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    Bah need to wait till I move into my new town house before I can play this

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    Quote Originally Posted by _Caboose_ View Post
    i smaak the BGM in a battle
    Yes! The music is beautiful....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lycanthrope View Post
    So, I've just e-mailed Take2 and asked to cancel my pre-order and be refunded. Hopefully they'll still permit it.

    Long story short, I'm unimpressed. It's a glorified grind. Looking up into the sky, where you're supposed to see "the other half" is basically looking at a fresco. It's nothing more than a painted ceiling. I won't yap about bugs since it's beta and bugs happen.

    I'm just not impressed and beta or not, for a first impression, it's abysmal. Though, I'm sure others will enjoy it, I won't.

    Sidenote: If Take2 won't refund/cancel my order, there'll be an Aion CE up for grabs.

    The races and character customisation, I love. The world looks plastic and bland. Some world textures like ground, mountains, trees, ships, etc look blurred. Max settings don't even put up a fight.

    In the end, it boils down to walls of text (dialogue) which becomes redundant and uninteresting quickly...

    *gag* So much for the hype...

    /walks off depressed...
    How much are you selling it for dude? I can't find a CE anywhere.

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    kalahari.net has the CE for R518.

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    Cool! thanks Deceptor!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voicy View Post
    How much are you selling it for dude? I can't find a CE anywhere.
    Pff... you no listens to me

    Quote Originally Posted by Lycanthrope View Post
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    Any idea where to get the CE from? Nobody seems to have it
    Kalahari still seem to have it available for pre-order? Free shipping too
    Anyway, an update on muh l33t opinion of Aion...

    Immediate Dislikes:
    • *Plastic world textures (euw)
    • *Fresco atmosphere (static; unimpressive blurred texture of the "other half")
    • *No Auction House/Broker (Everyone can set up their own store at will. Thus, there are 50 people all camped next to an NPC with 50 text bubbles above their heads going, "BUY SHIZZIT HERE!" So, good luck finding the NPC amidst that mess.)
    • *Large walls of dialogue text become monotonous and you feel as though you have very little input in the conversation other than just saying something minor to progress the conversation to the following wall of dialogue text. This is something that just causes you to lose interest and ends up with you just grabbing quests to do them to get out of the area.
    • *The graphics feel very WoW-esque. Max settings don't put up a fight (I get an average of 140fps for ffs) and there's very little to show for it. It feels bland.


    My solutions would be to give players the option of having a 3D-generated atmosphere and sky, instead of that ghastly fresco. Get rid of player-based shops and integrate an auction house/broker of sorts. Regarding the world textures... Seriously, they need way, way, way more detail. I want grass and plants that react to physics, not those stiff cardboard-like things, and definitely not terrain that looks as though it came out of a clay shop.

    Immediate likes:
    • *Combat is touch-and-go. You need to think it through and you need to keep on your toes, or you'll die. It isn't a matter of standing still and spamming spells/skills and hoping for the best
    • *Combat animations are very, very nice to look at and you feel "involved."
    • *Character graphics are pretty detailed and customisation is pretty much endless. Character graphics are by far the best texture-wise and detail-wise.
    • *The concept of adaptive story lines. I haven't seen much of this yet, so I can't say.
    • *Every other primary quest has a short cutscene reminiscent of GuildWars' style of story-telling. It's nice, although sometimes feels too short to be very meaningful.


    I love the combat, I love the entire idea behind Aion... But omf... It's not at all what I had expected regarding the hype. And, as flamed as I might get for this, it feels like a frikkin' WoW-clone, textures et al. The only thing that sets it apart, so far, is the combat, which feels much more fluid...

    I'd really like to know what the rest of you think, in detail... I can't make my mind up about this game... What I like, I love, what I dislike... Ugh... There are F2P games that are way, way more detailed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lycanthrope View Post
    Pff... you no listens to me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptor View Post
    kalahari.net has the CE for R518.
    Quote Originally Posted by Voicy View Post
    Cool! thanks Deceptor!
    In post 127 I told you to go to Kalahari.net, and that they're still doing pre-orders...

    *sniff* I never received a thank you

    *runs off crying*

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    All along people have said it's like WoW with wings

    If you're looking for something completely and utterly different to try - Ryzom. One of the best and definitely the most atmospheric MMO I've ever played (seasons affect crafting, animals migrate and form herds etc.), but I just can't get into such a sandbox game.

    Anyhoo, hope you somehow get into Aion. It's definitely turned out very different to what I was expecting in 2006 when I found out about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lydon View Post
    All along people have said it's like WoW with wings

    If you're looking for something completely and utterly different to try - Ryzom. One of the best and definitely the most atmospheric MMO I've ever played (seasons affect crafting, animals migrate and form herds etc.), but I just can't get into such a sandbox game.

    Anyhoo, hope you somehow get into Aion. It's definitely turned out very different to what I was expecting in 2006 when I found out about it.
    Makes two of us...

    Never heard the WoW with wings bit before though But sadly, it seems more and more true... I'm giving it some time before I make my mind up... Assuming I can -.-'

    Ryzom doesn't interest me in the slightest Never has, unlikely that it ever will.

    So, what did you expect Aion to be like?

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