This is Aion

From what I've seen Aion was the game I should have played instead of WoW with a few exceptions.

Pros:

Massive world pvp (I've seen other videos), pve and pvp together at the same time, GEAR THAT YOU CAN ADJUST APPEARANCE-WISE. Appearance customization is a feature that WoW very much lacks...particularly during Burning Crusade leveling.

Overall the pvp reminds of what I've heard about DaoC, just that the combat movement is more akin to the flexibility of WoW, which stands out among 99% of other games where your character just idiotically stands in front of your opponent in both pvp and pve. I realize it's kind of hard to program, but the ability to kite and adjust distance and angle in WoW's combat is something that I cannot play without.

Gear dependence from what I've heard is MUCH less in Aion than in WoW. Group tactics, coordination, skill, and "tricks" seem to mean much more than gear alone.
Take WoW now and get a full Relentless geared Dk against 4 recent level 80s, the DK would kill them all with full health remaining in the end with just a few cooldowns recharging. (been there, done that...)

Cons:

It doesn't look like there are as many dances or emotes and other neat things that WoW has, thus reducing the overall..."charm" of the game. No real variety of races either.

A minor annoyance is how you see your character do a crazy armageddon-swing-florysh mordhau of apocalyptic-death and mayhem-special-uber-zornhau-attack animation for like, 5% damage on a trash mob.

The thing that annoys me beyond recognition is the voice acting. Decked out female gladiators wearing spike armor of demonic-infused anathema and swords the size of Jupiter should not sound like 6 year olds unless they're gnomes -_-
 
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That video looked horrible, then i made it open separate window and it was HD sharp quality, weird...

@ Azzie:
There are a ton of emotes and many dances. There are icons for each one to put on a hotbar. Your toon will auto-emote when in certain places. When its raining he will pull out a leaf umbrella, when in the desert he will fan himself. The emotes even use objects, like you can summon a chair to sit on or a cloud to lie on.

You can turn off voices for spells and there are 3-5 different voice sets for each gender/class.

There are no other races, but you can tweak the char model SOOO much you can make a midget or dwarf or crazy beerbelly giant or tweak all wacky shapes.
 
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Meh. Some of the stuff (like oppurtunities), they make it sound like they come up with it. It's an integral part of EQ2 from release so nothing big there. PVPVE. Why don't they just call it what it is, Open World PVP. It looks like a wanna be anime that reminds me of the 100 or so NcSoft failures. Give it a couple months and Im sure ya'll will be coming back :-p
 
wowAbdi said:
Meh. Some of the stuff (like oppurtunities), they make it sound like they come up with it. It's an integral part of EQ2 from release so nothing big there. PVPVE. Why don't they just call it what it is, Open World PVP. It looks like a wanna be anime that reminds me of the 100 or so NcSoft failures. Give it a couple months and Im sure ya'll will be coming back :-p
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That is a pretty poor summary. FYI nothing you said is accurate. I played EQ2 to 80 and the chain-system is nothing like opportunities. PvPvE has many differences from Open PvP and there is a distinction to be made. You can make a character look anime'ish if you want but you can also make very realistic toons. The World art is nothing like anime, its amazingly lush and gorgeous and very lifelike. This game has incredible immersion and draws you in big time.

It does look and feel a little like some other NC products, specifically Guild Wars and Lineage II but those are not failures, they are big successes actually.

Anyways, the game has been out for a year now and has over 5million playing, I think it will be around to stay.

(FYI the game is not innovative. Everything is pretty generic Fantasy MMO, but done really well with amazing attention to detail and quality. If you want some revolutionary new game, this is not for you. if you love Fantasy MMOs and want a fresh, extremely polished product that mixes PvP and PvE in the endgame...give it a shot. *Beware that it is not fed to you on a spoon. This game makes you work for everything. If you consider yourself "casual", love welfare epics, hate forced grouping or hate the word "grind", stay away"
 
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Aion does indeed look appealing both physically and conceptually. I absolutely love how some abilities are chained together. I also like how you start out with 4 classes and then they branch out to 8 classes (DAoC did that too).

A focus on more engaging world pvp is nice, though I wonder what the purpose is. Wow has plenty of world pvp but the vast majority of it us unstructured, frivolous and pointless in respect to contributions on your behalf - I hope it isn't like that in Aion.
 
ewoksrule said:
That is a pretty poor summary. FYI nothing you said is accurate. I played EQ2 to 80 and the chain-system is nothing like opportunities. PvPvE has many differences from Open PvP and there is a distinction to be made. You can make a character look anime'ish if you want but you can also make very realistic toons. The World art is nothing like anime, its amazingly lush and gorgeous and very lifelike. This game has incredible immersion and draws you in big time.

It does look and feel a little like some other NC products, specifically Guild Wars and Lineage II but those are not failures, they are big successes actually.

Anyways, the game has been out for a year now and has over 5million playing, I think it will be around to stay.

(FYI the game is not innovative. Everything is pretty generic Fantasy MMO, but done really well with amazing attention to detail and quality. If you want some revolutionary new game, this is not for you. if you love Fantasy MMOs and want a fresh, extremely polished product that mixes PvP and PvE in the endgame...give it a shot. *Beware that it is not fed to you on a spoon. This game makes you work for everything. If you consider yourself "casual", love welfare epics, hate forced grouping or hate the word "grind", stay away"
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Yeah I was going on the video and what I took from it. Not from any experience playing it. So yeah without playing it I can see your point. However I still believe it's a copy of what other sucsessful games have done and that will mark it for failure in the future. Even innovative games have failed though so only time will tell.

Your right 5 million players already will gurantee that it's going to stay around. WoW has remind popular due to pop culture and releasing during a boom period in mmo gaming. I remember when 100k players online in EQ was a milestone. So this may just be a new trend of higher launch numbers.

Ericin.
 
You have to watch one more,, go to my Aion Gameplay from a WOW players perspective Post
It will show you what real gamplay and the world looks like
 
Unless they do a 10 day trial or something, there is no way I'm dropping 50+ bucks to get a new game I don't know I'd want to stick with.
 
Soul! said:
Unless they do a 10 day trial or something, there is no way I'm dropping 50+ bucks to get a new game I don't know I'd want to stick with.
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Free trials help but they don't really let you experience the game's full effect.
 
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True that.. Like George Michael once said,, " You gotta have Faith"

Well at least for Aion's case you do..

I think its funny how many peeps keep critiquing the game before they even opened their eyes inside the game...

All along those of us who are playing it , are relaying what it is actually like and about the gameplay, and still peeps still ask the same critiquing qestions...

The best one is oh i will wait for a few months to see if it turns out to be anything decent..

Hint: you have many peeps who play now that will tell you anything you want to know..

Ah crazy times.. and fun ones too! cant forget that.
 
This game intrigues me; does it have the 'fun' value that wow has and make you laugh? I truly missed that in other games I've tried- however, I really do like the way they've done things... it's truly tempting me.
 
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