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Gamefocus Canada Review - 9.3 Editor's Choice
Another great review for Aion at Gamefocus, a Canadian videogame website.
This review shows that Aion is getting many positive reviews around the world. Contrarily to what some people want to make believe.
Here is the link to the complete article www.gamefocus.ca/
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I just don't think there are any intellectually honest reviewers any more... No game is perfect, and his review even says this in various parts, but he still gives it an insanely high score. I think 9.9/10 graphics is a bit 'lol', but it is subjective I know.
I love this part:
He also doesn't mention anything of the bigger negatives and just touches on rather minor things and I can't even tell what level he got to; he also never discusses PvP. Again, there is nothing wrong with saying a game is pure awesomeness and the best thing ever, but I do assume people want to know more info than sugar coated reviews tend to give you.
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I don't even have to read the article to know the review is crap.
Nothing is at 9.3, not even EVE. (and I play both games)
Aion's a 7.5 at best, and that's if you're a fan. It might grow to more, but at the present time, no way is it 9.x material.
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
If someone gives Aion a low score but only got to level 25, fans scold the reviewer for not getting to level cap. If someone gives Aion a high score but only got to level 25, fans praise the reviewer as if he is the second coming of <insert your God here>.
Reviews these days really have no credibility anymore. I'd much rather read a run down of the games features, and dig through game play videos on Youtube than read some random, nobody opinion of it. Even if I really like the game.
Replay value = 9.2
Smokin' crack is bad, amirite?
This site has only rated 5 MMOs in all of its history.
Age of Conan: 9.7
Eve 9.5
Warhammer: 9.4
Aion: 9.3
Champions Online 7.5
It appears to me like this is a completely unreputable reviewer of MMOs in general. However, out of the MMOs they did review, I believe Aion is placed where it should be. Below other, better MMOs.
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Indeed. I'd have to agree that Age of Conan is a much better game than Aion and so is WAR.
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When will all this kids stop reading reviews...
How much are they paying to this guys to make a cool review? Its all about who pays more to the loser, that 99,99% of the comunity never heard about. And if anyone knows the reviewer, please show us his last bank account transfers. Thanks.
lol, man! SCTV is back on the air!
THE REVIEW CLEARLY NEVER REACHED LEVEL 40 and beyond , he'll be singing a different tone once he exsperienced level 40+ TRUST ME LOL.
Aion the most get a 7 score.
Games on my waiting list:
Guild War 2
Tera
Rift
Forsaken World
Thanks for your great point of view.
Although i cant say i agree with it simply because you didnt say anything about your methods to reach that score...
ok here is my review on Aion.
The gameplay is like most MMORPGS, mostly skill based and auto-attacking. You can move around while in combat like in WoW, but you also get an attack/evade bonus for running around in a certain direction until an arrow appears on the screen. The bad thing about this is that your auto-attack will deactivate if you move too far from your target while doing so. Also incorporated into this game is WoW's sheathing. Yes Lineage II fans, no more running around with your weapons in hand 24/7. Sounds nice, but it's actual annoyance in combat. If you try to attack while standing still you have to wait one second to dramatically draw your weapon before attacking. There is no attack queuing so you will have to delay pressing any other skill until you've casted that skill or else it will cast the most recent skill. I make sure to manually draw while running because this draws your weapon in a split second and so I don't have to wait.
Speaking of queues yes there are queues during prime time and they've alleviated the problem by increasing the server capacity a few times and setting a 30 minute afk boot for private shops (Don't worry there's an auction house for your selling needs).
Oh yeah if you're wondering about the flying, you can only fly for 1 minute plus or minus a few extra seconds and flight is limited only the abyss or certain areas (As in barely anywhere but near towns or in the abyss). Also monsters flee from you if you fly and fight them, but you should be able to kill them before they despawn.
Questing in this game is the way to level, although at some points you will need to grind a bit. This is a Korean game, but they "Westernized" the story and the leveling curve from what I could see between my closed beta and full release experiences. I've had to grind to level to the next level because most quests you can get are only available to you once you've achieved a certain level, and the level requirement to begin the quests are nonsensical. You will sometimes complete all of your quests and grind on a monster in the area where your next quest will begin, only to find that you have quests to kill the monsters you were grinding on once you level.
Quests come in your standard kill types, pick an item off the floor a few times, drop or gather crafting items. There are also group quests and campaign quests which are like story quests and are automatically obtained, but need previous campaign quests done to receive the next. I did all of the quests except the gathering quests starting at a certain level because leveling gathering is like WoW's gathering except more grindy. It's like NCSoft looked at WoW's crafting system, thought it was good but thought it would need to have more grind to be more fun. Comparing the current release version to the closed beta version, I could say they reduced the gathering requirement about four times, but it's still grindy. Once you get past your first 20 gathering levels, about 1/6 gathers or less will level your gathering skill. And once you travel further in game there are even higher jumps for the gathering requirements. One good thing the developers added for crafting was work orders, in which you level your skill with NPC store bought items but it takes a lot of money to do so.
