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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Gortef on September 21, 2009, 02:43:50 am
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(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Aion/still_AION-Asmodian_Hi-Res_Final.jpg)
Well, the Headstart for this MMORPG began yesterday so I think it should be about time to ask if there are any other Aioneers here?
For the others:
http://www.aiononline.com/
Aion: The Tower of Eternity is a fantasy MMORPG, chronicling an epic conflict between the Elyos, the Asmodians and a server-controlled NPC faction, the warlike Balaur.
Basic Storyline
In Aion: The Tower of Eternity, players must choose a side between two warring factions: the Elyos or the Asmodians. Once their world was whole; a perfect union joined at the center by The Tower of Eternity. When a great catastrophe shattered The Tower of Eternity, it split the world into two halves - and awoke the Balaur, a warring race exiled within the extra-dimensional Abyss. The Balaur now seek revenge on both of these new worlds, sparking an epic conflict. The part you play, the side you choose and the decisions you make will help determine the ultimate fate of Aion.
Key Features
* Interactive gameplay systems
The actions of each faction on each individual server will eventually trigger consequences, which will then change each server's live environment. No two servers should ever be the same.
* PvPvE (Player vs Player vs Environment)
Aion: The Tower of Eternity features an evolving conflict system, which manages the complex relationships and alliances between realms, races and guilds. The system also controls a third NPC faction, the Balaur, who may act as the enemy - or the ally - of players.
* Free flying and flying combat
Take to the skies and soar over the landscape, with wings that allow your character to access remote areas, travel to different parts of the world - and to engage enemies in aerial combat!
* Beautiful and detailed graphics
Created using a modified version of the Crytek engine (as used in Far Cry), Aion: The Tower of Eternity is the most graphically beautiful MMORPG yet released. Astounding levels of detail on characters and in environments immerse you in the world of Aion.
A special note goes to the character creation system which is pretty damn flexible.
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Have the beta, much like every other Korean MMO, there is nothing about this game that grabs you at the beginning and makes you say "Hey! I wanna spend my money on this!" But I say this coming off of a 4 year stint on WoW, which has an interesting earthy world. Everything about the starter area in Aion for either side is so sterile as to almost be a hospital.
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Yeah was playing for about four hours on Monday, so far so good,
it is interesting
but the loading time is crap!!! 5hours to queue to get in!!!
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Yea Aions starter areas are not so sandboxy as in other MMO's. But the idea is to get yourself aquainted with the game, the story and so on. The real thing begins in Abyss (and Morheim/Eltnen) where the PvPvE happens in full scale.
On the other hand it depends on the person what he/she thinks is the "wow I wanna play" factor.
For me with Aion it was the nice graphical appearance, lively characters, lore, fun combat system... and of course the wings :D
The queues are a true real problem, that's a fact. Even the NCSoft community representative said that they are open for peoples suggestions even though they also do have their own ideas to solve the big annoyance. Usually when people refer to NCSoft they also have the impression of a company that doesn't listen the community (Lineage2 and botting is a good example), seems like they are trying their best to loose that impression with Aion. At least now. Hopefully it will continue. Ayase (the representative) has been quite active.
Oh yea... here's mah Assassin called Silkki on Spatalos.
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Aion/Silkki0000.png)
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The existence of your illegitimate son of disco has forever soured me on this game.
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The existence of your illegitimate son of disco has forever soured me on this game.
You should see him now since I managed to craft a better torso jerkin, which has a pinkish default color. Now THAT's disco looking.
http://uk.aiononline.com/livestatus/character-legion/search?serverID=31&charID=8844
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At first I was like: "Awesome, wings!"
Then I saw a gameplay vid...
Great, an other 13 in a dozend mmorpg korean grinding fest with a WoW ripoff interface. Boooring.
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Indeed. Aion and Champions Online has not received such positive comments that I would buy them. Not before there is free trial anyway. I have high hopes for the Old Republic however (http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/video-documentary-3).
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I too am looking forward to The Old Republic, but I'm afraid Bioware will fall into the same trap of trying to compete with WoW as it is now after 5 years and 2 expansions(3 by the time TOR comes out), which is where all of the other "WoW Killers" have fallen down. You can't compete with WoW. It's like trying to destroy a Sathanas with a Pegasus, it's too big. Something that Blizzard has done to this part of the gaming industry is raise the standard of acceptable quality. Where most MMOs fail however is when things get tough, they don't have a polished game because they rushed to print before it was ready, either because of financial pressures or over-eager execs.
AoC is a prime example of what could have been with even 6 more months of development and beta time.
Blah, I'm rambling now.
