated what I didn't like about Aion. Some of the things I didn't like a couple months ago seemed to have been fixed and tuned since then. When I played in Closed Beta for 20 minutes, I felt the character models looked very good, but the terrain such as the trees, water, and landscape looked worse than WoW's.. This really turned me off from the game. I guess the graphics I saw in closed beta must have been in low settings as they are in most mmo game in beta testing.
After redownloading the game for open beta, I take back ALL my negativie comments. After creating a character and cranking up the graphics, I appeared in a forest and took a few moments to take everything in. The graphics are by far the BEST I've ever seen in ANY mmorpg on the market now. Player models are so polished and detailed the newbie armor/weapons look better than WoW's end game epic gear. The detail is just so amazing. As I began to look for mobs to fight, I couldn't help left clicking and holding down my mouse to scan the insanely gorgeous landscape. How the sun beams down through the perfectly detailed trees is just mesmerizing. I enjoy the combat system. The spells and animations are nice. The UI is similar to most mmo's like EQ2, Vanguard, WoW, etc. The experience I'm receiving is similar to hwo I felt the first time I logged into the original Everquest 10 years ago!
Now I'm glad I pre ordered Aion! Can't wait until the 20th.
Those that haven't checked it out already should really look into trying to open beta. You have nothing to lose but the time it takes to download. :P
Rallithon Oakthornn
(Retired Heirophant of the 60th season)
Being a person who plays several MMOs at once, I would have to say Aion is up there on my list of games to pick up. I will be playing it alongside Champions Online atm as the two cannot really be compared. I would also say that this game can't really be compared to WoW. There is the typical cookie cutter MMO styling, yes, but it has been done in hundreds of MMOs so I don't see how this can be used as a detractor. The story is decent, but then so is WoW and any other MMO I've played.
What makes this game stand out would have to be the graphics and the general ideas and world the game present. These are the two fundaments (IMO) that seperate MMOs today. That being said, people who like the game either: Have awesome computers (like myself) that can take full advantage of the graphics the game offers or like the overall graphic and character design, or 2: Like the idea of being able to fly in a world which has an apparent light, dark and mysterious kill everything in its path, enemy. I happen to like this game for both of the above reasons. Good vs Evil vs Evil (+) is intriguing. Not really black and white but somewhat of a gray area.
So unless anyone can really say otherwise, those are the only legitimate reasons I can see for liking/disliking Aion or any MMO made this way (cookie cutter). Both of those things are really the opinion of the player. If you are a fanboy of some other MMO and just want to detract from what other people are playing, then you are clearly wasting valuable time you could be using playing the game you like and collecting all that thirteen thirty-seven gear you crave. If you cannot be objective about a game, with facts, and not "this game is better than this game because I said so" then I can only come to 2 conclusions: One is that you are 12 and maybe do not understand objectivity yet, or you are retarded.
All I'm saying here is that one person may like the graphics and idea the game presents more than another which makes it fun to him/her. I can still like aion, and WoW at the same time, I don't have to put one down to have a good time.
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You know what, I've asked around the forums, I've done my research, I played the game myself, and I am quite certain this game is not only the best MMO for me of 2009, but will also have a substantially large community. I am quite excited about, and look forward to seeing people when it comes live.
This game may look good but graphics do not make it good. I played the beta found the game way too linear. Grind after grind The flying is a novelty thet wears off really fast when you realize its very limited in flight time and where you can actually fly. But the game will have alot of people buying it at launch question is will they be able to keep them. Personally i dont think they will the game will get old and boring really fast. For me it took 20 levels. Also the forced PVP is not my thing getting ganked for no reason by a bunch of morons isn't fun for me. So this is a pass for me. Personally i was looking for a new game this deff isnt it. Going to stick with WOW until something else comes out.