Comments on: Aion: CryTek-Powered Celestials

By: dnb23

dnb23 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:55:23 +0000

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By: Cliven

Cliven — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:06:06 +0000

@Zyrusticae
Aion has face “morphing” and you can dye your gear, so the doppelganger effect should be greatly reduced.

To anyone who says “WoW clone”, please show me where WoW characters sprout wings and engage in aerial combat, which is a staple of this game. There are plenty of games that WoW copied, as well; you would be more on target calling WoW an Everquest clone.

Aion looks like a L2 clone on steriods; with the classes being similar and the races looking like L2 Kamael and batwinged dark elves, this looks like it will be the effective replacement to L2 now that L3 is shelved, at least for the forseeable future. Worth noting is that L2 Kamael (winged) appeared while Aion was under development.

Hopefully it will not be useless quests and endless grind like that and other Korean offerings.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:09:49 +0000

NcSoft would probably do a lot better if they stopped intentionally ruining games with forced deadlining and otherwise bad design decisions. AutoAssault was one of the victims of NcSoft, imagine what it would’ve been as a polished, finished piece.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:42:55 +0000

Looks gorgeous. I have never met a Korean MMO I liked, though.

And Guild Wars is an American-made game from a studio composed by some of the former Diablo team (many of the others went off to the ill-fated Flagship.). Not Asian. NCSoft just publishes it. Much like City of Heroes and Tabula Rasa were.

By: Jorlin

Jorlin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:09:52 +0000

Crysis = CryEngine 2 (in words “two”)
FarCry= CryEngine 1 (in words “one”)

Aion= *drums* CryEngine 1 (in words “one”)

Aion has licensed CryEngine 1; the same engine that fuels FarCry. There have been made a lot of modifications though…

But please, do not mix up the engines here…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:06:01 +0000

I’ve been checking this one out for some time now. I just hope is not another korean grindfest.

By: PHeMoX

PHeMoX — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:00:14 +0000

Yikes… looks like WoW meets Fable meets Guild Wars , reads like c l o n e to me so far. ;)

It does look great though, substantially better than either of the before mentioned games.

By: Zyrusticae

Zyrusticae — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:41:07 +0000

@MeestaNob!
Even that can’t rightly be used as an excuse – Look at Starcraft 2! Its visuals are superb, it’s supposed to be selling in Asia, and it started development a year before Diablo 3! I have absolutely no idea what the game looks so horribly dated, especially considering how well Titan Quest runs on anything that’s not more than three years old.

Anyways, getting back on-topic, that video told me absolutely nothing about how this game plays. Sigh. Some fairly nice artwork, but Korean MMOs have always irked me, either for the crap character customization (because apparently they really don’t mind having dozens of dopplegangers running around in the same area), or because of the grind-tastic gameplay. I do wonder if Aion will buck these trends any – likewise with Blade and Soul…

By: Chis

Chis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:18:40 +0000

Gah, sorry, damn html... HG101 right here

By: Chis

Chis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:17:47 +0000

I’ll play like this, though, surely?
http://www.socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff11

(Thanks to

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:22:02 +0000

“meh. another WoW clone. I’ll pass thanks.
GIVE ME SOMETHING DIFFERENT MMO MAKERS!!!”

Dude, I’m really note sure how this is anything like WoW…

By: MMORPG Center

MMORPG Center — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:58:23 +0000

GuildWars, it made by Arena Net, published by NC Soft, and now probably owned by NC Soft, but as whole NC Soft is incapable of doing a decent mmorpg. Check out Lineage 2, even after one year passed, it wasfull of gold sellers and bots, in the newbie towns, and nobody cared. Probably same thing will happen in Aion.