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From the looks of it, TOR doesn't compete with WoW as TOR doesn't seem to have the traditional tank/dps/healer class trinity. Gameplay seems to be closer to KotOR than WoW.
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Thank God for that.
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Is anyone here playing Aion on the EU servers?
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Bumping this with a new video.
NCSoft has released a new trailer called Aion Visions into the tubes (also called as Aion 3.0 or Aion 2.0 depending on who's calling). It shows how Aion will look like in the future (visually and gameplay wise aswell) if/when they manage to implement all the new features into the game.
People at AionSource have been analyzing the trailer and made a list what they have noticed to be the possible new upgrades. And this is all just speculation at this point since no official patch notes have been made in public. Apparently the only thing that the NCS representatives have said is that many of the seen features in the trailer are coded and working, but how working is the real question. Also one of the rumors is that Korea might get at least some of the new features on this winter... we'll see when the time comes.
Anyway here's the list:
- Upgraded Graphics! DX10? Dynamic lighting and overall crisper visuals
- New Zones! We saw a dangerous jungle, a vast living desert, an underwater city and world, and residential zones outside of the major cities!
- Dynamic Weather and seasons! Falling leaves, Accumulating and melting snow!
- Player Cities! Customizable houses and skins, multiple styles, customizable furniture and layout, city bulletin board, city decor. Did we see anything about legion halls?
- Mounts! One and two person mounts of at least 5 varieties, mounted combat, creature taming abilities.
- Improved Combat! Fluid motions, collision detection, unarmed combat, new weapons (Crossbow and Whip) and abilities! Finishing moves?
- New Classes? Fans have speculated Monk and Tamer classes.
- Player City Sieges! Bring the fight right to the doorsteps of your enemy! Houses appear to be destructible! Summon a Colossus to help? New defensive siege weapons- Aether Cannon?
- Vehicles- Boats were shown in front of player cities and also as a means to reach the underwater areas, but can players own and control them? Airships were also seen bringing a player to the city siege.
And here's the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAM0wr7cZ8
Personally... I had this goofy Joker like grin on my face during the whole flick. It made me really hyped. After sleeping one night I'm still hyped but thinking realistically all those new features are all nice and cool but what truly matters on this point is that will there be more quests and are the people at NCS gonna keep up banning the bots (16.000 accounts got the Banhammer on this week... which is nice). Nevertheless... I'm still hyped as heck :p
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Looks okay, I'm still waiting for free trial.
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Many are... hopefully NCS will release the free trial possibility soon.
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I did the open beta. Devs seem to be learning ways to improve certain gameplay features from WoW. Certainly the graphics are better for what they are. But the problem this and all the other "WoW killers" have had is that they don't really do a good job at pulling you into the universe you are supposed to be inhabiting. Blizzard does one thing better than anyone else that's tried it, they tell a story.
That said, it AoC were to go FTP, I'd be all over it. i just can't justify 2 game subscriptions when I have 4+ years invested in WoW.
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I personally like the lore behind Aion. Also some of the quest stories are quite fun.
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Bumping this old topic to give a note that Aion just got a big update, 2.5 Empyrean Calling (http://gameguide.uk.aiononline.com/exe/ao1/doc_create.php?kw=2.5+empyrean+calling).
It brought all the usual things updated usually do; additional instances, items... leveling goes even faster (which was not a problem if ya ask me).
But also more interaction with pets and Advanced Graphics engine which indeed made the game look quite stunning.
And things that I either can't remember right now or am too lazy to write here.
So if ya ever have had a though about trying Aion, now is a good time.
Oh and I also got my Assassin upgraded just a few days ago...
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Aion/DiscoSilkki.jpg)
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(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Aion/DiscoSilkki.jpg)
GOD MY OH
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He's a Soul Man!!
Dadadada Dadadada!!
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your illegitimate son of disco
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otF5XwyVy2M
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You guys should see his dance moves
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:bump:
Aion is now free-to-play. Like totally free-to-play. NCSoft seems to be doing it for all their games (did it with Lineage II and City of Heroes). It intrigued me enough to give it a go.
After a rocky installation process, I managed to make up a character. Was very impressed with the customisation options. Seems a pretty deep game so far as well, but yet to play more than a day through it.
http://truly-free.aiononline.com/index.php
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(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Aion/DiscoSilkki.jpg)
GOD MY OH
He needs a pimp halo. I don't care if such a thing doesn't exist and is heretical, he needs one.
I would question his effectiveness as a assassin. Unless he puts on large Vegas Style Shows that his targets can't help but attend where they are "coincidentally" crushed by massive crystal chandeliers. At that point though you're probably going to pull in more dough as a fantasy MMORPUGGER Cee Lo Green and just drop the assassin gig completely.