A major problem in this game is bots/gold selling advertises. Originally they only whispered you... Now they spam the global chat channel, which is the party recruiting channel as well as whispering you. You would think any GM with a brain in his head would see the gold selling advertise every 30 seconds (Because you can only use the channel every 30 seconds), but I would play a few times throughout the day and the same bot with the same name will be spamming the global chat and whispering you. In addition, there is no in game petition system. You will need to fill out a report on the NCSoft website.
There are bots as well, although there aren't very many sightings of these. If you think this is because we don't have a gameguard in this version, it won't. In every other game with gameguard there are bots. NCSoft is a problem as well. NCSoft's previous game, Lineage II, was bot and gold farmer riddled and nothing was done. They claim have changed, but so far in Aion was no official message except from a GM in an in-game global message telling people not to visit phishing websites (While this message was going off, spam bots continued to spam their gold selling websites).
A few good points about the game is the PvP and in game NPC search or monster search which can be performed by clicking the character or monster name in the quest log. PvP can begin once you are level 20 and enter an area with only one channel. You or players of the opposing race can enter rifts and enter the PvE areas of your enemy race and kill each other. If you enter a rift and die, you will need to be resurrected by an ally or you will need to return back to your previous bind point. These rifts are time and player limited so you will need to wait if you want to gank this way. Oh, a problem with the PvP system is that level makes a huge difference in how much damage you deal. If someone is maybe 4 or more levels higher than you, expect to lose. Even if it's 3 vs. 1, you will not do enough damage.
Once you reach level 25 you can enter the Abyss and that's where the fortress sieging pvp begins. Fortresses are siegable every 2 hours for a certain amount of time and either players or an NPC race can hold the fortress. It's possible for a legion (Aion's guilds) to control the fortress or the entire race if unaffiliated players deal the most damage during the siege or defense.
Story:
There's some cut scenes involving you and a short plot-line that occurs every few levels if you follow the campaign quests. Cut scenes are voiced but are usually less than 30 seconds then it's back to the quests. The quests do have some written stories and in game dialogue, but as with most MMO's I didn't read after a few quests.
Graphics:
Aion has probably the best graphics out there, but don't expect anything under a decent computer to run it. Fluid movement details, water, weather, pretty much everything is in this game.
Play time/replayability:
It's an MMO, it doesn't really end until you get bored. Leveling could take a lot of time depending on how much you play, but the end game is raiding and fortress raiding pvp.
Final recommendation:
You will get it if you're a fan of MMO's and like to PvP, but there is a lot of problems that prevent this game from shining. It could be good or bad depending on how you like your MMO's, but because the uncontrolled gold seller spam problem I'll give this game a 7/10.
Games on my waiting list:
Guild War 2
Tera
Rift
Forsaken World
My question is...when will all these kids stop writing the reviews!
In the review it makes it sound like flight has never been done before...ever...in any MMO! It is part of your character. Really, what is the big deal about flight. City of heroes had it, and even free games like Perfect World have had it. So if a F2P crap game like PW can make flight in game...why should it be a big deal when a P2P game has it. And it seems that your flight in Aion is kinda limited compared to that of PW, Heroes or even Champions Online.
The reviewer even goes on to say there is nothing earth shattering about the game. So nothing different in gameplay. Same old same old. Pretty asian graphics and the ability to fly make it worth 9.3?
Yeh you won't find a critical review out here unless it's made by a player. Everything else is just advertising in one way or another.
Another positive professional review, its really sending the haters in a tail spin
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GW2 the future of MMO gaming
Another positive professional review, its really sending the haters in a tail spin
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Aion is also worse than AoC and WAR accoring to this "professional" review
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If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd
Another positive professional review, its really sending the haters in a tail spin
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Someone else is drinking too much Molsens.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Another positive professional review, its really sending the haters in a tail spin
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The review in question is anything but professional. 9.2 for replay value? You mean 9.2 to experience the same content all over again? This must be some amazing content which I missed. What zone is it in?
Graphics 9.9? A 9.9 in graphics?!?!?!?! Really? With all the washed up and horribly low and pixelated ground and mountain textures? The 2D mushrooms on the trees?
They gave Age of Conan a 9.7 and yet EVE Online got a 9.5?
Yes, that website is as professional as they come.
Anyone else notice how review scores have changed in the last few years? A game has to suck pretty hard to get less than an 8 out of 10 these days. Advertising dollars is money well spent since mmo's entered the "mainstream". I guess if Blizz can buy a 10 for WOW then anything else produced by a company with a few dollars to spend would rate at least a 9.
The question is how much did NCsoft have to give up to get a 9.3 ?