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I"ve been giving it a go, but each quest has pages of dialogueandf the combat is...clunky. Also, my minion doesn't attack when i get hit if my mage shield is up. The only really cool thing I've found so far is the pet system and the character art. The problem is that the characters are so detailed and gorgeous, that they don't really fit in with the background art. I've got it cranked up to maximum and there's very little in the way of ground clutter shrubbery and rocks and stuff. The characters are great to look at, but the world they inhabit is kind of bland.
All that said, the soundtrack is incredible.
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Aion is now free-to-play. Like totally free-to-play. NCSoft seems to be doing it for all their games (did it with Lineage II and City of Heroes). It intrigued me enough to give it a go.
I'm going to hijack the thread a bit here. Is City of Heroes worth a DL? It looked interesting to me, but I'd like another's opinion. One thing specifically, hows the story and character interaction? (hopefully not like STO where your bridge crew has all the personality of the nearest bulkhead)
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been playing this for a few days now, i can honestly say that of the current availible mmo's, i'm liking this a lot more than anything else.
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I like it better than I did when I tried it last time. Though frankly, they need to work on their netcode as it's just stupid to have a GCD and not have the ability to "pre-cast".
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also, personally, i love the whole crafting system so far.
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Oh yea I've forgot to mention that Aion is indeed free-to-play. Good that someone did.
It's a bit different concept from the NCSoft one in Europe where it's under Gameforge, but it's still free-to-play here too.
Oh and my Assassin has changed a bit since that last shot. Not much, but a bit.
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Aion/Aion0002.jpg)
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Great. Yet another game I gotta get into.
Gonna have to free up disc space because I'm a hoarder for things like ISOs of games I *think* I might play sometime later but never do.
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Indeed I really recommend people to try this out. Great quality MMO for free.
Only downside is the European servers. With Starter Account (which is the free one) you can't sell or trade anything to another players.
The Gameforge is trying to figure out proper methods (read: restrictions) to open up some trading possibilities for Starters, but right now they are of course battling against Botters and Gold Sellers.
Denying trade completely makes it a bit harder for those bastards to operate, but still... it's not that profitable to play as a Starter.
Other than that, there are really no reason to not try Aion in Europe (unless you don't like MMO:s).
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Indeed I really recommend people to try this out. Great quality MMO for free.
Only downside is the European servers. With Starter Account (which is the free one) you can't sell or trade anything to another players.
The Gameforge is trying to figure out proper methods (read: restrictions) to open up some trading possibilities for Starters, but right now they are of course battling against Botters and Gold Sellers.
Denying trade completely makes it a bit harder for those bastards to operate, but still... it's not that profitable to play as a Starter.
Other than that, there are really no reason to not try Aion in Europe (unless you don't like MMO:s).
thats the reason why me and my mrs. are playing on NA servers, on Siel.
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I'm in the US anyway. :)
Gonna have to free up a bit of disk space though because mine mysteriously vanishes from time to time, and a lot of the things I do in order to "fix" it doesn't help much in the long run.
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I'm already playing Star Trek Online with a bunch of people from HLP. Sell me on yet another MMO game.
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Lololol.
Edit: Already got a complaint about this game.
It's so big that it'll take a good while to download it on my crappy internet. Instead, I get to play The Waiting Game! I'm hoping to get a DLC for it soon.
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I hope this is worth it. It think it is going to take me the better part of a week to download.
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Man, all the DLC for The Waiting Game cost too much. Supposed to let me progress through it faster but I gotta pay an additional subscription cost.
Till then I guess I gotta let my laptop sit there and download for a few hours.
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Haha. Trust me, it is good. Both visuals and sound are nice and the gameplay should be ok. But don't expect anything extraordinary from the quests, those are your standard MMO quality but should keep you entertained.
On lvl 10 you'll get your wings, but you can't fly everywhere only on certain areas (explained by lore that you need to have Aether in the air for the wings to work).
But on lvl 25 you'll have the portals for the Abyss open for ya (after a few quests of course) and in there you can fly prettymuch everywhere. But so can the opposite faction.
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The patcher...
...started over...
and I have to redownload...
...the whole 13 GB thing...
...after wasting the time to get over 80% of the way done...
What the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** how how how how how how how how.
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The patcher...
...started over...
and I have to redownload...
...the whole 13 GB thing...
...after wasting the time to get over 80% of the way done...
What the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** what the **** how how how how how how how how.
that is pretty much my only beef with the damn thing. ****, i've got a hefty 20mb dl link and this **** was left overnight...
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Problem: I can't leave my computer on overnight. And I also have to take it with me to other places.
****ing hell I should've been able to start playing tomorrow but **** no it won't be till hell if I know, next week??
Apparently it's too much to ask for to just be able to play a god damn game. Of all the things in the world and it's something as mundane as being able to play a game that I have to have trouble with.
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Nearly tore my hair out installing the damn thing (took me four days to download and install it in the end; had to restart twice).
The game also installs something called Pando Media Booster which noms through bandwidth. It's a pain in the ass.
I followed these steps (http://forums.na.aiononline.com/na/showthread.php?t=81195) to disable it, and now the game actually runs better.
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Ah Pando. Indeed that thing has brought quite a lot of grief into the gaming world. Dunno why some still insist using it. In theory it should speed up the downloads, but I'm no so sure about practice.
Then again, I never noticed any major slowdowns with it... but I do think that it's most likely the culprit when something like that happens.
I wish you guys best of luck with the Launcher, I remember downloading some games (can't remember if it was Aion or L2) twice for some odd reason.
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Darius, I'll keep that in mind once (if) this thing finishes downloading. Thanks.
And thanks for wishing us downloaders luck :)
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whoa.
I spent the better half of my day downloading this and even ran a risk by having my computer on and downloading this while I was at my university student group's end of semester game night (took the computer with me). Unlike some people, the people here were cool and didn't go screwing with my stuff. I wound up downloading it all but it did not auto install - I did not have enough disk space to do so. I come home and free up a bunch of disk space by uninstalling a few games I don't care for anymore and start up the launcher...
...it said 'downloading 0.0MB out of 13420ish MB'
...I almost despaired, until it said "installing"
to celebrate, my Revoltech No. 084 VF-1J Valkyrie will now do a Captain Morganesque pose:
(http://i.imgur.com/0e6aI.jpg)
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Good to know that things are looking a bit better.
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Well, finally got this working. Started an Asmodian (sp?) char because I thought they looked cooler. Come to find my first missions involve slaughtering some kind of farmer subspecies. I don't have the stomach for Evil, so I'm waiting on the char to be deleted so i can try the other side.
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i believe its the damn same with the elyos, sooo...
in any case, my nick there is vrganjko, so feel free to drop me a note or something.
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Heh, my scout is channeling Will Turner. Oh, Account name is Retsof90, Char name Jarret.
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I'll probably see what kind of trouble making another account gets me just so I can play in Elyos.
Currently I have a couple of Asmodean characters called Wtfmang and Sharonapple (I like Macross Plus - and it's a female character) but I'm hoping to see either "which side I like better" or which side has more people from here.
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I'll probably see what kind of trouble making another account gets me just so I can play in Elyos.
Currently I have a couple of Asmodean characters called Wtfmang and Sharonapple (I like Macross Plus - and it's a female character) but I'm hoping to see either "which side I like better" or which side has more people from here.
why not just go onto another server?
btw, i'm on siel, asmodean.
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I was going to suggest that, there's like 6 servers you can make characters on. Though I think one of them is RP. *shivers*
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Whats so bad about RP? I mean... *is struck by the ratio of female characters to actual female players* Ooooooh I get it.
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I'll cop to playing 99% female characters, it's a flaw of mine, but I don't RP females.
The shudder inducing part of RP is that, much like other more "adult" activities, I don't understand it or have much, if any, experience with it.
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Apparently, it is not stated in the user agreement that I can only have one account (one place actually says "at least one"). Cool. Too bad the name "wtfmang" violates it because it is "slang" (not like I care and I haven't gotten "caught".. :P).
RPing as female characters? :nono:
I'll play as female characters virtually shamelessly. My cousin is the same way (actually worse about it, even supplying a reason that if you're going to stare at a character's ass all day long it might as well be a woman's :lol:).
In S4 League I have a legit reason for it - male and female characters actually play slightly differently in how they do certain things such as dodging which makes each gender better at various small (but very often useful) things. Can't apply that reason here. IMO simply playing a female character is no big deal. But RPing one? :blah:
I'm hating the launcher - it will check for updates and get stuck, then complain to me about how it couldn't be bothered to connect to the server, so I click retry and it does it immediately - this happens almost every time. Annoying.
Currently making an Elyos character, hate making up names.
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Make a RoyFokker maybe?
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Roy G Biv
do it!
Come on, Do It!
DO EET NAO!
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Can't put spaces in names... or numbers or special characters... or capital letters that are not the first letter (which is always capital)..
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Already named characters.